curl-6 said:
HoloDust said:
Yeah, that's the thing, I do think you can make Zelda that has gated progression of classic Zelda and be very open in exploration - there are games out there that have similar structure and I can certainly envision Zelda as one.
Of course, Nintendo will go for the sales and new market. After all, sales of Skyrim (game that is most likely one of the reasons that gave Nintendo kick in the butt to wake up for "new" open-world market), sold craploads more compared to something like Morrowind or Daggerfall, yet, creatively, it's inferior game compared to both. So, yeah, all those big guns will go for sales first, no doubt about that.
We'll see...I really hope I am wrong and that it'll surprise me...but since I didn't like BotW much (and liked it even less on second playthrough, on then obligatory "watching my ASD son play", which is luckily not necessary anymore) for all the reasons that other people liked it, and seeing (so far) TotK full of those same things dialed to 11, I can only hope that any of the stuff added to TotK that is supposed to cater to classic Zelda fans is enough to get me through it - cause BotW is only mainline Zelda so far that I have no desire to play ever again. |
I don't really see how classic gated progression could be implemented without compromising the open-ended "go anywhere, do anything" nature of BOTW though. The two run counter to one another. |
Well, Zelda 1 is that type of game - it's open-ended exploration, it's just that you won't be able to progress after certain point if you don't get what you need. This gives players more structure and sense of progression and developers a way to control how challenges scale. Yes, it is a bit more restricted than "go anywhere, do anything from the start", but you can't actually go anywhere and do anything in BotW from the start either - there are still some steps you need to complete, even after you get down from plateau, if you want to actually go anywhere.
Zelda is not Minecraft, which is epitome of free-roam open world sandbox - and even Minecraft has prerequisites before you go off to "finish" it (AKA kill the Ender Dragon).
