The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

yeah i kind of ended up there spontaneously and didn't really have enough meals to get me through it. i'm going to leave and come back to it later when i'm more prepared.

http://queenoftheantz.tumblr.com/post/182196340509/im-getting-close-to-the-end-of-my-botw

Awww

petition so that josh is not allowed to play any other game or post in any other threads until he complete botw

can some pls second this motion

someone*

i second that, and i'll add that he should be straight up banned from ILX until he takes down at least one divine beast

I’m on board

Today, he weighed a cauliflower instead of playing BotW. and it is fucking bullshit.

ffs josh how are you out there on other threads weighing cauliflowers and not playing botw

Maybe because I'm living the Breath of the Wild.

remember to tare your cauliflower scale, josh. oh, and also remember to fucking play botw goddamnit, josh!

are you busting out a paraglider to travel long distances? are you engaging in slow motion archery while floating in the air? then no you are NOT living Breath of the Wild!

this is fucking ridiculous

mostly I'm just sad for josh

he's getting up these days and thinking 'I'll weigh a cauliflower today' and not 'I'm going to shoot ancient arrows into the eye of a guardian from the back of my big white horse today'

very excited for josh to finally play botw and post his opinion "it's ok i guess? i don't know why you guys made such a big deal about it ... it's fine"

hahaha, yeah, that's probably likely. tbh i kind of had that feeling for the first 3-4 hours, but then when things opened up and the full glory of the game was accessible i got very deeply hooked

I will flag that post

are your shallots in spec? are your early girls slipping? are you holding a melon against a wall in your foyer, marking the current height of that melon on the wall with a pencil? PLAY THE GAME, Josh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns

Hey, guess what? I played Breath of the Wild. It was cool, would play again. You happy?

But seriously, yeah, neat game, a much more chill vibe than Dark Souls. I just spent some time exploring and played until the first time some creature killed me, because all I had was a janky axe that broke. I assume as the game progresses my capacity to accumulate stuff expands, along with my health and stamina, like lots of these games. It was very satisfying to avoid combat by simply rolling boulders down and crushing things, though, but I'm not sure how practical that is.

It's nice that this is on the Switch, so I can play Spider-man or whatever on the TV/PS4 and just dip in and out of this elsewhere as desired.

re: the rolling boulders thing, a surprisingly high percentage of the enemy encounters in the game have nearby environmental solutions like that rather than directly fighting

https://i.imgur.com/FRpN8eP.jpg

I might pick it up again now actually - I'm not sure what to do in the post-game though.............. maybe aim for a full set of ancient armour

things I still need to do:
- eventide
- find all shrines
- memories
- ... ?

DLC? i'm planning to go back in for post-game stuff if/when new DLC comes out. i didn't play the first set of DLC either, so i'm just kind of saving it all up so i can have another epic zelda sesh for a week or two

I'm hoping they've moved onto breath of majora now instead of working on further DLC

Yeah Breath of the Wild is all done. The gaming forum leak squad has ppl chattering about a sequel in 2020.

I finished this yesterday and feel a little bereft

I did Eventide really late in the game, which made it super fun, like the game gave me a little nostalgia trip right when I was getting ready to finish it up.

I definitely wouldn't pick this back up just to find the memories.

I'm a little bummed that I found 117 shrines and the only one of the remaining three I have a clue about is that ball in Impa's house (which I looked up after beating Ganon and the solution is positively byzantine)

I would personally recommend breaking out the FAQ and getting the memories
Also, seriously? the Master Sword DLC quest thing is really difficult and very rewarding when you manage to win it

I couldn't finish eventide! Try again tho

Will my weapons keep breaking in this? Is that a thing? That's kind of annoying. But it is fun to just kind of elf grunt around and find stuff to fight or pick or kill or run away from. I faced what may be my first boss, or mini-boss, that rock that throws rocks, and I think I know how to take it down, but the game seems to be hinting I should wait until I have more than, like, second hand sticks as weapons. Anyway, I cooked a spicy fish meat dish and got a winter coat, so maybe there will be something cool for me to fight with in the next temple up in Chillyville.

it is a thing for sure, though it gets less annoying as time goes on imo

yep - the weapons breaking thing is annoying at first but becomes less of a big deal as you progress. and also there are some positive gameplay things that come out of it - you're forced to try out lots of different kinds of weapons rather than just relying on your go-to favorite weapon for dozens of hours. also you'll sometimes find yourself attacking enemies with weaker weapons (or, even better, using environmental objects in a creative way) just to "save" your better weapons for more difficult weapons, which sometimes makes typical encounters with low-level enemies more interesting and complicated.

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With the advantage of hindsight, I think the idea behind weapon fragility is it's the game's way of nudging you to use your rune powers in combat. For me that meant a lot of sneaking around and bombing enemies from above in the earlier hours of the game, but I've seen more dexterous players use some of the other powers in really creative ways.

yeah, watching youtubes of people who rely on the skills and environmental effects is really eye-opening. there really is an entirely different way of playing the game that looks like so much fun. i relied mainly on weapons, but if i ever do another runthrough i'm going to try to be as creative as i can with the other options.

Once you get out of the plateau there’s tons of weapons everywhere

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ha yeah you posted a tweet upthread (where Link pushes a horse off a cliff 1 min. in) and that dude's account was filled with genuinely hilarious and elaborate Buster Keaton-style set-ups that made me realize how much more exploitable the physics engine was than I'd ever imagined. He was hacking the game really, but even just like using stasis on charging lynels didn't occur to me in my usually slightly panicked encounters with them. I didn't successfully kill a low-level monster with magnesis until hyrule castle ffs. Another thing I wondered about later in the game was how on the plateau you have to cut down a tree to cross a chasm, and I literally never ran into a second situation where that seemed necessary

I think it just wants you to be aware that you can cut down trees

lol that does make sense

Ooh I don’t think I ever killed something with magnesis

I did freeze the goblins on horses though

Squashing a lizalfo with a metal shelf was sooo satisfying, I wish I'd put in the effort to master it earlier. I think constantly shattering weapons when using stasis to shift those big black slabs made me kind of hate that ability, and I stupidly never used it in combat.

I looooove bombing stuff. I threw a bomb in a lake and a whole bunch of dead fish floated up, which made it easy to catch them.

oh it was actually ciderpress who posted the tweet I mentioned. Here's the account: https://twitter.com/Juntendo_Sw.

(JF, don't look at that though)

I love bombing things so much that I've blown myself up several times already. my fav move is to put down a bomb, taunt the dummies, then try to run away fast enough to blow them up when they reach the bomb. it's worth it!

bombs are great. I definitely felt like I'd learned the game when I could throw bombs at things nearby but still the right distance to not blow myself up

So I've encountered two of these rock monsters so far. Are they even worth fighting? They seem like a pain in the ass.

not really unless you want to

the game's open ended for a reason, do the things you enjoy and ignore the pains in the asses

they're eventually quite fun to fight (except the icy versions)

early on they're probably not worth it for weapon breaking reasons alone

awww, i think rock monsters are fun, just equip a hammer-type weapon and hold down the button while pounding on them

i also love picking up the little rock monsters and throwing them