Excellent! Thanks. I'm not too concerned with fatigue in this game but I have seen most of the plateau and if I don't have to be there I won't be.
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Excellent! Thanks. I'm not too concerned with fatigue in this game but I have seen most of the plateau and if I don't have to be there I won't be.
fixed that for you.
Astral Dog
Member
Not really.:S
Twilight Princess contradicts both Ocarina and Wind Waker.
This is deliverate,however doesn't mean they fit well
^Makes me sad that we'll never get to experience BOTW in HDR
Who knows? Maybe in the future there will be an emulator that can force it.
How does it contradict Ocarina?
Dagobert Duck
Member
Temple of time placement?
It's much better if you assume the Zelda legends are all fables with similar elements passed down and being retold to a third party
Skittzo0413
Member
The stories all make a lot of sense in the official timeline but they always take a lot of liberty with the geography. It's a limitation of games made on different hardware and all that.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Do people take the timeline seriously (outside of obvious ones like OOT > MM)?
I feel like Nintendo cobbled it together because of fan demand, but they don't actually consider it canon.
After Ganondorf got so close to obtaining the Triforce it's not a stretch to assume that the royal family decided to build a new temple in the lost woods and relocate the Master Sword there.
Evil's Bane
Member
I feel like the Zelda timeline kind of made sense and could be reasoned with until they threw Twilight Princess into the mix
……forgetit
Member
I like to think they moved Hyrule castle at some point
Astral Dog
Member
Well Ganondorf was executed and then got the triforce anyways,he doesn't know Link despite the world looking a bit older from the Ocarina days.
This is later explained by the "child" timeline but still doesn't in a linear way . It would be confusing to play as it is after the developers said the game takes place after OoT
However:
SS>OoT>MM>WW>PH>ST fit pretty well
Dagobert Duck
Member
Hey i just said what the usual consensus, i actually don't really care about the timelines 😂
Skittzo0413
Member
Lets leave the timeline talk for other threads, I wanna see more tweets about how this is going to be the best game of all time!
ASHES IN THE HOURGLASS
Banned
Hey you guys remember that e3 2011 tech demo, the excitement following ALBW's release, the E3 2014 trailer, the Game Awards demo, the complete silence during 2015, the orgasmic e3 2016 and the Switch event trailer? Turns out all that shit is about to end, and we shall all be in Valhalla by next week. Witness Me.
Whenever someone says something like this, I assume they've never even looked at Skyward Sword.
I think the truth is Nintendo didn't give a damn for a very long time, were pestered by fans and then thought about it. Since then, it's been a big part of their writing and design philosophy.
Skyward Sword basically only exists to explain elements of later games in the continuity.
It was a long 5 years in hindsight.
I remember seeing a red Zora in one of the previews on YouTube; it was just there, floating in the river, haha. But the player couldn't be bothered in talking to it.
Twilight Princess
Member
It's been 10 years since the last passable console zelda game...
brandonh83
Banned
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Astral Dog
Member
I hope you don't mean Twilight Princess 😝
Jonneh3003
Banned
Skyward Sword was great and thankfully we had the brilliant A Link Between Worlds to keep us occupied.
I like to think of the Legend of Zelda games as pretty much that, a legend that gets unreliably passed from person to person and what we're getting are sort of retellings of very similar stories, accounting for the different maps, style and small imperfections in between iterations.
Sure, some are meant to take place after others and make references to one another, but they all boil down in structure and spirit to the same core "journey" and the message they tell are often similar. They're stories, and we're telling them through our actions in-game as much as the developers are. I actually feel like the "hard timeline" structure they've pushed in the last years that encompasses the entire canon instead of there being several "bubbles" that I could see as bigger cultural divides in the way the "Legend" gets told kind of deteriorates the nature of what TLoZ is.
Sure, some are meant to take place after others and make references to one another, but they all boil down in structure and spirit to the same core "journey" and the message they tell are often similar. They're stories, and we're telling them through our actions in-game as much as the developers are. I actually feel like the "hard timeline" structure they've pushed in the last years that encompasses the entire canon instead of there being several "bubbles" that I could see as bigger cultural divides in the way the "Legend" gets told kind of deteriorates the nature of what TLoZ is.
brandonh83
Banned
I kind of agree with them. Playing through OoT has kind of dispelled the magic of it. As a kid I imagined I was having epic fights with stalfos, iron knuckles and the like. Now, I can clearly see how rudimentary and basic the ai is. They just circle on a timer and get triggered early based on player action, taking turns to come at me, so even if I'm between two of them, the second one will only attack if I lock on to them. This doesn't take away from how ground breeding the game was at the time, but it's obviously aged less than gracefully with all the different mechanics that have popped up since then, many inspired directly by OoT.
It's kind of crazy that Nintendo doesn't expect the average player to find a dungeon with in 5 hours of BotW, unless they just specifically forbade early talk for the embargo.
ASHES IN THE HOURGLASS
Banned
Meh, TP is good but not great and I haven't played SS yet, but your reasoning completely ignores ALBW which won GOTYs in the same year as GTA5 and TLOU. Name me another handheld to accomplish such a feat.
brandonh83
Banned
Have some heart! A game may be surpassed mechanically, but the soul never dies. Chrono Trigger may not be a complex RPG when it comes to the battle system or whatnot anymore, but it's still amazing and the spirit thrives. Same for Ocarina. Outdated mechanics can't dispel the general magic of a game at least IMO. There's so many reasons why that game is a classic that have nothing to do with the combat system
DragonKnight
Member
Oh shit. My Best Buy Switch order status just went from "pre-ordered" to "preparing..." :O
In store pick up or shipping?
Jonneh3003
Banned
For some unknown reason people seperate console and handheld Zelda's. Technically Breath of the Wild will be a handheld Zelda
Jonneh3003
Banned
I'm not but I'm visting family on the 4th and 5th so most of my initial play time will be in handheld mode.
Astral Dog
Member
I remember when everybody freaked out Gamespot gave ALBW GOTY over TLoUS or whatever game was released that year 😂
I mean I won't only play on handheld mode, but I see myself mostly playing on it due to the convenience and wanting to multitask.
Aaronrules380
Member
The existence of the child and adult timelines was long speculated on even before the official timeline. Only the downfall timeline was a shock to fans. As for TP ganondorf having a fragment of the triforce despite the events of OoT not really happening in that timeline, I'd put that on either it just being destiny, or potentially a side effect of link with triforce of courage travelin back in time to create that timeline and thus causing it to distribute to the people embodying it's aspects in that timeline in some sort of unawakened stateWell Ganondorf was executed and then got the triforce anyways,he doesn't know Link despite the world looking a bit older from the Ocarina days.
This is later explained by the "child" timeline but still doesn't in a linear way . It would be confusing to play as it is after the developers said the game takes place after OoT
However:
SS>OoT>MM>WW>PH>ST fit pretty well
Well, i meant more just the magic of the combat, which was so surprising and fresh when it released. I definitely agree that the game as a whole still fills me with wonder, even all the text boxes. Just agree the fighting isn't as great, although Zelda shrieking by the fire in the final battle still gives me shivers.Have some heart! A game may be surpassed mechanically, but the soul never dies. Chrono Trigger may not be a complex RPG when it comes to the battle system or whatnot anymore, but it's still amazing and the spirit thrives. Same for Ocarina. Outdated mechanics can't dispel the general magic of a game at least IMO. There's so many reasons why that game is a classic that have nothing to do with the combat system
Speaking of ALBW, I've been playing it again since last night. Awesome game and it really seems like the testing ground for BotW. One minor gripe though. There's that message every now and then when saving that suggests taking a break. Has there been any word of that making it's way in BotW?
1 hour on the tv, countless hours on the handheld in bed. Repeat every day xD
I doubt I'll only play on the handheld, but I'm sure I'll play a lot on the handheld. I can totally see myself taking it to bed with me on Friday night and accidentally staying up all night when I only intended to play for about an hour.
DragonKnight
Member
Passable. PASSABLE? I get opinions and all that but you need to chill with this hyperbole, brah.
Passable implies a slip shod game that a publisher put through the door becauae they are bebolden to a bottom line. Nintendo doesnt make these kinds of games--at least not for the Zelda franchise.
WW is a rushed game and that is leaps and bounds above "passable".
Would have been smarter to just say "it has been 10 years since the last zelda game I truly liked came out".
Extremely insulting to publishers (like Nintendo) who spend years of toil to produce these games to come through with your broad stroke brush and drop lazy comments like "barely passable".
The comment is even more oft-putting considering just how anal Nintendo is with their games.
brandonh83
Banned
Ah gotcha, sure. Yeah I mean the combat systems kept getting better afterwards, but that's only natural evolution.
Jonneh3003
Banned
If there are I'll laugh in the face of all of them, I'm never taking a break. Ever.
Yea, I'm about to hop into WW for this very reason.
You're the worst game in the serie dude.
I don't think the 3D era Zelda games up to this point have lived up to the promise of the original 2D games. Some had some nice things in them but I've always resented 3D Zelda for rubbing my nose in everything and being so structured and formulaic. I pretty much never get the sense that *I* discovered anything when playing previous 3D Zeldas.
Really really excited for BOTW!
Rogue Agent
Banned
Here. Although that means it's a more expensive investment since we wouldn't be taking advantage of playing on a TV.
It's great that the screen is supposedly of a very high quality.
I will play mostly on the TV, handheld mode if I'm out and about or winding down the night at home.
Even longer since your last passable post.
Im kidding, but Skyward Sword and ALBW were excellent