What's your favorite Zelda game (GC/Wii only)?

[NaturalViolence]

>no four sword adventures

What the hell am I supposed to choose? None of these are my favorite. Four sword adventures was the only zelda title on the GC/Wii that I actually want to replay.

Quote:I'm sure if this was Reddit, someone would have sent me all the disks by now.

Sorry I had to. Not that 4chan is any better.

Quote:Until I was ~9 the only games I played pirated PC games my dad got off his boss, then it was DS games, and I only bought things I saw other people playing, and no one I knew played any Zelda games on DS, so I never saw them, so never bought them. I then had a really old and broken PS2, which a friend had told me I could keep if I could get it to turn on. PS2 never had any Zelda games (I think). Eventually when I got a Wii, I'd only have games that I'd either played at someone else's house, or that my parents decided looked good based on the fact that they were discounted because no one wanted them, and for more or less the same reasons as the DS, I never got any Zelda games. Basically, I had about no knowledge of the series' existence for years.

I feel sorry for you. You missed out on so many good games. Need a hug?

Quote:I'm 16 (and ~11.4 months).

This explains a lot.

Quote:TP is overrated imo.

How can it be overrated when the zelda fanbase generally disliked it?

Quote:Zant was a weak villain, even if he is just a front for Ganon.

I disagree. Zant was one of the few decent villans in the zelda franchise with motives and a plan that were actually semi-explained and made sense.

The ending annoyed me. SURPRISE SURPRISE GANNON IS BACK AGAIN! Come on nintendo, you've done this in almost every game. It's so predictable, cliche, and stupid. They're so creative when it comes to things like level design and mechanics but their stories are never creative and they just keep reusing the same tired old story over and over again that was originally designed to appeal to children.

Quote: Midna's baby-talk is simply annoying, and playing as Wolf Link to find those little light bugs always felt too much like a chore.

Yes and yes.

Quote:Wind Waker was much more exciting for me. The world was so different from past Zelda games (no more Hyrule or any other big place), yet the sea was so big and explorable. Every square on the map chart had something to offer. The striking visuals also helped form my favorable opinion.

My biggest problem with wind waker was the overworld. It felt like I spent most of the game sailing over a big empty ocean bored out of my skull backtracking from one tiny island to the next (they were spread out all over the place). The grid design just felt wrong. I had no drive to explore. Everything felt so stretched out and empty. Sure it was big but separating the overworld into clearly marked x/y grid coordinates with massive stretches of nothingness inbetween them is just bad design. And fast travel is annoying. The overworlds in other games where just covered with awesome stuff to find everywhere and there was no grid to tell you where things would be. Traveling was actually enjoyable.

This video encapsulates why it didn't click with me better than I ever could

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpXnQH6n9Q

Quote:Skyward Sword is #2. Good gameplay, good controls, nice dungeons; the only thing that kinda bothered me was Fi, but my sister and I just made fun of her the whole time, so it wasn't even annoying. The real reason it's in 2nd place: no lefty mode.

Yeah fi was easily the most annoying sidekick in the history of annoying sidekicks.

Quote:The little bugs were indeed a chore. Shouldn't have stretched it throughout the whole game.

Agreed.

Quote:The world has been different for every Zelda game. I think you meant to say that you were excited by the fact that this is the first Zelda that takes place on sea.

It wasn't just the setting. The overall design was completely different.

Quote:Ofcourse. To each their own. I think Midna was actually one of the least 'annoying' sidekicks. Compared to Navi and Fi atleast. (Tatl was alright imo)

Indeed. Every single sidekick in every zelda game is annoying and makes me feel like the developer thinks I'm a 6 year old incapable of figuring anything out on my own. They should just remove this crappy mechanic already. Most of the "zelda formula" that they follow with every game is comprised of good gameplay design decisions but it's not a perfect formula, and this is one of the imperfections. I really wish there were some more mature 3D zelda titles. The only zelda games that don't handhold you are the 2D titles, but I prefer 3D games for some reason so I wish I could have both.

At its heart this series is still aimed at children, even if it is still amazing. I just wish they made some games aimed at the people who grew up with zelda rather than the people who haven't experienced it yet. This could happen if they licensed the franchise to some good developers like retro. I would make so many human offerings to get retro to make a zelda game.