in Xenoablade 3 you see mechonis sword in distance but you can't got there on foot without loading.
I'm start to think you dont understand what open world is.
Do you see that dead Uraya in background? You cant go top of that area.
Meanwhile in BotW you go to that volcano on foot without any loading.
First Monolith wasn't trying to make open world with Xenoblade 1-3, they already did with Xenoblade XSo you're arguing that Nintendo and Monolith don't know what open world means?
It doesn't mean not having unreachable places that are just out-of-bounds background decorations. ALL games do in one shape or the other.
But again, that's irrelevant. As I mentioned (and you conveniently ignored, twice), nowadays even the most massive open-world games don't load into memory anymore of the world at the same time as most games with relatively large levels. There's streaming tech that handles that and that's how games like the Witcher 3 (which have a *much* greater world density than Zelda besides being open-world) are possible.
Looks like you're stuck on semantics because you're unable or unwilling to discuss substance.
I take most everyone is busy setting themselves up for disappointment as usual.
This one of the things I'm super excite about this game, its gonna be sooooo fun to mess around with all those systems like fusing different items and building different things.
Pikmin 4 baby! Trailer didn't convince me but neither did TOTK...but this gameplay reveal did...
Jokes aside I’m not sure, but I imagine it must have eaten a lot of development time, for better or worse.
The amount of permutations with just the base set of weapons, shields, arrows, food and materials in BotW is mind boggling, and they’ve probably added even more on top of that for this game. Not to mention the combinations seemingly result in unique traits/abilities.
Wish there was a " nominate for hot take of the year" button. They took a good 5 years to make this on the same BotW engine..its gonna be a proper new Zelda even if we haven't seen enough yet to fully confirm it.
I couldn't sleep because of it. I just can't believe the shadow quality, all I can think about while he showcased innovative gameplay systems is "Damn, I don't think I can play this game with that awful shadow quality". I don't know what they are thinking, the first thing they should've worked on and test was shadows, it's really what makes a game a goat.
When I spend money on a product, especially a full-priced one by a large company, I expect all of its aspects to be high-quality.
Nintendo ain't a 3-people indie team that can be forgiven if some aspects of a production are sub-par because they don't have the resources to polish everything.
But hey, you do you.
I want you to learn how to read first and foremost.
All the features they showed are potential money sinks though, any one of them could, and likely have, spiraled out of proportion in terms of workload during development. Who knows how much but the game has been delayed multiple times, so obviously the budget has been increased over time.
You want combat reward but to me this more using tools to interact with world and building vehicles to explore different areas.
I don't think the legal situation matters at all.
My expert guess is from one million to infinity.
This. It’s apparent there is still a lot of the game that hasn’t been revealed. Going back to those first trailers we saw of the underworld, I bet the game is as large in its “descent” as it is in its “ascent”. Meaning for as large as the sky world is, the underworld will be just as large. If so, that’s a massive world.
there is a reason why they did this. it is to solve the issue of need to create tons of unique asset by turn equipment into consumable resources instead. this is how the BOTW team handle it while Fromsoft tackling this in bit different way.
So surprised why people think it would not be using a variation of the same map, but as yet we have seen very little of how things have changed, outside of a brief look at some of the sky Islands. Pretty sure Nintendo's radio silence on this is to not spoil some pretty massive changes. And very sure they have no spent 5 years just upgrading link's abilities.
Totally agree, on the one hand some are complaining about the lack of information on this massive title, then the same people are moaning it has no content or the map is exactly the same....... not sure how they are coming to either conclusion.
Yeah, cause we've seen all it can do. And also, they prob reached those crafting options in like a day and took a week tops to perfect it. Totes.
I wouldn't argue that it lacks overall rationale; I just don't think it's all that clever. These kinds of 'pro' and 'con' decisions are the bread and butter of game design. I don't think converting weapons into a currency is especially inspired either. In fact, given the rest of the game, it feels lazy and underdeveloped: it's easy to imagine a system that makes more sense within the world, with different types of weapons interacting with the world systems in different ways: brittle metals that shatter in the cold, untreated metals, like iron, that rust when you get them wet, steel swords that get too hot to handle in the desert. Rusted swords could be polished up to make them sharp again, you could find some kind of 'oven mits' to handle hot swords in the desert.
This.
I Really hope you’re right because BoTW left me cold in the end and I dropped it. First Zelda Game I didn’t complete. ToTK is going to have to offer a vast new experience to bring me back. So far they are doing their best to make it look very much like more of the same…After 6 years of development.
Oh well. Not that it matters to you.
