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Wyrdness said:
Yeah I get that feeling as well even though they go for different experiences the attention to detail in how the player interacts with the world and mechanics certainly shows in these games especially when compared to other games. What really gets me is that BOTW is still technically a WiiU game and they pulled of something comparable to RDR2 just trying to factor that in makes the next Zelda's task a mountain as building on such an achievement will take an insane amount of work, I remember how when OOT came out it was comparable to games that came years later. |
Going forwards I expect to see BOTW's influence show up in more and more games, much like how it happened with games like Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Halo, Gears of War, COD4, etc.
Topping BOTW will indeed be a tall order, but the fact that at its core its a Wii U game does give them a leg up, as with the Switch as presumably the hardware baseline for its successor, they'll have access to more powerful hardware off the bat to facilitate more detail and complexity.
