Horses for courses I guess. I personally hate a lot of freedom. Put me in a massive open world with total freedom and…I’ll just …stand there.
I love other open world stuff, with Legion being one of the few games I’ve completed in the last year. But even then I mainline quested it and fast travelled straight to each mission, Ignoring vehicular travel where possible, thinking of fast travel loading screens as basically the old school loading screens between levels in a liner game.
I think the freedom was nice in BOTW, everything else was meh though. Story was almost non-existant, temples were repetitive, enemies were repetitive, f***ing weapons breaking etc. I was bored to tears and annoyed, esp with how much money I spent on that thing. I take that 7/10 back, it’s a 6.
Good lad. I’m here to poison all your gaming memories! 
Haha 
you shouldnt play OW games in this case 
I mean to each their own but BOTW isnt getting killed by no Ubisoft game lol. Immortals is literally just assassins creed with a different art style and more puzzle’s tacked on. To whoever loves that great and IM glad the Ubisoft team made a game they actually wanted but after trying Far Cry 6 and finishing Odyssey and Valhalla Im good.
As long as the missions can be approached in a linear way, it’s fine. The world is just a pretty loading screen then.
Boy you must be fun to play games with
Well then BOTW is not for you.
Yeah a lot of criticism of BOTW comes down to wishing it were more like an Ubisoft game with waypoints and icons, which is perfectly valid. Different strokes for different folks. Immortals definitely scratches that itch of a game with BOTW style presentation but a more traditional open world structure.
I literally hate motion controls and see it as nothing more than a horrible shitty gimmick. So I would have never ever played Wii Sports. Thankfully, I had the Pro controller for the 2D Mario/DKCR games. I bought in Summer 2011 or 2012 (don’t remember which), had it for a month to complete those two games and it was then sold on ebay. Bought Switch December 2017 and traded it in less than two years later. Went into 2020 and the 9th generation as simply being an Xbox/PlayStation gamer and that’s it. Thankfully, unless Ubisoft announces Kingdom Battle 2, there’s nothing on Nintendo that even remotely interests me. I watched the SM3DW/Bowser’s Fury 8 minute overview trailer and while watching it, it reminded me of back in the days of SNES and while interested, im sitting here watching it with no hype or excitement and was like, yeah, hmmm, no thanks. Time is long past. LMAO.
Thats fine. I personally grew bored and tired of the bloated open world structure from Ubisoft to the point that Valhalla will be my last AC game unless they revamp the whole thing to a more normal thing.
Tsushima also I couldn’t get into it since it combines mindless running around to clear the map and boring activities that just ended up being too repetitive. So a prettier Ubisoft game.
This is all sad for me to read…
I played BOTW and quit after 22 hours. Made it up to the Ice Kingdom or whatever the hell it was called. Boring, empty, dull, too fucking tedious and way too many bad gameplay decisions. Oh my goodness. I see BOTW as overrated and wouldn’t give it higher than a 7/10. And that’s only because of the visuals/art style/weather which looked great and the music was good but that’s where it ended. For me, it’s all about combat and gameplay in general first and foremost followed by story and characters. BOTW simply has neither, at least for me anyway.
Immortals simply does EVERYTHING BETTER. Visuals and art style, far better. Audio, better. Combat and gameplay - light years ahead and superior. Story and characters are better and set in Greek Mythology. Exploration is better. Vaults shit all over those shitty shrines. OMG. Those shrines sucked. Puzzles are way better than BOTW. It’s not even close.
Most of all is that Immortals is fun and a joy to play where as BOTW was more like a chore. But to each their own as everyone should play whatever they want to play.
BOTW turned me onto a series I’ve been completely uninterested in my whole life.
It’s definitely one of the Top Ten games ever created.
Kinda feels like some of you act towards Nintendo the way a lot of the media act towards Xbox…
I highly suggest Fenyx then, game is a fuckin blast.
Maybe someday, but I’ve seen a lot of that game and it’s not high on my priority list.
tbh nintendo doesn’t deserve half the praise it gets to begin with, and in fact doesn’t get enough flak for the shit they pull, and I mean actual flak that actually affects them and not just some people crying on twitter for a few days and all of it going back to how it was. Flak that actually changes and improves things, like government intervention did to lootboxes, or Xbox One did to well, Xbox. They make good games, outside it, I’d rather still have the rest of the industry and console services that are far superior. They are a company that has become too big to fail imo.
I’ve been playing BOTW recently and it’s pretty good and does some things extremely well that other open world games need to learn from and perhaps have in the recent years, but people aren’t blind hatin Nintendo like media does to xbox cuz they don’t exactly feel it’s the second coming of Christ like so people tout it to be lol
My first playthrough will be with Corvo and no kill 
after that I play with Emily and kill every dam soul 
(Dishonerd 2)
I loved BOTW as well. A great game that is in some regards the next evolution of open world design.
I think when it comes to Nintendo the more cynical camp here is split in two. On one half you have people who may not mesh with the IPs and styles. On the other side there are those such as myself who do love Nintendo but just want them to do better. I think some of the stuff they have done recently with creators has been very offputting, and as a Wii U owner not providing any sort of discount or something for an upgrade and charging full price (at times above initial MSRP especially here in Canada) rubs me the wrong way. When they make a hit, by god do they deliver between Odyssey, BOTW, Three Houses and Animal Crossing they deliver, but I feel the droughts in 2018 and 2020 in particular were pretty bad, especially since they folded both divisions into one. Also, I have had a ton of technical issues with the Switch between Joycon drift and poor connectivity.
Idk, I get why some may be turned off of Nintendo. Ultimately, they make some truly fantastic games but their business practices of late and reliance on ports rubs me the wrong way.