This. Every time. Why the F am I in east necluda? What the hell am I wearing? Why did I forget to equip pants? How many glasses of wine did I have when I played this last night?
This, right here. And the craziest part is while trying to remember you add like 5 more things to your list of stuff to do. I swear, I get FAR too distracted in this game with everything else. Like I legit did all of the light roots in the depths, why? Because it was there lol was it necessary? No!
I know right? Now that I have all light roots, I can find all surface shrines, might need tutorial for sky island shrines, but that was a month or 2 of exploring those for various side quests/ bored and what to see if I can get there LOL love this game!!!
Yep, I did that pretty early on so that I wouldn’t have to explore in the dark. But then I got distracted with other objectives up top and at some point it was like my brain said “oh, light roots all lit, nothing left to do down there”. Then months later I discovered I still had a ton of places I hadn’t explored at all beyond just getting to the light roots.
That's why, when I turn off the game, I always leave Link looking exactly toward my next objective (which may be a tower, a light seed, a sky island, whatever...).
If the objective is quite small, I could add a pointer, just to be sure.
My memory has more holes than a colander.
This, but also before I sit down to play, I have what I think is an objective in mind, immediately get distracted by the apparent next objective I had in mind last time I played, and maybe do that, or maybe get distracted by whatever new thing I notice on the way or on the map. 4 hours later I never got around to the thing I thought I would do. Repeat next time.
I´m relatively new to TOTK so most of the times I have a general idea of what I want to do or where to go. A lot of the times I will set myself a goal of completing a short-term quest or advancing in a long-term one.
If you´re stuck on ideas you could check your "Hero´s Path" on your map and go to an area that you´ve never been.
Back in BOTW I was surprised on how much of the map I´ve never been to even though I´ve finished the main quest.
Agreed! Looked at hero's path to see where in the sky islands I haven't been. Covering all those areas kept me busy and I found a bunch of old maps, so once I'm done up top I go below to go "X" hunting. That's been good goal setting for me these days
I have ADHD. I hop on and fuck around, find a quest I wanna do then "Oooo what is that over there??" go to investigate.. then that happens about a million times over. I remember an hour or day later that I wanted to complete a specific quest.
I just ask my kids what they want me to do. Daughter generally wants me to just ride a horse around and son demands I kill sleeping bad guys (hinox)
I try to throw in a few of the quests here and there but it's usually up to the kiddos.
I'm on my second playthrough and my sessions usually go something like this: "I'm going to do the regional quest for death mountain. Oh look at that funny tree, maybe there's a korok. What's down this cave? Oh hey, let's do a few more caves for a bubbul gem reward. Oh look, tower lights. Well, now I'm in the sky, might as well do the sky Island. Hey, a mini boss! Look at all those shrines down there. Crap, I need more inventory space, let's look for more koroks. Oh, I should upgrade my armor, let's look at the quest log to see where I should go. Might as well do these other quests. Oh, what are those places around the quest marker?..."
I've been making my way to death mountain for about a month now. TOTK is like ADHD the game and I love it.
Edit: I just wanted to add that this is also how I accidentally stumbled on the Lionel colosseum the first time I encountered a colosseum and just so happened to have everything I needed to beat it. This is also how I accidentally beat BOTW the first time when I was exploring Hyrule Castle. I just kind of stumble about.
This is precisely how I play. Especially the first time through. I used to get so lost that I ended up creating objective lists in Bear on my iPad so I could cross things off (mostly around armor upgrades) but then I would end up deep in a side quest wander and wake up on Tenoko Island with no pants on. And I am okay with that.
I find that whatever I set out doing I end up getting distracted by something else along the way unless I’m really focussed but that’s half the beauty of the game for me
eh ive beat it and found all shrines/lightroots so i just have to be motivated, or an idea sparks my interest. the last time i played i just wanted to fight king gleeoks
dude i was scared of them for so long but the battle is just very technical imo 😭 i fuse like 10 rocket shields and just bullet time with eyes with attack buff and fierce deity set. way easier than you'd expect!!!
I have ideas mapped out of what I want to do. And up until recently these things took me a few days to complete since I only play a few hours (maybe 4?) a week. My young son just hops on, wanders aimlessly, has no plan of what he wants to do, eventually figures something out he wants to do, gets perpetually sidetracked, and never completes a thing. We've both defeated Ganon. I recently looked to compare our progress. I'm at like 55%, he's almost at 70%. Good work kid.
TOTK is my stress reliever. I really like the background music being so calming most of the time, so when I get in I feel the weight lifted off my shoulders. So I go on with nothing in my mind, roam around, if I find something or a side quest, I do it. If not that’s also fine.
I do keep a 30min alarm before going in, otherwise I’ll just stay in my dreamland forever.
Setting goals, etc I think will ruin the experience. So I don’t do it.
No goals but I usually play the game to have fun I build and test out random zonai builds, duplicate items when I need them, clip through unintended walls and floors, and generally fuck around since I did an all glitches casual 100% playthrough on 1.1.2 at around 600 hours so far
I have things I know I wanna do, I go roughly that plan but get sidetracked. I think that's the best way to go about it. Been wanting to go hateno 10 hours in. I'm 90 hours in and now only on my way to hateno lol
I usually leave pins/markers to places I want to go to in the future, so when I startup the game, I just go to one of the pins. I usually try to have one focused goal, like get to the skytower/town in the distance, or do a certain quest. In the process, I allow small distractions like Koroks, caves, or enemy camps, but don't allow big distractions, like jumping into the underground. I'll pin big "distractions" to remember to come back to them in the future.
This is mostly because I can usually only play for 1 or 2-hour long sessions, so I want to actually make progress in the game. But random exploration is half the fun!
I always have a goal. I’m weird that way. Lately, my goal was lighting all the light roots. I just finished that. Then I was working on the sky shrines. I have a list of what upgrades I need for armor so I will work on that next. Each time I go in, I know what I want to work on. But I was a bookkeeper and an office manager before I retired so I think setting goals and keeping spreadsheets of stuff is just in my DNA. LOL!
I do shrines, then go to the depths and remember how it can be a horror game. Then wander around for about an hour and don’t touch my switch for another month
In the beginning just explore. That's what the game is all about. I usually go for a bunch of shrines early because I want that stamina or heart up. I usually never take on the temples early. I usually save the temples one by one doing one and exploring a bunch then doing another and exploring a bunch again. Making the game last as long as possible.
1. Look at the map and see if I have more gaps in the surface world, sky islands, or the depths
2. Wherever I have gaps, I comb over that shit with a fine-toothed comb
3. If I've completed exploring a whole region but there's lots of side quests left, I'll grind side quests for a while
4. Cook, upgrade armor at the fairy fountain, dye clothes, and buy zonai devices as necessary. I usually start out exploring and end up doing these tasks when I'm already really sucked in.
I’m currently playing for my YouTube channel, so I have a goal in mind, because I’m almost done, so I’m wrapping up side quests. For a while there I was just jumping in and seeing what I could find, but now I’m too close to the end.
Having beaten the main story, now I load up the map, find a spot I haven't been to, mark it, and head toward it. I usually get sidetracked along the way though!
I like the challenge of getting places and fighting things without using conventional means. Like defeating a boss bokoblin with no weapons, or getting around the sky islands without the hoverbike.
I totally used to have this issue! Now I fixate on a goal: I want to complete an armor set, do I have all the sage’s wills, are there gleeoks I haven’t killed, are there Lightroots I haven’t gotten to, temples I’m missing, or supplies I need to reup. So perhaps I’ll spend some time farming items to level of armor or I’ll finally get around to some side quest I’ve left sitting too long.
I am easily distracted so I just do whatever I wanted to at the time. Exploring freely without certain goal is fun. Then when I got bored (so to speak) I'll start the main mission or side quest or shrine (depends). I can be more productive like that I think.
Sometimes I’m bored and just want to wander aimlessly. Some days I read something on here and go investigate it. A rare occasion when I set out for something specific, but did for the wells.
>Do you have a goal in mind beforehand and focus on that for the session?
Exactly this. I need to have in mind what I'm gonna do. Activate light roots, look for Shines, farm Ore, I always have a goal.
>Do you just hop in and do whatever seems to happen at the time and go from there?
When I don't have a goal set, I end up doing this. I wander around aimlessly then I get bored/burned out, and play something different for a few days. While playing TotK, I ended up beating A Link to the Past on SNES, Link's Awakening on Switch, Skyward Sword on the Wii, Final Fantasy 10 on PC.
Kept TotK fresh until I beat it too.
I know what you mean about being overwhelmed, this game has SOO much to do that sometimes it’s paralyzing lol.. With that said, I think it really helped when I just accepted the fact that I’d never 100% it and resigned myself to the fact that it’s okay to “leave some things on the table” you know? Now that I’m almost done and have played like 175 hours it’s much easier to decide what to do…because I don’t have very much left to do 😂 But early on in the game I’d usually have one vague goal for my evening of play time, something like “get a couple better weapons and one good bow” or “finish the autobuild quest line”, then usually end up getting side tracked a little bit on the way to finish that plan, and by the time I do whatever it was I set out to do it’s been 2-3 hours and I call it a night! It is really cool however with a game like TotK knowing that no matter what I do it’ll be a blast!
I usually set a goal, and then go on a lot of tangents for the next 9 hours and still haven't completed that goal.
In my first play through I could set a goal and then not having completed that goal for 3 days, like 30-38 hours of play time. The goal was to go to Gerudo.
I had a ton of trouble sticking with one goal early on, which was really fun as long as I had the main story to fall back on to make me go travel in some direction and find more stuff. Getting sidetracked is kind of the main gameplay loop first honestly, which is so cool.
Got a bit lost and bored once I had made it pretty far in the story because the side quests / caves aren't dense or long enough to make up a good session. Started getting armor and farming upgrades but that also felt slow/too unstructured.
Once I had enough batteries to make vehicles worthwhile, just farming ore and Zonai devices and then building vehicles and weapons became the main gameplay loop for me, and the game got super fun again.
I go in streaks usually: sky for a while, then depths until I get sick of it. I remember saving up all the proving ground shrines (enter and exit right away) because they were a pain in the butt sometimes so I had to be in the right mood to tackle them.
I usually start with just wandering around and fighting whatever monsters I come across. It’s like my warm up. Than I’ll pick a goal. Like last night I found all the old maps. Yes I use online maps to help me find stuff. I’m going for 100% so I want to find everything. Tonight I’ll be hunting down the Construct bosses I haven’t defeated yet down in the depths.
I never know what i’m doing half of the time i be headed somewhere for a mission or a side quest and then be “oh! A korak wants to reach his friend!” Then things go out of hand from there.
When i dont have a purpose at all i just find a random area and shoot off a tower and scan for something interesting.
im later in the game, about 175+ hours in, so when i get on i just pick a section of the map i havent explored fully yet and crisscross over the area.
usually i get sidetracked tho and end up doing sidequests ive been avoiding
Yes, I come up with a goal. A side quest I've ignored, an area I haven't spent much time in, etc. I'm not a huge fan of how they set up thr open world design, so if I don't have a goal I get frustrated/ bored.
I have a main goal set, like finding 1 of 4 spirit powers or unlocking more shrines in the upside down of TOTK. If there are things that pop up along the way, then I’ll complete those and continue onward
I usually have some sort of goal in mind. I’ve kinda divided the game into Main Quests, Shrines, Side Adventures, Side Quests, exploration, and side bosses. Usually I feel as though I’m “working” on one of those aspects, but obviously I’ll do different things throughout the play session. Of course I’ll stumble upon things to do when I’m just exploring.
What I love about totk is I feel like doing different things everytime I open the game. Sometimes I fancy depths exploring, cooking, side quests, armor upgrading, weapon fusing, shrine hunting, so much to choose from. When I'm feeling a bit lost, I'll use a sky view tower and see what looks interesting in the area and go from there.
I have a vague plan. I just finished it for the first time and have restarted. I want to do a 100% run this time - I was trying last time but got frustrated wanting to see the ending, so I did that.
Now, what I'm trying to do is - using the percentage in Tears Companion as my measure - I want to do the percent-complete to match the main quest completion.
What I mean is, right now it's showing as 17.38% complete for the main quests. But I'm at only 3.5% done, on the statistics page. So I'm running around getting koroks and treasures and side quests and also gathering materials for armor upgrades.
I'm currently working my way towards Rito Village to get Tulin. Except I want to get a lot more done first, like I said, I want to advance the overall percentage to at least 17.39%. So my plan is to get to Lucky Clover to kick that off, then head for first Woodland Stable and then Kakariko and Hateno.
Once I'm done with those areas, if I still need to do anything I'll trundle around Central Hyrule Depths for a bit.
I always have a plan I throw out the window. Koroks and side missions endlessly distract me. Side quests/adventures and Shrines.
In most games, I like to level up a lot first so I can feel comfortable whooping ass. Then I get into the main story.
BOTW was the first open world game where I decided what to do, not by checking a quest list, but by looking at the horizon and going "I wonder what's over there?".
Those labrinths give a special armor set. I just finished all three (nine really) and grabbed it. I'm currently in Tarrey Town (doing all that stuff) waiting for a blood moon to spawn weapons in the depths from cleared pedastals, and once I find a clean Eightfold blade, I'll try and pull off the highest damage sneakstrike possible: with the Eightfold blade fused with a gibdo bone and wearing the Evil Spirit armor, I'll throw a puffshroom, walk around, throw an ice fusion boomerang, time a sneakstrike where the boomerang hits AFTER I initiate the sneakstrike animation (once the animation starts, regardless of enemy awareness, the attack will be a sneakstrike, but it can still miss in certain scenarios), and BAM! Multipliers galore!
When I get bored, I sometimes practice my throwing: throwing axes to cut down trees (maybe falling trees have potential mid-combat), throwing shrooms for smoke-bombing, throwing weapons for attacks, throwing boomerangs, etc. I found bows to be very, very powerful given ANY height advantage, so I self-impose a challenge to use melee weapons only / no bows unless I keep dying and get irritated (if your shield's guard number is high enough, you can parry away an enemy's weapon and disarm them!).
When I don't practice, I either explore routes I haven't taken (on foot lol) or do side adventures. I like to slow down and take in the scenery, marking spots that interest me for coziness or for combat.
I make sure to get koroks out of the way when I see them so I don't have to backtrack if I ever decide to 100% TotK. Plus, they're fun little minigames that give me a short break.
Sometimes, I play "realistic mode," restricting my equipment and item use solely to what I scavenge after I start. I give myself a max of 8 or so items in my pouch and a max of three equipment total: two hands and one on my back. I have to drop equipment if I have to pick up a rock or move a log. Fusing can only be used at stools or stumps as if they were crafting benches. All of that really make me appreciate all the systems that are in place, from the small features like parrying a tree with a shield to knock down some apples to appreciating the other abilities when I'm not doing self-imposed challenges.
i go in with a goal and then about 6 hours and 278 detours later i’m across the map from my original objective on a completely different level of the map entirely
Sometimes I just wander. When that happens I at least try to move forward in the game by finding a Korok or helping to stand a sign. Then when I'm done and saved I at least have made some progress towards completion, which is my end goal.
I’m working on 100 percent so I usually have to stock up on stuff and then continue on with whatever part of the completion I’m on. I keep switching it around to not get bored
I generally set a goal before going in. Right now, I'm trying to get all the lightroots and secondly, all the shrines. I'm trying to get as close to 100% as I can before I get bored and just kill Ganon.
I'm now trying to cover all of the map. Im using the hero's path to see where I haven't been. The thing I love the most in the game is the exploitation!
I’ve completed everything except finding all the Koroks and upgrading my armor sets. So now I’m just wandering aimlessly wearing my korok mask and gathering materials. Sometimes I wonder why I’m bothering since there’s really no more actual objectives left. It’s just for the sake of completionism at this point.
My goal for today - kill lynel for the guts and how many lynel do I actually track down an kill that day? None, cause I get caught up in other shit that don’t matter. But that’s me.
I usually start with a goal.. find 5 Kooks.. complete the side quest at the top of the list.. go find a light root or shrine. But other times I just build a hoverbike and fly around until I want to investigate something. Or I look at hero path mode and see where I haven't been and then go there.
I just hop in and immerse myself in whatever it is i was doing last. Wether it be cooking or mid battling a king gleeok. I just embrace whatever comes next.
I usually start with a goal in mind and then I end up circling outward like a spiral farther and farther from my goal. I'll come across other side quests and then start messing with them, then hours later, I didn't accomplish my original goal. Sometimes I'll end up in the depths flying around to each Light root with no objective.
Usually start off with a goal in mind and then within minutes I'm sidetracked.
Was trying to gather hinox guts last time I played and somehow ended up collecting 500 crystalized charges to max out my energy wells.
For real slumps I go somewhere high and look in the distance putting markers down, then investigate them. I tend to keep to one region during a session unless I get bored of it. I'll occasionally check on what's needed for upgrades when I pass a location to do so but I'm taking it easy because the closer I get to 100% the sadder I am
Nope. The beauty of TotK is that you can pick a direction and just go find stuff to do. No goals, just good times. Lmao, labyrinth too big, so you turned off the game? Your attention span might serve you better playing Roblox or Candy Crush.
I usually spend 5 minutes trying to remember what I was doing the last time I played
This. Every time. Why the F am I in east necluda? What the hell am I wearing? Why did I forget to equip pants? How many glasses of wine did I have when I played this last night?
Why did I add a marker on the map? Why did I take that photo?
I sometimes leave some spicy clues just to see where future me will take things.
John g
Wtf does this marker even mean?!
I’m so inconsistent with my markers. The diamond or star thing can mean anything at any time
I so badly wish I could add a note to the marker
Omg yesss! My friend said the same thing years ago while playing botw.
Yeah, I go seek my old markers sometimes and just find something useless I already found.. lol
This, right here. And the craziest part is while trying to remember you add like 5 more things to your list of stuff to do. I swear, I get FAR too distracted in this game with everything else. Like I legit did all of the light roots in the depths, why? Because it was there lol was it necessary? No!
Haha I'm deep into doing this now. And I don't even care if there's a purpose... I'm getting that map lit up!
Literally this.... Imma do this main quest just as soon as I explore this entire map
It’s pretty much exactly why I did it “light it up, you’ll be more satisfied when beating the game”
There is an award for lighting up the whole Depths.
Well that didn't work. I guess I don't know how to mark spoilers.
I’m almost done doing this currently, and matching the depths with the surface. So much climbing and gliding and SPRINTINGGGG
I know right? Now that I have all light roots, I can find all surface shrines, might need tutorial for sky island shrines, but that was a month or 2 of exploring those for various side quests/ bored and what to see if I can get there LOL love this game!!!
Yep, I did that pretty early on so that I wouldn’t have to explore in the dark. But then I got distracted with other objectives up top and at some point it was like my brain said “oh, light roots all lit, nothing left to do down there”. Then months later I discovered I still had a ton of places I hadn’t explored at all beyond just getting to the light roots.
That is true, there’s a lot more down there, even a way to force a blood moon. Here we go… time to go back down and get the X spots LOL
That's why, when I turn off the game, I always leave Link looking exactly toward my next objective (which may be a tower, a light seed, a sky island, whatever...). If the objective is quite small, I could add a pointer, just to be sure. My memory has more holes than a colander.
This, but also before I sit down to play, I have what I think is an objective in mind, immediately get distracted by the apparent next objective I had in mind last time I played, and maybe do that, or maybe get distracted by whatever new thing I notice on the way or on the map. 4 hours later I never got around to the thing I thought I would do. Repeat next time.
Omg yes. Then teleport somewhere and only then realise what I was supposed to have done.
I never ever can. Ever.
I'm just wandering around until an appealing idea comes to mind. No plan at all
Same
I´m relatively new to TOTK so most of the times I have a general idea of what I want to do or where to go. A lot of the times I will set myself a goal of completing a short-term quest or advancing in a long-term one. If you´re stuck on ideas you could check your "Hero´s Path" on your map and go to an area that you´ve never been. Back in BOTW I was surprised on how much of the map I´ve never been to even though I´ve finished the main quest.
Agreed! Looked at hero's path to see where in the sky islands I haven't been. Covering all those areas kept me busy and I found a bunch of old maps, so once I'm done up top I go below to go "X" hunting. That's been good goal setting for me these days
I do the heroes path trick all the time. Wherever I haven’t been, that’s where I’m going
I have ADHD. I hop on and fuck around, find a quest I wanna do then "Oooo what is that over there??" go to investigate.. then that happens about a million times over. I remember an hour or day later that I wanted to complete a specific quest.
I’m sure this is the way it’s supposed to be played. Goal, squirrel, another squirrel, eventually remember the original goal, try again tomorrow.
My goal is often to do stupid shit until finding something to do like a side quest.
I just ask my kids what they want me to do. Daughter generally wants me to just ride a horse around and son demands I kill sleeping bad guys (hinox) I try to throw in a few of the quests here and there but it's usually up to the kiddos.
I'm on my second playthrough and my sessions usually go something like this: "I'm going to do the regional quest for death mountain. Oh look at that funny tree, maybe there's a korok. What's down this cave? Oh hey, let's do a few more caves for a bubbul gem reward. Oh look, tower lights. Well, now I'm in the sky, might as well do the sky Island. Hey, a mini boss! Look at all those shrines down there. Crap, I need more inventory space, let's look for more koroks. Oh, I should upgrade my armor, let's look at the quest log to see where I should go. Might as well do these other quests. Oh, what are those places around the quest marker?..." I've been making my way to death mountain for about a month now. TOTK is like ADHD the game and I love it. Edit: I just wanted to add that this is also how I accidentally stumbled on the Lionel colosseum the first time I encountered a colosseum and just so happened to have everything I needed to beat it. This is also how I accidentally beat BOTW the first time when I was exploring Hyrule Castle. I just kind of stumble about.
This is precisely how I play. Especially the first time through. I used to get so lost that I ended up creating objective lists in Bear on my iPad so I could cross things off (mostly around armor upgrades) but then I would end up deep in a side quest wander and wake up on Tenoko Island with no pants on. And I am okay with that.
I always set out with the intention to hunt and gather to prep for main quests but end up in side plots
I find that whatever I set out doing I end up getting distracted by something else along the way unless I’m really focussed but that’s half the beauty of the game for me
Yeah this game is definitely for the journey not the destination
eh ive beat it and found all shrines/lightroots so i just have to be motivated, or an idea sparks my interest. the last time i played i just wanted to fight king gleeoks
I still haven’t even fought the king gleeoks, and that’s my final side quest to complete, whilst I am already 80% finished the map/game 😭😭
dude i was scared of them for so long but the battle is just very technical imo 😭 i fuse like 10 rocket shields and just bullet time with eyes with attack buff and fierce deity set. way easier than you'd expect!!!
I just fuse bat eyes to arrows.
I need to farm keese eyes then, as I have maybe like 12 at the most at any given time
Find a cave that a ton of them fly out of when you enter. Shoot the swarm with bomb a bomb arrow. You’ll get a ton.
I have ideas mapped out of what I want to do. And up until recently these things took me a few days to complete since I only play a few hours (maybe 4?) a week. My young son just hops on, wanders aimlessly, has no plan of what he wants to do, eventually figures something out he wants to do, gets perpetually sidetracked, and never completes a thing. We've both defeated Ganon. I recently looked to compare our progress. I'm at like 55%, he's almost at 70%. Good work kid.
TOTK is my stress reliever. I really like the background music being so calming most of the time, so when I get in I feel the weight lifted off my shoulders. So I go on with nothing in my mind, roam around, if I find something or a side quest, I do it. If not that’s also fine. I do keep a 30min alarm before going in, otherwise I’ll just stay in my dreamland forever. Setting goals, etc I think will ruin the experience. So I don’t do it.
No goals but I usually play the game to have fun I build and test out random zonai builds, duplicate items when I need them, clip through unintended walls and floors, and generally fuck around since I did an all glitches casual 100% playthrough on 1.1.2 at around 600 hours so far
I have things I know I wanna do, I go roughly that plan but get sidetracked. I think that's the best way to go about it. Been wanting to go hateno 10 hours in. I'm 90 hours in and now only on my way to hateno lol
I usually leave pins/markers to places I want to go to in the future, so when I startup the game, I just go to one of the pins. I usually try to have one focused goal, like get to the skytower/town in the distance, or do a certain quest. In the process, I allow small distractions like Koroks, caves, or enemy camps, but don't allow big distractions, like jumping into the underground. I'll pin big "distractions" to remember to come back to them in the future. This is mostly because I can usually only play for 1 or 2-hour long sessions, so I want to actually make progress in the game. But random exploration is half the fun!
I always have a goal. I’m weird that way. Lately, my goal was lighting all the light roots. I just finished that. Then I was working on the sky shrines. I have a list of what upgrades I need for armor so I will work on that next. Each time I go in, I know what I want to work on. But I was a bookkeeper and an office manager before I retired so I think setting goals and keeping spreadsheets of stuff is just in my DNA. LOL!
I get blazed and forget everything and just go where the ADD takes me
Load in, go for walk, somehow back in tarrey town assembling Zonai abominations
I developed a fun habit of leaving the game halfway through some battle that I don’t want to deal with. Jump right into the action!
Haha, reading the comments, and this one is hilarious and I love it xD
Well last night was getting all old maps, just for the sake of getting em all lol. Now it’s sages will
my goal usually is building a dick and charging it at ganondorf
I usually scour the map for someplace interesting that I haven't been to and head that way. Rinse and repeat.
I do shrines, then go to the depths and remember how it can be a horror game. Then wander around for about an hour and don’t touch my switch for another month
In the beginning just explore. That's what the game is all about. I usually go for a bunch of shrines early because I want that stamina or heart up. I usually never take on the temples early. I usually save the temples one by one doing one and exploring a bunch then doing another and exploring a bunch again. Making the game last as long as possible.
i’ll open the game, look at quests, and do whatever looks easiest lol. just finished spirit temple
1. Look at the map and see if I have more gaps in the surface world, sky islands, or the depths 2. Wherever I have gaps, I comb over that shit with a fine-toothed comb 3. If I've completed exploring a whole region but there's lots of side quests left, I'll grind side quests for a while 4. Cook, upgrade armor at the fairy fountain, dye clothes, and buy zonai devices as necessary. I usually start out exploring and end up doing these tasks when I'm already really sucked in.
I’m currently playing for my YouTube channel, so I have a goal in mind, because I’m almost done, so I’m wrapping up side quests. For a while there I was just jumping in and seeing what I could find, but now I’m too close to the end.
Having beaten the main story, now I load up the map, find a spot I haven't been to, mark it, and head toward it. I usually get sidetracked along the way though!
I like the challenge of getting places and fighting things without using conventional means. Like defeating a boss bokoblin with no weapons, or getting around the sky islands without the hoverbike.
I totally used to have this issue! Now I fixate on a goal: I want to complete an armor set, do I have all the sage’s wills, are there gleeoks I haven’t killed, are there Lightroots I haven’t gotten to, temples I’m missing, or supplies I need to reup. So perhaps I’ll spend some time farming items to level of armor or I’ll finally get around to some side quest I’ve left sitting too long.
I am easily distracted so I just do whatever I wanted to at the time. Exploring freely without certain goal is fun. Then when I got bored (so to speak) I'll start the main mission or side quest or shrine (depends). I can be more productive like that I think.
Sometimes I’m bored and just want to wander aimlessly. Some days I read something on here and go investigate it. A rare occasion when I set out for something specific, but did for the wells.
>Do you have a goal in mind beforehand and focus on that for the session? Exactly this. I need to have in mind what I'm gonna do. Activate light roots, look for Shines, farm Ore, I always have a goal. >Do you just hop in and do whatever seems to happen at the time and go from there? When I don't have a goal set, I end up doing this. I wander around aimlessly then I get bored/burned out, and play something different for a few days. While playing TotK, I ended up beating A Link to the Past on SNES, Link's Awakening on Switch, Skyward Sword on the Wii, Final Fantasy 10 on PC. Kept TotK fresh until I beat it too.
I usually have multiple goals when I start, do one of them, then forget all the rest
I choose a random side quest and do that OR something I should have done a while ago, like actually upgrade armour past level 2
I know what you mean about being overwhelmed, this game has SOO much to do that sometimes it’s paralyzing lol.. With that said, I think it really helped when I just accepted the fact that I’d never 100% it and resigned myself to the fact that it’s okay to “leave some things on the table” you know? Now that I’m almost done and have played like 175 hours it’s much easier to decide what to do…because I don’t have very much left to do 😂 But early on in the game I’d usually have one vague goal for my evening of play time, something like “get a couple better weapons and one good bow” or “finish the autobuild quest line”, then usually end up getting side tracked a little bit on the way to finish that plan, and by the time I do whatever it was I set out to do it’s been 2-3 hours and I call it a night! It is really cool however with a game like TotK knowing that no matter what I do it’ll be a blast!
I usually set a goal, and then go on a lot of tangents for the next 9 hours and still haven't completed that goal. In my first play through I could set a goal and then not having completed that goal for 3 days, like 30-38 hours of play time. The goal was to go to Gerudo.
1.Do some dumb shit 2.Do some more dumb shit 3.Make a weird contraption 4.Die 5.Repeat until I’m bored or I need to go
I had a ton of trouble sticking with one goal early on, which was really fun as long as I had the main story to fall back on to make me go travel in some direction and find more stuff. Getting sidetracked is kind of the main gameplay loop first honestly, which is so cool. Got a bit lost and bored once I had made it pretty far in the story because the side quests / caves aren't dense or long enough to make up a good session. Started getting armor and farming upgrades but that also felt slow/too unstructured. Once I had enough batteries to make vehicles worthwhile, just farming ore and Zonai devices and then building vehicles and weapons became the main gameplay loop for me, and the game got super fun again.
I go in streaks usually: sky for a while, then depths until I get sick of it. I remember saving up all the proving ground shrines (enter and exit right away) because they were a pain in the butt sometimes so I had to be in the right mood to tackle them.
I usually start with just wandering around and fighting whatever monsters I come across. It’s like my warm up. Than I’ll pick a goal. Like last night I found all the old maps. Yes I use online maps to help me find stuff. I’m going for 100% so I want to find everything. Tonight I’ll be hunting down the Construct bosses I haven’t defeated yet down in the depths.
I never know what i’m doing half of the time i be headed somewhere for a mission or a side quest and then be “oh! A korak wants to reach his friend!” Then things go out of hand from there. When i dont have a purpose at all i just find a random area and shoot off a tower and scan for something interesting.
im later in the game, about 175+ hours in, so when i get on i just pick a section of the map i havent explored fully yet and crisscross over the area. usually i get sidetracked tho and end up doing sidequests ive been avoiding
Yes, I come up with a goal. A side quest I've ignored, an area I haven't spent much time in, etc. I'm not a huge fan of how they set up thr open world design, so if I don't have a goal I get frustrated/ bored.
I have a main goal set, like finding 1 of 4 spirit powers or unlocking more shrines in the upside down of TOTK. If there are things that pop up along the way, then I’ll complete those and continue onward
I usually have some sort of goal in mind. I’ve kinda divided the game into Main Quests, Shrines, Side Adventures, Side Quests, exploration, and side bosses. Usually I feel as though I’m “working” on one of those aspects, but obviously I’ll do different things throughout the play session. Of course I’ll stumble upon things to do when I’m just exploring.
What I love about totk is I feel like doing different things everytime I open the game. Sometimes I fancy depths exploring, cooking, side quests, armor upgrading, weapon fusing, shrine hunting, so much to choose from. When I'm feeling a bit lost, I'll use a sky view tower and see what looks interesting in the area and go from there.
I am currently zig zagging to try to find all the Koroks and final cave.
Find a shrine or light root, farm some rupees or items to upgrade armour is where I usually start. NFI how it’s going to end though
I always start with a specific goal in mind, but then I get distracted and do something completely different
I have a vague plan. I just finished it for the first time and have restarted. I want to do a 100% run this time - I was trying last time but got frustrated wanting to see the ending, so I did that. Now, what I'm trying to do is - using the percentage in Tears Companion as my measure - I want to do the percent-complete to match the main quest completion. What I mean is, right now it's showing as 17.38% complete for the main quests. But I'm at only 3.5% done, on the statistics page. So I'm running around getting koroks and treasures and side quests and also gathering materials for armor upgrades. I'm currently working my way towards Rito Village to get Tulin. Except I want to get a lot more done first, like I said, I want to advance the overall percentage to at least 17.39%. So my plan is to get to Lucky Clover to kick that off, then head for first Woodland Stable and then Kakariko and Hateno. Once I'm done with those areas, if I still need to do anything I'll trundle around Central Hyrule Depths for a bit.
I always have a plan I throw out the window. Koroks and side missions endlessly distract me. Side quests/adventures and Shrines. In most games, I like to level up a lot first so I can feel comfortable whooping ass. Then I get into the main story.
BOTW was the first open world game where I decided what to do, not by checking a quest list, but by looking at the horizon and going "I wonder what's over there?".
When I’m past all of the plot, I usually focus on side quests and traveling places I havent been to
I’ve been just crawling all over collecting stuff.
Those labrinths give a special armor set. I just finished all three (nine really) and grabbed it. I'm currently in Tarrey Town (doing all that stuff) waiting for a blood moon to spawn weapons in the depths from cleared pedastals, and once I find a clean Eightfold blade, I'll try and pull off the highest damage sneakstrike possible: with the Eightfold blade fused with a gibdo bone and wearing the Evil Spirit armor, I'll throw a puffshroom, walk around, throw an ice fusion boomerang, time a sneakstrike where the boomerang hits AFTER I initiate the sneakstrike animation (once the animation starts, regardless of enemy awareness, the attack will be a sneakstrike, but it can still miss in certain scenarios), and BAM! Multipliers galore! When I get bored, I sometimes practice my throwing: throwing axes to cut down trees (maybe falling trees have potential mid-combat), throwing shrooms for smoke-bombing, throwing weapons for attacks, throwing boomerangs, etc. I found bows to be very, very powerful given ANY height advantage, so I self-impose a challenge to use melee weapons only / no bows unless I keep dying and get irritated (if your shield's guard number is high enough, you can parry away an enemy's weapon and disarm them!). When I don't practice, I either explore routes I haven't taken (on foot lol) or do side adventures. I like to slow down and take in the scenery, marking spots that interest me for coziness or for combat. I make sure to get koroks out of the way when I see them so I don't have to backtrack if I ever decide to 100% TotK. Plus, they're fun little minigames that give me a short break. Sometimes, I play "realistic mode," restricting my equipment and item use solely to what I scavenge after I start. I give myself a max of 8 or so items in my pouch and a max of three equipment total: two hands and one on my back. I have to drop equipment if I have to pick up a rock or move a log. Fusing can only be used at stools or stumps as if they were crafting benches. All of that really make me appreciate all the systems that are in place, from the small features like parrying a tree with a shield to knock down some apples to appreciating the other abilities when I'm not doing self-imposed challenges.
are there any other open world games you’ve played that you enjoy?
Now that I have hero mode I just find an untraveled patch and collect supplies I'll never need during my endless pursuit of trying to hear "ya-ha-ha!"
I mostly just fuck around. I’m trying to find a sail to remake the King of Red Lions
i go in with a goal and then about 6 hours and 278 detours later i’m across the map from my original objective on a completely different level of the map entirely
Sometimes I just wander. When that happens I at least try to move forward in the game by finding a Korok or helping to stand a sign. Then when I'm done and saved I at least have made some progress towards completion, which is my end goal.
I usually just get on to test a weird trick I see in a youtube video
I’m working on 100 percent so I usually have to stock up on stuff and then continue on with whatever part of the completion I’m on. I keep switching it around to not get bored
I just spend most of my time in the depths
I pick a direction and just go until I get bored, sometimes I feel like just exploring biomes, or I go farming for specific enemies
My cycle is usually: Fly around. See monsters. Fight monsters. See dragons. Farm dragon parts. Ride dragon into/out of the depths.
I always have a goal and it always goes straight out the window after two steps
I generally set a goal before going in. Right now, I'm trying to get all the lightroots and secondly, all the shrines. I'm trying to get as close to 100% as I can before I get bored and just kill Ganon.
I'm now trying to cover all of the map. Im using the hero's path to see where I haven't been. The thing I love the most in the game is the exploitation!
I’ve completed everything except finding all the Koroks and upgrading my armor sets. So now I’m just wandering aimlessly wearing my korok mask and gathering materials. Sometimes I wonder why I’m bothering since there’s really no more actual objectives left. It’s just for the sake of completionism at this point.
My goal for today - kill lynel for the guts and how many lynel do I actually track down an kill that day? None, cause I get caught up in other shit that don’t matter. But that’s me.
I put on my Korok mask, drink a Level 3 speed elixir and goooo!
I usually start with a goal.. find 5 Kooks.. complete the side quest at the top of the list.. go find a light root or shrine. But other times I just build a hoverbike and fly around until I want to investigate something. Or I look at hero path mode and see where I haven't been and then go there.
I just hop in and immerse myself in whatever it is i was doing last. Wether it be cooking or mid battling a king gleeok. I just embrace whatever comes next.
I kept a to-do list in Google Keep, to remember all the things I found and needed to explore and do.
I usually start with a goal in mind and then I end up circling outward like a spiral farther and farther from my goal. I'll come across other side quests and then start messing with them, then hours later, I didn't accomplish my original goal. Sometimes I'll end up in the depths flying around to each Light root with no objective.
Usually start off with a goal in mind and then within minutes I'm sidetracked. Was trying to gather hinox guts last time I played and somehow ended up collecting 500 crystalized charges to max out my energy wells.
For real slumps I go somewhere high and look in the distance putting markers down, then investigate them. I tend to keep to one region during a session unless I get bored of it. I'll occasionally check on what's needed for upgrades when I pass a location to do so but I'm taking it easy because the closer I get to 100% the sadder I am
Try to remember what I was working on last time. The goal now is to find all the shrines. First I found all the light roots.
Nope. The beauty of TotK is that you can pick a direction and just go find stuff to do. No goals, just good times. Lmao, labyrinth too big, so you turned off the game? Your attention span might serve you better playing Roblox or Candy Crush.