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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword |OT| Home of Punkin' Chunkin' Champion 2011
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AgentOtaku
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Did they finally update/fix Link's movement (IE: Walking, running) in Skyward Sword?
Going through TP right now and it's one of those things they still haven't really made "smooth" and inline with modern titles. Link always barely walks or runs and the analog has a rather large deadzone. the light to non-existant resistance on the 3DS slide-pad mitigates this for Ocarina of Time3D.
Anyone else know what i'm talking about? Thanks
Also, is there camera control this time around?
Going through TP right now and it's one of those things they still haven't really made "smooth" and inline with modern titles. Link always barely walks or runs and the analog has a rather large deadzone. the light to non-existant resistance on the 3DS slide-pad mitigates this for Ocarina of Time3D.
Anyone else know what i'm talking about? Thanks
Also, is there camera control this time around?
EmCeeGramr
Member
Two new Iwata Asks volumes: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/zelda-skyward-sword/5/0
adventure of link obliterated
adventure of link obliterated
AgentOtaku
Member
zoukka said:
wow, WTF, i'm sorry but it's fucking 2011. I can handle the shitty movement but no camera control AT ALL!?
AgentOtaku
Member
Kard8p3 said:
Yeah, I was at least hoping for this
Jesus
I don't care if your camera system is designed to be good enough without user input. People still like to look at shit from time to time on their own terms.
Jzero15 said:The future still doesn't have camera control?!
lol lol
ShockingAlberto
Member
doesn't the C button accomplish thisAgentOtaku said:
or did you mean without it
AgentOtaku
Member
ShockingAlberto said:
recentering isn't the same thing as being able to slowly pan around your environment on a vertical or horizontal axis. Only being able to see from behind Link most of the time, honestly does a disservice to the artists/designers and their efforts. Your essentially locked in this FOV and for me, it always made the worlds feel smaller.
I dunno, i've always been a big nut with camera control. Being able to frame the action how I want is a big deal and hate it when games don't allow it optimally or even at all.
AgentOtaku
Member
Kard8p3 said:
Yeah I know the series has had this for quit a bit, but it's a series designed around being in 3rd person ...on a SD system no less. Looking around in 1st person tends to put things at a disadvantage from a visual standpoint IE: these games aren't as pretty when Link isn't in the shot!
AgentOtaku said:
Yeah I just think it's cool they let you walk around in first person now. As far as I know that wasn't in past games. I'd like to mess with the camera like I did in Wind Waker but that just wont happen till the WiiU so for now I'll have to settle for no camera control or first person.
Chet Rippo
Member
Adventure of Link was obliterated when a Link to the Past came out.EmCeeGramr said:
jump_button
Banned
Dispatching Soon along with Mario
Miyamoto interview on 1UP
He says that he doesn't like how people think all Zelda games are the same dungeons/puzzles, so they made Skyward Sword. Lots of interesting quotes, worth a read.
He says that he doesn't like how people think all Zelda games are the same dungeons/puzzles, so they made Skyward Sword. Lots of interesting quotes, worth a read.
MrCookiepants
Member
AgentOtaku said:
What's wrong with the movement in 3D Zelda? I'd say it's better than just about any other 3rd person action game. I'm talking Arkham City, Uncharted, Dark Souls etc.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Some of the following might help:F#A#Oo said:How do I get rid of the black bars?
-(assuming EU Wii), set to 60Hz (480i)
-Wii set to 16:9 if playing on 16:9 TV (we found in the Xenoblade thread lots of people forgot this step*)
-If playing on 16:10 TV (lots of earler/cheaper HDTVs are this ratio) you're going to have black bars top and bottom due to the aspect ratio.
*-I'm wondering if like Xenoblade the game is 16:9 only (Skyward Swords HUD back in E3 '10 looked like it could not work in 4:3).
Metroid Killer
Member
It's rarely that I ever stop while playing a 3D Zelda and think, hmm I wish I could jump via a button.
On the other hand the devs have an extra botton to use with auto-jumping not being mapped to any buttons.
I dunno, perhaps some extra fun platforming and jumping puzzles could be added if jumping was mapped to a button. But I think auto-jump suffice as it is now.
On the other hand the devs have an extra botton to use with auto-jumping not being mapped to any buttons.
I dunno, perhaps some extra fun platforming and jumping puzzles could be added if jumping was mapped to a button. But I think auto-jump suffice as it is now.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
What the fuck man, the game doesn't come out tomorrow.verbatimo said:
Soooo close.
Stop messing with my mind.
Nocturnowl
Member
My copy has arrived, today my main wii controller with a classic NES skin gets retired for the limited edition remote.
G.O.O, after the first couple of hours you can remove it (Press 1 and you can change it in there).
I finally got back over to my friends house and put in like 5 hours today (up to 20).
He's finished it, but I told him not to say anything.
The game is really frustrating. So many bullshit 'side quests' for everything.
Without spoiling anything and making up my own story path...
My mom goes "oatmeal, go to the store and buy some milk."
So I go outside, short cutscene showing outside (the road, the lawn, etc.) and then right when I'm about to take a step, a fucking blue woman pops out of nowhere and starts giving me facts about the probability of the grocery store having milk. She's slow and annoying.
Finally, I am able to walk.
I walk to the grocery store but the door is locked. A homeless man beside it says that he will only open it if I give him 5 cans, so he can catch a bus. So I go around and scrounge up some cans and bring them back. He opens the door for me and I'm allowed in.
Blue girl pops out, more stupid information that I don't want.
Finally I go in and am about to grab the milk when it turns out the cows haven't actually been producing, so I need to head down and milk them by hand into a bucket and carry that home.
And I finally have my milk.
I don't remember anything in this game that was just A to B. Some sort of favor or something always has to come up. It's brutal.
Also, the game needs to cut it out with the hints...for example:
I'm really having a love/hate with this game sometimes. When it's exploration and dungeons, it's amazing. But there's so many stupid things in between that serve to annoy.
Oh, finally did my first tears sequence. It was actually kind of fun, much better than the PH stuff. Music was suitably creepy...and my God, when you're being chased. Terrifying.
I finally got back over to my friends house and put in like 5 hours today (up to 20).
He's finished it, but I told him not to say anything.
The game is really frustrating. So many bullshit 'side quests' for everything.
Without spoiling anything and making up my own story path...
My mom goes "oatmeal, go to the store and buy some milk."
So I go outside, short cutscene showing outside (the road, the lawn, etc.) and then right when I'm about to take a step, a fucking blue woman pops out of nowhere and starts giving me facts about the probability of the grocery store having milk. She's slow and annoying.
Finally, I am able to walk.
I walk to the grocery store but the door is locked. A homeless man beside it says that he will only open it if I give him 5 cans, so he can catch a bus. So I go around and scrounge up some cans and bring them back. He opens the door for me and I'm allowed in.
Blue girl pops out, more stupid information that I don't want.
Finally I go in and am about to grab the milk when it turns out the cows haven't actually been producing, so I need to head down and milk them by hand into a bucket and carry that home.
And I finally have my milk.
I don't remember anything in this game that was just A to B. Some sort of favor or something always has to come up. It's brutal.
Also, the game needs to cut it out with the hints...for example:
The windmill puzzle in Skyloft. Great puzzle, I actually accidentally moved the one by the Academy to the right spot just fucking around. Cool...so I go to the headmaster and talk to him and he tells me a rumor he heard about windmills facing the tower.
Cool.
And hten he goes on and on about EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE TO DO!!! So annoying, just let me figure it out!
Cool.
And hten he goes on and on about EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE TO DO!!! So annoying, just let me figure it out!
I'm really having a love/hate with this game sometimes. When it's exploration and dungeons, it's amazing. But there's so many stupid things in between that serve to annoy.
Oh, finally did my first tears sequence. It was actually kind of fun, much better than the PH stuff. Music was suitably creepy...and my God, when you're being chased. Terrifying.
oatmeal said:
This sums it up perfectly! All you wrote is just spot on! How come no reviewer mentioned that? Or did I just read the wrong reviews?
I really had to force me to keep playing through the first two hours of the game and then just gave up and went back to Skyrim.
Disappointment of the year!
I just want to shoot whoever decided that every stupid NPC had to annoy you with at least 5 textboxes full of worthless information.
If you're 8 years old and this is your first Zelda you might enjoy it, but I can't see anyone over 20 not getting annoyed by all the text the game throws at you.
Refreshment.01
Member
Nintendo does a fantastic job managing the camera angles. Z targeting still works great so game playability is not impacted much.AgentOtaku said:
mocolostrocolos
Member
In Spain it's on sale since yesterday.
You forgot the wall of text every time you pick up a gem, a bug, a skull, a claw, a butterfly, a ladybird, an ore, a bubble etc. Every. Single. Fucking! Time. And there are tons of this shit in SS. It drives me nuts, just like this blue chickoatmeal said:
Also: red rupees in treasure chests. Seriously, who the ffffuuu would want to hide them in treasure chests? I could bang my head into two trees and aquire as much.
The situation is really sad because in it's core (when you slash away all the filler text and fetch quests) this game is really good.
Generally Zelda games pick up after the initial 2 hours so it's worth going back to. Though I doubt you've really abandoned it.MEATER said:
And I can't speak for SS as I'm yet to play it, but NPCs actually having something to say is a plus for me. Some people may see it as intrusive but I see it as character building, livening up the world a little. I know many NPCs wont be actually fleshed out, but I like even the most minimal amount of character/story to them. Same goes with entire Zelda intro-sequences (first 2 hours or so). Sure, again I understand why some may not like it, but I enjoy getting familiar with the games setting before being thrown into a dungeon. I acknowledge that TP was a bit excessive in that regard but even then I don't loathe it like many others.
I don't see it so much as a hand-holding tutorial stage (even if it's designed to be one), I see it as a calm before the storm. You have to be introduced to the normal world first for proceeding disruptive events to hold any impact.
This IS ridiculous though, and I can't believe after TP's rupee problem that it still exists in SS in another form.czk said: