Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

[Evia]

Anyone playing this rn? What do you think?
I made the fatal mistake of pre-ordering with amazon and so I don't get it until Tuesday. Lmk how you're enjoying it so I can get amped for my copy to arrive!

[Seducio]

Surprised this is the only post. This is where I'm at. If you liked BotW you are in for a treat.

[Ekco]

watched the intro cutscene or whatever, looks like the plot of princess mononoke and link gets his arm infected and loses like 20 hearts.

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[wuanahto]

I cant fucking stop. The sky parts are kinda bleh but the base world is amazing and more full and the underground segments are fucking great.

Spoilers for the lightning temple boss, its a bitch.

[Botten]

Piracy ryjuinx switch emulator hacked switch firmware and prod keys. I believe you can get the game for free on PC now

[Ooloo]

Eh playing it on a PC would suck unless you basically had a switch for control inputs, in which case you might as well just buy it cause it really is amazing.

Like others said if you liked botw you'll love this, and even if you didn't like botw they did a good job of addressing basically every criticism it got so you might still like this. Nintendo still brings it majorly with their 1st party games.

[Botten]

Eh playing it on a PC would suck unless you basically had a switch for control inputs, in which case you might as well just buy it cause it really is amazing.

Like others said if you liked botw you'll love this, and even if you didn't like botw they did a good job of addressing basically every criticism it got so you might still like this. Nintendo still brings it majorly with their 1st party games.

Not like you can not just assign control keys to USB joystick.

But we are talking about Baler :rolleyes:


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[strongNpretty]

Love this Zelda game. Couldn't get enough of it this weekend!

[Ooloo]

Not like you can not just assign control keys to USB joystick.

But we are talking about Baler :rolleyes:


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You could, but it would still suck compared to the actual switch controls. The game, and especially the combat systems, are designed for switch joycons specifically.

Don't be a cheap bastard, pay for your games especially if they're this good.

Not to mention, it's fun as shit to play handheld. I played like 80% of BotW in handheld rather than docked.

[Evia]

Yeah I was up way too late last night playing this. It makes botw feel like it was alpha or beta for what ultimately tears of the kingdom became.

[Ooloo]

Yeah I was up way too late last night playing this. It makes botw feel like it was alpha or beta for what ultimately tears of the kingdom became.

Agreed. It's incredible what they delivered, I remember thinking they could never top botw when I first played it, and now I don't see how they can top this heh

I still think if people have never played either game they should play botw first. I'm actually kinda jealous of people who get to play both games for the first time back to back

[Evia]

I'm surprised that there aren't more p99ers/eq players interested in botw/totk. I feel like it's the closest thing to classic eq I've experienced in a while. What I mean by that is the thrill of exploration and wonder. Constantly surprised by what the game is and does.

I spent over an hr just fucking around trying to make a car lol! I got it to work and now I ride it everywhere.

[Swish]

I still haven't played BotW, I own it I just haven't got to it yet lol

[Seducio]

Both BotW and TotK, though single player, give me hope that the best MMOs are yet to come. Imagine a version of EQ with all the environmental interaction that these games have.

[Ooloo]

I still haven't played BotW, I own it I just haven't got to it yet lol

Lucky bastard.. I wish I could play it for the first time again. I've replayed it a couple times but there's nothing like that first time through.

[Evia]

Idk I guess I'm in the minority here, but tears of the kingdom kinda makes breath of the wild unplayable....at least to me anyway. I dunno if I could go back to no building, no fusing weapons, no Depths, no Sky Islands. The special abilities are totally different in each game, but I found botws abilities tedious and only used them when I absolutely was forced to use them. Where as with tears of the kingdom I'm constantly wanting to use them, or find new ways to use them.

Perhaps it'd be cool if you didn't know anything about tears of the kingdom when you start playing breath of the wild? Because then you'd basically be extending the game experiences length. Starting with the more minimal approach in breath of the wild and let you get acclimated in the world, characters, and gameplay before opening up the giant pandoras box of exploration, creativity, and wonder that comes with tears of the kingdom. Maybe that's why I'm so floored with the new game in the first place? Who knows.

I do know that I haven't been this impressed with a game in a very long time tho. I even bought a 2nd copy so my kids and I can stop having to take turns to play it rofl.

Both BotW and TotK, though single player, give me hope that the best MMOs are yet to come. Imagine a version of EQ with all the environmental interaction that these games have.

I completely agree! If this game had multiplayer, and some kind of a class system, it'd be near perfect for what I'd want in a sandbox world to explore and play in.

Multiplayer behind these kind of concepts would be revolutionary in the mmo genre. You never know, multiple developers started mimicking things from breath of the wild after it released. Hopefully some developers take notice of what TOTK is doing here.

[Swish]

Would going back to Breath of the Wild be like going back from San Andreas to GTA3?

[Evia]

Would going back to Breath of the Wild be like going back from San Andreas to GTA3?

That's a pretty good analogy actually...but even more extreme.

[NPC]

BotW was too easy, I just ran away from from most fights because there is no incentive to fight as you just break/damage your weapons. So many fights you lose resources, I started running away from everything unless there was an item in the area. Also I did the bare minimum quest wise, then tried to see how far I could get into the main castle. I managed to go through the main castle dungeon and work my way to the very backside of the castle and climb it straight to the main boss of the game. I literally fought 3-4 mobs then climbed a ton of walls all the way to Ganon. Boring, dumb, easy. I only had 8-9 hearts, but i found that fruit that you could make that gives you 20 hearts, I just keep eating those fruits, like 15 of them, and I beat him. I don't think I did 2/3rds of the content. I was surprised the main quest didn't take longer, way too easy. The original game you had to do 8 hard azz dungeons and puzzles, mazes. I expected to run into barriers, locked doors or something, or Gannon would whoop me and I'd have to gear up better. I loved the game and everything, one of the best games I've played, but that specific fight at the end needs a serious boost, or they need to nerf the food.

[Ooloo]

BotW was too easy, I just ran away from from most fights because there is no incentive to fight as you just break/damage your weapons. So many fights you lose resources, I started running away from everything unless there was an item in the area. Also I did the bare minimum quest wise, then tried to see how far I could get into the main castle. I managed to go through the main castle dungeon and work my way to the very backside of the castle and climb it straight to the main boss of the game. I literally fought 3-4 mobs then climbed a ton of walls all the way to Ganon. Boring, dumb, easy. I only had 8-9 hearts, but i found that fruit that you could make that gives you 20 hearts, I just keep eating those fruits, like 15 of them, and I beat him. I don't think I did 2/3rds of the content. I was surprised the main quest didn't take longer, way too easy. The original game you had to do 8 hard azz dungeons and puzzles, mazes. I expected to run into barriers, locked doors or something, or Gannon would whoop me and I'd have to gear up better. I loved the game and everything, one of the best games I've played, but that specific fight at the end needs a serious boost, or they need to nerf the food.

Yeah, that's a natural outcome of trying to make the game as open world and sandboxy as possible. It has pros and cons, but one of the major pros is that the game is highly replayable. The first time I played the game I went to Zora's domain first and fought the elephant divine beast. The next time I played it I went to gerudo desert and fought the camel one first and it was just a completely different experience, because the enemies in the game get harder as you make progress. There are *still* some shrines I've never even been to. You can play the whole game and never even go to Eventide island which was one of the most fun parts of the game for me.

I also just avoided most enemy camps, especially on master mode, *until* I had made enough progress that the gold versions of basic enemies started spawning, which drop diamonds and rubies and sapphires and shit. Then it was suddenly worthwhile to clear them, and they're pretty challenging fights on their own. Plus tackling lynels just never gets old, the combat system is so satisfying once you get flurry rushes and parrying down.

[wuanahto]

Save your beetles, people. 9 bladed rhino beetles for the fourth tier of barbarian armor upgrades is more brutal than the 9 white lynels and 1500 rupees

[wuanahto]

Here I am with level 3 Barbarian Armor realizing that the depths are just as "deep" as surface level Hyrule I realize I only come back to the surface to get sticks to fuse with rocks to go back to the depths to mine more stuff.
Then a dragon scared the fuck out of me due to darkness and its size
Then goblin camp_381 has more loot
Then all the surface shrines share roots with underground roots
Then all the everything lead up to me saving enough ore to turn into batteries
Then all the poes to re-buy all the amiibo gear
Then... then I remembered what the word "fun" meant.

Now if you do not mind I am going to rechallenge that bigass frog and the lynel arena.

[Xakasle]

I haven't had time to delve in but my buddies come over and play on it already got me thru the tutorial and tamed a horse for me lol. the story is kinda eh for me and I don;t see how it ties in in with the rest of the trilogy yet.. but we will see. gameplay pretty smooth so far the music scores and scenery are nice.

[Xakasle]

Yeah I never played any zelda games before in my life till botw some months ago. I was amazed how easy it was to push thru the divine beasts and how easily I scaled the castle to Ganon. (I found his room on accident as I was only there for a loot run and I accidentally stumbled on the fight) so I went with it and got to his spider lion stage the first try without any prep for the fight other than hoarding as I played like normal. I hadn't even beat any divine beasts at that point as was just gearing up. So at that point I realized the divine beats must be hella easy if I almost whooped ganon already. so I killed them, then him... and I kinda didn't play much after that even though it's a great game. The world and the ambience are really what makes it. I used it as background noise alot while I played other games lol. Oh and Beedle! his overflowing enthusiasm and his...different clothing style were always .....intriguing.

[Ooloo]

Yeah I never played any zelda games before in my life till botw some months ago. I was amazed how easy it was to push thru the divine beasts and how easily I scaled the castle to Ganon. (I found his room on accident as I was only there for a loot run and I accidentally stumbled on the fight) so I went with it and got to his spider lion stage the first try without any prep for the fight other than hoarding as I played like normal. I hadn't even beat any divine beasts at that point as was just gearing up. So at that point I realized the divine beats must be hella easy if I almost whooped ganon already. so I killed them, then him... and I kinda didn't play much after that even though it's a great game. The world and the ambience are really what makes it. I used it as background noise alot while I played other games lol. Oh and Beedle! his overflowing enthusiasm and his...different clothing style were always .....intriguing.

Did you replay botw on master mode after beating it? It's quite a bit harder. And the DLC stuff is worth getting too.

[Evia]

Yeah it's safe to say this is probably the best console game I've ever played.

I'll tell ya about one of my more memorable adventures...

I saved this town from pirates and then they needed help building it up again and asked me to get 15 logs and 20 rice. So I bring back 15 wood and 20 rice thinking that I've got this covered and realize that this mother fucker really wants LOGS! Ive gotta get to choppin down some trees! Well the trees werent nearby because apparently palm trees arent good enough for him. But i dont wanna ultra hand 15 logs over here....hrm...what to do...

So I had to get creative and I built myself the most badass lumberjack monster truck and hauled that dude his 15 logs! I just wish I had a flannel tunic and trucker cap for Link to wear while I was at it.

This games too good.

[Rygar]

While I didn't play myself, I saw a friend plat it for half hour or so. Of course graphics looked good, but I just couldn't get into it.

He took like 25 pictures of plants I couldn't stand it.

Miss me A Link to the Past. Still one of the best on SNES

[Ooloo]

While I didn't play myself, I saw a friend plat it for half hour or so. Of course graphics looked good, but I just couldn't get into it.

He took like 25 pictures of plants I couldn't stand it.

Miss me A Link to the Past. Still one of the best on SNES

Lol well yeah there is a lot in the game that isn't mandatory. Taking pictures of plants is a totally optional completionist thing to do. I would really recommend not judging it based on watching somebody else play it for half an hour, you really need to play it yourself.

In breath of the wild I never once used the camera feature to take pictures of anything, and I actually never really used horses either; I liked just running around on foot and climbing and exploring. There are a million ways to play the game, which is the appeal. The old model of zelda games was great but extremely linear and they've reiterated it so many times now. The idea with BotW (and now this sequel) is to make it as open-ended as possible; there's still a narrative "main quest" but you can progress through it as quickly or slowly as you want, there are so many things to do and see while you chip away at the main storyline.

[Evia]

Yeah the appeal of this game to me is that you can truly play it however you want. Savage warrior style? Check. Stealthy Assassin style? Check. Innovative and unorthodox? Check. Not big on combat? Take pictures, make food, harvest materials, explore, build. It manages to allow so many different play styles all simultaneously which usually doesn't work in most games and yet somehow it works perfectly here.

I love talking to friends or family playing the game and we will talk about the same quest or the same shrine or temple and yet we all had a different technique we used to complete it.

[wuanahto]

I just unga bunga spin2win most fights with a barbarian set. a lizard tail attached to a 2h weapon has a huge reach. positioned in the right spot on the back of a Frox i can hit 4 nodes. i took out a blue-white frox in like 10-15 seconds using a thick gnarled stick with a white lizard tail stuck on the end
and many many shrines i just dont even try anymore. i ultrahand a block or something up for 5 seconds and set it down, get on it, rewind and skip a puzzle. and if i have to do some super elaborate ball escort mission i tend to just pull out a hover block and just drag it along.

and recently i learned how to make a hoverbike. slap a korok on it and pull up more when steering and 2 free seeds.

but i cant stop playing

[Evia]

Lizard tail on a 2h spear or staff is pretty great. I've been loving the white bokgoblin horns on any 1h wep. I killed my first Gleeok Dragon the other day, a fire one, I felt pretty bad ass. I tried my hand at an ice one today and was destroying it until it flew up really high in the sky and 1shot Ice Cometed my ass. I'll have to figure out what you do when that happens...

The Depths I haven't spent as much time in. I've grabbed about 60 light roots and fought 1 frox but I've been doing mostly mainland stuff. I should start branching out.

[Ennewi]

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[Botten]

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[Evia]

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[Trexller]

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[Botten]

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[Ciderpress]

Haha well since this thread got bot-necroed;

In retrospect I dont like totk as much as I liked breath of the wild, though its still an awesome game.

The novelty factor of an open world zelda is absent since botw already did that. Save for a few examples I find the building\ultrahand mechanic really tedious. Especially that part in the underworld where you have to assemble that robot dude's body. The fuse mechanic is interesting and freshens up the combat and weapons system, but it also leads to goofy things like carts fused to the ends of spears and all this nonsense that just feels unserious and cartoonish.

The underworld itself is really underwhelming. When you first start exploring down there it seems pretty cool and then you eventually realize the entire god damn underworld all looks the same and there's almost nothing interesting to find, and its literally just as huge as the mainland.

I was hoping for elemental themed dungeons ala the normal zelda games, but these are just fuckin divine beasts again disguised as dungeons. Find the five "terminals" to fight the boss, same exact damn formula as botw. There's at least a little more visual variety to the "dungeons".

That being said I did the hebra\sky tornado dungeon first and that kind of spoiled the rest for me, because just getting to that dungeon felt epic AF with the flying airships you have to trampoline off of, then skydiving down into the big storm. That was by far the coolest set piece in the game, and the other 3 dungeons felt like letdowns in comparison.

I have no idea what they follow this game up with, I like the open world\shrines system but I still want proper elemental themed dungeons, god damnit.