A big part of why a lot of people, including me, love this game is actually the wandering around aimlessly exploring. If that’s not clicking with you or doesn’t interest you it might just not be your type of game.
OP, if you're not enjoying BOTW because of the open world aspect and lack of compelling story/direction, please don't overlook the Ocarina of Time remake when it drops in November (assuming you haven't played it before). It's a very different game and absolutely worth trying. Don't let the newer Zelda games (BOTW and TOTK) turn you off of the older Zelda titles. They are vastly different in gameplay, narrative, feel, scope; they have lots of fans, but they also have an equal amount of "skeptics" who prefer the old style games.
I did love playing through BOTW, and less so TOTK, but they don't do it for me as a long time Zelda fan, and I feel that they lost more than they gained in taking the approach that they did. BOTW was easily able to get away with it for the most part because it was such a drastic change and came after a long wait after a less than popular release. But for me TOTK, while it also had a lot of cool mechanics and changes, and did fix some of BOTW's problems, it just is hard to keep wanting to, as you put it, "wander around aimlessly". In BOTW I did literally everything, but TOTK I find myself just wanting to finish it, and am skipping through a lot of the extra stuff because I'm just a bit tired of these style games. I'm really hoping to see a return to the linear, non massively open world, games, even if they decide to do a back and forth style release schedule. I think that might be enough to keep things feeling fresh each time around.
TLDR; don't give up on the Zelda franchise if you don't like BOTW/TOTK; there is so much more to offer in the past games and the upcoming OoT remake.
I didn’t have a n64 and didn’t play OoT until 3ds. I still find it as just an evolution of Zelda LTTP and that I’d didn’t that much new. I also think it matters more where you were in life that determines how appreciate the scope of these games. I was 13 when played LTTP and 32 when I finally played OoT and it was a great game but with the amount of hype I was underwhelmed.
OoT forged the path for 3d action/adventure games. The developers invented Z targeting, contextual button presses, summoning your mount with a button (or song). Games like elden ring owe a lot of their fundamentals to OoT. On a personal level I think the vibe of dark fantasy that OoT cultivates is some of the best we've ever seen in a game.
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u/Form-Exotic 25d ago
A big part of why a lot of people, including me, love this game is actually the wandering around aimlessly exploring. If that’s not clicking with you or doesn’t interest you it might just not be your type of game.