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Soleron on 08 August 2013
RolStoppable said:
Soleron said:
Speaking of Wind Waker, the sailing is proven to be nothing to do with load times. Nintendo just likes it.

Was that ever in question? Really?

The myth persisted for a very long time.



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LiquorandGunFun on 08 August 2013

I love zelda games but i just flat HATE windwaker.
however i liked the sailing in AC3, i had alot of fun on that part of the game.



 

kopstudent89 on 08 August 2013
DieAppleDie said:
I loved Wind wakers sailing.
Sailing with no objectives and founding things for yourself in a big overworld was magical.really made me feel like an adventurer




S.Peelman on 08 August 2013
RolStoppable said:

"If the ship were going faster in the original, you would have reached the edge of the ocean before the game could load all the data."

I don't buy it. It just sounds like an excuse for why sailing was slow in the original. You could see islands that were several map squares away from your current location at all times and the GameCube could stream data fast in order to handle things like level of detail and mip-mapping properly. If there really was a problem with load times, then the game would have paused for brief moments (specifically when getting close to islands and full detail sets in) which is a common problem for games that stream data, but can't quite handle it perfectly at all times. And now Aonuma is telling me that an HD version with more detailed textures and better effects, but on the slower Wii U disc drive, allows to double up the speed of the boat which supposedly wasn't possible before? No, I just don't buy it.

Not that I believe in the explanation, like osed125 said the super-swim glitch sort of proves it to be false, but to be fair, the game indeed doesn't load the islands until you get close enough (I think one square away). The islands you see in the distance are nothing more than simple 2D sprites drawn on the 'horizon'. If you look closely, you'll see that the game exchanges these sprites for the real 3D island locations once you are close enough.



Cleary397 on 08 August 2013

Sailing directly into the wind is surely not the best sailing technique?

And also, i play games, not sailing simulators.

Maybe you should make a thread about how in majority of FPS's these days you can take at least 10 bullets to the body and just walk away.



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HigHurtenflurst on 08 August 2013
Cleary397 said:
Sailing directly into the wind is surely not the best sailing technique?

And also, i play games, not sailing simulators.

Maybe you should make a thread about how in majority of FPS's these days you can take at least 10 bullets to the body and just walk away.

Well making sailing a little more realistic wouldn't affect the gameplay in any real sense (unless it was turning into a sailing simulator) for example on WindWaker instead of the boat speed being fastest when going downwind, it would be fastest going perpendicular to wind direction, with a graduated slowdown towards downwind and upwind (and then a "dead-zone" when aiming too far upwind)

Changing the health in an FPS affects how you play the game a lot.... Similarly with spaceflight making the physics realistic in a 3D environment would probably make it boring (though with some games it could certainly be made more realistic)