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HANDS OFF MY GIRL, you moochers! :ham:

I always got the sense that Saria had a sort of matriarchal wisdom and maturity well beyond the other Kokiri. It's seemed to imply that they look up to her like a sort of big sister. Probably why she's a sage :) Of course my girl Midna is a wicked lil cutie pie :pikalove: Of course Agitha is...

Don't feel like you have to do everything at once the first time. If you're feeling overwhelmed, stick to the main quest and save the side quests for later. You can spend that time observing the schedule anyway to get the hang of how things play out. There's a lot you can't do without certain...

Sure! So long as it makes sense for the series. A lot of what ninty's done recently doesn't make sense. Like the entirety of Skyward Sword.

Literally never said that. Waker just acknowledges that Ocarina of Time exists. If it weren't for the specific callbacks referring specifically to Ocarina, Waker could have continued from virtually any game in the series. That might not be so much a callback as ninty repeating themselves like...

Not the point I'm making. You know LA first released on the original black and white Gameboy. The game couldn't even use color, and had less than half the resolution of the GBC to express itself. RE Gaiden had a lot more to work with to establish its look. Not my point. My point is that all...

That's not my logic at all. On the contrary, I'm saying that for the early games all the concept drawings and promotional art backs up the visuals of the games since the graphics were so primitive it was hard to convey an artistic style or tone. But which one do think was ever meant to...

If it's the photographs you're talking about, then yes. But like with every other early game before OoT you have to use a lot of imagination to visualize the look of things. Otherwise all you have to go off of is concept and promotional art, a lot of which varies in style. LA more than any of...

They put a glossy veneer over it to hide the lack of fidelity. Kinda like how old women slather themselves in makeup and hang jewelry off themselves like a Christmas tree to make themselves look good. Low resolution textures and minimal poly count abound. Most of the effort goes into lighting...

I never understood the "doesn't age well" argument. Like we're supposed to expect that technology from ten years ago is supposed to compare to today's? If it looked alright back then, then why is it suddenly unacceptable now? Even still, better for old game's visuals to "age poorly" than for...

Yeah. TP really ran with it. TP's comparisons to OoT are apt but people never seem to mention how much it showcased the old game's aesthetic - which back then was mostly conveyed in concept and promotional art. OoT had plenty of that look as well, but TP was the last we ever saw of it.

God help me, ES is one of those series' I've tried waaay too hard to get into. Daggerfall is admittedly too outdated and archaic for me to tolerate, but I physically can't stand Oblivion for the NPC faces and dialog alone. I've tried my best to get over it but every time I venture out and...

While the "old formula" was getting intolerably stale, the heart and soul of the series has been utterly lost in recent installments. The Zelda games were founded on the concept of discovery and adventure based on Shiggy's experiences as a child exploring the woods and caves around Kyoto. That...

If you're playing on PC u gotta mod dat sheeeet. If you're not playing on PC then you're doing it wrong and you need to re-evaluate your life choices.

Do we want Final Fantasy without the sappy melodrama? Eeeeeh... no. If we're going on this grand adventure to save kingdoms with themes of finding courage running in the background, then there has to be something at stake. Can't have courage without something scary to face off against.

I gotta admit, that trick they pulled with Impa in Suckward was kinda neat. It's as emotionally manipulative as the rest of the story but it's still kinda clever. I still can't stand her attitude in the past sections, though. They basically had to make her a complete b!*#% for their little...

Even the original Zelda ending with Link and Zelda holding up their triforce pieces was good. ALttP's ending just undoes every bad thing that happened to everyone in the game. It's kinda schmaltzy. Ocarina has the best triumphant ending. Even though it consists of a musical number, the montage...

Iron Knuckles predate OoT, however, and thus the Gerudo tribe as well. I don't know what an Iron Knuckle is supposed to be in general throughout the series. But they always take the form of heavy armored knights. Whether or not brainwashing is common among Iron Knuckles is up for speculation...

Started up Dragon Quest XI again. I love how DraQue games are so sweet and wholesome and colorful and kawaii with bright happy colors and happy music ^_^ Then all of a sudden... Your parents die. Your adopted parents die. Your girlfriend dies. Your village is destroyed. Your kingdom is...

Social media. Literally all of it. Look, I get it if it's being used to stay in touch with contacts you've met before who you aren't going to see very often. But this whole grossly commercialized mess of everyone broadcasting their entirely scripted fake life to total strangers they don't even...

Oh sure. There's the potential. But Ninty couldn't care less. "Story backseat to gameplay" is the way it is often described, but Ninty doesn't even relegate story to the back seat, they ignore it entirely. Okay, not entirely. Zelda games do notably feature some pretty subtle and heavy narrative...

I wonder if there are perhaps connections to Japanese in the different -fixes because I hesitate to believe that ninty would actually go through all the trouble to make a fictional language make that much sense. Of course, it could also be their ingenious way of coding recognition and...

Depends on how the game is trying to portray it. Wolfenstein is clearly a fantasy take on WWII. We can forgive it its ray guns, occult magic and mecha hitlers. It's not trying to be anything other than an entertaining piece of fantasy escapism. Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, etc...

no My bad. All these derivative shooters look alike. You're talking about gameplay again. Why do you two think that every character must be based on a real life person? Wrong. how ignorant of you to say. You are misunderstanding my point and assuming things I've never alluded to. Don't call...

No. But it did feature an enlisted woman fighting on the front lines... with a mechanical peg leg. Look. There's movie inspired WWII with an action bent, arcade-y gameplay, and somewhat loose historical accuracy on occasion. Then there's depicting a woman soldier with a disability as though...

Yeah, but they're thinking it. All this talk of "OMG 007 is a chick!!" might just be marketing fluff, but that their going with that during their promotional run is indicative of media spin and controversy (empty virtue signaling) and if that's all they have to talk about at present then the...

At the risk of going off topic, 'woke' is when you start believing that everything wrong with the world is because of the patriarchy, blaming everything on racism and sexism, develop misandry and start hating on white dudes, begin virtue signaling and pandering to lgtbqrsuvwxyz+-&*/, "people of...

LOL just, all of it :lol:

sunofa- :fpalm: :P Whalp... @Spirit already pretty much mentioned everything I would have. The OP name dropped Mass Effect to get that obvious one out of the way. Seeing what these disgusting hacks at the BBC have done to Doctor Who is particularly egregious. I'm not even much of a Doctor Who...

ALttP was a considerable expansion on the first LoZ, but even though OoT scaled back on content by comparison it did outshine ALttP overall so I don't think that is why ALttP is commonly regarded the same way as OoT even though ALttP was very formative for its time. Does ALttP have some issues...

Whew~ Man, what a thread! Twilight Princess features the best locations in the whole series. Choosing an answer is gonna be hard... Lake Hylia, Zora's Domain and Snowpeak are great answers! I just wish there was more to Snowpeak. Snowpeak Ruins is an awesome location. Eldin Field is...

It's really hard to be scared of anything in Zelda now when it all looks like a child's pastel finger painting.

I actually never saw LM3 in action before watching this vid. Looks pretty sweet :) I'm just a sucker for art deco hotels :cool:

I'm honest. I don't possess many virtues but I hold honesty in high regard. As far as I see it, honesty is simply a matter of practicality more than anything else. I'm highly logical. I'm fairly stoic. I sure didn't used to be. Over time, I managed to turn one of my greatest weaknesses into...

Man, these chief executive officers sure get around.

This whole series. I'm minutes in and I already like the look of it! I just wish I had the time to watch all hours of it.

The first Final Fantasy through VI are noteworthy. Even FFII gets a bad rap but it's solid. III introduced the job system which is remarkable. IV is the only old school entry I think is overrated. It has an overwrought narrative but that narrative is good. I just don't think the game is...

The best defense is a good offense. The problem with defense is that eventually you are going to run out of resources. You'll run out of mana for buffs and healing. You'll run out of potions. Or opponents will just debuff you or whittle down your health. This is true of every defense, even in...

The Zelda series made coherent sense up until Wind Waker where ninty arse-pulled a silly excuse to make Baby's First Pirate Adventure shoehorn into an existing series it bore no resemblance to at all. Then for a woefully brief instant ninty made an honest continuation of the series with Twilight...

If I am so invested in a game that I want to play it more than once without having to give up every accomplishment I made in my first playthrough, then your darn right it deserves NG+!

Sidequests need to be one of two things. Either they need to be so different from the main quest as to feel unique, or they must serve to expanded on and enhance the fiction, scenario, world or main quest; essentially acting as pieces of a larger picture to flesh out the narrative. Good...

It seems... derivative. :dry: But at least it doesn't sound like a totally cynical cash-in. It looks like they're mashing together Rainbow Six with Overwatch. At least they're not just aping Overwatch but they're definitely leeching off current trends. At least it appears as though they've...

I thought maybe the forum could use a thread for ZDers to post about and share Kickstarter projects they've backed. I suppose it needn't be limited to video game kickstarters. It could be board games and pen and paper games as well. My first Kickstarter was Cyan's return to development with...

This mother of all songs is what happens when some genius asks "What would happen when we pit a grand piano vs. a wurlitzer and throw in a bunch of other awesome @#$% like violins and stuff?" And it has one of the sweetest baselines I've ever heard :lemmy: It's called Child Of Vision because...