Eh, i'd argue that Fallout 4's survival weight management is far better at that. When bullets and aid items start to weigh you down, you have to make some seriously meaningful choices on the things you carry/find while traveling, specially since fast travel disabled and saving can only be done by sleeping in a bed

I thought Muramasa handled it in a good way. Weapons would degrade, but were generally quite sturdy, and when they broke, you could repair them simply by sheathing them, because magic. This could sometimes be an issue during combat, but once it was over, Bob's your uncle. Also the Yakuza games did it in a fairly nice way. All the top tier weapons had a solid amount of durability, you could carry repair kits if you wanted to as well. Any possible annoyance was further mitigated by the fact that hand to hand combat was always not only available, but often preferable.



- edit. Upon further relection, I may have slightly overstated the durablity of the weapons in Muramasa. But again, since repair is so easy, it's still a player friendly system.

In Zelda, I'm tossing weapons away more often than they are breaking. It's really only in the first few hours that your stuff is breaking so quickly.

And as someone posted, its like a good 30-50 swings for most all weapons, as long as you don't hit against something you shouldn't with that weapon. Such as a shield or a box or rock or something. Or you do the ground pound thing.

I haven't been to Koriko village yet, so much else to see. I finished up Lake Hulia last night, next stop Kariko village, if I don't get sidetracked again.

Durability depends a lot on what you fight. That scimitar of the seven did not last 50 hits, more like 20 maybe 30 against a Lynel. He was only 2/3rds down when it broke while I was fighting with triple attack buffs. The 54 crusher he dropped is on life support already after killing one Hinox with it and removing 2 plates. The hinox was a 'one hit' kill. Snuck up behind him, did the spin charge attack hitting him over an over, finishing with the thunder attack. Very cool, yet the weapon is already pretty much done for after that. (I removed two more plates, then reloaded as it was flashing red after that) The dragonbone moblin club last 2 or 3 fights against high level enemies, same as royal broadsword. Those hits might be correct against weak enemies, yet I rather run by those than spending durability on.

Because it allows developers to make powerful, unbalanced weapons with practially no consequences because the user can't possibly get too much of an advantage out of them. They'll break the sword long before the game no longer becomes fun because the user is too overpowered.

Weapon degredation systems are tolerable at best when they're used as a means of adding realism to a game. Found an old rusty sword in a field that shatters in 4 hits because it's been in field for 300 years? Fine, I guess. Shit rusts and degrades over time in the elements. But there's no way a new sword forged by a capable swordsmith is getting to the point where it's unrepairable after even 100 hits. Sure it might lose an edge, but that can definitely, definitely be repaired, or reforged.

Yes. Maybe if Link could fight, without a weapon. Or use the abilites, on enemies. These complaints wouldn't happen often. But, they made sure the bombs where also useless, in fast combat.

i still dont see how its lazy.

basically you're saying botw is a badly balanced game which is not the case. theres more than 1 way to defeat enemies or to reach your goal. and you call that lazy ?

This is what happens when you have a game as good as BotW... people search for something to whine about and turn something that no one really gave a crap about in the past into the primary discussion of the day lol

Just because one part of a game isn't done well doesn't mean the game as a whole isn't done well.

You should add a poll with these four options.
Have BotW & like durability
Have Botw & don't like durability
Don't have BotW & like durability
Don't have BotW & dont' like durability