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All of the reviews, including the Digital Foundry one were playing it on the OLED model, which - including the 2nd gen one, have higher clock rates and improved many FPS dips in BOTW.
I wish I have the time to sink 100+ hours on this game. I still haven't finished BOTW after playing it on and off for a few years. Hoping the next Zelda would be more brief like the old Wind Waker.
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From the reviews, the gameplay seems like its even more fun. Particularly looking forward to the weapons and vehicles system.
Uh-oh, vehicles? The worst part of BotW is the bike, it's jarringly out of line with the whole feel of Zelda, for me. They may as well have put a gun in it.
Also, the bike is only unlocked after all the divine beasts, when the game is already "over" and you're just trying to complete all the shrines and quests. I'm so happy to have it in order to help me get around faster for those things.
But yeah, I can't deny it felt weird at first :)
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Uh-oh, vehicles? The worst part of BotW is the bike, it's jarringly out of line with the whole feel of Zelda, for me. They may as well have put a gun in it.
...ok, I've owned BOTW for 2 years and I've never come across a bike.
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People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device. Even if a new console would be twice as fast they still would be disappointed. It's perfectly possible to create innovative and - most important - fun games on something as powerful as the Switch.
> People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device. I mean, the SoC on the switch was long in the tooth at launch. It's almost exactly the same hardware as in the tegra shield that came out two years prior, but Nintendo clocks it down to 1Ghz, about half the speed of the shield. There's some legitimate complaints that it's a dog slow system because of that.…
Honestly this is the time to start working on a Switch successor, they could easily more than double the current compute capabilities while keeping the same or lower power envelope.
That doesn't even counts the untapped bonuses from much higher memory speeds.
I would instantly buy this, we would be looking at mobile machines more powerful than a PS4 Pro which is imho more than enough for the type of console.
Nintendo doesn't even need to build it on the latest state of the art TSMC process, even the 5nm should be enough.
For those of us who have never played a Zelda game...how does this compare to Pokemon, Fallout or Knights of the Old Republic?
I just played it for an hour. It's like a remix Breath of the Wild, which isn't a bad thing considering BotW might be the best game I've ever played. But because of that there's no initial mind blowing experience of learning the mechanics for the first time, understanding how you can go anywhere, climb anything, etc. Hard to replicate an experience like that I suppose. But it still seems like a ton of fun, and I'm su…
My first mind-blowing moment in BotW was peeking down from from the top of a hill and seeing a deep valley with a river to the east and a ridge with a forest to the west. They blended gorgeously into a single landscape but I understood that each option would be a different adventure. It was like choosing the north or east exit in classical Zelda, except this was totally organic, not instantiated, operating over perfe…
I slowly grinded my way through BOTW over the last years, every few months a few steps forward, then getting bored. Left the plateau, tamed a horse and have now the full picture of the princess and a long sleep. Nice, but still little curiousity what happens next. I wish I could feel what everyone else seems to enjoy…
Same, I've been putting in baby steps of progress in the game over several years. The story is quite boring and once you've been introduced to the main gameplay mechanics they get old fairly quickly. Feels like a chore more than anything. I used to love Zelda games like OoT and Majora's Mask. Maybe I've just gotten older and my tastes have changed.
The game is sparse and sterile, the characters are boring and generic, the story/dialogue is cringe inducing, the world is empty and plain, and there's nothing to do.
It borrows heavily from open world game tropes, and it doesn't add anything. Once you've played about 5-6 hours you've seen the entire game, just not all of its permutations.
This is the first game where I've had a real disagreement with everyone else about its fun factor. Previously I was extremely disappointed in Diablo 3, but there were plenty of people who understood and agreed with my sentiments quite vocally.
With BotW it's like people are playing a different game, or they're somehow mentally wired differently. I sincerely don't understand what happened there. I'm usually very good at acknowledging high quality games, even if I don't personally like them... BotW is not a great game, it's mediocre at best.