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hperrin, do gaming w Is Elden Ring a good Breath of the Wild replacement?

No. It’s a different game.

(But seriously, what are you asking here? Is it for the same audience? Is it similar enough that if you like one you’ll like the other? Are the gameplay mechanics similar? Your question is not specific enough.)

Pacattack57, do gaming w Is Elden Ring a good Breath of the Wild replacement?

Depends on what you’re looking for. If you want a game exactly like BotW than no, Elden Ring is harder and has a lot more complex mechanics.

If you’re asking because you can only play one then Elden Ring is better and it’s not even close. With that said it is not meant for casual play, if you don’t like losing do not play it. Dying is a core mechanic of the game.

RightHandOfIkaros, do gaming w Is Elden Ring a good Breath of the Wild replacement?

Elden Ring is vastly superior IMO. I found there was less empty space compared to BotW, and far better combat mechanics.

Sendpicsofsandwiches, do gaming w Is Elden Ring a good Breath of the Wild replacement?
@Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works avatar

Idk if I’d call it a replacement per se but elden ring is an excellent large open world game with some really good variety of weapons / spells to play with. It also rewards exploration really well with secret loot and even entire secret areas

sneezycat, do gaming w Is Elden Ring a good Breath of the Wild replacement?
@sneezycat@sopuli.xyz avatar

No.

Play Death Stranding instead, it’s closer to the exploration/traversal aspect of BotW at least.

TachyonTele,

That’s a wild recommendation.
I never bothered to get past the first real mission, so I don’t know how true it is. It’s a goddamn slog playing the game.

wizardbeard, (edited )

Director’s Cut eases some of that, but it’s definitely a game that could use better guidance. The first map is a slog, but if you charge through it (past the point where you take a barge to a new map) things open up pretty quickly with vehicles, new obstacles, and other tools to keep things more interesting.

The worst part is that the game doesn’t really direct you towards unlocking the tools and upgrades that make things better. A lot is unlocked through the main plot path, but there’s more that’s just not signposted at all. Is grinding out the full 5 star approval of this guy going to unlock a level 3 exoskeleton, or is it just unlocking a new decorative patch for my backpack? How am I supposed to naturally find out what places give you the best boots in the game as delivery rewards?

It’s a game where you just kind of have to accept the slog as part of the narrative. You’re one singular delivery man tasked with reconnecting the remaining people and settlements in a ruined america. It’s going to be tough. Moments of power fantasy will be few and far between. As you reconnect more, you gain the ability to build infrastructure (and use infrastructure built by others through the network you’re making) to make things easier.

Like, if you can find enjoyment in the slow moments, then you earn the more enjoyable stuff over time. Definitely not for everyone. I like it, but I play on and off in bursts. Think I have like 100 hours over four years. Biggest advice is to speed through the first map, just do the main quests. On the second map you can start taking your time if you want to.

TachyonTele,

Everything you’ve described is so far past where my point of giving up is, none of that matters. “Charging through it” is watching 3 hours of cutscenes and only God knows how little gameplay.

RaoulDook,

I’m not gonna downvote Death Stranding, but it’s not much like Zelda BOTW at all. DS is the best “strand type” video game around. Breath of the Wild is an awesome Zelda RPG-lite with a vast open world and tons of stuff to do. Elden Ring is the best RPG like and Souls-like game of all time to present day.

sneezycat,
@sneezycat@sopuli.xyz avatar

For me at least, BotW was more about the movement and traversal problem solving than anything else. Of course it has action elements and it’s super different to DS in many ways, but the pathfinding part tickles the same part of my brain in both games, idk.

I think Elden Ring is way different because it’s an action game, where the fights take center stage, and not so much the movement mechanics (although the exploration is great in its own way).

RaoulDook,

Yeah that’s a good point. Tears of the Kingdom takes all that and dials it up to 11 with the flying and vehicles

grrgyle, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?

An excellent philosophical question, that we all ask ourselves at some point - why do we play?

I’ll answer your question with one of my own: what is productive labour for after all? To allow for more productive labour?

I could cite some evolutionary hypotheses about how we came to enjoy play and beauty for their own sake, but that doesn’t tell you what we ought to value.

For my own part I think thoughtfully maximising life’s pleasures is a good goal (though I would rank diminishing pain as higher priority).

dumbass, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

To provide entertainment.

Asafum, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?

Providing entertainment is useful value. How many thousands and thousands of years back do you need to look to finally hit a point where there is absolutely no evidence of some form of entertainment being “produced.”

Hell there are even animal bone “flutes” for making music going back to like the neanderthals or something like that.

We need to stop with this “if it doesn’t lead to making money it has no place in society” nonsense.

Edit: I think you can actually see the divergence between extracting value from games (AAA devs absolutely ruining their reputation seeking profit over entertainment) and creating entertaining games.

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

dontgooglefinderscult, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?

The same reason the literal entirety of society exists. After we completely figured out food, water, and shelter, we got bored. We stopped being at risk of famine 10k years ago, we pretty quickly figured out fermentation and distillation makes water not kill us, and we figured out how to house everyone.

Then we kept just making that faster and easier to accomplish.

Well what do we do with all that free time? Fuck play games, do some entertainment, kill other people over petty nonsense, create pointless class based societies that generate artificial scarcity simply because a few people are greedy and most are too trusting of those greedy people, enrich out lives through momentary joy.

So in the dark ages of computing this tradition was continued and a very smart, highly paid scientist in charge of tens of millions of dollars of equipment made some of that equipment play table tennis.

A few decades and massive corporate funding of naive over enthusiastic nerds with much cheaper but more powerful equipment later and we have video games instead of going to the pub to play dice or doing a war…

rayquetzalcoatl, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world avatar

providing entertainment to the user

LambdaRX, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?
@LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works avatar

Entertainment is crucial for mental health.

KillerTofu, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?

Ask the same about any other art like music, paintings, sculptures. What useful value do they have other than entertainment?

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Artistic expression. Whether anyone is entertained by it is a byproduct. :)

KillerTofu,

And can the same not be said about interactive media like video games?

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Absolutely. It’s a matter of artistic expression.

Nobody was REALLY entertained by “Irritating Stick”, but the creators expressed themselves.

youtu.be/Xagp0JhvCY0

AreaKode, do gaming w Why video games exist after all?

I believe you just answered your own question. Sometimes people just want to have fun.

NegativeLookBehind,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

How dare they

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

But using video games for recreational purposes was outlawed!

RightHandOfIkaros, do gaming w Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom for Xbox?

I dont think.any Switch emulators run on the Xbox platform. The Xbox is obviously powerful enough, but none of the emulators are ported to the console.

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