That ninstalgia is unmatched. If you take most 8-9 games slap on a Nintendo ip it’s the greatest _____ ever. If hollow knight was the same exact game but metroid instead people would call it the greatest game ever. Part of me wishes I was born during the Nintendo dominated era cause o want to love these games as much as ppl who grew up with them.
Too bad the game's intro is so painfully slow and controls are so clunky that it's unplayable.
Couldn't agree more. I do love BoTW despite some very repetitive design, but Elden Ring makes it look like an empty desert by comparison.
I get that.
that's just graphics man, this game is still in some outdated ubisoft trash.I popped in BOTW last night to explore a bit since it's been a couple years since I've seen it..and dear gawd allll mighty did this game not age well at all.
That open world has been outdone. Elden Ring has been awesome. I'm enjoying it, but there is literally no open world as lush and varied as Horizon Forbidden West. Pictures and even online videos don't do it justice. It's absolutely incredible. The environments and the machine detail... Yea BOTW being unmatched is simply not true
the witcher 3 is barely a fkn open world, the good thing about that game is the quests but the open world is trash and the mobility even worse, even the last two assassin's creed have better open worlds.
You know what you get exploring that map? A make-shift golf course minigame, Labyrinths with treasure and Guardians to fight, Surfing down a mountain with a shield, An island that takes all your items and equipment and forces you to go through it from scratch, An entire area blanked in darkness that you have to find your way though. A foggy forest you have to figure out the correct path to. A gliding minigame, Korok puzzles to complete, shooting minigames, Random dragons to fight, vistas to see and explore and shrines to find and complete. You use that last bit as some way to try and lessen them but shrines are fun to come across and complete and provide a nice chance of pace from the traversal. All of this ties in together nicely with its physics system and how you can interact with things.
Flight simulator is one of my favorite games if all time…but its going for a conpletley different thing. To the article, yeah i think Elden Ring handedly dethroned itI'll tell ya what open world is really unmatched.
It's massively bigger, it's actually truly "open" (you can go 'round), looks infinitely better, and has exponentially more potential for exploration. Match this if ya can.
Shadow of the Colossus is an empty husk of a world where you follow a marker, nothing about that compares to Elden Ring. BOTW on the other hand is all about showing landmarks and points of interest without makers and guidance and then having to go there to check it out. Elden Ring's dev team has obviously studied games like BOTW and Skyrim, and its design philosophies are very similar to BOTW in its exploration.
You can say stuff like this about every game, some people find grinding XP in Call of Duty to be chill.
I wrote this in another thread, but this game made me feel like im wasting my life away. Its truly a running simulator. Especially in the beginning of the game for the first 20 hours or so. you run/climb your way to an area only to hit a road block... Either because its too hot, two cold or your weapons just break for no reason practically. Weapons break so easily and its straight frustration. Frustration because you waste so much time to do one simple task
A perfect example is in this time stamped video. I'm already 4+ hours into this sessions, tired, upset at how much time this game takes. I made it to Waterblight Ganon and constantly losing. So I made my way back to down, cooked a bunch of food to for health restoration and what not. I'm fighting him, all tensed up and my weapon breaks as he goes into his second form. The problem was that i didnt know my weapon broke because the notification poped up for a split second and I'm just focused on the boss himself. As I go to attack again him, thats when I realized I had no weapon equpied and i raged on the camera. I didnt have my mic on, but you can see how upset I was.
After 60+ hours of just running around, doing stupid shrines and expanding my heart, stamina, and inventory slots, I finally beat the last guardian. Now its time for Ganon.
To me, the game is such a drag. I rarely talk to NPC's unless they are selling something. The game lacks mystery as the previous games... And that may because I don't talk to any NPC because I've already wasted so much time getting to a certain area .
I'll leave this post on a positive note though. Playing this game makes me think of the original Zelda, how they imagined it with this art and how much they nailed it.:
What a strange, strange timing to write something like this...
Salty? C'mon, we are grown ups here
"Salty" was a poor choice of word I apologize.
