[QUOTE="AznbkdX"]I do love the whole nostalgia bit determining how good these present games are. Maybe if you actually played said games you would see the quality of them.
I played enough of the current gen games and rarely do any of them beat out a Zelda game imo. You don't ride high on nostalgia when you are playing a game, and if you do you might want to get checked out cuz thats crazy talk. You only ride off it before it comes out since right then and there do you actually think of the game outside of the box and not nestled in your own game world, where you will most likely be annoyed of gaming inconsistencies not what they did to your precious franchise. Then after you can say if its good or ruining the series riding off of nostalgia right afterwards or if its really a departure, right between gaming bouts.
That may be the phase where some of you that have played the game are getting stuck on instead of telling yourself if its good on the sum of its parts alone.
RyanShazam
How does nostalgia even work when determining the quality of a game? "Ohh I loved Ocarina of Time therefore every Zelda game after it is great"? If Nintendo released a bad Zelda game, as a fan of the series I would probably be the most vocal about not liking it. It doesn't in theory, which is what I tried to explain except on the opposite side of the spectrum to ppl who think its only based off of that.
Pre game issues (which is now with some of the ppl already coming out to say this) is what makes it readily apparent that most people don't even know what they actually think about when playing games, which is usually absolutely nothing in consequence. There is no way you are probably thinking to yourself "man, this game doesn't have this and that compared to Zelda, it sucks" unless its changed to a significant degree on its mechanics or core gameplay WHILE you are playing the game. Some sensible people actually think back to the game itself where you can clear up many of your issues with the game as a whole, hence the Zelda Cycle everyone tends to point to. This is where nostalgia would be kicked to the curb but it looks like it takes people awhile and ppl not likening to Zelda take advantage of the slower to adjust.
The Zelda Cycle theory is there only because people think more subjectively over time after the fact. Some however have not even stepped toward any kind of subjective thinking (or hate Ninty in general) which is why you have ppl that rag on nostalgia all the time.
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