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MrTomDawson t1_je9qge0 wrote

> I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed in the (what seems to be) the lack of changes to the map.

What changes were you expecting? It's set in the same place, not long after the first game. It was unlikely to have been gentrified and filled with artisan coffee places in the interim.

Obviously there are going to be differences in what things/monsters/adventures you find in what place, probably few ne locations and some changes made to existing ones etc etc, but expecting an entirely new map is just strange.

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bingbongbungbeng t1_jeba9u8 wrote

Proving the point

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MrTomDawson t1_jebag8a wrote

...which point?

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bingbongbungbeng t1_jebat0d wrote

The fans will defend the series to the ends of the earth. Even if they changed the map, it still wouldn't be worth 10 dollars more. There's just no way they added enough changes to warrant the price hike.

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MrTomDawson t1_jebb2kt wrote

Which....wasn't at all the point?

The dude complained, based on practically nothing, that the developers were being lazy in reusing the same map.

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bingbongbungbeng t1_jebb7ol wrote

That was his first point if you actually cared to read the post before reacting to it, lmao.

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MrTomDawson t1_jebbgut wrote

Maybe take your own advice? He repeatedly talks about the map, several times, before making an offhand side reference to the price.

Maybe you just honed in on your personal bugbear and ignored all the context, hm?

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bingbongbungbeng t1_jebcop5 wrote

Lmaao i can smell the soy

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MrTomDawson t1_jebdpjd wrote

Oh, you're one of those people. Sorry, it was unfair of me to expect you to be able to read.

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bingbongbungbeng t1_jebdw17 wrote

Says the one who can't even read the title of the post. You're so focused on defending the game you can't even read. Hoes mad ig.

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MrTomDawson t1_jebe23b wrote

Alright man. If you want to keep embarassing yourself that's on you, but don't make me part of your humiliation fetish. Buhbye!

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Kengfatv t1_je9u8ih wrote

They could have given us a whole new map. They could have given us the entirety of the old one, and 50% 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.

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MrTomDawson t1_je9vy80 wrote

>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.

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Kengfatv t1_je9wvmc wrote

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.

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MrTomDawson t1_je9y3ga wrote

>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.

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Kengfatv t1_jea00sp wrote

Games that try to encourage exploration normally show you that there's anything to explore.

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MrTomDawson t1_jea08g4 wrote

Like floating landmasses newly arrived in the sky, for example?

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Kengfatv t1_jea1tib wrote

Sure, if there's an entire hyrule sized area worth of them. but it looks like it's more like a skyloft sized area to explore. I'd pay 10$ for that as a DLC for BOTW.

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MrTomDawson t1_jea2nri wrote

Alright. You seem pretty determined that you know the map will remain unchanged, so I'll stop trying to bring logic into this.

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Siendra t1_jea6wqg wrote

The entire reveal cinematic and multiple shots in the trailers also take place below ground.

Fact is we don't know shit about the world just like we didn't know shit about anything off the Great Plateau before BotW released.

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Siendra t1_jea6pnf wrote

They didn't show much of anything before BotW launched. Almost all of the gameplay footage was from the Great Plateau plus some establishing and action shots off of it.

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