If Breath of the Wild Isn't GOTY, I Don't Know What Is /s

[SvennoJ]

spemanig said:

SvennoJ said:
I doubt BotW can be topped but I would like to see other games try. I had to force myself to go to bed since it was getting near 6am, 7 hours of gaming later. That hasn't happened to me since Dark souls. Epic game. I didn't even get to do the dungeon I was planning to do, sidetracked for 7 hours and it was amazing.

The thing about BotW's open world is that I don't even think it's thematically possible for other open world games to replicate or surpass what it did. The biggest reason BotW's world is so amazing is because the whole world is treated like a collection of levels with real, unrealistic, level design rather than an actual, realistic open world.

Something like Red Dead or Assassin's Creed can't do that because it would look extremely stupid and out of character. That's not even counting the shrines and dungeons. The secret to Zelda's success is it's cartoon artstyle, because that allows players to suspend their disbelief when all of the random, wierd, completely unrelated stuff that happens in this game happens.

If that is what it takes then more of that please. Yet I doubt Ni No Kuni 2 will come close. Just cause has that emergent gameplay freedom too btw but Zelda found the right balance between freedom and level design / story.