Thread 717728579

And your reward is... one spirit orb xD

>>717728579 (OP)
>reward obsessed
Do it for the fun of it.

>not enjoying the journey
You missed the point, retard. Just head to Hyrule Castle and finish the game already.

>>717728675
You're missing a chromosome

And your reward is... one star xD

>>717728579 (OP)
second best part of the game after the great plateau

>>717728783
These let you access more levels a spirit orb is a mild upgrade for stamina which shouldn't even be in a Zelda game

>>717728579 (OP)
the reward is having fun

>>717728579 (OP)
Fun quest. One of the best in the game.

>>717728579 (OP)
You dishonest niggers say this like old Zelda games didn't reward you with dogshit like 10 rupees or heart containers

Goddamn this Legend of Kay shit is fucking ass. Man what the fuck all these zelda likes just cannot fucking help but waste your time with meandering inbetween quests which are like a tiny piece of the buy of the rest of the gameplay but somehow given the same amount of time and weight. Im still stun in the town doing errands for dumbfuck randos, and theres a cutscene (textbox) like every other minute. Holy fuck I'm starting to think Zelda is just fundamentally ass, because it cannot be a coincidence how essential this time wasting bullshit is not ONLY to zelda, but fucking zeldalikes and clones.

Almost makes me sympathetic to breath of the wild, they just said "fuck it, our games are already directionless meandering messes where youre largely looking for some arbitrary item to collect or place to go along the way to your real quest, how about we just put more effort and focus into making inherently moving around or interacting with objects interesting". I think the open world zeldas went in the wrong direction, but from that perspective I can almost understand and sympathize. Despite my hate for open worlds, and my preference for classic zelda. TotK is still to this day the zelda ive enjoyed the most. With BotW, and OoT/MM/TP at the bottom

>>717729059
>better keep repeating the mistakes of the past

>>717728579 (OP)
the shrine quest itself was one of the best parts of the game so i don't mind

>>717728641
FPBP

>>717729059
Fucking this

Hey remember those holes in the ground in OoT that most of the time were just random worthless crap or just a gold skulltule?

>>717728894
If you are so rewards obsessed clearly levels mean very little to you. Why is a star that doesn't do anything on its own a worthy reward in your eyes when something that gives you a powerup, albeit slight, not worthy? Enjoy the adventure on the island faggot, the spirit orb is objectively a bigger reward than a mario star.

botw>totk

>>717728838
>eventide
>serpent's jaw
>dark forest blue flame
>corrupt dragon naydra
>snowball shadow
There were some good ones. I wish they were all outdoors.

Btw I NEVER hear anyone mention good TotK shrines. I dropped the game but were there any that stood out?

>>717728641
>>717728675
>>717728783
Massive cope

This was the best mission and it wish there was more.

>>717728894
Stamina allowed you to access more areas, by climbing, gliding, or swimming, and let you use charge attacks more freely.
Also you could opt for more health.
By comparison, a star was just a glorified key.

>>717729094
>It's ok when my nostalgia does it
Niggerfaggot

>>717728579 (OP)
>And your reward is... you get to play it again (but slightly more difficult) xD

>>717729320
>Stamina allowed you to access more areas, by climbing, gliding, or swimming, and let you use charge attacks more freely.
Cool story bro but there are dozens of shrines I can get orbs from. I could do 8 shrines in the time it takes me to beat Eventide

>>717729245
Not a shrine but the entirety of the 5th sage questline was fucking amazing. Maybe I'm biased because I did the first part of it through sheer brute forcing before the actual point you are supposed to do it.

>>717728641
BAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>717729407
I can see you have no argument

>>717729449
do tendies ever get tired of making their own fun?

>>717728579 (OP)
>>717728783
>>717729418
who was retarded enough to play these?

>>717729472
Is this one of those things where you can't conjure up an image of an apple in your head without a reference?

>>717729245
>Btw I NEVER hear anyone mention good TotK shrines
because most of them you just built shit so it becomes forgettable

>I dropped the game but were there any that stood out?
The only shrines in totk that I remember fondly were the shrines that were basically eventide island rooms where you start off with nothing and destroy all the enemies to beat it

>>717729496
nigger

>>717729471
I don't bother arguing with dishonest niggerfaggots.

>>717729284
The game is lovingly crafted and everything deliberately placed. Having the privilege of buying a Nintendo game is its own reward, playing it is their gift to you.

>>717730186
You are insane.

>>717730217
>you're wrong because I said so
you're insane

>2025
>people still think collectathons are about the collectable
The collectable is incentive. The fun is the journey.
Could just as easily be a flag pole, or a Steam achievement.

>>717730302
Why do you worship a toy company?

>>717730217
YEAH? YOU WANT ME TO SCREAM AT YOU? WANNA SEE HOW INSANE I GET??????

>>717728579 (OP)
the reward was 8 years of seething

>>717730535
I used to have a gamecube with animal crossing on 24/7 just standing at a cliff overlooking a lake. And I'd turn the TV on to use as a clock and background music.

You GOONSTATION PLEBS have no idea the depth of whimsy a single Nintendo game has.

>>717730719
and what a reward it has been

>>717729245
I actually liked totk shrines way more than the ones in botw

>>717728641
>>717728675
This. I don't want rewards, I want to just do random things for no reason. Why do I need quests in the first place instead of just imagining them as I do random things? Because... I just do!!

and your reward is... one shitty ring.
open was a mistake

>>717728838
The Great Plateau was terrible. I spent the rest of the game ensuring I'd never have to deal with that shit again. I'm not going back for the most basic reward

>>717731053
The quests are fun because they're structured challenges, that force you to think in particular ways, and pass through barriers of execution.
If none of that does anything for you, and all you want is the prize at the end, you have fully failed to understand what video games are. You may as well just download a completed save, and cross the game off your list.

>>717730217
Na he's just a tendie

>>717731053
do you play gacha games?

The problem isn't that the good parts of the Ubisoft Zelda games aren't good, or that you aren't rewarded enough for doing them. The problem that said good parts are sprinkled very, very sparsely over the most aggressively boring and mediocre open world imaginable.

If nuZelda wasn't dogshit the reward would be some bizarre but unique item with questionable practicality

This is what CONTENT looks like

>>717731384
And many of them are mentally ill, have you ever seen a Zelda or Mario thread?

>>717731689
Like in Elden Ring

>>717728641
I don't play video games to have fun, I play video games to feed my shameless dopamine addiction, which demands ever greater amounts of dopamine. That's why I need deliberately unreasonable rewards.

>>717732310
What is an unreasonable award by your standards?

>>717732356
The game should dispense a gold trophy and five million dollars in cash and the President of Nintendo should come to my house to shake my hand.

Why does life never live up to my intentionally impossible expectations? It can't me by fault. It's everyone else's fault for not trying harder to satisfy someone who refuses to ever be satisfied. I NEED to see people jumping through hoops in futile efforts to meet an impossible goal. It makes me feel very powerful and important.

And that's all I really want. To be powerful and important, so my screaming black hole ego will never go hungry again.

>>717732643
Or you could just argue in good faith instead of whatever this shit is

>>717732643
>The game should dispense a gold trophy and five million dollars in cash and the President of Nintendo should come to my house to shake my hand.
I'd play that game, but Zelda is ludo as fuck. I mean it when I say playing that game is its own reward. I mean spirit is your reward for enduring? L V D O

>>717732205
8+ years, 8+ years and you still can't get it into your thick head you aren't meant to get them all, they are spread around like that to make sure the player will find some so they can keep upgrading without searching some guide for more mats

>>717733143
cope

why the fuck would the reward be more important than the gameplay scenario itself

is that really indog and brazilian gachaniggers? is that who's kvetching about botw endlessly?

>>717728579 (OP)
wtf?? They really don't even give you any gacha pulls????

>>717733143
How about not filling the map with 999 Koroks to begin with

>>717729472
A reward at the end of a quest shouldnt be your reason to do a quest. Playing more of the game should be the reward.

>>717728701
im sure you have his "missing chromosome" so everything is right where it belongs.

>>717733486
>A reward at the end of a quest shouldnt be your reason to do a quest. Playing more of the game should be the reward.

>beat hardest quest in the game
>get best weapon and armor in the game
>nothing to use it on because you literally just finished the only quest where it would be useful
vs
>the real reward were the friends we made along the way

pick your poison

The game is generally bad at rewarding effort after you leave the plateau. I completely stopped cleaning out the monster camps after I only got trash from the creates. They should have made the entire game like that Master Sword Trails DLC

A big problem with modern Zelda is the safe atmosphere and the lack of dynamic set pieces, rewards, characters and quests.
BoTW stops feeling like a living world after 30 hours or so, because the content and gameplay loop becomes too predictable, safe and repetitive for its own good. All shrines look the same and offer the same types of rewards. You will encounter and fight the same basic groups of bokoblins, moblins and lizalfos, regardless of your location in the world. The sorry excuse of dungeons all revolve around the same core mechanic (turn on all of the terminals in a giant mech,) all of the NPC quest-givers and their quests are obnoxiously goofy & silly, and generally give poor rewards outside of the occasional armor piece or armor set. Outside of the champion abilities, you never really unlock any game-changing inventory items that offer a permanent, meaningful affect on how players can interact with that world. All of the interesting and crucial mainline story events are tied to past events the player never participated in, hidden behind optional cutscenes.
Nintendo is so focused on the pure gameplay aspects that they've forgotten the reality that dynamic storytelling, atmosphere, rewards, experiences and storytelling actually matter in 2025, and that's what truly sells a great modern-day adventure game these days. There's a clear underlying reason why modern-day Ubisoft is one verge of bankruptcy, and Nintendo in typical delayed Nintendo fashion, is in their Ubisoft era of shallow open world trend-chasing.

>>717728579 (OP)
I wish there more dungeon-esque areas like that and the giant maze that are actually connected to the overworld and less shrines that arr rook same and only either have an easy puzzle or piss easy combat encounter.

My favorite parts of BOTW and TOTK were the riddles you’d hear and the open-world shrine challenges. Honestly everything else was kinda lame except for physics shit and making contraptions, but those were fun.

>>717734039
>>beat hardest quest in the game
>>get best weapon and armor in the game
>>nothing to use it on because you literally just finished the only quest where it would be useful
If it's the best weapon in the game, it would be useful anywhere in the game genius

>>717728579 (OP)
I remember cheesing this place by dropping one of those lizard skull moblin axes just before they took my gear and then picking it back up again and destroying the entire island with it.
I was so proud of myself when figuring that out.

>>717734039
Just beat the hardest quest first and then use the best gear on everything else you have yet to do

>>717735905
Sounds a lot like BOTW. The game encourages you to just skip sections and go straight for the best gear. Weapon durability is shit btw

>>717728579 (OP)
I really like that challenge but yes the reward is kinda shite. Well it's not about it only being shite, it's that it's the same reward you get from most things.

What if you got schematics for more durable weapons you could give to a blacksmith who could then create the weapon for you? Maybe associate stats with different schematics and let the player mix and match, and make a weapon they like to use?

Something like that I don't know.

>>717736239
This post is literally blasphemy and a threat to our democracy