Game

[AdmiralViscen]

Andrex do you really think he stole anything from HarmoKinghts? Wasn't that game revealed like 3 weeks ago? Ubisoft ain't got 4000 people working on Rayman, no way they get that done in time to be a copy.

Lol I figured I'd just throw that in there for good measure. Obviously there are other, previous running platformer with musical elements Ancel ripped off.

Rayman had music levels in last years game. But I don't know what this hard knights shit is

[Steve Youngblood]

Yeah, I don't feel sorry they have a ton of content to discover anytime they choose (as I do, as I still have yet to play some Nintendo classics myself), but more that amount of time they need to invest in order to "cover their bases" and not be ridiculed for "missing" something someone considers a staple for you to consider yourself a gamer. "OMG you never played the original Halo or Mario?? You're not a gamer!"

I don't think anyone actually cares about this aside from people who feel compelled to authoritatively participate in "list wars" type things and list something as "greatest ever" when it's clear that certain stuff was probably overlooked because it was before their time.

[Himu]

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

[Tasty]

I'd just move to other threads, spreading like a cancer and getting all the threads killed until there is nothing left.

So what you're saying is that you're like The Nothing from Neverending Story?

Never watched Neverending Story, seemed cheesy and boring.

[Great Rumbler]

I'd just move to other threads, spreading like a cancer and getting all the threads killed until there is nothing left.

So what you're saying is that you're like The Nothing from Neverending Story?

Never watched TNS, seemed cheesy and boring.

 

[Tasty]

It was before my time. :'(

[Himu]

Let's be real here.

MM > LttP > OoT > TP > LA > Oracles > WW > 1 > 2

[Himu]

BEST ZARUDA

[Himu]

omg TEXP.

GOTY 2012's wii u version has a new mode?!

[D3RANG3D]

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

Because Links awakening can actually be challenging, and LTTP is casual tier.

[Positive Touch]

acting like any zelda after the nes was a challenge

[Himu]

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

Because Links awakening can actually be challenging, and LTTP is casual tier.

rofl

[D3RANG3D]

acting like any zelda after the nes was a challenge

The first boss can kill you with two hits, in any other zeldas (not counting the NES ones of course) they are all easy as fuck only taking like a quarter heart thus casual tier.  If I can single out why I consider LA better than any Zelda is because it doesn't take place in fucking Hyrule, no Zelda, no Ganon, and is not the fifthieth retread of the LTTP formula another reason MM is my #2. I liked LTTP at the time but the retreads burned me out on it, I base my opinion on what is playable to me now not nostalgia LTTP is not IMO I need a sleeping bag on standy any time I attempt to do a playthrough. 

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

Do ho ho how did I miss this...

You like Shenmue and actually think it's a game, opinion/taste invalidated.

[Oblivion]

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

Himu-chan. :

[Himu]

acting like any zelda after the nes was a challenge

The first boss can kill you with two hits, in any other zeldas (not counting the NES ones of course) they are all easy as fuck only taking like a quarter heart thus casual tier.  If I can single out why I consider LA better than any Zelda is because it doesn't take place in fucking Hyrule, no Zelda, no Ganon, and is not the fifthieth retread of the LTTP formula another reason MM is my #2. I liked LTTP at the time but the retreads burned me out on it, I base my opinion on what is playable to me now not nostalgia LTTP is not IMO I need a sleeping bag on standy any time I attempt to do a playthrough. 

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

Do ho ho how did I miss this...

You like Shenmue and actually think it's a game, opinion/taste invalidated.

But that's the thing! Shenmue IS a game that only a game can replicate. It wouldn't be a great movie nor a book, everything great about Shenmue is through the interactive medium of which it partakes. Of course, I wouldn't expect someone who prefers Link's Awakening to LttP to get this.

[D3RANG3D]

acting like any zelda after the nes was a challenge

The first boss can kill you with two hits, in any other zeldas (not counting the NES ones of course) they are all easy as fuck only taking like a quarter heart thus casual tier.  If I can single out why I consider LA better than any Zelda is because it doesn't take place in fucking Hyrule, no Zelda, no Ganon, and is not the fifthieth retread of the LTTP formula another reason MM is my #2. I liked LTTP at the time but the retreads burned me out on it, I base my opinion on what is playable to me now not nostalgia LTTP is not IMO I need a sleeping bag on standy any time I attempt to do a playthrough. 

I don't think LA has aged poorly, but if you think smaller-scale dungeons you can beat in five mnutes without MUCH effort, and really bad backtrack pre-dungeon quests are better than what LttP has to offer in the way of exploration, puzzle solving, questing, sequence breaking, general open-endedness, and boss fights then...fine! It's cute that you think superficial things like location and story and crappy quests to give a banana to a monkey are more important in a ZELDA GAME but don't try to convince people with taste that LttP has aged poorly in any way. Oh hey, I can equip a jump ability on Link in this game! Must mean it's better than LttP!

Do ho ho how did I miss this...

You like Shenmue and actually think it's a game, opinion/taste invalidated.

Shenmue is a non gaming excecise in distinguished mentally-challenged futility. It would be your typical Adam Sandler joint as it were, in which he plays an emotionaly stunted individual aka distinguished mentally-challenged fellow. Everything great about Shenmue is about as fun as watching any formualic entry in the manchild subgenre. I wouldn't expect you who partakes in actual games to understand.

FTFY

[Human Snorenado]

Shamu is great!  Follow closely. 

First, Shenmue is boring.  Everyone knows that.  So, Shenmue is boring.  Boring is not fun... IN REAL LIFE.  Only by engaging in boring activities IN A VIDEO GAME can you make them not boring!  Thus, by the transitive power of bullshit, Shenmue is the greatest game ever made!

Seriously Himu, stfu.  Keep on track here, this is the threat to make fun of the weeeeeoooo.  And don't pull the "well he started it" bullshit, because if someone wants to mock you for liking Shenmue by this point you just need to stfu and take the molestation.  Slut.

[Van Cruncheon]

lttp's a bit of a turd. oracles uber alles

[Tasty]

Hmmm 3DS supports 128 GB SD cards... if formatted as FAT32... might just get one of those for the Wii U.

160 GB total, should be enough for at least 10-20+ full games assuming they all don't fill up the 25 GB disc cap.

[TakingBackSunday]

my man cruncheon

[Himu]

Mind you guys the last person who agreed that LttP sucks was Magus.

[Himu]

I like the Oracles but don't see why they're god-tier Zelda. To be honest handheld Zelda sucks except for Link's Awakening which is like, mid-tier Zelda.

[Himu]

High tier: Majora's Mask, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess
Mid tier: Link's Awakening, Oracles, Wind Waker, Zelda 1
Low tier: Minish Cap, Phantom Hourglass, Zelda 2

[Van Cruncheon]

how is la better than the oracles. oracles have better dungeons, overworlds, and boss fights and WAY MORE SHIT TO DO. la is BABBY'S FIRST ZELDA

[Himu]

You know what? I agree, Van. But they're not better than LttP! They probably would have been if it was just one awesome game instead of two separate ones.

[D3RANG3D]

High Tier: LA, MM, Zelda 1
Mid: Oracles, Zelda 2, OOT, Minish, LTTP
Low: Wind Waker, TP, SS, PH, ST

[Van Cruncheon]

lttp has far less challenge, far easier puzzles, and less interesting bosses than the oracles. all it has over the oracles are the ability to sequence break in the dark world and way better music.

[Van Cruncheon]

fuckin' oracles had some ROUGH dungeons, like dungeon 5 in ages. they aren't even in the same proximate difficulty category as the brain-dead link's awakening or the OH HAI HOW DO I DIE lttp.

[Van Cruncheon]

the only reason you fegalors like la is because YOUR WAIFU MARIN and because it *is* incomprehensibly easy

[Van Cruncheon]

ANYWAY! i had my wii u experience

[Himu]

the only reason you fegalors like la is because YOUR WAIFU MARIN and because it *is* incomprehensibly easy

Your boy brand new thinks LA > LttP

[D3RANG3D]

ANYWAY! i had my wii u experience

Are you readying up your report, for the new cast?

[Van Cruncheon]

i am indeed

[D3RANG3D]

i am indeed

 

[Himu]

Crunchy-san, did you use the Pro controller? WE MUST SETTLE THIS. What's the control lay for 3d games with the Pro Controller?

[Van Cruncheon]

i used the pro controller. games control just like 360/ps3 games, except i have move my fuckin' right thumb DOWN and that's unnatural -- and not unnatural in a sexy way like brandnew and his sis <3

[Van Cruncheon]

feels good in my paws, though, and the buttons have a good middle-soft level of tension. d-pad's a little painful. triggers are just okay: better than the dual shock 3 (duh), but not as good as the 360 controller. 360 controller remains the king despite its wretched d-pad. i'd say i prefer it to the dual shock 3 for 3D games, at any rate. getting used to moving my thumb UP for camera controls will be weird. fuck nintendo.

[Himu]

i used the pro controller. games control just like 360/ps3 games, except i have move my fuckin' right thumb DOWN and that's unnatural -- and not unnatural in a sexy way like brandnew and his sis <3

I TOLD YOU GUYS.

How much did it take to get used to it? Do they change the button layout to appease the fact you're moving your thumb down?

[Van Cruncheon]

never really got used to it. as for layout changes: nope, not as i recall. i didn't spend much time with the ports from other consoles.

[D3RANG3D]

Did you get any of the reps to spout weeeeeooooooo?

[Van Cruncheon]

yes! they were very enthusiastic and nice :-D

[Van Cruncheon]

i'll save the detailed impressions, but the graphics are VERY 2006-2007 across the board. assassin's creed 3 was probably the best looking by an order of magnitude, and it had frame rate issues relative to what i recall of the 360 version

[D3RANG3D]

i'll save the detailed impressions, but the graphics are VERY 2006-2007 across the board. assassin's creed 3 was probably the best looking by an order of magnitude, and it had frame rate issues relative to what i recall of the 360 version

OMG 2006-2007 grapics exciting times ahead for Andrex

[Himu]

To be fair, Blue Dragon is STILL a beautiful game!

[Van Cruncheon]

blue dragon still looks better than anything i saw at the the WII U EXPERIENCE

[D3RANG3D]

blue dragon still looks better than anything i saw at the the WII U EXPERIENCE

 

[DCharlieJP]

blue dragon still looks better than anything i saw at the the WII U EXPERIENCE

conversations i had :

"i wish there was an old school RPG on next gen"
> what about Blue dragon
"the graphics are so poor"
> *shows screen shots*
"the PS3 is going to be able to do movie CGI in real time - these look shit
> Seriously, its' fine just enjoy it
"I can't - it's just the same DQ style art in boring 3d - i'm not into that at all"
> "but... isn't that what you dream of? HD 3d DQ style game play?!"
"well... not when it's like this...."

<X years pass>
"OMFG SD SHITTY JAGGY DQX IS OUT ON A "NEXT GEN" MACHINE GOTFF!!!"
> erm but you sa...
"OMFG I HOPE THE WII U VERSION LOOKS LIKE BLUE DRAGON!!!"
> errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...... didn't you say th....
"shhhhh"
> but you sai
"Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Nthings : because we're cocks. (so are everyone else - it's just ncocks moment in the sun)

it's the fanboy self flag : no matter what you do - once you slag off "something on the other side" - you are FUCKED. No two ways about it - you are fucked. In the history of gaming, games switch platforms, enjoyment is not pixel based, and allegances change. As some point: once you talk shit you are done. There IS no winning side, the only winning side is buying everything and just not giving a fuck what shitheads think.

[Himu]

If Gooch got Brue Dragon rights for MS, ported it, and made a full fledged hd sequel and put it on the Wii Youuuuuuuuuuuuuu I'd probably buy a wii u.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

What happened with Blue Dragon after the 360 release is downright criminal.  BD is my favorite JRPG of this generation.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Also that Warriors Orochi 3 trailer looks sweet.  I hope they put in the changes from the PSP version in there.  It's a shameless port but I think they nearly perfected the Musou formula with WO3 so I don't mind the double dip.

A shame about Rayman Legends.  I guess I'll have to sit that one out.

[Himu]

What happened with Blue Dragon after the 360 release is downright criminal.  BD is my favorite JRPG of this generation.

Tell it, sister. Though my favorite is Tales of Vesperia, BD ain't no slouch.

[Phoenix Dark]

Link's Awakening>Oracles/Seasons>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LTTP

lttp is meh

[MCD]

Zelda started with OOT.

[Positive Touch]

we should create a hall of shame solely to house this thread

[Momo]

This thread often remind me of a neptunia game

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=37475.msg1557179#msg1557179

[Van Cruncheon]

Spirit Tracks - literally no one in the universe has said this was good, so i actually feel that it's the only installment in the series that is actually rated appropriately by everyone.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

you forgot to rate the CD-I games

[Tasty]

I think TP is the only underrated one, even though I like LttP best. Positive feels have been building the last couple years though.

Edit- Actually, maybe SS is. It's one of the lesser Zeldas but absolutely everyone except Nincores crap on it from a tall tower.

[Himu]

Oscar

[Momo]

Has anyone here actually played the CD-I games?