As a person with Native history in my family and my best friend is native and a game dev who often goes around the country and makes talks about natives and how they are and not represented in games and film and how it's a real issue. Natives also being a huge part of my states culture. Yeah really. You being form Germany it's something you have zero knowledge or uderstanding of and your two word comment shows your ignorance.

I don't really understand. Is BotW some kind of Möbius loop? People keep saying you can go anywhere. What's the deal?

No real barriers to stop you. You can climb about anything you see and adds a big vertical aspect to the game. You can go straight to the final boss within the first 20 min of the game if you really want to. You really can go anywhere you see with little limitations. It's also a game because of the physics engine. If  you think it you can probably do it. Not a game mechanic the game tells you. Just because of the physics engine the game is only as limited as the players imagination. Many games say open world but Zelda is one of the very few in existence where you truly are free to do whatever you want.

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So if I want to go east, I can just keep going forever?  Is it procedurally generated or something?

It's handcrafted. Just so large and so much to find along the way and do.  Like it has these rafts at certain bodies of water. You can use a leaf to slowly make it move or get creative something I figured out use the magnet and a peiece of metal against the sail at once and bam I have a motorboat. or if you killed a bunch of enemies and got their guts you can make an airship and not from crafting just experimenting. Not a mechanic just something you can make happen thanks to the physics. When it comes to hunting for meat you expect it to be like most games. Shoot it then skin it. Zeld ayou can do that but someone figured out light a stick on fire and just hit one and you automatically get a cooked steak. In the shrines which are mini dungeons you are provided with something like say a ball to put in a place for something to happen like any Zelda puzzle. Well someone just said screw that dumped all their metal weapons on te ground and created and electirc feild where the balls should have gone and basically hotwired the dungeon.

Dude, the only thing that fail, is you, playing HZD after BotW... It shouldve been the other way around. So, instead of playing a good game, and then a bad game, you would have played a good game, and then a better one.

Still havent finished HZD, but damn, its a good game, and I have BotW prep for when I finish it. The only thing for me, that HZD is missing, its the plants' movement when you cross them, like Uncharted 4. Other than that, the ledges part, and not being able to climb wherever you want, is in almost every other game, cept for BotW.

This thread has a nice flavour to it.

While Zelda is excellent I find exploring to be a waste of time. Im sick of putting effort into doing something and getting swords or arrows out of it, its cool when you first start playing but 20-30 hours in its not exciting anymore, I even spent 20 minutes reworking a shrine only to get 10 ice arrows!!

Not to take away anything from Zelda but the only thing I miss when got back to a different open world game is the climbing, being able to climb anything is IMO Zelda biggest achievement.

So basically no.