What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

**Janszoon** · 04-11-2010, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by matious

It's hard to describe the aesthetic of original when it was limited to like 8 pixels on screen.

Why is it hard? It definitely had a different look from, say, Metal Gear, even though both were on the same console.

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Originally Posted by matious

I didn't really like the enemies in Wind Waker. Also a lot of the series standard characters (Gorons, Zora's etc) were replaced with less-cool looking people.

Really? I think the enemies look great. I especially love those pig guys, whatever they're called. And the bosses I've fought so far are gorgeous—amazing use of color on them.

boo boo · 04-11-2010, 08:28 AM

The pig guys are called moblins. The enemies indeed look great, the bosses especially. I also like those big peahats (aka the big hellicopter plant things) with the creepy clown faces, they still scare the crap out of me. The game has a great use of color, it's fun to just look at how things are shaded different depending on the time of day, and I love all the things that go on in the ocean, day to night transitions, wind and clouds, storms.

Anyway, the Zelda games are marketed to a wide demographic that ranges from children to adults, that has been the case ever since the first game. Still, Nintendo did go for a darker look with TP and the upcoming Wii game will follow suit, so I don't see why Matious is complaning.

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Originally Posted by matious

It's hard to describe the aesthetic of original when it was limited to like 8 pixels on screen.

I actually prefer a darker zelda. The twilight world was pretty cool in TP. And i loved how trippy Majora's Mask was.

I didn't really like the enemies in Wind Waker. Also a lot of the series standard characters (Gorons, Zora's etc) were replaced with less-cool looking people.

I did like how Wind Waker gave Ganandorf a little more backstory and motivation for why he's so evil.

I think they should make a remake of ALTTP, with new graphics.

Wind Waker actually is rather dark in places, the story has a post appocaylptic setting basically. And the game ends with Link stabbing Ganon in the f*cking head, how much more hardcore can you get without getting a T rating?

Sparky · 04-11-2010, 05:50 PM

Stabbing ganandorf in the head was definitely awesome, no one is arguing that.

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the story has a post appocaylptic setting basically

That depends on which time line you look at!

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For example I have one that lets me Summon a Dragon

That's pretty cool. My dude's agility is so high up now that i can jump and kinda glide to places now.

Highwayman · 04-11-2010, 06:15 PM

Favorite race in Oblivion?
Mine: Dark Elf

storymilo · 04-11-2010, 06:25 PM

Dude... hard one.

My best character was actually an argonian, which sounds weird but he was seriously powerful and I liked the breathing underwater. Somehow all my saves of him got deleted though grr **** **** ssbgvesg

I might have to play some Oblivion soon... I haven't played in a while but I used to be seriously obsessed with that game.

Highwayman · 04-11-2010, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by storymilo

I haven't played in a while but I used to be seriously obsessed with that game.

Same here. I really wanna play after joining this thread, but I'm at school and can't. Maybe I'll download it. Then i'd get NO work done! haha! I've actually got a paper to write now!

Guybrush · 04-12-2010, 02:30 AM

My favourite char was a .. uhm, red guard was it? I think that was what they're called, fighter oriented species.

Sparky · 04-12-2010, 03:50 PM

Kajiht all the way :P

Phantom Limb · 04-12-2010, 06:35 PM

If anyone has a gamecube and they haven't played Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, you should probably log off and go get it cause that **** is hot.

Seltzer · 04-14-2010, 07:11 AM

I played a quarter of the way through Bloodlines maybe 5 years ago until I encountered a game stopping bug and forgot about it but I've been playing through it recently and just completed it yesterday. It's a great game if a bit unstable and I really hope that people's cursory judgement of it isn't tainted by Twilight.

Finished this not too long ago as well... much shorter than the original.

04-11-2010, 06:15 PM	#1644 (permalink)
Highwayman Thinkforyourself. Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 114	Favorite race in Oblivion? Mine: Dark Elf __________________ Soft silly music is meaningful, magical. - NMH

04-12-2010, 02:30 AM	#1647 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	My favourite char was a .. uhm, red guard was it? I think that was what they're called, fighter oriented species. __________________ Something Completely Different

04-14-2010, 07:11 AM	#1650 (permalink)
Seltzer Fish in the percolator! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hobbit Land NZ Posts: 2,870	I played a quarter of the way through Bloodlines maybe 5 years ago until I encountered a game stopping bug and forgot about it but I've been playing through it recently and just completed it yesterday. It's a great game if a bit unstable and I really hope that people's cursory judgement of it isn't tainted by Twilight. Finished this not too long ago as well... much shorter than the original. __________________ In the Court of King Crimson \| Last.fm \| RYM

04-11-2010, 06:25 PM	#1645 (permalink)
storymilo Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,845	Dude... hard one. My best character was actually an argonian, which sounds weird but he was seriously powerful and I liked the breathing underwater. Somehow all my saves of him got deleted though grr ** ** ssbgvesg I might have to play some Oblivion soon... I haven't played in a while but I used to be seriously obsessed with that game.

04-12-2010, 03:50 PM	#1648 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	Kajiht all the way :P

04-12-2010, 06:35 PM	#1649 (permalink)
Phantom Limb Chocolate Homunculus Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 1,293	If anyone has a gamecube and they haven't played Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, you should probably log off and go get it cause that **** is hot.