Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Breaks Record For Having The Most Perfect Scores On Metacritic

OH man wait until you reach your first dungeon you are going to be in awe

I loved Skyrim back in the day. Now, after playing BotW, I find it kind of redundant. BotW creates a much more fleshed out and designed world. It’s hard to go back for me to less now I think. Skyrim is much more repetitive. But worth a look maybe just to see and understand.

When Bethesda launched Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, soooo many ppl (who back then had played Wind Waker on the Gamecube) were just dreaming of a Zelda game like that one. How would it be to have this kind of freedom in a Zelda game? wanderingaround, sit at a fire in the nature, cook something, wait for the next morning and then sattle your horse and move on. Then there was the depth of the quests of that game, the complete freedom to chose what kind of player you wanna be, the conversations, even zillion amounts of written words inside books, expanding that whole universe and so on. Skyrim built on that, expanded on many things, brought way more character and depth to the story (at least for me) and had dragons, which felt really amazing back in those days (and I guess still works). And again, Zelda ppl were dreaming of something like this, but all they got was Skyward Sword, which still was undeniably awesome in its own rights, but after I’ve just played through that and played 2 hours of BotW, SS suddenly seems decades away.

Now over a decade later, Nintendo somehow managed to make many of these thoughts compatible with the Zelda franchise what, looking at the old games, seemed completely impossible to some. But after they also managed to still keep it a Zelda game, although you get like a dozen of new items within just the first hour which would’ve taken 20-30 hours in a traditional Zelda game to get, it somehow still feels like a Zelda game and that’s somehow what also speaks for the Elder Scrolls. You can’t just make an open world game, throw freedom, free choice and adventure in it and suddenly it’s just like Skyrim. Zelda somehow makes clear, how strong Skyrim’s identity really is and how much you would miss if you’d stick to Zelda alone. It’s a completely different style of game, way slower, surely more aged in many mechanics, but once you dive in, you, just like in Zelda, don’t wanna dive up again.

So, sorry for the essay, but I guess there’s a reason why Nintendo chose Skyrim to launch in fall. After playing 6 months of BotW, ppl might really feel like they want to play something alike and I guess there couldn’t be a better choice than Skyrim for this. And portable it’s truly a behemoth in your pocket.

What pisses me off, are people fucking up the user score in metacritic, I know this is not news to most of you, but I used to rely on the user scores instead of the critic scores because I trusted “gamers” over “critics,” but now with so much bullshit in the user section, I can’t trust It anymore. >:(

People have a right to not think Zelda is an amazing game, but they are just fucking ass-clowns to judge it without playing it. It needs to be played before it’s judged, at least judged harshly. If you want to watch a clip and say, “Meh” fine, you are missing out, but fine. But to rate it a 0-3 just out of spite is fucking stupid.

Humans never cease to disappoint me! Which is why I live with a dog. She’s not very bright, but she’s loads smarter than most people these days.

Unless you want future titles to be a step backwards (like the Wii U), I’d withhold that consideration.

Absolutely. It has the most perfect scores and should be topping Ocarina of Time. . Problem is, no one reviews ocarina of time again and it’s score is based on about 32 reviews, while BoTW is based on over 40.
In my view, it’s the greatest Nintendo have ever made

People don’t seem to understand that 10/10 does not man perfect. It means masterpiece. No game is perfect.