Legend of Zelda thread - Lorefags GTFO!

After playing BotW, am I the only one who wouldn't mind seeing friendly - or at least neutral - camps of Bokoblins/Lizalfos? Nintendo put a lot of work into humanizing them and implying there's more to them than meets the eye. There is precedent in the series after all...
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I would like to see that, tbh. That's one thing from the OG Zelda I'm not sure we ever saw again; could make for an interesting situation or two.

Knowing Nintendo, they probably won't, sadly.
 
Random thought that occurred to me recently: Hyrule is a kingdom in a constant cycle of death and destruction. But at no point has any royal Hylian thought You know what? Maybe we should appoint some chroniclers to write accounts of what happened, then establish libraries to put them in. That way our children won't have to rely on word-of-mouth and retarded, self-fulfilling prophecies.

I would say it's just part of the setting, but in BotW the Zoras actually have chronicled some of their history on giant stone tablets. It not The Library of Alexandria, but it's a start. It's just weird how the dominant power in the region has made no effort to preserve its past, but other races have.
 
Hear me out. Pretty sure Stalfos means something like "Steel Foe", since they are sword-wielding enemies instead of generic monsters or slimes. Stahl is German for "Steel" and Fos seems pretty self-explanatory (as covered above). Being a humanoid Zelda enemy from game one, I think the naming convention just stuck for all the future skele-bros regardless of armament.
 
I always thought the Stal part from Stalfos came from Stalker, since iirc in the first game their AI kind of chased Link around, but then again this is the same franchise that calls snakes "rope" and bats "keese"
 
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Random thought that occurred to me recently: Hyrule is a kingdom in a constant cycle of death and destruction. But at no point has any royal Hylian thought You know what? Maybe we should appoint some chroniclers to write accounts of what happened, then establish libraries to put them in. That way our children won't have to rely on word-of-mouth and retarded, self-fulfilling prophecies.

I would say it's just part of the setting, but in BotW the Zoras actually have chronicled some of their history on giant stone tablets. It not The Library of Alexandria, but it's a start. It's just weird how the dominant power in the region has made no effort to preserve its past, but other races have.
Probably because the castle and the library (which actually happens in botw) occasionally gets converted into the final dungeon for whatever reason. But to be fair, the ancients and the royal family had the means of actually waging war against Gannon. It's just that the last king didn't agree with Zelda on what needed to be done an cybersecurity wasn't an thing in ye olde times.
 
After playing BotW, am I the only one who wouldn't mind seeing friendly - or at least neutral - camps of Bokoblins/Lizalfos? Nintendo put a lot of work into humanizing them and implying there's more to them than meets the eye. There is precedent in the series after all...
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There are so many things that could be done in a BOTW style game that wouldn't take a lot of work, but Nintendo seems intent on doing the bare minimum when it comes to content and lore.
 
Lol you people deserve your perpetual dissatisfaction.

"Yeah their effort was Herculean but I want more."
6 years since Skyward Sword for a glorified walking simulator where 90% of the gameplay relies on the physics engine isn't what I call herculean. Same goes for the 6 year wait for the new game where the only thing they've had to really show off is the Nuts n' Bolts expansion.

Dumb gooks couldn't even shell out for decent voice acting lmao.
 
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Did anyone else like the memory searching sidequest? Taking some time off from questing to try figuring out the location from the landmarks in the photos was legitimately some of the most fun I had playing BotW. I imagine this is what it's like to dox someone from their curtains :story:
It was good and helps pay off the narrative of the ending.
 
Did anyone else like the memory searching sidequest? Taking some time off from questing to try figuring out the location from the landmarks in the photos was legitimately some of the most fun I had playing BotW. I imagine this is what it's like to dox someone from their curtains :story:
I liked it because it was optional and I got to play the game without having to worry about the gay little story. The fact that I didn't have to sit through a million cutscenes was probably one of my favourite parts of the game.
 
Started playing the switch version of Skyward Sword a few days ago, and it seems pretty fun so far. I've only just beaten the forest dungeon, though, so maybe I just haven't reached the part that made people hate it. That, or it's because I don't have to flick a wiimote around to swing my sword.
Beat the third dungeon a while back (taking a break to play Friends of Mineral Town) and it's still pretty fun. I know that the bomb bowling portions were part of the reason people disliked this game, and it looks like they fixed it for this game. In handheld mode, at least, you just press the analog stick up or down to indicate whether you're throwing or rolling the bomb, an arrow indicator shows you the arc/direction, and you hit the throw button.
 
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