That’s how I feel with many open world games lately. That’s why I prefer games with less content that have me hooked for 20-40 hours instead of games that „potentially“ have 100+ hours of content
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
42 points (100.0% liked)
Gaming
30547 readers
154 users here now
From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!
Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.
See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The issue is that a lot of those games want to advertise with huge maps and long play time but they don't want to make more content, so they make a bigger map that is just empty and drag out the game with boring stuff like trailing missions. But as long as there are still games like totk that don't do that, I don't care. It's not like I have to play those boring games.
Same, yet here I am playing Diablo IV. That said, I guess it's not the same thing. I'm a bit wary of Starfield though, that thing looks massive! lol
I am on 121 shrines and have about 3/4 of the depths unexplored but I am really feeling the "just get it over with". Which is what I am planning to do now. It's just very sad because I enjoyed every second of BOTW and did all shrines and even did a bit of random exploring after just because I didn't want to leave the world yet.
Why do you think the sentiment is different?
I think it is a combination of multiple things.
The game is just too big for me. I have spent roughly the same amount of time on totk as I did on botw, but there is so much left to do.
Then, 2/5 of the world (the surface) is recycled which removes some of the joy of exploring, although I was pleasantly surprised by how different it was. Another 2/5 of the world (the depth) just aren't that appealing to me. What made me enjoy exploration in botw was constantly seeing something on the horizon that piqued my interest, which just doesn't work if the world is super dark.
Lastly, I am not really the creative type. I don't get much joy out of building cool stuff with ultrahand, and other than that the gameplay is largely unchanged from botw, which made it feel a bit stale. For example, I really think they should have overhauled the combat mechanics more. Even in botw combat felt rather simplistic, and after another 100 hours of the same it got really boring.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I had the opposite experience with the final boss. I had around six hearts on the second row and the Hylian armor fully upgraded. I found the fight slow and unchallenging.
I also didn't even realize it was going to be the final boss. The mission was titled something like "Research ..." but we didn't actually learn anything about that.
I did think the cutscenes were good and the music during the rights and cutscenes was really good.
No, the final boss mission is titled "Destroy Ganondorf".
Yeah i think you found the boss on accident if that's the quest name you were seeing.
But so did I, so this can't be that uncommon. I question the design of having some mid-game content in the same (surface) place as the end-game because it becomes unclear what you're being pointed at. Put simply, tell me to walk towards the giant chasm; I'm jumping in.
I realized I wasn't supposed to be there yet when I recognized a typical pre-boss pattern that Zelda games use a lot. Trying to avoid spoilers there.
WTF. That would explain a lot. Now I'm wondering how much of the main story did I skip.
But that also makes that fight seem even more disappointing, to me, since i managed to easily beat it early.
How was that with BotW for you? Did you feel like 'just get it over with' at the end? Currently on my first playthrough
Not OP, but I didn't feel like that at all. I actually wished there was more after the final boss.
I get what you meant. That's how it felt for me too. I had the lingering fear that I would burnout from TotK before beating the final boss. I think it comes from playing video games my whole life. That feeling of excitement is not like it used to be if that makes sense.