Oh right.. I can see it as filler as they describe it. I enjoyed the shrines.
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Breath of the Wild is the most overrated game of all time - VG Culture HQ
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Oh right.. I can see it as filler as they describe it. I enjoyed the shrines.
I see the detractors are getting more and more desperate as the honeymoon period for this game continues on and on.
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The best part is the comments section of this article, where this author is proclaiming that they're the only site that doesn't give free passes to gaming companies, and call it as they see it.
It's a phenomenal game, brilliant even, and while I don't think it's overrated overall, some people definitely overrate & overstate its level of innovation in Open World design. Which isn't all that surprising given how many new or occasional open world players it attracted.
Good point,I am not sure if its portal or botw but i like both and they are both overrated
This is like only this high rated game for me that really deserves the score. It is not overrated at all imo.
This cannot work due to permutations.
I want to make a mixed fruit dish one apple, one banana. I want to make a mixed fruit dish four apples, one banana. Same end result, different heart makeup. That's without having buff variants of each dish. You'd have a huge list of items. But I get what you want, a bit like how Skyrim does alchemy/cooking.
I like the idea of quick-loadouts for armour though. That's a goodie.
It feels to me like most of the time when I read about why someone really dislikes this game it comes off as they just couldn't get passed the item durability for some reason and it annoyed them so much they started to rack up complaints from there on out
I left out the ones that appeared multiple times, picked the ones that had the highest score and moved on.
"They couldn't have rated it any higher, yet the user socre is 8.5"
Of course you used the user score as an arugment to why it's overrated lol. Get lost with your nonsense please.
Ha ha, I don't think I can even argue your opinion on my taste. I'm enjoying MG: survive more than any other game right now and I got a random collection of speed metal on my playlist currently.
I actually like Skyward Sword (or at least parts of it, like the level design in the desert is brilliant) more than most people, but this is just such fluff:
"You are LInk. You grow on a spiritual journey as Link grows." Come on. And the story has its good points, but feels like it's trying to be more epic and high-stakes than it actually is.
"You are LInk. You grow on a spiritual journey as Link grows." Come on. And the story has its good points, but feels like it's trying to be more epic and high-stakes than it actually is.
BotW, like Mario Odyssey, is definitely overrated. It is a great game, but it isn't a masterpiece. I would give it a 9/10. I had issues with the lack of enemy variety as well as the flimsy story and pretty repetitive dungeon design.
It's definitely a great game, but it in no way is even a top 10 game of all time, imo.
It's definitely a great game, but it in no way is even a top 10 game of all time, imo.
Yeah I kinda feel the same. If I were to describe BotW for me I would say "meaningless', everything is so fucking meaningless. The worst is that I played it right after Nier Automata so the quality between the two works felt so immense. BotW is just a toy and I need more than that.
They successfully created an enormous open world where every square inch teases the player's curiosity with nothing more than its layout of hills, cliffs, valleys, rivers, mountains, towers, camps, and lakes. The only waypoints that exist are the ones you place yourself. The game is brilliantly designed so that if reach a vantage point, you will see something curious in every single direction you look. It's a triumph in open-world design. It's an open-world that makes you actually want to explore it, rather than follow a pinpoint.
Belda? Never heard of that term.
It's one of the greatest games ever made, so I don't think it's overrated. But as with all Zelda games the people who praise it are also generally toxically defensive about the game.
It is my favorite game of all time as no other game in the past 2 decades has provided me with a similar sense of wonder, exploration and discovery, plus it managed to evoke similar feelings like experiencing and devouring Ocarina of Time over christmas 1998.
So...I disagree, but I also learned to not care about all these daily BotW hot-takes anymore.
So...I disagree, but I also learned to not care about all these daily BotW hot-takes anymore.
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I hate it when people say that because it's Zelda, it's rated so high. I don't think that's true at all and its a legitimate masterpiece in game design. You might not like the style or story or whatever, but the game is good nonetheless. I don't mind people or reviewers not liking it (like for example Jim Sterling) but I do think acting as an authority on the subject and saying fans hyped it up is silly.
Portal 2 is significantly less inteligent than the first game and its larger scope was a hinderance to the core gameplay loop
I strongly believe we'll see this kind of statement more and more over the next years. Especially after Breath of the WIld 2 launches and fixes many of the first ones problems.
I played Breath of the Wild for over 200 hours and i started a new playthrough last month. I really like the game but i see it as more of a proof of concept. A big test with some lovely ideas.
Not a good Zelda game but a promising look into the future of the franchise.
I played Breath of the Wild for over 200 hours and i started a new playthrough last month. I really like the game but i see it as more of a proof of concept. A big test with some lovely ideas.
Not a good Zelda game but a promising look into the future of the franchise.
Odyssey was one of my biggest gaming disappointments in years. I could co-sign this. I didn't care for what BotW did but I still think it's high quality, while I also didn't care for what Odyssey was doing and I think it missed the execution on even that for the most part.
It was when Zelda BOTW's review embargo lift up in the old site. Someone came up, after seeing that everyone gave 9 and 10/10s, that it's only getting those scores because of the brand name and if it was called The Legend of Belda it wouldn't get nearly as much.
Skyward Sword is 10x worse than BotW. The first third of the game is a fucking tutorial. At least BotW just lets its players go out into its world without being guided.
Twilight Princess is my pick for best Zelda game, followed closely by Ocarina of Time.
That's exactly what I mean, it's the best Zelda game (from OoT to SS) but it completely lacks the magic and sense of adventure that the original NES game captured in order to be that.
It's like if Maroon 5 was called the greatest Pop band of the year. Could be true but then you look back at Songs About Jane and think about what could've been if they didn't sell out.
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People have been saying this for 2.5 years. Meanwhile, the game won the Game of the Year convincingly months after its release, placed on multiple greatest of all time games list, and is now topping game of the decade lists as well (which is what seems to have prompted this piece as a retaliation).
This mythical "end of the honeymoon" for BotW people keep claiming will happen, won't. We're long past that. It may be time to accept most people do in fact love the game and think it's among the greatest of all time.
Most of the things that get brought up as "problems" in Breath of the Wild are intentional game design decisions, made to adapt Zelda to an open world. Item durability, lack of dungeons, lack of story, lack of dungeon items, lack of enemy variety--these all were there on purpose and contribute to what makes BotW "tick."
I would be surprised if many of these are changed significantly for BotW2, and I expect it'll do worse in reviews/word of mouth because everyone expects these to be "fixed."
Agree about botw though I see a lot of potential in some of the news things it brought. At the same it threw away a lot of things that made Zelda unique and stepped in the generic game design field.
About Skyward Sword the game does a lot of wrong things. But controls(worked well with me) are my favorite in the series. Controlling sword felt really good.
About Skyward Sword the game does a lot of wrong things. But controls(worked well with me) are my favorite in the series. Controlling sword felt really good.
Pretty much share these sentiments but I'll add that for me the Shrines being one of the key elements to encourage you to explore, I never really had fun with them. Some fairly forgettable physics puzzles. God forbid I find a motion control one please delete this mentality from BotW2.
I enjoyed it and don't find any of the quotes in the OP strange. I started off being amazed and thinking I could understood why people lauded this game as a top game of all time but a few hours after leaving the Plateau nothing really perked me back up to those levels and instead I found my interest waning and struggling to find reason to explore and flat out avoid all combat when I could. I enjoyed the sequences leading up to the Divine Beasts but the beasts themselves felt a bit like Shrine 2.0.
I agree the game is overrated. I'd still say I enjoyed it but I don't have any desire to play it again and I don't think I'll jump into the sequel from the get go either.
Ah I remember this now. Man, some people really get riled up about certain Nintendo things.
The game has flaws but is mostly fantastic. Using that argument is just....man do better with your criticisms lol.
BotW was my first Zelda game and I found it extremely boring before giving it away to a friend. However, Rockstar is still out here making video games so I can't say BotW is the MOST overrated. Can't think of a Rockstar story mode I've finished since San Andreas & Bully. And as others have said FF7 is pretty overrated in it's own right and let's not even get started on Pokemon.
I struggle with this one. I largely agree with a lot of the points being made. I personally agree that it is overrated game. However, I still think it is an 8/10. So, I still think it is a damn fine game. I think Skyrim and Metal Gear Solid 4, on the other hand, are legitimately pretty bad. Those games are heavily praised, too. So, I sorta feel like they are both MUCH better candidates.
The rhetoric around BotW is calming down. I think people are already far more reasonable about it. So that also takes some gas out of the engine for me.
Also, this reads like something I would write here. It is a quasi-rant. I think journalists should hold themselves to a higher standard than that. Editorials can be spicy, sure; but this isn't super productive, is it?
The rhetoric around BotW is calming down. I think people are already far more reasonable about it. So that also takes some gas out of the engine for me.
Also, this reads like something I would write here. It is a quasi-rant. I think journalists should hold themselves to a higher standard than that. Editorials can be spicy, sure; but this isn't super productive, is it?
Weakest 3D Zelda; Appropriately rated.
What, as opposed to Skyward Sword, which is supposedly better now, but with a lower score? I don't understand your reasoning.
I really don't understand you.
All I am saying is that the media went overboard on Zelda BoTW as it did many times with other games at launch.
Then I showed you that for the media, Zelda is the 10th best game in the world.
In this list you can also see that Soul Calibur is the 4th best game in history. Really? Soul Calibur?
What about GTA 4? Tony Hawk's?
Usually the media hype a game, gets it overrated, and with time the user score gives us a much more accurate feeling of the general public about the game.
The top games of all time make much more sense based on user score than metascore: https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/userscore/all/all/filtered?sort=desc
Yes, most games on your list are overrated. The user scores you posted are much more accurate than the hyped numbers of the media.
Now, if you agree that Soul Calibur, GTA 4 and Tony Hawk's are not overrated and are the most brilliant games in all gaming history, that is on you.
Thats a funny way of spelling RDR2?
If you already dislike RDR2 then please swap it with whatever would annoy you more in any replies, pls & thanks
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