Neil Young
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God damnit!! Am I going to have to buy this game?
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom |OT| The Sky's the Limit - [Strong Internet Recommended]
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Thread: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom |OT| The Sky's the Limit - [Strong Internet Recommended]
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Fuck I hate hype.... now I want a switch again. I sold mine a while back and I put less then 20 hours into BoTW but still I am itching to go buy another.
Great OT.
Great OT.
Killer OT! I'm stoked to dive in, but I'm also busy all weekend so maybe I play an hour or two D:
I hope everyone enjoys their time with this game
I hope everyone enjoys their time with this game
miona's shoulder monkey
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Optimus
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Feel like these are all things to blame on the hardware. When a game runs reasonably well on hardware it shouldn't be able to run on, that is considered polish. Unless you think Hogwarts for PS4 is unpolished because the hardware forces the game to reduce resolution, framerate, and reflections...
I pre-ordered the other day. Hyped.
It took me about 3 years to complete the first one cos I didn't want it to end. Got the DLC and collected everything (not Korok seeds), did every side quest I could find, all the master trials. Didn't get all the shrines but once I completed the game I knew I'd be done.
HYPED.
It took me about 3 years to complete the first one cos I didn't want it to end. Got the DLC and collected everything (not Korok seeds), did every side quest I could find, all the master trials. Didn't get all the shrines but once I completed the game I knew I'd be done.
HYPED.
Eneru
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opened the thread on my MacBook and it's glorious (before I just checked in on my phone and not all images have loaded). Must have been a lot of effort.
MildWolverine
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Can't keep giving Nintendo a pass for hardware, they're CHOOSING THIS HARDWARE.
It's up to developers to work WITH IT, and OPTIMZE FOR IT.
It's not OK to do that bullshit, Nintendo is working with old shit, they've been since launch.
A game that DOES NOT WORK WELL, and is asking FULL+$10 MSRP needs to work flawlessly.
They've had 6 +years to make this game work flawlessly, especially since it's the SAME ENGINE as the last one. Meaning you can't even say "oh they took all that time to make a new engine" they fully understood the downfalls of this engine, and the hardware, they're making it do new things sure, but they still had all that time to JUST make it work flawlessly.
The thing with your bullshit is that 20 FPS still FEELS like 20 FPS no matter how many excuses you give Nintendo.
Here's a fun thought experiment, the new God Of War comes out it's targeting 30 fps, and dips drastically during points, does Sony get a freeride? Spoilers the answer is no. Microsoft was dragged through the coals for Halo Infinite not hitting solid 60 fps. Nintendo gets a pass on a game that has an engine that was out in 10 years ago no performing at locked 30 fps...
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Bought and it downloaded while I beat Metroid Prime, super excited for this one, I have many snacks, drinks and drugs ready to keep me going all night!
One bummer is that I read the "16" on the date and stopped reading because I assumed it would be "16 May" but I just noticed its "16 June" ffs lol its not like I'll be done by then but I really wanted to be able to check the hidden stats of food/items if experimentation produced confusing results:
One bummer is that I read the "16" on the date and stopped reading because I assumed it would be "16 May" but I just noticed its "16 June" ffs lol its not like I'll be done by then but I really wanted to be able to check the hidden stats of food/items if experimentation produced confusing results:
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Optimus
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But are you playing Tears of the Kingdom and seeing when and how often it dips to 20 fps? I feel like that matters a lot. I definitely felt that the hardware hurt BotW, but the gameplay was that good. It's not all about visuals, which BotW looks really good but has the obvious resolution, framerate, and draw distance limitations that do detract from the visuals just a bit.
But a video game is about how fun it is, and the visuals are there to support that. In terms of just how fun a game is, BotW, and I believe TotK too, is just a lot of fun to play. That's what should matter most about a video game.
Taken in that context, it's not giving Nintendo a pass if the game is just that fun. The visuals could be better, and the performance would obviously be better without stutter or dips, but it isn't impacting the fun.
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ExpandKong
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Aren't you the fella that was taking hot dumps all over the pre release thread too?
Mild dumps surely?
MildWolverine
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If you mean I was calling Nintendo out for sticking to all the old quest styles with shitty rewards, bland NPCs, using the same map, keeping things in this new game that people hated about the old game and still not being able to do 30 FPS all the time(this is a new one) as "hot dump" then yea sure.
The industry is watching what Nintendo is doing, if they learn that this shit is all acceptable, this will only hurt the gaming industry as whole.
ExpandKong
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I have to admit I was not too excited for this title but this OT is too good not to taste some of that sweet sweet hype. Great work @Zeta Dragoon and @Black Chamber. Love the teamwork.
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Amazing, I literally just watched this episode last night haha
miona's shoulder monkey
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No.
Cool story bro. Your point?
Also add part 4 & 5 in the OP.
Ask the Developer Vol. 9, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom—Part 4 - News - Nintendo Official Site
This article has been translated from the original Japanese content. The images shown in this interview were created during development. In this ninth volume of Ask the Developer, an interview series in which Nintendo developers convey in their own …
www.nintendo.com
Ask the Developer Vol. 9, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom—Part 5 - News - Nintendo Official Site
This article has been translated from the original Japanese content. The images shown in this interview were created during development. In this ninth volume of Ask the Developer, an interview series in which Nintendo developers convey in their own …
www.nintendo.com
Nikana
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Thanks! Added parts 4 and 5 to OT. Interesting Xenoblade Chronicles 3 had three interviews, while TotK has five? so far.No.
Cool story bro. Your point?
Also add part 4 & 5 in the OP.
Ask the Developer Vol. 9, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom—Part 4 - News - Nintendo Official Site
This article has been translated from the original Japanese content. The images shown in this interview were created during development. In this ninth volume of Ask the Developer, an interview series in which Nintendo developers convey in their own …Ask the Developer Vol. 9, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom—Part 5 - News - Nintendo Official Site
This article has been translated from the original Japanese content. The images shown in this interview were created during development. In this ninth volume of Ask the Developer, an interview series in which Nintendo developers convey in their own …
I don't recall if Nintendo were even doing these Ask the Dev interviews for BotW? They are a nice look into what's going on with a games development, decision making, priorities, ect.
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I would say that every flaw that can be detected should be pointed out. This is going to be a long journey, we can take our time complimenting and criticizing this game; TOTK is a massive game so there will be plenty of time for both over the years to come. I'm gonna try to stretch the game out at least eight months I think since there is so much to see in the overworld. BOTW took me roughly four months to complete, but at the time my knowledge of open world games was zero so this experience will be different
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I hated shit breaking in BotW... gah, fuck it, imma dive into this one too. Fuck me wallet 
Saruhashi
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Hahahaha. Oh wow you must be so concerned about "the industry".
Fuckers have been going all in on loot boxes, microtransactions, shitty PC ports, live service bullshit for years.
Nintendo makes a single player game with tons of content that is well received both critically and by the consumers too? "Oh noes what if the rest of the industry copies them!?"
Bloody good show on the OT @Zeta Dragoon, really top work.
I've got to admit, despite my hating the weapon breakage of BotW, I'm seeing basically every other problem I had with rhat game seemingly get fixed here. I'll be holding out of a sale later in the year, but I will definitely be buying it eventually. Looks fabulous.
I've got to admit, despite my hating the weapon breakage of BotW, I'm seeing basically every other problem I had with rhat game seemingly get fixed here. I'll be holding out of a sale later in the year, but I will definitely be buying it eventually. Looks fabulous.
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How many hours do you guys expect to play this week? I'll probably try to play at least a couple hours or so tonight, maybe about 5-6 hrs Fri-Sun if things go well. Straight up, my mission is to gather like a million pieces of wood and do something crazy like light the entire Yiga Clan's base on fire (if it's still there)
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I'm taking 5 years off work to play this game! I'm hyped!
Joe T.
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Gameplay over graphics won't hurt the industry, just the opposite. BotW and TotK are back to back successes that pulled this graphics whore away from Sony and MS back towards Nintendo. I want more of this, a lot more of it.
Saruhashi
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If anything a lot of the big hitters in the industry should be asking themselves why the biggest open world game of the year and likely GOTY winner is running on far older and far less powerful tech.
The likes of Ubisoft and EA should easily be able to come up with an open world, single player, game that blows this away and for some reason they just can't.
Jedi Survivor at launch a couple of weeks ago struggled to run on setups worth more than 5k.
Nintendo is the least of this industrys problems.
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I take my Switch to work so i guess a couple of hours daily...yet make almost no progress on it
Half an hour to go.. midnight here so I won't get a long session but I do intend to play it.
Watched the DF analysis, pretty impressed tbh.
Sure, image quality, textures and stuff are bad because of the ancient hardware. But what they do here with the Switch is incredible. The scale, design, artwork, physics, what a package. The amount of systems, physics and interactivity are something I'd expect from big open world games on current gen consoles. But they all fail at it, one of my main issues in videogaming - static environments and missing interaction between the player and the world. And this Nintendo game on shitty ass hardware shows how it's done, and kicks ass while showing it off.
Sure, image quality, textures and stuff are bad because of the ancient hardware. But what they do here with the Switch is incredible. The scale, design, artwork, physics, what a package. The amount of systems, physics and interactivity are something I'd expect from big open world games on current gen consoles. But they all fail at it, one of my main issues in videogaming - static environments and missing interaction between the player and the world. And this Nintendo game on shitty ass hardware shows how it's done, and kicks ass while showing it off.
I couldn't play it until 12:02am, fuck this game, I'm deleting it
Hype overload
Hype overload
I made the mistake of watching the IGN review. While they claimed it was 'spoiler free', it had a few MAJOR tidbits that are fairly incredible and unexpected. My hype meter has now blasted past 11.
So for sure avoid any reviews if you dont want some of the big surprises ruined.
So for sure avoid any reviews if you dont want some of the big surprises ruined.
Zelda goes full Franky Family right at the start 
absolute lore fiending
Link also kind of looks like Theo Von
absolute lore fiendingLink also kind of looks like Theo Von