I have only played through one Zelda game: A Link to the Past. It was on Nintendo's last great system, in my opinion, the SNES! What a great 16-bit system. Anyway, my point is that I had imagined picking up a Wii U (used) and a used copy of Breath of the Wild. Well, that is in question after reading this headline: http://nintendotoday.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-speed-record-has-been. I was so disappointed. 97 Metacritic? I think not.

Soo.... you're disappointed because you can beat it relatively quick....?

Haha I'm gonna assume you're joking.

This game is going to be fun to watch speedrunners play, but I'm still avoiding spoilers for the moment so I've not been able to yet. It'll definitely be one of the main highlights in GDQ events in the future.

All of these years of development. All the years of fans waiting. All the 100s on Metacritic for a game that is beaten in length by many 8-bit games?!

You realize speedruns ain't a measure of anything, right?

You realize something like Ocarina of Time lasts 18 minutes in a speedrun, right?

No joking. No modern game should only take under an hour to complete. It should be impossible for a huge open world game. What a massive letdown.

...I still can't tell if you're joking lol

Speedrunners annihilate games that would normally take the average person ages to beat. I imagine the record is going to absolutely plummet from there.

Here's a list of Zelda games and their speedrun records... it rarely takes more than a couple of hours:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Legend_of_Zelda_speedrunning_records

You must be bored.

Well then you are a very silly man who is allowing himself to get upset about a non-issue lol

He's joking, clearly.