People hate that they removed everything about the Zelda games that made them fun and charming, and left a mid grinding experience. The weapons breaking don’t really bother me much.
Old Zelda: find a temple, new set of enemies, solve puzzles until you get to the new tool, solve puzzles with the tool, fight a large boss that the tool conveniently works really well on.
New Zelda: find a shrine, fight yet another of these little guys. Find a shrine, solve two or three of the same puzzles with the tools you got in the first hour of gameplay. Spend large amounts of time just walking through areas of the map fighting the same campsites and outposts, hoping for a radar beep so you can find a shrine.
force@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The durability system is just extremely tedious in both BotW and ToTK. It takes a lot of fun out of the game imo. Especially since items have such little durability, they break far too quickly.
I also think the same about ACNH. I have a similar view (probably controversial) about Minecraft, except I think it’d be fine if the tools didn’t permanently break and you could just repair them afterwards. Only if you fix anvils/repairing tho, it’s been totally broken forever, although I guess mending exists as a bandaid. But really I prefer something like Terraria where there’s just no durability period.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A lot of BotW and TotK’s systems are too damn simple for their own good.
The armor system works by simple addition and subtraction. The numbers correspond to quarter hearts. If an enemy attack was going to do, say, 12 damage, and you have 4 armor, that hit now does 8 damage, with a minimum of 1. Which is why a single trip to a clothing fairy will be the turning point from “everything one-shots me” to “I am made of adamantium.” in TotK especially you’d find boss monsters that one shot you before you can even get a good look at them, later in the game they’re complete pushovers.
Similarly, the weapons actually function more like ammunition than “weapons.” You only have so many shotgun bullets, only so many SMG bullets, and only so many BFG bullets. You can swing this sword only so many times before it breaks. Shields, weirdly, aren’t that badly designed. There’s a use case and an abuse case, if you use a shield correctly it will last. They didn’t implement this with the weapons, like you should use a hammer against hard foes to smash their armor and swords against soft targets. Hitting things with elemental weapons that they don’t counter should break them, like it should be okay to hit ice enemies with a fire sword but normal enemies will wear it out, etc.
You don’t find common weapons you’re willing to break and rare better weapons you wan to take care of, the weapons ramp up basically to match the enemies so at the beginning of the game you spend 3 minutes killing a red bokoblin with a stick, and at the end of the game you spend 3 minutes killing a silver bokoblin with a Royal Highfalutin Claymore.
“Oh, I broke my weapon, guess I should fiddle fuck around with the weird quick menu system to pick out another. This doesn’t slam the pace of the game to a halt at all.”
I kinda like the idea of a weapon durability system that rewards players for understanding the combat system, where if you just hold left stick forward and mash Y you’ll run out of weapons before you run out of enemies, but if you engage with the systems, attacking when the target is vulnerable, using the right weapons on the right enemies, your supplies will last longer. This would support a play model where you prepare for an adventure stocking food and gear, then go out on the adventure managing your supplies. Maybe you find very cool weapons along the way, maybe you manage to live off the land if you’re particularly skilled.
But that’s not what we got, and it doesn’t work very well.
1917isnow@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Oh wow a gamer who never sleeps who mysteriously has focus issues, I wonder how that works
B0rax@feddit.de 6 months ago
What?
1917isnow@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
How many comment-only accounts do you have bro? You think it looks normal for people to be tracking down your posts at 5am US time? It’s daytime for me lol.
You went on a 33 comment tirade because I told you to eat better, sleep, and exercise. You didn’t even say whether you tried them. Makes sense a gamer would throw a tantrum when told to improve their lifestyle.