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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I was unaware of this... I figured it was revived for nostalgia's sake.
He-Man is considered one of the classics of the 80s, along with Transformers and G.I. Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Granted there are those who argue that the 1980s in general sucked, but to me that's as rediculous as claiming all classic literature sucks.
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My claim still stands. He-man couldn't succede today even with a good show in that sort of fetish garb.
Who wants He-Man to succeed today? He-Man is a product of the eighties. While bringing back old heroes can give good results (Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates), this over-dependancy on bringing back characters from the 1980s is disturbing. The entertainment industry should make new heroes, not try to breath new life into old ones.
Seriously, hasn't anyone but me read "Frankenstein"?
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Did we play the same AlttP?
Mine was for the Super Nintendo. Yours?
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Even with the cracks in the walls, the game is harder than most games released today.
I'll agree that the sword beam is weak, but it is much easier to hit your target than it was in LoZ.
Can't say I ever had a problem hitting people with the original beam, so I wouldn't know.
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I think that's a fair trade. Besides, Even if you weren't a fan of Ocarina of Time's excellent battle system, the Oracle games Were great, and as I said, superiour to OoT IMHO.
Personally, I don't consider "Hit, block, wait for an opening, hit again, and then use this same general strategy on 98% of all enemies in the game" to be fun. And just to say this now... I personally consider the Gameboy installments of the Zelda series to be the worst ones (not counting the CD-i ones, which I've never played).
Most of the reason I liked the first Zelda was because of how many ways you could approach enemies--with your sword, with your bow, with your bomb, etc. I've honestly had situations where I was surrounded and used all sorts of desperate measures. In LttP, it seems like only the sword is good as a practical weapon. Everything else tended to be used more for solving puzzles than fighting, and some items (such as the bomb) were modified to the point that they were now USELESS as weapons--by the time that stupid bomb went off, whoever you were trying to blow up is all the way across the screen. In general the side-weapons are only useful if they're an enemy's specific weakness. Don't get me started on how the boss battles became hopelessly pattern-centric...
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That doesn't change the fact that all I hear is complaining about the "rape" of our childhood. I'm quite sick of it, too.
I'm sick of hearing people complain about rotten tomatoes. Should they stop complaining, or should the farmer growing said tomatoes start selling them fresh?
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It's a figure of speach dude; and I meant get out of the house and mellow out. But yeah, I'm sure mellowing out would make you realize that the Lord of the Rings movies, especially the first one, are great movies, that the new Zelda games have very little sucking (Except Minish Cap and it's awesome Gust Jar. Gotta love the Gust Jar.)
Heh. I recently got Minish Cap from a friend of mine. He outright gave it to me simply because he couldn't stand it anymore, and told me as much himself. That sure gives me a boost of confidence -__- (I haven't played it yet, by the way).
It also doesn't help knowing what "Minish" would spell if you put a "De" in front of it and an "Ed" behind it.