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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"However, who cares? You may feel gipped, but you must come to terms that you are not playing Zelda Revolution. So any potential you feel was lost, is not lost at all. You are simply playing Zelda TP, but with a revmote. It is still intended to be played on a GC, but the REV allows for a taste of the future."
I think that it would be a poor first impression. No one really asked for a new standard so Nintendo has to show that they're really onto something and not just pushing a novelty to attract attention. If all they do is map button presses to gestures then they're not doing anything to justify a major change. All they've done is found a more awkward way to do what we could do before. So it's incredibly important that Nintendo demonstrates right away that the remote really is the future. If Twilight Princess is the first game a lot of Rev owners buy then they have a tainted first impression because all they're playing is a Cube game with the remote.
Imagine if the N64 didn't launch with Super Mario 64. Imagine it launched with an arcade conversion of Street Fighter Alpha. That game uses digital control and is better suited for a d-pad than an analog stick. Imagine if that was the game Nintendo pushed the analog stick with. The stick would have never taken off the way it did because for a game like that the analog stick is just a clumsy imprecise substitute for the d-pad. The fact that they sold N64s on the strength of a game that really demonstrated how crucial the analog stick was for future gaming is why the analog stick took off.
Ian, we both don't know how well the revmote will work, but you have the most pessimistic of views.
Even if Nintendo doesn't change any of the gameplay to make the revmote appear more exciting, what's wrong with tweaking the controls so that it at least plays well? Nintendo could tweak the camera, the items, the fighting, and the horse-back riding to accomadate the revmote. And you now what? It could play brilliantly, especially with Nintendo behind the reigns.
Manditors concern was about the REVs gameplay potential and how it would be lost if TP were to be fully playable with the revmote. Your concern is that it would be a "meaningless" or "sloppy" conversion of control; a conversion that would only make the flawless design awkward. You must realize that those are two different complaints.
Its laughable to think that the control scheme we have today is the best there ever will be. Come on....think outside the box a little.
As for your Mario - streetfighter analogy, that really doesn't apply here. Think of it this way....OOT was rereleased on the GC, and it played better because of it. Yet, if Nintendo really wanted to make OOT special, or even, say....magical, they could have implemented the WW control scheme to make it that much better. Would you bitch about how they not only provided the original control scheme, but also the new one, the one we hadn't yet experience? Would you bitch about how sloppy or meaningless the conversion was even if it played alot better? For your sake, I hope not.
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