UK Charts: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Reclaims The Top Spot

GTA IV in 12th for two weeks in a row, surely this is a misprint and should be GTA V..?

@Mackocaster7 I was thinking the same thing. Either that or there’s a sale somewhere we don’t know about that’s pushing sales

Great to see the best game of the generation (perhaps even all time) back on top spot. Such a wonderful game, Tears of the Kingdom deserves all the success it gets.

Honestly, just watching Mario Kart 8 gently bob up and down the Top 10 indefinitely is as interesting as watching the new games whizz to the top (and often plummet soon after).

The best game of all time is Clock for the Nintendo Switch because it is a clock and so gets 10/10 for being a clock and therefore it is the perfect game because it can’t be any more of a clock.

@RubyCarbuncle do most games you buy generally keep you occupied for 160 hours+? Genuinely interested. I would say most AAA games keep me occupied for 45 hours at absolute max and with that, I'm usually pretty satisfied that I've got my money's worth

It deserves sales and accolades up the bh but it's by no means perfect. It's awesome and I love it but it has just enough shortcomings behind the new mechanics and dozens of cool puzzles that I still have a hard time giving it a 10 even if I have 200 hours into it.

@RubyCarbuncle I asked because you seemed annoyed that the game only entertained you for 160+ hours, like it wasn't enough. If you weren't enjoying yourself for the majority of the time, why did you play for so long?

@Mackocaster7 I thought that too.

@RubyCarbuncle and that has what to do with the sales? your comment would fit in the article with the poll where they ask if you still play TotK 😎

Awesome. Tears Of The Kingdom is a masterpiece, well deserved sales.

@Mackocaster7 Partying like it's 2008 on their PS3 and Xbox 360. Tip of the hat to the Nico Bellic fan club.

As you would expect from the best game of all time.

@Mackocaster7 Apparently waiting for news about the VI, people sat down to play the previous ones.

Nice to see the true "Classic Zelda" game creeping back up the charts. Ragnarok is basically the current gen OoT.

@RubyCarbuncle LOL, if I were you, I would have stopped playing far earlier than after 160+ hours.

excellent, it is fully deserved. I am having a blast and the dupe glitch has seriously reduced the additional hours of grinding, thus allowing me to spend more time enjoying the exploration and delights to find.

“Link's gargantuan open-world adventure“ sounds like a game title

I’m on and off playing totk and will be for a long time. I’m also obsessed with megadrive games at the moment too so playing through games online and the megadrive collection

@RubyCarbuncle Funny you think TOTK is boring (sure, it could be for many people, specially after playing BOTW) but you DID playit for 160 hours! whhy???

Tears of The Kingdom better WIN GAME OF THE YEAR 2023 or WE RIOT!!!!

I understand where @RubyCarbuncle is coming from, having invested close to 200 hours into TOTK myself despite finding many aspects of it to be a slog. For me, it all boils down to this: It's a Zelda game, and I'm a fan of Zelda. I felt obligated to not only see it through to the end, but to explore every significant side adventure possible. I want to stay up-to-date on everything the franchise has to offer, so as not to appear like a "fake fan" who doesn't know about sidequest x, y, or z.

With that said, I didn't hate the game or anything. I'm sure I would have stopped if I was in complete anguish during all that time. But a lot of elements did just feel like they were copied and pasted directly from BotW. Splatoon 3 feels the same way. I'm not against sequels that reuse assets or anything, but you're still traversing the same world map. The sky and depths don't have a whole lot going on.

One aspect where this game really did deliver, though, is the story. I found BotW's plot to be incredibly cringey, if I'm being honest. I didn't care much for the Champions, and the ending felt anticlimactic. I just beat TotK yesterday, and WOW. The endgame did not disappoint. I also really liked the variety of new enemies and bosses, which BotW was really lacking in. But in a lot of other ways, I think the game is kind of a step backwards.

Honestly, I need more time to sit on it and think, but I'd probably give the game like a 7/10. If Horizon: Forbidden West can have a whole new map, why can't this game? (Because, again, the Depths are scarcely populated, in my opinion.) I think this game will age like Skyward Sword--getting unanimous 10/10's at launch, but after a few years when the hype has died down, people will realize more of its flaws.

Odd how they go back to buying GTA IV now. Either Rockstar ran out of copies of GTA V or the UK has had enough of that game. This is not just any version of GTA IV either, it's a game from two gens ago. It's a PS3 and Xbox 360 game as GTA IV had no last gen version other than the Steam release. If Rockstar is smart they would make a quick port of that game for PS4 and Switch to capitalize on the sales even more.

@Serpenterror If Rockstar were smart they'd do plenty of things differently, but yeah, that's my idea of smart, and clearly theirs is somehow working for them. Mine would have seen GTA V and Max Payne collection (or just 3) on Switch at the very least. Maybe we'll get GTA (GBC and GBA) and Max Payne on the GBC/GBA app, and I'm not going to lie, I would like that. No, really.

Damn Tears has nice legs even in UK of all places

@Not_Soos

Eh, I doubt it. The Ultrahand building mechanic will keep this game talked about til the end of time. It's Breath of the Wild on steroids and that game still sells and never leaves the conversation in discussions about the GOAT.

Hell, Totk even has an actual GOAT helping in the tutorial. It's like Nintendo already knew how this game was going to turn out...

I figured it would shoot back up to #1. TotK is still doing very well over a month after release, love to see it.

I think next week, FF should be number one. It's the week after that will prove interesting. Zelda, I would imagine, might be back at number 1 (barring any big release I don't know about.) If FF charts at 2, then I would consider that disappointing.

@RubyCarbuncle I get it man. After 175 hours I decided just beat it. Over 100+ shrines with the upper, middle, and lower maps explored. Sides quests where meh for me so I never really did them unless they gave me something good (which most of the time the reward sucked.) If DLC is announced I will go back but not right now. I will say if Nintendo had a achievement system I would have more motivation to play again.

@RubyCarbuncle hey my guy, I didn't mean for my comments to come across as an attack on which games you enjoy or not, apologies if it did come across this way. You're free to have your own opinion, as is everyone else.

I can't speak for "everybody else here" but my comments were merely a genuine interest as to why someone would play a game for 160 hours (almost a solid week) when they didn't like the game they were playing. I guess an analogy would be if someone went into a restaurant, ate a huge plate of food and when they were done licking the plate, said to their waiter "I didn't like that".

Case in point; having never played a Pokemon game before, I got on the hype train and purchased Legends: Arceus when it launched - after 12 or so hours of play I realised it just wasn't for me, so I stopped playing and sold the game - no harm, no foul.

You can still sell TotK and probably make 90-95% of your money back, but there's nothing you can do to get back that week of your life that you spent not enjoying a videogame.

@RubyCarbuncle I understand. 😉 If it were me, I would have just moved on to another game, there are so many.