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Kinda curious about how much I'll enjoy Tears of the Kingdom, on the one hand not replaying BotW since I first beat it and not looking up much pre-release footage (except the official gameplay video and the big trailer) should make it feel unusually fresh for a new Zelda games, which I usually follow VERY closely prior to their release. Lower hype-levels should also limit potential disappointment.
On the other hand, BotW is so oversized that I've already spent A LOT of time in its Hyrule, and playing it right after the SS-Tier Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed DLC probably isn't ideal either..
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@ChristiJunior @LittleTom @Rasterman X was the least memorable Xenoblade and it still has a few good sidequests and areas. I only really remember the parts of the main story that have been memed to death though.
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@ChristiJunior @Rasterman Expect more BotW, is all I'll say. It's good but best to keep expectations in check, it's more robust and the new mechanics are great but it's not quite the perfect marriage of old Zelda and BotW I think some people were hoping it would be. Too big (and too many years late lol) to be an expansion but very much a BotW sequel.
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@LittleTom @Rasterman On that note, I'm also curious about how BotW will seem to me after now having played multiple new story-driven mainline Xenoblade games since then (X was almost as open world as BotW, and Xenoblade 1 still had potato graphics back when BotW first came out).
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@Rasterman Brah, I'm not doubting the game being good (hell, even BotW was good), but both Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time are on my Top 3 Games of All Time list, so that's the standard I ultimately hold 3D Zelda games to, and BotW not only falling short, but getting so much undeserved praise and success in the process is obviously gonna color my perception of it. :anime_flex:
At the end of the day, BotW is still a top 10 Switch game, if a lower half one, and TotK might actually threaten the top 5.
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@ChristiJunior Sounds like your version of playing the Mega Man Zero series. Just pirate the game, nigga.
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@ChristiJunior @LittleTom @Rasterman Honestly Xenoblade 1's gameplay and level design have aged badly compared to later entries, but the story, characters, and soundtrack overshadow that so much.
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@ArdainianRight @LittleTom @Rasterman This is why I consider Story, Characters and Music to be so important for giant adventure/RPG games. X had the Music, not so much the Story or the Characters. BotW fails on all those counts, but has Zelda-quality gameplay to bail it out, but that's also why its giant size doesn't help it surpass the upper half 3D Zelda games.
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@ChristiJunior @William_The_Dragonborn Stealing from The Pokémon Company is borderline anti-Semitic. :pikajew:
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@ChristiJunior @Rasterman The most recent Pokemon games are fine to pirate in my book, all of the switch ones
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@William_The_Dragonborn @Rasterman With the Pokemon games, it's more a question of if they're even worth your time. But yeah, pirating games like that is 100% morally justified, they've already sold WAY more than they ever should have.
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@Rasterman @ChristiJunior I dont pirate games if they are worth playing
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@William_The_Dragonborn @Rasterman He's implying that I hate BotW because I don't consider it a 10/10 GOTY and recognize that all 3 mainline Xenoblade games are better :sip:
I'd say BotW barely beats out X tho.
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@ChristiJunior @William_The_Dragonborn @Rasterman Sword/Shield outsold fucking Super Mario Odyssey. Not by much, but Odyssey was a top-tier entry on the same console of the most iconic video game series ever.
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@ChristiJunior @LittleTom @Rasterman The areas feel too big and empty for gameplay purposes. Alcamoth is a bitch to navigate. Visually the areas are still amazing, it's just a little slow when you're trying to grind out quests.
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@ArdainianRight @LittleTom @Rasterman Only the combat has truly aged badly IMO, and it's still way better combat than pretty much any turn-based battle systems. Xenoblade 1's world is still my favorite world in all of video gaming, it just has SO many amazing areas, and such incredible variety and creativity on display, not to mention wonderful use of colors. I'll even defend stuff like the Ether Mines, the verticality and even mild platforming of that place made it a nice change of pace on a gameplay level.
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@ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @William_The_Dragonborn This is retroactively a post about why democracy is garbage.
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@ChristiJunior @LittleTom @Rasterman It's not even that bad, it's just 2 and 3 feel denser and more consistently engaging. 1 is one of my favorite games of all time and might still be the weakest in the trilogy.
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@ArdainianRight @LittleTom @Rasterman That's Enel's criticism too, but I'm not really feeling it - the music, the atmosphere and the visuals make up for it (especially on the Wii, where Twilight Princess had showed what an empty overworld truly was like), and XB1 is much denser with sidequests than later entries anyway. Yes, a lot of them are generic quest spam, but they nonetheless keep giving you stuff to do and be rewarded for. As I said in my writeup earlier this week, it wasn't until Future Redeemed that they came up with a more elegant way of achieving that same effect.
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