Nintendo's recently released Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a masterclass of game design, giving players an unprecedented level of freedom. Here's why it is one of the best games released in the last 10 years.
Some big first-party Switch games are currently on sale, including Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and more.
Nintendo Everything pinpoints the new things that Zelda: Breath of the Wild brought to the table and how it inspired other developers.
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No one is saying Zelda invented anything. BoTW used existing ideas and took inspiration from a lot of games and streamlined it. The game sold 25 million copies, received massive praise and many game developers follow suit. Just like how Apple didn’t invent smartphones, but still made the phone that other companies were inspired by later on.
I can only speak for myself but I have nothing against the game, it's the same article being written every 3 months that's getting a bit old. There are pleanty of other great games out there that have inspired genres that get barely any recognition.
I think the game did a good job about streamlining some aspects but if it didn't have Zelda in it's name some of the weaker parts of the game would not have been forgiven as easily.
This, you know it feels like if people don't say that the game invested everything then they are not praising it enough, the best praise that can be given to it is that it did open world right, that's it, it doesn't have to be the first to be the best!
It's also about to turn 5 years old... We get it... Botw is great. How about more articles saying RE4 revolutionized 3rd person shooters with the over the shoulder cam. Or how Mario 64 redifined 3D platforming... Or how Street Fighter 2 pushed fighting games into the mainstream... At this point these articles are just redundant.
If BOTW is public enemy number one on here Game Pass is a close second. That service is hated with a passion on here. Don't dare praise it either. Only Sony branded content deserve such praise.
I haven't owned anything Xbox related since 360 because I just don't like their direction anymore yet I can't but be jealous about game pass it's a brilliant offer
This place is a giant bubble.
I can have a level headed, reasonable discussion on almost any reasonable YouTube video. Even with people of differing opinions.
Here? It's almost always vitriol and dog piling if you're not siding with the majority.
I love Breath of the Wild, but stop saying it invented the wheel. Open world games existed before that so I am pretty sure none of those game were influenced by it. Hell Pokemon Legends Arceus is technically more similar to Monster Hunter than an open world game.
Let’s be honest for a wii u game botw is great. If inspiration is taken from it then great.
It's why I bought a Wii U. There were no other games worth playing cuz I also had an Xbone.
Hey..another opinion piece from a website with the word Nintendo in its name about how Zelda Botw influenced other games ..lel.
Look i love breath of the wild as much as the next guy but honestly ur acting like it changed the game or something.
It didnt it was an amazingly crafted open world game, that its.
Tgat fact tgatva few games steal certain things from it doesnt make it more special. Devs steal things from other games literally the time.
So are we gonna have posts about how a crummy game with nice feature influenced all gamers after it just vecause a few things were taken from it by another dev.
Its weird to say this about such an amazing game but its literally overrated at this point.
Something like gta deserves these articles gta and red dead are exemplary examples on how to do open world and the added bonus of them basically starting the trend and perfecting it
There were also articles discussing the influence of GTA 3 and Shenmue when they came out 20 years ago.
GTA’s open world is flawed in that the missions can be carried out only a specific and precise way.
BOTW actually fixes that and allows you to do the missions in whatever way you figure out.
GTA is amazing and way more revolutionary but BOTW does push the needle forward.
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Thats because the game barely has a story so it can do that, it gave u 4 major objectives which were all effectively the same. It was the envirments tgat made it different and that i could do it any order but thats all because the minimalist story allowed it.
How would a game with a full on story like gta, red dead, horizon work if it was just done in any order?
Zelda did push the need cause it was an brillant game but people overrate it for 2 simple things, not having a map full of icons and the fact u can complete those same 4 objectives in any order.
So then it copied the gameplay mechanic from Crackdown? That's all you reference. Did you NOT know BOTW copied it from another game? That's pushing the envelope?
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Lol this game is so overrated. seriously. horizon is much betterr!
The graphix are bad too!
I love how people say the graphics are poor. They are far from poor. Yes they don't looks as sharp as games on the xbox one and ps4 but this is a port from the wiiU and its the 1st AAA game on the switch to look at the 1st set of games on the xbox one and ps4 to what they have now.
For me this is one of if not the best Zelda game Nintendo have done it look amazing, its massive, been brought up to date with game play but also keeps the Zelda feel.
Ive not played Horizon yet but this also look a very good game and could be another hit for Sony.
For me no game is better than another we just prefer a game over another like we do with consoles or anything in life.
People who own a sony console should be enjoying Horizon and people who own a Nintendo console will be enjoying Zelda its that simple.
Love how he never mention all those empty large fields between areas xD, and "on an adventure and not just completing fetch quests and other menial tasks" LOL looking at most of the walkthrough videos thats what you do including wasting alot of time grinding.
If that were true I would definitely would be playing it,so putting the Zelda name aside and not moved by fanboyism, this is a bit of my opinion about this game, first of all it looks ok I guess and it has nothing to brag about, some of my reasons:
* Zelda is now in a more open world mechanism, what I can say about this ?, well welcome Nintendo to the type open world games that you are a little late to the party on that, there are dozens of other open world games out there and miles better visuals and with a hell more deep on its gameplay.
* Cartoon Zelda or cel-shaded, I mean I'm fine with that, but since Nintendo is using this kind of visuals today, I pretty much would it expect more details on the world, full HD , 60 fps or even a damn steady framerate, but the reality is that it has this cartoon visuals with sub-HD, empty world and framerates going all the way down to 20 fps ?, and paying 380 plus dlls for this ?, like it or not, NO WAY IN HELL THATS WORTH IT! l
* People saying "but but Zelda it always been cartoony, I mean just look A link to the Past" ,<-- I mean really people do I really have to explain this?, I mean you have to be better than this, I won't go into detail cause obvious reasons but A link to the Past was released more than 20-24 years ago, so if you don't comprehend that well that's so sad and I'm sorry for you.
I'm pretty sure people had or is having a lot of fun with Zelda's new game, well that's definitely a good thing, but calling it one of the best games of the last 10 years ?, that is definitely an exaggeration: nothing new, subhd visuals and with very bad frame rate ? how can that even be praised so much ? I'm really starting to think about payed reviews but oh well that's another story.
Also I wonder what scored would have if it has another name ? lets say:
"Green land: The return of blondeboy".
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