Opinion: Rain in BOTW is a positive addition to the game

[Ganoncrotch]

NightlyPoe said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Then you have the suggestion that you aren't aware of there being such recipes in the game, or that you don't know that climbing gear exists in the game... that's the whole point of the game, there isn't tutorials, you come up against a giant wall and you can't see a way to climb it... you go around, you bottom feed, you avoid enemies who will kill you in the game, until you learn about things in it like the potions, gear and how to generally play. In the same frame of mind where you think to yourself "I don't know about the mechanics of the game" you shouldn't be then thinking "but I wanna be able to scale every mountain and goal in the game" in the same way going back to the fighting game scenario you see the online leader boards and think "I wanna get to the top of that mountain..... but I'm unaware of the basic game mechanics and will fail to climb that mountain."

My method of simple patience worked fine.  There was no failure on my part.  I accomplished what I set out to do.

In the end, your suggestions wouldn't help.  Literally everything you suggest takes more time than waiting out the rain, and doesn't really address the whole slipping problem.  Heck, if there's a fire to cook something, I'm not going to bother with stamina food.  I'm just gonna take a nap and let the RNG reset.

It's not like I didn't use stamina replenishment for other things.  There were plenty of big rocks I wanted to climb that were out of my stamina range and I would use the appropriate items or I ate something that cooled me down or warmed me up before I got the gear.  We're not talking about that though.  What we're talking about here is an RNG block.

Really, I think you're missing the point.  I never got annoyed that there was something I couldn't reach because I wasn't ready.  I was only annoyed that there was something that was well within my reach, but the game put a temporary artificial barrier around it.

you can carry 60 meals, at no point when I'm fighting a Lynel do I need to find a pot to cook up some Str food because I've got a stock of at least 10 before I go out to hunt things, by the same logic I also have the food for max Hp/Stam and resistance to hot/cold/burning with me always, like I said there's 60 spaces for meals, boy scout that shit and be prepared!