@FonistofCruxis How is Zelda not an RPG? After all it stands for Role Playing Game and in Zelda your taking the role of Link. You can't defy logic... unless of course you're a sponge named bob who lives under the sea, in which case...
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It doesn't have any of the stats normally associated with RPGs like HP and MP, there's no EXP or levelling up. If Pandora's tower didn't have these, it would be hard to justify that being classed as an RPG rather than an adventure game.
This is exactly what i want. Not this plastic CG'd artifical minimal 'Mario' Look that we're getting in the NSMB series. Old School mario looks wonderful and I'd kill to see an actual Mario game based on the old school art of SMB2,3, world and Super Mario Land 1 & 2. And am i the only one else who isn't exactly thrilled to get their hand on NSMB2? I mean I'm looking forward to it, but I'm just thrown off by the lazy and boring visuals + reused music and practically everything else that's going on.
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one. And I fully agree with you about NSMB.2. I mean, I'll get it for sure cause I'm a sucker for Mario games - 2D especially. But the visuals and 'Wa-Wa' soundtracks are getting very boring by now, not to mention that I'm not a big fan of the 'collect coins' concept.
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Zelda 2 is actually one of my favorite games and I would love to see a new game in the Zelda 2 style. But I don't like your idea of making it like Super Mario Bros. I would rather they made it more of an RPG and still had an overworld map, like many classic RPGs. Imagine something more like Chrono Trigger rather than Zelda 2, though, when it comes to the overworld map. But keep the 2D style gameplay for caves, towns, battles and palaces. Just with nice graphics. I think it would work well on the 3DS.
Although, either as a mutliplayer mode in the game I'm talking about or as a stand alone game, there could be a 4-player Four Swords / Zelda 2 mash-up. That would have to be more linear, making it more like Super Mario Bros.
Am I the only one who doesn`t mind the NSMB art style? (Even though it is repetitive and overused).
I like the art style of the NSMB series, they're just using it too much. At least in NSMBU, they're being more creative with the backgrounds but NSMB2 looks very lazy. It looks like it could just be an expansion pack for the DS game. I also don't think they're using as much of the 3DS' power as they could be. It doesn't looks as much of a step-up from the DS one as you'd expect it too. I hope that the next 2D Mario platformer after NSMBU has a completely different style.
In a way, Zelda is the purest RPG there is - because you are very much playing a role.
Oh dear God, not this again.
RPG might be short for "Role Playing Game," but the literal interpretation of that is not what the genre stands for.
A real RPG (i.e. Dungeons & Dragons), is not about following a linear path through a game killing stuff with almost no non-combat interaction with NPCs.
Zelda is not an RPG. You'd be more accurate calling it a puzzle game because it has puzzles in it.
The entire idea of genres is to give people easy ways to associate one game with another. When we start calling Zelda an RPG (thus suggesting it's in any way comparable to Dungeons & Dragons) or a puzzle game (thus suggesting it's in any way comparable to friggin' Tetris), then the entire idea of genre is rendered completely pointless.
I;d probably try it, but I wasn't the biggest fan of Zelda II but If they remade LTTP or 1 on the 3DS with new top down graphics like if you were looking into a box that would be awesome and the 3D would really shine
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All this talk of Zelda not being an RPG makes me want a Zelda RPG.
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It won't work.
For one thing, Link would need to speak to pull of a convincing RPG. Nintendo doesn't want Link to speak as they would rather the player impart their own personality into the character.
The only way that would work is to go down the Western RPG route and make a Skyrim-style silent protagonist with conversation trees and the like. Not only would that not suit the whimsical setting of Zelda games, but Japanese developers have no clue how to make western-style games, and I'd rather Nintendo not butcher the Zelda franchise trying.
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