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That was a given. They sell too much now not to. But you can still absolutely make a open world Zelda structured like the older titles work and so I hope that's one of the things they make in the future

I mean wind waker is proof of them almost being able to do it on a gamecube

@Ralizah weird I thought they'd try to capitalize on the release after the botw review fiasco xD

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Pretty much try to do everything it has to offer like in botw. Altho I'm not sure whether to rush it before FF16 comes out or just play at a leisurely pace and continue after I'm done with 16

I don't call myself a huge Zelda fan for nothing. Im still not fully convinced but it's either this or wait basically another half decade for a new one

After this though, I really hope they move on from this sandbox build your own adventure type thing they're going for and just make a Zelda similar in structure to older Zeldas but in an open world

I won't attack her for it like some RE fans did to Ada but I just don't think BotWs voice acting was good and that especially includes Zelda herself

Haven't had the chance to get this but I just spoiled myself on the story anyway. Takahashi is an absolute madman. This should've been the main game. I'm very much looking forward to playing this eventually

@Takoda lol I was a bit shocked too at the high praise. I mean it was being nominated for goty where 2 and especially 1 weren't. In terms of the story, I just don't think 7 chapters is long enough to tell the kind of story 3 was going for. And so it tells an extremely safe story to the point of being very bland. Not a good way to cap off a saga. The sad part is, that I would've liked nothing more than to just enjoy 3 as much as I did the other 2 but I didn't

I don't think XB3's DLC will salvage 3 for me. But I do want to see this supposed Klaus Saga through to the end so I'm gonna pick this DLC up for sure despite how I feel about 3. Not sure if I'll ever go back to the main game though

I never got around to it cause it's a prequel and XB2s story was its biggest weakness. And I feel like this should've mostly been integrated into main game to help flesh it out more rather than some of the filler we ended up getting instead

But honestly, XB3 didn't really give me the Xenoblade goodness I craved unfortunately. So I've been very tempted to pick this up now cause even with it's flaws, XB2 was fantastic. More of the same can only be a good thing. I just wish I had picked up the physical copy instead

@JohnnyMind I agree on a lot of these points, aptly put. I'm very curious how they're gonna handle the story and ToTKs version of Divine Beasts. The thing about BotWs story is that it really didn't need to focus so much on the past. A few cutscenes at the beginning where you meet the king and impa would have sufficed and if people wanted additional context and lore, the memory hunt would have been a good way for them to expand upon the past. But instead they chose to entirely focus on the past, where even clearing Divine Beasts just led to more cutscenes about the past. This just made the present story weaker. But now that we know about the past, I'm curious to see how TotK will handle it's story. Will it be a more straight forward story with cool set pieces like the older games, now that they can't really use the memory hunt structure?

Same with the DBs. We've already explored them and got rid of the blight inside, so what's gonna replace BotWs version of dungeons in TotK?

Personally I don't understand people that say BotW isn't a Zelda, much less the people that say FFXVI isn't a Final Fantasy

I wouldn't call it traditional or that this is what constitutes a Zelda game, but what I've come to expect from Zelda, after playing basically all of them, are: unique dungeons, many different enemies, diverse puzzles, rewarding exploration and side quests, great story set pieces, and a way less ambient soundtrack. I just didn't get that from BotW. And the thing is, some of the older games don't even have all of that. But BotW managed to have basically none of them

The gba originals just look so much better. I'm definitely sticking with those. This remake kinda just reminds me of the 3d secret of mana remake

It was FF tactics but at the time I didn't really know about the series or anything about it as a kid. I just liked that I was moving knights and wizards around on tiles and attacking the enemy forces. But my first start knowing what a final fantasy is, was 3 and I've been a huge fan ever since with each entry I play

It sounds a lot better than the battle theme in the main game already. I was so done with the flute stuff after like 5 hours in, in this 100+ hours game

I don't think totk ganondorf should even be ranked yet but I gotta admit that 'do not look away' line was pretty badass

WW ganondorf under OoT ganondorf tho... for shame

I liked BotWs trailer more cause I prefer the grand orchestral sound the series is known for. And altho the game is absolutely nothing like the trailer, it gave off a sense of urgency and/or despair. Hyrule castle town was being raided and destroyed by Ganon and the sheikah machines turned against them, Link and Zelda running away battle damaged, Link almost being on death's bed, and Zelda unable to awaken her power to prevent any of this

Meanwhile, TotK's trailer more gives off that typical avengers 'everyone is here' feeling where everyone is now standing up to ganondorf equipped with a jazzy version of the main theme and everything

If the voice work was good I wouldn't mind it but botws and to a certain extent totks voice acting aren't exactly the definition of good

But I'm already used to and really like the many silent reincarnations of link. It'd have to be REALLY good acting. Like something out of Witcher 3 or Final Fantasy 16. If it was like Xenoblade 2 or 3, I'd only be wishing I was deaf

It was a good trailer but so was botws 2017 presentation trailer and that burned me pretty hard. So I'm definitely wary of this one. Will there be a bunch more of those cool looking bosses or are those literally it? Just like how botw only had the like 5 bosses it revealed in trailers. Stuff like that I'm wondering

But the trailer made it go from definitely not playing day 1 to maybe. I've got a month to decide at least

Oh no they did it again. They're hyping up these characters when they'll really just be relegated to a few cutscenes and maybe some of them will feature in a 5 min minigame to get you inside a dungeon and fade to irrelevancy aren't they

Seeing Ganondorf again was so cool tho. He always makes for a great final boss

Damn I was really hoping this would be what makes me excited but the sky islands they've shown so far just look like the akkala region but it's broken up into pieces and it's in the air. And I despise that foggy washed out look over the world so much. I know it was to be expected but I wish they'd remove it, it just makes the game look so ugly with muted colors

Hopefully they show more interesting varied areas cause this was kinda boring to watch

I'm kinda indifferent but that's cause they haven't shown anything to get excited about. I think they're banking on the fact that it's a sequel to botw but I didn't even love the 1st one so I'm not exactly jumping for joy at the thought of the same but more

No panic here. Got everything I could want and then some for a very good very very low price 😉

But I must admit I love using these FOMO articles to see if there's anything else I might want to add to my ever growing backlog. At my own pace and own price, of course

My favorite is a custom Xenoblade 2 theme that came with a really cool artwork and one of my favorite pieces of music from the game. I just can't go back to official themes anymore

But when I did use official themes, my favorite and the one I kept almost permanently on was the Zelda 30th Anniversary theme. By far my favorite version of that song. I'd stay on the home screen for a good while just listening to that

Lol I've never seen a console manufacturer give their rival's audience so many things yet simultaneously get nothing and struggle to give their own audience anything

Idk maybe it's nostalgia speaking but gamecube literally has 2 of the best Zeldas, the 2 N64 Zeldas, one of the best FEs, it has the best 3D Mario, THE paper mario, THE luigis mansion, most of the metroid prime games, and 2 of the greatest pokemon RPGs

I can go on, Fzero, AC, Pikmin, Kirby Air ride. Damn... I really miss GameCube era Nintendo

That's a lot of remasters and dlc

Lol I guess sony needed to play the bad guy so ninty and Ms could get away with it with little to no backlash

Years ago I wouldve been so hyped to see this finally come true but seeing all those titles on my 3ds ready to be played, lessened the impact

I was so looking forward to this but as a trilogy. I hope it's at least reasonably priced with the 2 sequels coming eventually

Im gonna have to pick up the dlc now. That teaser was more of what I wanted out of XB3 than the entirety of XB3 itself. If only it was a full game instead T^T

Yikes the reactions to ninty raising game prices and shutting down it's stores are very different from when Sony raised its prices and was shutting down their stores

Cordelia cause she has a great design. Too bad she was obsessed with chrom but at least she gave me a tsundere that's actually a really great character in Fates along with inigo and owain

I mean I don't know how much more it can be said but it really needs way more dungeons that are all different to each other and way more enemy variety. Bring back some actual music to the game. Maybe the ambient music works in some areas but having most of the game feature that was awful. There's a reason I would idle around great fairies

Personally I'd love if they could give link some combos or just more attack animations in general for combat. I don't need full on Nioh style combat, but watching Link do light jabs at mobs with the spear was one of the mundane things I've ever witnessed. And the other type of weapons weren't any better. Make better side quests. I don't want to shoot down some girls balloon for rupees nor fetch some ingredients for people to cook. Even Majora's mask had better side content and that was an N64 game. There's a lot more I want to see in a sequel to an open world Zelda, but realistically none of this is happening going by the trailers lol

SSE is easily the best smash story mode. It had everything, a decent little 2d platformer through ninty series with actual mob enemies, boss fights that aren't just playable characters in a powered up state, fun cutscenes with character interactions. And combine it with Smash's addicting trophy collectibles plus stickers. It was great

4 didn't have a story mode. And Ultimate's is lame. It has cool boss fights again but now you could fight those in classic mode anyway too. The few cutscenes it has are short and amount to nothing. The gameplay is just fight after fight against playable characters so it doesn't have anything unique going for it. The only good thing that came out of it was that really short fight where you actually control the hands. More of that wouldve been great but they didn't do much with the single player content for Ultimate

@JakedaArbok that's reassuring to hear. I plan to finish it eventually cause I still really love the gameplay. But the story, at least as early as I'm at currently, just put me off from finishing it sooner

Yes it deserves another game but please make it go back to being a guild wanting to explore new areas and rescuing pokemon. And the main heroes learned through experience.

I haven't finished it yet but Super Mystery Dungeon putting you as a child that literally goes to school to learn this stuff, just didn't gel with me at all. It felt like a group of 1st graders with the dialogue especially when it involved the bully. I feel like the Rescue Team/Explorers entries had more nuance to it

Terrible poll options. Do away with it but keep the different weapons or make them way more durable and repairable. It just wasn't fun smacking goblins for a few hits before it breaks, and it gets especially worse when the enemies become HP sponges but every weapon, including endgame weapons, break almost as fast as early game weapons. And the weapons those mobs always carry around with them are such low tier weapons. Not to mention, they look lame af lol

It also makes finding weapons with rare stats like atk up pointless cause they're gonna disappear in like 10 hits anyway. What was the point of that little system

Never cared for them and I'm glad at the very least they seem to be useless now in terms of functionality

I will forever be salty that I had to settle for makeshift hero's clothes or the awful hero of the wild set while playing BotW, instead of being able to use TP link's or Skyward Sword Link's clothes unless I bought the amiibos. Hopefully that stays a thing of the past

@PikaPhantom I guess it's not missing too much then but still a shame. I still look forward to visiting the park in person tho, not every day you get a chance to go to a Mario themed amusement park lol

Isn't the hollywood version also missing an extra ride or something revolving around yoshi?

It should, but I don't trust them to do it justice anymore considering the state of paper mario itself. This series has met a terrible fate, hasn't it

The story and characters in relation to the permadeath tactical gameplay is what makes me love FE. Without that well written story or at least some engaging characters, it's like Engage is missing the other half of what makes FE, FE

Really hoping this isn't the start of a downward trend for the series

These pieces, mainly the females, look extremely good. But for something like Fate Grand Order not Fire Emblem. And sadly as with most cases, the art doesn't translate anywhere near as good to in game models

Except the "old man". That's still just some 30 year old with a lot of white facial hair, art or in game. Absolutely horrendous

Surely this trailer has to be some form of false advertisement lol. It made it seem like the game was going to have the most engaging Zelda story yet filled with cool characters and epic music. And the final product, well....

Probably none unless you don't suffer from series burn out in which case botw, the most obvious one

I'm stunned at how different this FE looks compared to past entries. Almost every one of them has had a great anime art style thats never gone overboard yet this opening only reinforces just how much this game is peak "anime cringe" for lack of a better term

The song sounds awful in English lol. Clearly the song was meant to be sung in Japanese, I don't know why they absolutely must dub a song too

I can't take a list of quality titles that has 2 sports games and a musou seriously tbh

Even tho I only played Xenoblade 3 and was disappointed by it. I'm interested in bayo 3 and Kirby so I feel like that's 3 more than last year lol. Technically a better year than last year for me

I'm pretty sure that latest direct had more farm sims than the gamefest had space horror games

It doesn't let me log into my account for some reason but I know it's probably just gonna be 2 games unless it counts demos. Like 200 hours on XB3 and a few on Pokemon unite

Yes please, I adore wind waker, minish cap and phantom hourglass. The worlds in them are just so rich, vibrant and colorful. I love the character and monster designs and they all give a true sense of adventure unlike most of the other Zeldas even if they're still amazing games in their own right

Tbh I always thought they were gonna alternate between the normal style in ocarina and twilight princess and the toon style for home console Zelda but they ended up just making the rest of the toon link games handheld.