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I don't remember him being confirmed as a different person in game, but I might be misremembering.

I think I'd point to how the lore books treat Ganon as a singular entity whenever he appears. I've never read the encyclopedia, but Hyrule Historia treats Ganon as one guy and there isn't really anything to suggest otherwise outside of TotK's shoddy writing. Having the Ganon of TotK just be...

Hot. I take my showers so hot that I can use the heat to scratch my back. :eyes:

It's no secret that the live service model has lodged itself in the world of video gaming like a brain tumor resisting chemotherapy. For all the complaints about live service games, people keep spending money on them. Games like Genshin Impact will be derided by gamers for their feeding into a...

I don't think anyone has ever looked at it like that, especially since Wind Waker's introduction says it isn't.

I think the conceit of the thread is about whether or not people would like Link to have visible lines of dialogue, not just if he can press a button to engage in conversation.

Admittedly, I haven't. I recall starting it long ago, but never finishing it. Might be time for me to give it another look.

My favorite older book would probably be Ender's Game. It's a very good book with some so-so sequels. The author's a massive prick, but he's mostly faded into the background in recent years.

I would offer the counterpoint that Zelda doesn't do much of anything in Twilight Princess. Her role as a monarch is consigned to a singular flashback after which she spends the rest of the game as a victim.

He has never talked to anything meaningful extent outside of one or two lines in Zelda 2 and the "come on" call-out in Wind Waker. My issue isn't the dialogue, but that him being silent somehow makes him a better "player avatar". It doesn't improve my immersion of Link just stands there drooling...

Having spent a month in Poland I can confidently say that large swathes of it still look like they're from the Soviet Union. :eyes:

Which is why Nintendo should stay far away from the writers room, because they suck at writing. A movie isn't a game and Nintendo can't throw up the "it's okay that our writing sucks, because our gameplay is pretty bog standard is the tops, baby" excuse if the adaptation is bad. You don't apply...

Because the movie shouldn't be there to incorporate a bunch of obscure lore stuff and provide answers about things Nintendo doesn't care about. There's a reason the recent Five Nights at Freddy's movie focuses on a more condensed story and doesn't try to draw in a bunch of stuff from across ten...

I doubt the movie is going to answer any outstanding lore questions, since Nintendo doesn't care about the lore that really isn't how you do a movie adaptation. When you're taking something like Zelda and translating it into a movie you shouldn't be focusing on anything but writing a good movie...

The two big ones I participated in were early alphas for two Ubisoft games: Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Riders Republic. Both were in pretty early states and neither had release dates. Heck, I don't think Riders Republic had been announced externally at the time. They were early enough in the...

No.

Hey, I'm down for acknowledging that the chronology sucks and no one put any thought into it. :eyes:

The RE4 speedrunning community still plays using the pre-patch version. Even I installed the newest version of the game just so I could try out the Separate Ways DLC, after which I prompted downgraded my game version.

There was a very bare bones dungeon maker included in the Switch port of Link's Awakening. It was so unremarkable that it was forgotten about almost immediately upon release.

Skyward Sword and it ain't even close. I don't think any game has damaged my overall perception of a franchise with its quality like Skyward Sword did. Even trying to play it in 2023 on my PC feels like an arduous task. If I could call something like Borderlands 3 aggressively unfunny then I...

I think his design could fit without much change. Heck, he wouldn't even be the first guest character. I'm pretty sure Alloy from the Horizon games is already a guest, even if she was anime-ified.

I don't really practice loyalty when it comes to my parasocial relationships. I'll enjoy the good stuff Miyamoto had a hand in, but I'll also not stick with him when his influence becomes a negative factor in a game's overall quality. He might have been doing good stuff back in the 1980s, but...

...well, Miyamoto is also the primary reason stuff like Star Fox and Paper Mario blow hard chunks these days, so hopefully he doesn't insert too much of his vision. :eyes:

Since when have Zelda projects ever done that? :eyes:

Well, Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the producers and that was one of the last things I wanted.

I... feel like you might be missing out if you feel like the characters and story in an RPG are secondary. I also question your character load out. :eyes:

She is Malenia, the Blade of Miquella, and she has never known defeat. It isn't something Nintendo has done much outside of that one weird pseudo-Final Fantasy villain in the original release of Super Mario RPG (a game that, to be fair, was produced by Square Enix), but I could see Malenia as a...

Zelda's style leans pretty hard into anime territory already, but I wouldn't be opposed to a Zelda game going full cell-shading.

Well, you probably aren't going to see anything in game suggesting that timeline's existence, since it was only mentioned in a source book and nowhere else and Nintendo hates revisiting old ideas. Maybe if Nintendo decided for a larger scale remake of those games, but their approach to remakes...

Then I suppose my answer would be yes, I'd still play it. I'm also not sure how easy it is to have the entire story of a game spoiled.

Then the story wasn't that good if a single spoiler was enough to turn you away. :eyes: I was totally familiar with the plot of Nier Replicant by the time it came out, but that didn't stop it from hitting me right in the feels with each playthrough.

Well, the point of TASing really is to show hypotheticals. They're not usually my cup of tea, but it can be cool to see how much faster a speedrun could be if humans could always react to inputs with frame-perfect accuracy.

The military left me with tinnitus in both ears, so I've been keeping a fan on and blowing for pretty much the past ten years. It's just loud enough to block out the dim ringing in my ears.

The only sport I used to play somewhat regularly was paintball. There was a course on base in Baumholder, Germany, so some friends and I would play a lot on the weekends. Enjoyed it so much that I ended up buying my own equipment, including one of those super cool tank extenders that let you...

Enjoying the perks of a modded Spider-Man game on PC. If you're the cool sort of 90s kid who kept watching superhero cartoons then you might recognize this particular suit from the short-lived Spider-Man Unlimited.

I'd love for a video game adaptation of Superman that doesn't suck. He's a cool character with a powerset that would make for a fun game, but studios seem afraid to touch him. His last solo outing was the awful Superman Returns adaptation, and the blue boy scout deserves better than that.

Always. Spoilers can suck, but if a single spoiler is enough to drive you away from a game then was there really that much attracting you to that game in the first place?

I'm rewatching Fionna and Cake. It's the second(?) Adventure Time spin-off, but the first one to take advantage of being on HBO Max versus Cartoon Network. It gets surprisingly gruesome in ways that the OG Adventure Time straddled, but couldn't commit as hard to without daddy Cartoon Network...

Watched the Five Nights at Freddy's movie with some friends for Halloween today. We all went in with pretty low expectations, but I came out impressed. It plays up the mystery pretty well. Almost everyone played their roles well and all the animatronics looked pretty good. Unfortunately, it sort...

They were easy for me to use growing up even though I held onto training wheels far longer than I needed to. Unfortunately, not riding a bicycle for 15 years and then trying to jump back on one while I was in Germany felt weird. I gave up with the attempt and stuck with motorcycles. :eyes:

I wouldn't call it my favorite, but I really like the Great Deku Tree's interior in Ocarina of Time. The atmosphere and the presence of skultula's as the most prominent enemy give it a very spooky vibe.

Speedrunning is one of those things that just seemed to spawn naturally from video gaming. When you're so good at a game that playing it normally doesn't pose of a challenge anymore, so you start playing it as quickly as possible. From the more traditional playthroughs that are more about...

The theme song from the newest Adventure Time spinoff Fionna and Cake. It manages to carry a cheery tune while simultaneously using some... really sad lyrics. They're the sort of lyrics so sad you'd stop the singer to ask if they need to talk with someone.

Taking a walk outside is nice, but it's also nice to take a walk when the weather outside is less than favorable. Walks outside are fine, but only the crazy folk want to walk outside when it's pouring rain or snowing.

Favorite character overall is a hard ask, so I'll just pull one of my recent favorites. Lae'zel is a Githyanki warrior from Baldur's Gate 3. She's a devoted militaristic zealot raised from birth to worship the god queen of the Githyanki people. If you disappoint her she's quick to point it...

Let me clarify: it has the ability to travel through time when used by Link in Majora's Mask, but not when used by him in Ocarina of Time. I'm not claiming that the object itself is incapable of going from one place to another. Time travel as a rule is inconsistent in Zelda. Using the Master...

After playing through Spider-Man 2 on PS5 I have circled back around to playing... Spider-Man (the PS4 one). While I really like the sequel, I can play the original on PC and install cool mods to improve the web-swinging and the combat. The swinging might be slower, but it's nice being able to...