Current Events > It's impressive how badly A Link to the Past aged.

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Literally suck my butt.

wait now we cant say that other 2D Zeldas were better?

wait now we cant say that other 2D Zeldas were better?

aged impressively badly and other 2D Zeldas were better are wildly different statements, especially in tone. You know what you did.

LTTP is the most overrated Zelda game besides TOTK, but saying its aged is ridiculous. It doesn't really have any jank in it.

I find it really hard to believe you think Minish Cap is better in good faith. I mean maybe you do, but that's quite the take.

Literally suck my butt.

Literally suck my butt.

I need to try that game again. I remember I played it for a bit like a decade ago now probably but I got to a boss in one of the dungeons (I wanna say it was Moth-something?) that made me rage quit hard and I never revisited it lmao.

I find it really hard to believe you think Minish Cap is better in good faith. I mean maybe you do, but that's quite the take

Mothula yeah, kinda nasty boss if just for the room you fight it in.

There's a reason ALttP randomizers are so popular, and MUCH more popular than any other 2D Zelda randomizer. The game is so solidly built that the simple act of a randomizer makes it feel fresh and fun, no matter how many times you've beaten it.

It doesn't really speak to the quality of the games, or how they're built inherently.

I think it does, because, when it comes to randomizers, they're all equally obtainable, yet a vast majority of people choose ALttP, when they could choose any of them just as easily. I feel like that says SOMETHING, atleast. Whether that's "People enjoy playing ALttP," or "People enjoy watching ALttP," whatever... It seems people favor ALttP, for one reason or another, that has nothing to do with sales or any other verifiable metric that specifically ISN'T quality.

I mean I'd just chalk it up to LttP being the most popular, so it's what people know, so it's what people want to randomize/develop randomizers for. There's also a huge overlap between randomizer communities and speedrunning communities, and LttP is a popular speed game.

It's the same deal with Super Metroid. Super and Prime sit at the top of the Metroid totem pole in terms of popularity, and they also have the most extensive randomizer communities. But I wouldn't use that as evidence to say that Super and Prime are technically superior to Dread and Prime 2.

The games people played the most will always get the most attention. It's not any deeper than that

Nobody is arguing they're literally "technically superior," you appear to be the one who brought that argument up.

The game is so solidly built that the simple act of a randomizer makes it feel fresh and fun, no matter how many times you've beaten it.

The only "aged" part of lttp is no diagonal movement. Everything else about it is still top tier.

Maybe I just misunderstood this then? To me that's saying there's an inherent higher quality to LttP, which draws more people to want to randomize it. Like the other 2D Zelda games aren't built as well, which just...isnt inherently true. Rather than the fact that LttP just sold more, so more people played it

It kinda does. The movement feels floaty, the menu feels "aged", dugeon map screen is not very navigable, and the dungeon design itself feels very unstructured with rather bland puzzles (I forgive bc its the first time Nintendo did dungeons in a now recognizable form)

There's a reason LttP mods that cut out all the story are so popular >_>

I'm not saying there's an inherent higher quality, just that LttP obviously has a consistent "good" quality, and that's why so many people love it, even countless years later. I was trying to refute TC, who is attempting to say LttP "aged poorly." I wasn't trying to insult other 2D Zeldas. I apologize if that was unclear. I may have worded it wrong, that's on me.

I watched a let's play of this game once, I think it has diagonal movement.