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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Unpopular opinion: open world ruined Zelda. I thought I'd love the concept. But actually give it to me? Ughhh.... Spend forever doing side quests because you don't know if the equipment will only be good now or if youll need it down the road.... No real guidance so you can end up just meandering around.....

I liked the more structured narrative. Don't get me wrong - it's cool to play Link and just do whatever you want. But for a story game, a more defined linear path is more engaging imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t Zelda always open world? LttP was about as open world as they come back in the day?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Open world while still needing to go through the temples in a certain order. Various gadgets were required to progress, but crafty players often got around this. Pokemon would also be called "open world", but could you just walk up to the Elite 4 from the beginning? Nope, had to get them badges first.

There's "open to exploration" open world and "here's a giant map, go wild"(a la Fallout/Skyrim). I prefered a Zelda with more guidance. Even Wind Waker, arguably the most open world, still had a progression the game tried to keep you on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah so today there’s more of a spectrum. Back in the 80s and 90s there were far fewer choices.

I get what you mean though, just wanted to point out it’s more complicated to judge older games by new standards. Eg. if Zelda were a new franchise it might just be a fully open world from the get go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

How is saying it's not the same game mechanics "judging it by different standards"? That right there is the problem: this idea that everything modern is better. Not everything needs all the same features tacked on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For me it took away the joy of the puzzles and building on a theme that the older Zeldas did.

I've not played TotK so maybe it brings back more of the dungeon feel from the older ones that I enjoyed, but I don't have huge amounts of time for gaming these days.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago

Drag finished BOTW and now likes riding around Hyrule on a motorbike looking for koroks. Drag thinks the game is great if you use it as something to pick up and play a little bit of every now and then. Good game for bringing on airplanes and playing on the bus. Drag would have very much liked to have a game like that when drag was a child being dragged to boring dentist appointments and waiting to be picked up from school. Drag thinks maybe Nintendo is making games for children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

BotW and TotK are some of my favorite games of all time, but I really do hope we get another big dungeons focused game in the future.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

To me, they would be perfect games if they weren't Zelda. That is to say, they are great games, just not what I expect from a Zelda game. Something I'd expect from Bethesda moreso(style, not gameplay lmao).

I feel like Wind Waker was the right balance between freedom and linear story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They used og Zelda as an inspiration for it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just pretend it's not a Zelda game then