Onyx Oblivion said:
There already were...your nostalgia just overpowers the greatness of the later Zelda titles.
Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are better in many ways, but especially in control.
Unless you were playing the inferior Wii version of TP, like I was.
The Gamecube version slams the Wii version to the curb.
Majora's Mask was about on par with OoT for me.
This is coming from someone with NO NOSTALGIA, who never owned an N64 or Gamecube, and played them all on his Wii less than a year ago.
I don't think the issue of Zelda is solely due to nostalgia. People who have memories of pre-WW Zelda games fell in love with the franchise when it was quite different to what Zelda is today. The games didn't used to be so afraid of the player getting stuck - the camera direction and level design of the newer ones makes sure that players don't spend half an hours wandering around because they're not sure what they can do next. You could easily argue that to be evidence of superior game design, but that philosophy is clearly evident in the boss battles, as well; I've been playing Majora's Mask again, recently, and despite knowing exactly what to do, I still found the Ikana Castle boss to be a bit of a handful. Compare with the bosses in Twilight Princess, which aren't so much fought as they are solved, as you use your latest tool in clearly telegraphed ways to stab their weak spot, then repeat the process two or three more times.
We'll never see another Water Temple because of this, and for people who liked the old games, those kind of moments were part of the charm. There's a lot that the new games do that's far and away superior to what people think of as the classics of the series, and there's a lot that people forget about the classics that's been improved upon by newer titles. Personally, I think that OoT, while it's influence and significance to the industry cannot be understated, has been somewhat superceded by games like WW or TP, in the same way that you don't need to play Red or Blue if you've already played through Diamond or Pearl. It no longer has the same impact as it did, because it served a very special purpose in the history of videogames.
Majora's Mask is still the best game ever made, tho'. Bitches be all, "Yo dude, if games is an art, then where's yo' Citizen Kane?" And I'm like, "Foo'! What was
you doin' in the year 2000? We already got that shit!"
Cough. So to speak.
