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Wyrdness on 13 June 2019
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Hiku said:

1. If someone played ALTTP a long time ago, re-visiting that world again after such a long time would probably be nostalgic. New graphics would be refreshing, etc.
If someone didn't play ALTTP, then the re-usage of the old map becomes largely irrelevant.

I'm not saying the nostalgia factor was necessary for it to be a good game. But that for anyone who could potentially have the same concerns about ALBW vocalized in this thread, they instead had the nostalgia factor because of the reasons I mentioned. That's not the case with BOTW2.

2. This is the internet, so if there is an opinion about something, you can probably find it somewhere if you look hard enough. But I remember reading and posting in the ALBW thread when it was announced, and I do not believe I saw a single complaint about going back to that Hyrule in there. Let alone as much as I see in this thread here, or on VGC Discord chat.

BOTW2 so far looks indistinguishable for the original BOTW. Whatever visual advancements there may be, it can't be expected to be anything remotely close from, SNES to 3DS.
Surely you understand why people like myself were excited to see a world we were fond of in brand new graphics?

I don't know what you mean by "you're acting as if Zelda is a series that relies on ultra realism".
It wasn't realism that made ALBTW's version of that same Hyrule visually refreshing. It was because of how different it was from the original. Same thing with Link's Awakening Remake.

3. I did say modest. Look at your post. You quoted it.
You're now referring to something I edited into my post after you made your reply. That sentence is absent from your post. So that can't be what you were talking about.
But even then, saying "that does not appear to be the case" is an observation, and what may come from that. Not making an assertion that "there aren't any changes".

If BOTW2 took place hundreds of years after the original, expectations of drastic overhauls to the familiar places you'll revisit in the world would be more common. But BOTW2 appears to take place shortly after. It's still possible that drastic terraforming or reconstruction occurred anyway, even if only a very short time has passed since BOTW, but it's certainly not unreasonable for people to expect the changes to BOTW2's familiar places to be more modest than the changes encountered in ALBTW, because that came as a result of many years passing.

1 - Yet you keep bringing up nostalgia so your argument is coming across as saying anyone who played ALTTP had nostalgia so wouldn't have a problem, the point is the game is good with out it you can have concerns but we're talking about when you actually get the game does it feel like an expansion? For most people who I've seen give their opinion no that's the point of the post you replied to.

2 - The internet is far bigger than VGC mate as people in social media had varied views on the game they were looking forward to it but had similar concerns, you're also going on about why nostalgia was a thing for you and some others I already acknowledged that I'm just telling for just as many people it's not the same case especially as 3D Zelda goes the were more technically impressive games as even OOT Remaster was already out some people wanted that approach instead so the 3d jump for ALBW for some people was already lessened. Fact is BOTW is already a technically impressive game to begin with to the point it holds up well in comparisons to tech in RDR2 a games that pushes other platforms hard while beating out others on better hardware what drew people to it were the applications of the game world. The ultra realism part is reference to how you keep going on about how much time has passed like that's really going to stop changes in a fantasy/sci-fi game.

3 - This is what I meant by the ultra realism comment it's a fantasy/sci-fi game the world can change in an instant while you're playing like FFVI did or they'll just say the Kingdom rebuilt itself after Ganon's defeat time after the original story is not going to stop changes, if they want to do changes they'll do them.

Last edited by Wyrdness - on 13 June 2019