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Well, back in the day, when I was still young enough to care about that sort of thing (insert that C.S. Lewis quote here), I was pretty hyped about Ocarina. I always had this nagging feeling that something was missing though, and I couldn't put my finger on it, so I shrugged it off as a result of the move to 3D or something.
Then came Spaceworld 2001, and what would later become Wind Waker, and I immediately knew what I missed and that I could never go back to the Ocarina style. They say you don't know what you've got until it's gone, but seeing that proved that sometimes, you also don't know what you've lost until you get it back.
So yes, I wanted Ocarina a long time ago, but I've changed, and I don't any more.
Anyway, it's a good thing you used the word 'arguably', since Ocarina actually ended up being one of my least favorite Zeldas (not that it wasn't good, it's just that I like so many other Zeldas so much better).
Well, it's not like that Link in the picture is gonna magically get younger, is it? Or the art style more lighthearted and cartoony. Look, I know what I like and this isn't it. Still, it is only a first impression, and I should have made that clearer even though it should be obvious that it couldn't be anything other than a first impression.
In my Wii: Rune Factory Frontier, Lit
In my 3DS: Fire Emblem, 999, Virtue's Last Reward
Last game completed: 999 (coffin ending)
Cel-shaded Link, I see and think, Goddamn, I love me some Zelda.
Adult-teen Link, I see and think, Goddamn, I love me some Zelda. As long as Aonuma and/or Miyamoto sign off, and put the love and care and pure 171 proof turbo awesome that the Nintendo (EAD? Do they do Zelda?) developed games all tend to have, I'm alright.
To me a Zelda game is less about the trappings, graphical style, gimmick and storyline, granted these things are generally top-notch, but about the people who make and the obvious high-level of skill and devotion to the material. Zelda is a medium for pure enjoyment for me.
I never think about the things like "wonderment" or feeling "insignificant", if that is part of the story, or theme they want to convey, most times I will get that, but most of the time, I just think, damn I love me some Zelda. It's fun to quest as a young boy in the face of world far bigger than he, it's also fun to rock faces to pieces as basically Legolas' badass cousin from the hood.
That said, even given how I loved Twilight Princess, but I could tell however that from that point they had pushed the usual tropes of Zelda to their Zenith, and I hope that they shake things up much in the way Other M seems to be for Metroid, because though my affections for the Legend of Zelda are deep, by the end of TP, I could not say that the formula of OOT wasn't getting stale.
Hopefully this is the next LttP -> OoT sea change, wherein things change in a new way while retaining something of the character of the series at its core.
My.
God.
I've never played a God of War game, but I think I will now just so I can feel bitter, bitter sadness over not owning a PS3.
BITTER.
Some in the Zelda Wii: Important Entity of Placeholder team have apparently wanted more focus on story and RPG elements, with Miyamoto being a little skeptical - all well and good. I recall Miyamoto not being too pleased with Zelda II: AoL but its innovations and additions to Hyrule were well met by fans, so I hope they strike a balance. MM borrowed the entire framework from OoT and people still play it in order to cure ails and agues, so innovation in mechanics cannot be the only improvement on predecessors that should be considered in development.
I guess a Zelda that really could clean out and get almost all of the bell curve ejaculating spinal fluid out of sheer joy (and then dying, I guess) would be a game that makes the leap to smooth and hardware-centric controls we saw between WW and PH while presenting us with a world that manages to be to the other games what MM was to OoT. Then we would have to start using Deaths by Orgasms as an evaluation unit.
It's more of a good will program. Not like people can't already make ISO's out of their UMDs... but that's neither here nor there.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/04/sony-working-on-good-will-program-to-give-digital-copies-of-yo/
Godamn. Nobody does epic scope better than God of War.
that was a nice touch
In case you forgot, his wife and child were murdered. They were murdered. His wife and child were murdered. Murdered. Someone murdered his wife and child. His wife and child. They were murdered. Murdered were his wife and child.
Kratos would punch a box of kittens if sufficiently motivated. Or if he thought they were hiding a stash of red orbs.
You mean showing link posing with a mysterious girl dressed in white?
Eh, not really.
all red orb crates replaced with boxes of kittens. orphan kittens. Mash x to snap necks!
One of the best GoW moments is in the PSP game:
It was the only GoW game I've played, and man, while I couldn't take it too seriously, it was still hella entertaining.
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Man, I forgot that was in the PSP one. That was awesome.
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I would have never been able to pin point this in my brain, but you just hit the nail on the head. This. someone get this to Miyamoto now.
the psp game was heartbreaking
but he wasn't allowed
And I thought to myself: Why is Monster Hunter 3 on the Wii?
Because seriously, that LP2 footage was basically Monster Hunter IN SPACE. They should do that.
You like Zelda based on art style?
I thought you may have liked it based on the game.
http://kotaku.com/5279465/bam-there-it-is-kotaku-remix
And thinking you know what the game will look like based on a painting is ridiculous.
Sonofa....! I was gonna post that! That beats 'massive damage' meme..... though that ain't saying much.
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More like smash bros: pokemon version from my understanding.
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This looks fairly awesome!
So you DO like high definition
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My iMac has a 24" screen. Of course I do, who wouldn't?
More importantly who said I didn't?
Suck it down, righties.
Only lefties have the stones.
You just wait.
It was a joke.
Also, Kid Link >>>>>>>>>>>> Adult Link.
I created a My Poll on FaceBook but the My Poll application is so shitty I don't even know if it showed up, and it won't let me even vote on my own poll. But I put up with its shittiness just to get my point out there. That's how strongly I feel.
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He actually spent most of his time on Conan last night making Seacrest jokes.