/vr/ - Retro Games

Nah, this is point where Zelda actually developed a personality and became fun.

you are a faggot OP

>sucks the epicness of high fantasy right out of it and ruins the immersion
>3 color game for children

>>8283889
>sucks the epicness of high fantasy right out
I guess you could say there are two kinds of Zelda games, the cartoony games and the uh... "epic" "high fantasy" ones.
Let's see... cartoony:
>The Legend of Zelda
>The Adventure of Link
>A Link to the Past
>Link's Awakening
>Oracle of Seasons
>Oracle of Ages
>Four Swords
>Wind Waker
>Four Swords Adventures
>Minish Cap
>Phantom Hourglass
>Spirit Tracks
>A Link Between Worlds
>Tri Force Heroes
Grimdark high fantasy for men who are too old for cartoons:
>Ocarina of Time
>Majora's Mask
>Twilight Princess
>Skyward Sword
>Breath of the Wild
Personally, I'm more a fan of the cartoony games in the series.

>>8283939
Move Zelda 1 and 2 to second list.

>>8283939
I have nothing against cartoonish aesthetics in general, I wouldn't want Mario or Sonic to not be cartoonish. With Zelda though it just always rubbed me the wrong way considering it's an epic adventure in a world you're going to be exploring for hours on end and theres swords and sorcery and witch craft and such things.

And I'm aware some of the games aren't so cartoony, but they suffer still from the other problem, which is being generic. Hyrule is the most bland fantasy setting.

>>8283889
No. Eat a dick

zelda is absolutely playskool fantasy and that's probably because they stopped trying to be contemporary in the mid-90s
kind of a side track but i fucking hate how link fights. he swings his sword like a kid playing star wars and they started giving him fucking samurai iaijutsu shit later. hire a martial artist lazy pricks

>there are people who are still insecure about their own maturity that they prevent themselves from enjoying soulful retro graphics and art styles.
Go to /v/ and play whatever FOTM new realistic HD game with microtransaction and alpha builds come out.

>>8283939
>Grimdark high fantasy for men who are too old for cartoons:

>>8284015
>FOTM new realistic HD game with microtransaction and alpha builds
Still more fun than all your gay elf garbage.

>>8283889
Go fucking die. It's not being held back, it's made in like 1994 or some junk. I can't stand zoomers. I FUCKING CAN'T STAND HOW THEY DO NOT FUCKING GAIN WISDOM WITH AGE.

>>8284036
I see you're projecting your homosexuality, but nah, LA is for people who actually grew up to have healthy heterosexual lives.

>>8284015
It's not about realism, it's about having a fitting setting for fantasy. It would be different if Zelda was another mascot platformer, but it's not. It attempts to be taken seriously in its plot, dilemmas, and settings. When Disney can do a better job you have to question it.

>>8284048
marin is a bird

>>8283958
/thread

>>8284048
>upskirt shot of Marin
Hnnnnng

>>8283889
Looks more like Zelda 1, just a better game.

>>8283889
The Zelda series is mostly for kids, casual gamers, and women. It's okay if you like the games, but let's be real anon.

>>8283889
Not at all my brother, I am a serious gamer and only play adult games for adult gamers like myself. If there isn't modern day cgi graphics and blood everywhere who needs it? amirite??

>>8283918
/thread

>>8284073
*becomes a bird

>>8284383
based mature gamer who only plays mature games for mature gamers such as himself.

>>8283889
This nigga eating dicks!!!

>he plays Zelda for the "high fantasy"

>>8284420
she didn't exist before that

>>8284073
A bird is fine too

>>8283923
Are these posters children too?
>>8283902
>>8283918
>>8284419

i liked what they were doing with this art style. it's...cartoony, but detailed. back when i was playing this game when it was relevant, i was hoping future games would look more like THIS art.

>>8283889
Honestly, I like that it's got that type of generic classical story element, kind of like if a Disney movie was a video game. There aren't that many games that are based on classic stories or try to copy the feeling, so I like Zelda for that.

>>8283889
Zelda, and LA specifically, aren't about heroic-fantasy like Lord of the Rings. They're about feeling like a child going through a child's adventure.

And that is exactly the reason why LA is the best one thanks to its artstyle and its literal dream-like story that could have come out of a child's imagination.

If you don't like I suggest you play something else

>>8284068
>attempts to be taken seriously
>has a dream game about Mario

>>8283889
idk, i think it looks pretty good. would've looked better on the snes maybe and i do love the concept art way more but it's not bad.

>>8283889
The most faggoty fucking band kid "green triforce shirt with khaki cargo shorts" shit in the world is calling Zelda "high fantasy".
Zelda was, is, and always will be fucking Baby's First Fantasy. People have been shitting themselves for decades now over how much or how little of an intense fantasy epic each game is (ie. the negative response to Wind Waker, the positive response to Twilight Princess), etc. etc. when honestly it's just fucking Zelda. It's not high fantasy, it was never high fantasy, it's fucking Zelda.
That doesn't make it bad at all, it's still good and it's still Zelda, so you know what to expect from it. It's fun, it's adventurous, it's cartoonish yet charming. But calling it "high fantasy" will literally always be a sign of terminal retardation. Play a different fucking game already or mod Link into Skyrim or some shit and pretend it's what you think Zelda actually is.

>>8286593
high fantasy means fantasy with prevalent magic
low fantasy is relatively realistic
it's not like "high art"

>>8284068
You're comparing an animation film to an 8-bit game on a DMG screen so I don't know what you're going for. These spooky trees with faces, the goblins, the wizard on the back... that all looks very similar to what's on LA already, and just as cartoony if not even more.
The setting is fine, you just have a particular issue with it but it's a weird opinion that nobody shares.

>>8283948
>so grimdark

I hate when the aesthetic of a Game Boy game holds it back by sucking the epicness out of it.

Zelda died when it went 3D
Change my mind
You can't

>>8283889
You are 100% right anon and it's hilarious how triggered you've made the 90's kiddos.

>>8288749
Yeah, I miss this look for Zelda.

>>8283902
>>8283918
>>8283958
>>8284045
Based. OP is a retard

>>8288312
>DMG

>>8283889
lol yea im sure it wouldve been way better if link was a photorealistic space marine and every time you slashed an octorock it would split in half and gush blood everywhere
youre the kind of kid who complains that pogaymans got "too cartoony" after gen 1 it always was cartoony you blind tard

if youre gonna bitch about artstyle, you might wanna remember that it was an 8-bit game made for a handheld console from 1989
comparing it to its 8-bit older brothers, its artstyle absolutely btfos the fuck out both in both design and cohesiveness