Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I don't see any kind of valuable, game ruining, potential in knowing there's a forest to the east, a volcano up north, a huge desert far to the west and a lake west of the castle (which is on the center).

Considering it's... Kinda the same as in every other Zelda...

But maybe that's just me.

Indeed, it's just basic stuff anyway, you would've known that if you watched all of the E3 demos probably, or you would discover it yourself in the first 5 minutes of playing the game. It's just neat to see a confirmation of the things we sort of already knew about.

Nahnahnahnah, you guys got it all wrong. You don't discover that all at the start of the game, you see it in the distance. Then you go discover it! This is how you play Elder Scrolls games: exploration games.

It's a totally different thing seeing a tree outline on a map and walking up to that tree in real time.

You can literally place magical marks on the map to know know the exact location of any of the things you can spot in the distance.

@Meowpheel That's why the map isn't canon.

S.P.O.I.L.E.R.S.

I'm not looking at the map until I'm 50 hours in. Squinting during the resurrection tower cutscenes. Ducktaping the NX Gamepad screen.

The best part is that it actually is 100% canon and present in-game, as the Sheikah slab.

You can't escape gps technology in this game.

Come play with us, Haru. Forever, and ever.

(I assume your eyes will be glowing blue like so much magitech while you deliver those lines, @Meowpheel?)

Anyhow, electricity is a hell of a thing. One thing that video did remind me of, an item description mentions electricity. I wonder if that glowy blue lighting throughout the game isn't just this game's electricity. After all, the lightning was blue as well. (I wonder if the resurrection towers act as lightning rods. Hmm.)

I still want to know how big that Guardian on Death Mountain is, that's the first thing I'm going to find out once the game comes out.

What exactly does "the map is not canon" mean?

Boy do we have different priorities!

@Dezzy This is canon. This is the game.

This is not canon. This is a jpg.

@Haru17

No idea what you mean! They both look remarkably like jpegs to me.

Gotta start somewhere!

The true start will likely be downloading 10+GB worth of data packs

@Dezzy Well, if you think about it, one of those jpgs took many years and hundreds of millions of dollars to make, while the other took a few days in Flash.

@Grumblevolcano I'll toss the Wii U in the bin if that's the case, all the save data and DLC alone already take up most of the 32GB. It may be a good thing that they ditched any game development for the system, since there's not much room left for anything else haha.

@Octane I was going by XCX, anyway don't forget that the current NX rumour states same memory as Wii U (32GB) so if true Nintendo haven't learnt their lesson at all on the storage front.

Well Nintendo proper are amazing at condensing down data. Twilight Princess and the Wind Waker are only a couple of gigabytes each, maybe less on Gamecube.

@Grumblevolcano Fortunately Xenoblade is much bigger than Zelda, so I hope they can fit everything on one disc without the need of extra patches. I've always had the idea that Nintendo's in-house studios are much better at file compression too.

I third (or fourth, whatever) this. A Guardian that big is surely nothing to sneeze at.

I wish Nintendo would release some plot info soon. I stopped watching demo footage some time ago since it started getting repetitive. I also don't want to spoil TOO much of the environment for myself.

Enjoy running up to the boss and dying over and over, ruining your first experience in the game. Ermagerd, l3rn 2 Zelda