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Fawf posted:The truth hurts sometimes. Going back to the same dungeon repeatedly with the payoff being "oh boy now I can get to the bottom of this shithole in half the time" blew rear end. No way, man. Going back into the same space with new tools to traverse it more efficiently was really great. Speaking of great, y'know what was great? Having Gary from Duckfeed on the most recent episode of Video Games Hot Dog. The only bad thing about Phantom Hourglass was the control scheme. Speaking of bad, y'know what was bad? Yoshi's Island.
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I don't really care for either DS zleda game. It just felt like I was having a reddit comment thread beamed into my ear.
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Jan 30, 2015 23:04
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Spirit Tracks was kinda whatever but Phantom Hourglass was great, and the controls were good
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Jan 30, 2015 23:15
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The lack of explorable over world is what ruined Spirit Tracks for me. IT'S LITERALLY ON RAILS!!
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Jan 30, 2015 23:22
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Spirit Tracks would have been better if Link was in the train outfit the entire time.
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Red Red Blue posted:Spirit Tracks was kinda whatever but Phantom Hourglass was great, and the controls were good Phantom Hourglass suffered from the same problem that made Majora's Mask terrible -- you had to repeat the same drat thing over and over again with a time limit, which as a concept is inherently anti-Zelda.
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Fawf posted:The truth hurts sometimes. Going back to the same dungeon repeatedly with the payoff being "oh boy now I can get to the bottom of this shithole in half the time" blew rear end. Actually it owns.
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zapjackson posted:Speaking of bad, y'know what was bad? Yoshi's Island. You're toast
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I'm playing Spirit Tracks for the first time and I like way more than Phantom for whatever reason - possibly because trains are charming as heck. The train theme certainly ranks up there with the best Zelda tracks, too.
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Sad news. For people that don't know this guy he used to work at joystiq/shack news and the last time I heard him was on weekend confirmed. http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/2015/01/29/crews-search-for-missing-man-at-mckinney-falls/22538585/ Jippa fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Feb 6, 2015 |
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Jan 31, 2015 08:37
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zapjackson posted:No way, man. Going back into the same space with new tools to traverse it more efficiently was really great. This episode was wonderful and so good.  Also re: the level selfies in video games, FFXIV has a button that makes your character look at the camera and you have a few face only emotes, so it's used as a selfie button of sorts.
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I really only think there are a handful of great Zelda games, a couple of good ones, and a whole lot of blah ones. It's like the Metroids series but with less contrast/distance between the wheat and the chaff.
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Woffle posted:I really only think there are a handful of great Zelda games, a couple of good ones, and a whole lot of blah ones. It's like the Metroids series but with less contrast/distance between the wheat and the chaff. I stepped into a Gamestop earlier today and heard an employee refer to A Link Between Worlds as "fine". Needless to say I didn't give them any money.
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C-Euro posted:I stepped into a Gamestop earlier today and heard an employee refer to A Link Between Worlds as "fine". Needless to say I didn't give them any money. Link Between Worlds and A Link to the Past are my favorites, followed by Ocarina and Awakening. I want to revisit Majora's Mask really bad and I love Zelda 2, even though I know that's divisive. Everything else? Meh for me.
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What, even the Oracle GBA games?
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Woffle posted:Link Between Worlds and A Link to the Past are my favorites, followed by Ocarina and Awakening. I want to revisit Majora's Mask really bad and I love Zelda 2, even though I know that's divisive. Everything else? Meh for me. I feel like there's a version of you, that I know well, and that person would prefer Wind Waker to Ocarina, but then, do we really know anyone?
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Zombies' Downfall posted:I feel like there's a version of you, that I know well, and that person would prefer Wind Waker to Ocarina, but then, do we really know anyone? You know, I got bored with Wind Waker. I would like to revisit it but at the time I couldn't get through it. And I think the Oracle games are *alright* but nothing too special. Shrug.
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Wind Waker starts a little slow, there are a couple of points throughout the story that drag pretty harshly, and while it's a bit of a cliche to complain about the sailing it really is a polarizing mix of "cool exploration" and "a whole lot of empty, open ocean." That said, it's one of my favorite Zelda games and I love the aesthetic (it looks so loving good), I love the feeling of infinite possibilities tinged with just a little bit of loneliness and fear you get from sailing around the ocean and never knowing just what's going to pop up next over the horizon, and I still think some of the story beats are actually really cool.
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Wind Waker was ruined when I realized the Triforce Hunt was just an excuse to cut out 6 dungeons because they didn't have time to finish them. I liked everything about the gameplay mechanics, even the sailing, but as a whole it fell completely flat for me.
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Woffle posted:Link Between Worlds and A Link to the Past are my favorites, followed by Ocarina and Awakening. I want to revisit Majora's Mask really bad and I love Zelda 2, even though I know that's divisive. Everything else? Meh for me. That was my point, LBW is totally rad and that guy was wrong.
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Woffle posted:I really only think there are a handful of great Zelda games, a couple of good ones, and a whole lot of blah ones. It's like the Metroids series but with less contrast/distance between the wheat and the chaff. 
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Stan Taylor posted:And then one of the other dudes called Beyonce a fake gamer girl because rhythm heaven was too hard. Man, rhythm heaven ain't that hard. I've shown it to plenty of non gaming buddies of mine and they all loved it and definitely beat more than the first few levels. When I said that Beyonce joke I made a point to underline the fact that it WASN'T a "fake gamer girl" comment so congrats for making me wary about joking the slightest bit I guess
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mango sentinel posted:There are only two bad Metroid games. prime 3+hunters are bad, prime 2 is meh, fusion is a good game but a bad metroid game, metroid 2 is whack but has nifty ideas, the rest are cool. Gaming Podcasts 2014: Ranking all nintendo games forever
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bobservo posted:When I said that Beyonce joke I made a point to underline the fact that it WASN'T a "fake gamer girl" comment so congrats for making me wary about joking the slightest bit I guess I thought it was a funny comment, their whole ad campaign for the DS at that point was strange as poo poo. I remember there was one featuring Lisa Kudrow cooking with her niece using the DS as a cookbook. That's how Nintendo was marketing a "gaming handheld".
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Samopsa posted:prime 3 [is] bad While I agree to some extent I think the first-person controls in 3 are amazing. Aiming with the wiimote is well realized in that game in ways I haven't seen in any other first-person wii game.
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I think anybody who plays Link's Awakening for the first time today will have a mostly bad time. At least that was my experience. I'll quote myself from the Giant Bomb thread where we just had this same conversation recently.quote:I understand that the GB only had two buttons and so you could only use two items at a time. But then, they shouldn't have had so many drat obstacles thrown at you -- SO MANY times where you had to switch to the glove/feather to jump over a single pit or lift a single pot. And as soon as you left the screen, everything would respawn. This made the world map and dungeons really tedious to navigate. Game needs a modern update really bad. Tree Dude fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Feb 1, 2015 |
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Sharay posted:While I agree to some extent I think the first-person controls in 3 are amazing. Aiming with the wiimote is well realized in that game in ways I haven't seen in any other first-person wii game. Actually Prime 3 is great and much better than 2
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Samopsa posted:prime 3+hunters are bad, prime 2 is meh, fusion is a good game but a bad metroid game, metroid 2 is whack but has nifty ideas, the rest are cool.
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Mortal Kombat Annihilation is amazing though. Mother you're alive! "Too bad YOU...... WILL DIE"
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Every single Metroid game is bad.
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I played Super Metroid for the first time a few years ago and that game has the worst physics of any 2D platformer I've played. Yes, I went there (probably because I grew up on the much tighter mechanics of Mario and Mega Man)
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I think Super Metroid is one of the all time Best Games. A lot of my salt for the games that came after is because they just shat on what made that game special to me. Totally subjective video game opinions a poppin'. I'd love a remake of Metroid 2, which is mechanically obnoxious but still has the feel of the series before it became an exposition nightmare. Oh, and I agree with that criticism of Link's Awakening. I'd love a remake of that as well. Get on it, Nintendo.
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bobservo posted:When I said that Beyonce joke I made a point to underline the fact that it WASN'T a "fake gamer girl" comment so congrats for making me wary about joking the slightest bit I guess Oh no, I got that you weren't actually doing that! Just that I thought that game wasn't impossibly difficult, as I've seen a handful of non gaming oriented people play and enjoy that game, more so if they play an instrument or something.
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Mister Adequate posted:Every single Metroid game is bad.
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Woffle posted:I think Super Metroid is one of the all time Best Games. A lot of my salt for the games that came after is because they just shat on what made that game special to me. Totally subjective video game opinions a poppin'. I don't begrudge anyone for liking Super Metroid, but like I said I grew up on Marios and Mega Mans (Mega Men?) where the platforming is really tight since you're generally moving in one direction and there's more action to the gameplay. When I came to Super Metroid over 15 years after my first formative platformer experiences, the controls were just waaay too floaty and loose for me, which is probably better for an exploration-based platformer but I did not like them at all (also the knockback which is really jarring because it's not floaty at all). I liked Zero Mission and liked Fusion more than most people specifically because the controls felt much tighter. Also yes, Link's Awakening was my first Zelda game and I would love to see it re-visited, I think it has that same otherworld-ness that Majora's Mask has and the world felt HUGE at the time (probably because of how it was tiled off). Nintendo should give it the same treatment they "gave" A Link to the Past when they made A Link Between Worlds.
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Hmm.... Yoshi's Island sucks and every Metroid game is bad, right here on the same page. Anybody got a spare "Hitler did nothing wrong" kicking around in their skull itt?
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Zombies' Downfall posted:Hmm.... Yoshi's Island sucks and every Metroid game is bad, right here on the same page. Anybody got a spare "Hitler did nothing wrong" kicking around in their skull itt? Hello, yes, greetings. In fact I am him, Adolf Hitler. Hello.
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It was all going to end in Hitler eventually
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