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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Preview Thread
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AcademicSaucer
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You do them at the request of the old man to get the glider. Think you die if you try to climb down from the GP.
victreeb3l
Member
Nothing will ever beat Xenoblade Chronicles X's title screen.
Yup. This plus the music made starting the game really goddamn special.
The plateau is that high? How do you get back up?
Graphics Horse
Member
Nah just the first one, I think the reason is it basically lets the sun rise and keeps it in daylight and sunny until you activate the tower, it's always the same time when you meet up with Paraglider dude
Would be nice if you can expand longer range forecast or something.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Fast travel.
But can you skip the story and gain access to the 4 dungeons? Was under the impression they were connected and the story led you there.
Octavianus
Banned
I dunno. I usually don't like voice acting in games either and I'm one of the people who felt strongly about not wanting it in Zelda.. But I'm completely fine with what little I've heard so far.
I guess I'm just glad Nolan North and Troy Baker aren't in this.
I wonder if there's another way to get back.
As was mentioned fast travel, but I believe you cannot grip the walls of the GP. I have not seen a video of someone trying to get off without though.
brandonh83
Banned
Do we have confirmation that there are only four dungeons?
The perfect Dark
Banned
I can't wait to explore this world. Friday pls
OrbitalBeard
Member
The voice acting will probably be passable, but not great.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
Fair enough.
The dungeons in OOT are better designed and far more atmospheric. The Forest Temple for example is amazing in this regard. The Water Temple is most people's least favorite dungeon in the game, but it is still incredibly well designed and more challenging than anything in Skyward Sword. The Spirt Temple oozes atmosphere and is fun, while remaining challenging throughout.
TP has the same formula as OOT and Wind Waker's Earth Temple is outstanding. Just a few examples
Skyward Sword has some great dungeons, but nothing so remarkable to me that it tops the 3 Zelda games I mentioned.
I would love a game where nolan north voiced link, who talks a lot, and troy baker voiced zelda
would be perfect
;p
It sounds better then Horizons acting imo.
You get the basic Runes there. I think they might also be related to getting the hang-glider to be able to finally leave the plateau.
Interfectum
Member
The person who said the voice acting sucked is also the person who can't stop playing the game and would give it a 10/10 if she were reviewing it. It'll be alright.
None of you can yet prove that Nolan North and Troy Baker didn't alternately record all of Tingle's lines.
Oh, I thought I preordered a Switch, but now I'm not sure.
RampagingSoul
Member
Personally, the pics don't look better than Switch to me, but these pics were taken off-screen so the quality isn't 100% there. Still, the game looks pretty good, regardless of system.
The versions should be nearly identical besides resolution and some performance differences from what I've gathered of previews and reading some things about EDGE's review that looked at both versions.
I mean, the Switch version is just an better resolution port that you can take on the go (not counting taking the system and GamePad with you where ever there's an outlet
) I wouldn't expect much difference between Wii U and Switch besides some performance differences at places.No, but I meant the Divine Beasts. I still think there are 5 plus Hyrule Castle. Since there are 5 pillars, and
The leaved cut scene implies they were raised when the Calamity Ganon rose as some sort of protection for him
I had been slacking off and not going to preorder but got nervous about supply and went to Gamestop Saturday to go ahead and pay. I think youll be fine. I usually preorder through Amazon, but I don't want to have to wait for UPS to deliver... I want to be able to go snag it as early as possible.
That looks good. Good to see the draw distance is improved also on Wii U. That should fair damn well for CEMU. Can't wait.
Graphics Horse
Member
Those Wii U pics would look better without the nasty sharpening either the TV or camera is adding.
Audioboxer
Member
Personally, the pics don't look better than Switch to me, but these pics were taken off-screen so the quality isn't 100% there. Still, the game looks pretty good, regardless of system.
The versions should be nearly identical besides resolution and some performance differences from what I've gathered of previews and reading some things about EDGE's review that looked at both versions.
I mean, the Switch version is just an better resolution port that you can take on the go (not counting taking the system and GamePad with you where ever there's an outlet
The game has a Wii U gamepad mode as well, so at least in your home you can play the Wii U version "portable"
Milly Osworth
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Only a few more days until the new best game of all time after Ocarine of Time!
Octavianus
Banned
pls no
I think The Legacy of Kain games are the only series of video games where I actually thought voice acting added something to the table.
I mean, how can you listen to this and not orgasm at least six times?
Dark Cloud
Member
Yep. The game is that damn good.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Wow. Pretty mixed feelings about this.
Seems it looks exactly like the Switch version but in 720p. I am getting the Wii U version but I feel also pretty disappointed that it doesn't look that much better on the Switch, because I want to buy the Switch too in holiday season. Wii U graphics in 900p with FPS drops doesn't look too hot to me.
Audioboxer
Member
Is the Wii U version definitely 720p native? Almost expected an upscaling job from 640p or something like that
The Switch version will be a "quick" port. Probably not going to take advantage of all it can offer. It'll be better but not a million times better.
Sleeping Lesson
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That's just the Moiré effect, mostly unavoidable when taking pictures of a screen.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yes.
Audioboxer
Member
Impressive! The art style will really hide a lot of the resolution issues anyway. It's almost doing what cell-shading done for a lot of PS2 games (and some PS3/360).
kunonabi
Member
Have they though? Kid Icarus was the only success that I can remember. Other M had fine performances (better than the Japanese ones actually aside from Samus) but the script got in the way of them really popping.
I know some people liked the first Xenoblade's dub but still.
Christ I'm debating buying a Switch in the next few weeks (if it'll even be possible) just for this game. It's a hrd sell though because it doesn't seem like there's anything else even remotely worth playing (to me) coming out for this thing for a good while after Zelda. If somehow they release a robust offering of gamecube games on VC I think I could get behind it.
Don't know if it's been said, but Dualshockers' Editor-in-Chief seems to really dislike the game and overall has really strong feelings against Nintendo. If he were to review the game (which wouldn't surprise me since he did the one for Horizon also), you can expect a really negative one. Please do not freak out.
Japanese voice-acted games, and other media, that have localized dub usually have issues, from lip synching offset to dialogue losing some context due to translation. Offering the original Japanese VA with localized subtitles in games like this will always be the best option.
But I don't see the Zelda dub as being poor, as from some spoilery video stuff that I've seen. Pretty much decent to good, just not awesome.
But I don't see the Zelda dub as being poor, as from some spoilery video stuff that I've seen. Pretty much decent to good, just not awesome.
Graphics Horse
Member
I don't mean that, just the edges looking almost embossed where you have an area of bright pixels next to dark ones
I know that. I just really enjoy well performed VA.
TheDinoman
Member
Oh dear.
The game has a Wii U gamepad mode as well, so at least in your home you can play the Wii U version "portable"
I wonder how smooth BOTW is on gamepad?
Twilight Princess HD when playing gamepad chugs quite bad occasionally.
nrvalleytime
Member
Can you source where he expressed those opinions?
It seems less washed out. Probably because its off-screen shots.
RampagingSoul
Member
The game has a Wii U gamepad mode as well, so at least in your home you can play the Wii U version "portable"
Well, I know that.
Depends on your layout and where the system is located in certain cases with the GamePad's range. Off-TV Play is nice for some games and it should be fine for Zelda, but some people don't like it because of the GamePad's not-so-great screen or range issues.Sleeping Lesson
Member
Oh I see what you mean. Yeah that's certainly a TV or camera artifact, like you said. Wouldn't worry about the game looking like that!