This weapon durability is still tolerable to being a big nuisance. Last night I had a whole streak of bow wielding and no weapon enemies, forcing me to dip into my good weapons which now all have a various yet unknown wear on them.

It doesn't help that the leveling system is kinda weird. Random wandering enemies only do 1 quarter dmg now, still need to be disposed of ofcourse. (Especially those annoying rock slinging octo things) While the camps have leveled up enemies that still one hit kill me (with 9 hearts and 22 armor) even a stray arrow from them is instant death. Using their weapons against them is not enough. Their weapons don't last a single fight against them, even with 2 attack buffs it takes too many hits to take them down and the weapon I just picked up breaks before the first fight with it is over.

So yeah now I occasionally have to get by with skeleton arms again and crap that lays around, hoping a chest will produce something good. The Yiga clan keeps teleporting in archers as well to dull my weapons. I don't have a problem (yet) getting by, but slowly my whole weapon inventory is getting more and more compromised. I'm currently in the Hateno region btw, finally unlocked the rest of the Skeika slate after 80 hours of game time, 52 shrines, 2 divine beasts, 144 Korok seeds (yet the dude sped off after spending 3)

Not sure what Nintendo was thinking with this weird enemy leveling system combined with them dropping weapons that don't even last 1 fight. Is the game simply outleveling me? Again, it's no problem yet, but I'm getting less and less incentivized to use stasis on objects or take on guardians as I simply feel I shouldn't risk my tools on such tomfoolery :/ And sure there's environmental dmg, but exploding barrels only do like 2% dmg now on the white ones.

I hate on Nintendo plenty when they deserve it.

If you don't like the system, that's fine. Calling it lazy, unbalanced (and to a lesser degree poor design choice) for the biggest truly open world game outside of Minecraft, made on 10yr old hardware/modern portable that took 5 years to make with zero linearity (massive achievement) is what I have an issue with.

Cook some food. You learn on the training plateau how to stay warm in a cold area. Food you pic up clearly stats whether it will help with cold/heat/electricity/ect in teh description.

Weapons do though wear down faster depending on what you are hitting. If I hit a stone golem with my sword it will break in a matter of swings. If I'm killing a golem I can get like 40 swings.

BTW, people need to quit tossing around that 10 swings figure. If your not holding a crappy boku club or something of that level the average swings is 30+. The better weapons are like 50. You can kill a lot fo enemies with that many swings and thus as anyone who is decently far in the game will tell you, you will be throwing weapons away more often than they are breaking.

Like I already said, you could go out and get the strongest weapon and exploit the game. You can't do that with armor. First you have to buy armor. For armor you need rupees, for rupees you need material to be sold which you get from enemies. You can also upgrade the armor, because it is pretty weak in the beginning. And for upgrades you need materials from enemies. To kill enemies, you need weapons, not armor.

The purpose of armor in this game is due the specific abilities each set has and to occasionally reduce the dmg you receive. But if you can avoid attacks, you don't need it other for temperatur and death mountain.

Now imagine a system where the guns don't reload so you have to find new guns instead . Imagine a system where your mana pool is localised to a specific weapon and can't be recharged so you have to find new weapons instead. Then you would be drawing an reasonable parallel to Breath of the Wild.

The fact that you're comparing one-time use items in Mario Kart as a reasonable parallel to swords, bows, and shields breaking after a handful of hits shows that you're more interested in defending Nintendo than you are at having a reasonable, respectful discussion. It doesn't make any sense.

Umm... yeah... I guess you don't play too many open world games if you believe that. Then again, not too many of them appear on Nintendo consoles... so...

1. Why do you think Nintendo created an open world game like BOTW in the first place?

2. Well, hearts are not an issue. But you should pick up the weapons you see lying around on the way to it and with a lot of effort you can do it. Like I said, I didn't expected such a strong enemy like that in there. So I used the tools I had. You could also take him out only by throwing bombs at him even if that would take a lot of your time.

Look at this video here, with such crap equipment, he took down a guardian. I didn't even bothered with those until I got the ancient arrows. With those I could 1 hit kill them.

So is it Skyrim, GTA or Witcher that's bigger and less linear?

I get why 3rd party devs might be angry/annoyed. They had the hardware to make this game 10 years ago on PC. Nintendo just snuck in and embarassed them all.

Yea, I've hated how casual so many games have gotten. Used to be you had to find health packs in games. Now you crouch behind a wall for 10 seconds and wait. Or many RPG's that as soon as the battle is over you heal to full health. Ect.

Withholding stronger weapons behind story progression is handholding the player through a set course. You will run into road blocks, invisible walls, ect that prepvent you from going to tougher areas because you are weak, ect. They open up as you power up and progress. That linearity is hand holding.

In this game you can face the final boss with 3 hearts and whatever weaponry you find on the way there and beat him. you can do this all in less than an hour.

Yea, the white ones do become strong. I tend to just avoid camps, because they at this point in the game for me are nothing more than just a random battle. I have better weapons than any chest will give me. At best it gives me some arrows, but most likely I will use at least 5 arrows in teh fight and thus come out even. But if I do have to fight them, they can be taken down in 10 or less swings easy enough if all you do is attack them head on with a decent weapon. Which 10 swings is no where near breaking a weapon.

I'm more interested in exploring new areas and doing puzzles, random quests versus taking out a random camp that only rewards me with an RNG chest.

Ammunition and mana reserves are replenishing an item/skill you still have, having to find whole new weapons because you can't repair once broken is completely different.

Now, if you had said : Guns that have infinite ammo, but break and can't be fixed, or a Magic staff that breaks after a certain number of spells have been cast, then you'd be making proper comparisons.

If you're playing a game with guns it stands to reason that the enemy will more than likely have guns too, thus ammo is picked up as you progress, same for a magic staff, if killing enemies and consuming potions replenishes your Mana, that makes sense - the point is you retain the same weapon/staff, and can, as is often the case, modify/upgrade/enchant/etc a particular weapon, which is a hell of a lot more useful to a game than simply having the thing break and force you to find another that will ultimately break after a short time and continue the shitty cycle.

Your snarky comparisons suck and you don't even seem to realize that the more you argue the point with terrible comparisons, the more obvious it is that it's an issue that a lot of people have with the game, but you're trying your best to defend, badly.

The fact that you edited what I said to basically be the same as what you originally said only underlines that fact in thick red marker pen - If the issue was simply "oh my god the bow doesnt have infinite ammo, you have to search for more ammo" it would be a silly issue and i'd be right there with you on mocking it, and your mario kart comparison would actually make sense, but it isn't. and it doesn't.

Also, the argument of "but theres lots of weapons all around tht are super common and easy to find" does not in any way absolve the issue, instead it just compounds it, if they're that common what the hell is the point in even having durability other than to be a stupid pain in the ass that adds nothing at all to the game?