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I slowly grinded my way through BOTW over the last years, every few months a few steps forward, then getting bored. Left the plateau, tamed a horse and have now

I slowly grinded my way through BOTW over the last years, every few months a few steps forward, then getting bored. Left the plateau, tamed a horse and have now the full picture of the princess and a long sleep. Nice, but still little curiousity what happens next. I wish I could feel what everyone else seems to enjoy…

salzig 3y ago
The game is sooooo boring as a casual that’s only playing on commute. It feels like no progress and only grinding. I really wished there was an option to disable grinding/breaking of stuff.
- zhoujianfu 3y ago
  That’s been my problem with Zelda games since maybe OoT… well, maybe not exactly my problem. My problem is mostly that if I don’t play it for a week or two, and come back to it, I can’t remember what’s going on at all and it seems like too much of a chore to re-build my context. They do such a good job with Mario odyssey on showing you what to do and letting you teleport between worlds… there is no grinding at all I feel like. I wish they’d adopt that paradigm for Zelda too.
  - arvinsim 3y ago
    I have been stuck on the Lynel in the castle since last year. I am afraid of picking it up again because I absolutely cannot remember where I was and what I was doing.
  - cableshaft 3y ago
    Yeah this is why I never picked BOTW back up, I'd no longer remember anything. I keep meaning to, I just haven't done so, and each time I consider it, it seems like too much to take on that weekend. I did beat 3 of the 4 Divine Beasts before that. I know I never tackled the Castle or the DLC. At least with the sequel it's kind of expected I start fresh.
- oivey 3y ago
  I do agree that progression is slow, but I never felt it was grindy. Stuff broke, but my inventory was always full of other stuff so it hardly mattered. I guess if you felt like you needed to complete all the shrines it could feel grindy? They’re all different at least.
  - salzig 3y ago
    Inventory was always full with sh*t. Nothing really helpful. Sure you had to collect some stuff in OoT too, but at least the sword was always available and mostly enough to get around. The shrines are fine for me, it's just annoying to spend time to have meaningful weapons, not just sticks. I stoped playing it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Would rather tell them to play TP or OoT.
    - mynameisvlad 3y ago
      Did you just play the tutorial and stop when you didn't have a master sword half an hour into the game? Weapons are literally everywhere. You kill a monster, it will generally drop it's weapon. They're scattered all over the ground. They're in chests. There is never a lack of weapons, and that is one of the core points of the game. Literally the only way you could be stuck with tree branches is if you stuck to the opening part of the Great Plateau or intentionally pretended all the weapons didn't exist.
- nvarsj 3y ago
  The isometric Zeldas on 2DS/GBA are all much superior experiences, especially for a commute imo. Link Between Worlds is one of my favourite games of all time. The 3D Zeldas have always been kind of meh in my experience. Although I did love BotW for the first 20 hours or so.
illwrks 3y ago
Same, I've been playing it for about 4 years. I had a tonne of enjoyment just creeping around the map and figuring out how to get onto each tower to unlock that area of the map, finding the portals and doing those challenges. Story wise I'm way behind though!
bschwindHN 3y ago
Same, I've been putting in baby steps of progress in the game over several years. The story is quite boring and once you've been introduced to the main gameplay mechanics they get old fairly quickly. Feels like a chore more than anything. I used to love Zelda games like OoT and Majora's Mask. Maybe I've just gotten older and my tastes have changed.
- prohobo 3y ago
  No, BotW is more like a theme park than a game, and I don't understand the love for it. The game is sparse and sterile, the characters are boring and generic, the story/dialogue is cringe inducing, the world is empty and plain, and there's nothing to do. It borrows heavily from open world game tropes, and it doesn't add anything. Once you've played about 5-6 hours you've seen the entire game, just not all of its permutations. This is the first game where I've had a real disagreement with everyone else about its fun factor. Previously I was extremely disappointed in Diablo 3, but there were plenty of people who understood and agreed with my sentiments quite vocally. With BotW it's like people are playing a different game, or they're somehow mentally wired differently. I sincerely don't understand what happened there. I'm usually very good at acknowledging high quality games, even if I don't personally like them... BotW is not a great game, it's mediocre at best.
  - orloffm 3y ago
    Very well and consicely put.
  - afterburner 3y ago
    The people who liked BotW the most are likely people who never really played many open world games, or none. To long time PC gamers it's nothing new of course. I liked the style, I generally enjoy world exploration and that was fun in BotW, and there were many cool experiences scattered around, but it does end up feeling a little empty. I still played it a ton mind you, but I don't consider it an important or ground breaking game the way many seem to.
    - 3y ago
Larrikin 3y ago
Zelda and MegaMan were always two franchises where I always thought the characters were interesting but just never could get into the majority of the games. With a Zelda I've only ever played the original NES one and liked the time I spent. With MegaMan it's always been the off shoots. MegaMan Soccer was constantly rented growing up and Battle Network was great. But what's weird to me is that I've never enjoyed any of the 3d Zelda games, but still consider the MegaMan Legends series among the best games I've ever played. I'm still bitter I bought a 3ds specifically in anticipation of the third game and it was then cancelled.
- manojlds 3y ago
  Try Links Awakening
thorum 3y ago
I’ve been playing since it came out here and there, probably at least 100-200 hours by now, and haven’t even defeated a single main boss. It probably tells you something positive about the game that one can get so much enjoyment just from running around and exploring! But I do sometimes wish the world felt a bit less empty of characters… and it doesn't sound like the new one improves much in this regard.
- nly 3y ago
  There are loads of characters...they're all in the villages near the divine beasts
nly 3y ago
Try riding a bear or a stag instead of a horse to mix it up a little.
cloogshicer 3y ago
I feel the same. Don't get the hype around BOTW. Super boring game.

salzig 3y ago

The game is sooooo boring as a casual that’s only playing on commute. It feels like no progress and only grinding. I really wished there was an option to disable grinding/breaking of stuff.

zhoujianfu 3y ago
That’s been my problem with Zelda games since maybe OoT… well, maybe not exactly my problem. My problem is mostly that if I don’t play it for a week or two, and come back to it, I can’t remember what’s going on at all and it seems like too much of a chore to re-build my context. They do such a good job with Mario odyssey on showing you what to do and letting you teleport between worlds… there is no grinding at all I feel like. I wish they’d adopt that paradigm for Zelda too.
- arvinsim 3y ago
  I have been stuck on the Lynel in the castle since last year. I am afraid of picking it up again because I absolutely cannot remember where I was and what I was doing.
- cableshaft 3y ago
  Yeah this is why I never picked BOTW back up, I'd no longer remember anything. I keep meaning to, I just haven't done so, and each time I consider it, it seems like too much to take on that weekend. I did beat 3 of the 4 Divine Beasts before that. I know I never tackled the Castle or the DLC. At least with the sequel it's kind of expected I start fresh.
oivey 3y ago
I do agree that progression is slow, but I never felt it was grindy. Stuff broke, but my inventory was always full of other stuff so it hardly mattered. I guess if you felt like you needed to complete all the shrines it could feel grindy? They’re all different at least.
- salzig 3y ago
  Inventory was always full with sh*t. Nothing really helpful. Sure you had to collect some stuff in OoT too, but at least the sword was always available and mostly enough to get around. The shrines are fine for me, it's just annoying to spend time to have meaningful weapons, not just sticks. I stoped playing it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Would rather tell them to play TP or OoT.
  - mynameisvlad 3y ago
    Did you just play the tutorial and stop when you didn't have a master sword half an hour into the game? Weapons are literally everywhere. You kill a monster, it will generally drop it's weapon. They're scattered all over the ground. They're in chests. There is never a lack of weapons, and that is one of the core points of the game. Literally the only way you could be stuck with tree branches is if you stuck to the opening part of the Great Plateau or intentionally pretended all the weapons didn't exist.
nvarsj 3y ago
The isometric Zeldas on 2DS/GBA are all much superior experiences, especially for a commute imo. Link Between Worlds is one of my favourite games of all time. The 3D Zeldas have always been kind of meh in my experience. Although I did love BotW for the first 20 hours or so.

illwrks 3y ago

Same, I've been playing it for about 4 years. I had a tonne of enjoyment just creeping around the map and figuring out how to get onto each tower to unlock that area of the map, finding the portals and doing those challenges. Story wise I'm way behind though!

bschwindHN 3y ago

Same, I've been putting in baby steps of progress in the game over several years. The story is quite boring and once you've been introduced to the main gameplay mechanics they get old fairly quickly. Feels like a chore more than anything. I used to love Zelda games like OoT and Majora's Mask. Maybe I've just gotten older and my tastes have changed.

prohobo 3y ago
No, BotW is more like a theme park than a game, and I don't understand the love for it. The game is sparse and sterile, the characters are boring and generic, the story/dialogue is cringe inducing, the world is empty and plain, and there's nothing to do. It borrows heavily from open world game tropes, and it doesn't add anything. Once you've played about 5-6 hours you've seen the entire game, just not all of its permutations. This is the first game where I've had a real disagreement with everyone else about its fun factor. Previously I was extremely disappointed in Diablo 3, but there were plenty of people who understood and agreed with my sentiments quite vocally. With BotW it's like people are playing a different game, or they're somehow mentally wired differently. I sincerely don't understand what happened there. I'm usually very good at acknowledging high quality games, even if I don't personally like them... BotW is not a great game, it's mediocre at best.
- orloffm 3y ago
  Very well and consicely put.
- afterburner 3y ago
  The people who liked BotW the most are likely people who never really played many open world games, or none. To long time PC gamers it's nothing new of course. I liked the style, I generally enjoy world exploration and that was fun in BotW, and there were many cool experiences scattered around, but it does end up feeling a little empty. I still played it a ton mind you, but I don't consider it an important or ground breaking game the way many seem to.
  - 3y ago

Larrikin 3y ago

Zelda and MegaMan were always two franchises where I always thought the characters were interesting but just never could get into the majority of the games. With a Zelda I've only ever played the original NES one and liked the time I spent. With MegaMan it's always been the off shoots. MegaMan Soccer was constantly rented growing up and Battle Network was great. But what's weird to me is that I've never enjoyed any of the 3d Zelda games, but still consider the MegaMan Legends series among the best games I've ever played. I'm still bitter I bought a 3ds specifically in anticipation of the third game and it was then cancelled.

manojlds 3y ago
Try Links Awakening

thorum 3y ago

I’ve been playing since it came out here and there, probably at least 100-200 hours by now, and haven’t even defeated a single main boss. It probably tells you something positive about the game that one can get so much enjoyment just from running around and exploring! But I do sometimes wish the world felt a bit less empty of characters… and it doesn't sound like the new one improves much in this regard.

nly 3y ago
There are loads of characters...they're all in the villages near the divine beasts

nly 3y ago

Try riding a bear or a stag instead of a horse to mix it up a little.

cloogshicer 3y ago

I feel the same. Don't get the hype around BOTW. Super boring game.