By the way, SoJ, if Link is only fated to appear when peace in Hyrule has crumbled then LA can't be a direct sequel unless peace has crumbled in Hyrule allowing him to save the Wind Fish. If he is fighting monsters and saving the world and LA is a direct sequel then I guess peace must have crumbled in Hyrule, as well. See the problem with that?
Uhm... what? Are you saying that peace must be crumbled in Hyrule for Link to do anything? If you look at the context of the quote, the mark of the hero means that peace in Hyrule has crumbled.
That's-freaken-that. This quote says that peace in Hyrule has crumbled, no quote says that there is no problem in Hyrule (and with the eminent (spelling?) resurrection of the Demon King of Evil, time getting screwed up and changed, and the seasons getting all F'd up, I can't imagine Hyrule would be a super peaceful place (along with the fact that Zelda says
that peace in Hyrule has crumbled.
Why would he? He is MINDLESS. Have someone pull half your brain out and see how well you function under those circumstances. Or at least, remove all of your intelligence other than your primal instincts. What would you do? Well, as a human being, you would try to survive. You would try to eat and stay out of danger. Same goes in this situation, but with Ganon, his only knowledge was his name, his title, and what he wanted to do at its most basic, which was to destroy things and kill people.
And?
Ganon/dorf never wanted to destroy things. He never wanted to kill anyone in particular. The only thing he ever wanted to do was have power and rule the world. He never once wanted to destroy or kill, but did so if it meant he would gain power. OoX does not show Ganon wanting power or control over anything, it only shows him wanting to kill. That would be the primal instinct of an evil demon or beast, which is what Ganon is.
Does it say that he had to have been wanting to control Hyrule or anything? Take a look at the manual (Japanese, mind you). All it requires is for peace to be restored by defeating Ganon. Which is EXACTLY what happened in OoX (and LttP, LoZ, TWW, OoT, TP, etc.......)
Baseless assumptions? That's the most rediculous remark I believe I've ever heard. When you got people like myself and Zemen that are coming up with in-game text, quotes, examples, etc. from the games, and using those to "base" our theories from, I would hardly label those as "baseless". Now when someone comes into a thread and says "your way is wrong" but doesn't give any particular reason why their way is any more correct, that is baseless.
Zemen has been giving in-game text? Really? Shall I quote all of his posts on this matter to prove you wrong? Might as well, or else you'll keep throwing around completely wrong statements:
Zemen on post #13 said:
Despite everything you have just said you have yet to explain how he regained peace in Hyrule in OoX. No where does it say in either game that Hyrule was in danger nor does it say anywhere in OoX that he regained peace in Hyrule. There was never anything mentioned of any attacks on Hyrule. Ganon was not revived in Hyrule. Veran and Onox never set foot in Hyrule nor did Twinrova. The only part of the game that takes place in Hyrule is Link riding towards the castle to get teleported away and the ending when he is seen leaving Hyrule, according to you, so please tell me why you think Hyrule was in danger and how peace was regained.
Hmm... no in-game text here. Ohh actually he's saying that Hyrule was in NO danger, which is contradicted by the quotes I have given to him atleast 4 times (I could quote those, too, if you'd like. So that you realize that he's ignoring my posts (which he's outright stated to do so (while lecturing me about ignoring posts lol). I know this for a fact because I had it as my sig for a while and quoted it and posted it on ZU. Hell I even have a screen shot of this).
Zemen on post #17 said:
It could merely just be a legend seeing as how he only ever has appeared when peace in Hyrule has crumbled. All she stated was something that has happened. No where does it say that peace in Hyrule has actually crumbled. Everything you said is speculation. Because Link normally shows up when peace has crumbled in Hyrule throughout the series, you assume that he showed up (in 2 completely different countries) because peace has crumbled in Hyrule. Are you suggesting that he should not save Labrynna and Holodrum because they are not Hyrule? For that matter does that mean that peace has crumbled in Hyrule during the events of LA?
According to you, LA and OoX feature the same Link which would mean that Link fighting in LA means that peace in Hyrule has crumbled. Does that sound about right? Is Link supposed to magically disappear when Hyrule is in a peaceful state?
The point is that other than that one quote, which only leaves room for speculation, there is nothing to say that Hyrule was in any danger in OoX. Hence why he is sent somewhere other than Hyrule. Even at the end of the game, Zelda says he has restored peace, but she never once says he restored peace to Hyrule.
You have a quote that says that Link is the hero fated to show up when peace in Hyrule crumbles. Every Link shows up when peace in Hyrule crumbles...and at other times when Hyrule is not involved.
Your argument=one quote.
My argument=the rest of the game.
No in-game evidence there. Just posting fallacious arguments and talking about his argument being about the rest of the game (which he has no evidence of and is just an opinion (which is wrong as I'M the only one who has posted an in-game quote which contradicts his preconceived opinion)(lolArgumentsfromPersonalIncredulity).
Zemen in post #21 said:
No where in either of the games does it say anywhere that Hyrule was under attack by any means. Ganon was not resurrected in Hyrule, he was resurrected in Labrynna/Holodrum. Ganon was killed moments after beaing resurrected so he didn't even have a chance to make any impact on Hyrule. None of the monsters attacked Hyrule. None of the main villains attacked Hyrule. nothing life threatening happened in Hyrule so what makes you think peace in Hyrule has crumbled?
By the way, SoJ, if Link is only fated to appear when peace in Hyrule has crumbled then LA can't be a direct sequel unless peace has crumbled in Hyrule allowing him to save the Wind Fish. If he is fighting monsters and saving the world and LA is a direct sequel then I guess peace must have crumbled in Hyrule, as well. See the problem with that?
Yay more opinions and no in-game text!
Zemen on post #23 said:
Yes, he could have gone to Hyrule, but did he? No. Nothing happened in Hyrule. That's the point. They are trying to argue that peace in Hyrule has crumbled, except nothing happened in Hyrule. Peace COULD have crumbled in Hyrule if nothing was done about Ganon, but that's not the case.
More opinions... I'm so utterly surprised that the person who 90% of the time replies with opinions is posting with opinions while having someone else say that he's posting facts!!
Zemen on post #26 said:
You can't argue what MIGHT have happened to make a theory about what DID happen logical. NOTHING happened in Hyrule. Whether it COULD have happened or not, it DIDN'T, therefor peace in Hyrule had not crumbled.
More disregarding of what the actual text says. I don't even feel the need to comment on this as it's so clear that he hasn't responded with facts so far.
Zemen on post #29 said:
Except the flaw with your analogy is that the missile is "alive" throughout your analogy. Ganon was not alive. You're talking about something that is there the whole time while I am talking about something that doesn't show its face til the end of the linked game and only lasts moments. Ganon was not around through the entire game. He wasn't even alive long enough for people in Hyrule to know he was alive. You can't fear what you don't know exists. Ignorance is bliss. I think that works quite well in this situation. Ganon was a threat for all of (insert length of battle against Ganon). Basically he was resurrected and then killed pretty quickly. He was not alive long enough to be a threat to Hyrule.
More disregarding of texts.
As you can see, Zemen has NOT ONCE in this ENTIRE THREAD posted a SINGLE in-game quote. Only his opinion about something that leaves no room for what it means.
STOP saying that Zemen has posted ANY in-game quote AT ALL. That is so utterly wrong (as I've shown by quoting every single response he's made since I entered the thread) that it's almost funny.
The ONLY FACTS WE HAVE ARE:
In the Japanese LA manual Link had to have restored peace to Hyrule by defeating Ganon.
In OoX peace in Hyrule has crumbled.
In OoX peace is restored because Ganon was defeated.
Those are the ONLY FACTS. I'm not talking about stupid, preconceived, idiotic, biased opinions. There are NO FACTS that say that Hyrule is fine and dandy. And NO facts that say that Ganon had to have some sort of tyrannical grip over Hyrule (I really do hate NoA sometimes). The ONLY FACTS we have are what I listed.
I believe you need to reevaluate your perception here a bit. You obviously haven't been following half of any of the threads in this section recently or you would know that SoJ in particular has done quite a bit of saying "that can't be that way because of this" but not giving any theories or backup towards anything of his own. You got your facts completely backwards, sir.
Well, you see, it's kinda hard for me to give backup for any theory I believe in when I don't have a set timeline of my own, and every single placement of almost every single game hasn't been placed in my timeline yet?
It's kinda hard to give proof for stuff you believe in when you don't believe in anything in particular.
By the way, Viral has been debating with, and against me, since atleast December of last year. He knows me, my views, how I debate, how much evidence I've given in debate, etc better than any of you.
Every single thing that Zemen has said in this thread is an assumption (and mostly basless). You can't even dispute this as I proved it earlier in this very post by quoting everything he said. So don't even try saying that he's given evidence, as he hasn't.
I've given quotes. You guys haven't. I've given proof. You guys haven't. This is undebatable, as I've gone through this whole thread and you and Zemen haven't given a single quote.
I could say this a few more times just so I KNOW you know that you've given no proof what-so-ever but it would get a little repetetive. I have facts, you don't so far. Instead of responding with opinions, respond with facts and actual PROOF.