I HIGHLY disagree with your entire post. While yes a lot of stuff in Zelda is in fact recycled it has something that very few games have this day and age. It's FUN. The fact that Nintendo takes 5 years to make a new Zelda instead of CoD's 1 year is bad? Your actually comparing CoD to Zelda? Cod being the game that is EXACTLY the same game year with new guns? Zelda games add something new in each game, ranging from different graphically styles (Wind Waker) to controls (Twilight Princess for the Wii).

Now don't get me wrong Skyrim and Zelda are in my opinion both amazing, and personally I think the idea of GOTY is stupid in it's own sense, but I am just trying to get across the reasons people tend to like Zelda. Oh and 2 more things.

1. Zelda in my opinion has always had amazing combat, and it hasn't changed for me. In my opinion TES games combat all around is just........meh.

2. Mature themes is not always needed in games, you can make an AMAZING game without it and in same games it just doesn't fit.

The protagonist of Oliver Twist being a child, clearly makes the book a shallow entertainment for children.

Ditto for books like The Kite Runner, and many others.

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Oliver Twist has much darker themes than Zelda, is well-written, and timeless. This is why you don't see 5 year old children reading Oliver Twist, but every brat and his friend will be getting Zelda for the Wii. Inept comparison.

Zelda svcks, get over it.

From an objective point of view? Do you even know wtf that means?


Well, let's look at it this way....

You say Zelda is always a rehashed story, but would anyone here seriously call Skyrim's story award-winning? Fighting dragons isn't exactly an original idea, the factions don't really have original ideas either. Hell, I dunno how many people have beaten the main quest yet, but prepare to be disappointed. In that sense, I think Zelda would have to try pretty friggin' hard to have a worse story, and for some people, story IS everything. Every game is doomed to get boring with time, but a good story will last you a lifetime. Skyrim doesn't have such a story.

Maturity =/= better. You're basically saying Skyrim is better because you can decapitate people.

Combat being better is completely subjective. I haven't played this Zelda game, but if it's similar to Twilight Princess or any of the others, then Zelda combat would be half-brawling, half puzzles. Again, some people may prefer using thought to Skyrim's "click the mouse" combat.

If choices meant better, then Fallout New Vegas would be the one with the perfect 100 score, not Zelda nor Skyrim. That's not what happened though. :sadvaultboy:

As for the game being longer, having more content, etc etc etc, again, it depends on what people find most important in a game. If the story is more important to reviewers and Nintendo managed to make the story interesting despite rehashing it (which they DID manage with Majora's Mask and Wind Waker), then yeah, I think Skyrim is VERY lacking in the story department. If I were to rate Skyrim on story alone, I'd give it an abysmal score.

It would be good to pay attention to the quote I was responding to.

I'm not a Zelda fan, my girlfriend is, I'm not.

And that had nothing to do with what I said, at all. Try again.

I honestly can't believe this hasn't been closed. Its an obvious flame thread and the OP has done marvelous job at being a total [censored] to anyone who shares an opinion contrary to his beliefs.

It would be good to pay attention to the quote I was responding to.

That would require him to use something referred to a logic.


I honestly can't believe this hasn't been closed. Its an obvious flame thread and the OP has done marvelous job at being a total [censored] to anyone who shares an opinion contrary to his beliefs.

The protagonist of Oliver Twist being a child, clearly makes the book a shallow entertainment for children.

Ditto for books like The Kite Runner, and many others.

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Yeah man, comparing CoD to Zelda for the exact same reasons that you listed here. It's the same game with every installment, but in essence, it's worse than CoD because it took Nintendo so long to pump out. I'm supposed to be excited over an Orcarina of Time remake with motion controls?

Sure the combat in Elder Scrolls could be better, but the ways in which you can tackle each situation differ extremely - so many schools of magic - 1h, 2h, block, archery. Come now, tell me there's more variety in any zelda game.

I've read it. I don't not like Zelda because it's popular, I don't like it because it's made for 5 year olds, which is the point I'm trying to make. I like Skyrim and it's popular, I like Game of Thrones and its popular. When the Dark Tower is made into film and a TV series... it will be popular, but I will still enjoy it.

Yeah, I thought it was childish even when I was six.... as did many other people.... says volumes.

You are seriously simplifying Skyrim's story. Yeah, you fight dragons. Not original.

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However, fighting undead dragons resurrected by the God of Time who was blasted a millennia ahead through the use of a timeless scroll in order to save the world from being consumed in fire, now that sounds good.