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The Legend of Zelda: 25th Anniversary Thread - Landmark of the Greatest Gaming Series

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  • RehabRehab Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Thats cool, I just thought it was a Freudian slip like saying something along the lines of: Metroid is an awesome bounty hunter because of her nearly successful systematic genocide of all the Pokemon!

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Well, honestly now I'm disappointed.

    I always remembered the ending because I thought it was that way and Zelda gets relegated to being a macguffin in so many game that I really liked the bad-assness of it.

    I mean, it's still cool, particularly since it is a Zelda game and shit like that doesn't happen in Nintendo games typically.

    But meh.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    She does continually shank him with arrows during that fight (for once).

    And he does badass deflections for when he blocks them.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    All I remember of that ending is Midna turning sexy at the end. Also, something involving Ganon as a giant wolf-pig in the throne room.

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I wonder if we'll ever get to experience a joy like the gold cartridges ever again.

    I mean, I think they've done gold disc art, maybe, but that's hardly the same, particularly when every disc face is different.

    Maybe we'll get a gold 3DS cartridge for Ocarina 3D? Seems unlikely, but...

    Incidentally, it's a little strange that they skipped the gold on A Link to the Past, isn't it? Maybe a little less so for the GB/C/A games...

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  • AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Skyward Sword needs a gold box on release. Nintendo should have done more colored boxes for their games. DKC should have been yellow and Kirby should have been pink.

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    They already have to give Kirby angry poop eyes to sell so making the case pink is just market suicide.

    Lack of SNES LttP gold cart always blew my mind as a kid.

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  • Cameron_TalleyCameron_Talley Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Well shit, for some reason in my memory it was Zelda.

    Silly me.

    Also I have no clue why I put an extra N in Ganon.

    Probably because it's spelled incorrectly as Gannon in the first game.

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Algertman wrote: »
    Skyward Sword needs a gold box on release. Nintendo should have done more colored boxes for their games. DKC should have been yellow and Kirby should have been pink.

    dk64 had a yellow cart.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    The colored plastic is extra expensive. That's why they don't do it. Gold is probably even more expensive, since it's gold and these things are dumb that way :P

    It made sense for the NES titles because it was a new franchise and the idea was to make them really stand out. I think every gold cart they've done after that has been a collector's edition.

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Warlock82 wrote: »
    The colored plastic is extra expensive. That's why they don't do it. Gold is probably even more expensive, since it's gold and these things are dumb that way :P

    It made sense for the NES titles because it was a new franchise and the idea was to make them really stand out. I think every gold cart they've done after that has been a collector's edition.

    They do sometimes. I'm pretty sure my NSMBWii box is red.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    jclast wrote: »
    Warlock82 wrote: »
    The colored plastic is extra expensive. That's why they don't do it. Gold is probably even more expensive, since it's gold and these things are dumb that way :P

    It made sense for the NES titles because it was a new franchise and the idea was to make them really stand out. I think every gold cart they've done after that has been a collector's edition.

    They do sometimes. I'm pretty sure my NSMBWii box is red.

    All NSMB Wii boxes are red. Apparently it was to make it stand out on store shelves and I remember reading that they don't want to do different colored boxes for a bunch of other Wii game.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Right, I think the idea behind the different-colored boxes are that the extra sales they generate due to them "standing out" justifies the extra manufacturing cost. Thus, they use the practice sparingly. (that is, games they know are excellent that they really want to draw extra attention to - as opposed to games they know are excellent and will sell insanely well already anyways, like Galaxy)

    That being said, I could maybe see them doing it with Zelda. After someone middling opinions of Twilight Princess and a kind of embarrassing e3 demo, they might want to draw some extra attention to Skyward Sword.

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkZdr-YPvo

    I'm posting this again because damn does it make me happy.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    A bright, green case would be neat. They could make the insert and the disk gold.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Krathoon wrote: »
    A bright, green case would be neat. They could make the insert and the disk gold.

    A bright green case?

    You can see why they might not wanna do that, right?

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Krathoon wrote: »
    A bright, green case would be neat. They could make the insert and the disk gold.

    A bright green case?

    You can see why they might not wanna do that, right?

    Aside from the obvious confusion with a certain competitor which would rule that color scheme right out, the thematic color for Skyward Sword seems to be Sky Blue, like in the logotype. But even that could be misconstrued by elderly buyers-of-games-for-childrens as a blu-ray. Gold seems to be the only way they'd go.

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  • RehabRehab Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Heh, I immediately thought that too.
    Game Case for Xbox 360

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    5 Empty Standard XBOX 360 Translucent Green Replacement Games Boxes / Cases

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    Why won't this blasted game work on my 360?!?

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  • eelektrikeelektrik Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    the Xbox 360 green cases aren't exactly the same kind of green that one would associate with Link though. An opaque forest green or whatever shade Link's tunic actually is, wouldn't look the same as the translucent neon Xbox cases. Anyone that would confuse the two is a moron.
    Sadly morons are not uncommon.

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Warlock82 wrote: »
    The colored plastic is extra expensive. That's why they don't do it. Gold is probably even more expensive, since it's gold and these things are dumb that way :P

    It made sense for the NES titles because it was a new franchise and the idea was to make them really stand out. I think every gold cart they've done after that has been a collector's edition.

    Sorry, I'm just reminded of this...

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    In truth, I have no idea how the colored plastic industry works.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Yes. That is what I am talking about. A solid, bright forest green like Link's tunic, not a clear neon green. It would be different enough.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkZdr-YPvo

    I'm posting this again because damn does it make me happy.

    This is fantastic.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh God.

    I'm EBay surfing and impulse purchasing again.

    What have you done to me Zelda thread?

    On the other hand, sooo cute ^_^

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  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    LOOK AT THE LIL KIRBY

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I always think of WW Ganon as "Regretful" Ganon. He misses his people. He is like a sad, old man wishing for better days.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    A whirling, raging dervish with two vicious longswords, pausing to weep briefly between every strike.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Well, that too. He pretty much wants to bring back his people because he feels guilty of abandoning them. At least that is what I took from it. Aside from that, he is still the same old power hungry madman.

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  • Cameron_TalleyCameron_Talley Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I thought the whole thing with WW was that both Ganon and the King of Hyrule were obsessed with returning the land to the way it was before, but in the end, you couldn't do that without destroying the unique cultures that had blossomed into existence. The past was the past, and the ultimate lesson of the game was that we had to move on.

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh God.

    I'm EBay surfing and impulse purchasing again.

    What have you done to me Zelda thread?

    You and me both. I spent about $100 I didn't have on Zelda stuff I don't need.

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  • Drag00n2019Drag00n2019 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Anyone ever played Parallel Worlds ROMHack for SNES? Damn it's tough and I also love it.

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Hard to miss. Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Just a heads up, I don't think discussion of rom hacks is kosher.

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  • DemerdarDemerdar Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Not going to read through 26 pages, but if you haven't seen this speed run....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEazJNUnEo

    EPIC (first item he gets is hover boots).

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    That sounds like some serious sequence breaking.

    EDIT: I checked out the link in the video description. That is some serious documentation on glitches in OoT. I wonder how much of it will be possible in OoT 3DS.

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  • DemerdarDemerdar Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh yeah, some pretty crazy glitches he pulls.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm one hour into the video and I think I get most of the glitches, but I have no idea why, when he warps to the temple of time, it acts as if he's beaten all the dungeons.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    I think him having the Light Arrows does that.. probably the only thing the game checks for.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    But why did it give him the light arrows? Don't you need to have awakend all the sages for that? The only dungeon he entered at all was the shadow temple.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    From the video description:
    Got the superslide to Gerudo Valley. Missed 1 superslide over the bridge. RBAd the Medallions so I can get the Light Arrows. Got the light arrows and went to Ganon's Castle.

    so in short: fuck if i know

    edit: watching that part again, he gives the saw to the guy, you see he has no medallions in the menu. He does the bottle thing with the spiders, and you can see he now has medallions. whatisthisidon'teven

    edit2: it appears to be a memory exploit, which is what I suspected it was. Neat!

    http://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/site/index.php?link=oot/ba/rba

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  • RehabRehab Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Not to bump my own thread as its falling off the pages, but this is pretty rad and its for charity.

    Get Down With The Funky Zelda Jams
    Illustrious youtube jammer, Jimmy Wong has put together this fancy vid of him and some other youtube video makers rocking out to some classic Zelda tunes. All I could think while watching this was, "yeah, I could do all that too" (except the violin and possibly the drum part for "Ganondorf's Theme"). But that's probably what most musicians will think after watching this. But you know what? We didn't do it and he did.

    If you dug this quick little medley, you can go and pick yourself up an mp3 of it here. All proceeds go to a charity of some sort. I dunno... Japan relief maybe? Yeah. That's a good one right to donate to right now. That's probably it.

    The Legend of Zelda TRIFORCE Medley!
    That worth watching for Ganondorf's Theme alone, which is really awesome, but all of the included songs are quite good really.

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  • KarrmerKarrmer Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    So I started playing Twilight Princess on Wii and I have to ask... is the game really supposed to be this ugly?

    It's hard to describe it I guess but my lord, there are *INSANE* number of jaggies to the point that it looks like an awful ugly mess that is below like sega CD quality. It is horrific.

    I'm playing with component cables, Wii settings set to 480p, on a 60" LG 1080p Plasma.

    I love the game, I'm genuinely just curious if this is normal or if my experience is weird

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