Topic: I met my first skeptic today

[Hostile Creation]

"plus Zelda, which bores the pants off me as a franchise and in it's latest incarnation has eye rendingly bad graphics - both technically and art direction"

Get out.

Not because you don't like Zelda, because that's a matter of opinion.  But I'd like you to show me a game that's had better art direction in the past two or three years.  It's absolutely brilliant.  If that's bad art direction, good art direction simply doesn't exist.

[thejeek]

These things are obviously a matter of opinion but Twilight Princess looks generic, unimaginative and derivative to me. Still, Nintendo can't take any creative risks with Zelda (like they did with Wind Waker) or it just blows up in their faces so I guess from a business point of view they probably did the right thing. I personally find it uninspiring but I realise I'm in a small minority - most people seem to love it so maybe I just have no taste...

[Hostile Creation]

It's not as overtly creative as Wind Waker (which I love for its style), and not nearly as daring, but it's still brilliant.  None of the Zelda games have ever been generic, in my opinion, far from it, and this is one of the most brilliantly designed ones yet (as far as art style goes).  I'd probably only rank  Wind Waker and Majora's Mask above it.  Not even sure about the latter.

[segagamer12]

well it turns out that all the people here who still arent sold on the remote are sold on the virtual console and all it took was mario 64 to get people hooked again. I think my friends spend as much time playing that as they do Wii Sports.

Its getting crazy here as EVERYONE seams to want a Wii and yet I am STILL the only guy in town who has one. I have three friends who all swear they are getting them next week when payday rolls around so I hope someone gets one soon cuz mine is begging me to leave it at home and let it play some Zelda.