I thought TOTK was great, but it’s not like it was good enough to compare good games against. Like, it’s just BOTW with a new story and some QOL fixes. It’s essentially a $70 standalone DLC. I could probably list a few games that came out this year that I liked better.
What you are saying that I’m saying is not what I’m saying at all. A Link to the Past has a new map, new items, new graphics, all new enemies, movement felt different etc. Everything about it was completely different from the original except the formula.
TotK has the same items that you have to get again for some reason. It has the same map, which means you have to tread the same ground again, it’s the exact same graphics, except more dropped frames. You have to find a bunch of shrines again to get health and stamina upgrades just like the first game. You have to find Koroks (many in the same exact locations they were in the first game!) again to get inventory upgrades.
It’s the same game with a new story and QOL fixes. I stand by that. I loved the QOL fixes. They fixed everything I had to complain about with BotW. I just wish I didn’t just play BotW right before TotK, because I felt like I was just doing more of the same things over again, and that was extremely boring. I had to go to the same stables again in the same places. I had to go through the forest in the same place again. I had to go to the castle again. I had to do a dungeon near each of the 4 species settlements again (in the exact same places as before). I had to do a long side quest to own a house to be able to safely store items again.
TotK is what BotW should have been from the start.
Breath of the wild had two maps. The world, and the shrines.
Tears of the kingdom has four maps. The sky. The over world. Caves. And the depths. Not to mention the temples that replaced the four beasts are much larger than those beasts. They went back to OoT size temples.
The over world is very much different than it was in BotW. The number of quests is vastly more than in BotW.
Yeah you get heart containers again. Just like in every single Zelda game ever made.
The graphics, lighting, and especially the physics are improved a huge amount from BotW. (Although strangely the rain effect is worse). Like those are the things every game dev have been drooling over since it was released. And it runs at a smoother consistent frame rate than the previous game as well.
Sure you could argue BotW should have been TotK. You could also argue Super Mario Bros 3 should have been Super Mario World.
Gonna have to agree to disagree here. There just wasn’t enough different for me to enjoy it as a whole new game. It was just too similar, and playing them back to back detracted from how much fun I had rather than adding to it.
Though I want to be clear about one complaint I had. I wasn’t annoyed by getting heart containers again. As you pointed out, that’s in every game. I was annoyed that I had to do shrines again. The reward could have been anything from the shrines, and I would have been annoyed. Shrines were the worst thing of any Zelda game imo, and they brought it back essentially unchanged from BotW. The fact that the reward was exactly the same as the previous game was just extra annoying.
Edit: btw, I really don’t like that you keep putting words in my mouth. I’m not even talking about Mario games. This has nothing to do with them. The complaints I have about the similarities between these two games do not apply to those games.
I’ll agree to disagree. But I think you’re really missing everything special in the game. It’s a pure sequel, and that something we’ve never had in the series. It literally quadruples every aspect of BotW.
Edit. I never put words in your mouth. I’m not sorry you can’t understand how some things can be like other things. You not being able to grasp relations between concepts in a conversation pretty much makes you being unable to grasp the concepts and improvements between these games moot.
So idk, learn to think more. It’s pretty stupid you got insulted somehow by comparing games.
The point is Nintendo fans start to look like fifa fans. So, besides content blocking, Nintendo is trying to one up EA in the scummy department. Why isn’t totk a dlc? Why did it take 6 years then? They had the same thing with majoras mask but that took just one year wtf. This sounds insane and the cherry on top is that people think it’s the best game of the year. Gaming is doomed, there is no more demand for quality+inovation. Everyone big in the industry is playing it super safe and instead of being humble for not taking riscs they act like dicks. Which is mirrored in the fans tribalistic defense of the games. Totk is bad from a philosoficaly stand point and you can’t stop people from comparing the game with what it could of been! Better availability, better story as a sequel, real inovation rather than ticktock gimics and so many more things. It’s sad that its game of the year material due to lack of competition.
Yeah, TOTK is too similar to BOTW structural wise, it’s very easy to get bored of the grind and just do sandbox thing once in a while.(and that’s with dup glitch in mind, without dupe those crafty machines won’t see the day since the time required to get enough zonites to do the auto build.) I basically haven’t even finish the 4 spirits yet (got 3) and decides to play BG3 instead, and that’s a good choice, so much more brain engaging in this game as well.(and that’s even with save scumming, mostly to see what other paths of conversation go.) The battle is pretty balanced if you turn off karmic dice.(on balanced difficulty.) I only restart battle when I misclick and attacked on my own party.
I thought TOTK was great, but it’s not like it was good enough to compare good games against. Like, it’s just BOTW with a new story and some QOL fixes. It’s essentially a $70 standalone DLC. I could probably list a few games that came out this year that I liked better.
You obviously have not played TotK. It is not a dlc in anyway. I don’t know what DLCs you’ve been playing.
You’re basically saying that A link to the past is a dlc with QoL changes to The Legend of Zelda on NES.
What you are saying that I’m saying is not what I’m saying at all. A Link to the Past has a new map, new items, new graphics, all new enemies, movement felt different etc. Everything about it was completely different from the original except the formula.
TotK has the same items that you have to get again for some reason. It has the same map, which means you have to tread the same ground again, it’s the exact same graphics, except more dropped frames. You have to find a bunch of shrines again to get health and stamina upgrades just like the first game. You have to find Koroks (many in the same exact locations they were in the first game!) again to get inventory upgrades.
It’s the same game with a new story and QOL fixes. I stand by that. I loved the QOL fixes. They fixed everything I had to complain about with BotW. I just wish I didn’t just play BotW right before TotK, because I felt like I was just doing more of the same things over again, and that was extremely boring. I had to go to the same stables again in the same places. I had to go through the forest in the same place again. I had to go to the castle again. I had to do a dungeon near each of the 4 species settlements again (in the exact same places as before). I had to do a long side quest to own a house to be able to safely store items again.
TotK is what BotW should have been from the start.
Breath of the wild had two maps. The world, and the shrines.
Tears of the kingdom has four maps. The sky. The over world. Caves. And the depths. Not to mention the temples that replaced the four beasts are much larger than those beasts. They went back to OoT size temples.
The over world is very much different than it was in BotW. The number of quests is vastly more than in BotW.
Yeah you get heart containers again. Just like in every single Zelda game ever made.
The graphics, lighting, and especially the physics are improved a huge amount from BotW. (Although strangely the rain effect is worse). Like those are the things every game dev have been drooling over since it was released. And it runs at a smoother consistent frame rate than the previous game as well.
Sure you could argue BotW should have been TotK. You could also argue Super Mario Bros 3 should have been Super Mario World.
Gonna have to agree to disagree here. There just wasn’t enough different for me to enjoy it as a whole new game. It was just too similar, and playing them back to back detracted from how much fun I had rather than adding to it.
Though I want to be clear about one complaint I had. I wasn’t annoyed by getting heart containers again. As you pointed out, that’s in every game. I was annoyed that I had to do shrines again. The reward could have been anything from the shrines, and I would have been annoyed. Shrines were the worst thing of any Zelda game imo, and they brought it back essentially unchanged from BotW. The fact that the reward was exactly the same as the previous game was just extra annoying.
Edit: btw, I really don’t like that you keep putting words in my mouth. I’m not even talking about Mario games. This has nothing to do with them. The complaints I have about the similarities between these two games do not apply to those games.
I’ll agree to disagree. But I think you’re really missing everything special in the game. It’s a pure sequel, and that something we’ve never had in the series. It literally quadruples every aspect of BotW.
Edit. I never put words in your mouth. I’m not sorry you can’t understand how some things can be like other things. You not being able to grasp relations between concepts in a conversation pretty much makes you being unable to grasp the concepts and improvements between these games moot.
So idk, learn to think more. It’s pretty stupid you got insulted somehow by comparing games.
The point is Nintendo fans start to look like fifa fans. So, besides content blocking, Nintendo is trying to one up EA in the scummy department. Why isn’t totk a dlc? Why did it take 6 years then? They had the same thing with majoras mask but that took just one year wtf. This sounds insane and the cherry on top is that people think it’s the best game of the year. Gaming is doomed, there is no more demand for quality+inovation. Everyone big in the industry is playing it super safe and instead of being humble for not taking riscs they act like dicks. Which is mirrored in the fans tribalistic defense of the games. Totk is bad from a philosoficaly stand point and you can’t stop people from comparing the game with what it could of been! Better availability, better story as a sequel, real inovation rather than ticktock gimics and so many more things. It’s sad that its game of the year material due to lack of competition.
Play the game before commenting, thanks
How?
It’s not remotely the same game lol
Is every shooter the same game?
Yeah, TOTK is too similar to BOTW structural wise, it’s very easy to get bored of the grind and just do sandbox thing once in a while.(and that’s with dup glitch in mind, without dupe those crafty machines won’t see the day since the time required to get enough zonites to do the auto build.) I basically haven’t even finish the 4 spirits yet (got 3) and decides to play BG3 instead, and that’s a good choice, so much more brain engaging in this game as well.(and that’s even with save scumming, mostly to see what other paths of conversation go.) The battle is pretty balanced if you turn off karmic dice.(on balanced difficulty.) I only restart battle when I misclick and attacked on my own party.