Might be late but Zelda Breath of tne Wild is one of the best damn games I ever played in years!!

Is the PC version optimized now?

Last version i saw was this one - and people say, it has low FPS:

https://skidrow-games.com/the-legen...

@Oktokolo I’m not sure as I’m playing it on my switch. Breath of the wild does get a little laggy at times, ive seen it stutter in towns and villages when there’s lots of npcs. Be careful, nintendo comes down real hard on these ports, though in most cases it’s the distributors and engineers who get the mighty legal hammer. There’s a guy named *something* Bowser (not related to Nintendo’s president or the Koopa King) who was sued for millions and is taking time in the slammer for hacking the switch and running emus.

@TeachMeCode

I know. As a pirate you have to use a non-logging VPN and configure your firewall to not let anything but VPN-Traffic through - so your IP doesn't leak in case the VPN link goes down...

Well, BotW would be worth the hassle if it would perform good on PC. If Nintendo would sell it for PC i might have already bought it. All they have to do is adding support for Mouse + Keyboard and recompiling.

@Oktokolo It runs quite well on Cemu. Played through it on the Switch first and sometime after that on Cemu. Although you'll need potent hardware.

Oh come on! Just buy a switch! Play games the good ol fashion way!

@Oktokolo it says "cemu 1.7.3d".

it was greatly playable a long time ago, and the current cemu version is 1.26.2f

i recommend _not_ pirating a game with a bundled emulator of questionable source ;)

Have you played other Zelda games before? Like Ocarina of Time? How does it compare?

@Lensflare i have.

most importantly: BotW is _different_. the open world approach is a big paradigm-shift; i don't think the term "better" would apply. OOT is and always will be the best "classical" zelda, and BotW is simply a different ball park.

@Lensflare it's quite different. My favorite ones, OoT and Majora's Mask are both very different but their defining factor is an emphasis on dungeon level design and exploration. Majora's Mask also has a very in depth sidequest system that is easily one of the best I've played, with very charming side characters.

BotW is about exploring a fully open world and playing with a physics engine. If you don't enjoy open world games (I don't, for the most part) you will probably not get much out of it. It has fun traversing mechanics in the form of a glider and shield snowboarding, which coupled with the physics engine can make for some pretty hilarious results. There is also the ability to climb on most surfaces, so it's kind of a hiking simulator in a sense. It's worth a check at the very least.

@TeachMeCode

> Oh come on! Just buy a switch!

Oh come on, just release on all platforms!

Paying >€200 to get hardware just for a single game is quite steep.

I have the same with Horizon: Forbidden West on PS5. It looks nice, but I'm not going shell out hundreds for ONE game.

The rest of the exclusives line-up on consoles looks too meager to buy the hardware in my opinion.

The whole "exclusives" strategy is super anti-consumer anyway.

@bittersweet EXACTLY that. there's basically two games i would buy a switch for (BotW and mario kart). and i'm not ready to invest that kind of money for two games.

i would however, without hesitating even a single second, buy a copy for PC.

and nintendo wouldn't even have to _do_ anything for that. they would only have to _not_ proactively block emulators access to the stores.

Fuck exclusives!

@tosensei

Okay, you convinced me - i pirate BotW on next occasion.

Should be waaay better than that Genshin Impact shit i tried because a youtuber said it looks and plays like BotW...

@TeachMeCode

I started with a C64 and then switched to PC. Playing games the good ol fashioned way for me means getting them pirated from friends on hand-labeled 5.25" floppy disks and/or fiddling with DOS settings to free enough ram so they even start. Later, mods became pretty important too.

I am not part of the target group of console makers.

I agree

whoever designed thunderblight ganon deserves my foot up his sadistic ass