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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Review Thread
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They are too busy to get the new story DLC ready for the holidays to care.
There's a day 1 patch that supposedly fixes the frame rate.
opticalmace
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This... kind of makes me want to buy a Switch. Dammmmn.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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The overwhelming majority of the game is technically optional.
SinCityAssassin
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This has been discussed quite a bit, it's because handheld mode doesn't need as much power, it can handle the stress better. Hopefully the patch addresses the situation.
Docked runs at 900p, makes sense the framerate would suffer for it
Ok, that's good.
It is actually smoother undocked. Probably because it plays at a lower res and I don't believe the dock offers extra power.
Dan Ryckert mentioned in his review that the shrines are great for small ~20-minute sessions.
It reportedly runs better undocked. Seems more like an optimization issue, where the docked version has some graphics improvements that are a bit too much.
Speedruns are never indicative of content, OoTs Any% Speedrun is 18 minutes.
All Dungeons is 2 hours and that's after 20 years of optimizations.
Kadin
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Pretty sure discussing that would be too spoilery and I know I wouldn't want to read about it. That needs to be discovered by the player imo.Any idea of the story is? Read a lot of reviews and it's not even mentioned
Twilight Princess
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There are stars in this game also.
BluePikmin11
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I'm not really surprised. Super hyped about getting the game! If there's as many gameplay possibilities as critics say there are, I'll be out of control! Honestly, for the longest time, I've been looking for a game with freedom and so many gameplay possibilities. It might just even become my favorite game of all time depending on the characters and story in the game. HYPE!
Any idea of the story is? Read a lot of reviews and it's not even mentioned
Ganon is bad. Zelda is good. Save Zelda. Defeat Ganon. It is Zelda, what do you expect? (Offcourse it is a tad more complicated)
WhiteRabbitEXE
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No it doesn't really lol. Or rather, that shouldn't be an automatic assumption. The Switch downclocks in portable mode. In theory performance should generally be nearly identical between modes, and that is in fact the intent.
Well, hopefully the day 1 patch will resolve it. Because my Switch will be docked probably 95% of the time.
SinCityAssassin
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Any idea of the story is? Read a lot of reviews and it's not even mentioned
I don't want the reviews to spoil anything
I want to watch the GB video with Dan but I feel like I don't want anything more spoiled. I'm going to be playing through it and it's fun discovering what it has for yourself. Maybe once I've completed it.
I like watching GB videos of games I'm never going to play the most I think lol.
themagicalkitsune
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Guys don't spoil stuff about the game here. There's a spoiler thread to talk about endgame.
The reviews parallel Ocarina of Time, and I hope something else parallels Ocarina of Time:
OoT was so well-loved that two years later they released Majora's Mask on the same engine. It was a quirkier, weirder game but still very much the same 'thing' as OoT. Nintendo absolutely needs to reuse this spectcular BotW game design for a quick follow-up. I imagine it'd take three years rather than two, but considering the amount of work they put into all this (and I'd argue that most of the difficult work is in building the systems, NOT the content) they shouldn't let it go to waste by starting new with some new paradigm.
Basically, I'm already desperate for more Zelda lol.
The darkest timeline.
Anyway, the reason it's so good is because it's a launch game. Both because of all the delays that entailed, and because they quite clearly threw as much money as humanly possible at this in the understanding that the fate of their next console largely rested on it.
OoT was so well-loved that two years later they released Majora's Mask on the same engine. It was a quirkier, weirder game but still very much the same 'thing' as OoT. Nintendo absolutely needs to reuse this spectcular BotW game design for a quick follow-up. I imagine it'd take three years rather than two, but considering the amount of work they put into all this (and I'd argue that most of the difficult work is in building the systems, NOT the content) they shouldn't let it go to waste by starting new with some new paradigm.
Basically, I'm already desperate for more Zelda lol.
The darkest timeline.
Anyway, the reason it's so good is because it's a launch game. Both because of all the delays that entailed, and because they quite clearly threw as much money as humanly possible at this in the understanding that the fate of their next console largely rested on it.
I have a Wii U and never once considered playing this on it. While some downplay the portability of the Switch it is very important to me. My gaming time is limited. Being able to take the Switch with me means my lunch breaks have just gotten a lot more productive.
WTF man? I laughed out loud, my co-workers already think I'm crazy.
Sold.
Same. I don't know shit about the story any more beyond what I've played at E3.
Galactic Specter
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That's true, but no video review could possible show even half of what the world has to offer, and I doubt I'll even explore the whole thing during my playtime.
That's just from rumors I'm pretty sure. I think they made people expect things never stated by nintendo. We all know how that goes. When Nintendo told us there was no power in the dock it should have been obvious the handheld mode would run better in general
I'm pretty sure at the moment Nintendo allows you to "upclock" the handheld mode to docked leveled though.
pwnzernator
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Reply to be a part of history.
Ocarina_117
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He must be blushing so hard right now
No wonder Skyrim isn't at launch hehehe
Zelda scared off 3rd parties
ErrorMacro
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That's what the DLC is for, I guess.
Always-honest
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Some people like to rape games. Not sure why. I still remember the proud posts of people telling they "beat" Zelda Twilight Princess in 15 hours or so. And i just kept on thinking how idiotic it was to be proud of something as silly as that. Don't play Zelda if you want to cum on your first thrust.
If you're just a Speed-run-gamer though, sure. Whatever rocks your boat.
ASHES IN THE HOURGLASS
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Astronomy is so yesterday, Zelda is tomorrow.
Besides ALBW I feel the Zelda series has sort of missed the mark with the last two major entries (TP and SS) and been less that great. I'm excited the hype surrounding this game was real and it's getting excellent-to-perfect reviews. I didn't wanna touch the Wii U version so I can't wait to finally get started on the superior Switch version tomorrow.
I watched the gb video it's a lot of just messing arround in the world I shut it off at the end when dan said there would be spoilers. I want this game so fucking badly.
Aaronrules380
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I have two tests next week and I'm really hoping I have the willpower to spend time studying for them over the weekend lol
Eh, DLC would be set in the same world... it's not the same thing.
Also, the DLC they've announced so far sounds tremendously underwhelming, a literal drop in the bucket compared to the 100 hours of content already in the game.
Althought I feel confident I know what hard mode will entail now, lol.
Little Monser
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That critical acclaim!
Legends only <3
Talent stays winning!
Legends only <3
Talent stays winning!
Spoilers. The overall plot is generic and it says to stop ganon, but it's well told.
It would absolutely be a shame if this game were only available to the tiny pool of people who own a Wii U. More people that can play it, the better.
You shouldn't read the reviews then because I got spoiled by all kinds of stuff.
I get that - but still...I was enjoying the discovery a lot after playing the first hour. Every little small thing and how things interact, and the animations. There's a lot of neat stuff and I wouldn't want to see it on video for the first time - it becomes less of wow! and more like yeah I remember that. If you know what I mean. Usually I don't care but after playing a bit of this, I think I'll have an even better time with it seeing it all for myself. Before I was basically watching every trailer etc. Now I don't want to see anything more...
I'm really tempted as I love GB videos...but even the messing around is a whole lot of fun to discover for me...
It's strange, usually I'm not this averse to spoilers...now it's like I don't want to see ANYTHING lol.
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