Zelda's reviews impacting ME:A?

I agree, i know that zelda is a classic, but i don't see anything special. It looks very solid and complete but i don't see anything ground breaking. I would like to play it to actually have an opinion on the game, but I won't be buying a switch for just 1 game. 

Surprised this thread is still going, but, I got Zelda today and it's hard. No hand-holding and minimal tutorials. Then they kinda just release you on to the world. I'm getting one-shot in the first area LOL. It's massive and beautiful at least.

I'm glad that ME:A will have a bit more structure to it.

P.S. I think I might just go for ME3 since I finished ME2 last night, then do Zelda after ME:A.  We'll see.  So far, I'm more interested in playing ME3 again.

A relative 8/10 and a relative 10/10 aren't drastic differences and well within the range of "shit's awesome." And that's factoring in that user review scores are subject to troll scores to bring scores down and many gaming publications like to slap 10/10's on anything Zelda and Nintendo related just cuz.

Well it has nothing to do with Breath of the Wild but:

There's no question Nintendo gets coddled by critics or nostalgia takes over. I mean Zelda looks great, but to get 98 it'd have to be reinventing a genre or be basically perfect.

I think it's naive to think Zelda hasnt affected ME:A's sales.

A brand new console is expensive. As are games.For anyone who was trying to decide between the two, only able to afford one, then Zelda releasing 1st to 10/10's across the board will have turned many heads.
This will affect 1st week sales, which are crucial to publishers.

Ofc the big question is how much? To what extent they'll be an effect...

Had a chance to watch a friend play the new Zelda game. Looks great, plays pretty well, surprisingly hard for a kids game which makes me think it's aimed more at people who grew up playing Zelda games.

Here's something I liked. No overbearing handsholding. It's a "kids game" (see above) that doesn't treat its players like someone who's not only never played a single game but can't even distinguish a hole in the ground from their ass. I can't tell you how refreshing that is.

Compare to ME:A scanning mechanic which appears to be: "Hold down a button and someone tells you what to do." I hope this new Zelda does fantastically well and other publishers learn from this.

This is the sad mark of EA. This game is the actual crucible for Mass Effect, and for Bioware if you ask me.

If they come out of the gates strong, you kids are loving it so much I have to buy it and avoid getting too far behind... Then Bioware is back, all is forgiven, sing your favorite song and skip around like the Iron Bull was giving you the best ride of your life!

If it is meh, or actually bad, your post shows that the death knell had begun long before.

Our fanbase has changed. Old Bioware forums, and then OG BSN, was mostly fans that were: hardcore, had Bioware's back, and if they laid out criticism, it was well-informed and not hateful... Because there was trust, and a love-affair. I felt it.

With DA2 some of us got uneasy. I was still in the hardcore fan department, as I was still a very active part of modding KotOR and visited Bioware and NWN for Lexicon help, scripting lessons, etc. Lots of lurking in those days.

ME3 and how you feel about it is a horse beaten to death, here there and everywhere. A house was divided, that cannot be argued.

DAI was.... Special. It still is. The only Biower game I have been unable to get into for a second playthrough. Barely touched the MP, I couldn't really tell what the fuck I was doing; it felt like playing a bad remake of Gauntlet. Yet, some of you love it... (See house divided comment).

Now we are here. Coming slowly out of cryo, about to arrive in Andromeda. And anxiously waiting. There are some still wearing the rosiest of tinted glasses, and will love the game magically no matter what. They tell us so everyday.

Most of us are now firmly in the camp of some level of concern, from mild concern to serious doubt.

And, as there has always been, there is a camp of people that actively seem to want abject failure, love to trash the game. They would seemingly sabotage the game if they could, to see it all burn.

I live in the serious doubt camp, but I hope for success and not failure. I haz popcorn.

User scores are pretty much useless.

I have never owned a Nintendo console, their games are not my cup of tea but i gotta say Breath of the Wild is the first time that a game of theirs made me go "hmm that looks rather nice. i could see me playing this". One one side the open exploration, the number of different systems and yet a simplicity to it all. That said, i doubt it's THE BEST GAME EVER! as the scores would imply...

I will never understand the /10 ratings in the video game industry. It seems anything that gets below a 7/10 is considered awful. Shouldn't 5/10 mean the game is mediocre (average, decent) and the score goes up or down depending on the positive aspects of it? 
It'd make more sense, at least for me.