Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Was One Of Twitch's "Most Watched" Games In May

Not a lot of variety at the top though. All those other games are years old, some over a decade, and they're mostly just the same thing.

Cheaters caught red handed and exposed. No wonder you finished the game quicker than everybody else you dirty rotten cheaters. 😝😄

League of Legends, Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft and Dota 2 being in this list makes me question what year we’re living in.

Always wondered why people would sit and watch other people play games... Confused more as to why some people donate! Just buy the game yourself and play it.

“Tears of the Kingdom” has been a monumental success for Nintendo, and for good reason. That this game is now one of Twitch’s “most-watched” needn’t be surprising, given the vast creativity it affords its players. Certainly, the game is at least as fun to watch as it is to play.

@Friendly Those games are basically endless games, which means they stay interesting enough for people to play and watch.

@NinjaNicky I certainly understand your sentiment.

@NinjaNicky It's not just watching someone play a game, it's also interacting with that someone. (chatting, playing online, etc.)

That is pretty impressive for Tears considering it’s a pure single player game unlike rest of list.

It’s obvious that from the design of TotK that it was intended for the streamer generation to reach a bigger audience than ever. They saw the success of Minecraft and wanted themselves a slice of that pie.

Why would anyone else think about adding creativity elements like cars, robots and rocket ships to a fantasy setting and adventure genre is beyond me.

Zelda lost its soul 2 games ago.
BOTW was a nice experiment, but doubling down on that style threw everything that Zelda was into the garbage bin and made something entirely different.
Could have been another IP.

Good for people who like watching streamers I guess.

The game is amazing!
I already have around 100hrs and only did one dungeon.
Currently I'm trying to collect all armor pieces that I can and finding the shrines to improve my stats.
After that, side quest and only after that I will continue the main campaign.

@YoshiF2 i dunno… aliens were in majora’s mask, constructs in skyward sword, subrosia in oracle of seasons. Every zelda game has their own sort of weird species and a specific gimmick of some sort Link is able to use, often linked to one of the tribes.

Here we have the Sheikah Clan with their ancient technology and the Zonai tribe with theirs in BotW and TotK respectically. I just see it as the ‘gimmick’ of these tribes Link is able to use.

@sanderev true

@Friendly I think the correct term is that Zelda is a work of fantasy.

@Friendly aliens in MM is just a small segment … and very tongue-in-cheek.
A true comparison would be if all of MM revolved around saving cows from aliens.

Subrosia is just one of the many cultures of Zelda.
I don’t have any complaint about the Zonai, however, ALL of TOTK revolves around building stuff around. 90% of the puzzles in the shrines are that. Ultrahand this, Ultrahand that.
I’m rebuilding Lurelin village and even that is the same as what I’ve been doing the past 60 hours.

The new “gimmick” is invasive as hell. And obviously it could have existed without having to build cars, spaceships and robots. That’s not Zelda. That’s was intently done to reel the generation of streamers, Tiktokers and influencers into the game.

They knew they would market the game by themselves, that’s why there was almost 0 marketing prior to its release.

They know these sandboxes sell themselves. Just like Animal Crossing did. Because everyone wants to show their creations. Zelda was never about that.

There are things people have been asking for years now. Like something so basic as real dungeons. What do they give us instead? Focus on building cars and stuff around for 90% of the puzzles… and on the same map nonetheless.

@themightyant Exactly. Some people also don’t want to buy the game because it might be too expensive for now or they’re not 100% sure about it. No different than listening to a podcast with more than 1 person or watching TV, etc.

@YoshiF2 Not trying to be funny but I kinda know what you're going to post without even reading it now...listen I know you're disappointed with TOTK, I think every commenter in here got that impression from you months before it came out. Not everyone's going to like the same game and sometimes sequels disappoint some fans.

I think it's best just to let it go and move on, in fact I'm sure you said about a month ago "Goodbye Zelda" did you not? It's not good to dwell on things like this for so long when you could be finding so much more enjoyment with another game...hope you find that game!

@YoshiF2 i disagree.

You can build stuff. But I’m 40 hours in, found all tears and completed 75% of the shrines and I’ve never built a car or anything of the sorts. I play it as a normal action-adventure game (also because i’m not creative at all, lol). With loads to discover behind every corner.

Just as there are people who have played the game without a glider.

It caters to different kind of people.

@Friendly @JohnnyMind that’s why it’s been really hard for me to watch people playing it online as every single person’s journey through the game is completely unique. People are going to places I haven’t been and doing things I haven’t done.

@JohnnyMind definitely in the spoiler sense, I’m like “aaargh I haven’t been there yet!” And switch them off. But saying that I’ve enjoyed reactions to things I’ve already done, like completing the dragons tears.

Watching a stream of Minecraft seems as exciting as watching paint dry.

People really still watch gta v?

@YoshiF2
You're wrong. Zelda lost its soul after the first NES Zelda and found it again with BotW. The developers have stated BotW/ TotK have been what the series was always meant to be, but it wasn't possible with earlier technology.

This is not to say every 3d game before BotW were bad, but honestly, OOT and MM were the peak before BotW. WW, TP and SS felt like games that were behind the times compared to competition. TP was released way after GTA San Andreas and felt small, restricted and old in comparison. SS even more so when it was released the same time with Skyrim.

Like it or not, BotW made Zelda big again by taking the crown of the open world games with its unprecedented freedom and interactivity in a triple A open world setting, and TotK cemented its status. At least for now.