Bigred's Video Game Thread

[MadMojoMonkey]

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild looks fantastic.

Who knew that my original favorite RPG as a child would grow up to be a big kid one day?

At first peek, it looks to be an improvement on Skyrim as far as world design and game mechanics are concerned.

I'm a bit pleasantly surprised by Nintendo on this one.

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Who knew that my original favorite RPG as a child would grow up to be a big kid one day?

At first peek, it looks to be an improvement on Skyrim as far as world design and game mechanics are concerned.

I'm a bit pleasantly surprised by Nintendo on this one.

The gamer podcasts I listen to are raving about the new zelda and many of the people haven't liked Zelda games since Super Nintendo. They have stated that they finally took in feedback for past Zelda failures and also open world failures and put together the perfect open world Zelda game. If I wasn't traveling and could buy a switch and Zelda, I would in a second. It looks amazing.

[aubreymcfate]

The gamer podcasts I listen to are raving about the new zelda and many of the people haven't liked Zelda games since Super Nintendo. They have stated that they finally took in feedback for past Zelda failures and also open world failures and put together the perfect open world Zelda game. If I wasn't traveling and could buy a switch and Zelda, I would in a second. It looks amazing.

What is it about this game that makes people who haven't liked Zelda since SNES rave about it? Like, what are the "past failures" in those games that BotW improved on? Majora's Mask may be my favorite video game of all time.. and OoT is just classic perfection. I've played the older games and newer games (Zelda was also my favorite growing up, it was an extremely formative part of my childhood) and loved them all. I remember Wind Waker got shit on a lot, but I thought it was great. I always viewed the LttP purists as being hindered by their nostalgia.

I haven't kept up with Zelda as of late though b/c I simply don't have the time I used to for games, and I love Zelda so much that it would be hard to me for casually keep myself up to date without fully immersing.. if that makes any sense.

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What is it about this game that makes people who haven't liked Zelda since SNES rave about it? Like, what are the "past failures" in those games that BotW improved on? Majora's Mask may be my favorite video game of all time.. and OoT is just classic perfection. I've played the older games and newer games (Zelda was also my favorite growing up, it was an extremely formative part of my childhood) and loved them all. I remember Wind Waker got shit on a lot, but I thought it was great. I always viewed the LttP purists as being hindered by their nostalgia.

I haven't kept up with Zelda as of late though b/c I simply don't have the time I used to for games, and I love Zelda so much that it would be hard to me for casually keep myself up to date without fully immersing.. if that makes any sense.

You can listen direct here: http://rebelfm.libsyn.com/rebel-fm-episode-326-02242017

I think the cliff notes are he found many of the zeldas since the N64 one to be very tutorial in nature. That is, learn how to do this move or use this weapon in this temple and then use that in 500 repetitive combos until you beat the temple. Use that move to enter the next temple and then learn the next move/weapon. The claim is this Zelda studied a lot of the successful adventure and open world games over the last 5+ years and really made something wonderful.

I've liked every Zelda I've played but I get his point. This is one game he points out that I've never played that he says is the best one. Wouldn't mind checking it out.