05-27-2004, 09:16 AM
While I agree that 'less epic' fits better than 'lighthearted' I stand by my original statement. While most of the games I cited as being more serious have moments where you tend to chuckle the "lighthearted" ones had moments that were obviously just for a laugh and I'll just cite a few.
In Link's Awakening there was the moments with Tarin, Marin's father, almost all were good for a good laugh.
In Majora's Mask there was the scene with the Zora you get the mask from (sorry can't remember his name right now, Mikael?... anyway,) who completely spazzes out before he kicks the bucket and then the "AWWW" factor that came from the scene where Cremia hugs you if you finish the escort quest a second time. How about the advent of Tingle? (lordy how I hate Tingle!!) OH and the bunny hood, me looooves the bunny hood!
Now Wind Waker also had these "just for laughs moments, Link's expression as he's shot out of the cannon, and then When an explosion sends him to smack into the Tower of the Gods are examples of this, then once again Tingle.
Now this of course is more or less a moot point since that really wasn't the point I was trying to get across anyway. What I meant by better recieved I shuld have said more justifiable to rabid fans instead. This new game appears to be going in a more adult direction which could make some gamers or parents of gamers uncomfortable. If this game had been released first just as it is some people might have had a bit of a shell shocked reaction after years of Nintendo proclaiming themselves to be the "Family System" and then they'd have to backtrack a bit to give the more 'safe game' player their moment in the sun because of it. See what I mean?
Now I hold no illusions to the fact that there's always going to be a sect of loud mouths that will hate anything new or differant and the fighting, flaming and various jackassery that did happen would have happened anyway. However there would be more of a justifiable reason for a game like Wind Waker to exist for those who didn't like how violent the new game could possibly be.
I wasn't suggesting that Wind Waker could have been released with the new graphics or for that matter Ocarina graphics since that'd be just plain silly and if you think about how it would have looked too much it'd make your head hurt. I prefer it just the way it is. Besides, chibis rock IMO.
Oh and full support on this end for remakes of the first two games, (or bundled as unlockables in the new one.) By the time I got a chance to play them they were older and my NES hasn't been too reliable in years so I didn't get to enjoy them as much. (Still haven't finished Adventures of Link.)
BTW does it strike anyone as odd that the first port/remake was of A Link to The Past? Gamewise that was still in recent memory but the NES games would be more obscure to the younger gamer. Oh well, I stopped trying to understand Big Business a long time ago.
In Link's Awakening there was the moments with Tarin, Marin's father, almost all were good for a good laugh.
In Majora's Mask there was the scene with the Zora you get the mask from (sorry can't remember his name right now, Mikael?... anyway,) who completely spazzes out before he kicks the bucket and then the "AWWW" factor that came from the scene where Cremia hugs you if you finish the escort quest a second time. How about the advent of Tingle? (lordy how I hate Tingle!!) OH and the bunny hood, me looooves the bunny hood!
Now Wind Waker also had these "just for laughs moments, Link's expression as he's shot out of the cannon, and then When an explosion sends him to smack into the Tower of the Gods are examples of this, then once again Tingle.
Now this of course is more or less a moot point since that really wasn't the point I was trying to get across anyway. What I meant by better recieved I shuld have said more justifiable to rabid fans instead. This new game appears to be going in a more adult direction which could make some gamers or parents of gamers uncomfortable. If this game had been released first just as it is some people might have had a bit of a shell shocked reaction after years of Nintendo proclaiming themselves to be the "Family System" and then they'd have to backtrack a bit to give the more 'safe game' player their moment in the sun because of it. See what I mean?
Now I hold no illusions to the fact that there's always going to be a sect of loud mouths that will hate anything new or differant and the fighting, flaming and various jackassery that did happen would have happened anyway. However there would be more of a justifiable reason for a game like Wind Waker to exist for those who didn't like how violent the new game could possibly be.
I wasn't suggesting that Wind Waker could have been released with the new graphics or for that matter Ocarina graphics since that'd be just plain silly and if you think about how it would have looked too much it'd make your head hurt. I prefer it just the way it is. Besides, chibis rock IMO.
Oh and full support on this end for remakes of the first two games, (or bundled as unlockables in the new one.) By the time I got a chance to play them they were older and my NES hasn't been too reliable in years so I didn't get to enjoy them as much. (Still haven't finished Adventures of Link.)
BTW does it strike anyone as odd that the first port/remake was of A Link to The Past? Gamewise that was still in recent memory but the NES games would be more obscure to the younger gamer. Oh well, I stopped trying to understand Big Business a long time ago.