Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the most talked about game on social media

Power of a new Zelda game, people are going to talk about it. As disappointed I was when Nintendo announced their E3 plans, I ate every second of coverage up wide-eyed.
 
Caipirinha said:
Look at the hysterical hyperbole in these Zelda threads, people losing their shit over a game that looks and plays like it's from 2008, and tell me who is the one smoking.

I'm actually a little embarrassed for GAF for losing it's objectivity over this game. If it was being released by Ubisoft and called The Legend of Belda it would be written off as an outdated, mediocre looking action RPG.
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Caipirinha said:
I am by no means a Zelda hater and was looking forward to seeing what Nintendo had to offer, I am flabbergasted at the reaction from GAF. People urinating themselves over a companion locked behind an Amiibo like it is some kind of extreme revolution in gaming, and claiming the graphics are incredible because there are some ok looking explosion effects. I don't think I have ever seen anything like it, all the other big games announced at E3 have had fanboys and counter-fanboys and somewhere in between is the reality, but with Zelda it's full on kool aid psychosis.

I very much doubt the paying public will share this mentality unless the NX version is significantly, significantly better across the board.
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Caipirinha said:
It means the combat looks simplistic and basically unchanged bar weapon durability and a simplistic stealth system that should not be considered newsworthy and enemy AI that looked extremely dense. The open world looked sparse and the ways in which you interact with it, and the new crafting system, look like something that wouldn't have been revolutionary in a PS2 title let alone a marquis game in 2016.

I am not saying it looks like trash, I'm just saying it looks extremely mediocre.

But no, apparently the fact that you can beat it without engaging in the story is enough to cause fans to defecate themselves and worthy of it's own thread.

Look at the mounted combat in Horizon. Do you see people making their own threads proclaiming it the second coming of christ because you can fire an arrow from a mount? And yet with Zelda it becomes a game of the show worthy feature.

In all honesty it's laughable.
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And the winner for most embarrassing poster of this year's E3 is..
 
Caipirinha said:
There are much more impressive games on display and Nintendo don't deserve so much praise for introducing derivative features that weren't cutting edge even years ago, or designing what appears to be an incredibly sparse open world that has been vastly surpassed by other devs. That's what I'm saying.


I'm not saying people shouldn't be happy and excited but claiming this is the game of E3 is an affront to the fact that many developers have already done what this game does, for years, and they are here at this E3 don't far more and not getting the same praise...
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I mean, if you're going to try to break down things like that, you might as well say that about most of the games shown at E3, yeah? Just focus on the features that have been around for so long and not how the games utilise and execute them?

Why are you taking such great offense in people liking what they've seen of the game?

In a Nintendo official forum I wouldn't expect otherwise but from GAF?? I am genuinely shocked.
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It's obviously not just a portion of this particular forum that is interested in the game, judging from the chart. What's so shocking about it?
 
LastOne2100 said:
However, I'm still a bit worried for Nintendo. I get that they've abandoned the Wii U, but where was Paper Mario? Nothing else in the pipeline at all?
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They will show their other games today, including mario party, paper mario, fire emblem, a new unannounced RPG for 3DS etc.
It starts in 2 hours
 
Aty chihuahua!

While the continued live stream make it so people should be tweeting more about it on average than just games with trailers it's still an insane number.

But awesome stuff.
 
Caipirinha said:
Look at the hysterical hyperbole in these Zelda threads, people losing their shit over a game that looks and plays like it's from 2008, and tell me who is the one smoking.

I'm actually a little embarrassed for GAF for losing it's objectivity over this game. If it was being released by Ubisoft and called The Legend of Belda it would be written off as an outdated, mediocre looking action RPG.
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Caipirinha said:
I am by no means a Zelda hater and was looking forward to seeing what Nintendo had to offer, I am flabbergasted at the reaction from GAF. People urinating themselves over a companion locked behind an Amiibo like it is some kind of extreme revolution in gaming, and claiming the graphics are incredible because there are some ok looking explosion effects. I don't think I have ever seen anything like it, all the other big games announced at E3 have had fanboys and counter-fanboys and somewhere in between is the reality, but with Zelda it's full on kool aid psychosis.

I very much doubt the paying public will share this mentality unless the NX version is significantly, significantly better across the board.
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Caipirinha said:
It means the combat looks simplistic and basically unchanged bar weapon durability and a simplistic stealth system that should not be considered newsworthy and enemy AI that looked extremely dense. The open world looked sparse and the ways in which you interact with it, and the new crafting system, look like something that wouldn't have been revolutionary in a PS2 title let alone a marquis game in 2016.

I am not saying it looks like trash, I'm just saying it looks extremely mediocre.

But no, apparently the fact that you can beat it without engaging in the story is enough to cause fans to defecate themselves and worthy of it's own thread.

Look at the mounted combat in Horizon. Do you see people making their own threads proclaiming it the second coming of christ because you can fire an arrow from a mount? And yet with Zelda it becomes a game of the show worthy feature.

In all honesty it's laughable.
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Seriously dude stop. You are allowed to critique the game, but not the people for liking it. Also, what game now differs that much from games in 2008?
 
Well, what other games had a five hour-long stream all to themselves? :P

I wonder how this is measured, exactly.
 
Anarky said:
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And the winner for most embarrassing poster of this year's E3 is..
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It's bad but pretty sure SLX last night who was talking even more shit about Nintendo and specifically Iwata calling him the worst executive in Nintendo history that left behind a legacy of failure was a bit worse.

I mean shit, yeah a lot of people are getting crazy hyped and over the top over this game, but even the most euphoric fan doesn't reach the level some of these salty posters are going. You don't like the game or see the appeal and hype a lot of other do, OK. No need to go on a one man crusade to show how horrible it and Nintendo at large is.
 
From what they have shown so far. This is the realization of my 5 year old self playing LoZ on the nes and all the thoughts and dreams I had back then. That is why I am excited.
 
Ansatz said:
Wait what.

Is that the stasis function used on the boulder to lock it in place and every time you hit it with the hammer the boulder gains stored energy which is released when you remove stasis?
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I think i could find that cool, but i cant, i think it's been done before. Lol. ;)
 
Maybe if they demoed other games beyond just a trailer or proof of concept they'd have been at the top of the list too.

The logic is there and that is partially why, but Nintendo actually went in-depth with showing the game and opened it up in ways no other games were, so it deserves the attention. They earned it.
 
Was game of the show pretty easily, haven't owned a Nintendo system since 64 but I'm tempted with this.

The graphics are definitely rough but the gameplay systems look miles beyond the other open world games on display. The downplay by some is pretty amusing while at the same time hyping what look like cookie cutter AAA openworlds. That gif of using the updraft from a fire to gain height for an attack is more impressive than anything Horizon, WD2, Dead dont ride, etc. has shown gameplay wise.
 
Caipirinha said:
It means the combat looks simplistic and basically unchanged bar weapon durability and a simplistic stealth system that should not be considered newsworthy and enemy AI that looked extremely dense. The open world looked sparse and the ways in which you interact with it, and the new crafting system, look like something that wouldn't have been revolutionary in a PS2 title let alone a marquis game in 2016.

I am not saying it looks like trash, I'm just saying it looks extremely mediocre.

But no, apparently the fact that you can beat it without engaging in the story is enough to cause fans to defecate themselves and worthy of it's own thread.

Look at the mounted combat in Horizon. Do you see people making their own threads proclaiming it the second coming of christ because you can fire an arrow from a mount? And yet with Zelda it becomes a game of the show worthy feature.

In all honesty it's laughable.
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I must have missed the part in PS2 games where people set fire to grass and let the wind carry it to an enemy base. Or where we froze objects in time and built up their energy by striking them. Or used a magnet to move a sword through the air to damage enemies. Or rolled bombs downhill strategically to achieve goals or fish. Or seriously any of the unique shit we're seeing in gameplay footage so far.
 
Be interesting to compare samples of time spent on a game in a presentation vs amount of mentions.

Nintendo only had two/three games total according to one of those so it would be wiser to compare the totals or averages per company.

Could just mean Nintendo has a larger presence on Twitter or that there were a lot of negative comments surrounding it, think about the hoo-ha regarding a female Link.

Anyone putting stock in the OPs chart will certainly believe Zelda will save the Wii U, right?
 
Not even a Nintendo fan (i am just NOW thinking of buying a 3ds..still havent pulled the trigger) and I think this Zelda looks really fun. Who cares if some of the features of open world games are a decade old at this point. It still looks fun and we've never seen it in a Zelda game. And those sorts of features are still fun right?

As for the ranking themselves, it is probably affected by the fact that it was streaming for multiple hours and not limited to a trailer and maybe an interview. But does it really matter that much that it is in first or why it is in first? Why's everything gotta be so dramatic. Zelda is breaking from its formula and who knows, it may be a dud. Maybe! This game might still stink. We don't know. But I still think it's far more interesting than the status quo. And for that reason alone it has my attention.
 
GoaThief said:
Anyone putting stock in the OPs chart will certainly believe Zelda will save the Wii U, right?
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It's not going to save a dead console. It's going to be really, really good for people who already own one, and it will definitely move some units off shelves. Beyond that? Nah. I think it's going to do really well on NX, and overall extremely good with both combined.
 
The Dink said:
I must have missed the part in PS2 games where people set fire to grass and let the wind carry it to an enemy base. Or where we froze objects in time and built up their energy by striking them. Or used a magnet to move a sword through the air to damage enemies. Or rolled bombs downhill strategically to achieve goals or fish. Or seriously any of the unique shit we're seeing in gameplay footage so far.
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You can roll boulders in Yoshi's Island, that's from 1995. Nintendo's mechanics are two decades old! Wake up ordons!
 
jett said:
Well, what other games had a five hour-long stream all to themselves? :P

I wonder how this is measured, exactly.
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But here's the thing though: if the game wasn't interesting or if it was bland, that six hour stream would do nothing for it if it couldn't maintain interest across all 6 hours. Kind of like Splatoon at E3 2014... which held interest throughout 3 days of E3 despite being the same map(s) and content over and over again whenever they showed it. The part that captured the people the most was what that game was doing with its gameplay and that's the same thing here with Zelda.

That's not even going into how much this game is evoking Zelda 1, what literally everyone has been asking for the direction they wanted Zelda to go back into for years. It's finally happening. See that mountain off in the distance at the beginning? You can actually go there, nothing will stop you (other than whatever dangers might await, obviously). No handholding, no character telling you "no, you can't go there yet! You need to get this special key item/weapon/clear this area of evil first!"

It's exciting, it's actually making a ton of changes to what the 3D Zelda formula was. It really is turning it on its head.
 
Isn't this game launching on Wii U and NX at the same time? Maybe some people will buy Wii U because it's cheaper, but it's not going to move that system. Nintendo is putting it on Wii U because it would be super fucked up not to.
 
Treehouse effect I assume. It's really worked well for Nintendo. Zelda's managed to offset 90% of the talk about how little they have on their plate right now.

Really sad to see how low Horizon is on there though.

And Watch Dogs 2 being up there is a travesty that I guess shows Ubi does indeed know what they're doing and I'm old and unhip, I guess. At least the soundtrack was good.
 
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