because wind waker sucked and people were wanting a true OoT successor
Because Wind Waker looked fricking gay as hell and was wack as frick. People just wanted a cooler looking Zelda game again that didn't have a wack ass chibi b***h ass art style. And we all got what we wanted AND it was actually good this time.
WW and TP are both great. Even if they have slight flaws, I'd much rather sail those cozy oceans at night or do some stealth wolf segment than deal with some of the asinine shit they can actually put in games that pad the frick out of them and upset you as the player.
Basically this
If 9/11 didn't happen, the Celda reveal would've been the worst thing to happen in 2001. That sent Nintendo on a fricking spiral that they'd spend all generation doing damage control over up until E3 2004 with the DS and Reggie and what we would eventually know as Twilight Princess.
It is not just a stroke of luck that TP was the face of the franchise for a decade up until BOTW.
Because Wind Waker looked fricking gay as hell and was wack as frick. People just wanted a cooler looking Zelda game again that didn't have a wack ass chibi b***h ass art style. And we all got what we wanted AND it was actually good this time.
Not just an anecdote. I remember the Zelda forums at the time. There was a general sense that it was disappointing. Probably the first time I heard the phrase "It's a good game, just not a good x game".
Not just an anecdote. I remember the Zelda forums at the time. There was a general sense that it was disappointing. Probably the first time I heard the phrase "It's a good game, just not a good x game".
I think the general consensus at the time was that the 3D Zelda formula was getting stale.
remember that part where you have to carry Midna because she's tired and has AIDS and the music is fricking awesome but then if an enemy sees you it goes back to the default "duh duh duh duh" combat theme?
that was fricking gay and shit
Man wouldn't that be crazy if it turned out all these boomer vs zoomer threads were made by a group of people who want to keep everyone arguing amongst themselves in stead of forming any sort of social cohesion and community?
>harmonious utopia
You mean unanimous zoomer supremacy? Of course you do. Boomers dont know how to turn on computers and have no business ruling the world besides stealing all the money like trustfund nepobaby leeches.
This is what people were expecting for Zelda's direction to go in after OoT and MM. Then Wind Waker happened and it's like "huh ok, this is a fun game, but what the frick."
Plus medieval era hype was at an all time high since LoTR movie trilogy finished. You had to be there.
Wind Waker had horrendous reception when it was first shown and it nearly ended the entire franchise so TP was a breath of fresh air. People were bait and switched with that Spaceworld tech demo.
The Wii U remake looks so bad, it's like a fan HD retexture. Twilight Princess needs another upgraded version made from the ground. Skyward Sword was the only Zelda remake that enhanced the visuals without changing or ruining the original.
They should just remake this exact trailer for a reveal of Twilight Princess on Switch. Link is very chad in this game so his face being the end of the trailer is good.
Because WW nearly killed the franchise until TP came along (then SS released some time after and nearly killed the franchise AGAIN, until BoTW came along.)
Because people wanted an Ocarina of Time 2 without cut shit like WW and TP was exactly that. The fact that it showed horseback fights in the middle of the Lords of the Rings craze also helped.
I remember watching the e3 reveal video on loop, the quality was extremely shit but I didn't care
funny thing is back then the game looked like what botw would eventually offer, a huge hyrule with vast explorable forests and plains but the end product ended up far more limited, pretty sure they talked about how they had to scale back their ambition due to the hardware but I can't find the interview
It was the last time you could call Zelda "cool" without looking like a homosexual outside of tendie circlejerks. We went from strange fantasy action games to more survival-crafter slop and DLC sequels centered around a crossdressing twink, with even the actually good bits (tablet and building mechanics) and combat being severely mishandled.
Ocarina of Time was treated like Elden Ring is today, it's was a serious game for serious gamers. Imagine if Elden Ring 2 got announced and it had cartoon graphics with chibi models, that's how lots ofpeople felt about Wind Waker back then.
Twilight Princess was the return of "real" Zelda, this isn't how I personally felt btw, it was just the common opinon at the time. You can go back and watch the original spaceworld reveal for Wind Waker, just total silence from the audience
I kind of understand this as younger people's insult toward to the older ones but millennials themselves calling the same term as their label doesn't make sense to me.
I played it to death as a kid and loved it but I'm currently playing through all the 3D Zeldas again and I'm absolutely dreading starting Twilight Princess.
>pretty normal thread for a while >the same handful of unfrickable 40 year old wienersuckers show up and start shitting it up with their neurosis
many such cases
Its the only Zelda I can take seriously. It has all the 90's grim dark edge to it that all other zelda titles lack. The other zelda titles have kiddie proportions or Tolkien tone that is repellant to me. That's also why I cringed at The Elder Scrolls before Skyrim and why I cringed at Harry Potter before the Daniel Rad so Radcliffe movies.
It was a return to coolness.
You can describe the disappointment me and others felt when we were on a winning streak of a cool hero.
A Link to the Past.
Link's Awakening
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Oracle of Seasons
Oracle of Ages
Then the Gamecube came out
And out came Melee
Out came Soul Calibur II
Then out came this fricking cool demo video of Link and Ganondorf is an epic looking swordfight.
And we all were like HOLY FRICKING SHIT THE NEW ZELDA ON GAME CUBE IS GONNA BE FRICKING AWESOME!
Then...Wind Waker came out instead.
This homosexualy looking 10 year old Link.
Neon green sleeves. White tights. Lemon yellow hair. Ugly half ass design. A fricking swirl for a belt buckle. No nose. Huge can eyes that were black.
In school I was a Zelda kid. I was like an autist when it came to Zelda. While I was a gay, people couldn't shit talk Zelda, cause Zelda was cool. Then someone brought in a video game magazine, with toon Link.
"Hey homosexual, look at Zelda now!"
Fricking crushed me and others.
Then they made the GBA Zelda games look like toon Link instead of ALttP, LA, OoS/A.
It was official, Zelda was fricking gay.
Then, 2004. Twilight Princess trailer.
Link is a teenager again. The model/art is realistic and cool again like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. It has cool fricking graphics.
You can ride Epona again. The Wii will let you swing Link's sword. Link is sword fighting from Epona. Link can turn into a wolf?
Then it comes out.
Its a direct sequel to Ocarina and Majora, basically picking up from the last time Zelda was great.
Link shows love toward a girl (Illia). Midna introduces teenagers to short stacks. Zelda behaves like a monarch and raises her sword to defend her kingdom. Ganondorf is back. Ocarina of Time Link appears. Link is a DESCENDANT, meaning OoT Link fricked (probably Malon). Game ends with a Sword fight with Ganondorf, calling back to the tech demo we wanted years ago.
Kiddie Wind Waker? idk
>t. seething waker haters
If you have to ask you'll never know.
I cheered because I imagined it would be like Breath of the Wild eventually was, all immersive sim and sheet
We want to frick Midna
Is this twink hero named Zelda?
>twink
Twinks can be fit yes
Fit twinks are dangerously close to being twunks, though the exact cutoff is heavily debated
because wind waker sucked and people were wanting a true OoT successor
WW and TP are both great. Even if they have slight flaws, I'd much rather sail those cozy oceans at night or do some stealth wolf segment than deal with some of the asinine shit they can actually put in games that pad the frick out of them and upset you as the player.
Funny you mentioning padding, because I'm sure TP dividing heart pieces in 5 instead of 4 was made for padding.
Thats your complaint? Not the 1000 Koroks on Botw and the exact same ones in TOTK?
I'm not complaining about anything. Just pointing out that there was padding back then.
No they're both incredibly mediocre - enormous steps down from LTTP, OOT, MM and LA.
Basically this
If 9/11 didn't happen, the Celda reveal would've been the worst thing to happen in 2001. That sent Nintendo on a fricking spiral that they'd spend all generation doing damage control over up until E3 2004 with the DS and Reggie and what we would eventually know as Twilight Princess.
It is not just a stroke of luck that TP was the face of the franchise for a decade up until BOTW.
Because Wind Waker looked fricking gay as hell and was wack as frick. People just wanted a cooler looking Zelda game again that didn't have a wack ass chibi b***h ass art style. And we all got what we wanted AND it was actually good this time.
>wack ass chibi b***h ass art style
>anime image
Black person
NTA regular zelda games are already anime style (look at Link's and Midna's faces in the OP). Toon Link is just ugly and out of place.
>wack ass chibi b***h ass art style
But this is exactly how I felt about OoT coming from the 2D games.
just an anecdote but none of my friends like twilight much when it came out
we were 13
like skyward sword had the worst critical reception that I remember but nobody was crazy for twilight either
Not just an anecdote. I remember the Zelda forums at the time. There was a general sense that it was disappointing. Probably the first time I heard the phrase "It's a good game, just not a good x game".
I think the general consensus at the time was that the 3D Zelda formula was getting stale.
Because TP and thus OoT is the traditional Zelda 3D game.
They didn't. This is the reveal trailer. When it actually came out the reception was rather muted. A lot of people didn't like it.
20lbs of gremlin pussy and ass
For me it's her suckable chest buds
remember that part where you have to carry Midna because she's tired and has AIDS and the music is fricking awesome but then if an enemy sees you it goes back to the default "duh duh duh duh" combat theme?
that was fricking gay and shit
Man wouldn't that be crazy if it turned out all these boomer vs zoomer threads were made by a group of people who want to keep everyone arguing amongst themselves in stead of forming any sort of social cohesion and community?
>forming any sort of social cohesion and community
on the Ganker board for video games?
Op here. I just did it for the lulz. I'm actually a boomer.
Cool it with the antisemitism, goy.
>harmonious utopia
You mean unanimous zoomer supremacy? Of course you do. Boomers dont know how to turn on computers and have no business ruling the world besides stealing all the money like trustfund nepobaby leeches.
This is what people were expecting for Zelda's direction to go in after OoT and MM. Then Wind Waker happened and it's like "huh ok, this is a fun game, but what the frick."
Plus medieval era hype was at an all time high since LoTR movie trilogy finished. You had to be there.
Wind Waker had horrendous reception when it was first shown and it nearly ended the entire franchise so TP was a breath of fresh air. People were bait and switched with that Spaceworld tech demo.
20lbs of pussy and ass
"Finally a dark and edgy Zelda for mature adults like me!"
floating drumsticks
The Wii U remake looks so bad, it's like a fan HD retexture. Twilight Princess needs another upgraded version made from the ground. Skyward Sword was the only Zelda remake that enhanced the visuals without changing or ruining the original.
>catposter
>abhorrent moronic post
Back behind the filter you go.
8.8
pounds of imp ass, smothering my face
Your dad is Midna in disguise. She's been fooling you your whole life.
is it even gay when your dad looks like midna? like, that's not even your dad anymore, it's a 2 foot tall cumdump
Because we did not like Wind Waker.
Twilight Princess sequel WHEN?
Be careful what you wish for.
MIYAMOTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>not a single big goblina ass in this thread
Ganker is dead
I'll give at least one to remedy.
Because Wind Waker was an unfinished and poorly made piece of shit while Twilight Princess is the better game with the better Link and better girl.
They should just remake this exact trailer for a reveal of Twilight Princess on Switch. Link is very chad in this game so his face being the end of the trailer is good.
>listening with headphones
It's not the same without the air horn bird noises
It was "dark" like Majora's Mask.
I hated how Wind Waker looked. LoZ was supposed to look like cool as tech got better but it looked like a baby game.
You don't want that. You want androgynous homosexual Link and piss filters. I know better.
Why did people leave at the beginning of the trailer?
You know what Link did to the Gorons when he got the Iron Boots? That's me and Midna
looks like lord of the rings I guess
lord of the rings was huge back then
Lord of the Rings, good.
Twilight Princess... good.
Because WW nearly killed the franchise until TP came along (then SS released some time after and nearly killed the franchise AGAIN, until BoTW came along.)
Because people wanted an Ocarina of Time 2 without cut shit like WW and TP was exactly that. The fact that it showed horseback fights in the middle of the Lords of the Rings craze also helped.
I remember watching the e3 reveal video on loop, the quality was extremely shit but I didn't care
funny thing is back then the game looked like what botw would eventually offer, a huge hyrule with vast explorable forests and plains but the end product ended up far more limited, pretty sure they talked about how they had to scale back their ambition due to the hardware but I can't find the interview
God I wish TP Link showed up in BotW. BotW Link is too much of a lil twinkus to take seriously.
Nobody liked it, it was a shit game in every regard.
2nd best selling game in the franchise lol
I came with a Wii...
Kinky, but keep that to yourself.
*It came with a Wii
ww was that bad
because nobody asked for shitwaker and TP was what we wanted since MM
It was the last time you could call Zelda "cool" without looking like a homosexual outside of tendie circlejerks. We went from strange fantasy action games to more survival-crafter slop and DLC sequels centered around a crossdressing twink, with even the actually good bits (tablet and building mechanics) and combat being severely mishandled.
because i asked them to buy it for me for christmas and since i'm their son and they love me they did and were glad when it made me happy.
why do you think
Ocarina of Time was treated like Elden Ring is today, it's was a serious game for serious gamers. Imagine if Elden Ring 2 got announced and it had cartoon graphics with chibi models, that's how lots ofpeople felt about Wind Waker back then.
Twilight Princess was the return of "real" Zelda, this isn't how I personally felt btw, it was just the common opinon at the time. You can go back and watch the original spaceworld reveal for Wind Waker, just total silence from the audience
Yeah most people really did not like Toon Link. That made Aonuma seethe so much that he proceeded to destroy the Zelda formula.
He torched way more than the formula, anon.
>booemers
Why are millennials called this way on this site?
I kind of understand this as younger people's insult toward to the older ones but millennials themselves calling the same term as their label doesn't make sense to me.
frick all you this game is underrated
I played it to death as a kid and loved it but I'm currently playing through all the 3D Zeldas again and I'm absolutely dreading starting Twilight Princess.
>pretty normal thread for a while
>the same handful of unfrickable 40 year old wienersuckers show up and start shitting it up with their neurosis
many such cases
You callin me a BOOMER?
okami was better
Its the only Zelda I can take seriously. It has all the 90's grim dark edge to it that all other zelda titles lack. The other zelda titles have kiddie proportions or Tolkien tone that is repellant to me. That's also why I cringed at The Elder Scrolls before Skyrim and why I cringed at Harry Potter before the Daniel Rad so Radcliffe movies.
It was a return to coolness.
You can describe the disappointment me and others felt when we were on a winning streak of a cool hero.
A Link to the Past.
Link's Awakening
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Oracle of Seasons
Oracle of Ages
Then the Gamecube came out
And out came Melee
Out came Soul Calibur II
Then out came this fricking cool demo video of Link and Ganondorf is an epic looking swordfight.
And we all were like HOLY FRICKING SHIT THE NEW ZELDA ON GAME CUBE IS GONNA BE FRICKING AWESOME!
Then...Wind Waker came out instead.
This homosexualy looking 10 year old Link.
Neon green sleeves. White tights. Lemon yellow hair. Ugly half ass design. A fricking swirl for a belt buckle. No nose. Huge can eyes that were black.
In school I was a Zelda kid. I was like an autist when it came to Zelda. While I was a gay, people couldn't shit talk Zelda, cause Zelda was cool. Then someone brought in a video game magazine, with toon Link.
"Hey homosexual, look at Zelda now!"
Fricking crushed me and others.
Then they made the GBA Zelda games look like toon Link instead of ALttP, LA, OoS/A.
It was official, Zelda was fricking gay.
Then, 2004. Twilight Princess trailer.
Link is a teenager again. The model/art is realistic and cool again like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. It has cool fricking graphics.
You can ride Epona again. The Wii will let you swing Link's sword. Link is sword fighting from Epona. Link can turn into a wolf?
Then it comes out.
Its a direct sequel to Ocarina and Majora, basically picking up from the last time Zelda was great.
Link shows love toward a girl (Illia). Midna introduces teenagers to short stacks. Zelda behaves like a monarch and raises her sword to defend her kingdom. Ganondorf is back. Ocarina of Time Link appears. Link is a DESCENDANT, meaning OoT Link fricked (probably Malon). Game ends with a Sword fight with Ganondorf, calling back to the tech demo we wanted years ago.
Feels good man
And then they flushed it down the toilet again.