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I love the description to that Zelda flash file, copyrighted 2001. "There have been at least eight Zelda games!" "This animator has played through six Zelda games!" I mean, that was a 75% success rate at the time. Say you've played six Zelda games these days and it's all "neat, that's barely even two fifths of all Zelda games".
Sunday, 13-Jul-14 09:18:31 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin But it might still be 75% of one timeline branch.
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@scribus Of the eight games released by 2001, six of them comprise the Defeat Timeline, with the other two being Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
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@thelastgherkin Zelda and Metroid are two of the biggest reasons I fell to the side of video gaming; messy-ass timelines just don't do it for me (unless time travel is explicitly a core aspect of the series (and not just a couple games (or a whole separate timeline, who even knows any more?))).
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@scribus I can't speak for Metroid, but the timeline in Zelda is entirely unimportant. We didn't even know what it was until the Hyrule Historia came out a couple of years ago. A load of interviews are all "we make a fun game mechanic first and then fit the story around later!"
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@scribus Metroid? There is sort plot, it is told through the logs and the life and the connections you can make between the historical records and the notes made about the life you see around you!
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@thelastgherkin Yeah, but I started with the first one, and there was an attempt at continuity and stuff, and when they let loose it really threw me.
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@scribus The first one had a continuity? :S
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@thelastgherkin I thought a lot of it was already more-or-less confirmed and/or unanimously accepted as canon by fans, but then Hyrule Historia cleared up some minor details and basically stuck a big "it's official" stamp on the rest of it.
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@bitshift That's the opposite of true. Every fan timeline was disproven when the Hyrule Historia said "hey you guys, Ocarina of Time actually splits into three timelines instead of two".
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@thelastgherkin Huh, okay.
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@thelastgherkin THREE?! Holy jumpjacking jesus that is a lot!
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@metaltao Yeah, now there's the Adult branch where Link is sent back to his childhood and Ganon is sealed away, the Child branch where Link convinces Zelda to get Ganondorf executed and then buggers off to Termina, and the Defeat timeline, where Ocarina of Time Link just up and dies.
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