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The Legend of Zelda

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    There maybe be ample time but it doesn't feel like that to a lot of people. Just knowing that you're being timed can be unsettling.

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  • GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I never had an issue having an area cleared before the 2nd day was up. I can do all of Woodfall and Snowhead by Day 1 (not in one 3 day cycle mind you).

    Actually the last playthrough I had started I screwed around with it a little and used a bomb trick to get into Great Bay without Epona, and beat the Snowhead Temple with the Zora mask :D

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Zelda looks like she's having a lot of fun being dead in those trailers. I don't know how I feel about this, though. Who am I rescuing? But I have to admit I wasn't too interested in the game until I read more about it and watched the trailers. Now I totally want it.

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  • DaveTheWaveDaveTheWave Registered User regular
    edited December 2009

    Cartridges - CD based gaming had flopped only like a year prior blame Sega and Phillips for that. The N64 just wasn't as beefy as the Playstation in most respects so it's not a matter of the format being restrictive just the technology available being inferior.

    I think you must have fallen through some sort of wormhole because this is the universe where the N64 was actually quite a bit more powerful than the PS1.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Yeah the only edge the PS1 had over the N64 was storage space, discs can just hold a lot more then carts.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    anoffday wrote: »
    Zelda looks like she's having a lot of fun being dead in those trailers. I don't know how I feel about this, though. Who am I rescuing? But I have to admit I wasn't too interested in the game until I read more about it and watched the trailers. Now I totally want it.

    Well, who were you rescuing in Wind Waker? Zelda doesn't get kidnapped until right before the last dungeon. Hell, same for OoT.

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  • BlurblBlurbl -_- Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I think it'll be refreshing for Zelda to actually have a combat role on one of the consoles games.

    I mean, she's a pretty mean shot with the Light Arrows on the boss fights of TP and WW.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    Regarding N64's cartridges, I don't blame Nintendo for not using them. As noted, SEGA CD, CDi, etc. all seemed to make it looks like a waste.

    It wasn't so much the space that was the downfall. It was the costs to make them and the lead time required to manufacture them.

    If Nintendo could make cartridges that were as cheap as DVDs and had the same space, I'd be "fuck yeah Nintendo, get on that shit". I remember talking with a bunch of my co-workers, people who had terabyte storage space and built their own computers and played the crap out of their PS2s back in those days, and they all agreed that if Nintendo could make cheap carts, they'd rather buy games on carts than on the flimsy discs we use now.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    anoffday wrote: »
    Zelda looks like she's having a lot of fun being dead in those trailers. I don't know how I feel about this, though. Who am I rescuing? But I have to admit I wasn't too interested in the game until I read more about it and watched the trailers. Now I totally want it.

    Well, who were you rescuing in Wind Waker? Zelda doesn't get kidnapped until right before the last dungeon. Hell, same for OoT.

    Link's sister, Aryll, gets kidnapped by a giant bird in the beginning of Wind Waker in case you don't remember.

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Man, I am gonna get a lot of shit for this, but this Spirit Tracks game?


    Stupid, horrible concept.


    Just doesn't work at all.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    Godfather wrote: »
    Man, I am gonna get a lot of shit for this, but this Spirit Tracks game?


    Stupid, horrible concept.


    Just doesn't work at all.

    considering the game isn't even out yet, duh

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  • GraviijaGraviija Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Godfather wrote: »
    Man, I am gonna get a lot of shit for this, but this Spirit Tracks game?


    Stupid, horrible concept.


    Just doesn't work at all.
    What doesn't work? And how can you know something doesn't work if you haven't played it?

    I think Nintendo has earned the benefit of the doubt with Zelda at this point, where saying something "doesn't work at all" becomes very hard to believe.

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  • setrajonassetrajonas Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Where would a new Zelda game be without someone that hasn't played it bashing it?

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Peewi wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Zelda looks like she's having a lot of fun being dead in those trailers. I don't know how I feel about this, though. Who am I rescuing? But I have to admit I wasn't too interested in the game until I read more about it and watched the trailers. Now I totally want it.

    Well, who were you rescuing in Wind Waker? Zelda doesn't get kidnapped until right before the last dungeon. Hell, same for OoT.

    Link's sister, Aryll, gets kidnapped by a giant bird in the beginning of Wind Waker in case you don't remember.

    Oh yeah.

    Still though, OoT.

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    anoffday wrote: »
    Zelda looks like she's having a lot of fun being dead in those trailers. I don't know how I feel about this, though. Who am I rescuing?

    You are rescuing vengeance.
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  • YggiDeeYggiDee The World Ends With You Shill Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Re: The best Legend of Zelda theme? It's totally this.

    I- I don't even know where I found this crazy thing.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    The best song is clearly the save select screen theme.

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  • GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    So I got crazy into Twilight Princess tonight, beat Arbiter's Grounds, Snowpeak Ruins, and the Temple of Time one after the other. Woooooo! Some comments:

    - I enjoyed Snowpeak a lot more the second time around, cuz the first time a few years back I ran around for a good 45 minutes looking for a key that was buried in the snow. Fuck.
    - Arbiter's Grounds is awful until you get the spinner. Also the first half is a blatant OoT Forest Temple rip. Woo four poes, and the fourth one splits into four! I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT BEFORE
    - Temple of Time's music blows, who else didn't want an epic redoing of the Song of Time pounding away the whole time? I sure did.
    - The cutscene where you see the Sages attempt to execute Ganondorf is really really good.

    This one is the one I mean:
    Fast forward to 1:15

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I like the boss of the Arbiter Grounds.

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  • GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I liked the music during the second phase, straight from fighting King Dodongo in OoT. I thought was pretty sweet.

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  • VeganVegan Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    The game comes out Sunday. It's available now in "certain circles". It's possible that Godfather played it, though impressions are typically more detailed when you say something like that.

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  • GraviijaGraviija Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I like the boss of the Arbiter Grounds.
    The Arbiter's Grounds boss is fucking awesome. One of my favorites in the series, actually.

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    My wife is liking it just fine so far. I still need to try it, though.

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  • omega71omega71 Too old for a title, too ornery to care. Sacramento, CaliRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I am enjoying it immensely so far, the only gripe I have with it is the horrible camera angles while on the train, and the adjusting of them.

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  • Frosty the Snow PlowFrosty the Snow Plow Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I just got the most intense craving for Wind Waker today. Do Gamestops and the like still carry used Gamecubes?

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited December 2009

    Cartridges - CD based gaming had flopped only like a year prior blame Sega and Phillips for that. The N64 just wasn't as beefy as the Playstation in most respects so it's not a matter of the format being restrictive just the technology available being inferior.

    I think you must have fallen through some sort of wormhole because this is the universe where the N64 was actually quite a bit more powerful than the PS1.

    The PSX had the edge in some areas I'm sure of it.

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  • BiopticBioptic Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    YggiDee wrote: »
    Re: The best Legend of Zelda theme? It's totally this.

    I- I don't even know where I found this crazy thing.

    Thank you.

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  • setrajonassetrajonas Registered User regular
    edited December 2009

    Cartridges - CD based gaming had flopped only like a year prior blame Sega and Phillips for that. The N64 just wasn't as beefy as the Playstation in most respects so it's not a matter of the format being restrictive just the technology available being inferior.

    I think you must have fallen through some sort of wormhole because this is the universe where the N64 was actually quite a bit more powerful than the PS1.

    The PSX had the edge in some areas I'm sure of it.

    PSX definitely had better sound capabilities, as I recall.

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  • mntorankusumntorankusu I'm not sure how to use this thing.... Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    setrajonas wrote: »

    Cartridges - CD based gaming had flopped only like a year prior blame Sega and Phillips for that. The N64 just wasn't as beefy as the Playstation in most respects so it's not a matter of the format being restrictive just the technology available being inferior.

    I think you must have fallen through some sort of wormhole because this is the universe where the N64 was actually quite a bit more powerful than the PS1.

    The PSX had the edge in some areas I'm sure of it.

    PSX definitely had better sound capabilities, as I recall.

    This is completely wrong. The N64 was way better at sound.

    The cartridges just didn't have enough space to store any.

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  • setrajonassetrajonas Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    setrajonas wrote: »

    Cartridges - CD based gaming had flopped only like a year prior blame Sega and Phillips for that. The N64 just wasn't as beefy as the Playstation in most respects so it's not a matter of the format being restrictive just the technology available being inferior.

    I think you must have fallen through some sort of wormhole because this is the universe where the N64 was actually quite a bit more powerful than the PS1.

    The PSX had the edge in some areas I'm sure of it.

    PSX definitely had better sound capabilities, as I recall.

    This is completely wrong. The N64 was way better at sound.

    The cartridges just didn't have enough space to store any.

    Same difference :V

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  • AmpixAmpix Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Bioptic wrote: »
    YggiDee wrote: »
    Re: The best Legend of Zelda theme? It's totally this.

    I- I don't even know where I found this crazy thing.

    Thank you.

    If only the sound quality was just a touch better. Still awesome though.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    What killed the N64's sound ability was that they made the CPU do sound.

    So for every instrument/channel you wanted, you lost 1% of CPU for your game.

    One of the engineers interviewed a few years ago said he always regretted that and wish they had make the sound chip seperate like the SNES.

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Graviija wrote: »
    Godfather wrote: »
    Man, I am gonna get a lot of shit for this, but this Spirit Tracks game?


    Stupid, horrible concept.


    Just doesn't work at all.
    What doesn't work? And how can you know something doesn't work if you haven't played it?

    I think Nintendo has earned the benefit of the doubt with Zelda at this point, where saying something "doesn't work at all" becomes very hard to believe.

    This is all personal opinion first of all, but the whole trains thing is just feels really shallow.


    Like the developers got together and were all "shit guys, we need a new gimmick for our next Zelda game, what do we got?"

    And for some reason they decided on trains. Trains!


    In a Zelda game? Really? Really?



    I guess i'm gonna have to power through this and completely forget the title exists, because the concept is too absurd for my liking.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    it sure is absurd for Hyrule to move technologically forward over time

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Don't you have a steamboat in PH?

    Aren't those from more or less the same era?

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  • SnowblindvictimSnowblindvictim Flying casual Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Needs more lasers, lightsabers, ships, floating castles.

    Yes Steamboats/trains are from the same era.
    BUT I SEE NO MONOCLES

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Or guns. You'd think Link would have an arquebus by now.

    Which, now that I think about it, would actually be pretty awesome. Not enough games feature historically accurate early guns.

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    To be fair, the Japanese do like their train simulators. How can you not? Those slender rails, the sexy whistle, that hot boiler, the gaseous releases. Wait, scrath that last one.

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Chen wrote: »
    To be fair, the Japanese do like their train simulators. How can you not? Those slender rails, the sexy whistle, that hot boiler, the gaseous releases. Wait, scrath that last one.

    In Japanese greenhouse gases examples, the greenhouse is a skirt.

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  • VeganVegan Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Godfather wrote: »
    This is all personal opinion first of all, but the whole trains thing is just feels really shallow.


    Like the developers got together and were all "shit guys, we need a new gimmick for our next Zelda game, what do we got?"

    And for some reason they decided on trains. Trains!


    In a Zelda game? Really? Really?



    I guess i'm gonna have to power through this and completely forget the title exists, because the concept is too absurd for my liking.

    You do realize that they love trains in Japan, right?

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