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Spirit Orbs/Heart Containers/Stamina Wheels
I don't think Spirit Orbs will make a comeback in their current form. Maybe we'll see the return of classic heart pieces and such? Maybe Link's spirit will be torn from him and redistributed throughout the land, making him re-acquire the orbs? Who knows? What are your thoughts?

Korok Seeds/Skulltulas/Maiamais/Poes
The huntable collectables. I don't think it'll be Koroks again. There were already a jillion of them. I'd love to see Skulltulas return tbh. Skulltulas are cool as fuck

Items and abilities
I think that the Sheikah slate is either dead or not used by Link in BotW2. I think the items/abilities are gonna come in the form of Link's new right arm. The arm from the trailer will forcibly bond with Link and effectively replace his right arm. This will also force him to be left handed with his weapons, reducing him to lower strength with weapons.

Map/warping
No Sheikah slate means no Sheikah slate map. I think we'll get more standard maps. Maybe hand drawn by NPCs? Warping through some sort of NPC-run fast travel system, like an airborne taxi? (Would be hilarious if the in-game justification is that Purah reproduced Magnesis and pilots a minecart flying machine lmao)

Master Cycle
No Sheikah stuff makes the Master Cycle out of commission. Maybe someone invented a motorcycle I dunno lmao

Tell me your thoughts CE
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Guys pls
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Guys wtf talk about this shit with me
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I only played BotW for two hours or so.
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Sorry I was asleep

It's supposed to be darker right? Link should rip out people's spine like in metal gear rising

Wait he has anew arm wat

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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Sorry I was asleep

It's supposed to be darker right? Link should rip out people's spine like in metal gear rising

Wait he has anew arm wat

Not confirmed he's getting a new arm but that's definitely what it looks like to timbo >_>
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I still say the game will mostly take place underground

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They need better mechanics for weapon breaking frequency. A steel broadsword shouldn't break after killing 3 enemies with it.

Tone down the weather effects a lot. It rains way too frequently, the lightning striking anything metal you have equipped is ridiculously annoying. Its worse when you are climbing, you make it far up and it starts raining and you are fucked because all you do is slip.

Make motion controls optional, especially for shrines and ball labyrinths and whatnot.

Make retrieving your horse more user friendly. At least have him follow you if you aren't riding it like red dead.

To hit on what you were talking about I'd eliminate the orbs, and have the completion of a shrine result in a heart container, stamina upgrade, or a unique piece of armor or weapon.

Dodge roll option for the love of god.

A system where you can craft arrows.

That's all I got for now.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Tone down the weather effects a lot. It rains way too frequently, the lightning striking anything metal you have equipped is ridiculously annoying. Its worse when you are climbing, you make it far up and it starts raining and you are fucked because all you do is slip.

Make retrieving your horse more user friendly. At least have him follow you if you aren't riding it like red dead.

again, I don't think these will be an issue if the game takes place underground


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I kind of hope those rumors of this being more of an "expansion" than a sequel are true, and everything just kinda carries over in some way.

I don't think they are abandoning the Sheikah Slate. We are going to keep the basic powers we got, although I agree the hand will introduce any new powers. Map will be the same, with the Sheikah slate either obtaining new functionality or Zelda and all the lab folk will create new functionality.

If it's true that it's more about dungeons and underground, the Master Cycle just won't be useful and thus can just be handwaved away or still be there just only for overworld traversal. Easy handwave is that it is a one seater and Link gives it up cause Zelda is around now I guess.

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KillerSlaw posted...

I kind of hope those rumors of this being more of an "expansion" than a sequel are true, and everything just kinda carries over in some way.

I'll be incredibly disappointed if the game just rehashes everything from the previous one
>_>

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HylianFox posted...

I'll be incredibly disappointed if the game just rehashes everything from the previous one
>_>

I don't think we're getting a new over world tbqh

That doesn't mean they can't add a ton to BotW. IIRC A lot of what formed the start of BotW 2 was DLC ideas for BotW which should give us an indication that it's going to be a lot of building off from where they were.

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for that matter, I hope the game isn't called "Breath of the Wild 2"

ugh

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Further perfect/refine climbing and exploration and chemistry mechanics
rework weapon durability
make shrines less of a slog
have collectibles/upgrades accessible from more than just shrines
more collectibles with more tangible rewards
have dungeons designed more traditionally while still being built around the games more unique mechanics (ie climbing and physics)
0 voice acting

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HylianFox posted...

I still say the game will mostly take place underground

I said that and got treated like shit for it.

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I never really had an issue with the durability system since the game drowns you in weapons anyway

I'm more annoyed by the fact that there wasn't any sort of crafting system, so most of the weapons/materials you get are pretty much vendor trash

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Cave thunderstorms are real man

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HylianFox posted...

I never really had an issue with the durability system since the game drowns you in weapons anyway

My problem with it had everything to do with the boko and moblin weapons looking like absolute dogshit. I would never say it was a deal breaker, but I'm not gonna lie I absolutely hated that I had to use stupid ass bone weapons and shit instead of regular swords because most of them broke so fast.

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I agree that the first peek makes it look like the sheikah slate is getting replaced by a magic arm. Which would make sense anyway since Link shoulda returned it to Zelda after BotW. If Nintendo steps up and lets us be Zelda too, she could use the BotW runes while Link gets new cursed arm spells or whatever.

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Guys you aren't talking about how the sequel will handle the mechanics that I laid out in the OP
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