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Nem said:

Sigh... because i'm not blind and watching videos in the internet is a thing (also, i wasnt born yesterday)?

I will be getting to play it tomorrow anyways. I don't know why you are so offended though. All i said is that it isn't as revolutionary as Ocarina and that is obvious. This isn't the first open world game and it won't be the last, but i am pretty certain that the Witcher 3 is better.

I've played many open world games Witcher included and BOTW is just far better as its approach does things other openworld games don't while doing the majority of things these games do all in one package.



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This game absolutely sucks... lol The Zelda series is over!



 

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Wyrdness said:
Nem said:

Sigh... because i'm not blind and watching videos in the internet is a thing (also, i wasnt born yesterday)?

I will be getting to play it tomorrow anyways. I don't know why you are so offended though. All i said is that it isn't as revolutionary as Ocarina and that is obvious. This isn't the first open world game and it won't be the last, but i am pretty certain that the Witcher 3 is better.

I've played many open world games Witcher included and BOTW is just far better as its approach does things other openworld games don't while doing the majority of things these games do all in one package.

That kind of thing is preference. Please don't feed the other guy that just wants to be annoying.

If we couldnt tell wether a game is good or not in good part by just watching footage, we should all be buying the Slaughtering grounds cause who knows... it might be good?! It's a dumb logic.



I was put off at first. I'm a bigger fan of tight, focused Zelda games. It won me over, though. All I want to do is play it. I have to force myself to stop.



etking said:

It is a good game, I would give a score of 90/100 so far after over 20 hours of gameplay (8 hearts, just reached the first village after entering Hyrule castle and exploring half of the map). It has flaws (no heart pieces, no signature Zelda Items, no Metroidvania style gameplay, almost no music,  bad, inconvenient menus with low usability, weapon durability, cooking, framerate / slowdown, low texture quality, high difficulty, simple mini dungeons that can take half an hour just to solve a single crazy puzzle, simple single button mashing combat with not much need for the advanced features, stealth elements) but you get used to it.

It is getting better the longer you play.

OMG someone actualy daring to scrutnize a Zelda game like every other game is scrutinized. You should be a pro reviewer, cause all reviewers do regarding this game is say, its Zelda, its open world, you have freedom, 10/10. Id much rather see ppl realy scrutnize it and make honest reviews like they do to all other games. For instance I still have no idea if this game has a deep engaging story or if its story is the same old kinda shallow Zelda tale we always get cause ppl are too busy saying "the world gives you freedom" to actualy analize this game.



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Nem said:
Hynad said:

Why don't you wait until you've played it before making such comments and passing those kind of judgements?

Sigh... because i'm not blind and watching videos in the internet is a thing (also, i wasnt born yesterday)?

I will be getting to play it tomorrow anyways. I don't know why you are so offended though. All i said is that it isn't as revolutionary as Ocarina and that is obvious. This isn't the first open world game and it won't be the last, but i am pretty certain that the Witcher 3 is better.

It is pretty clear that the OP is asking the question to those who have actually played the game and know what they're talking about. Which you admitted that this simply isn't you.

And that jab at me was quite ironic, since that comment and attitude is the kind of thing that "feeds", unlike what Wyrdness said.



sc94597 said:
Hynad said:

There's no similarity at all. You are being dishonest here. The Witcher 3 never had performance issues nearly as severe and frequent as those found in Breath of the Wild. And what issues it had, were much less pronounced than in BOTW.  

No I am not. The performance of the game fluctuated with each patch, in some it was worst than others, depending on what platform you were playing on. For example, in the video you linked there were multiple drops to 20 fps on the PS4 version and 25 fps on the XBO, and the frame time lags were quite frequent (the stutter I mentioned.) In the description Digital Foundry says. 


"This analysis of version 1.01 is now out of date! Please go to our Patch 1.07 test - there've been a lot of changes"

Which you can find here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNdvGcJ-vc

I count frame-rate drops to the low 20's at :30 until 1:09 (Breath of the Wild doesn't often have framerate drops to 20 fps for that long), at 1:16, at 1:40, at 3:02, and at 3:30. In a video that is only 3 minutes and 30 seconds long, that is quite frequent. 

Witcher 3 did not settle on a consistent framerate and performance until patch 1.10 for both consoles, and then this was screwed up again in 1.12. I noticed this with the PC version as well.  

Yes, you are. I have played The Witcher 3 from day one on the PS4, and am currently playing Breath of the Wild on the Wii U, and none of the Witcher 3 version updates had performance drops as constant and severe as what's found in Breath of the Wild. Most villages in the later are constantly running at 20fps the entire time you're in them. That's a farcry from the few occasions this happened in The Witcher 3, and DF pinpointed most of those occurances for their videos. The only spot that took longer to fix in The Witcher 3, was the Bog. Mostly during certain weather conditions. And even then, it didn't run as constantly bad as villages in Breath of the Wild. 


I do wonder if you've played The Witcher 3 at all. Because from my experience, there was nothing as severe in it as what's in Breath of the Wild. 



Hynad said:
sc94597 said:

No I am not. The performance of the game fluctuated with each patch, in some it was worst than others, depending on what platform you were playing on. For example, in the video you linked there were multiple drops to 20 fps on the PS4 version and 25 fps on the XBO, and the frame time lags were quite frequent (the stutter I mentioned.) In the description Digital Foundry says. 


"This analysis of version 1.01 is now out of date! Please go to our Patch 1.07 test - there've been a lot of changes"

Which you can find here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNdvGcJ-vc

I count frame-rate drops to the low 20's at :30 until 1:09 (Breath of the Wild doesn't often have framerate drops to 20 fps for that long), at 1:16, at 1:40, at 3:02, and at 3:30. In a video that is only 3 minutes and 30 seconds long, that is quite frequent. 

Witcher 3 did not settle on a consistent framerate and performance until patch 1.10 for both consoles, and then this was screwed up again in 1.12. I noticed this with the PC version as well.  

Yes, you are. I have played The Witcher 3 from day one on the PS4, and am currently playing Breath of the Wild on the Wii U, and none of the Witcher 3 version updates had performance drops as constant and severe as what's found in Breath of the Wild. Most villages in the later are constantly running at 20fps the entire time you're in them. That's a farcry from the few occasions this happened in The Witcher 3, and DF pinpointed most of those occurances for their videos. The only spot that took longer to fix in The Witcher 3, was the Bog. Mostly during certain weather conditions. And even then, it didn't run as constantly bad as villages in Breath of the Wild. 


I do wonder if you've played The Witcher 3 at all. Because from my experience, there was nothing as severe in it as what's in Breath of the Wild. 

The Switch version of BoTW does not drop as often in villages as the Wii U version (although it does drop during severe weather in villages.) Since the Switch version is the one being reviewed, that is the one I am talking about. The drops in the Switch version are limited to certain areas on the plateau and villages (during weather conditions) just like the Witcher 3 on PS4/XBO had drops in certain areas. Digital Foundry has only measured the performance on the plateau so far. 

 

Like I said, I played The Witcher 3 on my PC, and the differences between patches made a considerable difference. The microstutter in the PC version was more annoying than the framerate drops I have experienced in the switch version of BoTW, because it was constant. From what I have read, both the PS4 and XBO suffered from microstutter as well. You might have not noticed it, but I sure did, and so did plenty of other people.



Hynad said:
Nem said:

Sigh... because i'm not blind and watching videos in the internet is a thing (also, i wasnt born yesterday)?

I will be getting to play it tomorrow anyways. I don't know why you are so offended though. All i said is that it isn't as revolutionary as Ocarina and that is obvious. This isn't the first open world game and it won't be the last, but i am pretty certain that the Witcher 3 is better.

It is pretty clear that the OP is asking the question to those who have actually played the game and know what they're talking about. Which you admitted that this simply isn't you.

And that jab at me was quite ironic, since that comment and attitude is the kind of thing that "feeds", unlike what Wyrdness said.

Dude... seriously. Now you need to be physicly holding the cotroller to have an opinion on a game? Get off! You're not worth wasting my time on.

My post wasnt for you. Just go back into pink Nintendo world and move on.



I'm willing to bet that the 7.8 user score has something to do with PlayStation trolls who are pissed off that Breath of the Wild is being reviewed better than Horizon: Zero Dawn.