General Zelda VikzeLinks Weekly Sunday Poll 61!

[VikzeLink]

Last week's winner: OOT (27.59%)
This week's question: When playing a Zelda game, how much exploration do you do on your own?
Look through every little pixel
Check around me if there is anything I can see
Not actively looking, but if I see something, I go there
Nothing can keep me from the main quest

 

[DarkestLink]

Nothing can keep me from the main quest. Exploring is one of the weaker aspects of Zelda and a huge annoyance until the dungeons have been completed.

 

[Mellow Ezlo]

I clicked Check around me if there is anything I can see. I don't check every little detail, but I do generally try to look around for as many hidden things I can find. That way I can see if there's a suspicious looking wall, or some vines up high on a cliff, or a heartpiece in plain sight.

 

[Hoff123]

Well, I ALWAYS visit every single house, and talk to every single person. Other people don't do that?

 

[Salem]

I generally explore as much as I can before I continue the main game.

 

[Mangachick14]

I usually do most of the exploring after I beat the game, but If I see something that looks explorable, I'll check it out.

 

[ihateghirahim]

I generally try to explore the world and find the hidden things, but that gets old at some point. I generally don't 100% a game.

 

[Sydney]

Nothing can keep me from the main quest. Exploring is one of the weaker aspects of Zelda and a huge annoyance until the dungeons have been completed.

Perhaps if you went exploring more often, you'd find out that's it's actually quite enjoyable. I really don't see how exploration is a weak aspect at all, in fact, it's one of the stronger ones.

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To answer the OP, I'm not one to check every nook and cranny of the game, but sometimes I just love wandering around to see where I end up. I love finding things I would've never found if I just stuck with the main quest. Thus I chose the option "check around me if there is anything I can see".

 

[Mudora]

I check around me if there is anything I can see. I love exploring it Zelda games, and find it to be an enjoyable aspect of the franchise.

 

[DarkestLink]

Perhaps if you went exploring more often, you'd find out that's it's actually quite enjoyable. I really don't see how exploration is a weak aspect at all, in fact, it's one of the stronger ones.

I try to avoid it, but some games like aLttP and tWW have forced it on me and made the first playthrough a living hell. It's boring. And it's boring because it's essentially doing nothing. Often times it's just a barrier preventing me from enjoying the main quest...and other items, it's built around sidequests, another one of the series' weaker aspects. That's just my 2 cents. Some games can pull off exploration, but games like Zelda don't. For exploration to work, I feel must tie in to the bigger picture. Exploration and the main quest need to be one and the same.

 

[Riddle]

I explore everything, I just love it so much.

 

[CynicalSquid]

I don't like exploring to be honest. I find it a little boring at times. Honestly though, in the 2D Zelda's I use guides for the areas in between dungeons because I don't care enough to explore.

 

[VikzeLink]

Exploration and the main quest need to be one and the same.

And that becomes linearity, which most people dislike. That's why the exploration is optional

 

[DarkestLink]

And that becomes linearity, which most people dislike. That's why the exploration is optional

Quite the opposite. In SM64 and the BK series, exploration WAS the main quest rather than just a barrier. SM64 is one of the most non-linear games out there and BK is far less linear than Zelda.

 

[ihateghirahim]

I think it's safe to say Mario's formula is so far removed from Zelda that it can't exactly be emulated.