| Mar1217 said: 2 years ago, people would have been floored if they knew this kind of number was possible for the series ! |
I feel this is due to people at the time not fully realizing what BOTW was and simply saw it as just a much bigger Zelda game when it's both a return to the original LOZ template but at the same time it's an evolution of it only now with sandbox elements and full freedom. The original game inspired the likes of GTA so it would figure BOTW returning to that template would share similarities with games like recent GTAs and RDR, many players don't even fully finish those games they just boot them up to play around in them and that's the advantage of sandbox mechanics, prior Zelda games needed you to progress through the game significantly to open things up the freedom in BOTW just gives you that from the start and then after the Plateau it's do as you please this opened up the game to many non Zelda fans as now going through dungeons and such was no longer required.
The things you can do in BOTW are what attracts players, I read on one forum someone detailed how they were in a battle in a thunder storm and froze one enemy in the middle of a group with an ice arrow then threw their weapon at the frozen enemy to have them struck by lightning and the interaction of electric and water caused a massive aoe attack killing all the enemies now factor in this was a random on the fly moment that was scripted in game its just something you can do. When people see or read about things like that they want to test the level of craziness out for themselves.
