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[AceBandage]

How come this game isn't winning any awards? The media neglect for this game is getting annoying. they are just voicing their concerns without actually praising the tangible stuff.

The media votes for what the "gamers" want to win. IE. boring shooters.

 

[Ushojax]

Those TP style shots are pretty ugly. A world in the skies should be full of bright colours, not just brown. Zelda should always be whimsical.

 

[apana]

Those TP style shots are pretty ugly. A world in the skies should be full of bright colours, not just brown. Zelda should always be whimsical.

The real thing when done by Nintendo would have more color, look at the HD Zelda demo for example. That was done in TP style but still had a ton of color. I swear though you people are so obsessed with color and take every oppurtunity to point out brown images that I almost wish Nintendo would make a black and white Zelda.

 

[AceBandage]

The real thing when done by Nintendo would have more color, look at the HD Zelda demo for example. That was done in TP style but still had a ton of color. I swear though you people are so obsessed with color and take every oppurtunity to point out brown images that I almost wish Nintendo would make a black and white Zelda.

...

Yes please!

 

[The Technomancer]

I just remember at last years E3 Miyamoto said the game would've already been done if they stuck with the TP artstlye. I'm glad they changed the style to what it is but it would've been interesting to see it in TP style.

The only problem with TPs art style was the dipped in tea filter. Give it some actual color saturation and you're golden.

 

[decoyplatypus]

I don't think there's anything wrong with those TP-style pictures. TP was, outside of Ordon, mostly an attractive game. SS's style is just more appealing.

 

[Chatin]

I'm not sure I'd say that Zelda was always about whimsy. The color palette was pretty definitively earth tones until the color explosion that was The Wind Waker.

 

[miksar]

How come this game isn't winning any awards? The media neglect for this game is getting annoying. they are just voicing their concerns without actually praising the tangible stuff.

If you don't have a number in the title, you're screwed.

 

[KeeSomething]

Madworld is uuuuuuuuuuuuuugly.

I'm pleased with Skyward Sword's look. It took a year to grow on me, but the newest E3 demo really helped change my mind. Still, I perfer the look of Ocarina of Time 3D. To me, Ocarina of Time is the ideal look for the series.

 

[MYE]

Madworld is uuuuuuuuuuuuuugly.

Nonsense.
Zelda should not look like that though.

 

[Poyunch]

The only problem with TPs art style was the dipped in tea filter. Give it some actual color saturation and you're golden.

Oh you...

 

[Hot Coldman]

We've had people in this thread call both TWEWY and MadWorld's art styles ugly. What's stopping me shooting myself in the mouth at this point exactly

 

[LaserBuddha]

We've had people in this thread call both TWEWY and MadWorld's art styles ugly. What's stopping me shooting myself in the mouth at this point exactly

Nothing. Please do so on GAF's tinychat.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

If you don't have a number in the title, you're screwed.

yeah you're so right, the media is way too concerned with sequels to give a new ZELDA game a chance.

 

[Jeels]

Why would you want to miss out on gems like.

"Looks worse than the PS360 versions!"

"Uh Nintendo confirmed that's 360 footage"

I had it worse. I was watching the conference with an annoying Nintendo fanboy. When they started showing the 3rd party games, he started bragging that that looked better than even PC games, and that the Wii U would obviously get the superior versions graphically (even though we all know when you make a multiplatform game, its for the lowest common denominator most of the time). He then went on and on about how Nintendo won E3. I told him that looked nothing like most PC games, and looked about on par with PS360, and proceeded to get attacked.

When it came out that Reggie admitted that it was just 360 footage and I showed him, he casually ignored it.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Nothing. Please do so on GAF's tinychat.

I'll make sure to wear kitchenmotor's pig mask, just to freak everyone out

 

[apana]

yeah you're so right, the media is way too concerned with sequels to give a new ZELDA game a chance.

Zelda is not like a numbered sequel. Each new game is an oppurtunity for new settings and gameplay. Think transformation in Majora's Mask or the great sea in Wind Waker.

 

[Gravijah]

We've had people in this thread call both TWEWY and MadWorld's art styles ugly. What's stopping me shooting myself in the mouth at this point exactly

I just got done rewatching Full Metal Jacket, so I suppose I'll start calling you Gomer Pyle.

 

[apana]

 

[LaserBuddha]

His poor wrist!

 

[Gravijah]

What is going on with his hand/wrist?

 

[LaserBuddha]

Zelda is not like a numbered sequel. Each new game is an oppurtunity for new settings and gameplay.

Not new plot, though.

 

[Black-Wind]

Someone needs to work on their hands ... and foreshortening.

 

[LaserBuddha]

Someone needs to work on their hands ... and foreshortening.

Who needs working hands when you can make a shield levitate around your wrist?

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Not new plot, though.

Yeah the plots of the last four console Zeldas are totally the same!


lol

 

[Gravijah]

Yeah the plots of the last four console Zeldas are totally the same!


lol

YOU ARE LINKS AND YOU FIGHT THE GANONS AND SAVE THE ZELDAS WITH ZORAS AND GORONS

but ignore the rest tho no one cares about it

 

[apana]

That battle with Ganon in Majora's Mask was incredible.

 

[Persona7]

Skyward Sword has Gorons?

 

[Gravijah]

That battle with Ganon in Majora's Mask was incredible.

sorry? majoras mask? doesn't sound like a zelda title to me.

 

[_Alkaline_]

YOU ARE LINKS AND YOU FIGHT THE GANONS AND SAVE THE ZELDAS WITH ZORAS AND GORONS

but ignore the rest tho no one cares about it

DON'T FORGET THE ZANTS BUT THEN HE TURNS INTO THE CLOWNS AND BREAKS GANONS NECK.

 

[LaserBuddha]

Yeah the plots of the last four console Zeldas are totally the same!


lol

Of course they're not the same, there are different details in each one, but let's not pretend this series doesn't have a problem with repeating the same overall formula, and in some cases the details are mostly the same too.

YOU ARE LINKS AND YOU FIGHT THE GANONS AND SAVE THE ZELDAS WITH ZORAS AND GORONS

but ignore the rest tho no one cares about it

If you're confident in your position then you don't need to falsely attribute statements to me.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

That battle with Ganon in Majora's Mask was incredible.

There was some semi-infamous thread back on the old Gaming-Age back in like 2000 that's lost to the sands of time where some dude trashed Majora's Mask and said something like, "I got to Ganon and got bored. Bad game."

Of course they're not the same, the details are almost always different, but let's not pretend this series doesn't have a problem with repeating the same overall formula, and in some cases the details are mostly all the same too.

But that's kinda wrong and made up sooooo

 

[BY2K]

Remember Ghirahim and Zant in A Link to the Past? Man, what crazy duo.

 

[Kard8p3]

That battle with Ganon in Majora's Mask was incredible.

My favorite part of wind waker was riding epona through the green fields of hyrule.

 

[LaserBuddha]

But that's kinda wrong and made up sooooo

If I'm wrong then I'll be sincerely grateful to find out. Saying it's "made up" is bullshit when it's based on me playing the games.

 

[Gravijah]

If you're confident in your position then you don't need to falsely attribute statements to me.

chillax, hot cakes.

 

[apana]

Skyward Sword has Gorons?

That's the plot twist at the end. The secret final boss is a Goron.

 

[Gravijah]

That's the plot twist at the end. The secret final boss is a Goron.

goron... ganon...


it all makes sense now

 

[LaserBuddha]

chillax, hot cakes.

That doesn't really work as a tactic unless I've actually been freaking out.

The amount of projecting you did in your initial response would make you much more fitting for such a comment, TBH.

 

[Gravijah]

That doesn't really work as a tactic unless I've actually been freaking out.

The amount of projecting you did in your initial response would make you much more fitting for such a comment, TBH.

I'm just teasing, buddy. It wasn't even specifically aimed at you.

 

[KidGalactus]

Of course they're not the same, there are different details in each one, but let's not pretend this series doesn't have a problem with repeating the same overall formula, and in some cases the details are mostly the same too..

Similar elements, sure, but it's only a problem if you don't like it. And I'd say in general... and especially in this thread, you're in the minority there.

 

[LaserBuddha]

I'm just teasing, buddy. It wasn't even specifically aimed at you.

I WILL HAVE MY SATISFACTION. PISTOLS AT DAWN.

Similar elements, sure, but it's only a problem if you don't like it. And I'd say in general... and especially in this thread, you're in the minority there.

Well yeah every potential weakness in a creative work is only a problem if you don't like.

Oh course I can like the Zelda games while acknowledging that Nintendo plays it a little too safe most of the time (not just in Zelda). Zelda is good enough for a variety of reasons that it doesn't need to keep repeating the same formula.

That said, I do think there is objective superiority in the attempt explore new territory, over repeatedly refining the initial successful formula.

 

[Izayoi]

Guys.

It's Zelda.

 

[KidGalactus]

I WILL HAVE MY SATISFACTION. PISTOLS AT DAWN.


Well yeah every potential weakness in a creative work is only a problem if you don't like.

Oh course I can like the Zelda games while acknowledging that Nintendo plays it a little too safe most of the time (not just in Zelda). Zelda is good enough for a variety of reasons that it doesn't need to keep repeating the same formula.

Fair enough, though, I would submit that the familiarity of Zelda stories, is a part of their appeal and gives a sort of contrast to the twists and changes that actually are made.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

If I'm wrong then I'll be sincerely grateful to find out. Saying it's "made up" is bullshit when it's based on me playing the games.

I started writing out synopses of each plot and had to stop during Wind Waker but damn the only similarities were "Link fight bad man and someone (kinda) named Zelda is there too (except in MM where that doesn't happen."

Ocarina, Majora, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess have really different plots and dynamics.

 

[AceBandage]

I don't think there's really anything wrong with Zelda's inherent formula.
It's not like we get 8 a generation or something.

However, they do need to take more cues from the handheld games and have them set outside of the normal Hyrule universe.
SS, as it seems right now, already is a good step in that direction, in that it deals with a Hyrule before it was actually Hyrule. Before there was a Triforce or a Master Sword or a Ganon.

 

[Magicpaint]

I don't think there's really anything wrong with Zelda's inherent formula.
It's not like we get 8 a generation or something.

However, they do need to take more cues from the handheld games and have them set outside of the normal Hyrule universe.
SS, as it seems right now, already is a good step in that direction, in that it deals with a Hyrule before it was actually Hyrule. Before there was a Triforce or a Master Sword or a Ganon.

Majora's Mask and Wind Waker?

 

[AceBandage]

Majora's Mask and Wind Waker?

MM, yes.
WW, not so much. It was easily the best of the normal formula, but it was still Link in Hyrule fighting Ganon to save Princess Zelda. It was just a different layout for Hyrule in that it was mostly water.

 

[Gravijah]

I wonder if Nintendo will ever permanently kill off Ganon. I kind of hope not.

 

[Big One]

I wonder if Nintendo will ever permanently kill off Ganon. I kind of hope not.

If you mean an actual death, Ganon has died many times actually.

But if you mean a death as in not returning ever again who knows. Ganon is just as iconic as Bowser so it'd be hard to let go.