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"The Legend Of Zelda - A Legend Being Killed"

I own an N64. One of the best games I have ever played was an N64 game. I believe many people would know it as Legend Of Zelda - Ocarina Of Time. It is brilliant. The Gorons are a joy to try and slash. Anyways, I then bought Majora's Mask forking out about £60 for the game and the expansion pak (which I could only find boxed with Donkey Kong for a very reasonable £20 here) and found that it was very much like the first game, but maybe slightly worse. But it's the graphics that make it so appealing. The I read N64 magazine and have a look at Zelda on the Gamecube......
MASSACRED. ABSOLUTELY MASSACRED. WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE JAPANESE THINKING? IM NOT 4. The graphics look good but the design of Link..... what happened? Did they decide Link should be trapped in a cartoon world a la the Wishmaster or whatever that Macauly Culkin film was. Actually, I think Wishmaster was a Wes Carven film but to hell with it, THE GAME LOOKS BAD, REAL BAD. For this reason, I opted for a PS2. And bought MGS2. And was pleasured. Oh yeah, it does that. Its THAT good. That game was, for me, what Gamecube's selling point centred around. It made millions before. My brother told me it was the fastest selling game in the world at one point. Though that may have been about 4 years ago. But it was loved by everyone. Even those who couldnt get past the Water Temple and suffered the indignity of not being able to complete the best game ever, at the time.
Now, the Gamecube shows us this. And, as a loyal N64 fan as I once was, I swapped to Sony's PS2. GameCube is just not strong enough to compete. Luigi's Mansion doesnt look great, Pikmin looks odd, and now Zelda looks kiddy. GameCube for me isnt doing a whole lot right. On the other hand, Xbox is on fire with Halo being seen as THE game to have. So that shows XBox with Halo. PS2 with Metal Gear Solid 2. And GameCube with..... erm, with...... What have they got? NOTHING. Thats your answer.
If only Zelda was kept the same with a better story and easier gameplay to get you into it AND was released as a launch title, Nintendo would eb laughing. As it is, I can see them following Dreamcast down that very slippery road. Sega, one of the biggest ever games maker, has now been forced to make games for other consoles. Nintendo seem to be heading the same way after the split of the Rare team, their best developers, and now this.
Can GameCube be saved? Because the majority of people think their next console is between Xbox and PS2. GameCube comes into it not......

sure it looks crap...............but for god sake its a zelda game........the gameplay will be amazing.............and as allways it will be great fun to play!!

You are a horse ramming, as$ licking scumbag, its not the meaning of the graphics of the game it is the gameplay! The meaning of these games is not to look at the realism of the games, but to enjoy the innovative play by your side, most 'Realistic' games turn out boring anyway, Dragon's lair anyone, thought not, go back into your corner and think about what you,ve done to yourself.

P.S Don't always judge a book by its cover, it could be nasty.

I like this opinonistic post, because you're lying.

If you were a Nintendo fan then you would know that the graphical technique or style means squat so you were never a big ninty.

Second Zelda's always been a japanese animi style game, now it truly is, can't you see that you silly boy?

I woulda agreed with you graphics wise if you hadn't of used Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion 2 not perfect games that are graphically impressive so don't attack the graphics and just look at star wars and resident evil.

And to finish all of it off, the console war is won by Sony this time, but Microsoft won't come second because they're selling worse than Nintendo...

FOOL!

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dooz2k2 wrote:
> ok, i am in no way saying that wot he sed about nintendo was right,
> cos it was totally wrong...............but wot he sed about rare
> splitting is slightly right. some of the goldeneye development team
> left rare to form their own company, called 'free radical' i think.
> they are doin timesplitters2 i think, or it might be the new die hard
> i cant remember, all i do know is that rare DID sort of split a while
> back, but they HAVE done plenty of quality games since then, and i
> think rare are the best developers out there, so dont start having a
> go at me now plz! :-D

Rare didn't split as such.
2 of Goldeneye's designers/devellopers left the company to make Time Splitters on the PS2. While it was quite a nice game, you'd be right in saying that it was no "Goldeneye".

Cyclone wrote:
> And Zelda has been about impressing PS2 owners with flashy graphics
> since when..............?

Since the days of the NES apparently when Sony weren't even thinking of becomming console developers...

And Zelda has been about impressing PS2 owners with flashy graphics since when..............?

*sigh* what a cack topic, zelda on the Gc is by far the most innovative, imaginative and awe inspiring games ever made, you can't judge a game just by it's looks you have to actually PLAY the game in order to actually understand it, I suggest you forget about this topic title and write another one titled "The legend Of Zelda - A Legend Reborn" much better if i do say so myself :)

slik ~_~

ok, i am in no way saying that wot he sed about nintendo was right, cos it was totally wrong...............but wot he sed about rare splitting is slightly right. some of the goldeneye development team left rare to form their own company, called 'free radical' i think. they are doin timesplitters2 i think, or it might be the new die hard i cant remember, all i do know is that rare DID sort of split a while back, but they HAVE done plenty of quality games since then, and i think rare are the best developers out there, so dont start having a go at me now plz! :-D