I guess that's why you don't understand. It bothered me numerous times, especially when I was climbing something and had to stop to wait out the rain. Storms with the lightning strikes got annoying pretty fast too - and since I've done Gerudo desert last I didn't get the helmet till then. Opening the inventory and unequipping armor/weapons is a nuisance.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT| I Did Not Know You Could Do This
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I guess that's why you don't understand. It bothered me numerous times, especially when I was climbing something and had to stop to wait out the rain. Storms with the lightning strikes got annoying pretty fast too - and since I've done Gerudo desert last I didn't get the helmet till then. Opening the inventory and unequipping armor/weapons is a nuisance.
Throw the bombs instead of placing them. BTW, there's an apple orchard available where farming wood goes pretty fast.
(It's located on the Iwata tribute mountain.)
Nice!!! Where can i find this?? Sounds like a place i should visit, even if it isnt for the wood, Love stuff like that.
Here's a map. It's west of the Central Tower, name is Satori Mountain. You can find Durians, Apples and lot of rare herbs on the slopes of this mountain.
Question about possible quest tied to a rune.
Also, this game is amazing.
Ok, I've got the camera rune and there's a bunch of photos already on there that I'm guessing I should try and either visit or recreate but I'm not so sure now because I've found the location in one of them and nothing seems to be happening. The one I'm currently at is the shot of the dueling peaks, with a lake & ruin in the foreground. Do you have to match the time of day/weather too, or do they have to be done in order?
Also, this game is amazing.
It should be marked by glowing yellowish mist where you will be able to press a button and recall the memory. No need to match time of the day or weather.
Ugh, what an idiot I am. I suppose I actually need to do the quest in my adventure log before I can unlock them out in the wild. Thanks anyway.
These little Korok puzzles are great. Found at least 40 of them already in my 40 hours so far.
Was planning to go on chopping wood for the Tarrey Town quest but i got off-track so much i ended up the other side of the map doing complete different shit.. Seriously, this game begs to be explored.
I see this game becoming my favourite game of all time. Its so good
Was planning to go on chopping wood for the Tarrey Town quest but i got off-track so much i ended up the other side of the map doing complete different shit.. Seriously, this game begs to be explored.
I see this game becoming my favourite game of all time. Its so good
As much as I love the game at my...460th hour or whatever the hell my playtime is now, I wish I could get back my early time with the game, as that was an amazing experience.
I've finished what I consider to be my 'Part 1'. I've done the beasts, got my sword, done a bunch of exploring and had an amazing time so far. The game is incredible. And I'm sure if I finished it right now, presuming the castle and boss aren't terrible, it would most assuredly be a 10 for me, and it'd only be one of like five this generation I think.
However, I'm putting it down for a while. I'm going to play Mario and Xenoblade, then come back once I have the DLC, so there's hopefully what feels like a second full-ish experience.
Game is dope as hell.
However, I'm putting it down for a while. I'm going to play Mario and Xenoblade, then come back once I have the DLC, so there's hopefully what feels like a second full-ish experience.
Game is dope as hell.
Yeah its just sick.. all the stuff this game does.. man i cant get enough of it.
Pushing my way to the 45 hours mark and i only had done one beast so far. Second beats is quiet and ready to explore but i want to wait as long as possible.
Right now just focussing on side-quests, towers and shrines. And ofc the occasional Korok seed puzzle.
Yesterday i explored some area which gave me massive Shadow of the Collosus and The Last Guardian vibes with a shrine behind a waterfall..
Just finding shit like this without using map but only walking/climbing points you see from the distance just never gets old..
Spend maybe 10 minutes in total time on a horse.
Yeah this game is a big fucking 10, nothing less.
And i am happy to play it this year after games like Horizon, Yakuza 0 and Nioh etc.. i have played it before them they might be less great to experience than to play it after them.
Absolutely. Not so much Nioh, because I don't really get the connection, but Horizon... Going back to something so restricted seems absurd after playing Zelda, and I really enjoyed that game last year. The open world exploration adventure style games are all going to have to step it up with future releases. Horizon 2 can't have yellow painted grab marks all over the place, that's embarrassing at this point.
Yeah Nioh was not a good example, sorry for that..
A step up was needed and i hope everyone takes a good example of this game.
Handholding and stuff isnt necessary at all. Just let the player decide which way to go.. a bit like the first Dark Souls. First area is mandatory and the rest is up to you.. also enhanches the replayability.
Btw..
Will the iconic Zelda theme appear somewhere in the game?? I have heared pieces and bits in cutscenes but not *bam* here is the Zelda theme for you.
Bah, I always fuck up the jump slash. Gotta be the move I'm the worst at in this game. I'm not sure I actually get the purpose of it and I get it confused with the flying drop attack too. Hmm, it's also different depending if it's a big sword or a hammer too I suppose?
Well I guess I didn't screw it up the second time lol. But I always feel nervous when I do it.
Well I guess I didn't screw it up the second time lol. But I always feel nervous when I do it.
Haha really?
I mean, it actually took me a while to figure it out too. I don't remember how long it took. But you sound like you've gotten pretty far. There's a ton of shit I figured out way the hell later and I'm still learning stuff now.
Oh shit k I forgot you had to upgrade it first.
Hmm but they tell you this at the tech lab.
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This is some crazy shit. Don't think I've ever seen a Lizalfos run like this before.
And this was just fun.
brainchild Hey I just noticed right now at the end of that second video that the Lizalfos tail rig goes a little funky just before it dies haha. Not sure I've noticed that before. Is that common? I mean specifically the...what's it called again when they smooth the geometry between poses again? Weighting? Blending? I forgot, Rigging was my worst subject in school. Or was that an animation thing? All I remember is that thing called blendshapes or whatever.
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Not that far i hope.. Yes its amazing how much small things there are you could do.
Didn't you say 50 hours or am I thinking of someone else?
You should have found A LOT more in 40 hours :b
See a lone rock in an odd location? Found a strange circle in the water? See a flower disappear when you touch it? They're all worth examining ;)
I sometimes feel like the team went a little overboard with Koroks hidden under rocks, lol. One 20 minute mountain expedition and you'll have found ten of them in one sweep.
Yeah i didnt check well enough.. but starting to pay more attention to it :)
There are 900 of them in the game btw.
RIP any madman going for 100% completion rate :b
What's so incredible about this game is it came from the Zelda people. The most conservative design in the industry. They've been making their games more hand-holding with every iteration, and suddenly they're the complete opposite? It's crazy. It also feels like it came from people who studied how people actually use these open world adventure games. We don't go all the way around the mountain in the Elder Scrolls, because you can see the target on the map, and you can just look up at the air and bash jump to inch your way over the mountain. It feels like the team really understand what people want from these games, and just fully embraced that as the design directive.
I'm adventuring, I don't want to climb where the local villagers have painted the safe beams yellow, that's not fun, and it's not exploring, it's visiting an area that has already been explored.
I really can't get over how far they took this game. They're the last team I would have expected to make this game.
As for the Korok things, I don't even bother. I see the rock, or the stump, or the blocks with one in the wrong place, etc, and just ignore them. Seems utterly pointless to me.
The rewards are really good, so why not? Only takes five seconds to pick one up. I don't actively seek them out, but if I spot on then I'll get it. Who doesn't want to be able to carry more weapons?
This'll help if you decide you just want to find everything:
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/breath-of-the-wild-interactive-map/
Spoilers of course. Just shows the locations of EVERYTHING and lets you mark them as found so you can check them off as you find them on your map. I just wish the in-game map showed the seeds at a zoom level other than the closest. Like at least show them at the second closest level too or give us a button to toggle them.
Tbh that just sounds like it's removing the point of the game -- exploration. Although I imagine for someone who's actually going to collect all 900 of them and have found, say, 850, it would be helpful to figure out how to approach the last few.
It's good as a last resort when you've finally exhausted yourself and just want to get it done with. I wouldn't recommend using it when you finally make that decision.
I used it to get my last Korok seeds so I could just call it a day and retire the game. Though I haven't found all the outfits (I assume) or upgraded them completely yet, nor have I been able to complete the Trial of the Sword. But for the most part I've done everything I can in this game. Now it's time to give some other games some love.
I decided with the Switch I'm going to concentrate on one game at a time. With the Wii U I made the mistake of getting too many good games at once and then never getting around to them because I didn't know where to start. I have games I haven't touched yet (Yoshi's Wooly World) and games I never finished. (Tropical Freeze I'm only on world 2 and Pikmin 3 I am obsessed with getting all the fruit so I'm stuck on the last level because I don't want to finish it until I do. Also I'm pretty sure I haven't finished Captain Toad yet. Oh, and I haven't finished WWHD because I am also obsessed with getting all the heart pieces first and I haven't gone back to TPHD in like 2 years because I'm worried about the Skyward Sword I still haven't finished on Wii.) Fortunately I have all three consoles hooked up so I can jump in whenever I want, but it's such a hard decision so I decide to not play anything.
I said I was taking a break to play Mario, but after a couple of hours of Mario, I decided it wasn't for me, and Xenoblade hasn't arrived yet, so I bought the DLC for Zelda... I don't know how people feel about it on here, but man, they managed to make Zelda not fun. Hunting deserted ruins for chests with fan service crap in them. Horrible 'trials' highlighting the weaknesses of the game and completely removing what it excels at. Dumb ass stealth, one hit kill, boring wait for weapon to recharge nonsense...
BotW is a huge achievement in adventuring and world simulation in game design, but as an action game, I think it sucks, and making the DLC around those aspects seems like the worst idea imaginable. I really don't know what they were thinking.
EDIT: I accidentally finished the game. I saw in this thread that it'd be clear before you fight Ganon so you can get up to that point then leave and do more stuff... I'm not sure how it's clear at all. Boss fight was really cool, but a bit too easy, I didn't die or really ever get close. In fact, the only boss that killed me was Elephant beast boss, and that's because he caught me with a shitty electric shock instant kill thing.
I think if that game was much harder, it'd be a better experience, in that I'd feel more compelled to really dig into the systems in the game. I barely upgraded any gear, or cooked anything, or did any fancy combat moves, because none of it is required, it's not worth the time to cook food, even though the results are so massively better because you barely get hit as it is.
The game is a masterpiece, it's the best example of capturing that dream of being an adventurer, it's wanderlust distilled into video game form, and it's most certainly a 10 for me. But it's still a really flawed game. I hope next time around they take a deeper look at combat, not just in complexity and difficulty, but it in terms of the visceral feeling. It needs to feel dramatic and tense, it needs weight, it should be scary, especially bosses. Your heart should be pounding in your chest and your hands should be shaking. It does none of that.
It's a wonderful game, top five of the generation for sure, and I can't wait to see what they do next. This is the first time they've seriously mixed up the formula since ALTTP, and to see them build on this new approach should be really great.
BotW is a huge achievement in adventuring and world simulation in game design, but as an action game, I think it sucks, and making the DLC around those aspects seems like the worst idea imaginable. I really don't know what they were thinking.
EDIT: I accidentally finished the game. I saw in this thread that it'd be clear before you fight Ganon so you can get up to that point then leave and do more stuff... I'm not sure how it's clear at all. Boss fight was really cool, but a bit too easy, I didn't die or really ever get close. In fact, the only boss that killed me was Elephant beast boss, and that's because he caught me with a shitty electric shock instant kill thing.
I think if that game was much harder, it'd be a better experience, in that I'd feel more compelled to really dig into the systems in the game. I barely upgraded any gear, or cooked anything, or did any fancy combat moves, because none of it is required, it's not worth the time to cook food, even though the results are so massively better because you barely get hit as it is.
The game is a masterpiece, it's the best example of capturing that dream of being an adventurer, it's wanderlust distilled into video game form, and it's most certainly a 10 for me. But it's still a really flawed game. I hope next time around they take a deeper look at combat, not just in complexity and difficulty, but it in terms of the visceral feeling. It needs to feel dramatic and tense, it needs weight, it should be scary, especially bosses. Your heart should be pounding in your chest and your hands should be shaking. It does none of that.
It's a wonderful game, top five of the generation for sure, and I can't wait to see what they do next. This is the first time they've seriously mixed up the formula since ALTTP, and to see them build on this new approach should be really great.
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I don't know, there are a lot of people who love BOTW combat, just look at carlos's videos... For me, I'm more of an exploration guy, hell! I would love to try a mode without any anemies in the world, or at least non-aggresive enemies.
but having bought the expansion a couple of weeks back, the first thing I did was the trial of the sword. At first, I dreaded the idea of a series of combat trials without your gear and without the ability to save, but in the end I had a lot of fun with them.
There were some times it felt like I was playing a Souls game, where any little mistake could cost you all your progress. The only thing I'd like is if they were a mix of combat and non-combat puzzles, I guess every floor is kind of a puzzle itself, but would be pretty cool if some conditions to advance were other than killing all enemies in the room.
I'm still playing Champion's (doing the beast's quests), but what I've played I'd say I'm a little disappointed story-wise, I feel like those extra scenes could have been in the main game as sidequests or something. The new shrines are great though, some of the best overall.
but having bought the expansion a couple of weeks back, the first thing I did was the trial of the sword. At first, I dreaded the idea of a series of combat trials without your gear and without the ability to save, but in the end I had a lot of fun with them.
There were some times it felt like I was playing a Souls game, where any little mistake could cost you all your progress. The only thing I'd like is if they were a mix of combat and non-combat puzzles, I guess every floor is kind of a puzzle itself, but would be pretty cool if some conditions to advance were other than killing all enemies in the room.
I'm still playing Champion's (doing the beast's quests), but what I've played I'd say I'm a little disappointed story-wise, I feel like those extra scenes could have been in the main game as sidequests or something. The new shrines are great though, some of the best overall.
Era peeps I need your help I completed 119 shrines and for the life of me I can not find the last one at all I been searching like a mad man across this open world with the the shrine locator turned on and not a single ping yet..
Now I'm guessing it's a shrine quest because it says I completed 39 out of 42 I could be wrong tho. By the way this game is amazing as hell I can't put it down.
Now I'm guessing it's a shrine quest because it says I completed 39 out of 42 I could be wrong tho. By the way this game is amazing as hell I can't put it down.
There are really good tools that don't spoil the answer completely.
Look for a pic or whatever that says how many shrines there are per region.
That would narrow it down while still leaving you room to explore. I'm that sure that's what I'm gonna use if I ever feel the need for it.
I played this on the bus with some guy watching over my shoulder so hard haha.
Switch life baby.
In a meantime i have reached 60 hours of gameplay and still have one beast down.
Just finished Eventid Island.. great fun!
Unlocked every region tower and finished about 55 shrines..
This game man
Just finished Eventid Island.. great fun!
Unlocked every region tower and finished about 55 shrines..
This game man
That may have been my favorite play session yet. Had such an awesome time the other night and I was blown away by each replay I saved.
That sprint attack that misses only to do a 180 degree kill at the end was super cool!
That sprint attack that misses only to do a 180 degree kill at the end was super cool!
This game has ruined me.
I couldn't play more than a few hours of Mario, because it was so limited, I gave up on Ni no Kuni 2 because it's so vapid and dull, I've given up on XBC2 because it's so convoluted and contrived, and I gave up on AC:O because it's so unpolished and uninspired... What the fuck. RE4 did this to me at the time. Everything I played in its wake was tainted by it somehow. I'm sure all of those games could be really enjoyable in a different context, but right now, none of them are doing anything for me.
I couldn't play more than a few hours of Mario, because it was so limited, I gave up on Ni no Kuni 2 because it's so vapid and dull, I've given up on XBC2 because it's so convoluted and contrived, and I gave up on AC:O because it's so unpolished and uninspired... What the fuck. RE4 did this to me at the time. Everything I played in its wake was tainted by it somehow. I'm sure all of those games could be really enjoyable in a different context, but right now, none of them are doing anything for me.
Ha, well I wouldn't go so far as to say other games aren't as good, but I mean yes I agree that all I want to play is BOTW for the most part. I can't help it. I love a ton of other games right now but I am in full BOTW obsession mode, I can't put it down.
Xenoblade 2 in particular is so in-depth and involved that it's difficult to pop it in even if I really love it.
BOTW is just so damn accessible.
I've played the Bayos, Minerva's Den and a bunch of GT:Sport, so it's not everything, but yeah, all those games are kind of big world adventure experiences on some level, and all tainted.
We'll see how God of War goes over next month, fingers crossed.
Sounds like you need a game to compliment BOTW.
I really enjoy ARMS, Splatoon 2, DQ B, etc. Find something that scratches a different itch!
GOW looks great.
I really enjoy ARMS, Splatoon 2, DQ B, etc. Find something that scratches a different itch!
GOW looks great.
I got BotW on Friday. I'm really enjoying it so far! I decided to go for Vah Ruta as my first divine beast, and right now I'm stuck at the part where you have to gather the shock arrows. That Lynel is a pain in the ass.
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That bit is crap. You keep them when you die though, so you can brute force it regardless.
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Stealth your way through it. You don't need to fight him to collect the arrows.
290 hours in and I wish I could start the game over fresh with experiencing it all over again. Just love this game to death. Have all the shrines, outfits (upgraded them all), found all the monsters (talus, etc), finished all the DLC, all the memories, etc. Just need about 240 more korok seeds and I'll have done literally everything I can in this game. I started over in Master Mode too just to relive the great plateau (probably my favorite intro in any video game)
I just completed it! I got BotW for Christmas, and I have been playing it on and off since that time.
Have about 60+ shrines under my belt (and all four Divine Beasts). Honestly Ganon was a lot easier than I expected - the Lynels gave me as big a challenge.
Even Hyrule Castle wantwa as difficult. I pretty much just swam up the waterfalls and was there before I knew it.
Have about 60+ shrines under my belt (and all four Divine Beasts). Honestly Ganon was a lot easier than I expected - the Lynels gave me as big a challenge.
Even Hyrule Castle wantwa as difficult. I pretty much just swam up the waterfalls and was there before I knew it.
Does anyone know the advantage of the jump attack?
I hardly ever feel like using it. I don't mind it with the spears, but swords and hammers I have yet to enjoy using it.
I find it hard to hit with and it leaves you open.
I hardly ever feel like using it. I don't mind it with the spears, but swords and hammers I have yet to enjoy using it.
I find it hard to hit with and it leaves you open.