VGC Weapon Durability MEGA Thread

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Areym said:

Johnw1104 said:
This is what happens when you have a game as good as BotW... people search for something to whine about and turn something that no one really gave a crap about in the past into the primary discussion of the day lol

Well, rarely do weapons break as frequently as they do in BotW (at least to my knowledge) I'd say its a valid concern for anybody who has played Dark Souls, TW3, etc. Obviously, they each handle it differently but there's an expectations that your weapons will last you a while.

To be fair, Zelda is about breaking conventions.  In those style of games I would agree that durability can be a bad thing.  But in a game like Zelda breath of the wild that encourages exploration and experimentation, durability feels necessary.  If your weapons didn't break then you wouldn't be encouraged to try sneak attacks, or using cuccos or attaching balloons to your enemies and watching them float away.