It doesn’t matter, at least in terms of fixing what actually ails Twitter. Musk still has final say, and he’s not going to stop making the same kinds of terrible decisions that he’s made since walking through the door with that goddamned sink.

The Blue Checks have already launched a conspiracy theory that she’s Jewish... what a surprise!

Yep, this is where the weapon degradation system falls apart for me. It’s not the inconvenience of it, weapons are plentiful. It’s just that I don’t want my dope stuff to be fleeting. 

Man, I’m pretty excited about this game but I hated the durability system in BotW and reading this article weirdly deflated me. Like, it’s cool that I can nab the best shield early in the game, but I know that it’s just going to sit in my inventory (or on a wall in my house if that’s still a thing in TotK) because I…

Five years later and people are STILL arguing about weapon degradation so I think it’s very safe to use the word “divisive” lol

Yeah, I mean. Look, I get it. It’s all about the macro-feelings with this game. The majestic scenery. The way you’re thrust into this adventure and given infinite freedom. I get why that made up and then some for minor things that maybe weren’t perfect. 

IMO if you can tell why a reviewer disliked something, and they clearly articulate their criteria, that’s a good review.

My tactic for years has been to read the 3 star reviews. This goes for everything. You can tell a lot from people who are not extremely satisfied, yet not extremely upset.

I found Breath of the Wild *dreadfully* boring and empty, with the experimentation and sandbox elements wildly overrated. I beat it, but it felt like a beautiful chore most of the time. The weapon durability system especially just felt like handing you fun new toys and then breaking them in front of you. That it…

What are you saying? Man who loves Zelda shouldn’t review TotK because it might be too similar to the one entry he dislikes?

This is a weird defence. As a former game programmer, it definitely is due to poor programming or poor optimisation if a single-platform game can’t maintain stable performance on the only platform it’s released on. If you want to make a more demanding game, you either make it for a platform that can handle it or you…

Given the hardware the game is pigeonholed to and the technically impressive nature of the game itself, it’s performance is pretty commendable.

I disagree, because there extreme strength of feeling you get from BotW fans is so wild that it is divisive, it’s like literally hard to talk to people who are so into the game, they can’t understand why you think it’s just a “decent game”. You can see this in a lot of the 10/10 and 5/5 reviews (one of even implies…

I would say Breath of the Wild is divisive, but you have to understand a division does not have to be in the middle. And it’s not unique to BotW: There are several Zelda games with core mechanisms that makes them unbearable to some people. The time system in Majora’s Mask made the game unplayable for many. The insane…

Oh my friend, I think you’re the one who’s been hurt. Luke writes an article explaining why it’s okay to have difference of opinions on a game, and you lash out like a 12 year Warzone player who just lost his Gulag.

“Divisive? It sold nearly 30 million units, something like 15 million better than the next best selling Zelda.”

I think it’s a bit weird that nobody is factoring in the performance of the game. Reviewers are bashing AAA games left and right for performance problems lately and I don’t think excusing TotK having a fluctuating 20-30 fps frame rate is healthy either.

A 6/10 review isn’t harsh. It’s positive, even! My broader issue with review scores is that there tends to be nothing between a 5 and a 9 on a 10-point scale. Games that are actually just Pretty Good get a bunch of 9s and 10s, and it makes any *reasonably metered* score look insane.

I find myself aligning wholeheartedly with the sentiments expressed in that review about BotW. The game, to me, was a veritable journey into monotony, and I find myself in deep agreement with each critique articulated. We could engage in an infinite debate over the precise numeric rating it deserves, but ultimately,…

This one goes out to everyone who has ever said “only fans of this series should be on the review”, a practice that serves nobody except the fans who were already gonna play the game anyway.