Ah! I only upgraded the sheika slate last night. I was wondering how to find the locations of some of the less familiar looking photos. I guess something or someone is there when you get to the spot the picture was taken?

I was trying to get the sensor to show me where to find korok seeds by taking a picture of them, bah doesn't register! I always wonder if I miss one in a forest as they sometimes hide in a tree.  I've found 150 so far, ~35% of the map explored, out of 900 total, so must be missing about half of them.

Orienteering. Can't think of a game that does it to this extent. Amazing how enticing a marker on a map is when you're the one who put it there.

Do you know who Farosh is?

If only Nintendo was even close to the first to "try this" in an open world game, maybe, just maybe you'd have a point. But then again, you just keep whittling away at your definition of "open world" so it doesn't count most games that have similar systems.

Just mention an open world game with the same system, that's the only thing you need to do. Even if you mention a game or two games I would feel the same thing, "open worlds should try this" 

Basically every open world that I've played since fallout 3 has the system where you have a quest and the quest shows right there on the map with the exact location. Mention open world games with the same system on breath of the wild and I will say thanks couse I want more of that.

I definitely don't see the trophy connection.  Can't imagine those take long to program in and I never would have tried many hard modes if they weren't there.  It does make things more inclusive to have easier games, but there's an easy way around that.  It's called difficulty settings.  Then with trophies you can show if you're proud of beating a hard mode of a game as opposed to some people who just would beat the easy mode and not have the trophies.

Off of the top of my head: The Witness doesn't tell you what to do or where to do it ever. It doesn't even have a map of any kind unless you're using the boat. You just have to remember where you've been and where you might have been. There's also games like Myst which like The Witness, don't really feature side quests, but also don't tell the player much of anything and figuring out what to do is the entire game.

All of the Demon's Souls/Dark/Bloodborne games do this, and you just dismissed them as "not open world enough for you". So to the Elder scrolls series to varying degrees, but you've seen to gloss over them because you've only played Skyrim which has the most hand holding and visual cues of the entire series. There's also dozens of point and click games that do that same, but again, I'm sure you wouldn't call them open world.  There are the dozens if not hundreds of MMOs like Eve: Online who do this exact thing, but once again I get an itching feeling you won't count those. 

Then there's all of those games that have options or gameplay modes that remove/limt all HUD and map elements forcing players to figure things out on their own like Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Hitman: Revolution.

I'm not even going to bother to get into more obscure titles.

The point is, this has been done hundreds of different times in dozens of different ways, and this thread just comes off as yet another "look how totally special Breath of the Wild is guys!" thread.

They aren't much work. In my expereince an intern does them in a couple weeks. In fact it was one of my first tasks on the very first games I worked on during my first video game-related internship.

lol I found the problem here. wasted time.

Plust thanks for mentioning "tons" of games that DON"T have the side quests sytem of breath of the wild, that's what happens when you don't play a game but wanna argue. take care.

No. First I thought it was some kind of fish since at the lake nearby there's this Zora that's fishing for rare fish. That resulted in nothing. Now I've met something a little bit bigger on a mountain top in the next zone over, so I'm guessing it's one of those. Still no clue where to look though. I guess I'll run into it some time.