this is why the open world of breath of the wild is special.

[potato_hamster]

Yomieeee said:

potato_hamster said:

I'm sorry I thought you were descibing Horizon: Zero Dawn for a second there until you said the NPCs tried to stop you. They're all useless fucks that kinda hate you in Horizon. But the point remains - a game came out just four  days before Zelda that hits pretty much all of these marks, but Zelda is special for them? Seems a bit biased in my opinion.

Keep in mind that both game just came out so not a lot of people have experienced both to even make that "biased opinion". Clearly a lot of people think Zelda is special, same with Horizon.

But I don't think Horizon is "special" the setting and theme is unqiue in the sense that you're hunting robot animals, but besides that the game play is just a well polished open world game. Same goes for other games like The Witcher, or Red Dead Redemption. or Fallout 4, or Metal Gear Solid V or whatever. Now I haven't played it myself but I have watched a few hours of let's play videos, and I just can't figure out why this is so much higher rated than all of the other games in that category. It appears to me that Zelda is only special because it's a Zelda game that does these things just as well as these other games.