Topic: Nintendo's Legend Of Zelda Bundle (Read 165 times)

ZildjianKX · « **on:** December 29, 2003, 11:24:00 PM »

It's nice how if you already bought a gamecube, you can buy two selected games out of four (Mario Kart DD, Mario & Luigi, 1080 Avalanche, and Pario Party 5) and get the Zelda disc for free.

A Link to the Past is by far my favorite Zelda game too, and it being available for the GBA is obviously the reason it didn't ship on the disc. They also don't have a "released" SNES emulator for the gamecube, but there are opensource emulators that I'm sure they could "borrow" from.

Just use XSnes9X for your Zelda fix if you really don't feel like taking out your SNES.

Zero · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2003, 11:49:00 PM »

QUOTE (ZildjianKX @ Dec 30 2003, 08:24 AM)

Just use XSnes9X for your Zelda fix if you really don't feel like taking out your SNES.

It's just to bad they made the GBA version instead of just putting it on the disc, not much of a collection pack if it is missing the best game in the series. Not that they care though they are just in it for the $$

chefelf · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2003, 04:24:00 AM »

Exactly. I'm not about to get a $99 GBA and a $35 GBA game. If I want to play A Link to the Past I can either play it on my PC emulator, on my Xbox or even on my Super Nintendo if I feel like hooking it back up.

Don't get me wrong, the GameCube is a steal for $99 but if you want to buy into all of Nintendo's silly "connectivity" bullshit you have to buy a LOT of expensive peripherals.

Sir Auros · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2003, 09:26:00 AM »

QUOTE (Zero @ Dec 30 2003, 04:49 AM)

QUOTE (ZildjianKX @ Dec 30 2003, 08:24 AM)

Just use XSnes9X for your Zelda fix if you really don't feel like taking out your SNES.

It's just to bad they made the GBA version instead of just putting it on the disc, not much of a collection pack if it is missing the best game in the series. Not that they care though they are just in it for the $$

Who exactly isn't?

I still don't understand this hostility towards connectivity. You don't need any of the connectivity stuff to be able to play Link to the Past, just a GBA, if you don't have a GBA, tough, stop whining already. It would be a stupid idea for Nintendo to have included a game they're currently selling in a free package and I hardly think it means they're trying to milk the "connectivity thing." The only way you could play LttP on a GC would be to use the Gameboy Player, and that still ain't connectivity buddy, that's emulation on the GC.

As for connectivity being a gimmick intended to get people to buy a lot of extra expensive crap they don't need, I somehow doubt that. Do note that the GBA is the most prolific handheld system available, so offering a $10 cable and extra stuff programmed into the software for people who own both the GBA and the GC already hardly seems like extortion or a huge amount of money. There are currently no games AFAIK that require connectivity to play and even if you want to enjoy some of the benefits of it you can just borrow a friend's to unlock whatever you want to unlock. In the end though, if you're buying a GBA just to use it to connect to the GC, that's your own silly little problem/psychosis, not Nintendo's. Also, you've been routinely inflating the price of the GBA, the GBA sells for $65-$70 and can be found used for $45~...

xboxhackern00b · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2003, 09:53:00 AM »

WHAT!! how could they not include Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past i used to play this game ALL the time in fact its on my xbox right now i think its one of the best Zelda's out there and Nintendo Definitely should of but it on this disc P.S. windwaker sucks why cellshaded *sigh*

Sir Auros · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2003, 07:58:00 PM »

QUOTE (xboxhackern00b @ Dec 30 2003, 02:53 PM)

WHAT!! how could they not include Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past i used to play this game ALL the time in fact its on my xbox right now i think its one of the best Zelda's out there and Nintendo Definitely should of but it on this disc P.S. windwaker sucks why cellshaded *sigh*

Um, as has been said about a million, billion times so far - Nintendo's still selling the damn game.

Giving away something you're selling for free is a really fucking stupid idea.

chefelf · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2003, 05:17:00 AM »

brandogg · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2003, 09:20:00 AM »

Stop crying, if you don't want the disc, don't get it. Ocarina of Time was the best Zelda game anyway...check gamerankings.com, it's actually the #1 rated game of all time, period.

Zero · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2003, 06:14:00 PM »

QUOTE (brandogg @ Dec 31 2003, 06:20 PM)

check gamerankings.com

Because they are the official people to tell me if a game is good or not

chefelf · « **Reply #9 on:** January 01, 2004, 01:15:00 PM »

QUOTE (brandogg @ Dec 31 2003, 02:20 PM)

Stop crying, if you don't want the disc, don't get it. Ocarina of Time was the best Zelda game anyway...check gamerankings.com, it's actually the #1 rated game of all time, period.

And Rolling Stone ranked Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band as the best album of all time but sometimes you just want to listen to Abbey Road.

Sir Auros · « **Reply #10 on:** January 01, 2004, 08:40:00 PM »

QUOTE (chefelf @ Dec 31 2003, 10:17 AM)

Sir Auros, I do not think that connectivity is a bad thing. I like the idea of it it just seems that Nintendo is putting all of their power behind connectivity as opposed to online gaming. That is fine if that's what they want to do I just feel that they are shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. Connectivity seems like it has very limited applications whereas online gaming is virtually limitless.

Sadly, Miyamoto (in all his retarded, stupid, completely non-wise wisdom) believes that connectivity is more important than online gaming...and that sports titles aren't important for the US consumers...and videogames are still just for kids...and probably lots of other stupid things that are hurting Nintendo.

Nintendo needs to drop him as a leader because that's simply not what he's good at and they need someone who can actually capture the Western market, because a little island nation just doesn't drive the entire videogame industry anymore...

Shadow112 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 02, 2004, 01:00:00 PM »

QUOTE

Sadly, Miyamoto (in all his retarded, stupid, completely non-wise wisdom) believes that connectivity is more important than online gaming...and that sports titles aren't important for the US consumers...and videogames are still just for kids...and probably lots of other stupid things that are hurting Nintendo.

Nintendo needs to drop him as a leader because that's simply not what he's good at and they need someone who can actually capture the Western market, because a little island nation just doesn't drive the entire videogame industry anymore...

So True

ZildjianKX · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2004, 07:14:00 PM »

QUOTE (brandogg @ Dec 31 2003, 10:20 AM)

Stop crying, if you don't want the disc, don't get it. Ocarina of Time was the best Zelda game anyway...check gamerankings.com, it's actually the #1 rated game of all time, period.

Kind of a boring game if you play it now... I was really into it when it came out, but I tried playing it again on the gamecube and it just isn't that fun...

Anyways, about connectivity, anyone tried Pacman Vs on the gamecube with a GBA? Now that's connectivity...

chefelf · « **Reply #13 on:** December 26, 2003, 07:55:00 AM »

Okay, I love Nintendo. Even more than Nintendo I love the Legend of Zelda. The original Legend of Zelda for the NES is probably my favorite video game of all time. When they released this new Zelda bundle for the GameCube I was finally sold. I had finally decided that I would join the legions of others and purchase a GameCube for myself.

The Zelda bundle is great because it contains four classic Zelda games and some documentary style "making of" type stuff. That sounds great except for one problem. Four classic Zelda games? FOUR? There are five classic Zelda games. They decided that they would include Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (not a Zelda game in my opinion--barely a game at all). Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Any Zelda fan worth their weigh in rupees will recognize a sizeable hole in the middle of this collection. Where this hole is there should be a game entitled Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Why leave it out? It's a great Zelda game. Far better than that steaming pile of turd called Legend of Zelda II. Nintendo has simply dropped the ball. Only laziness can account for this game not being included on the bundle. A Link to the Past was a superb game. It reclaimed the brilliance of the Zelda franchise after the utter failure of Zelda II. It brought back the feeling of the original game while building on it and making it into something leaps and bounds more engrossing than the original.

There is nothing I can really do. The damage has already done. The most I can really do is complain on a forum like this.

This is just another in a long series of disappointments from Nintendo. Yet again they create something that, on the surface, sounds like a dream come true yet a simple silly oversight on their point prevents it from being truly great. Instead we're left with something which falls short of the mark and is just plain disappointing due to its incomplete nature.

Gmc · « **Reply #14 on:** December 26, 2003, 10:10:00 AM »

Releasing LTTP on that Zelda disk would have weakened sales of the GBA version of LTTP, and would have been more bother as they'd have to make a SNES Emulator, which'd have been way too much more bother.

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