Maybe there aren’t enough older gamers out there that started at the beginning, and have played them all enough to appreciate LoZ staple design choices that make a game a LoZ game.

That’s exactly it! There’s no like, glowing red sign saying Korok seed puzzle, but you look at something and go “huh, that looks kinda funny” and then you get pulled halfway across a mountain just cause three trees stood in a row funny.

I love the fact it’s so random. You don’t have to look for them. You just wander, see some odd thing, wonder what it is, next thing you know, boom! seed.

On that note, I’ve recently dreamed of of a game broadcast — in my case, college basketball — that just pipes in the noise from the arena with no commentators, so it’d be a somewhat similar experience as being there. I already mentally tune out most of the broadcast commentary already, so it’d be nice to not have to…

Maybe I am alone in this, but does anyone give a shit about the talking heads? Like if the network started a new channel—ESPN Pure or something, let the marketing pukes come up with the name—where there is literally nothing but sports being broadcast without idiotic arguing or “story weaving” or human interest or even…

Stop using everyday things, it’s messing with my dream!

It reminds me of when Steve Jobs yelled at reporters to turn off their phones at that apple press conference

To ensure maximum compatibility with your controllers, please go back in time to 1950 where everyday things like wireless internet won’t interfear with your overly expensive controllers.

Ahhh, that was it! I kept having that issue at the aquarium I work at today. And then I went home and tried to play 1-2 Switch with my goldfish, same thing! Went to my bedroom, though...and it also happened, because that’s where my wi-fi was.

Bunch of HUDlums if you ask me, they should really give us a heads up before posting this.

This Kotaku campaign against HUDs has got to be stopped.

Other open-world games tend to be more about potential than they are about delivery. The promise of what you’ll find is more exciting than what you actually find. The promise that you can do anything is more exciting than what you can actually do. Breath of the Wild, on the other hand, has both potential and delivery.…

All due respect, but your assessment of Zelda is off. It’s something special.

Why would sales suffer as a result of this? And even if they did, why would it have any impact on Nintendo’s decision to produce future Zelda games considering that it would still be one of their most profitable properties, even if there is a minor dip in sales?

piracy is never a reason for lower sales. I firmly believe that people who pirate on console is a very tiny, tiny %

As I’ve said before. It’s a cool game.

I loved the first but I don’t even know why they bother keeping it tied with LOTR. It makes so little sense in the whole story that (even as LOTR fan) I wished for it to be set in a new random fantasy universe.. it would be best both for the game and the LOTR lore.

Also: Wow, Shadow of War? can a videogame name get…

Your point being that people should be happy with preordering a system that just collects dust for a while? What am I missing here?

If you agree that the launch sucks and that there is nothing with playing in the first few months, then how is it hilarious that people are cancelling preorders? If the system is just going to collect dust, why not wait to buy the system until after it has games that people want to play?

What the fuck is Nintendo doing...THEY HAVE 4 LAUNCH GAMES. 4. There will be 4 games avail to physically buy at launch. Zelda, just dance, 12switch, and bomberman. They literally told us “we get it, we need games” and then they come out with 4. They couldn’t even port Mario Kart for launch! WTF ARE YOU DOING. …