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Slownenberg on 30 March 2022
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HoloDust said:
Mnementh said:

I fear Zelda is too far into development to make bigger design changes. I hope though, that in upcoming years some games take notes and include lessons form Elden Ring. Because Elden Ring is a game that made me have fun exploring again.

Yeah, Elden Ring is really a blast to explore, it reminds me so much of some of the quite old PC RPGs - I wish more developers had the balls to take notes from those older games.

Slownenberg said:

I'm actually (finally) playing BotW right now. Got the game in 2017, just starting playing through it a week or so ago.

I don't know what Elden Ring is like but by god BotW is incredible (as everyone else already knows). I'm 50 hours in and I'm still early in the game. So much to see and explore!

And I gotta think the fact that they are taking 5 years for BotW2, and that they are reusing a lot of the map, code, engine, assets, means it is going to be insanely full of content and will blow even the first game out of the water.

Let's just say Elden Ring is few grades above BotW when it comes to exploration, world design and things to see. But, to be honest, as a Zelda fan I found BotW to be fairly weak, so I'm really hoping that BotW2 would be significantly better.

Well then I'm gonna have to take your opinion on Elden Ring being a few grades above Zelda with a grain a salt, considering you found BotW to be weak while I find it to be incredible and the exploration is just insane - I usually end up spending 2 to 5 hours just exploring between two points of interest in the game that I could travel between in like 15 or so minutes if I just went straight there, and that just keeps happening over and over. It's an absolute delight.

I think all Nintendo needs to do is build on what they created in BotW. Tinker with things they think they can improve, give us plenty more areas to explore different from the first game, but the main thing is just add in a bunch more content (like more enemy types, more enemy points of interest, normal Zelda dungeons, and much more of a story with gameplay plot points).

Considering they are spending five years on the game despite having a huge base to start from thanks to the first game, I gotta figure the sequel is going to have the same incredible exploration as the first but up the content by a lot. Which is saying a lot, considering based on being 50 hours in right now I'm pretty damn sure the first game is gonna take me over 200 hours.