No it isn't. The only thing "ugly" about it is the models as you walk around the environment because of poor or non-existent anti-aliasing (something a Nintendo fanboy will be all too familiar with). The game looks great in combat and the UI elements and other hand drawn art is top tier. So is the art direction.
Latest rumors are saying MM isn't in any sort of production.
This is a dumb take. There are tons of things you can do in GTA games you can't do in Zelda games. Acting like a game needs to be fantasy/sci-fi in other to be creative is retarded. GTA offers a lot more freedom than the majority of fantasy and sci-fi games out there. Within years of BOTW, Ubisoft literally dropped a clone game. I'm not saying it's as good but acting like Nintendo is doing straight up impossible shit is just detached from reality. Maybe the ultrahand stuff in TOTK, sure.
How was it the worst map of all time? More retarded takes. The only thing I can maybe see is that the ride along the coast from south to north was too long and straightforward, but other than that there's nothing wrong with the map. Anyway you don't even like GTA apparently, why are you trying to say which setting they should be using? Are you also ok if someone says Zelda should drop Ganondorf and fantasy settings and do something new instead?
This is ironic as hell. As if Nintendo ever took a shot at a real life setting. No, they also stay in their stylized comfort zones because that's what they're good at and what people want from them. Why the fuck would Rockstar move away from the thing people want from them and what they excel at? Just because some Nintendo fanboy on the internet is trying to come up with arguments to downplay their games because they routinely skip Nintendo hardware?
You want Rockstar to leave their expertise behind and take crazy risks to prove themselves, but explode in your pants when Nintendo lets you re-experience Zelda and Link teaming up to imprison Ganondorf for the 20th time.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised a Nintendo fanboy is so hyperfocused on the settings because interesting characters and stories are a foreign concept to you. They can do America for the "50th time" because every time they do it with a completely new story, characters and time period. And acting like America is some sort of standardized setting that's all the same is retarded too.
I thought Nintendo has third party support now? Make up your mind dude. They either have it and people don't care, or they don't have it and that's why 80% of the money on Nintendo hardware goes to Nintendo itself.
