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

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