>if there was more to show, they'd have shown more than phasing through ceilings, and a single floating island.

Yes, because games that try to encourage exploration love to show you the entire map in the trailer.

>Was BOTW your first zelda?

Oh, my sweet summer child.

> There is so much more to hyrule than what we got.

How do you know? At various points this world floods, flies, falls apart etc etc so it's clearly subject to major changes. After a world-ending cataclysm we have no way of knowing what survived.

I will forever remember the night elf starting island. Such a great memory of a young me getting addicted to the most popular mmo at the time.

2011 hit different for me

• Dark Souls
• Portal 2
• The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
• Saint's Row: The Third
• Battlefield 3
• L.A. Noire
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Terraria
• Alice: Madness Returns
• Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

I'm gonna enjoy it thoroughly but I've seen enough in the demo to know that it won't be nearly as good as BOTW

I bought it but am having a hard time getting through the story... it's quite boring and text heavy. Battles are fun though.

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I just never liked Tactics Ogre near as much as either FFT or Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen.

>no one was rebuilding aside from Tarrey town.

Being honest, what would have been the point? At that point the world is overrun by monsters which, if you kill them, come back a day or two later.

>My big hope is that Link is going to be running into loads of towns building back up

Which would be cool, though the impression I got from the trailer is that the monsters are also back. Hopefully it doesn't go in an annoying Minutemen direction...

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First ally char was a dwarf hunter and I thought it was so cool the buildings were fun to run around in. Ironforge was also mind blowing.

I joined an RP server by accident and people were in the tavern RPing which was first experience with it. I didn’t stay in the server and my main became a Human Prot War but it was cool

if there was more to show, they'd have shown more than phasing through ceilings, and a single floating island.

Was BOTW your first zelda? There is so much more to hyrule than what we got. They could have given us a twilight realm version of the entire map.

That's what we in the business call dedication. Man's basically a super-scientist.

If he had an arch a'la Venture Bros, who would it be? Maybe that glove-hatted penguin, Feathers McGraw? Piella Bakewell was his arch for a while, but that ended after a tragic ballooning accident.

Well does the layout and design being the same matter if they add a bunch of new stuff throughout it? Especially considering how empty the world was in BoTW.

Taking that same world but actually filling it with stuff this time would make for a great return to that world if you ask me.

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They also state that things have changed. So the full extent is unknown.

I only did that twice. WoW Burning Crusade and WoW Lichking. After like 2007/2008 I stopped buying Physical Games.

>They could have given us a whole new map

Wouldn't make much sense in context, given that it's called Tears of the Kingdom, which is what the first map was.

>They could have given us the entirety of the old one, and 50% more to explore.

It looks like we have the original map plus a bunch of floating islands and such. So probably more to explore.

>There's a lot you can expect, when they expect us to be paying the same price for the sequel as we did for the original. Yet they feel they can put less work in.

Again, though, how do you actually know that if you've not played it? You don't know what's on the map, or above it, or under it. You don't know what has or hasn't changed.

i've sat on top of that barrel on the roof so many times, drinking dwarven ale.

People are defending it because it's Zelda, it's the Zelda team, some of the most talented developers in the industry. They have been developing this game for 6 years now, that should speak volumes. We also know they've been very secretive about the game and not showed us much.

People know twists are coming, maybe an entire new world underground etc.

• brand new giant land masses in the sky all over the world of the game

• “wHy iZ tEh MaP eXaCtLeE tHe SaMe”

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This is why AAA console games come to PC way later, if ever. We make these games look fucking stupid with absolutely zero hesitation.

wait they are re-using the map from the previous game? lmao

I'd also add the iPhone's launch. Smartphones rocketed off from that point really, and mobile gaming is the biggest segment of gaming.