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I hate the breakable weapons, lack of dungeons and gear/tools, no music made for a boring atmosphere, and the world was too empty and felt like it was just big for the sake of being big.

No traditional dungeons and breakable weapons are the two main criticisms levied against it.

okay so, i've seen it compared to a ubisoft open world game, which many often consider uninspired. is that a fair comparison in your mind?

I think it's a great game, but I hate the weapon durability thing/no permanent weapons, and I'm not gonna let anyone gaslight me about how it's actually a good mechanic.

Weapon breaking
Boring ass dungeons
Open world full of nothing

I think it's a great game, but I hate the weapon durability thing/no permanent weapons, and I'm not gonna let anyone gaslight me about how it's actually a good mechanic.

Weapon breaking
Boring ass dungeons
Open world full of nothing

No traditional dungeons and breakable weapons are the two main criticisms levied against it.

TendoDRM posted... Assassin's Creed worlds are way more interesting than BotW's was.

I hate the breakable weapons, lack of dungeons and gear/tools, no music made for a boring atmosphere, and the world was too empty and felt like it was just big for the sake of being big.

chasing literally hundreds of upgrades that fell into 3 of the most boring categories ever conceived:
sprinting/climbing longer
survive more hits
carry extra items

but the thing about the breakable weapons/shields/bows was that you had to hunt down the korok seed kids to unlock more inventory space for them.

plus, if there was a specific weapon I liked, I'd have to go back to a certain area for it, which wasn't always fun.

it was a hindrance more than anything, IMO.

I see how how you're second complaint is valid

I can't even fathom how weapon breaking is a bigger deal to people than the one save file.

Weapon breaking
Boring ass dungeons
Open world full of nothing

I see how how you're second complaint is valid, but as far as hunting down korok seeds I'm not so sure. Nintendo packed so many seeds into the game along natural game paths I never found myself actively seeking them out. I'd just see a quick puzzle on the way to my next shrine and drop a boulder to complete a circle or recreate a pattern by moving a single metal block and boom, I got a new seed in seconds and just kept moving. The only ones that took me any time were the archery challenges, which I could just skip because there were so many seeds in the game I could do other things I wasn't bad at instead and never be short.

It's really not. There's 3 main weapon types, swords, 2h swords, and spears. Aside from their appearance and damage, every weapon functions exactly like every other weapon of the same type. Their appearance is purely cosmetic, so literally the only difference between one sword and the next is how hard it hits. There's never a point where it's necessary in the slightest to go hunt down specific breakable weapons for a couple extra points of damage.

it's not that the seeds are necessarily difficult to find, I just think that if your inventory space is going to be limited, and your weapons a finite resource that take up inventory space, then that's not good design.

at least one of those things should have been scrapped, IMO.

despite their weak damage, my favorite weapons are the boomerang types, and iirc, you come across them less frequently than the others.

I don't want to have to warp to an earlier area, or travel back somewhere (even if it's a minor inconvenience), to farm a few since I know they're going to break because they're not as strong as that area's swords, spears, etc.

Fallout 3 (and maybe the later ones) handled this kinda thing best, where you could use similar weapons to repair broken ones.

People get overly attached to their weapons despite the fact that they're meant to be used and you will always find more good weapons. Thereby many hoarde and ruin the core gameplay loop by their own volition.

I honestly think the dislike of the weapon breaking is mostly from an admittedly understandable gamer attachment to the idea of acquiring and upgrading gear in games. We're mostly used to finding and savoring quality weapons in games, so the sight of high level weapons breaking after only a handful of enemies seems counter to what we're used to. So it creates a built in impression to treat great weapons as special items that you horde but never use. With that mindset, I think many just artificially limit themselves to a smaller set of weapons, thereby ruining the core gameplay loop.

Here's the thing, though..... weapons in BotW are not special. They're just ammo. Use your weapons, you will always find more weapons. If you play it with that mindset, the game is far more liberating and open than you think it is.

despite their weak damage, my favorite weapons are the boomerang types, and iirc, you come across them less frequently than the others.

I'll give you that, boomerangs were my second favorite weapon behind spears and I did have to travel back to the desert or the rainy area to get them if I ran out. Fortunately, because I loved spears and boomerangs so much my inventory was usually full of just those lol

Yeah, that's just a you problem. Boomerangs fucking suck. And, for the record, unless you're throwing them, they swing exactly like swords. So they're literally swords that behave differently when thrown.

my first post ITT was about how I think this is a great game, but about how I hate the weapon durability thing, so of course it's a me thing.

I also don't think it's a deal breaker, but it's something that I have issue with, but tbf, nothing is perfect, no matter how great it is, so it might come off as if I'm making it this major thing, but it's more of a gripe.

So do you hate it, or is it just a gripe?

I just don't understand how it's an issue of any degree to anyone. Weapon durability has basically zero impact on gameplay. In four playthroughs of BotW it has never bothered me, I've never run out of weapons or even come close. How does something that doesn't negatively impact the game in any articulable way wind up being one of the most bitched about game mechanics nearly six years on?

• it can't be both? when I just need a new weapon, then it's a gripe, but if I'm running low on stuff I like, so I have to go back to get some more (maybe actively looking for korok kids along the way to prolong this from happening again), then it's something that I hate since it's getting in the way of how I enjoy playing.
• also, people often like permanent weapons. if, let's say, 99% of the weapons you get can break, but the Master Sword was permanent, that would be one thing, and would still give players the supposed sense of freedom weapon durability proponents sometimes go on about, and also incentivize others to pursue the MS, if that's what they want. however, even the MS needs to be recharged, with is BS.