I'm assuming that the map towers work similarly to Shadow of Mordor.

Shadow of Mordor I climb the map tower.  Once I do that, I see everything available to me.  I like bows, so I mark the bow mission on my map, and make a beeline for it.  I know everything available to me, and there's nothing to discover.

In Breath of the Wild, I climb the tower.  I activate it and... I know nothing.  I see the names of a few landmarks.  That's it.  I can now mark things on my map, or scan the horizon for interesting points, but I don't really know what will be there when I make it.  Opening the map doesn't tell me "oh if I want to do so and so, I should go right here."

I am talking about towers in zelda and horizn, horizon doesn't treat towers like shadow of modorr ro whatnot.

when you climb a tower in horizon, you get information that you would expect to find from a machine whose main purpose is information collection. You get the a portion of the map opened, you get the location of some mchines around the area (basically resource gathering and transport machines) but no information on scout or combat machnes and you get the location of the "machine factory" aka cauldrums in that area. That makes sense. its not suddenly openning up all quests and objectives in the map to you. Its giving you stuf that you would get from a machine like that.

Oh.... and its completely optional. You do not need to do them to progress the game in anyway.

The way you describe the towers isn't how Horizon implememts it. And that is exactly what has got me so curious. Cause as it stands, those of you that are at least citing reasons as to why they are diffeerent, are basically saying whats bad about horizons towers is that they give you some information and Zelda doesn't.

Ok, pending release a lot of gamers and even reviewers looked at horizon and slanted it for how similar it is to a "ubisoft game" because of its use of map towers. You know, those things that when you climb to its top reveals a small portion of the map.

There were reviewers that even docked points from the game citing that because it had these "map towers" that they hated it felt too much like farcry or assasins creed.

Can someone explain to me how its possible that no one has said anything about the "map towers" in Breath of the Wild?

it took me stumbling across this article from videogamer  to even know they were the game proper as most reviews I have watched didn't even mention them.

eithr way, its really a simple thing. Both games have towers in them. But in one its ok (even if  that one has 10 more towers than the other) and in the other its somehow a bad thing. I am sorry but that makes no sense to me. 

I'm assuming that the map towers work similarly to Shadow of Mordor.

Shadow of Mordor I climb the map tower.  Once I do that, I see everything available to me.  I like bows, so I mark the bow mission on my map, and make a beeline for it.  I know everything available to me, and there's nothing to discover.

In Breath of the Wild, I climb the tower.  I activate it and... I know nothing.  I see the names of a few landmarks.  That's it.  I can now mark things on my map, or scan the horizon for interesting points, but I don't really know what will be there when I make it.  Opening the map doesn't tell me "oh if I want to do so and so, I should go right here."

The point is that not all towers are created equally.  If they function differently, then reviewers should consider them differently.   A good comparison is L.A. Noire.  Some reviewers complained it was an open world, and you had to drive to different places.  They didn't complain about that in GTA.  Because in L.A. Noire, there was nothing to do aside from main missions, and driving was just a chore.  In GTA, you could find interesting things along the way.

Just because two features are somewhat similar does not mean they're both well implemented.  You're trying to manufacture a controversy.

Ok, pending release a lot of gamers and even reviewers looked at horizon and slanted it for how similar it is to a "ubisoft game" because of its use of map towers. You know, those things that when you climb to its top reveals a small portion of the map.

There were reviewers that even docked points from the game citing that because it had these "map towers" that they hated it felt too much like farcry or assasins creed.

Can someone explain to me how its possible that no one has said anything about the "map towers" in Breath of the Wild?

it took me stumbling across this article from videogamer  to even know they were the game proper as most reviews I have watched didn't even mention them.

I'm really not going to get into a long discussion comparing the features, because I want to play some more Zelda.  Just answer this one very simple question.

Are the features identical?

If they're not (and they don't seem to be) then it's perfectly legitimate to like one and not the other.

Ok... resource gathering is very important in horizon. Everything coes down to crafted items. even when you buy things from vendors, they also require some item that you would have crafted in addition to an amount of the games currency.

Those markers you mention that pop up when you hack a tallneck in horizon;basically give you machine gathering locations. That is mostly it. They tell you where the machines are gathered. and the icons let syou know what machine type is there. and this only pertains to non combat or scout class machines. This is imporatnt cause it lets you know where the best hunting grounds are in that area or where the mountable machines in that area are. It also gives you the loactaion of the closest machine factory area that area. Thats it. It basically gives you very very relevant information to the game and helps you focus your plans if that is what you are trying to do.

So yes the features aren't identical.... but Horizon's isn't bad either. or at least nothing like what it was being compared to. I am almost certain that if horizons towers acted like those in zelda... they would have referred to them as useless pointless additions that serve for nothing more than jst revealing a portion of the map.