I thought TOTK was great, but it’s not like it was good enough to compare good games against. Like, it’s just BOTW with a new story and some QOL fixes. It’s essentially a $70 standalone DLC. I could probably list a few games that came out this year that I liked better.
Yeah, TOTK is too similar to BOTW structural wise, it’s very easy to get bored of the grind and just do sandbox thing once in a while.(and that’s with dup glitch in mind, without dupe those crafty machines won’t see the day since the time required to get enough zonites to do the auto build.) I basically haven’t even finish the 4 spirits yet (got 3) and decides to play BG3 instead, and that’s a good choice, so much more brain engaging in this game as well.(and that’s even with save scumming, mostly to see what other paths of conversation go.) The battle is pretty balanced if you turn off karmic dice.(on balanced difficulty.) I only restart battle when I misclick and attacked on my own party.
It’s a new story inside the same game. Same map, same gameplay loop (find shrines, find Koroks, do side quests). I can’t think of another sequel where the entire game takes place in the same map. Majora’s Mask was a sequel with mostly re-used assets, but it got a new map.
The games that do share a map, like Spider-man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, are largely considered stand-alone expansions.
I thought TOTK was great, but it’s not like it was good enough to compare good games against. Like, it’s just BOTW with a new story and some QOL fixes. It’s essentially a $70 standalone DLC. I could probably list a few games that came out this year that I liked better.
Yeah, TOTK is too similar to BOTW structural wise, it’s very easy to get bored of the grind and just do sandbox thing once in a while.(and that’s with dup glitch in mind, without dupe those crafty machines won’t see the day since the time required to get enough zonites to do the auto build.) I basically haven’t even finish the 4 spirits yet (got 3) and decides to play BG3 instead, and that’s a good choice, so much more brain engaging in this game as well.(and that’s even with save scumming, mostly to see what other paths of conversation go.) The battle is pretty balanced if you turn off karmic dice.(on balanced difficulty.) I only restart battle when I misclick and attacked on my own party.
I really don’t understand the “$70 DLC” comments. Maybe I’m too old, but TotK is the perfect example of what a sequel is.
Maybe expansion is a better term than DLC.
It’s a new story inside the same game. Same map, same gameplay loop (find shrines, find Koroks, do side quests). I can’t think of another sequel where the entire game takes place in the same map. Majora’s Mask was a sequel with mostly re-used assets, but it got a new map.
The games that do share a map, like Spider-man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, are largely considered stand-alone expansions.