Zelda - what a pile of....great gaming!

[Charlies Angel]

Well got my wii at christmas. Everyone told me to buy zelda but it had never interested me before. I finally gave in and traded in some of my 360 games for zelda and it is one of the best games i have ever played. Its fun and enjoyable.

Anyone enjoying zelda and would you rate it as one of the best games?

Nik

Edited by Charlies Angel on Sunday 7th January 23:24

[lilCat]

Its a good game.. (only 3 hours into it)

But wouldnt consider it one of the greatest.... well... i am still at the early stages...

[Steve_Evil]

Top notch gameage, spent all my Christmas hols on it and finished it after 52hrs. Quite hard for me to remain impartial though when it comes to Zelda as i've been a massive fan since the SNES days.

[marvelharvey]

Actually, a lot of longtime Zelda fans say the game really drags for the first 2-3 hours, then the pace really starts to pick up. I'll eventually get around to play it when I find a Wii!

[ThePassenger]

Sadako's about 8 - 9 hours in to the game... from the guide it seems he's about 50% though. Personally I'm not even at the first dungeon yet

It's a huge game, and the swines have but the first Zelda game on the download channel...

[Steve_Evil]

I doubt he'd be 50% of the way through it at 9 hours in, reckon the bare minimum to complete it would be about 35hrs and you'd have to concentrate solely on the main quest to do that, ignoring any other side quests and exploration.

[remal]

my mums finished Zelda. amazing game to look at and took her got to be over 30 hours to finish. But she likes taking her time

[Steve_Evil]

Maybe then, I did go and do everything at 52hrs, found every last heart piece and so-on. Just wouldn't have thought that you could do the whole lot in much under 30hrs, especially on your first run through, unless you were following a guide religiously.

[Plotloss]

A smidge under 60 hours for me, just finished.

WHAT a game...

[ThePassenger]

Plotloss said:

A smidge under 60 hours for me, just finished.

WHAT a game...

Interesting. I wonder if that means by simply playing Zelda from start to finish if the console has, effectively paid for itself. Something like FEAR had between 8 - 10 hours of solid play and cost about £30. So 10x30 = £300. Wii bundles seem to be about the £250 mark (give or take) so yep. The console has just paid for itself

[Plotloss]

66p an hour.

Seems like value to me.

However, compare that with Mario Kart on the Famicom.

£25 for literally thousands and thousands of man hours play time.

Nintendo truly do reign the playability roost.

[ThePassenger]

Plotloss said:

Nintendo truly do reign the playability roost.

Personally, the Wii's only short fall to my mind is that none of the inital batch of games have any form of on-line play. True Zelda is 1 player only (I doubt player 2 would like being Midna or Epona ) but playing Wii sports against people on-line would be a blast

But yes, Nintendo's in house eople have always got the playability aspect right, considering some of the atrocious crud that appears from other publishers... you think they'd take notes.

[Nevin]

Plotloss said:

However, compare that with Mario Kart on the Famicom.

Ahem. Super Famicom surely.