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GeekNights Tuesday - The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Tonight on GeekNights, we review The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. It's all right, but it does lead us to discuss what the best Zelda games ever made truly were. (Apparently, it's Zelda 3, Zelda 1, Ocarina of Time, and Zelda 2, plus or minus Four Swords on the GC). In the news, the World Cup had a ridiculous late-tournament blowout, and the sad tale of the failed Mechwarrior Online tells us why pay-to-win is the worst idea in the world. Connecticon 2014 is THIS WEEKEND! We'll be there performing four shows!
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The fact is that soccer has developed so far as a defensive game, that it's normally almost impossible to score. What we saw with Germany vs Brazil is when a team is broken, not the sport is broken. Brazil built their team around a strong captain and a star striker, which isn't a bad formula at all, except when the captain is missing due to a yellow card in a previous game and the star striker has a broken spine.
While all the focus before the match was about who would lead Brazil's team from the front, the real problem with Brazil in this tournament has been at the back. Star strikers can make up for shoddy defense against lower rated teams, but not against Germany.
The first goal of the match set the tone, with Germany's star striker, Müller, standing by himself with zero cover. Bump, into the net. So easy.
Then the next five goals all shared a common theme: any of two to four players were available to take a shot on goal. There is nothing the goal keeper can do in that situation! When a cross comes in and TWO German players let it roll past, when either could have taken a shot, and they leave it for the third player, the goal keeper literally can't be in position to save it. With three of the goals, a player could have taken a shot, but the goal keeper was approaching. Normally it's best just to take the shot, as passing in the penalty zone is normally too tricky or risky. But the German players were free to pass to another striker, neatly bypassing any attempt by the keeper to stop anything.
Normally it's hard enough to get one player into position to score, but last night Germany consistently had three. That's unheard of in football of this level, and it's a 50-50 split between amazing teamwork on Germany's part and terrible teamwork on Brazil's.
The last goal was unique in that it was a classic drive. Some said it was the goal of the match, because it looked the most impressive. But the other goals really showcased what a very good team can do against an almost non-existent defense.
Brazil could have scored a few more times than they did, but Germany's keeper Neuer was playing like someone inspired. The only reason he let a goal in at the end because he and the German defenders were fucking about. He kept running so far out, just to intimidate the Brazil strikers, and was caught napping.
We occasionally went to Mom's boss' house when we lived in Australia. Their kid would always play Wolfenstein 3D, which was my first experience with that, and some weird robot fighting game that looked super shit.
That game was One Must Fall 2097.
I completely forgot about that game.
This music. The pose of that robot.
Needs an "HD" remake so bad. If they Bionic Commando: Rearmed this, it would be off the hook.
Edit: Hahahaha, stick around at the end of that video for hilarious Ron Paul song. This video was just the first result that popped up for me.
Rusty's is a free download for the first few challenges, then they hit you up $4 at a time for each additional set of challenges (up to 50 at a time), but if you've done well in the previous challenges, it rewards you by dropping the price as low as $1.50-$2.00. It's a weird business model but I didn't mind it, and the games were fun.
I wanted the game to be more challenging. So, hard mode makes enemies move faster and do 4x damage. This means if you're touched twice during the first two dungeons, you die. This is unfair.
I hated how easy the game was, and I'm pretty good at 2D Zelda, but hard mode is bullshit.
Zelda 3 is indisputably the best. One of a handful of classic games that I legitimately enjoy for non-nostalgic reasons.
Wind Waker was pretty amazing, too, although less. Wind Waker would have been better with the same open-worldness and less water. Like, no water. Or boats.
Loading screen with a boat: YAY! Sailing the high seas! If I keep going this way, I'm going to find land eventually.
See that? Boats make everything better.
All right you win on that point.
I'd still like to see a more open world Zelda happen. Grand Theft Auto: Zelda, but you know, without cursing and racial slurs.
The saling was boring, the triforce pieces hunt was super boring filler and going slow as a special power is just stupid. Meanwhile all the good things in the game are same good things that every other Zelda game ever has done, they lack the bad parts of Wind Waker.
I want the goddamn Elder Scrolls version of the Zelda franchise.
I found that out after I beat the game.
EDIT: Also I forgot it always puts the wind at your back.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/10/04/how-to-get-the-swift-sail-wind-waker-hd.aspx
I totally agree that I want a Zelda game that feels like an Elder Scrolls game. It's always been hard to consider Hyrule an actual kingdom with a population of 50 or less (depending on the game).
Gonna have to go back and beat that shit.