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    Well in theory an endurance map/mode adds infinite gameplay time to the game...
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    It's not releasing until Nov 18 on PC. I was hoping to get it done before Halo: Anniversary, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and Zelda: Skyward Sword all come out. Guess that's not happening...
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    I would be in agreement with you, but I got Arkham Asylum for $1 in one of those GFWL sales, so that makes me more willing to pay more for the sequel since my total investment in the series is still pretty low. Buying AA for $1 and AC for $35 (through that Green Man Gaming deal) averages out to $18/game, and I'm happy with that.
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    I've always thought the Links and Zeldas are different incarnations of the same person. So the Link and Zelda in TP or WW aren't really the same people as from OoT, but they are the reincarnations of those people. They're not the same "person" but they're the same metaphysical being (soul, spirit, whatever). *Edit* - But my understanding is that Ganon is always the same actual person, that he never really dies, at most he gets reduced to a near powerless spirit, kind of like Sauron or Voldemort. *Edit Edit* - Seriously Chrome, you recognize "Voldemort" as being a word, but not "Sauron"?
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    FUCK! Lost a long-ass post... Summarized version: I don't 100% ascribe to it either, but for pure entertainment things like Zelda I'll go with whatever interpretation I like best and makes the most sense to me. So I might interpret little hints at connections between games either as easter eggs or that the games are thematically related without necessarily being one continuity. Bigger things like the backstories to TP and WW I interpret as meaning those are in the same continuity as OoT (or the split continuity, anyway), but small inconsistencies go to the "legend" idea that the story has evolved over time and may not be 100% consistent. To me the only thing that's "canon" is what's actually contained within the work, and just because a creator interprets/intends it a certain way doesn't mean that that's the only valid interpretation. Not to say that creator intent can't be interesting or meaningful, it's just not dispositive.
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    I included Twilight Princess in the super arc, and I'm not familiar enough with LttP to speculate there. However, I will say I follow the death of the author theory, and so regardless of what Word of God is, if I have an interpretation that I like better or makes more sense to me I'll go with that.
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    How does this work? As you can see in my post above I find what I consider pretty clear evidence within the games themselves that the arcs are connected. Wind Waker is probably the most "in your face" about it out of all of them. I would consider Wind Waker to be part of the Ocarina of Time super-arc that also includes Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks (and apparently Skyward Sword, though we'll see for sure when that game comes out). *Edit* - Honestly it seems to me that they really only started trying to develop a cohesive overarching timeline around the development of Wind Waker, building off of Ocarina of Time, and so any ways that the older titles fit in are more shoehorn ret-cons than anything that was ever intended when they were made.
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    Man, if I were a math teacher I would totally have problems like that, just because it would be more interesting for the kids so they'd be more likely to learn it.
  9. TheMightyEthan
    I think the Zelda series would be better described as a collection of arcs, and while games within an arc are related the arcs don't really bear any relationship to each other.
  10. TheMightyEthan
    Disjointed sounds like a fair descriptor to me. As crappy as it was I liked Leonardo's glider. The rest pretty much sucked though.
  11. TheMightyEthan
    I have a fairly detailed plan worked out for the event of a zombocalypse. That doesn't mean I think it will really happen.
  12. TheMightyEthan
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: They just couldn't give you the satisfaction...
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    Yeah, everyone except the biased journalists seems to understand that the fact that a thought occurs to you doesn't mean that you would actually do it or don't understand the difference between reality and games. I'm with Tenshi though, reality sucks, fantasy is much better.
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    Yeah, I mostly ignored the full-sync things, because they're pretty stupid.
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    While I agree that it's lame, it's kind of theoretical for me for 2 reasons: 1) I almost never buy used games unless they're really old, and 2) I've been playing PC games so long where the whole game is always locked by a code that I'm used to it anyway
  17. TheMightyEthan
    Moved all the discussion of the Zelda timeline to its own thread.
  18. TheMightyEthan
    Well it's definitely a UK website, but I preordered Arkham City on there with no problem. It's just that some games they have licenses for other countries and some they don't. AC:R just turns out to be one they don't have a license to sell in the US.
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    See, I loved Brotherhood. I am getting a little sick of Ezio though.
  20. TheMightyEthan
    Assassin's Creed Revelations PC version preorder is 20% off on Green Man Gaming. Then you can get ANOTHER 20% off by using the promo-code AUTUM-NSALE-20PEC if you order it before the end of the week. Might be UK only, all I can say for sure is it doesn't work in the US (most of the site does, just that game specifically doesn't).
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    I went ahead and switched my preorder to PC from PS3.
  22. TheMightyEthan
    Yeah, I saw those reports. Hmmm.... Decisions, decisions.
  23. TheMightyEthan
    Does anyone know if the PC version of Revelations is going to require the always-on DRM that AC2 and Brotherhood had at first? I'd like to get it on PC, but not with that shit.
  24. TheMightyEthan
    Yeah, these PC delays are lame.
  25. TheMightyEthan

    Got the marriage license!

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    2. Thorgi Duke of Frisbee

      Thorgi Duke of Frisbee

      Congrats!

    3. TheFlyingGerbil

      TheFlyingGerbil

      Hope nothing dramatic comes up during the banns! Congratulations :)

    4. madbassman39

      madbassman39

      muchos gracias!

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