It's not every day that the greatest game of all time is a pending release for next year. At a time such as this, I think the hype is appropriate.

the game look terrible to me but (before you report me) i've said time and time again that i don't like sandbox games. the world looks lifeless and boring. the lack of direction will only amplify that. i don't like the weapon breaking although i do like their are equipment upgrades (i.e. new pants). also i don't like that climbing has a stamina meter,.. seems like a lazy way out of doing proper level design. i like the physics though,. the interactions of things with each other (fire causes updraft that you can ride up with leaf thing) seem to be well though out.

from what i've seen this is too sandbox for me. if i get an NX i'll buy it but it will probably be my least favorite zelda ever. but i absolutely applaud nintendo for breaking from the formula and trying something new.

Nothing to hype at all.. Other open world games seem way better and more intersesting ... Fallout, Skyrim, GTA

I guess this is good advice for me. Since I know very little about this game, I am my own worst enemy when it comes to this game. How great the new Zelda can be is really up to my imagination at this rate. I usually go into things with no expectations, so I usually have a great time with games I buy.

Great post.

I must say that I'm not enamored too much with what I saw so far, but I'll just wait and see. Zelda is one of my Top 10 IPs (with at least 3 entries), but it is more for consistency of very good games, rather than thinking they are stellar...so, I guess, I never have too great of expectations.

I must admit though that, so far, open-world does not feel the way I like them, but that's just personal preference.

Nothing to report! You explained yourself perfectly. Contrary opinions are what make this forum healthy and vibrant. They just need to be explained in a civil way, which you did.

Well I also think that before this year's e3 we got close to nothing of Zelda BOTW footage. Having majority of it release a couple weeks ago definetly compact and increase the HYPE of it.

Reported. Now my day is complete.

Now, on serious bussiness, this is a good example. Maybe in the future showings you could change your mind or other that hypes so much will lower their expectations.

We need to wait and ask for a good game. But with the truth, not just imagining that it's going to be a perfect game.

This E3 actually dropped my hype for this, I can honestly say I'm not very impressed by it at all and I love Zelda games, wouldn't necessarily say I'm a huge fan like I was back in the SNES and N64 days, but seeing the initial gameplay showing before this years one and at the launch of the Wii U this was something that I would have bought a Wii U for.

Maybe I'll get it if I'm enticed to buy an NX, I probably have bought it had I already owned a Wii U, but the Wii U will be the only Nintendo home console I won't have owned.
I'll probably get a bunch of Wii U games if NX is backwards compatible or has Xbox One style emulation (certainly possible for anyone to do now that MS have shown it's possible within similar constraints of differing CPU architecture to last gen tech), so I wouldn't say I'd never buy it, but I don't see it as a system seller like I did last year.

Just doesn't look very entertaining too me and games like Witcher 3 have done open world gameplay in a much more accomplished way and since Horizon Zero Dawn has CD Projekt Red quest design guys working on it and so many other talented open world game developers I'm way more hyped for that, beyond belief tbh.
Zelda BOTW just looks too simplistic by comparison to the depth of gameplay on offer in Horizon.

In case certain people who have been very defensive over Zelda reply to me, trying to make out like I'm focusing on graphics, I'm not, my points are about gameplay, Horizon having a pretty outer coating has only a marginal amount to do with why I'm way more interested in it than Zelda.

I have to make this statement and I have to compare games like Zelda to things like Horizon, because they're fairly similar fundamentally, which inevitably gets me looking for similarities in up coming titles.
Horizon just seems to have a more believable and logical structure to it's gameplay and overall design, which I think is paramount in these kinds of experiences and I love that Guerrilla are doing development of this kind of game, the way it's being done.

The setting isn't generic, approach seems very fresh, while Zelda seems more dated by comparison, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's not hooking me in and I think it's perfectly fair to say that.
There's no need for people to get touchy when they don't have the same opinions on a thing, it's way more mature and balanced to just say that we have different opinions on these things and you like what you like and I like what I like.

I'm glad others are hyped for Zelda, the game they love the look and gameplay details of.
I think a lot of the defensiveness over this hobby comes from people have deeper insecurities elsewhere, so just love what you love and own that you're hyped for a game, but be fine that others don't really have to agree and certainly don't feel the need to hate on people that aren't thinking the same way as you.

If we all thought the same this world would be a pretty boring place IMO.