Tyrphanax

Possessed said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’ve heard that Zelda II is actually pretty good, just a departure from the norm.

I usually take time to replay Ocarina of Time once a year, but life has been too crazy for me to get it done for a few years now. I do have the fancy 3D Remastered edition on 3DS though, and it’s decent, but I’ll miss the chanting in the Fire Temple ambience.

Play the n64 version on an emulator with the texture pack. The graphics are honestly better than the 3ds version and you still get the chanting.

I too try to play it about once a year.

Yeah, I actually have it on an emulator as well, but haven’t done much with it.

ray_afraid said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’ve heard that Zelda II is actually pretty good, just a departure from the norm.

Zelda II is GREAT! It’s one of my favorite Zelda titles. People don’t like it because it’s HARD. Really hard. And there’s a lives system and when your lives are up you gotta start from the beginning point. and work your way back to where you were (keeping all items and such).
That actually probably sounds like more of a pain that it really is though.
The combat is incredibly fun! Nothing on the NES can touch that.
It’s not perfect, but it doesn’t deserve the flack that it gets. In fact it set in place many of the things the series is known for.
Also, Zelda II has the best music in the series. It’s only a bout 4 tunes, so it can’t compete with soundtracks like OOT or SS, but the themes beat all the other games in my opinion. Youtube the ‘palace theme’. It’s too good!

I’ve watched a few playthroughs of it and it honestly doesn’t look too bad, but Death Mountain being so early on probably threw a lot of people off. And there are definitely some iconic themes in the soundtrack!

sigh

They said that about DnD and Harry Potter and… well pretty much everything at some point.

It just made them all the more fun!

I’ve heard that Zelda II is actually pretty good, just a departure from the norm.

I usually take time to replay Ocarina of Time once a year, but life has been too crazy for me to get it done for a few years now. I do have the fancy 3D Remastered edition on 3DS though, and it’s decent, but I’ll miss the chanting in the Fire Temple ambience.

moviefreakedmind said:

Just decided to impulsively play through the entirety of Legend of Zelda today for the first time in years (maybe multiple decades?). The kid’s still got it! I made it all the way to the final castle and kicked that fat pig’s ass. I’m pretty sure I found all of the secrets too.

As a filthy Millennial, I hadn’t ever played it until a few years ago. It was definitely worth it. It’s a great game and it’s nice to be able to go back and get a feel for what kicked off these venerable series’.

I prefer both neat. Maybe on the rocks.

I created numerous socks for the sole purpose of reporting Frink for being funnier than me.

Hey I like this Stinky-Dinkins fella. He’s one new poster I can get behind.

moviefreakedmind said:

Is DOOM 4 too violent for my 5 year-old son to play?

Nah.

Have one on me!

Frank your Majesty said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Clicking out of the Private Topic window.

I don’t get it.

They sent everyone private topics “infecting” people with the virus.

*checks inbox* … *sadface*

You are beautiful and uncorruptable, Frank.

flametitan said:

So I heard a parent relay this great fan theory from their kid.

The reason Luke was hesitant to accept the Lightsaber from Rey is because it’s actually the first step in her Jedi training. “How do you properly give someone a lightsaber? Clearly not with the blade end pointing right at them.”

“Now I know how Yoda felt.”

In my defense I remained loyal to my position in Frink’s cabinet.

Right next to the Tums.

TV’s Frink said:

Mike O said:

I need a shrink, but I don’t think that a shrink will be able to help me with the meaning of life.

You won’t know for sure until you try. It can’t hurt to try it and it sounds like you need it.

Word. Therapy is cool and everyone should do it.

My brother had crippling OCD and has gone from not eating at all to functioning very well in life and society (better than myself, really). You can’t cure it, sure, but you can learn to manage it.

Kon Karne - MF DOOM

The lyrics on this are incredible.

MM…FOOD - MF DOOM

No laser background, no thanks.

Funny enough I’m kinda sad now.

Also: What in the world is happening to this forum.

Frink doing his computer bit alone was annoying but still mostly just all-caps normal Frink so you could kinda deal with it. Now it’s just getting out of hand.

doubleofive said:

I’m not worried about Cap. I know the writers swear he’s not a clone or Skrull or something, but they’ll find a way out of it before Civil War 2 this summer.

Yep.

What’s up, friend.

Why didn’t you choose a name from the Lurker Name Suggestion thread?

ZkinandBonez said:

joefavs said:

Celebration Europe poster:

Hmm, why does all the conventions get all the cool classic-style posters while the theatres end up with those generic photoshops?

Marketing reasons, I’m sure. If nothing else, it’s cheaper to pay some intern to photoshop some promotional images together and bash out a poster in fifteen minutes than it is to pay someone like Drew Struzan and then have to wait for a few weeks.

canofhumdingers said:

Lord Haseo said:

I’ve always disliked heavily battle-damaged images of Vader like this. For one it totally ignores the whole “he needs his mask and electronics boxes to live” thing (you know, like how Luke hesitates to take off the mask in ROTJ…). And for two, am I really supposed to believe that he was exposed to such enourmous trauma that it blew away and actually melted his shoulder and chest armor (that withstood a direct hit from Luke’s lightsaber in ESB) but his pasty white flesh underneath is just fine? It’s like having a grenade blow off a medieval knight’s plate armor leaving him standing around in his skivvies unscathed. It just immediately makes my brain hurt and my disbelief just won’t be suspended.

I’ve always felt that way too.

Density said:

It’s because the Emperor is so arrogant and mad with power that he doesn’t feel the need for subtlety. He’s a sadist who gets off on his power and control and evilness. Luke flat out says “Your overconfidence is your weakness” and that’s 100% true. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand.

Exactly. He’s telling Luke that he’s going to fall to the Dark Side because, as far as the Emperor is concerned, “it is unavoidable”. Nothing can stop it, he has foreseen Luke defeating Vader and taking his father’s place at his side so he’s letting Luke know that it doesn’t make any difference whether he resists, because it is his destiny.

We already know the Emperor is a master manipulator and that he sees the future. He deliberately let the Rebellion know where the second Death Star was and that he’d be there. He tells Vader that Luke will surrender himself to him to Vader’s disbelief, and yet, lo’ and behold, Luke does just that. He knows that the shuttle Tyderium was a Rebel ruse. He foresees Luke falling and as far as we’re concerned, we see Luke start down that path when he loses control and attacks the Emperor, which Palpatine sees as Luke fulfilling his destiny to join the Dark Side and replace Vader. If anything, that makes him a better villain: he’s spot on about everything so far, and then even Luke seems to fall into his trap.

He’s scary for the same reason slow zombies are scary: the inevitability.

Like Density said, the only reason his plan failed was because of his overconfidence and underestimation of the Rebel resolve against the Empire, Luke’s resolve against the Dark Side, and finally (as well as fatally) Vader’s resolve. When Luke defeats Vader, realizes where he is headed if he continues, and throws down his weapon to show that he is truly a Jedi, the Emperor realizes that he needs to up the ante, and so he tortures Luke in an attempt to break him, to turn him to the Dark Side by Force (hur hur). Again, he was overconfident in his ability to do so, in Vader’s allegiance to the Sith and his master, and he underestimated the good inside of Anakin and the love a father has for his son.

That’s how I see it at least.

Hell, he might have even built the second Death Star not to actually use on the scale of the original Death Star, but as a massive trap. Nothing better to give your enemy a false sense of hope than to pit them against a familiar scenario they won before, but change the rules. He was stacking the deck against the Rebellion the whole time, but failed to account for their spirit.

Did Canada survive the switch?