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Gta V would actually run well on the Switch. RDR2? I don't think so.

@TheMegaMarshtomp
Agreed. I highly prefer BotW. TotK just seems so full of stuff. Too much controls makes the controls bad. Too much clutter on the environment makes it look bad. Too much items to fuse makes the weapons look bad. Too much chatter from npcs makes the dialogue bad. Too much space makes the space look empty and meaningless (looking at you, Depths and caves). Too much characters aiding you makes playing bad... although you can at least turn the sages off.

The list goes on. BotW had just the right amount of everything. A perfect game followed by an overstuffed mess. Which I still enjoyed because the foundation is so good.

Is it the Fire Temple?

@Dazman
You don't need to worry about that. Nintendo would rather die than sell themselves. They've got certain pride most other companies don't have. Last time Microsoft proposed that they got laughed at.

They will never be able to buy Nintendo

L and R buttons are not really useful for drifting turns in F Zero. They're used more for general adjustment of the vehicle when you're on a straight line. I can see many people having this misconception because of Mario Kart.

Armored Core sells just because it's a From Software game. I bet many are disappointed because the game doesn't play exactly like the Souls games.
@Truthisrare
It's not just you. To me, BotW is clearly the superior game mainly because it's more grounded and controls better. Sometimes less is more and if you just keep on adding more on top of more, you get a cluster****.

Good news but my favorite is Super Paper Mario

The normal Switch already runs TotK- a game with the most advanced physics engine in the market. I can only wonder what they can do with more powerful hardware.

As for the graphics... I guess we could get more games with photorealistic artstyle. Cartoony games reached the graphical peak already on the Wii U.

(That being said Alien Isolation for the Switch is already photorealistic, so...)

This just confirms that

1. Both BotW and the following TotK happen in a future long after the events of the previous games

2. Not only Link and Zelda, but also Ganondorf can be reborn as a different character with the same characteristics as his previous incarnations

@bunkerneath
The events of BotW are repeatedly told or shown in TotK so it's an obvious sequel. It's just not the school part where the whole story of BotW is directly mentioned, but it's everywhere starting from the regional villages. I believe the old shrines and Divine Beasts were removed just for gameplay reasons, but there could be any story explanation for their disappearance.

As for Calamity Ganon, it was the Malice leaking out of Ganondorf's mummy that created all the Calamity Ganons in history.

The best way to mine rock walls is fusing a zonai cannon on a stake, putting it on the floor facing the wall and hit it. You can also move this cannon around with ultrahand all the while it destroys the walls.

A bit out of subject, but I've had it with indie games. I've been disappointed to almost all of the most popular ones.

Dead Cells was so boring I never got too far in it.

Guacamelee 1 was decent but nowhere close to the best Metroidvania's. Guacamelee 2 is almost the same game except with a worse story. It's bad imo.

Hollow Knight was good while it lasted. Not a masterpiece, but a good game.

Celeste just plain sucks. The most overrated game I've played.

Ori and the Blind Forest. It's got nice visuals but I felt like I've played the same game a million times before. It's hard to put my finger on why it was so boring.

Axiom Verge is like Metroid 1 for NES. Except with better controls and a really bad writing. I couldn't force myself to finish it.

That's just a few examples. The only indie game I'm waiting is Hollow Knight Silksong, hoping it would improve the first one a lot.

As for Soulslike games, the only good ones are from From Software.

So, did they fix the final dupe glitch?

Turok 2 has the best FPS single player campaign ever after Metroid Prime.

I would like to know how Turok 3 compares to that? I never played other entries than the second and I really loved the music, different weapons and the labyrinthine level design.

It's gonna be between TotK and BG3. I hope TotK Wins most of them because it does revolutionary things with Link's abilities and world structure, unlike BG 3 which is basically just DOS2 on steroids.

And if you ask me, Divinity OS2 sucked. Bad writing, bad characters and bad story is not a good thing in rpg.

Divinity OS2 was one of the worst rpgs ever and I remember it getting high reviews despite horrible writing, dull story and annoying characters. I haven't played bg3 though. Can anyone confirm whether it has the same flaws as DOS2?

What baffles me is how everyone praises the fact the game has no microtransactions, ingame purchases, paywalls, etc. I mean, the same is true for pretty much every Nintendo game. Why are they not praised for the same reason?

They didn't have to bother. Other developers are still wondering how to even start coding something like TotK.

FFs you shouldn't include identical releases. How does it make sense the gc version of Pikmin 2 is a lot higher on the list than the Switch version which is identical except with a higher resolution?

I haven't played Pikmin 4, so for me 3 was the best entry so far.

The weather does affect the Sky Islands, though. At least I remember it being cold over Hebra.
@Axecon
That would be a great idea, but makes me wonder how it would affect to the performance.

Just don't release the Switch successor too soon. If they waited like 3 more years for 10 year lifespan I'm sure the Switch could break the record.

Of course this would require 1 or 2 serious heavy hitter exclusives... and I'm not sure if they have anything else but MP 4 and Mario Wonder coming. Then again, TotK might keep on selling well far in the future.

@Axecon
You could argue the same for ps2 since it also had a lite version.

I really don't care too much about Wind Waker, Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword. None of them really did anything new we hadn't already seen in other, better 3d Zelda games before them. Well, perhaps not counting the open world of WW, but then again other games such as San Andreas did it better at the time.

To me, the best Zelda games are the NES original, A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, OOT, MM, BotW and TotK. These are the most revolutionary entries that actually pushed the medium forward.

If I had to choose the absolute best entry, I guess it would have to be TotK since BotW was like my dream game and TotK is Botw times 10 in terms of both scale and the revolutionary abilities. There's really nothing like it on the market.

My sister tried to play Twilight Princess after BotW and she found it boring, small and restricted in comparison. She doesn't even play games normally even though she's tried some, but when she accidentally got a Wii U and tried BotW it still blew her socks off. I've heard a lot of similar stories about BotW and TotK and they basically prove nostalgia for the series doesn't have anything to do with the quality of these games.

This is just to disprove the tired arguments about BotW and TotK getting good reviews just because the reviewers have nostalgia for the series.

It's the best 2.5d game of all time for sure.

@Rudolf
And what about the Castlevania games from the Advance collection? They are definitely Metroidvania's, and a lot better than stuff like Axiom Verge or Guacamelee 2. Actually, I did slightly enjoy the first Guacamelee but the second game was just too much the same with less interesting story.

Where are all the Metroid games? Are they not part of Metroidvania genre? Because if they were, Dread is the best there is closely followed by Hollow Knight.

Also, Castlevania Advance collection games are definitely Metroidvania's and they should be up there.

This should be called the best indie Metroidvania's.

The only Metroidvania's I've found good are Metroids and the 2d Castlevanias from the genre. And Hollow Knight I suppose.

I skipped past the comments as fast as I could to avoid the whining, but it's all over the place. Obviously Nintendo should go back making OOT clones with dated mechanics. At least their sales would go down the toilet! It's not fair to dominate competition with unparalleled open world games. Or actually it is if it's Sony or Microsoft, but Nintendo has no right to do it.

@Zequio
Here's a good tip for breaking stones. Fuse a zonai cannon to your spear. Or use the "insta cannon" (two cannons glued on the sides of a stake). You can then hit it on and move with ultrahand to destroy deep rock walls fast.

They should NOT call the next console as Switch Pro or Switch U or Switch anything. Look what happened with the Wii U. People thought it was the same thing as the normal Wii.

The only viable option for a Switch something would be Switch 2 with a hell of a big number 2 in the title. That's the only aspect in the leak that could be credible. That being said, I hope they come up with something completely new.

@Reztobi
It's weird the Switch can't run a simplistic game like Genshin Impact, all the while being able to run the most complex open world game in the market (TotK).

People are mixing Nintendo's pride as a company with arrogance here. If anything was arrogant, it was MS thinking they could just buy Nintendo.

Wind Waker is overrated in my opinion. It's not even as good as the N64 Zelda games. Majora's Mask should be up there and no, the 3ds version is not the definitive version, it messes up too many important things from the original. I would put Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade 3 on top.

Gx is the best... it's not even a competition.

@Dizavid
Shouldn't Sony and Microsoft update since they can't even do next gen physics/ gameplay like in TotK.

As for the news, Final Fantasy lost its soul long ago. Xenoblade series is the new king of jrpgs.

It really allows endless amounts of creative solutions. I didn't even think of doing something like this. Then again, for me the final battles were really epic. I even ran out of arrows so it was just me and him in a close range duel.

Yeah, it's obvious these two games are very different. I really don't see notable similarities between them.

TotK did some story beats better than any other Zelda game, such as Ganondorf and acquiring the Master Sword.

I'm already gotten used to people whining about absolutely everything Nintendo does. This is the first time I hear complaining about bug fixes, though.

It's like playing a survival game and using a cheat to get endless resources. Good way to ruin it.

Thankfully these bugs are so obscure it's impossible to use them by accident. Maybe we should think of them as cheat codes, actually.

11/15. I've played the game through, beat all the dungeons and found about 100 shrines. There's still stuff to do...

TotK's three- phased final boss fight is easily the best and most challenging final boss in the history of the series.

We've gone a long way since the days of Wind Waker where you could destroy the Ganondorf with a couple of quick time events.

Actually, how did they mess that one up so bad? OOT and MM were older games and yet easily more challenging. I guess we should thank Dark Souls' effect on the industry for bringing challenge back to games.

This proves we have reached graphical singularity, because I can't imagine how games like this could possibly look better.

Xenoblade 3 and Majora's Mask are the sidequest GOATS.

@Zeroo
If you can get all the gear upgrades by duplicating, it's too easy to get overpowered too early.

Then people who do this suddenly claim the game is too easy. All I can say no ***** sherlock.

Boomer shooters, back when shooters had the guns and the level design.

I wonder if people still complain about the cover art knowing it's modeled after the original super famicom cover?

The most pathetic example of uncreativity in a video game I've ever seen. I love it how the Ellie- clone is either stuck on the guy's back or stands around with no expression on her face while "Joel" is shooting zombies.

@chipia
It's not like you had endless amounts of healing items in BotW by default. Getting them always require gathering, hunting and cooking which takes time.

When the game was released many said it was the toughest Zelda game, because you have bad gear and not many hearts for a long time, and many enemies can easily one shot you.

I don't know why anyone would want to use a duplication glitch. BotW and TotK are both light survival games. A survival game makes absolutely no sense if you can cheat- duplicate materials.

I voted mushroom best and purple worst. Just because I can!

@The_Pixel_King
I'm with you. TotK is the peak of the medium right now and very likely for a long time.

I would've preferred the Depths set

I've now played the game through and found like 100 shrines. TotK is the most next- gen game on the market. No other open world game have ever done what it does with the three layered world and abilities that allow endless exploration and building. The physics are so far beyond competition.

Even the visuals are great, although the graphics are dated by technical standards. It doesn't matter. Any still image from the game looks like a painting. The fps is Stable at all times.

It's also polished to perfection . I didn't encounter s single bug or glitch even when I tried to break the game.

To me it's easily the best open world game ever, with BotW. Other such games feel ridiculously limited in comparison.