Poll: The Legend of Zelda....Why do you love or hate it?

[ChupathingyX]

The same way I think about every main Nintendo series...don't care.

I played a Zelda game but can barely remember anything about it, that's how forgettable it was, can't even remember the name.

 

[ffxfriek]

Love it. Currently replaying the first one for gameboy to learn the story. Any zelda fan must watch this! http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=6doJ0ErfSHg

 

[Kahunaburger]

Now because it suffers/beaten to be samey like CoD

I'd say there's more of a difference between, say Link's Awakening and Wind Waker than there is between any two CoD games. (Although I kind of want to see the CoD equivalent of one of those terrible CD-i games. "Ramirez! This peace is what all true Army Rangers strive for!")

 

[Phlakes]

Ocarina of Time is one of my favorite games ever.

Link's Awakening is one of my favorite handheld games ever.

 

[The Naked Emperor]

I've always been a fan of the Zelda series. In my view, they're timeless in the way old Disney movies are. Yeah, the primary audience may be young, but they have a broad appeal. The gameplay is always very polished and while the main plotline is usually very predictable and cookie cutter (Majora's Mask is a big exception) they still managed to craft a wonderful atmosphere, and they sneak deeper themes into the margins. It has all the makings of a genuine myth; it's very bare-bones but I kind of like that because it gives you plenty of room to use your imagination, which is something many games fail to stimulate at all.

While I'd love to see the series innovate again I'm okay with it being what it is. There's always Skyrim or Dragon Age if I want a deeper action/RPG fix.

 

[an874]

My general response is "like it" with a high point of love it from Ocarina of Time, and hate it from Majora's Mask. I'm not gonna' explain Ocarina since I wouldn't know where to begin. Majora's Mask because it felt so strange from Ocarina what with the time limit which made exploration harder and the over emphasis on side stuff. Oh, honorable mention to Link to the Past.

 

[starwarsgeek]

One of my favorite gaming series. The basic formula is good, but each game gives it a different twist. Even though you know what to expect, there's enough variety that it is a fresh experience...kind of the same thing that draws me to Bioware games. I know it will have a morality system and dialogue trees, but that is just the delivery, not the experience. Same goes for LoZ's formula of three dungeons, obtain the Master Sword, several more dungeons, and battling Ganon.

 

[commodore96]

One of my favorite games ever was Majora's Mask because it was extremely engaging even without voice acting, and the use of the time limit was simply amazing. I never had more fun doing side-quest to get masks that usually helped in the game somehow.

 

[Shikua]

I really have to restrain myself to not comment on some of the undeserved Zelda hate in here, as it's one of my favourite series of all gaming XD I love just about everything about it really. Art design, characters, world design, gameplay, music. Everything.

 

[DustyDrB]

Love, love, love it. I've played all the games (most of them multiple times) except for Spirit Tracks, and liked them all except for Phantom Hourglass. Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time are both in my top 5 games.

It never gets old to me. Zelda games have pure fun and polished gameplay, with well-design worlds and some cool puzzles. I'm super excited for Skyward Sword.

 

[Swifteye]

My favorite part about the game is faffing about with the weapons. The dungeons are boring to tread through. The story is so uninteresting it might as well be non existent. and most of the time nobody especially link is interesting enough to care about. But yeah it's fun to run around and beat monsters up with unorthodox weapons, slash them up with a sword, and then just blow them up with bombs. Everything else. Ehh. I don't even know how anyone can go about caring.

 

[Ddgafd]

I've never owned one, I've played a few of them at a friend's place(he's a huge TLoZ fan) and I find them to be entertaining in small "doses", play through a dungeon, stop, play something else and then go back and continue. I'm thinking about getting Link's Awakening DX for the 3DS from the eStore, so that'll be a good start methinks.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

I've played every damn Zelda game, except for Wind Waker...
And I'm only 17!
Never beat the first 2 though..... Gosh, they were hard!

Guess I'm a lover : )

 

[Moromillas]

Because in the overmap, you had to figure out how to get past object X, or how to get to the next dungeon. And in the dungeon, you had to figure out how to get to the boss.

Though I can see this actually happening less in Zelda games.

 

[Slimshad]

If you enjoy it, you are on the positive spectrum. You can't enjoy something without liking it. It IS either you are against it, neutral, or on its side. There aren't any other options, for ANYTHING in the world.

Yes (like it)
No (don't like it)
Maybe (indifferent)

That's it.

I dislike that argument. Too many people here think that kind of nonsense actually applies to the real world in any context. It doesn't.

In the NOT real world of gaming, however, I like the Legend of Zelda series for the most part. It gets a little weary with the constant storyline every single time. I don't really mind the set-pieces, as they're your standard Greek epic, but I dislike how a lot of the characters from years past in the Zelda universe keep reappearing. Can't Gannondorf for once like die in a game and still be dead in the next one? What I would think to be a cool plot-line is that Link and Zelda would go up against some crazy alien force from somewhere else, and they'd have to release/resurrect Gannondorf for his raw power in order to combat it. Sort of like in the second paper Mario game where you got to play as Bowser? Now THAT I wouldn't mind.

Why do I keep playing Zelda games even though they will NEVER take my idea into consideration? Well, because it's Zelda. Why do you keep buying the next CoD, or Mario, or Metal Gear Solid? It's an icon of the gaming world, probably the only reason I bought the Wii (that and Brawl). You play it to see the new weapons, new graphics, and new writing spun into the comfy, well made set pieces of an age long series (Even if they are reused shamelessly).

 

[Vandenberg1]

It is ovvveerrr rated. Why are monsters randomly in these rooms? Why arn't they eating each other in starvation? How does Ganon come back every death? When will this cycle of death and re-birth effing end? why does Gannons plan never change?

1. Steal Zelda
2. GetTri-Force
4.Profit

whats 3? get ass kicked by link...again.

 

[Kakujin]

I have loved almost all Zelda games I have played (the two on DS excluded from that group) and I think they are a prime example of what I love about gaming. Taking on a story which drives you through something all the while having fun in a larger world.

 

[Nick Rauen]

i love LoZ more than any other game and i always have since playing it on NES when i was four, im 15, so fuck you for saying its a kids game you fascist scum bag. you know the people who want to stop video games? well they've said games are childrens toys all around and since you come to this site id feel like you oppose that statement. my classic favorit is OoT because its the first game i beat alone (of couse now ive finished them all atleast twice minus the handheld Loz games after the GBC) but my favorite is probably TP because i just loved it story over all the others. it did piss me off though that link went with zelda once again (SHOCKER!) and didnt go with Ilia who is my personal favorite female character in any LoZ or any game in general. i mean would it really have killed them to break the usual mold and give us a new love interest for link? im sorry for the rant but i just really wish he went with Ilia the part of TP where he was hunting for Ilia is the most I've ever been compelled in a game.

 

[starwarsgeek]

Overall i hate it.

I never grew up playing it, and always seen it as an action/adventure game with little RPG mechanics. When other kids were playing Zelda i was playing more RPG-heavy games. The game is a great introduction on how the game on how a good video game is made but other than that its consistently the samey.

Now because it suffers/beaten to be samey like CoD, it doesnt have that clutch of the MP aspect so like VikingSteve said; kids and manchildren are gleefully eating this series up.

Most of my friends have fond memories/is manchildren and seeing them eat this up sickens me and the fanbase is probably along this line. Then again most of Nintendo IPs are are attributed with this.



TL;DR Zelda has to age with its generations and inspire new generations. Nintendo has the potential do this. Letting it be samey is the same situation as Call of Duty, because of the lack of any uproar towards this i dislike the series.

It...sickens you to see people enjoy different types of games? You're an odd person...
(Nice avatar, by the way. Frog is awesome)