PS3: Is it worth it?

[Grim]

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 really agree with you on this, except for the fact that Zelda games never really had memorizing storylines or wonderful gameplay. Zelda games have always been REALLY hit-or-miss, and many times people confuse quality gameplay with nostalgia.

I have played and beaten just about every Zelda game out there. Not because I'm a fanboy, but rather because it's given me something to do and gloat about. While I really enjoyed A Link To The Past and Ocarina of Time, I remember playing Zelda 1 on my NES as a kid and REALLY enjoying it. Returning to the game now, I can't play through the first hour of gameplay without getting bored.

That's what I mean, though. When we were kids and Zelda games were all the rage, we liked them so much because we didn't care about challenging puzzles, gameplay mechanics, camera angles, storyline, music quality, or control. We liked the games because all the kids at school liked the games. Because it was popular. Because we just weren't cool unless we owned the game consoles and the same game copies everyone else owned.

In my opinion, the original Legend of Zelda, Adventures of Link, both GBC Zelda games (seasons and ages), four swords, Wind Waker, Minish Cap, Twilight Princess, Majora's mask, Wand of Gamelon, Adventures of Zelda, and Faces of Evil all blew goats for quarters. That leaves three Zelda games out of the whole series that I found truly enjoyable and entertaining. Does that mean the rest were ABSOLUTE trash? No. Hell, if given the chance and enough free time, I'd play through most of them again.

While there are games which are fun and games that aren't, why be so damn picky? I don't know, man. I play games to have fun. I don't see the point in being picky about every little aspect of a game. So long as I can sit down with a controller in my hands and not feel bored out of my mind, I'm good.