ZeldaFreak

I challenge you to find a single member of this site who has played less than four video games in their life

I asked a couple times if he did actually want to sign up or not and he never responded, so I just figured he didn't want to for whatever reason

I mean, I would argue it does It's just a somewhat non-traditional life bar.

I mean it's not really an issue so long as it remains consistent and isn't changed every generation, haha. It's just a way to make categorizing games easier as more and more games come out that fit in to more and more specific niches.

Ah OK, gotcha, I thought you meant you hadn't heard of the reboot series at all.

If I live in the timeline where that happens it'll have made all the bad things I've experienced in life up to this point worth it

1: For sure. Speaking of actually, absolute pipe dream, best case scenario for this film (for me, at least) would be a LotR/The Hobbit-style odyssey. If they somehow managed to pull that off, I mean... 2: Yeah, a more anime style for the film definitely would've been interesting as well. If they didn't go for live-action, that's what I would've hoped for I think. 3: Really? I mean, it's the fourth in the series by this point, it's super popular and (as far as I've heard) the first three are all fantastic films. I believe he's only directed the fourth film in the series though, which hasn't come out yet so we'll see if it's good. As for Maze Runner, I haven't seen them either but from what I've heard, the films themselves are... eh, they're OK, but they're directed very very well, which is good. As for Avi Arad, as far as I've heard Nintendo was looking over Illumination's shoulder throughout the entire making of the Mario movie, and I'd have to imagine it'll be a similar situation here, so I'm not personally too concerned about something like one bad producer ruining the whole thing since I have to imagine Nintendo, at the end of the day, is gonna have the final say on major decisions. We'll see though!

Yeah, it's like right in the middle between 9 and 10 for me.

I mean honestly Link is by far the least important aspect of the franchise, so if everything around him was still great I wouldn't mind so much, haha.

9, bordering on a 10 for me. My personal favorite GTA game (though I haven't played all of them, in fairness.)

Oh my god dude stop I don't want to be getting my hopes up this early, haha. Even just hearing you describe it that way fills me with that childlike sense of glee that's so rare for me these days, y'know?

If this film ends up being even half as good as Terrible Fate, I will be happier than a pig in shit when I'm watching it in theaters, haha. Speaking of, that vid actually is a great example of the type of tone I would hope for from the film, personally speaking.

I mean, honestly I do think the franchise overall has a fairly consistent tone actually, beyond just the different artstyles. I mean, this happens in Wind Waker, the most cutesy game in the whole franchise: So I think they should be able to strike a balance, I don't think it would be too too difficult. My personal preference would just be erring more towards Twilight Princess than Wind Waker in tone, but either one would work I think.

I mean I'd love to see some awesome practical effects, but there's plenty of things in the franchise that I think would only really look good using CGI. I'd have to imagine it'll be good CGI too since this movie's probably gonna have a pretty sizeable budget I'd have to imagine. But yeah, bad actors would definitely drag it down quite a bit, no arguments there, haha. And yeah, I think I'm probably in the minority (not just here, in general) that I'm actually super super glad they're going the live-action route, I've wanted that for as long as I can remember and I really want to see how this turns out. I also think it's good since it gives it a more distinct identity separate from the Mario Bros. movie, rather than them both being animated. Like I said earlier, I just hope the tone will also be different to further distinguish itself.

I mean, dude, it's not just the map screen, the base concept and gameplay loop of the games are literally almost identical. Why do you think someone thought to coin a term that combines the names of those two franchises in particular? They're extremely similar in nearly every regard, literally the only fundamental difference I can really think of is that in the Metroid games your main method of attack is to shoot, whereas with CV games it's generally melee, though even then, especially in the later games there are also ranged weapons. And I suppose if you really want to nitpick, the CV games tend to be slightly more expansive than the Metroid games. I just don't see how you can look at something like, say, Super Metroid, then look at Symphony of the Night (again, not just the map screens, the games themselves) and deny them being at all similar, haha. They're both under the umbrella of Metroidvania, even if, semantically, one is technically sci-fi action-adventure and one is technically action fantasy/RPG. That's just the flavor though, that really has nothing at all to do with the actual gameplay itself which, like I said, is nearly identical between the two. Not wanting to retroactively apply labels to things is totally fair, I get that, but... I mean like I said, I just genuinely cannot comprehend how someone could not see all the blatant similarities between the post-SoTN CV games and the Metroid games, haha. They are similar in more ways than they are dissimilar. In regards to survival horror, I don't mean for this to come across as rude whatsoever, just genuinely asking since I haven't really talked to you much before, do you have much experience with more modern games? Because these days, survival horror is absolutely a distinctive genre from plain jane action-adventure, there are multiple games and franchises that fall firmly within that category that wouldn't really fit all that well in to plain ol' action-adventure. Alien Isolation being a very good example actually. Really terrific game by the way, would highly recommend it to anyone, especially if you're a fan of any of the Alien movies, but even if not it's great on its own.

I can definitely see how some people would like that, but personally I wouldn't be a big fan, I'd prefer if they stick to one tone or genre. My personal preference would be something a bit grimdark like you said, kind of a Twilight Princess sort of tone, would be a nice contrast to the Mario movie's tone, but there's many other approaches they could take that could work just as well I'm sure. Just depends on what direction they want to take it in.

We'll see. Personally I think so, and I'm alright with that because, let's be real here, a silent protagonist simply does not work nearly as well in any other medium besides a video game, it just doesn't. It's definitely not impossible, and they could still go in the silent direction (I'd be impressed if they pulled it off honestly) but more than likely he will have dialogue, and honestly for a movie or show adaptation of this franchise, I really don't think there's anything wrong with that. When gameplay is no longer present, dialogue becomes much much much more important. No matter what I'm gonna go in to it open-minded, personally I absolutely do not mind whatsoever if they make big changes (such as Link speaking) so long as it's in service of the film being better than if they didn't make that change.

I'm actually glad it's alive-action, as I've been saying for years how much potential a live-action adaptation of Legend of Zelda could have if the tone is right and they play their cards right. Something like a live-action Mario Bros. never made sense and never would've worked, but a live-action Legend of Zelda absolutely could work. It's been done VERY well before in various short films and whatnot.

Holy. Shit. ...I'm praying to whatever gods or deities that are up there that this at least turns out to be decent, I've been saying my whole life how much potential a live-action Zelda movie or show could have. I would say I'm excited, but honestly I'd say more so than that I'm terrified they're gonna find some way to fuck it up, because I've been wanting this for as long as I can remember, but I honestly never thought it would actually become a reality, so if this turns out bad I'm legitimately going to be a little devastated, haha.

Oh well, I think your original choice of words is better anyway since it leaves a lot more room for interpretation, which I think leads to better discussion anyway Also eh, it's a hill I don't really care to die on since I don't really like fighting games anyway, haha. Smash Bros. Ultimate is just one of the few that I do enjoy.

Man, controversial choice for that genre huh? Haha. ...I also (like with Sumez) think you over-exaggerate the differences between Smash Bros. and more traditional fighting games but that's another topic for another day, haha. Like I said, if we went purely by the logic of the most "distilled" forms of any given genre, then most of my entire list would be different. If we go by the dictionary definition of quintessential here... It could mean either the most "perfect" OR "typical" example of something, so either approach would be totally valid for this question. Well, might I recommend... More people need to play Contra III honestly, I feel like it's largely overshadowed by the earlier NES entries, but it's SO damn good, and the better hardware allows it to be (or at least feel) a bit more fast-paced, which I think hugely benefits it, although that can be kinda rough if you don't have great hand-eye coordination, haha. Plus, man, the music is SO good.

The term came about after Symphony of the Night, but by definition the Metroid games are absolutely Metroidvanias, it doesn't matter when the word itself first came in to existence.

Of course it is, I would argue all the Metroid games are Metroidvanias. Or, well, the 2D ones at least. Google seems to agree at least, haha.

Oh yeah I totally get that, I just think it's interesting how I went in more of a "Which games do I feel encapsulate all of the best aspects of these genres?" direction, vs a "Which games do I feel represent the purest forms of these genres?" direction. I just find it interesting how there's so many different ways to even answer this question. Yeah I think you really struck gold with this @T-Pac, already been some really interesting discussions happening here, haha.