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The only thing I truly enjoyed abuot TotK was the moment to moment gameplay, and I guess the music.

I can't believe its going to be 10 years.

Without having read or seen any spoilers, I surmised that Zelda had been sent to the past and that Rauru actually knew her from his time. I guessed at that by the time I left the initial island before landing in Hyrule. Then I quickly guessed that “Zelda” was an imposter. I really didn’t need to go find the dragon tears to learn as much. I also had been disappointed by BOTW’s storytelling. So I just was demotivated to even figure it out. I also don’t agree with the Zelda series having bad stories. They’re generally fairly simple stories, but there have been plenty of great story elements, deep lores, and emotional moments.

Basically everything said in this video is what I thought about BOTW, and I was relieved that TOTK had a more central storyline that was much more in depth and epic. BOTW story felt like a side quest that wasn’t a requirement

The fact that this is the game we got after 6 years of waiting is downright insulting. It took Nintendo LESS THAN 2 YEARS to come up with a sequel to OoT and this is in the late 90s for crying out loud. And that sequel ended up being arguably the second best Zelda game behind its predecessor. All with the limitations with OoT’s engine. And it was an original/unique story. In the 2020s, with all the additional resources Nintendo had its disposal, they plopped a bunch of meaningless islands in the sky and a bunch of rocks under ground and called it a day. That’s not even what pissed me off the most. They took the worst part of BOTW (divine beasts) and said hey Zelda fans, we heard your complaints, we’re bringing back temples. Then they made “temples” that were EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING THING AS THE DIVINE BEASTS!! How dare you insult our intelligence like that Nintendo. A big slap to all of our faces and a big fuck you to the fans that have been loyal to this franchise for over 25 years.

I like playing the game spitefully, building out settlements so aggressively that i can ignore the main quest lines. 😃

This is interesting. As I'm watching your videos, it looks like your stance is to stand in the middle of everything. You mentioned the extreme polarization of opinions and expressed regret about the lack of measured response. I can see why would you try to position yourself in your reviews in such a balanced way, though this comes with some drawbacks. On one hand, it is a niche that is left alone in the corner, as audiences, in general, aren't too drawn to quiet voices during storms. Very few people are interested in hearing "well, it had some good things and bad things, wasn't that impressed". On the other, we NEED such voices in the ocean of raging negativity and cult like positivity. And this is probably something that affects your presentation of the subject. The feeling I get from listening to your reviews is "mild" or "soft". You are not veering too much into either negative or positive side of things. When you say that you enjoyed something, I can't hear it in your voice. When you say that something is not done well, I cannot heard disappointment. Using this game as an example, you have stayed balanced on topics that require a more decisive stance. Looking at the story, its pacing, characters, and structure, it was all over the place, as if the writers wanted to have a theme played out, but did not think of a way to have it all work together. They were so focused on showing hatred, vengeance and brutality, that they have destroyed the logic and storytelling that got in their way. We can hardly connect with Ellie, as she's being presented as a revenge obsessed killer who mowns down Abby's friends. We can hardly connect with Abby, as she's the killer of a beloved character of this franchise. The story keeps talking about revenge, yet at the very end refrains from doing it? Those are critical mistakes that require adequate feedback. The way it affects a review is that, as a viewer, I am not sure what's the status on this game. What I feel is that the game is probably mid or lukewarm, as it did not draw enough emotion from you. If something doesn't make you love or hate it, it's probably boring. That's my general takeaway from this review. Still, I respect the work you put into it and I can see that you know how to structure your videos and script. Interested in seeing more.

War never changes.

Bethesda lost a fan (and I'm almost positive it's not just me) after they made trendy live service slop. Stanfield was just downstream of that. Fallout 4 should have been a warning sign but 76 was thr nail in the coffin for me. Go live service go broke is how I feel.

Very nice video, overall. Good audio quality, and you have good voice for narration. It definitely feels like a solid production. I would throw in a bit of constructive criticism: -Fallout 3's character is not a blank slate like you have mentioned. It also comes with a predetermined backstory. -Bethesda's shift in design actually came with an earlier game - Skyrim. It's their first, significantly dumbed down production with a casual "do all you want" approach. Fallout 4 was next in line, with its limited dialogue and deletion of skills. -The general feel of the script is a bit... confusing. You first mention that you'll be grumpy in the beginning, but sprinkle positivity later. Then you move on to discuss various topics in both positive and negative way. A little more consistency wpuld help, but this is more of a nitpick. There are some other, tiny bits, but they get lost in the general landscape.

survival mode does not get rid of fast travel entirely due to the optional methods like vertibirds also in my current playthrough i decided to start building a live in vault 88 im still just starting to test its viability for it but the 3 entrances at differrent locations might offer quality of life to it i imagine

the settlement system becomes necessary and fun to engage with in survival mode sure, theoretically you can speedrun ignoring it but the full survival sandbox experience is great fun once deeper explored

Are you familiar with the mod SimSettlements 2? It seems to 'fix' many of the issues you seem to have with the settlement system being divorced from everything else, and giving people an option to automate the settlement crafting system, while also offering a story and plot which is written better than anything in Fallout 4 outside of certain individual quests like Pickman or Silver Shroud. It feels like the DLC which should have existed.

With Botw and Totk all the cool shit already happened. The cool shit I want to play

It sucks. Like, they didn't care. They've always been a gameplay first philosophy but this was a whole other tier of wtf. Like, I'm not the biggest fan of Skyward Sword but I could see the POTENTIAL of "The Sky". TOTK sky is worse than it 12 years after that game. And I'd debate Wind Waker's "Great Sea" is better than both.

Wow, no idea how youtube knew to throw your video at me but it was one of the best 2024 roundup videos I've watched! Eagerly awaiting whatever you have next :)

Your suggestions are all the things sim settlements 2 added to fo4

I was about to what about majoras mask and wind waker would've also added links awakening

Want to echo other comments and note how strong your writing is. Absolutely phenomenal stuff. Every sentence feels thought out and convincing. Well done, can’t wait to see you blow up soon!

Given Emil and Todds responses to Shattered Space criticism. I have zero hope Starfield will improve, and ES6 will be bad for sure. I almost wish I was never a fan of their past games, it hurts seeing the arrogance and decline from Bethesda.

Your writing is insanely good. I really felt the passion you have for all these games. I'm a slightly smaller channel who makes similar video essays and listening to this pumped me up to work on my next project. Keep it up!

I'm confident your channel is going to grow big and soon. It has the high production value and thoughtful writing in channels I've seen that tend to grow fast. Glad to be here in those early days! Good luck on your TH-cam journey :)

love the high quality videos!

Bro called the video "making peace with Fallout 4" but all I'm hearing in this entire video is a bunch of b1tching and moaning. Doesn't sound to me like he's made any peace at all and just wanted to complain. Lol Terrible channel. Disliked and told YT to never give me this guy's vids again. 🖕

I've learned to love fallout 4 as a base building apocalypse game with some fun combat systems in place. The story is unbearable and the quest aren't fun at pretty much any point, so I don't love it for those reasons, but the ability to set up all settlements as mini diamond city empires is so fun

@6:47 Fresh, new idea!? Huh? Did we... play the same game? Has Zelda not sacrificed herself in previous titles before? Did she not sacrifice herself in BotW? Like I'm confused. How is her sacrifice something new when she has done it countless times? And if you were referring to her just turning into a dragon in general, I mean, it's not really warranted. What was the purpose if nothing was done with it? Compared to other installments to save her kingdom, Totk was pretty shallow. Zelda took pictures, studied history, and saw murals of these people and did not say anything to anyone to try and prevent Rauru and Sonia from dying. If there was an effort in trying to stop Ganondorf BEFORE hand and turning herself into a dragon was the only option then sure. But, that's not what happened in the story. So, the process of draconification was unnecessary and also used as a way into manipulate us into thinking Zelda had no other choice when really everyone's downfall was her fault.

With the billy the kid example, I just headcanon that he got stuck playing in there very recently, otherwise its too horrifying to contemplate (and also how would his parents not find him in 200 years if he was literally within a mile of them)

Botw: Bad story, good storytelling Totk: good story, terrible storytelling

Another problem with the intro is how fake it seems. Nora is a lawyer and Nate a veteran and probably have some money saved up, sure, but we have been set up to believe pre-bomb life was absolutely dismal, not picket fences and mowed lawns. An argument could be made that sanctuary was just a rare outlier. But that’s just so.. boring? Disingenuous? We’ve seen soldiers in power armor shooting a civilian point blank in the street and laughing as the opening scene in the first game. There was a plague, riots, chinese concentration camps, massive inflation (check the price when u pick up a magazine). Nate was stationed in canada(and some theorized he could be the laughing soldier for a while), all the more reason to have this brought up, if not in the intro, then later in dialogue. But no. It rarely ever appears to affect either character, they seem cheery as hell in the intro.

I'm writing this before watching the video because I just want to gush about Fallout 4. The writing sucks, but damn do I still love this game. I already don't care for going through the story of a game over and over, and Fallout 4 doesn't really do any of that. You can start a new game with the quick start mod or by loading a pre-made save, leave the vault and go out into the world and have fun not just chasing your son, but also just rebuilding the entire Commonwealth from nothing and I adore that. The lack of a skill system means traits can really shine, the lack of level cap, the random legendaries, and the abundance of random stuff to find in the wasteland means an experience where you don't have to begrudgingly leave behind hours of work because of running out of levels to get or no longer having anything to find, and customizable weapons gives something fun to mess with everytime you hit your base. Take that and the improvements over Hardcore mode from NV and you can have an actually tough challenge where food and water need to be pre-packed before a trip and I bloody love the entire thing even if I ignore the story. Plus the side content is often better than the main story, so it's just really fun to explore. Anyway, time to watch the video since I'm pretty sure it'll be a really good watch even if I already have an idea of where it's going.

Because Aonuma is a hack. Video done. Same as he didn't understand what made Majora great, now he doesn't understand why BotW worked but how making people wait for 6 years for the same thing and $70 was a slap in the face. I can't wait until he's gone and hopefully Koizumi gets the reigns.

thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. very well researched, with great insights. I too, am very surprised that this doesn't have wayyyy more views because you definitely deserve it given the length and quality of not only the video, but the narration. either way, I appreciate the time you took to make it and it's a very good think-piece on this topic. fantastic work!

BOTW has a good story, you just need to actively search for it if you want to know more about it. TOTK just has a bad story. It's told in a disjointed and repetitive way and it doesn't even make sense when you try to analyze it. It also doesn't even exempt to link its story to botw in any way despite being a direct sequel.

lol am I the only one who loves fallout 4 ?? I don’t understand the hate lol I freaking love fallout 4 AND the others but 4 is my go to !

In a nutshell, Fallout 4 created a AAA roleplaying roadmap storyline that competes with GTA5 all the way because there are ways of going about it as far as dialogue but it's only what the game allows because everything is too expectedly scripted when there is in fact a lot of the unexpected, well at least that's how your first playthrough feels like on New Vegas because your not coming out of a vault on New Vegas so that's understandable

How the hell does this well researched, well produced, good quality video not have more viewers?! I expected it to be at around millions of views. This shit is great

It would be good, if it weren't considered part of the fallout world. That's my issue with it. It entirely crutches on the word fallout otherwise it would have been forgotten by time as yet another boring looter shooter. Bethesda tried, and sadly have failed 3 for 3

Thank you for introducing me the DICE Awards :)

i think it'd be cool if you didn't remember much like how you basically spawn out of nowhere in fnv. then you go around and start learning about the world and yourself. have shaun be like ulysses with less waxing poetically

Great video, In general I love how Geoff Keighley is handling the production, I think he really loves the industry and want to popularize it. - I do love the trailers, but I wish they move some of them to the pre-show to make more room for speeches. - I think they should add peer voting, something like (50% Peers, 40% Journalists/Influencers, 10% Audience) - I also hope that they add something equivalent to "Scientific and Technical Awards" for the Oscars add focus on Game Development and Behind-the-Scenes, or at least a some categories of "Technical Achievement" like the BAFTA.

My guy. I've been thinking this. Thanks for making a video. I haven't even fully understood thought it through. You took the words out of my mind. I already recently gave up 76 but after looking at 4 I was like I beat it and I mod it and did stuff. Now I might do it again. But just think you know it's just not worth it anymore. Nv yes or 3 especially 3 since I haven't played it in decade probably. But weird time to be waiting for 5 and see the issues with these games. Idk starting to think 5 is just gonna bomb if tod, beth, etc are in charge fully

Great analysis.

Insane quality content for the amount of views, you're gonna blow up soon 100%

Complaining about believablity in a fantasy video game where society is stuffed in vaults is when you know youve gone too far off the deep end

well done vid! def needs more eyes!

Asmongold, come watch this video

Amazing content

So, how does this feel now that star wars outlaw came out? You made such a well thought out hypothetical and it was realized, but in the worst possible way. You guessed so accuratly what a star wars bounty hunter game would be like, but there was no way to guess ea would make it so dramatically low quality

“Taking the bad with the good is all you can do” you should have used roger warwick quote saying the same thing basically

I was honestly shocked when I reached the comment section. I was expecting thousands of comments and lots of views, so good the quality of this video is. You are gonna pop soon! Subscribed