I mean, it's a Ubisoft game, so it's getting praise from people who like Ubisoft games.
Not sure what the balance is, because one of the biggest criticisms of BotW is that it had too little things to find (as in, the rewards for exploration are not tangible other than the Shrines). Some folks prefer that minimalist approach as they like to explore for the sake of exploring, while others prefer to have incentives to explore.
Yeah, I agree. 1-25 adventure rank is fine since you're a greenhorn and everything seems new and cool as new content flows fast, after that though the big gacha grind starts and the veil is pulled away. It's almost 100% just waiting on dailies and burning stamina to carry you to AR50 when you can actually start caring about builds and gear seriously and the open world really loses all sense of purpose as "the big picture" is shown to you: all the gear in chests is pointless and you just went to get to domain farming asap, along with no real point to anything other than just getting a meta fire team to do abyss if you care enough about that current end game.
This is why I dropped it too. The world is pretty, but it loses its luster fast once you get on the gear and leveling treadmill. When you do the same few tedious boss fights every week (fuuuuuuuck that dragon) and spend the rest of your time burning stamina grinding resources or domains, it stops feeling fun real fast. The open world stops being appealing because you very quickly find that almost all the rewards in the world are largely inconsequential compared to boss and domain farming.
And I'm trying to clarify for you that those vulnerable people aren't the ones funding F2P games, the wealthy are. And that's true whether you're talking about gatcha games, or those with straightforward microtransactions.
Hell no
Yeah, absolutely agree with all of your points. The story stuff is particularly obnoxious. It doesn't feel like something that could be unironically written in the last decade, but somehow it was.
Personally, I didn't have any issue with BotW. Exploring found you interesting and unique locations, hidden shrines, unique armor, strong weapons, quests, crafting/upgrade items, inventory expansion items etc. I understand that wasn't enough for some people, but it was for me. I certainly wouldn't be against there being "more substantial" rewards, whatever those might be, but I didn't feel like the world was empty because I didn't get a 2% speed boost mod, or whatever, when I found a unique little pond. The distance between things made finding them exciting, rather than a complete non-event, which is what literally everything feels like in Immortals.
Agreed, the game feels artificial and shallow (not to mention unoriginal) in everything it does. It's decent for a Ubisoft game, but compared to its peers it's pretty mediocre; it's completely lacking in nuance.
It sounds like you enjoy the busy work, though. And that's cool, sometimes I do, too. I liked AC Odyssey and that game is 100% busy work, but that's not going to engage or satisfy everybody.
Looks like I wasn't clear, I apologise!
I was going to post the exact same sentence until I saw your post.
Those are zones that don't exist. Essentially, the edge of the map (for now).
