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Hey. Name's Zayne. 20, Drama student, England. Alcoholic.

Favourite games? Action RPGS, specifically Zelda, but also platformers, both two and three dimensional. Anything with a good plot and at least average gameplay will also draw me in. Also not adverse to the odd FPS/Quick puzzle game, but I wouldn't rate them as something I play often. I'll play anything, to be honest. I almost always try out the games with all the hype, just to see if it's something I'd be into.

Uhh, what else..?

Oh yeah. Nintendo fanboy, if your definition of fanboy is someone who buys games predominantly by one developer. I just happen to like Nintendo games more. I don't vehemently defend Nintendo/attack everyone else. I'm not thirteen.

Currently possess a 360, Wii, PS2, relatively competent PC (No, I can't run Crysis), DS, PSP. No PS3 yet, or for the forseeable future, because there's nothing I want to play on it that I can't get on my 360. It's that simple.

Also trying not to suck.

Failing.

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Well, Wand of Gamelon and Faces of Evil, anyway. According to this guy, John Szczepaniak (Possibly the most difficult to spell/pronounce surname ever.), who writes about his fond experiences playing both games, the circumstances surrounding their creation and an interview with the games' creator, Dale DeSharone.

It's actually a very good read and raises some very interesting points, the most prevalent of which, I think, being "3) You have probably not played either game, and if you have, you've possibly not gotten very far."

Now, I have. I'm an absolute raving Zelda fanboy and I made it my business to track down a CD-i for the express purpose of playing these games. I also agree with him, except I'd go a step further. In his article, John mentions that the cinematics are dire. I disagree whole-heartedly. I love their cheesy, late 80's cheap Dragons Lair ripoff style. I love the camp voice acting. Do I think they're fantastic games? No. But I don't think they're bad.

So please, go and give that article a read, if you've got a spare few minutes to kill. It's well worth it and hopefully it might convince a few of you to hunt down a CD-i and... No? Oh, well, alright. Read it anyway.



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DO NOT WANT. Sorry dude, just saying. Those games are a travesty. They're down right scandolous. But hey, if that's your thing then enjoy. As for me, I'll stick with the real thing.
Have you played them? ;)
Nope, and don't have the time to track them down, nor the time to play them. The wife hogs the TV with Halo 3 and Gears of War.
I agree, you really can't put a judgement on a game solely on the cinematics and the small snippets of gameplay put on Youtube. I actually know someone with a CD-I in the neighbourhood, no zelda though. :(
Maybe we should get a VC release so we don't have to track down a CD-I and the games. =p That is true, I haven't played the games and probably should.
I'd like to give them a shot.
I was actually thinking about these going to virtual console.
I've got a working CD-I + one of those ZELDA-games (the faces of evil) and I can tell you those cinematics are the only thing that is even remotely not vomit-inducing... levels are shoddy at best, controls feel like you're playing Dragon's Lair even though you're not :p

and the enemies are, well, just WRONG... some of them look like they're some kind of dinosaurs...

if you want you can come give them a try, I'll be sitting next to you playing something else though...

seriously the CD-I was a sorry excuse for a console... the most fun i had on that thing was while browsing the encyclopedia that was given with it freely because no other application had better controls...

I went through a LOT of trouble to get me a CD-I-machine because I remember being really young and seeing it on a fair and being totally mesmerized by its possibilities but MAN was that a disappointment when I finally got it a year or 3 ago... it's logic that it failed and completely justified, this contraption never should've seen the light of day... if it was a kid, the doctor should've tucked it back in upon delivery :-)
I think a problem with a suggestion that he makes at the end is telling people to basically not think of them as actual Zelda games; just as side-scrolling adventure games from the 90s that just happen to have a guy with a sword, shield, and green tunic. That's just too much of a stretch for a lot of people.

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