Nintendo Announces new Zelda, Mario & Metroid

MonkeyBot writes "Nintendo has posted news from the E3 convention concerning big name titles and their release dates. The new Metroids for the Cube and GBA, Legend of Zelda for the Cube, and a new Mario Game for the Cube are just a few of the titles for which new information is available. It'll be just like I'm a kid again, but with better graphics (and beer)!"

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Re:Re-living my childhood

[richlb]

This is the reason I like Nintendo better than all the other game systems out there... They had a great formula for fun video games 15 years ago, and they have stuck to what was proven fun and invented all sorts of new ways to keep it interesting!

And this is why I like my Sega Dreamcast. Nintendo just seems to take the same old characters and putting them in new games that really aren't that groundbreaking or original. New Mario Battle game. New Pokemon game. New Zelda game. It's like Police Academy 5 -- just not worth seeing the same thing over again (ok, bad example, but you get what I mean).

Nintendo needs to come up with something new if they hope to finish #2 ahead of X-Box.

Re:Zelda...

[Decimal]

Doesn't the game summary for Zelda seem... well STUPID?

No surprize there. The summaries for the two N64 Zelda games were about as appealing.

I'm sorry.. but this just seems so lame.. weak story.. :( I LOVED the zelda series.. I spent countless hours plaing the games.. Thats one reason why I loved the GB pokemon games... just like the first Zelda game... but this POS looks horrid. :(

They've been kidifying TLOZ since the SNES. Cute graphics, friendly witches, fat fairies, flying with roosters, talking animals, summoning scarecrows, singing frogs, sword-or-baseball-bat?, obligatory mini-games and races, fishing, silly masks and so on. Ech. How did they come up with this crap? "Heck, let's give link an uncle here and a sister there. And let's throw in Mario and Luigi, kids like them. We can't come up with decent plots anymore, so we'll add "dark worlds", time travel and morphing capabilities. We can't count, so let's give the Octorocks four legs." Ugh. The list goes on and on. And link just keeps getting younger. Call me crazy, but I can't picture a 5-year old hacking his way through legions of the undead. I haven't seen pictures of the newest one, but they might still be using the GameCube's "cartooning engine". Have mercy already! The few good elements that were added are massively outnumbered by the bad.

I still play and treasure the first two Zelda games. But for me, The Legend of Zelda began to die at the 3rd sequel. It was a hideous, bloated corpse by 5.

Thanks a lot Nintendo.