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Still playing Breath of the Wild
Feb. 10th, 2019 02:39 amAlso, incidentally, thinking about Ender's Game, some. At one point in the book, Ender breaks the unbeatable computer game by using lateral thinking and a surprising, even for Battle School, penchant for utterly unnecessary viciousness. Nobody had ever done this before or since, and unlike real world games this one doesn't merely glitch out, it ascends to a higher plane.
Back to Zelda, here's a YouTube video of somebody who has very determinedly gotten to Zora Domain without meeting the Zora prince - the devs anticipated that somebody might try this, and adapted the dialog to account for this improbable feat.
There are videos of people luring Hinoxes, not found near water, all the way out to water to see if they can swim (yes), of dragging Cuccos around so that monsters get swarmed by flocks, and of luring Bokoblins into disturbing maze traps. (Some of the people on the last group belong on some sort of watchlist, I swear.) People have patiently induced Guardians to fight Lynels, snuck weapons into a weaponless challenge, and generally done everything they could to break this game, as I'm sure they habitually try to break all games they play.
There is a lot you can say about Ender's Game, much of it critical. I think, however, that the most important takeaway here is that OSC clearly didn't know the sort of people who played video games.
Back to Zelda, here's a YouTube video of somebody who has very determinedly gotten to Zora Domain without meeting the Zora prince - the devs anticipated that somebody might try this, and adapted the dialog to account for this improbable feat.
There are videos of people luring Hinoxes, not found near water, all the way out to water to see if they can swim (yes), of dragging Cuccos around so that monsters get swarmed by flocks, and of luring Bokoblins into disturbing maze traps. (Some of the people on the last group belong on some sort of watchlist, I swear.) People have patiently induced Guardians to fight Lynels, snuck weapons into a weaponless challenge, and generally done everything they could to break this game, as I'm sure they habitually try to break all games they play.
There is a lot you can say about Ender's Game, much of it critical. I think, however, that the most important takeaway here is that OSC clearly didn't know the sort of people who played video games.
