Best explanation why Zelda BotW is great

[vivster]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

vivster said:

18 minutes to say why the game is great. I only need a few words to explain how the game ruined itself with pointless mechanics. Doesn't matter how many things a game does well when the things it does terribly are so bad that it makes you want to quit it.

And those are? 

 

Mar1217 said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

And those are? 

You missed a good chunk of march I guess xD He was all over the breaking weapons mechanic

The funny thing is that wasn't what made me quit the game for good. I love open world games for the freedom they give you. I will roam around kill some dudes, explore a bit and roam around more. That's for me the definition of freedom and open world.

Then the game barges in and tells you that you cannot use your weapon that you found and that you love anymore. It's saying, you better not kill those dudes or I'm gonna take away your stuff. That's already quite weird to actively discourage me to engage with the world. The Gothic series does the same thing but it uses actual gameplay, story and world design to do it instead of implementing a simple break switch.

But as if that wasn't enough it then starts to to tell me where I can and can't go and when I can and can't go to some place. We'll gonna give you an awesome climbing mechanic but we will only let you climb when we tell you to. That's a bit bossy and kinda against what an open world is supposed to represent I thought to myself. Then it started to rain every 5 minutes and I decided this open world game does not want me to open world so I'm just gonna let it alone.

So in a sense, I didn't quit the game, the game just didn't want me to play it anymore.

Making the player wait to for no reason is what shitty mobile games do. And even in shitty mobile games they give you the option to skip your waiting time, which makes BOTW an even worse offender. I know the Switch is supposed to be a mobile console but that doesn't mean it has to act like one.

Good thing there are still real open world games out there that don't Nintendo the fun away from you.