@Ralizah That sounds excellent, I'll have to look into that soon! Sounds like I should've played it instead of playing all three separate Fates campaigns!
Sounds like FE7 is exactly the same as FE8 then - nothing that's going to blow you away, but a very solid game. I'll give it a go soon!
Tears of the Kingdom leaks all over the place now that the ROM is out in the wild on pirate sites. Unless everyone who is playing it is collectively conspiring to push a false narrative (doubtful, but technically not impossible), this sounds like it's going to be absolutely incredible. Zelda team has been EXTREMELY busy these last six years, it would seem.
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@Ralizah yeah that’s the plan. All well and good trying to do a media blackout, but you need to keep that up once you’re actually playing the game until you’re done, too, and I’m not likely to get through it very quickly if BOTW was anything to go by.
Quietly pretty excited though. I couldn’t have really cared less until a few weeks back. Sounds like it’ll deliver.
@KidRyan yeah his Xbox-PlayStation stuff is probably his best tbh… but when I’ve posted them previously they’ve been removed. Seems like Nintendo is a safe space 😉
@colonelkilgore@KidRyan His E3 one is a good recent one, especially with what he calls Geoff! 😂 And his Hogwarts Legacy nailed the absurdity of what some people were being like when the game was released.
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A 96 on Metacritic so far. Not too bad, considering the... 'newness' factor of Zelda first going open world is missing here. Probably doesn't help that one publication gave it a 6/10 and complained that it wasn't similar enough to older Zelda games, lol.
Sounds like most of the performance issues in the game were fixed in a patch, although using Ultrahand in Kakariko Village obviously still caused it to drop pretty badly. It's using FSR to hit 1080p when docked. Definitely think we'll be seeing a heavy use of DLSS in the successor console, as Nintendo's big games are increasingly making use of upscaling to help with image quality.
The Tears of the Kingdom reviews are kind of a rollercoaster for me. I think BOTW is an okay game, but had extreme Nintendo bias on it. If you look at it just as a game, it was a bland patch work of open modern open world tropes and generally just kinda boring a lot of the time, with it being a big empty field simulator.
That said, I can understand that if you grew up with Zelda seeing it realised in a big, modern open world, game like that probably was really exciting, but I think it really smothered all of the reviews and any sense of even partial objectivity went out of the window.
It seems like TOTK does address the empty field problem if nothing else, and actually really embracing the more spoiler heavy reviews might have ruined some of the surprises for me, but they have sold me on this title more than any birds eye view non spoiler overview ever could have, which honestly made me really nervous in the lead up, as I thought the non spoiler preview of TOTK also seemed kinda boring.
That being said, the Switch hardware, man. Its a meme, that became a meme to complain about, but I am sorry, it is super hard for me to get excited for an upscaled 900p 30 fpsish open world title in 2023. I am sorry. Hardware snob or whatever you want to call me, but it is my truth.
And I get that you can't really down score a title because of the limitations of the hardware the title is running on, but you can absolutely mock Nintendo for releasing flagship titles on this hardware, and actively holding back these titles from achieving their fullest potential in the process.
As such, I can't help but feel like there is still some serious Nintendo bias when outlets are giving this a 10 in 2023, when its running at a level of performance of a game about 15 years older than it actually is and generally hasn't been acceptable for really almost a decade, unless we are now going to act like the Switch is just exclusively a handheld device at this point.
I guess, more than comparing it to a monster like the PS5, I'm just consistently amazed with how far they can stretch a downclocked mobile SoC from 2015 lol.
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@Pizzamorg no Nintendo bias here, always been secondary systems in my house and although I have played most of the Zelda games in one form or another none would be close to my favourite games. BOTW on the other hand - absolutely fantastic game. I guess I can see why people might have considered it a bit empty but there was always something interesting over the horizon.
I will admit, after the first handful of hours I was a bit suspicious but I kept playing and it all clicked.
BOTW got 10s and then the next generation of openworld games pinched ideas from it and were ALWAYS better as a result, this will be the same.
I hear that argument a lot for BOTW, but it feels to me like it borrowed far more than it inspired. Witcher 3, Dying Light, Far Cry, Assassin's Creed all existed before BOTW, and you can see BOTW borrow heavily from all of these to name but just a few. Again, it is not lost on me why BOTW was really special to existing Zelda fans, kinda like how Pokemon Scarlet to me is a super jank video game but awe inspiring in seeing those series I've been with for decades brought into the modern times (kinda). But I do think that awe meant a lot of people buried genuine problems with BOTW. And like, it is fine to think that way, but I feel like people like that are probably not the best ones to review a title for a professional publication, because a review is meant to not just be an entire opinion piece (when written professionally anyway).
I will say, I do think time has allowed for more room for people to be critical of design choices in BOTW, and I do think the conversation around that game is now more open, and healthier, than it was a few years ago. But it still remains to me a game that would probably have got a 7, maybe a low 8, if it was called Assassin's Creed Breath of the Wild.
@Pizzamorg Sorry, but I'm going to push back on this.
Breath of the Wild exploded open world game design conventions. In fact, I maintain that's why it's so controversial with some people, since it wasn't in line with games like Skyrim, The Witcher, Assassin's Creed, etc. With many of these distinguishing features being pointed to as flaws by people who wanted something more in line with those experiences.
You don't have to think it's a masterpiece, or even a particularly good game. Many don't, and that's a valid perspective to have. But it takes a seriously shallow evaluation of both Assassin's Creed and Zelda to point at them and say they're near the same because they both happen to feature large open worlds.
BotW retained elements where they made sense (Ubisoft towers), but otherwise re-thought most aspects of the genre and fashioned something unique.
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