@Jonny-Two-Delta @TalesOfGod It would be great if Nintendo could make a more mature game, that explores things like violence and dark humor...
I just don't see why it should be a Zelda game. Zelda can't be everything. It would be best if they put the whole franchise to rest for a generation or two while they come up with new games...
@zorgan I always DID wonder why they dropped the brilliant formula from the NES Zeldas:
The whole "go into random dungeon --> get your ass kicked --> That's how you know you're not supposed to start here --> find a different one --> repeat"
I think games like Dark Souls learned more from Zelda than any other game...
@Oloryn Not sure about all the post-apocalypse but yeah. Zelda could so use a different setting. Especially now that it's been established that Zelda games can take place anywhere in the timeline...
Wow. That was a... long... dedicated response. Good thing i'm not a TL;DR guy. I hope you aren't either because i think this is going to be one of those comments too...
Don't appreciate being called ignorant and an idiot, but, you take what you can get in the Gamespot comments section, i guess...
Aaanyway. True, "invented" wasn't the best choice of words, but i was trying to keep it short, and that doesn't change the fact that it was abandoned gaming technology that no one else adopted until Nintendo made it popular in 1996. Your point was that Nintendo doesn't take risks, but if that wasn't a risk (embracing and improving abandoned technology that no one uses anymore) then I don't know what's your definition of "risk".
Same goes for the DS. Yeah, maybe there were 2 touchscreen games before, but Nintendo gave the idea full support and only AFTER Nintendo showed how it's done everyone wanted in. Again, they took a risk and it payed off. Meanwhile Sony were taking the safe path of just making a portable Playstation and the N-Gage... well... happened, i guess.
Since they are the same company that both make games AND hardware, i don't think I "entirely missed the point". But let's play by your rules, and focus only on software. So Nintendo never takes risks and never innovates on its classic IPs...
-Metroid Prime. [became a first person game] -Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker [changed art style completely] -Legend of Zelda, Skyward Sword [fully changed controls] -Luigi's Mansion [changed protagonist] -Kirby's Epic Yarn [changed art style and gameplay] -Wario Ware (all of them) [Same Wario in different game, with different gameplay depending on console] -Wars series [went from turn based strategy to real time action-strategy)
And those are just a few.
And let's not even start with their old 2D games that made a successful transition into 3D, which is unlike 99% of other games from other companies...
I rest my case.
I think you need to pull your head out of Pokémon and realize it's just not that good a game. Especially if you're not a little kid. Stop bashing it for not being what you want it to be and just move on.
I don't expect anyone ever to read such a long comment, but, if you did, you deserve all of the internets. :)
@Coco_pierrot @Icepick_Trotter His comment didn't sound like that to me but that's a problem too...
People who don't know what they want think the problem is that the IPs are the same over and over. The problem is when they see things like that they ignore how much the same IPs have changed over time...
@slayer1090 @Icepick_Trotter @Wolfkcing Exactly my point. The problem is the fans, and because of them you have to keep releasing and re-releasing a franchise into blandness because they just want more of the same.
Look at what abscense did for Metroid. It disappeared for all the N64 lifespan and when it came back on the Gamecube everyone had a fangasm, even when the game was completely new, with new gameplay that refreshed the series.
Nintendo could never do that to Zelda because people are so attached they won't let it go for a couple of years... What scares me to death is that if Nintendo went Assassins Creed and started releasing a Zelda every year people would be fine with it...
Thank god Nintendo doesn't listen as much as its fans would want...
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