I get what you are saying. And I feel your squishy parts. But man... this summarizes a lot of the posts I am seeing. Words words words and not an ounce of soul or passion to stick them together.
From what I've seen and used of it so far, I wouldn't say its actually that deep. Mainly just flat blocks and special pieces that do things, like fans, rockets, flames, etc. It all follows the elemental physics from botw, I'm sure someone can come up with some cool things, but actually gameplay wise its surprisingly basic. The grindy part comes from mining Zonaite to purchase parts from these capsule toy dispensers dotted around the map, each one has a different selection and you get a random bunch when you drop zonaite in it. Also it costs Zonaite to re-assemble saved structures, and you can refine the zonaite into ANOTHER currency (there are at least 5 currencies, I'm getting Destiny 2 flashbacks) that you use to upgrade your energy storage (the battery thing, gets depleted when you use powered zonai stuff like the fans and things).
Someone can link a modpack for the server owner to install.
I could see them using the current map as a base, but set it thousands of years in the future or past to justify completely changing things. If they make it so you don't get the glider until near the end and block passes and bridges, they could portion up sections of the map so you can't access them until you get a tool from a dungeon. Like have bridges broken so you need a hook shot to cross the canyon to get to the Northwest, make walking on sand very difficult unless you get special boots, and be unable to climb mountains until you get the climbing gear, remove fireproof elixers and have the fireproof armor only available once you defeat a certain boss, etc. And have a fairy or Sword AI that forces you to turn back when you try to sneak into areas you're not supposed to be able to access yet.
They wont block you from accessing anything immediately because it goes against their 'open air' design that they covered in their 'designing a champion' book. Thats what Elden Ring did, and they still included their traditional dungeons. But it seems either Elden Ring came out too late for them to change anything based on it, or they don't want to go against the 'open air' design at all.
Maybe they made the game they wanted to make.
I know this may be a foreign concept to you, but I'm just discussing the game. Me discussing the game won't kill you and it wont hurt nintendo either. You can discuss something and compare it to something else without it being me 'hating' on something. If you are this fragile around just discussion then maybe you should log off.
I don't negrate people. I just say stuff.
Botw and ToTK were designed with an open air concept, but it's not guaranteed that future games will be. Eventually they'll want to shake things up again in the future, and it's more then possible for them to do so without having to throw out the map and start from scratch.
I really don't think they could get away with re-using the same map a third time, I'm still iffy on them re-using it for this, if they did it again I think even the most staunch defenders would start getting iffy. I don't think future games will be as open as botw or this, but I can see them integrating the open air design to them. Whether that means something more traditional or what is up in the air though.
That's not emulating though. Shading is completely optional and has nothing to do with the emulation of the system. The only time when gpu is actually hit significantly is when you upscale, or when you add fancy postprocessing stuff.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. 7th generation consoles and after used pixel shader based render pipelines, consoles before that are fixed function (the Xbox being the sole exception, which runs direct x with shader support). A shader is universal, but it needs to be compiled for the hardware running it. This is done on the GPU, your GPU is also used to render the actual game. The only emulators that aren't running on the GPU are like, PS1 emulators in software mode, and maybe snes and nes stuff.
Hyrule is Hyrule. If they set it in a different era there can literally be completely different construction, climates, and landscape features due to the effects of erosion or whatever.
I actually fucking do know what I'm talking about. IF you don't believe me, go to any of these emulators developers and ask them what is the most important component. A five fucking second google search would tell you this shit as well.
The more i learn about the game the more i think they where looking at Majora like a blueprint
