Board 8 > is Botw the best game of all time?

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm thinking it might be

Not even the best game in its own series.

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"is ____ the best game of all time" is never going to produce affirmative responses

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Yes.

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gotta put it up against LTTP or Ocarina of Time as a bonus match to find out on this website.

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Grimlyn posted...

"is ____ the best game of all time" is never going to produce affirmative responses

Is the best game of all time the best game of all time?
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Hbthebattle posted...

Is the best game of all time the best game of all time?

dammit that's what I get for not restricting my blanks to a specific domain of game titles

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Best in the decade.

Ocarina of Time is the best game of all time.

I think you mean most overrated game of all time.

Not even the best game in this bracket.

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How is BotW beating The Witcher 3?

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I prefer Witcher 3, but reaching finals for me is already a win, great result for Witcher 3, Zelda is a worthy winner as well, great game.

llama_volition posted...

How is BotW beating The Witcher 3?

more votes

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no

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Not even the best game of 2017 or its series.

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No. It's probably at best my third favourite game from this bracket. Still a great game though.

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Gamefaqs users have always been blinded by nostalgia with anything Nintendo.

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Its the best non-remake LoZ Switch game

Fuck no. Not even the best game of its release date.

A boring empty open world ripoff with weapon durability and more bullshit menus than MGS3 could never be considered "best of all time". Just because Switch owners feel the need to "justify" their purchase by putting it on a pedestal doesn't mean it isn't a terribly flawed game.

One of the best games of the decade

Ocarina of Time would be the most overrated game of all time but Breath of the Wild truly deserves all its accolades and winning this contest.

Technically, this poll isn't even asking if BotW is the best game of all time.

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It's complete fucking garbage. No idea why you idiots like it so much. It's one of the worst Zelda games I've ever played let alone "best game of all time".

• Barely any story to it
• What story is there is the same generic Hyrule, Zelda and Ganon shit done in every other game and done worse
• No sense of progression or difficulty thanks to the extreme non linearity
• Hundreds of useless padded out fetchquests passed off as "sidequests" that embarasses the legacy of each unique and interesting sidequest from MM, TWW, TP
• 120 "mini dungeons", One-third of which are the same repetitive battles with the same dwarf guardian and another third of which are literally just spirit orb containers where you plop down and collect the orb with NOTHING in the way of puzzles
• The remaining 33% of shrines are some of the easiest most pathetic excuses for puzzle solving in series history and once again embarasses the series' reputation of gaming's most engaging enjoyable dungeons like ALttP's Tower of Hera, OoT's Water Temple, MM's Great Bay, SS' Ancient Cistern etc
• Combat is once again ALMOST the worst in series history only behind SS with its bullshit waggling, instead removing all the depth and variety of attacks and moves introduced in TWW/TP, removing the running slash, removing the manipulation of sword slash directions
• Hands down THE WORST art style in SERIES HISTORY, dreadfully ugly cel shading that makes TWW look like the E3 2012 Zelda demo, murky textures and ugly character models, no volumetric lighting, no realistic water or that beautiful Japanese adult anime aesthetic of say Berserk, Slayers or Bastard!! that Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess were slowly evolving into, no serious leap in 3D realism as OoT once excelled in in 1998 and as recent as FF7 remake in 2020, just a complete surrendering to this murky dirty one-toned toon style

This game's release is absolutely one of the most disgusting deaths of a video game franchise I once faithfully adored. And there's no sentimentalism in that statement. I just don't give a shit about Zelda anymore. It died in 2011 for me.

Anddo posted...

It's complete fucking garbage. No idea why you idiots like it so much. It's one of the worst Zelda games I've ever played let alone "best game of all time".
* Barely any story to it
* What story is there is the same generic Hyrule, Zelda and Ganon shit done in every other game and done worse
* No sense of progression or difficulty thanks to the extreme non linearity
* Hundreds of useless padded out fetchquests passed off as "sidequests" that embarasses the legacy of each unique and interesting sidequest from MM, TWW, TP
* 120 "mini dungeons", One-third of which are the same repetitive battles with the same dwarf guardian and another third of which are literally just spirit orb containers where you plop down and collect the orb with NOTHING in the way of puzzles
* The remaining 33% of shrines are some of the easiest most pathetic excuses for puzzle solving in series history and once again embarasses the series' reputation of gaming's most engaging enjoyable dungeons like ALttP's Tower of Hera, OoT's Water Temple, MM's Great Bay, SS' Ancient Cistern etc
* Combat is once again ALMOST the worst in series history only behind SS with its bullshit waggling, instead removing all the depth and variety of attacks and moves introduced in TWW/TP, removing the running slash, removing the manipulation of sword slash directions
* Hands down THE WORST art style in SERIES HISTORY, dreadfully ugly cel shading that makes TWW look like the E3 2012 Zelda demo, murky textures and ugly character models, no volumetric lighting, no realistic water or that beautiful Japanese adult anime aesthetic of say Berserk, Slayers or Bastard!! that Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess were slowly evolving into, no serious leap in 3D realism as OoT once excelled in in 1998 and as recent as FF7 remake in 2020, just a complete surrendering to this murky dirty one-toned toon style
This game's release is absolutely one of the most disgusting deaths of a video game franchise I once faithfully adored. And there's no sentimentalism in that statement. I just don't give a shit about Zelda anymore. It died in 2011 for me.

Have you considered that it's like playing a Miyazaki movie

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Not even the best Switch game released in 2017

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cerna_zelva posted...

A boring empty open world ripoff with weapon durability and more bullshit menus than MGS3 could never be considered "best of all time". Just because Switch owners feel the need to "justify" their purchase by putting it on a pedestal doesn't mean it isn't a terribly flawed game.

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I see that this thread is full of a lot of people who really don't like BotW .

BotW is only the best game of the decade.

Undertale is still the raining champ for best game of all time. Undertale however is not the best game of the decade, and nobody is debating that.

This site needs to have another contest to really confirm though, just in case people's tastes have changed.

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wolfgod37 posted...

I see that this thread is full of a lot of people who really don't like BotW .

It's the internet. If you say you like something, you can be sure someone will show up to tell you you're wrong.

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Not even the best switch game

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not even the best Breath of game on the switch

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Botw introduces 2009-era assassins creed or just cause mechanics into the Nintendo ecosystem, of course it's going to do well!

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ZeroSignal620 posted...

Not even the best Switch game released in 2017

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Not even in the top 10 Switch games when it was released.

It could of been up there if it just had

better main story
better side quests
better equipment customization
a less barren world
more big dungeons(debatable)
fewer shrines(debatable)

could of been a top 10 game for sure with all that stuff.

prestonluv posted...

a less barren world

Disagree.

Shadow of the Colossus is often called the best PS2 game, and it was more barren than Breath. It's a fine art choice for a game.

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scaler24 posted...

Not even the best game in its own series.

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scaler24 posted...

Not even the best game in its own series.

To be fair that's not exactly a knock against the game. Ocarina of Time is pretty much universally considered the GOAT.

TomNook posted...

Disagree.

Shadow of the Colossus is often called the best PS2 game, and it was more barren than Breath. It's a fine art choice for a game.

It was a fine art choice for Shadow of the Colossus. For a Zelda game, not so much.

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Grimlyn posted...

"is ____ the best game of all time" is never going to produce affirmative responses

Pong would like to talk to you....

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It's great, but not the GOAT.

Sidebar, people complaining it has no story and then saying OOT is the best game?! First of all, you'll need industrial lifting equipment to get off all those rose tinited glasses and, second, how does OOT have a good story?! Good game, sure, but the story is barely worth a mention. Time travel is neat, but that's it.

Sidesidebar, Link is not a good character. He is a blank avatar, he has no character. Except maybe in WW.

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Shonen_Bat posted...

It was a fine art choice for Shadow of the Colossus. For a Zelda game, not so much.

But why? You're supposed to feel isolated in both games. Why only Sony is allowed to do art choice?

direshall posted...

But why? You're supposed to feel isolated in both games. Why only Sony is allowed to do art choice?

Because it's a Zelda game and, according to it most hardcore (read insane) acolytes, changing anything is heresy, even, hell especially, if its for the better. They have decided what a 3D Zelda game should be (OOT) and they just want that again ad nauseum.


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for nintendo rabid fanbois maybe, for normal people lol no

IMO it's a mediocre sandbox game and I figured out all game mechanics after barely 15hours in, then it's a borefest

in comparison a sandbox game like ark survival can be played for hundreds hours and you'll barely scratch its surface

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I wouldnt put it in my top 10 list for this contest. Maybe top 15.
This is a Zelda game not even making 60/40 votes in Japan...against a western game...
Wasnt for USA pretty sure it would be losing.

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No, we settled on Undertale, remember?

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no

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