re: About to start Zelda:BoTW, any tips?

I have a warm doublet and a ruby circlet that I'm hoping will work. I hope there's some kind of armor that will handle extreme cold like the armor that handles the heat on Death Mountain.

I'll be doing some exploring tonight!

I should’ve just played Zelda :(

I saw a silver haired Lynel over near the dragon Dinraal. I ran away so fast lol. I think I'm gonna load up on some durian fruit and try to take him out.

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90% of the content is exploring. The dungeons and bosses are simple, so go climb some shite

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I started this last night. So far my opinion is mixed. The world feels too big without enough in it to make it worthwhile.

The game literally feels like grinding shrines, go get mastersword, kill devine beasts, kill ganon.

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The game literally feels like grinding shrines, go get mastersword, kill devine beasts, kill ganon.

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Then you’re doing it wrong. The point is to go out, look around, wonder what is around the corner, think it will only take 10 minutes, and then 3 hours later you’re halfway across the map. It is much more about exploration and tactics. Enjoy the journey, go slay some Lynels, and climb mountains. That’s what it’s about.

You’re misinterpreting the game. That’s what it is.

Get the Hylian Shield and enjoy taking out Guardians by parrying their laser blasts back at them. After spending a lot of the early hours of the game running from those bastards, this was a lot of fun.

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However, I'll admit that I've never actually played No Man's Sky. I've only watched others play it but I don't think "exploration for the sake of exploration" is an entirely bankrupt concept, assuming there are interesting things to find and do as a reward for the exploration. BOTW has that but No Man's Sky seems to rarely does.

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Well it's fine for the first 10 hours or so, but there's not enough variation in art assets to make it much more interesting beyond that. If there was actually more things to see in the game it would be amazing.

I think in my time with BotW, I'm in awe of how large the world feels. In actuality, I don't think it's much larger than Skyrim, but it feels much larger.

I think it's because you have a much greater freedom of movement with the ability to climb virtually anything and use the glider to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. I haven't bumped into any invisible walls yet.

I just wish they would have populated this world with more things to actually do in it. In Skyrim, there are many visually distinct caves and tombs you can explore with different types of rewards at the end. Many of which are tied to optional side quests and some to the main story.

In BotW, there are only shrines, the entrances to which all look the same and the inside of which all look the same minus a different puzzle inside.

Most of the side quests that I have done are of the fetch quest variety. For example, collect 10 mosquitos or kill x enemies.

It's not a bad game at all though. I see it as a good launching point should they continue to expand on this style of gameplay. They just need to fill out the world a bit more like ES or Witcher 3 if they're going that route.