Grumpy Gamer Disappointed By New Zelda Footage

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."

Comments

On the eight day

[Ryeng]

God filled the world with creatures, textures and buildings of all color and shape. And he saw that is was good.

What is this?

[Celestial Avenger]

All I hear is one grumpy man bitching about graphics, graphics, and more graphics. I thought The Legend of Zelda was best known for innovating GAMEPLAY.

Why not realism?

[lordperditor]

I for one am looking forward to Zelda getting the realistic treatment.

The last Cell shaded effort, although fun to play was kiddied up too much for me. I prefered the ocarina over the windwalker.

Bring it on I say.

Damn he is a grumpy gamer, get over it Ron.

Re:So who exactly is this guy?

[Blue_Nile]

Nevermind...
From Wikipedia, "Ron Gilbert is a computer game designer and programmer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Gilbert

I am in 100% agreement with this guy.

[Grey Ninja]

As for the new Legend of Zelda trailer, I am once again bothered by the game. There's no way in hell that it will get less than a T rating... and that just seems very contrary to the spirit of the franchise. Nevertheless, I do look forward to playing the game. It looks like it will be very good, and provide a take on the franchise like we have never seen before.

That was what I had said upon viewing the most recent Zelda trailer. And I said pretty much the same thing after seeing the first one. I have no doubt that it will be an amazing game, and I have no doubt that I will very much enjoy it, and I have even less doubt that it will sell very well.

But I still feel like I've lost a very good friend. Zelda was never about giving the vocal fans what they wanted. It was about taking a journey through the very imaginative mind of Shigeru Miyamoto. To remember what it was like to be that child walking through the forest and finding a lake. To be the child who overcomes all perils and finds buried treasure and saves the princess. For me, Wind Waker captured that perfectly and completely.

The new Zelda just seems to be Nintendo's way of showing that it listens to its fans. But that isn't why they became successful in the first place. Nintendo got where they were by hiring designers with vivid imaginations and a natural sense of what was FUN. If Nintendo listened to its fans, Mario would be stealing cars and killing hookers. And I want no part of that.

The current trend in thinking that every video game should carry an M rating needs to stop. I have way more fun playing an E rated Zelda game than a cut and paste M rated FPS.

OK then

[FidelCatsro]

Well to me it just looks like an updated version of the style in Ocarina of time ,
I mean seriously the graphics are just like they were with adult link (obviously with 7 years tech improvments).
I think the zelda games are some of the best made , and i dont think this new one will disapoint , the main problem here is people have gotten used to the ultra cutsie windwalker type zelda , Ocarina of time had some rather dark graphics in places.Funny to think that i was hearing a great hoohaa about the windwalkers graphics being too cute just a few years back and now were moaning about this being too adult , It looks great and its sure to be a grand game , so lets not judge till we have seen the final trailer(also i think this new trailer looks a bit like the tech demo for the gamecube which i belive was the origional windwalker graphics)