Skyrim Losing to Zelda Skyward sword in Duel! : V - Skyrim

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:10 pm

Zelda isn't a better game.

Sorry, I know nostalgia is wonderful and all, but get real.

It's not.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:54 pm

Isn't G4 the site with that idiot, Casey Schreiner?

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:19 pm

Skyrim is currently losing 49% to 51% go do something!!! here is the link http://www.g4tv.com/vgdm/best-game-2011/vote/209/theelderscrolls5skyrim-vs-zeldaskywardsword/

GO VOTE and tell us whats the percentage when youre done!

lol
"Go do something"
Well, I've already done my part...

I feel powerless

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:31 pm

I don't think Zelda deserves to win but I want Skyrim or Dark Souls to win.. Zelda games are always the same.. Same graphics, pretty much same mechanics, stories seem a little similar.. Skyrim has good graphics, good mechanics, and nothing is really similar except obvious lore..

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:36 am

Zelda isn't a better game.

Sorry, I know nostalgia is wonderful and all, but get real.

It's not.

Totally Agree. It cant be compared!!!
I dont belive the things we must read in this thread. We better go to keep playing instead of keep reading this stuff...

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:43 am

Guys its 51 49, Skyrims in the LEAD!

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:51 am

It's the same reason GI gave it a 10/10.

Nostalgia.

Every single time ANYBODY plays a Zelda game, if they've played Ocarina of Time, they'll be kicked in the head with nostalgia and give the new Zelda game a perfect score.

This.

Ocarina of Time was a masterpiece. But let the nostalgia guide your judgement is silly, and let tech-related frustration do the same is even more.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:59 am

This.

Ocarina of Time was a masterpiece. But let the nostalgia guide your judgement is silly, and let tech-related frustration do the same is even more.

Two words....WATER TEMPLE

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:46 am

Guys its 51 49, Skyrims in the LEAD!

We should be proud, our good and complex game its going to win to someone with a green maggot running around shiny monster who scaped from discovery kids... what a akcnowelegment ! haha

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:25 am

Zelda isn't a better game.

Sorry, I know nostalgia is wonderful and all, but get real.

It's not.

Have you played it? How do you know? This is a great Zelda game. In my personal opinion, Skyrim beats it, but just by a hair. It is truly a great game and deserving of it's scores.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:59 am

I've been so enthralled with Skyrim that I haven't had a chance to play Zelda, even though it was the other game I was looking forward to most this year. Neither's even been out for a month yet! They ought to put this off until like, next Spring or something so I can vote properly. :meh:

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:07 am

Zelda isn't a better game.

Sorry, I know nostalgia is wonderful and all, but get real.

It's not.

The most important thing to me in a video game is gameplay, not exposition. Skryim tries to impress with it's "immersion" and nice aesthetics, but it falls flat on it's face when it comes to gameplay. The combat is still one of the worst in the business, the loot is always boring, almost all of the fights are completely uninteresting with no compelling enemies to kill other than Named_Draugr_01, Two-Handed_Cheating_Orc_Bandit_02. The main quest has the best parts of the game and it's painfully short. The rest is more exposition that tries to make you feel like you are in a living, breathing world. Ok? I don't want to play a flower picking simulator or a game that wishes it was an MMORPG offline. Almost none of the guild quests are that great either. They aren't bad, but they too are painfully short. The majority of the "Radiant AI" quests are exactly the same and most of the dungeons are caves again and again. I would much rather have an interesting game that is shorter than one that tries to act like it offers you "more" when "more" just means repetitive fedex quests.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:39 pm

skyward sword took the proven model of OoT and used it to make a new game. it doesnt really do much different but it does nothing wrong wither

skyrim took the model of oblivion as a complex PC-oriented rpg and turned it into a console port

skyward sword deserves the win.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:13 am

I'm not saying Skyward Sword isn't a good game.

I'm saying it's not as good as Skyrim.

And it isn't.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:17 pm

This.

Ocarina of Time was a masterpiece. But let the nostalgia guide your judgement is silly, and let tech-related frustration do the same is even more.

I thought Majora's Mask was superior to OoT and deserves the "Masterpiece" title more so. Though I love both games.

But yeah, though I haven't played the game, I'm wondering if it is going to run on Nostalgia like every recent Zelda. The last close to original was, as I just said, MM.

I'm fairly certain Skyrim is the better of video games this year. Even with the issues I have with it.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:52 pm

The most important thing to me in a video game is gameplay, not exposition. Skryim tries to impress with it's "immersion" and nice aesthetics, but it falls flat on it's face when it comes to gameplay. The combat is still one of the worst in the business, the loot is always boring, almost all of the fights are completely uninteresting with no compelling enemies to kill other than Named_Draugr_01, Two-Handed_Cheating_Orc_Bandit_02. The main quest has the best parts of the game and it's painfully short. The rest is more exposition that tries to make you feel like you are in a living, breathing world. Ok? I don't want to play a flower picking simulator or a game that wishes it was an MMORPG offline.

I don't wanna be in a UN-realistic world filled with One-sided Characters, Stupid Good Vs Evil plots, and stupid PRINCESS'S

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:55 am

Its clear now, Sanctuary, if you say that you CLEARLY barely played skyrim, I must guess you are playing this Zelda stuff. Go, keep playing zelda, and go to zelda forums to speak of the zelda greatness and barney the dinosaur. good luck!

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:10 am

Age till 12 vote zelda all above vote skyrim :celebration:
Really i dont care. Means nothing at all

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:18 am

Bugs and glitches happen when you have a game with as much content crammed into it as Skyrim, on as many platforms.

Considering Zelda is almost entirely linear, with next to no open-world exploration, and is only on one platform, it is OBVIOUSLY going to have fewer bugs. That's just common sense.

The true power of Zelda is that it wields nostalgia like a warhammer. TES relies on a massive amount of content. As a consequence, it takes longer to make them, they're buggier, and it costs Bethesda more to make them.

Edit: That said, I did enjoy Twilight Princess. It was generally pretty fun, and had some good boss fights. But it, and any other Zelda game, will never be in the league of TES.

You want to talk about content go back 2 generations of the TES series and play them then you would see how much "missing" content TES has taken away to it's current "Skyrim".

Quality of a game is no excuse because of the amount of any content in the game. Bethesda also has many years of experience with the TES games and yet it seems to be a new day for them every release day. Riddled with bugs and graphical glitches etc. Quality is something I would much rather have even if it meant waiting a whole entire year for them to release a game that played well. I know Zelda games are good entertainment and provide a more fun factor for me than Skyrim's short quest and repetitive gameplay quest. Change a few NPC around and call it a different faction and it is the same thing over and over. Change gates to dragons and it is the same thing. Skyrim did nothing new. It is Oblivion 2 and a rehash of the same engine and same problems. Old engine, old problems. There is no nostalgia other then I just enjoy Zelda games.I could easily say the samething about TES and nostalgia which is how I am sure Skyrim sold so much more then Zelda plus the amount of advertising that had to have been invested. I love TES games, but as far as quality that is a problem in their games. Skyrim is also leaned towards the arcade RPG. It is only appealing to those who enjoy short quest, very low attention spans, SKyrim is nothing but a arcade RPG now. Very basic and no up keep whatsoever. Zelda has a more in depth story then any TES game I have every played.

I really don't care who wins. There both good games. Just putting my opinion in like everyone else. THis is just what I think about the two. Quality game is all I want. I don't enjoying having to wait several weeks for a game to be playable to being able to enjoy it. I don't like having to worry about running into problems that pull me away from being involved.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:55 am

Age till 12 vote zelda all above vote skyrim :celebration:
Really i dont care. Means nothing at all

It means nothing to you but its justice. Bethesda deservers this GOTY and we should help them get it

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:11 am

Lotta hatters ITT.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:46 am

WERE WINNING!

You are not the game you play.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:37 am

Zelda is a classic though...and it being reintroduced to modern gaming may be tge cause for it's praising. Personally, I'd rather play an older one that the new Wii game, but that's just me.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:18 pm

Its clear now, Sanctuary, if you say that you CLEARLY barely played skyrim, I must guess you are playing this Zelda stuff. Go, keep playing zelda, and go to zelda forums to speak of the zelda greatness and barney the dinosaur. good luck!

Yeah, I barely put 138 hours into Skryrim so far. It's not even really a game as much as it is an interactive storybook. The combat is a large portion of the game, and it's terrible. The rest of the game is just roaming from town to town standing around listening to what everyone has to say and picking up the same random quests that you did from the previous town.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:46 am

Yeah, I barely put 138 hours into Skryrim so far. It's not even really a game as much as it is an interactive storybook. The combat is a large portion of the game, and it's terrible. The rest of the game is just roaming from town to town standing around listening to what everyone has to say and picking up the same random quests that you did from the previous town.

If you think that this game is terrible, why would you play it?