tell that to the million nintendo fanboys on this site who keep going back and forth about his stupid blog and argue all day about what he had for dinner last night.

I'm not a game designer, I'm a game player. And the designers of zelda have failed to create something interesting enough to peak my interest as a player.

Following the EXACT same formula since the NES days just isn't interesting now. I can pretty much garauntee that I will need to collect 6-7 pieces of something because an evil something is threatening hyrule or some adjacent land, to collect these pieces I will go to a dungeon, each containing a map, a compass, and a big key as well as an item that I must use to solve puzzles, there will be simplistic minimalistic combat (but with directions specific slashing this time), until at the end of said dungeon I will get to a room with a 5-10 second cinematic of the boss entering the room, I will procede to use my new item to stun the boss and hit him with my sword (directionally specific for the new one), and repeat until defeated, I will get a full heartpiece and exit out to the hub world where I will now have access to the next dungeon. I will do this till I have collected all 6-7 pieces of said magical item, and if the production values are high enough, there will be a boss battle followed by a second set of mystical items necessary to collect each with a dungeon until I confront Ganon, or maybe maybe, some different villian.

While I realize the obvious fanboy response is to pick some genre and describe roughly the gameplay elements in it, you'd have to be facetious to not see the difference in describing roughly the tropes of something like infamous 2, and the ridiculous specificity of how predictable zelda games are. I (as well as a great deal of people here) could probably even describe most of the items you will aquire in the new zelda. Zelda has ceased to be a series of sequels and at this point is nearly just a series of remakes pretending to be sequels. It's not because Nintendo doesn't know what an RPG is, that's overintellectuallizing a simple problem. Zelda from 1998 (which was just a flashy, but fantastic zelda from 1986) just isn't interesting in 2011.

I have yet to play a bad Zelda game.

Some people like some more than others, some get more good press than others, but I have a hard time believing anyone could claim the games were bad and do it with a straight face.

Seriously , who the hell is this Malstron guy? I really have no clue why I should care.

It's odd again, when people above say they don't like how Zelda has "not changed enough"  in th past. Are these the same people who attacked Majora for being too different story-wise, or Windwaker too different graphic and tone wise? More importantly, if you took out the things they claim make the games too "samey" (fetch quests, new item to use to complete dungeon/beat boss, Triforce, etc) you would be taking out ZELDA. Ya know I'd like a new GTA, if they took out the drugs, and having to drive around all the time. It would be great if they add new and creative ways to explore the Zelda world, but there are just same things that make Zelda game a Zelda game, it's what we expect, and it's what millions of people obviously love and pay for so...

Sean Malstrom may be public enemy #1 in the Nintendo subforum but it's worth noting that gaming wouldn't have expanded so much this gen if it wasn't for Nintendo deliberately targeting the "lapsed gamer" (which is basically his schtick. He thinks Nintendo should cater to this demographic). Adults who grew up with the Arcades, Atari, 8-bit and 16-bit Nintendo and Sega, etc. but then lost interest in gaming once it started shifting towards 3D, becoming more complex and adding more buttons and sticks to the gamepads. Recently when chilling with my ex-girlfriend she told me that she hates videogames because she sucks at them. I bet if I brought my Wii or DS Lite to her place and set it up with some pick up and play games, she'd change her mind. After all, she is a fan of boardgames (like many women). I see no reason why she couldn't be converted into liking videogames.

Malstrom may have only a little Wordpress and forum corner. But there are tens of millions of people who can sort of relate to the basics of Malstrom's old-school philosophies. The Wii and DS brought back a lot of adults to gaming and also brought in new adults. These games focused on a "back to the basics" type of experience for gaming with a more simplified control scheme than the dual-analog modern gamepad.

I really think that Nintendo should create a 2D New Legend of Zelda to compliment the 3D Zelda line. There would be a strong market for it. Old-school Zelda would appeal more to fans who want Zelda with more action and non-linearity in their exploration.