06-13-2007, 01:18 PM
Okay, this just needs to be said about Twilight Princess.
I'm a Nintendo fan and I think it fucking sucked and didn't live up to the hype, so where does that leave us? The controls sucked, the graphics were less than amazing, the gameplay was boring and repetitive, there was no real voice acting, and the MIDI quality music was abysmal. The Wii's controls were non-intuitive and poorly implemented, and the series breaking canon by making Link left-handed in the Wii iteration was collosally stupid.
Fuck popular. When you break down the game into little components like that and examine each one, the only thing that Twilight Princess really had going for it was a 20 year legacy with a decent story and a good concept on paper. When you factor in the boring gameplay, the mediocre graphics and terrible sound, you don't have much left for a game with no replay modes, do you?
As always, fanboys win the day while the true gamer with a critical eye for quality sits back and sadly shakes his head.
Back on topic: the PS3 is caught in a downward spiral, largely because of its exhorbitant price. Sony priced itself out of the casual gamer market and its only prayer of survival is to team up with Nintendo like they should've a decade ago and stop fighting over third party developers like Capcom, Konami, Square/Enix, and Namco. The world is a better place when people share.
I'm a Nintendo fan and I think it fucking sucked and didn't live up to the hype, so where does that leave us? The controls sucked, the graphics were less than amazing, the gameplay was boring and repetitive, there was no real voice acting, and the MIDI quality music was abysmal. The Wii's controls were non-intuitive and poorly implemented, and the series breaking canon by making Link left-handed in the Wii iteration was collosally stupid.
Fuck popular. When you break down the game into little components like that and examine each one, the only thing that Twilight Princess really had going for it was a 20 year legacy with a decent story and a good concept on paper. When you factor in the boring gameplay, the mediocre graphics and terrible sound, you don't have much left for a game with no replay modes, do you?
As always, fanboys win the day while the true gamer with a critical eye for quality sits back and sadly shakes his head.
Back on topic: the PS3 is caught in a downward spiral, largely because of its exhorbitant price. Sony priced itself out of the casual gamer market and its only prayer of survival is to team up with Nintendo like they should've a decade ago and stop fighting over third party developers like Capcom, Konami, Square/Enix, and Namco. The world is a better place when people share.