Topic: Something odd about the Zelda series

Has anyone else noticed that, dispite having the longest timespan in gaming, there has been literally NO technological progress in the Zelda universe? The only things I can think of are the trains in ST. I don't really see how that's possible.

Well they uh, invented the... Um... Spinner? And one wise guy eventually figured out he could tie a bomb to an arrow. And Majora's mask has speaker systems, fans, mailmen, and some sort of liquid dispensing unit in the milk bar.

True, but you'd think they'd get a bit farther after that much time.

Technological advance is exponential. Cleopatra's reign was closer to present day than it was to the construction of the pyramids.

It took ~5,000-6,000 years after the invention of the wheel to invent the automobile.
It took 60 years after the first manned flight to put a man on the moon.

Well there were robots in Skyward Sword, it's just tech seemingly then went backwards.

Of course, it's likely really because changing the series to have a more modern setting or advanced technology would lose quite a bit of its appeal to people.

I'd dig a Steampunk Zelda game.

There no TVs or Computers in Zelda, but there're a GBA...

I wonder how they'll make that work with WWHD...
EDIT: Wait, I forgot about ghe Tingle Bottle.

You think the lack of technologocal advancement is odd! I want to know how poeple from looking like this,

to looking like this.

Seriously, how does an entire race change like that?!

@Jaz007 Um.... Natural selection? They have been on an island, away from their own race for quite a while.

Easy: Timeline distortion.WW's Hyrule flooded, TP's didn't. The Hylians of WW adapted their bodies to retain more water, shrinking them in the process. Or something XD

Ah yes, Natural Selection. That brings up so many memories of eighth grade science class...I hated eighth grade science class.

It goes with the motif og this being a legend regardless of progress. Also out of the three timelines we have seen some progress.

-Spirt Tracks has the train system
-The game following Twilight Princess had a cross bow
-A link to the past 2 is probably the worst offender.

Technology exists in the Zelda universe given those games and skyward sword which went with the Magic=technology explanation. The easy way to describe it is based on events in these universes the progress is lost. I wouldn't mind a steampunk Zelda though.

Yeah, exactly! I remember bringing this up a couple weeks ago. It would be pretty cool to see some major technological advancement in the Zelda world.

The Zelda world is timeless, they have no need for modern inventions.

Who needs machine guns and plasma swords when you have a good old fashioned sword and shield? Problem with Zelda games is that they lose appeal if the game starts introducing technology. Besides, it needs that traditional, timeless sword, shield and bows... if it went too far ahead with technology, it just wouldn't be Zelda.

If you think about it, there was more technology in the distant past of skyward sword than in the distant future of spirit tracks lol

If you wanna know my in-universe theory... It's the goddesses. People rely a lot in religion and magic in these games, what happens when people only need to ask to a higher being for everything they need?

Nothing advances.

My realistic theory?

It's a game. The style works.

well i want to know how samus,zelda and peach can meet in ssb's

The problem is you assume its going to mean future Zelda. You can keep a mostly traditional setting and have technology slowly advance. Fable II did it pretty wellm keeping a mix between the two. (Fable III on the other hand went two far into the industrial revolution for my taste.

I look at Fire Emblem the same way. Just look at the difference between Shadow Dragon, the first game, and Awakening, the latest. Oh wait, besides change in fashion the two aren't really that different whatsoever, and there is over a thousand year separation between them. You'd think that a thousand years would wield some sort of advanced tech.

I also find the timeline of FE weird in general. I used to think that certain games were in entirely separate universes, but then Priam in Awakening is obviously Ike's descendant, and the Radiant series is considered separate from Altea's timeline. I don't know, it's just very odd.