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Seriouly, if that developer had not mentioned those doors no one would complain.

As for the controls I will be trying the dual stick system and use it if it's better than the classic gamecube system (which was already perfect, though).

You people remember the Flying machine from BotW? I think you can build a variety of machines in this one by utilizing the physics engine.

Box art is almost the same as original. Iconic. I'm definitely getting a physical copy.

Finally, one of the best games ever and without the godawful forced motion controls.

I remember back in 2000 people were complaining Majora's Mask looked like OOT DLC.

There's no way they spent the last 6 years creating a dlc calm down people.

Some people actually take this seriously

@Lizuka
I thought BotW felt grand when I played it the first time. That includes the narrative. It's got talent to create what feels like an epic using just a few words. Then again, anyone can write page after page stuff about dragons and elves and lizard people and... yawn... reminds me of all those readable books from Skyrim :/

@Thief
Because he didn't say he was the va. It reads in this article.

The Switch sold more, though. OLED is not a next gen Nintendo console. They should count both oled and normal Switch sales together.

There will not be (collectable) koroks or shrines in the game. The entire game takes place in Hyrule. The landscapes have been greatly altered and there are underground sections in addition to floating islands. Actually, there are holes to underground where the islands popped up in the sky by the malice. Malice is also pouring out from Death Mountain and other areas, and the player has to make it stop by completing the ug sections. It doesn't rain as often as in BotW. Sheikah Slate is history, Link uses his artificial magic hand to turn back time for objects and such. The 7 Tears are main collectibles from dungeons or floating isles, not some substitute for Koroks. All this is obvious. I'm not sure whether the durability system has been altered or not.

Was the social simulator aspect really that good in three houses? All I remember was eating meals and participating hymns with the same characters with same dialogue every time. Because you want to use same ones to get a waifu.

Besides, why would anyone want this game to be exactly the same as 3h? It's a new game with NEW stuff. Isn't that better? I feel like some reviewers gave a bad score just because it wasn't the same friggin game.

In my opinion, 3h had a very lackluster story, not counting Edelgard's betrayal and Dimitri's madness. The pacing was all over the place. I think Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn were far superior games.

If Engage is for the older fans, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna love it. I'm sure it's better than 3h but we'll see.

No, it's still getting new aaa games. Not old yet. Wii U is old. Also the console has a lot of games with timeless artstyles. These games will never look old.

Path of Radiance has the best story, followed by Radiant Dawn. Three Houses has a bad pacing due character's teleporting around from the monastery. I'm glad they fix this in FE Engage by making the hub area a floating one. I've been missing the sense of progression from games like PoR. I think Engage will combine the best from old and new FE games.

Zelda and Fire Emblem is enough for me. Don't have that much money to spend on games these days.

Why is no one ever complaining how every human in skyrim looks the same. It's a lot worse case.

Engage is a perfect name. Like, engage in combat and "engagement" rings.

@nkarafo
I don't remember framerate on 3H even dropping once, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Switch. Not because of its hybrid function; the game catalogue is simply all time best.

Finally! At least here where people have actually played XB3 it gets the deserved victory.

Boring actor playing the boring Geralt. Not a great loss.

Xenoblade 3 is the only 10/10 Switch game this year. At least here it should by all means get the top spot of the actual goty (which it actually is over the board dang it). Just gotta hope enough people have actually played it.

I'm happy for the fans, but personally I couldn't handle these... thinking about all those random battles in six games.

The original handheld game was really bad so I'm not expecting much from this.

People complaining about the artstyle almost sound like they'd rather get an uneven artstyle. Yeah, why not make Marth a pixel guy and Byleth a 3d character in the same game? Maybe that would satisfy some fans...

The only complaint I get is the fact most female characters' face shapes here are looking too much like each other.

@Koffyman
Yes, likely not counting the emblem "booster" characters which are probably used only in combat and not in the social situations, the cast in Fire Emblem games have different personalities. I didn't quite understand whether you thought it was a good or bad thing, though? As for me, if the characters didn't have different personalities, that would make the game crap definitely. Actually, it would make any rpg crap (thinking about the no- personalities in elder scrolls games).

The only indie game I'm interested of right now.

This is def my most wanted game with Zelda right now.

No wonder Xenoblade 3 didn't win the best music award either when this is how the nominations were presented on several sites including big ones such as Ign.

Best Score/Music
Olivier Deriviere – A Plague Tale: Requiem
Tsukasa Saitoh – Elden Ring
Bear McCreary – God of War: Ragnarok
Two Feathers – Metal Hellsinger
Yasunori Mitsuda

See the last one? It just says "Yasunori Mitsuda" as if it was some obscure name of the game (obviously it's the composer, or actually, one of them). Of course, they forgot to write the actual title of Xenoblade 3.

Nice. Too bad they messed Xenoblade 3 by placing it on the last spot in every voting category. Subconsciously saying: don't vote this.

Then again who cares it's the real goty after all. Almost everyone who played both XB3 and Elden Ring thoroughly repeat this mantra.

@Would_you_kindly
I was merely referring the stupidity of complaining about something THIS trivial.

@N8tiveT3ch
Pretty good sarcasm there.

Who cares? People acting like this was a bigger thing than the Ukrainian war just to bash Nintendo as always.

To be honest, I could not even imagine a more trivial subject than this no-news.

@Hayter
Did you miss the part where the update said other bug fixes. The biggest problem of the game is the visuals. It lacks certain basic effects and some textures are so simple you can see it's the same smal pattern copy pasted over and over again on some rock for example. Even Arceus looked a lot better.

@Mauzuri
You asked: What BotW did compared to Skyrim and other crappy western open world games? Here's a list!

1. The open world has been handcrafted and works like a big puzzle. The main content of the game is this question: " how do I get there?" An example would be how to cross frozen river. Unlike other games, water can be either warm, normal or cold in this game. Cold water kills you fast. So, will you cut a tree to make a bridge over it? Maybe use cryonis to create ice blocks? Try to find a way to circle around? Find a high place to paraglide over it?

In a normal open world game you just swim past it, because you can't cut trees, temperatures are not changing and your only traversal option is walking or riding a horse with crappy controls. BotW also has horses but the controls are perfect and the horses have different stats. You need to tame them and you can customize their looks and find useful gear to them.

2. The overall polish is beyond any other open world game. I think even the haters admit this.

3. Chemistry engine. In BotW, you can TOUCH everything. Also, nothing halts your progress. You climb over fences in a realistic way instead of clumsyly trying to jump over it using the same animation as in every jump. Different elements react in various ways in contact.

4. You can climb everything. Except shrine walls.

5. Everything you collect is useful. Remember all those apples and bowls you could put in yout inventory in Skyrim, just to not ever using them. In BotW, everything has a use.

6. Traversal options. In games like Skyrim you can just walk or swim. Because your horse is so slow and crappy why bother. In BotW the moving around itself is fun. This is very important in any game is it not? You can walk, run, ride a horse with great controls and unmatched animations, paraglide down from hills, surf with your shield, ride a sandseal, swim- just get the full zora armor set to get some speed on swimming, and climb. Did I forget something?

7. Physics engine. Which allows you to try almost everything and usually it works.

Would you like me to continue or was this enough?

If you value some boring sidequests over the "how could I get there" then I suppose it's a matter of taste. You must hate games like Zelda and Metroid in general.

Ffs, Skyward Sword is not part of the direct story of botw and totk. In totk, the floating islands were obviously ripped off the ground by malice, leaving behind possible underground entrances. Skyward Sword is situated in a time eons before botw and its sequel. Its floating islands do not have any relation to the next Zelda.

I'll tell you something you never believe. Game making actually takes time! Metroid Prime is one of the best games ever and I'm pretty sure Retro Studios wants to make the first HD entry one to remember. In other words it'll take 4-6 years to develop. Count from there, from the delay.

The emblem mechanics looks really interesting. I only hope the pacing of the story is more in line with the older games. The monastery in 3 houses made me feel the armies were just teleporting from the hub to the next location.

@ArcticEcho
How can you know whether the plot of Engage is good or not when the game is not even out yet. I agree with you if you meant up to 3 houses, though.

Sony has no chance against Nintendo on its playground. If Microsoft manages to get all the best selling violence/ immaturity games, Sony is going to be in real trouble. All they have is God of War from that category.

@johnvboy
Well, I would have bought the game had it not released in such state.

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Xenoblade 3 should've won at least
Best music
Best narrative
Actually, how the heck didn't it?! Pretty much everyone who actually played the game seems to be agreeing with this. I guess the series is cursed somehow.

Witcher 3 and Skyrim are lifeless and clunky compared to BotW. It's easy to see the world of Zelda is handcrafted while the aforementioned train wrecks trust in copy paste and flatness.

As someone already stated, basic things such as walking, horse riding etc. are just not fun in Skytcher. Meanwhile in BotW you have stuff like paragliding, shield surfing, sand seal riding and hell even walking around and climbing feels fun because everything is so well executed. It's the minor things such as sfx and pitch perfect controls.

Who cares about 1000 sidequests. In BotW the simple "get from point a to point b" is often a puzzle and the content itself. It's not too intelligent to say the game is empty if you fail to understand this.

And for those who say Witcher 3 has a good story? Come on. It's just macho bs for insecure men. Every other male but Geralt is ugly and all women are basically b*****s. As for Skyrim, all adults are the same height and there are no personalities. All npcs feel like wax models with no soul.

It's no wonder BotW is a higher rated game.

Why are people supporting a game that barely functions? I watched some videos about the performance and bugs and it looks really bad. This was supposed to be the best Pokemon game ever and now it stands on the last place of the list.

Unless the issues are overblown? I haven't played the game but the user rating in metacritic is really low. And this time it's not review bombing, since generally user reviews are not trustworthy. In here people are critizing the severe technical issues, though.

@MrPKOmega
I think they want to offer new stuff periodically so that it wouldn't take so long for a new update.

@Peach64
It almost sounds like you're implying that Breath of the Wild's open world does not feel alive. With the animal animations, wind, grass and particle and weather effects combined to the absolutely perfect physics engine etc. etc. It's by far the most living open world there is bar none. Most other open world games don't even have decent wind effects let alone stuff like rain turning to snow in real time when you change altitude. Or water puddles vanishing gradually when it gets dry.

@dkxcalibur
Yeah, most people dissing the game never even got out of the starting area, and they also thought every weapon breaks as fast as the goddamn wooden stick or rusty sword.

100%
But I did not count collecting all korok seeds. It's tedious and by no means necessary. I only collected enough to get a good amount of inventory space.

Some people started to claim that the game is empty after having done everything else but all korok seeds. Duh! Obviously there is nothing left to do if you've already done almost everything!

BotW is one of the highest rated games of all time and my second- best game of all time after Xenoblade 3. Can't wait to get my hands on Tears of the Kingdom.

It looks the same in both systems. Moving on.

We already have a 100 rpgs that are better than this on the system. I suppose there's some nostalgia value in it, though.
Then again I used to have this on my gamecube back when it was originally released and all I could think was how much better final fantasy 7, 8 and 9 were.

XB 3 has easily the best side quests out of any game ever. In my first playthrough I actually missed the entire second half of the narrative which opens through the hero and main cast ascension side quests. A good example of this is Shania. In my first playthrough I stupidly skipped Sena's side story (yeah yeah it's not really about Sena blah blah heard it million times) and therefore the story of Shania ended in her suicide for me. Little did I know I missed one of the main philosophical points of the game's overall narrative that opens up with Shania's true motives.

If you play the game and simply leave the heroes to the rank 10 after acquiring them, you'll be as dumb as I was. The stories leading to the rank 20 coronations are not just sidequests but important part of the main story. It's foolish to complain this or that was underdeveloped if you just skipped everything like stupid old me and ran to the end of the game. For this, my second fresh playthrough was much more fulfilling than the first, further cementing Xenoblade 3 as my all time no. 1 favorite game.

I don't understand how normal ds sold so well. It barely had any good games.

Also, the worst selling nintendo consoles were the ones that were equal in power compared to the competition. Interesting.

And the best selling consoles were and are lagging behind in terms of raw horsepower.

@WallyWest
I'm playing docked only and XB3 is sharp enough. Best looking game in the series and one of the best looking games ever. Everything is just so gigantic! People have unrealistic standards these days...