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Oh I wasn't referring to your post, just that I've seen a number of other people seem to think this is the "big" or "main" twist that Nintendo has.
Any time a lot of the intended audience are "having trouble understanding" marketing, the marketing sucks. Because it's literally their job to make it so that the audience immediately and clearly understands it. It's like... the entire job.
That's the issue here- they did that. Two years ago. This is a sequel to Breath of the Wild where the main new mechanics will revolve around new arm powers, exploring sky islands and exploring caves/underground. People just have short memories, especially gamers who want to constantly be fed hype.
Twitter posts, amiibo reveal, press kits, special edition unboxing, marketing surveys. None of that appears to place any special emphasis on vehicles.
There were a whole bunch of posts, you must have missed some. Here's one with just the Master Sword, here's one which draws attention to Zelda's sheikah slate, interestingly enough:
Nah, that can't be always the answer to criticism. If people "forgot about those new mechanics" (which we don't really know about their importance since we haven't seen any real gameplay yet, those could be optional like in BotW) that's Nintendo's fault.
They've shown us something very similar to stasis, and something very similar to magnesis. That's it.
Dude, this is not enough. We didn't wait six years to be satisfied with "BotW but with caves and floating islands and vehicles!"
That's a fair point. However the difference here is that Link doesn't have it, yet it has a new redesign and Nintendo has explicitly pointed it out on Twitter. It would be very odd to do any of that if Zelda is completely out of play for the whole game.Just wanted to mention that this is artwork for Zelda for Breath of the Wild, and we all know her role in the game:
No, that's not it. We've also seen the arm used to charge an arrow with homing magic and help Link phase through solid ground. And reversing an object's momentum is not at all similar to stasis, beyond the visual effect they used.
So having two completely new layers of the world to explore (very possibly each the size of the first game) not to mention a very different overworld with a whole bunch of new enemy types, bosses, a completely different story, and brand new mechanics such as those mentioned above in addition to modular dragon head effects like flamethrowers and bomb slingers, on top of the strangely divisive idea of modular vehicle construction, and anything else we currently don't know doesn't make a compelling sequel or justify the time spent making it?
We don't know if this is a game play mechanic or just how you travel from the ground to the sky.
One freezes an object in time and another reverses an object's time. They're similar abilities.
Nintendo has not shown or stated this.
Nintendo has not shown or stated this (though we've established you have a very different definition of "dramatic changes" than anyone else).
We've seen a like-like thing, a redead, a big bokoblin, and a bigger keese thing.
We've seen a hydra that may not even be fightable and a box golem.
We haven't seen anything beyond what is likely the opening sequence.
Crafting weapons and vehicles is neat if it's actually in the game. Nintendo should confirm that and show how extensive these systems actually are.
This is pure wishful thinking.
Yeah I think we're done here, you can't possibly believe all of this in good faith.
Believe what? I'm stating what Nintendo has shown us. You're the one believing things like Zelda being playable, time travel, the sky and underground being bigger than the BotW map, etc. I don't want to believe these things will be true based purely on hope, I want Nintendo to demonstrate or tell us that they're true.
For anyone reading, if you look at my post that was quoted you'll note I never said a single one of these things. Since this is turning into a bad faith argument I'm going to end it here.
You literally said, in response to me saying they haven't shown enough to justify the development time, that the sky and caves are "possibly each the size of the first game" and that there's "possible time travel". I will give you that you said "a bigger role for Zelda" instead of "playable Zelda" though--I assumed that's what you meant by bigger role.
I feel like it might sell better when people upgrade to Switch 2
Well that sucks, I hope vehicle and weapon crafting/customization is incredibly in depth. I wanna build a tank with a bomb arrow turret on it and just annihilate enemy camps
You don't even accept that there are new enemies because reasons. Why do you think the big three headed dragon is not fightable? Why do you believe the most enemies are just cope pasted old enmies? This are bad faith arguments. You want them to be disappointing at this point.
No offense, but that's nonsense. Every DLC expansion of open world games adds tens of new enemies. We just saw like... 3 new enemies? and that's for a completely new game that has been 6 years in development. We haven't seen yet why this game took so long.
I stated that we've been shown 4, one of which is literally a big bokoblin. If you want to extrapolate that to there being a ton of new enemies with a ton of variety, go ahead. I'm not going to make any assumptions after what we've been shown.
I don't know if it's fightable. None of the dragons in BotW were fightable. You can assume it's one of many epic overworld boss encounters. I'm not getting my hopes up without knowing more.
Didn't say this, nor pretty much anything that you've said I've said.
You have to be making an argument to be arguing in bad faith. All I did was state what Nintendo has actually shown us absent any assumptions and extrapolations. Which isn't much. That's the point.
Yeah dude I want one my most anticipated game of my entire life to be disappointing. You've cracked the case.
People are just bored and want to get into arguments on the internet
I'll drop tears if Tears isn't tearful.
Fear the tears.
You didn't get a tone shift from botw? Lol what
Thread bump because I want to toot my horn for being right.
One of the more obnoxious things people do on a forum tbh
