| liquidninja said: I just finished reading Malstrom's post on Zelda. We finally get to the heart of why modern Zelda games aren't as fun as the older ones. Earlier Zeldas were Action/RPGs but all the newer ones are Adventure Games. Nintendo still thinks of them as RPGs but real RPGs allow you go around to creating your own story and have points systems and things of that nature. Monster Hunter for instance is like this. If Nintendo think Zelda is a RPG but it's clearly not then this could explain why it's creators sound clueless when trying to explain what it is. As a result the latest Zeldas have a number of issues: "-The emphasis on puzzles as the substance of the game… |
Why does anyone think that Zelda is an RPG or Nintendo has tried to position it as such? When Nintendo releases Zelda, it says it is a new Zelda title. It doesn't do RPG with it, as far as I can tell. Zelda 2 would fall into RPG category, where you could level up Link, but what about anything else? Zelda is an action-adventure title.
