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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Has the Largest File Size of Any First Party Nintendo Switch Game (18.2GB)
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
More like 1.19GB. It was an amazing, long & varied adventure, every time I thought it's over it did cool new stuff for another 5 hours. It took me around 40 the first time without doing many side activities, messing around or not progressing the main story (which is the point as Zelda is no TES, which incidentally shows data size doesn't reflect game size, see how big the pre-Morrowind - just 1GB itself - Daggerfall was, or pre-Dangerous Elite). I don't think you often got that length in single player action adventures even back then (for example the old, or new, Tomb Raider titles being a 3rd or 4th of it). Of course it pales in comparison to sandbox/open world/role playing games full of repetition but despite similarities with some in these genres it's not really that kind of game, for example there's little to no loot hunting in a pre-BOTW (ok SS had a bit of that too I guess) Zelda game.And what good is it if 83% is copy paste from BOTW.?
That reminds me of the nonsense that Eiji Aonuma said at the launch of Twilight princess, saying that it was the most gigantic game ever, and it was only a 1.4 GB disc.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Both games are sitting at 72 on Metacritic. How is that a bad score?
Not really. It's more like 1990s texture quality and nonsensical low quality sound samples of "boop boop" noises for character voices instead of them actually speaking.
Average is 50 my guy. 72 is still a high score, especially considering it's a game made with minimal effort.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
There is no such thing as a gaming scale. If reviewers rated the game out of 144 then yes 72 would be average.
goldenpp72
Member
Super Mario Galaxy 2 started off this way and is considered one of if not the greatest games ever crafted, Majora's Mask also had a pretty humble 'it looks like an expansion' within the fanbase, and now that is also adored, so I sure hope you're right.
vodka-bull
Member
Omly 18 gigs? Wow, that‘s tiny.
SteelCurtain 59
Member
In school if you get a 50 you are decidedly not "average", I get the annoyance in half the numbers not getting used but there's a reason the "gaming average" is higher than 50%, games that would be getting 4s or lower are usually getting scrapped well before they even get a trailer let alone being released, and those that do are usually indie/low effort garbage that 99% of people never hear of. A high budget game getting below a 70 is very bad, a 50 would likely put a dev/publisher out of business.
Please just stop it. Only in gaming this logic is used. It's only used by publishers to push a narrative and consumers like you eat it up.
Ok bud lol
pleaseinsertdisctwo
Member
Pre-rendered CG cutscenes in a Zelda game finally
(I’m kidding)
(I’m kidding)
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Robbinhood
Banned
Nintendo games have very little assets, not surprised it’s only 18 geebees.
You got a few huts, green grass and some dirt
You got a few huts, green grass and some dirt
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Interfectum
Member
It was old with God of War Rag, now it's just annoying and outright trolling.
It was old when DLC wasn't even a thing.
Not even the first time with Zelda either. Majora's Mask got those comments back in the day.
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DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy
Member
It’s 4.8 GB of floating islands; please be excited.
SteelCurtain 59
Member
You do know "average" is in relation to other games right, not average as in the average number I mean I literally gave you an example outside of games where the "logic" is used, if you get 50% in school you are failing and well below average. If 50% of people get 80% on a test, 80 would be average, 50 would be well below average. The games that are getting big trailers and loads of budget have already surpassed most games by actually functioning and not being scrapped. The games you are hearing about and playing are significantly better than the "average" game considering just how many shovelware indie games, or low effort mobile gacha games, or any other number of games that 99% of people don't even know exist. If you want to start giving 5's to an average game then we'd have to start going into the negatives to accurately rate the types of games getting 1s, 2s, 3s right now. Which would make even less sense than the current system
LordOfChaos
Member
That's cute lol, largest file size of any first party Nintendo game, still a fraction of what many modern AAA titles hit.
That's only 3.8GB more than BoTW. If they had to jump to 32GB cards, I'd say you may as well use that size if you spent that cost, though less install size is nice. Wondering how much will be substantially new on the map or the main map is going to be the same.
That's only 3.8GB more than BoTW. If they had to jump to 32GB cards, I'd say you may as well use that size if you spent that cost, though less install size is nice. Wondering how much will be substantially new on the map or the main map is going to be the same.
Kuranghi
Gold Member
9,999 tree poops to find confirmed.
Ya-haha!
I found 600ish poos on my own but then I caved and used the guide book + eventually an online save editor to make the rest.
I think maybe excepting one of them they were all extremely similar variations on what I had done already with other poos so I didn't feel too guilty, I just wanted to have closure on the quest.
Here's hoping there's something similar but a lot less plentiful and each one more unique, unless they have 900 unique ideas then by all means but I don't think that's likely even for them lol
Pretty much.
ANYTHING performance related is automatically biased above 50% because for the average to be 50% it needs to actually average out to 50%
And it doesn't. For one because you have to imagine what 0% actually means in this context. For school and sport it would literally mean not doing anything. Like just not going to school or just not stepping on the pitch. For games it would mean you can't play it, hell you can make the argument that you can't even download it.
That's not exactly what happens which drives the average up.There's other factors too.
Now we can talk about how scores are bloated, especially when it comes to gaming, but that's an entirely seperate issue.
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Marvel14
Banned
Air, land and underground maps confirmed. This has me more excited than anything else we've seen...all trailers included.
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NinjaBoiX
Member
Marvel14
Banned
You guys don't know Nintendo. No way this is just DLC on the same map...it may look like it and the BOTW map may feature but it will be much more than that..
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Teletraan1
Banned
5 extra GB of weapons that break after a few swings and shields that break 3 feet down a hill while riding on them. The previous one had 0 GB of interesting dungeons so they better improve that. Maybe 5GB of varied walking animations while you schlep over to the next POI. I will have to read 5 GB of text to find a honest review that doesn't sound like it was written by the biggest Nintendo fanboy on the planet. Yeah I really didn't love that last Zelda game. For me Zelda lives and dies by Overworld exploration and dungeons. The overworld was the best part of BotW but far too sparse. BotW fully embraced pick up and play bite sized gameplay with those lame ass dungeons. Add in all my other annoyances with this game and it was a 7.5 for me at best.
fart town usa
Member
I can't remember how many I got. I did do all the memories though and only have about a dozen shrines left to find. Not sure if I'll ever load it up though, it's been a while.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Tears of the kingdom might get the breath of the wild cross gen treatment (Wii u, Switch).
kvltus lvlzvs
Member
Was it ever confirmed whether or not the game will use the same world map as botw?
Also, has anyone ever played second wind? I am contemplating playing through botw again with second wind prior to playing through tears.
Also, has anyone ever played second wind? I am contemplating playing through botw again with second wind prior to playing through tears.
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Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
We still don't know the secret of this one. Six years of development. I'm not convinced that it is an expansion of BotW. There is something significant about the core aspects of this game we have barely been teased about. We should be getting a game specific Direct for this one.
LordOfChaos
Member
I'm half tempted to feel this way and half not wanting to let myself lol, there's room for speculation on moving more underground while reusing the on ground map, but this was never confirmed or shown, just brief pieces people speculating on. I feel like with Nintendo it's probably best to take it at face value and be surprised rather than expecting more and getting what they showed at face value.
I think we all hope that. But I've been thinking I was sure Splatoon 3 had more to it that they are not revealing, but nope, what you saw was basically Splatoon 2+ and could've been a DLC. Like Splatoon 3, I will still play TotK and I'm sure I'll enjoy being back in the world, but I get a feeling this might feel like BotW+.
nkarafo
Member
Thank god for that. I don't need more pretentious and edgy voice acting in my games. Give me beeps and boops or Banjo-Kazooie gulps with text all day. Save the voice acting space and budget for something more meaningful.
Yeah, hearing the Suicide Squad trailer, I don't get how you can play co-op with so much chatter that prob repeats itself at some point.
