I replayed it right before BOTW came out and i just ended up hating the game even more than i did in my initial playthrough.
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Breath of the Wild is the most overrated game of all time - VG Culture HQ
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I replayed it right before BOTW came out and i just ended up hating the game even more than i did in my initial playthrough.
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saying BOTW is the greatest game ever is like an Era staple, man.
Your not doing it right if your not shilling for Ninty and BOTW.
Your not doing it right if your not shilling for Ninty and BOTW.
"Overrated" is legit one of my least favorite words in entertainment circles and beyond.
The term is self-important and narcissistic. An elitist mentality that presumes one knows better than the dirty masses.
Not for you? No problem.
Not for you and you need to crap on others who enjoy? Get over yourself.
The term is self-important and narcissistic. An elitist mentality that presumes one knows better than the dirty masses.
Not for you? No problem.
Not for you and you need to crap on others who enjoy? Get over yourself.
I don't think you get how criticism works. There is no such thing as objective criticism, and a good review is not some weird checklist of good things and bad things with no context as to how such things affected your own personal experience. A review score that doesn't actually reflect the experience the reviewer actually had with the game is absolutely worthless.
People just can't ever admit others like shit they don't and need to bring everybody else down lmao.
Not a big fan of the art design and the motion controls don't hold up as well as I remember.
I've always thought this to an extent. It's one of the most meh Zelda games anyways. Only saving grace is its amazing physics and the fact that it revitalized and reinvented some core mechanics for the series. Everything else from world design to "dungeons" feels pretty average. Not to say it wasn't fun for a bit.
That being said I do think paid "critics" are not being critical at all, and I'm not asking for objectivity, I'm asking for criticism as opposed to inflated emotions. There's always been critics capable of being more impartial thinking and considering all the ifs and buts. The biggest contribution a reviewer can have is to consider how other people may find their experience rather than gushing about what they felt gazing on their own navel. A critic's entire job is to inform an audience about what they can expect from an experience based on their verdict of it, so they can't just be like "OMG, BEST GAME EVER, HYPE!" which I think many IGN, GameSpot, Kotaku etc. critics were, and generally are.
So not enjoyable for people who need constant gratification in their games .. got it
Well, yeah, some games simply don't age well. HL2 t was fantastic when it came out, there was nothing like it. I tried to play it again a few years ago and yep, you can definitely feel how dated its mechanics are.
The first Half Life is much worse and I remember having a lot of fun when it came out. Still, those games did affect gaming as a whole. That's why we don't (normally) re-review games that came out several generations ago.
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You can tell how far we have left to go in media discourse when people are like "well I didn't really like it so I agree". Everything is still a function of "I liked it/didn't like it" to most of y'all and that's depressing.
This is totally off topic, but I had read somewhere that Maroon 5 themselves claimed they were determined from early on to be the "best disco band" of the era. Which I think males your point lol
Yeah, that would be bad criticism but I highly doubt the most well-regarded outlets (or even the less well regarded ones) did that.
As someone that lives for constant gratification, Botw delivered 100%, so "unrewarding" is the opposite of what this game is.
Trying to guess how other people might react as part of your ultimate conclusion is pointless and stupid because everyone reacts differently to different things and even for people I know well on a personal level it's not like I can know with absolute certainty that they'll like or dislike something, or exactly how certain things will affect their experiences. A good review should point out the flaws and things that might bother other people, and most BotW reviews did. Plenty of the reviews brought up the framerate, even if they ultimately didn't dock the score because of it. I'm guessing you didn't actually read the reviews and are just judging based on scores, the least valuable part of the reviews though
Simply this. I really think the game will aged poorly because of that.
I always said the shrines are the proof the game isn't coherent. They made an awesome map design and allow you a lot of interaction with the world. But they failed to mixed to two together, so they created virtual space to put their puzzle in.
I just finished Outer Wilds and, o boi, that is an open world with everything design in it.
So, if they managed to keep map design and put all puzzle in it, it will be full packaged.
Can't disagree more. BotW kickstarted my love for gaming after many years of declining interest in the hobby. Over 300 hours and counting. I think calling any game "overrated" is extremely silly. I don't understand the praise for a lot of 1st party Sony titles, but I'm not about to call any of them overrated just because they're not for me.
Sorry. I couldn't make if off the plateau in BOTW before I moved on to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It was the best game transition I can remember for me, lol.
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I totally get that, lol. Xenoblade 2 is amazing, by the way, though the character designs did their best to turn me off of it.
That said, I don't think people who like BOTW just do so because of some loyalty to Nintendo.
Granted, it's probably not anyone's hobby to read 75 written articles in their entirety but I digress.
I just watched some of GameSpot and IGN's coverage and found my own experience to ask a lot of questions they didn't even seem to have registered, and yeah, that's probably on me, but I feel whenever you see people scrutinize BotW they come of a similar mindset and a lot of people, who came to expect something more substantial from it, were slightly misled by a lot of inflated praise of the things the game does do well. But they disregard things besides the obvious (technical issues) that might be flaws - because it's way more monumental to post a review that calls this game "The best game maybe in the coming decade!" than it is to admit that the game is a solid foundation that can be perfected with time, and that currently it's great but not the best thing since sliced bread.
And yeah, opinions opinions, but I'm making a plea for people to play while expecting something maybe more ambitious than just wandering aimlessly around a game-world. I know that's all some people want, and simplicity is a good thing", Stupid!". Why? Because previous Zeldas could do it. The biggest substance you can find in BotW happens in your head, and that will vary greatly from person to person.
But I digress.
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I mean, if the article in the OP is who you want to throw your lot with, go for it man
I've said this before, but we need to find a way to convert BotW into an actual salt-making factory. It'll supply the world with salt for generations to come.
WTF? i am the furthest thing from a Nintendo shill and I think BOTW is one of the greatest games ever made.
It's not the most overrated game of all time, but it's in my opinion quite overrated. I spent 90 hours on it and did most of its meaningful content and had my ups and downs with it -- ultimately I think it deserves a 7 or an 8 out of 10. I love the overall intention of it, but it just falls too short in too many areas. I only finished it because of the hype and pedigree and moment of history we were in, if it wasn't zelda and it wasn't being given 10/10s by many publications I wouldn't have have played more than about 20 hours
I mean, as long as people continue to put it on Best of All Time and GotY lists, it's going to get discussed, positive or negative. You make it sound like no one's talking about it until it gets criticized, but even (especially) on Era, it gets praised and brought up non-stop. Even you just made an extremely subjective series of claims about it and we can respond to that.
The conversation is ongoing and criticism can be as well.
If BotW were an indie game it would be one of the most impressive creative feats of all time.
Even ignoring quality, that's a truly absurd amount of game to be put out by an indie team. Then looking at how polished and open it is, that game would be like all the praise Hollow Knight gets x1000. It wouldn't get a 10/10, it would get like a 17/10.
Discussions that are initiated by the notion of something being "overrated" seldom turn out to be productive or interesting ones. If you have something new or insightful to add to the discussion of a game then do it by centering your argument around the issues or aspects you want to address instead of starting out by sneering at everyone who enjoyed a game more than you did or rated it more highly than you feel it deserved. But hey, nuance on the internet is difficult I guess...
I was disappointed by BotW too, not initially but when trying to replay it. Replayability is very, very important to me and replaying BotW feels like a chore. I also dislike other parts of it. It is still a better game than Skyward Sword though.
I did before BotW came out and it's the first Zelda game I had to quit because it sucks so bad. I can't explain how someone can play this game and not be constantly bothered to death by it.
This is how I feel about the game as well. I simply don't understand why it gets a free pass for so many critical missteps. I mean the freaking boss fights are all the same damn thing with 1 more mechanic added, and the final "final" boss is one of the biggest jokes I've ever seen. Is it a good game? Yes. It it a great game? No.
Criticism inherently involves emotions. People on this website misuse the word criticism; critique does indeed involve the writer examining their feelings for the thing they're critiquing. It is a purely impartial thing. And every writer is a different person with different tastes and will come to different conclusions, and therefore while I agree that they should be mindful of the fact many will not see eye-to-eye and it is helpful to be clear on one's tastes, I do not believe this will in practice change how reviews are written on the whole. You're supposed to find reviewers whose tastes align with yours.
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What standard? Zelda did absolutely nothing new or revolutionary
I thoroughly enjoyed BotW, but I'd have to agree about FFVII being most overrated. I played through it back in the 90s and can maybe tell you two things about the story.
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