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I'm mostly a retro gamer. I don't hate everything after the 90's, but I tend to prefer retro game design. I enjoy alot of indie and portable games, not to mention a blockbuster title every now and then. However, like I said, the majority of my gaming takes place on older consoles.

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What I'm Playing:
Retro Game Challenge
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
Super Street Fighter 4 3D Edition
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

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Sound Test- Video game music. I love it, you love it, what more do I need to say?
Super Mario 64: Dire Dire Docks
Zelda: Link's Awakening: Tal Tal Mountains
Suikoden 2: Opening Theme
Dragon Quest V: Ocean Voyage
Katamari Damacy: Lonely Rolling Star
Castlevania:OoE: An Empty Tome
Castlevania: Heart of Fire
StarFox: Corneria
Mother 3:Hard Rain
Chrono Cross:Time's Scar(Opening)

Game Run!- Check out the exciting life of a poor retro gamer!
11/19/08- Batman(NES) and Power Blade
10/11/08- Mystical Ninja and Clash at Demonhead
10/10/08- MASSIVE update! NES and loads of games.
8/12/2008- Killer Instinct, TMNT:TF, Super Tennis
7/20/2008- Inindo, Wonderboy, Crusader of Centy
7/9/2008- NBA Jam, Out of This World

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Keep in mind that these change SO much... I'm terrible at lists...

...5 Consoles
1. SNES
2. DS
3. Playstation
4. NES
5. N64

...Genre
RPG

...3 Games
1. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
2. Final Fantasy IX
3. Mother 3

...RPG
Final Fantasy IX

...Platformer
Super Mario Galaxy 2

...Fighter
Super Street Fighter 4

...FPS
Unreal Tournament series

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Wind Waker.
jackal27 \| 2:33 PM on 07.21.2008	36 comments

WIN.

I started playing Wind Waker in the first time in a LONG time and you know what?... I love this game so much... The whole game feels so right. Like at the beginning when you're just running around Outset Island? It makes me just want to go take a nap, it's so relaxing.

The graphics are beautiful, the story is epic, the dungeons are perfect in length and difficulty, the items and weapons are some of the best, the characters are awesome, and the world is absolutely huge!

Plus, that Ganondorf battle... You know...

Also, in my opinion, Link is meant to be a kid, not some adult, awkwardly animated, pretty boy like in Twilight Princess... Toon Link is way manlier than Adult Link anyway, because he's A MAN OF THE SEA!!

And Twilight Princess just sucks anway...

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

One last thing... I loved all the sailing everywhere in this game, most hated it, but I will never understand I suppose...

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34 comments | showing # 1 to 34

bahss

I'm with you, I traded it with a friend of mines little brother for a Sponge Bob Square Pants game. (It came with a console and about 15 other games. DONT JUDGE ME!) But yeah, I picked it up, and I loved it. As a matter of fact, I'm going to rehook my GC up to play this.

thefil

Definitely agree that Wind Waker was a highlight for the Zelda franchise. It's the only 3D Zelda (not counting the 2.5D Phantom Hourglass) that I've really loved.

jackal27

Or just use your Wii if you have one...

jackal27

@Thefil- I really like Ocarina of Time as well, but Wind Waker topped it and Twilight just felt wonky...

bahss

If only. :(

thefil

Funny side story - I bought my Gamecube for Twilight Princess when it was due out in 2005, and picked up Windwaker as something to use it for in the meantime. Who would have guessed that TP would be switched over to the Wii and I'd love Windwaker more?

jackal27

@Brecksher- Awwww...

@Thefil- Haha. nice.

groudaxius

I feel that Twilight Princess was made for the fans who wanted a mature Zelda. Wind Waker was truly great, in art style, game design and story (except for that horrendous triforce collecting quest). I really liked Ganondorf in this game, more of an old stubborn man who lives in the past rather than a senseless world conquering badass.

Rockvillian

I loved the sailing parts, so much I never used the cyclone to move around quicker.

The music was great too.

Phantom Spaceman

I agree about Twilight Princess, started playing it in December of '06, and couldn't bring myself to finish it until a year later. It was so similar to Ocarina of Time, but there was just something missing, something that made Ocarina feel so epic while TP felt so mundane.

Brando

I think I'm the only one that disliked Wind Waker. Don't get me wrong I dug the graphics and atmosphere but the sailing got old fast and the gameplay didn't really bring anything new to the table (minus the sailing). The difficulty is what really cheesed me off..I never died or even came close to dying once. The combat, while fluid, was just way too easy. For me, that sense of peril is a big deal (I like hard games). Considering it was the follow to Majora's Mask (best Zelda ever imho) it was severely disappointing for me.

Steel Squirrel

Yeah, I never finished Twilight Princess either. I hated all the wolf shit that was going on and just didn't feel into the game at all. Wind Waker was a game that I put in and didn't take out until I finished it. The only thing I could complain about, is that there weren't enough towns to visit and explore.

jackal27

@Groudaxius- Yeah, I totally agree about Ganon being an old man, haha.

@Brando- I can see your points, I think it's probably just a matter of tastes as well. Majora's Mask was your favorite? I don't think I've ever heard that one, haha.

thefil

The problem with Twilight Princess was the lack of discovery. Beyond the main dungeons and storyline areas there was very little to come upon by accident, and no side quests to speak of.

jackal27

Yeah, it also seemed like while Twilight Princess was huge, it wasn't one, giant, open world to explore. usually zelda games have a huge open world with smaller parts branching off (Hyrule Field in Ocarina), but Twilight didn't really and it made it feel almost linear.

JonDarkwood

Yeah, I agree with this. Wind Waker is my favorite Zelda game, and one of my favorite games of all time.

Arttemis

I love WW's art style, but I don't think TP's art was terrible.
In TP, Link's model did seem awkwardly designed, but the world itself wasn't that bad. The actual game (Ugh)... that's another story.

WW is an incredibly beautiful and amazing game, but it doesn't affect me as much as OoT, which I consider to be the adventure game, period. WW just feels more lighthearted, but I still love it.

KyleGamgee

I liked WindWaker a lot. I have yet to play Twilight Princess, although I'm sure I will. :)

Hoodie

I loved the graphics and art style in Wind Waker, but I think I prefer Twilight Princess. Wind Waker could've used less sailing and more dungeons. I felt like there were one or two missing.

jackal27

@Dangale- Yeah, I totally aree. It wasn't an amazing Zelda game by any means, but as far as a video game in general goes, it was a good game.

king3vbo

Psh, you aint got nothing on this badassery

Jonathan Holmes

I love Wind Waker too, though like a date with a hot girl that's had her left arm amputated, I couldn't help but feel like it was missing something.

Wind Waker lacked the amount of dungeons it needed to keep pace with the other great games in the series. If it had the third guardian dungeon (instead of just a cave to bomb into) and a proper fire/ice arrow dungeon, it would be the greatest Zelda game ever. But as it stands, it's just a completely fantastic Zelda game. It may favorite in the series to just pick up and revisit, but it's not my favorite to play from beginning to end. That goes to LttP.

I hope they go back to the WW style for the next Wii Zelda title. After Phantom Hourglass outsold Twilight Princess by a huge margin, I think it could happen.

van

least favorite of the zeldas. hated all the sailing, adjusting the wind, over and over and over.

EternalDeathSlayer

Hey, Jonathan Holmes: That didn't sound right, the idea of Twilight Princess being outsold by Phantom Hourglass by a huge margin.

And apparently, it wasn't..

And before anyone says that site isn't accurate, well, it's pretty close.

But I'm not trying to make a fool of Jonathan, as I respect him. Merely pointing out a mistake.....

EternalDeathSlayer

Oh, and yeah, I hope they don't go back to the WW style in the future. Don't get me wrong - I like that style.

I just think that Zelda needs something else, something fresher and newer. Something original and different, yet still classic Zelda. Cel shading isn't exactly original or eye-popping anymore. A new direction for the series would be nice.

crackity jones

Wind Waker was pretty stinking awesome but I didn't think Twilight Princess was that bad. Also in case you didn't see it on your last blog, WE LIVE IN THE SAME EFFIN CITY OMGZ :O!! Brecksher too

jackal27

@Eternaldeathslayer- I don't know, I hope they don't use a realistic graphical style, because as soon as you try to make it look realistic, it look a obsolete in like 5 years... However, cell shading doesn't get old because it's not trying to look realistic. Sort of the same way that sprites can still look beautiful today, but PSone graphics are awkward and ugly for the most part.

@Twister1988- I'm telling ya! Joplin has one of the best gaming scenes ever! We need to network somehow.

EternalDeathSlayer

@ Jackal: It's not about how the game will hold up....It's about giving people something new, which goes along with the whole concept of the Wii, which was to innovate and give people a "new" way to play.

So I want a "new" way to play and a new look and feel, but of course I still want classic Zelda in there. Perhaps change the setting? Maybe Zelda doesn't take place in a rural area with castles and whatnot, but instead goes for some sci-fi elements, or something along those lines. I'd always wondered what that might be like....

crackity jones

@jackal
I'd totally be up for that! Me and some of my friends meet up on fridays for our Friday Night Shooters. I live just barely enough out of town to get sucky internets so I can't participate in FNF.

Dan CiTi

If Link to the Past or OoT were "modernized" I'd prefer they looked like TP. But I have to say the fake "Valley of the Flood game should be WW style, which is my style favorite as well.
Although Okami is my favorite Zelda.

My biggest problem with recent Zeldas is difficulty.

Wind Waker needed two things: more lengthy story and more pirate-ness.

ProperlyParanoid

Wind Waker is freakin amazing. It's probably the best Zelda there is, along side with Alttp (although, my personal favorites are Ocarina and Majoras Mask, since i played them with my father and they have this sentimental value to me). Twilight Princess was a very good game, but only a good Zelda game. I, personally, love the WW art style, and hope to see more Zeldas with similar ones.

Aaron Mxy Yost

I'm another one who loved the sailing... I found it relaxing and I really dug stumbling across hidden islands and outposts in the sea.

Danmartigan

I liked the open sea. I do wish there were a few more towns and stuff to add more depth to the world. It doesn't have to be Oblivion, but I feel like the Zelda series needs to get a little larger in scale.

jackal27

@Eternaldeathslayer- Yeah, I'd be interested to see what a futuristic Zelda would look like, but I would probably freak out if Nintendo actually did it, haha.

@Twister1988- I meant more of a way to get gamers in the area together on the net, but that'd be awesome too. I have a tight group of friends that meet together all the time as well, but we mostly play old games. I'm also starting a podcast with a couple of them that'll be on iTunes called "Midwest Nerdcore" so watch out for that.

@Dan Citi- Gurren Lagann rocks. Kamina is the manliest man ever.

@Mirax- Yeah, it's hard for me like that too because I have such fond memories of playing and beating Ocarina (my first Zelda game) with my little brother. I got into the older ones later on, and I think Wind Waker is the best overall, but I don't have the same memories of it.

@Danmartigan- Yeah, but the thing I thought about Oblivion was that the majority of the world looked the same and had the same enemies. Even though there were lots of different towns and stuff, not much stuck out on it's own for me.

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