ecosse_011172
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A speedrun of any game looks repetitive and tedious.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Review Thread.
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A speedrun of any game looks repetitive and tedious.
wow
WrenchNinja
Member
Vire
Member
Sounds like they were disappointed by a lack of new content, especially at the price point they are charging.
I don't really see a problem.
equippedwithtowel
Member
Hot Coldman
Banned
I don't understand why people view this as a bad Zelda game.[/QUOTE]
The dungeons aren't all that.
Honestly, I'd take a guaranteed 8 out of 10 if I was Nintendo, lol
KillerTravis
Banned
Sorry I won't even try to humor you this time.
equippedwithtowel
Member
Them calling it a "lesser entry" automatically loses their credibility with me.
Did you miss out
New Super Mario Bros U - 8.5
New Super Luigi U - 8.5
Game & Wario - 5.0
on purpose?
I don't really need to pay attention to these reviews to know this game is fantastic. Unless they start saying they ruin parts of the game by cutting stuff out, or drastically alter some other apsect, there's no reason not to get this.
87% metacritic is actually pretty good for a remake. Remake's usually score slightly lower just because they are remakes. And lol at the metro article claiming WW is the worst Zelda. Ah. I can't wait for this.
87% metacritic is actually pretty good for a remake. Remake's usually score slightly lower just because they are remakes. And lol at the metro article claiming WW is the worst Zelda. Ah. I can't wait for this.
WrenchNinja
Member
Why, because it wasn't awful?
WTF?! How is NSMBU an 8.5 while P3 is an 8?!! Injustice!!
i don't know about that, because in speedrun they do same stuff as any other player would but fifty times faster, using lots of awesome tricks. If this seems repetitive, then the actual game must be a total drag.
They were finished. And put into other Zelda games. It's not like they have a Wind Waker build with two islands with dungeons on them sitting there suspended in eternity.
Different people?
[insert website that reviews games here] != a single person
Speedruns skip entire sections of the game if they could. It also distorts the pace. Don't use it as a metric of judgement.
Rayman Legends was rated higher on the PS3 and 360 at Gamespot even though they have less content and less features. Because he found the extra content the WIi U version dull even though its bonus content he rated the game lower and all versions were done by same guy so its not a matter of taste
WrenchNinja
Member
I would imagine in the process of allegedly remaking the game from the ground up they would have made new dungeons to cover for well known filler in the last quarter of the game.
Assuming that this is an actual remake.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
The speedrun route for WW is very different than the intended route and uses a lot of the same tricks multiple times.
FlashbladeGAF
Member
Gamespot: if its a Nintendo game make it 8
... If its a Mario game make it an 8.5
Any mini game collections get an automatic 5.0
Nice avvy
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
It's not a remake, it's more of a port with a few bells and whistles.
<3
Jaded Alyx
Member
...You and this again?
freezamite
Banned
NSMBU is one of the best 2D platformers ever made, so what surprises me is that it only got an 8.5
I suppose that this is what happens when you don't base the experience on the graphics, the scripts and the explosions, it doesn't matter how good you are, you'll never get more than an 8.5
Regarding Pikmin 3... I think this is another case of not being from the right genre. But at least those games won't make them feel fooled, I mean, look at the 4.5 they gave ZombiU only because they were expecting a shooter and they got a first person survival horror.
GetemMa
Member
So just 70% of major Nintendo releases have gotten an 8.0.
God, just saying that is more incriminating than listing them out.
plank
Member
They are not disappointed by the lack of new content, they are disappointed by the lack of change. And there's a fistful or 2 of them.
I hate this argument so much. If you can't even compare scores from the same publication, then why quantify a review at all.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Gamespot operates on a 0.5 scale. Furthermore, their review guidelines dictate that 7.0 and 7.5 are games with noticeable faults while 9.0 and higher get their editor's choice award. Which forces everything inbetween to a 8.0 or 8.5.
So its more an inherent flaw with their review system than anything. Would you prefer the meaningless decimal system that IGN uses?
The entire point of a review site is to establish a metric in which people, though subjective, still rate the games in harmony with one another.
Regardless, I don't care, it's still injustice
While that thought might apply to something like 100% Super Metroid or something, Wind Waker is entirely different.
The speedrun of Wind Waker is hardly a good representation of the game in a casual playthrough sense. It has massive skips and tricks to get to the destination as fast as possible or even skip entire parts of dungeons. It's entertaining, yes, but it doesn't really encapsulate the full experience of the game.
Vire
Member
frankie_baby
Member
well spotted, so just add 2 to all wii u reviews to get the real scores then
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
w1gglyjones
Member
another amusing anecdote filed away in "Kamiya Asks: Is ___ your god?"
plank
Member
Gamespot goes by 1s now.
Okay but the part in the verdict about the lack of CHANGE is still bull.
Gamespot has since abandoned the 0.5 in favor of the ten-point scale used by sites like EDGE.
The writers/editors at gamespot are clearly biased. They've been the outlier on too many Nintendo releases for it not to be obvious at this point.
I can understand people not being interested in Nintendo consoles, but I don't know how I feel about those people reviewing the games.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Ah, so you're right. Still, that only happened a month ago.
Good change. Might as well erase the artificial diversity that the decimal scale suggests. They really should change it to 8 instead of 8.0 though.