Joke Joystiq Zelda article

At least I assume it's a joke. It's a preview of Zelda on joystiq. The author basically says the game sucks because it's entirely brown (apparantly) and

[quote]In the latest Zelda, the game's designers have been forced to sabotage game play to atone for the console's graphical shortcomings. Example: roadside signs are illegible. In Zelda, merely reading signs becomes laborious and annoying. You must first walk up to the sign. You must then press the controller's "a" button. When you do this, the game zooms in on the sign (taking a moment to do this). The game then shows you the text of the sign. Finally, having read the sign, you must hit another button to zoom away from the sign and regain control of your character.

Nintendo is doomed etc.

[URL="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/11/nintendos-new-zelda-falls-flat/"]http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/11/nintendos-new-zelda-falls-flat/[/URL]

Wait, so gameplay is bad beacuse you have to press a button to read a sign? get out of here.

Besides I thought brown=good graphics. Worked for Gears and Call of Duty. Splinter Cell and Metal Gear too. Brown is the true next gen!

They haven't said a damn thing about MGS4 or Resistance. Apparantly it's not a joke, though.

I just read this at IGN. THis must be a joke, his complaining abotu the sign is rediculous!

"In the latest Zelda, the game's designers have been forced to sabotage game play to atone for the console's graphical shortcomings. Example: roadside signs are illegible. In Zelda, merely reading signs becomes laborious and annoying. You must first walk up to the sign. You must then press the controller's "a" button. When you do this, the game zooms in on the sign (taking a moment to do this). The game then shows you the text of the sign. Finally, having read the sign, you must hit another button to zoom away from the sign and regain control of your character. If your character were blind and had to read via Braille, then bumping into signs and fumbling a button would be appropriate. But such a kludgey mechanism merely rankles here, because most modern games have legible signposts. "
OH NOZ! TEH PRES A

"Thanks to the indistinct graphics, it's actually impossible to tell how much of your bobber is underwater, making it more difficult to know when to set the hook in order to reel in a fish. " I honestly don't know HOW that has anything to do wiht graphics, seeing as they graphics are amazing there, and they would't affect that ****.

Oh yeh, Fall of Man. I remember a much older post on Joystiq about how brown was the new colour for video games. It was quite the chuckle.

While I do agree that the graphics are a bit dissapointing (especially considering the recent news that MP3 is getting a complete makeover and will look MUCH better upon it's release) complaining about not being able to read the signs is retarded.

I don't see how MP3 getting better graphics is relevent. MP3 is a Wii game from the beginning, Zelda isn't. Zelda is essentially a Gamecube game with Wii controls (and a bit of Wii fillrate), and it's easily in the top 5 best looking GC games.

There's plenty of color in Call of Duty 3 and Gears. :/

Nintendo spent at least 1/3 of Zelda's total development putting in Wii controls, they weren't just "slapped on".

The game couldn't have looked better because it was in development for Gamecube.
If they didn't make decision to put it on Wii too, the graphics wouldn't have been any better. There's no way they'd decide to do a Wii version and spend most of their extra time making the graphics better and ignore the Wii controller entirely.

People don't really consider what's possible and what isn't when they complain about not having everything.

Obviously a retard or a failed joke. The main body was sign's and the color brown.

Even if you could read sign's from a-far it wouldnt matter. You know wny? Because they're not in english.

IN THIS DUDE'S OPINION, immersion in gameplay should be of utmost importance. He said that it felt outdated having to do that when in Oblivion you did not have to. He wasn't writing a review, just some of the things that didn't fly well for him during gameplay. If he likes immersion and wasn't immersed, I guess he felt like players like him should probably know about it.

Nobody should have to say that.

...Or this guy sucks at jokes.

[quote=nich]Sure seems like they were, since the controls aren't even very good from what I've read.

Then stop reading 1up.

It's true. Enough people were already ****ed off about it being delayed a year. Imagine what would happen if there was another delay? Nothing good could come out of that for Nintendo.

You think after so many years Nintendo could come up with an advanced, more sophisticated sign-reading system. Gosh, so unorignial. I no longer plan on getting Twilight Princess, or a Wii for that matter! >:(

It's encouraging to know this is the only thing he could think to complain about.