Grumpy Gamer Disappointed By New Zelda Footage

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 22, 2005 @08:43PM from the zell-out dept.

Ron "the Grumpy Gamer" Gilbert has up an opinion piece discussing his frustration with the new realistic footage of Zelda shown at this year's Game Developer's Conference. He makes some excellent points counter to most opinions I've seen up so far. From the article: "If you look at the trailer, it's filled with creatures, textures and buildings that could be seamlessly exchanged with any other 3D boy-mass game, which in my opinion, is the real failing of 3D games. This crazy quest to attain realism just serves to water everything down until it is all indistinguishable from anything else. An off-white paint that covers the walls of cube-like apartments in cookie-cutter neighborhoods."

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On the eight day by Ryeng · 2005-03-22 20:51 · Score: 4, Funny

God filled the world with creatures, textures and buildings of all color and shape. And he saw that is was good.
Obvious -5 by salesgeek · 2005-03-22 23:09 · Score: 2, Funny

What did you expect from the Grumpy Gamer? A happy review? Sunshine?

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Nintendo respond immediately by SimianOverlord · 2005-03-23 01:09 · Score: 2, Funny

After reading the Grumpy Gamers sensible and well reasoned complaints, Nintendo have taken his comments on board, returning the Zelda franchise to a stylish and retro look. You can see a screen capture from their recently rereleased trailer here.

Let's wait for the game, eh?

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