It's not overblown because it's a mechanic that no one would miss if it wasn't there from the beginning. Its uselessness is what makes it so much worse. If you add on top of it that the game relies on you to switch weapons constantly and then does not have an intuitive and quick weapon switch system you have an insult to player.

I specifically refer to the rain. The cold and hot mechanics are nice additions that encourage you to explore, gather items and craft stuff.

BOTW has a great and gigantic world to explore and to do it efficiently I will sweep areas in order and methodically. I cannot do that when the game tells me to arbitrarily wait ten minutes to continue my exploration or just to fuck off. That's a horrible thing to do and it adds nothing to the game but annoyance. You cannot hand the player a gigantic toolbox at the start of the game and then arbitrarily decide on random chance when he is allowed what tool to use. That's just terrible game design. Maybe if they made some kind of weather report so you can plan accordingly or gave you the tools to climb wet surfaces it would be different. But as it is now it's just another annoyance thrown into the game with no sense or reason.

But see *this* is why I can't see why you hate the game or think it's like , the bane of Open world fun. Literally there's two areas with consistent rain, maybe one more I haven't discovered. I'm not trying to excuse it but it's not exactly game breaking, like 90% of the world has no rain(at least I've never seen it in a cold or desert world, and the grass lands almost never have rain). It's pretty much just the tropics. 

I don't agree. I'm not a Zelda expert or fan, far from it, but to me Zelda games have always had a problem with exploration where you're only rewarded with rupees or heart pieces - which after a few chests become entirely meaningless. Essentially exploration in the old Zelda games is hardly properly rewarded, but I think Majora's Mask was *getting there* with the masks or sword(which was also in Ocarina but eh). The durability mechanic, along with the introduction of new weapons, encourages exploration. Without the durability mechanic, players would keep the same weapons almost the entire game if they found a great weapon early on. And then they'd be like "What the heck!?!?!?! This enemy doesn't die from my soldier's broadsword??? Game is bugged dood! Can't even kill this guardian dood!" Now I know you and another user talked about earlier how a game shouldn't use weapon breaks as a way to make the player experiment with different weapons. But Breath of the Wild is closer to a survival game, than most games themed around realistic survival mechanics. Duration feeds into exploration which feeds into the first really interesting chest loot in the Zelda series which leads to more exploration. It's a way to teach players to explore without forcing them to. I also like using weapon break tactically. It's *soooo* satisfying to through a sword at the face of a goblin to make them shoot across the ground and fall down a cliff, or to make them drop their weapon as they fall over. I don't think the system is perfect, but I think it fits the tone with the game a lot. It's artificial sure but I think it works well for the world. Could be a little better, not that bad though. In fact it's honestly almost perfect.

A great example of this is that one time I went to this stable just out of Kakariko village and I overheard these two dudes talking about a poem that was cryptic. I paid them to telll me more, then I went to dualing peaks thinking that the poem told me to go there. After getting a boat and playing pirate for a while, I landed on shores to try and scout this illusive cave and find the treasure. No quest markers, no big hints - and the river was even split in two meaning I had to use my own mind to take a risk and decide which route to follow the water(it was flowing from both directions). So I found the cave eventually and it had this awesome as flame sword that did 22 damage + flame damage, and at the time I was using weapons with like 12 damage. I was so happy I freaked out. At first thinking about how it was so cool made me not want to use it, but I started to use it. It was much more durable than I imagined but I was getting to a point where it was evenly matched between other weapons. As long as you keep exploring, you pretty much will almost never have a favorite weapon. 

I agree though, the amount of weapons you can have at once is kind of weak. Feels like a bit too much of a restrictive.

The best part is if the rain and durability was gone, different people would complain because they went to hyrule Castle,  got a super weapon and the game became too easy. It doesn't matter how good something is. Someone will hate it. I have a friend who hates the Sound of Music, lol. That's a classic.

Man....  This guy nailed it.  HZD is a great game, yet comparing it to BOTW is laughable at best, as there is no comparison.  One of the best reviews I have ever seen, I will follow this guy from now on.

Not really. It's always better to like something than dislike it, but here we are.

That was not his point. He was saying he liked how the game never tells you that there are 120 shrines or 900 kurok seeds or whatever collection aspect there is. There is not even a way to turn that on. I know those numbers cause google/internet and you can do that easy enough.

But he is saying not seeing 19/120 on his loading screen makes the game not feel like a chore or he has to do something. When he beat Ganon and the beasta and memories (basically the only thing the games say there is this many of) he felt like he could put the game down if he wanted. Didn't see this 87/120 shrines found or 134/900 kurok seeds or somethign and make him feel lik ehe has to complete them or something.

I'm sure you guys have experienced that in some game at some point. I beat ff15 and found the game to be a big dissapointment, but looking at the trophies, there was like 3 I didn't get. Thus I forced myself to play some more to get them. The game being as bad as it is, I acutally managed to stop myself and am one short still. But those trophies/achievement turned the game into a job/chore after I beat it just to get it "complete" BOTW takes that away. Even when you know how many of something is there, you don't have the game basically telling you that you are incomplete.

There is a weather report in the UI. There's 3 icons that tell you the upcoming weather. But I agree, it was annoying, almost getting to the top then the rain starts and back down you go. First few drops and it turns into a slide. Fires don't work so you can't wait it out. Bomb arrows stop working so you can't blast open that cave you wanted to explore. Lightning starts forcing you to go into the inventory so the lighting can't see your stuff in your magic pockets.

Once you have Revalis gale, plenty stamina and the climing gear it is very possible to climb in the rain. Jump just before you slide and with the climbing gear set onus you can still make decent progress. I was lucky to explore the desert and mountains first, didn't experience rain until I already had Revali's gale and multiple stamina bars. It was still annoying. I read there's a helmet to protect you from lighting, never found it in my 170 hours with the game... Bomb arrows have no way around it though. I've sat starting at multiple breakable walls waiting for the rain to finally stop. Trying to save/reload hoping the rain would piss off.

I was stuck with 8 weapon slots for the first 80 hours as I went my own way. I had about 200 Korok seeds when I finally ran into the dude, who only wanted me to spend 3 seeds before disappearing again... The first weapon I got after the plateau was a 45 dmg hammer. Kinda made everything look weak after that even though it broke. HZD does it better letting you experience different weapon combinations, better suited for different battles. There's no weapon breaking there and it's still fun to experiment and exciting to find a new tool.

I wasn't attacking enemies in BotW for their weapons or the little chest with a useless new weapon or shield. Just to loot their monster bits to upgrade armor. Weapons became kinda meaningless. Fight with whatever dropped the last fight. No point in getting attached to anything. Just keep a spear, sword and two hander at hand, don't bother with the elemental ones that take up space. Just one flame kind for melting and starting fires. Plus a two hander lighting sword to take out sleeping Hinox with spin attack plus lighting slam in 5 seconds. So satisfying. Works on Lynels as well.

My kid currently doesn't want to play anymore because of the random ninja attacks that never end. He want to light the torches in Akela, but it's raining and the yiga clan keeps showing up.

I still don't get the butthurt over weapon breaking. At most I was mildly inconvenienced at a few points in the game.

Yep. Weapon breaks, 200 ruppes. Thank you! Come again!

You think once someone gets a good weapon. They're gonna waste their time to get other ones. No.

That's what people want. You got the best weapon. Now I don't have to worry about the pointless weak fucks. Blow threw them. In this game, that's replaced with: My weapon breaks. I'll just run past them. Different reason, same response. Not bothering with the weak guys. What's the point of durability? So that I can randomly come across a really good weapon. While I'm still early in the game. I'd rather the weapons be scaled to locations or gated off. The Master Sword is gated by 13 hearts. Why is that a thing? The game contradicts itself. If you reach the Master Sword 2 hours in. You have it. And that's it. Who cares. it follows the breaking system. You can fight gannon right at the start. But not get your sword at the start. So much for freedom.

No it's not. A real survival game lets you repair or craft a new weapon yourself. And not rely on RNG. If my metal pickaxe broke in Ark. I go up a mountain and gather metal and other stuff. Repaired, moving on.

I never look at trophies and If I don't want to achieve something then I don't worry about it.  What you're basically saying is that because some people can't control themselves, other people shouldn't have something which they enjoy.  It's the easiest thing in the world to allow people to turn off notifications and to put stats on a page that no one ever has to look at if they don't want.