re: How much of an impact did Breath of the Wild actually have on the gaming industry?

BoTW kind of lost me with the style of the temples and the fact there were only 4.I really wished they had more temples built within the environment and not machine. The shrines were just meh. I appreciate the effort and trying something new but I wish they had just kept the old school approach on the large scale.

BoTW may not even be in my top 5 Zelda games because of what I mentioned above.

Not bashing it. Just wasn’t what I really wanted. Still a great game.

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All have incredible production values, but didn't really innovate.

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You used the word refine. I'd argue that the open world was one of the worst elements of the game because how empty the open world was. It's sticks out more in mind now that I'm playing Ghosts of Tsushima. It doesn't innovate, but has so much attention to detail and gives far more satisfaction/reason to explore and navigate imo.

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I found in both Skyrim and Wild Hunt, once I reached 30 hours or so, combat was fairly rote, and I had a lot of cool stuff, so if I need to I could skip it. On the other hand in BoTW, I'd rarely avoid combat, even against lower level stuff. I'd want the weapon, or the experience, or the combat just felt more alive.

You don't see anything like the creative Lynel videos or the travel videos out of any other game. I don't know why but there's something about the way they built the open world that really is "open."

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That's one of the things that BOTW did very well. Integrate the varied enemy and puzzle/dungeon element with a huge map. I can't help but notice how empty so much of what you traverse is in between everything exciting.

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Stamina isn't terrible, it's a core element to puzzle solving and some light gating, every game has that. Horses get tired in W3.

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Of course. Stamina is a delicate balance, but whenever you're just stamina bar watching for several hours of gameplay, it's not fun or well designed.

I made this thread specifically for that reason. I wanted people’s opinion on it relative to their specific tastes and allegiances/perspectives. To be fair, the topic was more or less made out of spite from a comment section I saw out from a Youtube preview of Immortals Fenyx Rising. Just so much bashing of a game just because its setup was similar. But it was really a buildup of several games I’ve seen lately where people are so quick to write off as BotW clones. A really good example is Genshin Impact, which really outside of I think the stamina mechanic turned out nothing like the aforementioned Zelda title.


The thing with the Witcher and others like it is I don’t see it...1:1 copied more or less if you get what I mean. Like, sure there are certain games that have a similar feel but I can’t recall a certain game in my head just out of the blue where I said “damn that’s a straight Witcher 3 clone.” Maybe it’s the aesthetic? Witcher really is kind of a dnd type adventure game. You can associate certain key elements to it aesthetically and gameplay wise but at the end of the day the Witcher brand in a vacuum is pretty tough to distinguish from your usual high fantasy storyline....though the assassin shite is super cool. I mentioned earlier in the thread that Zelda ran into a perfect storm in 2017 where people were blue balled for a new game and most critics were willing to look past its glaring faults like the empty overworld and divisive weapon breaking. That combined with the Switch’s burst into the scene probably gave it a boost in the minds of a lot of people that weren’t even switch owners at the time.

I guess I’m just tired of hearing every time I see any sniff of a stamina meter in an RPG “zOMg iZ zAT A brEaTH oF THe WIld cLonE??“ There’s barely anything in BotW that’s actually exclusive to the game itself outside the slate powers. Aonuma even advertised it as Skyrim Zelda pretty much.


I consider Xenoblade Chronicles X to be the superior game with the superior soundtrack anyway.

Invest, assuming it isn’t ported to Switch by then. It’s weebish but there is no game on the market that is more open world and lively by any measure.

I really can't think of any Nintendo game releasing after the N64 having any sort of impact on the gaming industry.

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I think what BotW did that made it game of the year was have a hard difficulty level and was willing to murder the PC for wandering unprepared into a new area. That shite just doesn’t happen in games anymore outside of, say, Dark Souls. On a mainline Nintendo series though? frickin Brutal

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The idea that 99% of the game was technically optional content was pretty novel, but the story suffered for it.

Bruh I forgot it even existed

They need to completely scrap weapon degradation. Awful system.