>first Zelda to ever lose GOTY

a fine crpg > play doh similutator in a copypasted empty world

keep crying nintendie homosexual, love it

It's not even aonuma anymore, he at least tried to make zelda games even if he was bad at it. It's fujibayashi the fanfiction loving homosexual now who has no clue or convictions beyond weebing it up.

it's a good game but it's not breaking any new ground

It's the equivalent of playing heavily modded Skyrim, and expecting that to win awards.

>New overworld
>two year development cycle

Context, anon.

decomp shows that about 10% of OoT codebase was reused and game works in completely new overworld

>ᥒintend𐐬 makes cute porn characters
>but their games are garbage and boring to play

Resident Evil 4 Remake was the sacrificial lamb to ensure Tendies and Snoys don't win this year.

It's still 40% reused content and 40% empty content. Look, I love the descent into Gloom's Lair and the entire finale too, but a 25 minute set piece can't carry you to GOTY.

I would argue BoTW was the better game. ToTK only removed things and made the player make them yourself through busy work. Its literally a case of, remove a platform that would usually transport the player, make them make it. BoTW also has a better flow to gameplay and is not as riddled with plotholes or unexplained shit in the story.

It’s basically breath of the wild with a bigger map and more pausing

This does not translate to a better, or more fun, game

Weird admission but ok

we get it, you want to have gay sex

So you didn't play BG3 or D:OS2. Thanks for chiming in tendie, next time play games instead of shitposting.

TotK doesn't have content that wasn't already in BotW. The "new content" is literally just bloat. The Depths is the literal definition of content recycling. Can you imagine if Elden Ring's underground area had 0 new enemies or bosses? It would have gotten crucified.

Tendie games > your favorite game
Cry harder homosexual.

>1998: Zelda managed to stand tallest among what is debatably the best year in all of gaming
>2023, 25 years later: Zelda can't even beat a Eurojank CRPG
Any Wildgay who tries to discount OoT's reception ever fricking again can eat a goddamn dick. It may not have had the same deluge of cookie cutter review websites to pad out its Metacritic with that the Wild games did, but it had the toughest competition in a single year that any game could ever ask for. OoT EARNED its fricking 99.

There was lots of games missing from 1998 too like Half-Life

And? We're talking about the GOTY nominees, none of those franchises even had an elegible game this year.
TGA hates japanese games, the fact that they didn't give Xenoblade best soundtrack last year in favor of fricking Goy of Shit of all things was enough proof.
TGA is ideologically compromised ,of fricking course Bear Gay Sex Simulator was going to win, they didn't even nominate Hogwarts Legacy, not even in minor irrelevant categories, why? Because they're in Blackrock's pocket, had there been an even more degenerate, perverse, generic westoid fantasy game then that shit would have won, it's not about BG being any good, it's about them actively despising anything that doesn't have trannies in it.

>scene where you have to crossdress to get into a restricted area

cool are you gonna tell me FF7 is woke too

Now tell him he's beautiful so you too can dress like a troony just to do some copy pasted glorified shrine in this absolute masterpiece.

Wii sold 100 million and look how its sequel turned out. There's only so much you can do before customers get bored of your product

TotK actually uses the Splatoon 3 engine, not the BotW engine, they legit painstakingly recreated the whole thing in a different engine, which admittedly is likely the reason TotK runs as well as it does on Switch, the classic Zelda engine was showing its age.

>their engine is pretty sick though
It's literally the proprietary havoc physics engine with a few tweaks to it
The result is impressive but to act like Nintendo solved some ancient riddle is moronic. The building shit was central to the gameplay so of course it had to be refined more than most other games' physics.

It has to have a shred of credibility, that's why this year they got such an early start promoting the lgbt astroturf of the year, they wanted to make sure it seemed legit even tough there's zero organic hype around it.

This. It’s bizarre to me that people call BotW the tech demo. BotW had a cohesive design and a vision of what it wanted to be. TotK was the tech demo showing off the fancy new powers and building system in a reused world.

I do, and in the movie industry it's called "Oscar bait".

Freedom is overrated and no one cares. People on Ganker think trash games like Kenshi is good because of muh freedom.

An expertly crafted, curated experience will btfo a mediocre open world 100% of the time

Botw and totk are ubisoft games with shitty puzzles and awful 'dungeons'. Nu-LoZ fans are cancer.

Or until Monolith Soft gets their shitty greased-covered walmart brand JRPG hands off of Zelda. Tendies circle jerking their horrible games is what led to this (they are not even to being the best modern JRPGs). They are credited as the actual game design devs in TotK, and it shows. Xenoblade is bad, and TotK is bad. The sooner people realize this, the better.

At what point does Nintendo ever tell you to collect all of the seeds, anon

>zoomer
I’m older than you, the first Zelda I ever beat was for NES. I had an OoT gold cart but it got stolen.
BoTW is my favourite Zelda, ToTK is only behind it because fused weapons are ugly and it slightly annoyed me. But still much better than any post OoT/MM 3D Zelda, because all those games were just trying to be OoT again.

The funny thing is that the Fujibayashi era has been longer than the Aonuma era.

Aonuma: Ocarina of Time (1998) - Twilight Princess (2006)
Fujibayashi: Skyward Sword (2011) - Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

It just doesn't feel like it because the pace of releases has slowed down MASSIVELY.

You have to be kidding. Go play GTA, gay.

>turning Link evil

No, that's moronic.
They need to take a page from MM and force Link/the player to make important, harsh decisions regarding who they decide to save throughout their adventure. In MM, you couldn't save the entirety of Termina's population in a single time-loop playthrough, and gameplay scenarios would change based on who you saved or attempted to help first.

That's what the franchise is missing as far as side-content goes and it's embarrassing that they still don't have the balls (or talent) to tackle similar mechanics and narrative depth from a game released in 2001.

Considering how much having a completely upgraded set trivializes shit I don't think it's overtuned at all.

Zonaite is fricked up though. I make some fricked up jalopy and the cost is like 15-20 minutes in the mines farming to respawn it after it decided to dissapear. Absolutely moronic.

I dropped it in the sand area when Fi spoiled the solution to a puzzle like five seconds after me encountering it.

>Aonuma
It was more like Fujibayashi. Or perhaps even a co-developer mix of Fujibayashi and Aonuma.
TotK was a disaster though; you're right about him; he's clearly washed-up now. Meanwhile Fujibayashi is turning out to be a talentless hack who was better off developing the 2D games. He doesn't have the talent or the skillset to develop a good and fully-released 3D Zelda, and it really fricking shows after TotK's pathetic 6-year development cycle.

>Granted, the hype for TP was insane back then; through the roof. It was one of the most hyped games of its era.

That's every Zelda game. Every Zelda game is god's gift to mankind until a month later when it's somewhere between "really good," and "great."

Nah, TP was different. I can tell you weren't there when that initial E3 2004 reveal dropped, it was fricking nuts.

LBW was decent. I'm not gonna knock it, but it just felt like a lesser version of LTTP.

you don't even have to wait for TGA for this. People here will literally trust game "journos" when they say what they want to hear.

Arthurtroony, pathetic post

Erictroony, you lost