Nintendo Lays To Rest Zelda Timeline Mystery

[ZeroMachine]

Well... I'm not pissed... a little dissapointed, but not pissed (I always loved the split-timeline theory).

Most of all, though, I'm confused... Didn't Nintendo once state that they had the timeline safely tucked away on their computers or something?

 

[Grampy_bone]

This was smart of Nintendo. They've tried to maintain continuity before and they always end up looking stupid when they contradict themselves. Adhering to some non-existant timeline for narrative purposes would only constrain the gameplay. There is no "great Zelda saga" which was written before all the games were made to go off of anyway.

 

[randommaster]

Yeah, let's have a petition over the timeline of a series with an over-arching story as screwed up as MGS's! Yeah, that'll work!

Didn't you know? This is the best way to write fiction. Ever. Of all time.

It's fan fiction. Does anyone care?

Apparently so, judging by the fervor seen when people argue about who's dating who in various works.

 

[AkJay]

Lets have a petition!

Internet petitions _always_ work.

Not always, but sometimes, take a look at Valve, then again Valve cares about it's customers instead of leaving them for the "casual gamers" to help fund their cocaine and sex parties they have in their speace-lounges every night.

 

[randommaster]

What I want to know is who was copying off who between the creative staff for Zelda and Final Fantasy.

How do you get those linked together?

Well, you take any Zelda game, and stretch the main character until he is sufficiently long enough to put both games together.

Bad puns aside, it's the fact that Final fantasy also has the theme each game being different storywise while keeping familiar mechanics.

 

[Jast]

Shoot, I always just assumed all hard core Zelda fans knew that it was different Links. (The only two I can think of where I feel sure are the same Link is Ocarina of Time followed by Majora's Mask.) So, this guy wants to change something trivial like this because he spent to much time dwelling over it? That's just ridiculous. Not to mention he's wanting the CREATORS to abandon what THEY CREATED.

 

[Lusperus]

I already knew that the links were diffrent galaxies/ realities

 

[Simriel]

Yeah, you'd think he'd learn after being killed so many times. It's like he's a reoccurring villain in several episodes of Scooby Doo.

What I'm more interested in, is that the royal family always names the daughters Zelda. Even more interesting, they always get daughters. And here's a really weird one, why won't they put out when the Links save them? I mean, not even a kiss on the cheek. Every Zelda seems to have the same personality, it's like they're possessed by a ghost. With Princess Peach it's understandable, she is the same person who fell on her head as a child, but one of them should at least thank him for selflessly saving all of Hyrule. Or is he supposed to walk home without a reward. But I digress, maybe they'll answer these questions in the next game. And maybe I'll stop eating crisps, instead of promising myself I will.

(Also, it should be called Legend of Zeldas

Or any villains period, who dealt with the Scooby Doo gang. They were always really dumb.

They Royal Family probably does have other children, but they're loser deadbeat sons, so you never see them.

And she does put out, it's in the extended & uncut versions that haven't been released yet for certain legal reasons. XP

You win plus 500 interwebz.

 

[Nazrel]

I'm not sure why some people seem to think that Nintendo should shackle themselves to the conspiracy theory like delusions of a fan.

There was no intended time line, therefore there is no time line. It's pretty straightforward.

If they did choose to adapt it, would they be expected to abide by it for future games?
Are they just supposed take him at his word that there is no contradiction to this time line in any of the games? No, they would have to go check through all the game to make sure, or they would here about. Lord would they hear about it!

But the argument is meaningless, because there was no intended time line, therefore there is no time line.

Regardless of how well reasoned his argument was, he was wrong, end of story.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

What I want to know is who was copying off who between the creative staff for Zelda and Final Fantasy.

How do you get those linked together?

Well, you take any Zelda game, and stretch the main character until he is sufficiently long enough to put both games together.

Bad puns aside, it's the fact that Final fantasy also has the theme each game being different storywise while keeping familiar mechanics.

That's it? That's not ripping off. And no, Zelda has the same story only repeated in different time-line. Hero's name's Link, setting is Hyrule, objective always the same. Final Fantasy games have nothing to do with each other story-wise (except VII and X). Zelda feels a bit like it's ripping off itself.

 

[randommaster]

Yeah, let's have a petition over the timeline of a series with an over-arching story as screwed up as MGS's! Yeah, that'll work!

Didn't you know? This is the best way to write fiction. Ever. Of all time.

It's fan fiction. Does anyone care?

Apparently so, judging by the fervor seen when people argue about who's dating who in various works.

"Oh, because Ganondorf and Link fight each other a lot, they must love each other!" That seems to be the logic of most fan fic writers.

While that is horrib;e logic, when someone invests time into creating a fanfic, they become hostile towards criticism, jist like anybody.

If someone is writing fics with LinkXZelda pairing, and someone else then writes one with a LinkXRuto pairing, that's a comment about the first writer's work. Last time I checked, people occasionally respond negatively towards criticism, so you get an argument between the two authors. The people who read their stories have also invested time into the fics, so they will defend their favorite because the other option is to admit that they've been wasting their lives.

People will get pissed when their work gets snubbed/criticized, even if it's bad, because they've spent time on it.

 

[randommaster]

What I want to know is who was copying off who between the creative staff for Zelda and Final Fantasy.

How do you get those linked together?

Well, you take any Zelda game, and stretch the main character until he is sufficiently long enough to put both games together.

Bad puns aside, it's the fact that Final fantasy also has the theme each game being different storywise while keeping familiar mechanics.

That's it? That's not ripping off. And no, Zelda has the same story only repeated in different time-line. Hero's name's Link, setting is Hyrule, objective always the same. Final Fantasy games have nothing to do with each other story-wise (except VII and X). Zelda feels a bit like it's ripping off itself.

Everybody wants to talk to me today.

I'm not saying one is ripping off the other, just that they're similar. It's not like this is Pokemon/Robopon, or anything.

 

[Mjolnir07]

Isn't it obvious? It's all because of this thread http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.124652?page=1

Link clearly never learns from his mistakes, and is forced to relive them after badly handing his past self advice.

 

[Mjolnir07]

Additionally, I took every single one of them as a remake of the first. It seems appropriate, since even in subtle ways each one has been a basic attempt at improvement upon the last, though not necessarily a successful one.

 

[DAMG]

Looks like this theorist didn't do his research; Nintendo has already announced this. I too was curious on the timeline, but I used the internet and got my non-answer. I still have hopes for a game to continue OoT/MM's Link's quest.

 

[Mstrswrd]

Well, there goes countless awesome hours of discussion when college starts. I'm sad now.

 

[z0nbie]

I think that a solid time-line rather then "different legends and universes" will hurt future games ( if you start having to fit stories in between other game time-lines and watching out for continuity ... to avoid worse rants then those ... )