(Updated now with poll) E3: Zelda Breath of the Wild Vs Horizon Zero Dawn = which one has the "wow factor"?

[Normchacho]

Wyrdness said:

Normchacho said:

No...It's like the other games because I'm sitting here watch them play it and it looks like a 3D Zelda game. It's certainly evolved, and it's adopted things from modern open world rpgs, but the way it looks and the way it appears to play are Zelda through and through.

Which isn't a dig at Zelda in any way, but saying Horizon looks standard when comparing it to a Zelda game is silly.

Except no Zelda game utilizes and combines sandbox and survival elements, I've watched Horizons gameplay walkthroughs as well so I can see where he was coming from as the game looks technically good but the gameplay didn't match the technical achievements. The new Zelda only vaguely resembles the previous games.

I...what? There are new systems in the new Zelda...but the combat and most of the actual gameplay itself is nearly identical to previous Zelda games.

 

Also, your argument is different than the one I was responding to. You just seem to be more interested in Zelda, which, whatever, that's fine. The person I was responding to said that Horizon was basically Shadows of Mordor with dino-robots and that Zelda was more than a Zelda game.

Breath of the Wild is way more like other 3D Zelda games than Horizon is like SoM.