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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...

Still gotta say, I always waited they would build an open world pokemon game. Never played any of the previous entries, but I'm hyped for S/V!

@KBuckley27
I'm pretty sure Pokemon fans play other games too. You know who really has low standards in gaming? People who play nothing but PC and playstation or xbox and think that Skyrim or Witcher 3 are good games. (that being said both games are on Switch too). Even though reality is they are very, very mediocre compared to the best japanese games from developers such as Nintendo, From Software and Monolith Soft.

Who cares about the tech nerd crap. I'm confident the game plays well just like every port I've tried. If it really was sub par quality the Switch version wouldn't have scored 94 on metacritic.

There are other rpg maker games out there that are just as good. I suppose To the Moon had the benefit of releasing early, since I haven't seen such games gaining similar popularity.

@inenai
You expect them to mix photorealistic textures with art style like this? Talk about tasteless.

I didn't like Inside either. A short game with a bare bone mechanics. Flashback for SNES was similar, yet more complete experience. I really don't even wanna try Limbo.

I say RE 0 should be higher. The visuals and atmosphere are on par with the 1 remake.

@WallyWest
What are you talking about Xenoblade 3 runs perfectly.

@mario-64
I'm avoiding cloud games personally.
Then again to answer your question nothing lasts forever. Some people may want to play the game through just once or twice.

They info of restocking physical copies and some people whine about not having physical copies sigh

The Switch keeps on hammering the competition which is already lying on the ground beaten to a pulp. I almost feel sorry for the ps5/ xboxwhatever owners.

@MagicMan
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right.

@Ironcore
I wasn't aware n64 was a hd console.
In other words wtf you're talking about. What you expect? A Pokemon game with photorealistic graphics? I don't see how the look of a game like this could be improved in any meaningful way. It looks good and it's still gonna look good 20 years after because cartoons don't get old. Unless you complain about the lack of detail in the visual look everytime you watch Simpsons from TV.

Perhaps the hands on build is not the same as the full version. I find it hard to believe Nintenfo would publish something that has severe technical problems.

So, not all everyone had problems with the performance? Does it mean the issue is overblown or affecting only some copies?

@BigE
Definitely get Minecraft I got it late too just a few months ago and I can say no other game allows such freedom. I can understand why it's the best selling game of all time.

Wtf that's a good amount of money from such an easy work.

Pokemon fans are almost as toxic as Zelda fans. Every new gen people say it's the worst gen.

As for me, Scarlet and Violet is the only Pokemon game I've ever been interested at.

@GrailUK
Soulslike games usually include

• cryptic story
• dark, gothic environments
• hard difficulty, especially in boss battles
• some sort of punishing death mechanic
• interconnected semi- open or open world, either 3d or 2d.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this counts as a real genre. From Software's Dark Souls and other such games are basically action rpgs. It's the finer details creating the "soulslike" experience.

I don't appreciate the copycats too much, though. There's a million ways to create an action rpg and staying original instead of trying to look just like Dark Souls.

The game was so perfect from start to finish, I really don't get all this dlc stuff. Does it really add anything meaningful to the game? It's just content for the sake of content. I'm gonna be skipping all priced dlc at least.

Why just one :S
I suppose Hyrule Field theme from OOT.
From the more recent games, that flute melody playing in the dramatic cutscenes of Xenoblade 3 (I'm guessing Monolith Soft counts as first party).

@Streetmeat
Yeah, but those two games are among all time best. AND we have Nintendo exclusives in addition.

He looks the same. Why is there no option to vote for the obvious.

Edit: I can see many people would prefer a Mario with no facial expressions and a high pitched voice. Talk about creepy and annoying at the same time, I'm glad these people are not responsible for the movie.

Also Mario's original popularity was not a thing because he was a Mickey Mouse voiced mascot without personality. People liked him because he was ORDINARY and relatable to everyman, a plumber from Brooklyn. It seems Nintendo has realized that and combined the best of both worlds.

No, he looks like Spongebob.
But for real, NO. He looks like Mario wtf

Captain Toad is probably a secondary main character with Luigi.