Thread 720104427

I cannot believe that Nintendo seriously took 8 years to make this fucking game

What were they thinking?

My cope is that it was just a low-budget side project to re-use the BoTW engine and assets as a sort of "mega DLC"

While they work on the REAL next Zelda for the Switch 2

Nintendo famously finishes their games and sits on them for a while to time their releases strategically.
This is why DK Bananza was released 6 weeks after Mario Kart.
A far more frustrating example is when Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Splatoon 3 swapped release dates, because Xenoblade was ready and Splatoon wasn't. It led to this strange situation where the special edition for Xeno 3 was sold directly by Nintendo on their website because the physical goods for the special edition couldn't have their production schedules change and weren't ready until Fall 2022. So they shipped the game on release and promised to ship the goods later, which is why no retailer would touch it.
Anyway, to my point, I strongly believe TOTK was "feature complete" as early as 2021 and they simply spent time polishing and waiting for a time to release it would also be "safe" to test the 70 dollar price tag.

>>720104427 (OP)
totk has an insane amount of content. to this day it causes seething by the western video game industry and 4chan /v/ chuds who still try to downplay how groundbreaking it actually was.

sunk cost into their overhyped vehicle builder, which ended up just being a clone of banjo 3

>>720105087
IT HAS LIKE 5 ENEMY TYPES WITH DIFFERENT PALETTES

It is SO fucking shitty, the same copy/pasted basic enemies with no interesting attacks, that you kill with the same exact boring combat

Crafting is stupid

Pausing to heal with your infinite supply of crafted items is stupid

Building your own stuff is only fun for like a couple hours, or autistics and children who like Minecraft

>>720104427 (OP)
It would've been 5 years if covid didn't disrupt development

>>720105385
trvke

>7 years to make botw from scratch
>all assets (textures, character models, world terrain), the entire engine, developing the new art style, composing the music, programming the environmental interactions all done from scratch in 7 years
>7 years to... add a feature to glue rocks together to botw
TotK is legitimately the worst, most disappointing piece of shit I have ever played.

what are the odds that at least half of the posts made in this thread so far were all done by the OP

>>720104427 (OP)
Better than silksong taking 8 years

>>720105385
Then don't play it

>>720105385
you can completely ignore crafting if you want.

>>720104427 (OP)
It's also gonna take me 8 years to finish it cause I got bored after 200 hours and stopped playing so it's only fair.

>>720105385
>IT HAS LIKE 5 ENEMY TYPES
Wrong. Not reading the rest.

>>720105087
Dude, I'm one of the biggest Zelda fags you'll ever meet. This was the first Zelda game I played in my entire life that I never finished. And I payed $70 for it. I wouldn't outright call it a piece of shit and had some very interesting ideas but it just didn't land. And to wait that long for the same game engine with a few tweaks is outrageous

>>720105087
>le content
It's not content it's Ubislop
A hundred caves and wells with only a handful memorable or having a decent enough rewards
Copypasted sky islands that all look the same
There's 30 more shrines but of the total count 1/3 of the shrines do NOT actually have content
The depths all look the same and work the same and don't change between hour 1 and hour 50
We made three new bosses! Now go kill them 40 times. Also kill the dungeon bosses 4 times the same way every time.
All the rewards are just amiibo loot from the first game
There's 130 sidequests, virtually none memorable, and you have to do precisely zero of them to beat the game comfortably

Wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle. If I wanted to collect copypasted points of interest on a bloated map I'd boot up Assassin's Creed.

>>720107150
>A hundred caves and wells with only a handful memorable
Post your copy and playtime of the game, right now.

>>720104427 (OP)
They were thinking of how to fill the game with satanic imagery in a discrete manner

>>720104818
"Feature Complete" my ass, the roster of enemies should have been doubled.

>>720107501
go away synth don't you have futa tranny porn or an e-whore vtumor to jack off to or something

I got it on launch like a retard, played for about 5 hours and realized that this game was more of the same but pretty much worse in every department. I liked the old abilities a lot more than the new ones, and the building felt like shit. I went online to see if anyone felt the same but I only saw praise for this game. That's when I knew normalcattle can't be saved and we'll never get innovative games ever again.

>>720106912
I wasn't the biggest fan of crafting, apart from just creating simple constructions for puzzles, but even despite that it was great, ascend ability was really cool and the wind temple approach was peak.

>>720107694
Nutendo is a den of incompetency. They don't even notice how the rotten-tier roster of enemies in the two Switch Zeldas is terrible.

>>720107997
Not close to true. The enemies in BotW is better than most games.

you guys spend too much time on the internet that's the issue, I went in completely blind and it was cool discovering the abilities and the visuals from the sky islands, going to the wind temple and then eventually discovering the depths having no idea that it existed.

>>720108081
You just have low standards.

>>720108947
I bet by the time you reached the depths you had already seen a whole YouTube video series on how Ganondorf’s model wasn’t twink enough. Terminally online freak.

it sux

>>720104427 (OP)
Genshin mogs this shit

>>720104427 (OP)
They literally sat on it for years because they didn't need to release it.
Your entire childhood was a programmatic experiment that made Nintendo billions. It just didn't become obvious until now.

>>720111446
>N-NOOOO you can't prefer a game with varied and colorful characters all with their own personality and a lovingly crafted world vs. a series that has refused to evolve its lore for 15-20 years!

>>720111641
gachafags aren't human. you are lower than assfaggots players

>>720111590
I'm still so relieved that Skywars Sword flopped, if they'd kept going down that road the series would have died.