You know, on the subject of specifically improving durability as a mechanic, I'll repeat and idea I said elsewhere once:

The mechanic, "best" used, should encourage good gameplay. Skyward Sword did this with shields: timing the shield bash correctly meant no degradation. BotW carried that over at least (one of the reasons I felt Guardians were one of the only enemies worth fighting, by reflecting beams, since playing well meant zero loss), but there was no equivalent with bows or melee weapons. For melee weapons, I think the obvious thing would be "hit what you're supposed to". Hitting the enemy with a sword would mean no (or very little) degradation, hitting them with a boomerang in-hand would cause degradation but not when thrown, hammers wouldn't degrade when crushing rocks but swords will, etc. Bows I've never really been sure about, maybe holding the shot too long or too much rapid/dry firing would cause durability loss.

Still, I've never liked durability in any game I've played that had it, and I've always felt they were just an artificial (in gameplay terms) way of taking resources away from the player. Any problem they "solve" always seems to me like a problem with another part of the game's design, not the weapons.

 

They almost did this, too. Hitting a wall or a rock with a sword does deplete its durability more than hitting an enemy. A wooden club makes a less durable torch than does an actual torch. Unfortunately, they still break pretty quickly when used correctly too.

 

I'm late to the game but excited about BoTW 2!

 

Agreed, I don't use horses for exploring, just for the fun of capturing/riding them from time to time. Sometimes I like to ride a horse or the bike through an explored area just because it's more fun than warping. Also I have a lot of fun tormenting the mounted Bokoblins with the bike!  

I guess for me I just know which weapons I like, stock up on them and know where to quickly get more when they run out. I only use Lynel bows for example and if I run out I just have to make a quick run through the edge of the map north of Death Mountain where there are three Lynels in a row. My inventory is full of Lynel bows and royal broadsword/spears that I harvest from Hynoxes. I can't remember the last time I ran out of a favorite weapon. I get how that can be an annoyance though, I felt the same way early on in the game when I didn't know where weapons were and I was essentially running around with nothing but sticks and rusty swords.

Also now with a fully upgraded Master sword I am just using THAT most of the time and I never care when it runs out of power because it regenerates so fast. That's a late-in-the-game luxury though.

 

I know where to get better weapons, but I wanna spend my time doing what I wanna spend my time doing, instead of making detours and running errands to stock up. Gathering materials and ingredients is enough. I don't want to do that just to keep good weapons in my inventory too!

And I also get that it doesn't bother everyone. But it doesn't seem to enhance the game for anyone either, so the fact that it bothers a sizable number of players is an issue.

 

Agreed. Climbing is the other core mechanic of the game. Link climbing a cliff was one of the earliest pieces of promo art for the game. Removing the stamina bar would either allow you to scale any surface indefinitely, making every objective as simple as walking in a straight line, or result in them removing the verticality and largeness of the game space, which would make it just like any other Zelda.

Pretty much everything in the game is carefully thought out in just this way. They don't start you out with one unbreakable sword because scavenging weapons from enemies and chests contributes to the postapocalyptic setting of the game. It also allows them to scale the difficulty of areas without adding a level system. Shrines and Divine Beasts are made out of stuff you can't climb so that they can design more traditional tool based puzzles inside them. Rupees are harder to come by because it encourages you to make your own food and potions instead of just running to the local witch's house, by extension encouraging you to use other mechanics like hunting and gathering (also, please give us fishing in this one!). Horses are introduced earlier because the game is much larger and more open. And so on.

 

Random: Playing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Sequel's Trailer In Reverse Is Absolutely Terrifying

(Just the audio is played in reverse)

Is it saying something or not....hmmmm

 

YES! I miss fishing. I mean, rod and reel fishing and not 'chuck a bomb or shock arrow into the water then collect the floating corpses' fishing.
Have the monsters fish as well. That way the rods can break like the weapons and I can sneak up on Bokoblins peacefully fishing by a placid pond and murder them for their fishing rods.

 

Is it wrong that I'm happy to see more of the Breath of the Wild incarnation of Princess Zelda with this sequel announcement?

 

Nope, it's a great incarnation of the character and I really hope she's playable this time around.

 

Me too. Honestly what I would like is some kind of game play with an interlocked story where you play as both. That would be great.

 

i'm over with all the so called irritating aspects of the game except one: rideability of horses.

like, beating beast ganon and i still had to pet and calm the damn thing so it rides properly? f that. after getting hammered twice i just beat the damn thing on foot. stupid horses.

 

You played the whole game without a saddled horse?

 

Or a saddled horse with a wild temperament that he never bonded with fully.

 

What would be awesome is if Link and Zelda are both playable and in tandem on-screen. You could either switch back and forth in single player mode or do a split screen co-op mode. This could open up new puzzle opportunities where one character needs to be in one location while another needs to be somewhere else. Also, dungeon bosses would require you to use both heroes to defeat them.

 

This. I like this. More of this!

 

The rain would still screw you over when climbing.

 

  as much as I curse when that happens, I LOVE the ironic timing of it. It's like there is an in-game vengeful god that knows the EXACT moments you REALLY need to climb and then summons the rain. Desperately need to climb away from that monster because you ran out of weapons or underestimated its strength? You get to climb JUST out of it's reach and then RAIN!  

That said, some special climbing gear for wet rocks would be cool. Maybe to still provide a challenge they could make it so you can climb wet rocks but you do it slower than normal climbing speed.

 

Finding of Kass's puzzles is literally this. The area he's standing in always has rain because the goal is to get lightning to strike a specific area. But his music carries all the way down to the road to Lurelin Village, where you're likely to hear it for the first time. So if you try the most direct route - up the cliff - it will always start raining halfway up.

To be fair, that's how climbing in the rain works already. You can still get up if you time the rhythm of Link's slips correctly (and maybe snack on your way up) you can climb just about anything.

Speaking of Stamina though, a big thing on my wishlist is that good that adds yellow hearts or stamina should be able to exceed the maximum allowed by soul orbs. If you have 25 hearts in BotW and you eat a meal that gives you 10 bonus hearts it will only give you five.

 

I’m doing master mode. Avoiding enemies and getting my hearts up. Not even going to try the bosses until I get the master sword and all of the armor upgrades. Holy hell enemies are tough.