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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Ultimate Game Boy?

« on: August 07, 2003, 12:18:08 PM »

I'd have to agree with the lobster people comment. Neither the GBA with it's poorly placed L and R buttons, or the SP, which though improved, is too freakin small have anything on the GBC or original GB. GBC gets fat right where your hands need it, while remaining small enough to fit in a pocket. I just carted mine around to play between holes on the golf course while we waited for the two groups in front of us, and it was perfect.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:WW of OoT style graphics??

« on: August 04, 2003, 08:29:32 PM »

Personally I groaned when I first saw it, and it has yet to grow on me. I thought that Link would look like an advanced OOT style or would resemble the style in the NGC previews they had a few years back. I mean I like the cell shading, but it would have been better suited to another franchise like Pokemon or Ninja Turtles. I always pictured Zelda games as being more realistic like the pictures in Manuals and Guidebooks, neither of which were as hideously cartoonish as WW's graphics.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:WW of OoT style graphics??

« on: August 04, 2003, 02:00:23 PM »

The LOZ may have been the original version, but it is not related to the style of the Windwaker by any measure.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:WW of OoT style graphics??

« on: August 03, 2003, 11:27:25 PM »

Personally I'd like to see a return to the more realistic style graphics of OOT and the NGC previews they released a few years ago. The arguement that zelda is a fantasy game doesn't stand up in my mind, because so are things like Lord of the Rings, and yet they have fantasy and realism.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda Series Time Line Explanation

« on: August 03, 2003, 02:08:54 PM »

Well when it comes to your first point, I have WW after OOT, as it should be. And in the older explainations of LOZ it may have been the first time they met, but when LTTP came out it was presented as a prequel to LOZ. It's possible they were different Links in LTTP and LOZ but not likely. I think that's just one small continuity glitch, but even if it is, there is no doubt that LTTP and LOZ happen in the same timeline and in that order.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda Series Time Line Explanation

« on: August 03, 2003, 12:31:37 PM »

That's an interesting theory.

Personally I think the timeline is linear, and goes like this based on what I've read in official guides and just the stories in general over the years.

*Ocarina of Time (The Imprisioning War) - The "Original" Link

*Majora's Mask (A Few months after Link is sent back to the past at the end of OOT)

*Link to the Past (Thousands of Years later when the Imprisioning War is a distant memory) - "New" Boy Named Link

*Link's Awakening (A Few Months after LTTP)

*The Legend of Zelda (Several Years after LTTP)

*Zelda II: Link's Adventures (Soon After TLOZ)

*The Windwaker (Thousands of Years Beyond the Previous games when Hyrule has become myth) - "Newest" Link

This set up seems to actually satisfy continuity pretty well. There have been essentially 3 time periods each with a boy named Link which is a fairly common name since OOT's Link made the name famous in the imprisioning war. It's obvious that Ganon was Imprisioned at the end of OOT, and that he's still in the Dark World / Golden Land in LTTP. TLOZ takes place years later and LTTP was introduced as TLOZ's prequel which puts it earlier in that same Link's life. As for Windwaker, since Hyrule is now myth and legend, it happens in the farthest future.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Ultimate Game Boy?

« on: August 03, 2003, 02:38:00 AM »

I'd have to say, GBA and GBASP included, I still consider my old GBC to be the best in true Gameboy gaming. It was the ultimate evolution of the original GB platform with the clarity of screen and color to drool for. Plus the feel of it in the hands had not and has not been matched by any other hand held system. I've become very attached to my old teal model and still choose it over my GBA whenever possible, despite the age it's starting to show (My dog stepped on it scratching up the screen a bit the other day).