Zelda Melee. Best of the Series!

[Gonnnondorf]

Now, we have several games in this series, most Gems. I want to hear which is your fav and WHY. Please give reasons, I'm very bored right now.

My fav would have to be (yes, going with the most likely second place) Twilight Princess, followed closely by Wind Waker. Twilight wins because it plays so bloody well, and up until the whole final bit, i.e. Zant goes crazy, it has brilliant characters. The Ganondorf thing was a massive cop-out I thought though, and the ending made no sense.

Wind Waker is a close second because of how much fun it is! Not only is it fun on a game play level in the awesomeness, but it's just all round fun in it's execution as a cell shaded Zelda. Blowing stuff up is fun. Killing enemies is fun. Changing the wind stuff is fun. It's all good! Except the whole find the triforce part near the end. At that point they were just milking it for length.

Anyway, your turn! Tell me what you got!

 

[Souplex]

Minish cap, proving once again that zelda should have remained top down forever.

 

[Gonnnondorf]

Minish cap, proving once again that zelda should have remained top down forever.

How does it prove that Zelda should have stayed as the Top view? Do elaborate. : D

 

[Grayl]

A Link to the Past. I've played it through a good ten or so times, and I'm still not bored of it.

I love all the Zelda games (apart from the DS ones...), but I still prefer A Link to the Past. The graphics were gorgeous, the items were awesome, the combat was fun, the puzzles were cool, the boss fights were tough and the last boss was a pain in the back-side (getting knocked off for the millionth time is annoying!).

I did love Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Link's Awakening, but I still prefer the good ol' Snes classic A Link to the Past.

 

[Gonnnondorf]

A Link to the Past. I've played it through a good ten or so times, and I'm still not bored of it.

I love all the Zelda games (apart from the DS ones...), but I still prefer A Link to the Past. The graphics were gorgeous, the items were awesome, the combat was fun, the puzzles were cool, the boss fights were tough and the last boss was a pain in the back-side (getting knocked off for the millionth time is annoying!).

I did love Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Link's Awakening, but I still prefer the good ol' Snes classic A Link to the Past.

Fair enough then. For the top view ones, my fav are the oracle series, closely followed by Links Awakening. I do like a Link to The Past, but it doesn't really hook me in as well as the other. Thanks for giving reasons why you liked it!

 

[Fat Hippo]

Ocarina of Time. Majoras Mask's time mechanic pissed me off, so did the endless sailing in Wind Waker. I haven't played Twilight Princess, so I wouldn't know about that, and I wasn't excatly overwhelmed by the old school Zeldas. Come to think of it, Ocarina of Time is the only one I even really like. Hmmm...

 

[Avatar Roku]

My favorite has to be Wind Waker. It was just so lighthearted, and the gameplay just felt so...solid, I guess. Sailing might have gotten irritating after a while, but you just can't beat that first feeling of speed as you activate the sail while aiming down wind, know what I mean?

My second favorite must be Twilight Princess for two reasons: Midna and it was my first Zelda game (although I've since gone back and played pretty much every one). Honestly, I had no idea that Nintendo was capable of that kind of character development. Although I agree with the whole Zant thing: he was an interesting villain, and I was so pissed when they used Ganondorf's name. There was absolutely no reason to include him, things were fine with Zant. Although I did enjoy Zant's raging insanity at the end.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

A Link to the Past.

Twilight Princess is second cause they made Link left handed, which is just wrong.

 

[Grand_Poohbah]

A Link to the Past.

Twilight Princess is second cause they made Link left handed, which is just wrong.

Wasn't he right handed in twilight princess and left handed in all the rest?

 

[Lothae]

Twilight Princess because it's the only one that I was actually motivated enough to finish >.>

 

[WaffleTron]

A Link to the Past.

Twilight Princess is second cause they made Link left handed, which is just wrong.

Hes always been left handed, the Wii version of twilight princess was mirrored to make him right handed, THAT was blasphemy, Though I enjoyed Twilight Princess on Gamecube, I'm lazy and don't like flailing my arms around like a lunatic, the fact that I'm left handed and thought Link was my Left Handed Messiah had nothing to do with it... at all... >.> <.<. On topic, My favorite always was, and always will be Link to the Past.

 

[DM.]

Minish cap, Seriously I loved that game.

 

[LINKXIII]

I thought windwaker had amazing combat

 

[Space Spoons]

Definitely Wind Waker. After the earthy tones of Ocarina's Hyrule (I try not to think about Majora's Mask), Wind Waker's extremely bright and colorful Great Sea was a welcome departure from tradition. The game was absolutely gorgeous. I'd still take it over Twilight Princess any day of the week.

It was solid gameplay wise, too. All the features that Ocarina had brought to the series, like first-person item use, automatic ledge hopping and enemy targeting, were vastly improved upon, and the new features, like reaction combat commands, were great fun.

Lastly, I gotta mention this; Everyone talks about the sailing being boring. Maybe it gets tedious at the end, but in the beginning, when you're still new and without most items, it's fraught with peril. Giant squids, roving bands of pirates, and of course, that mysterious giant tornado that you can't for the life of you figure out how to avoid. Great fun!

 

[Bagaloo]

Windwaker, followed by Twilight Princess. Ocarina of Time comes in third, as its still a great game even by todays standards.

I'm not a fan of top-down Zelda, never realy could get into a Link to the Past.

*Edit*
Forgot the why. Whoops.
Windwaker first, as it was my first foray into Zelda, and it was awesome. Very colourful, very fun, just an all around great game. My only gripes was the find the triforce section towards the end, which as someone else pointed out was just tedious and unneccesary(sp).

Twilight Princess comes in second as I really enjoyed this game too, Midna was an awesome character, and I quite liked the wolf sections of the game.

Ocarina comes in third, purely because I havn't played that much Zelda, and I just liked the other 2 games I have played more

 

[Rimefrost]

Majora's Mask. I remember playing that game when it first came out and being terrified of that damn moon. I just got it on the Wii store and am playing it through again, still love the game and the darker feel to it.

Links Awakening. The only top-down Zelda game I've ever played. Not sure what it was about it, but I loved that game.

Wind Waker is a good one too.

 

[Mr. Fister]

Nearly every Zelda game is excellent, but my favorite will always be Ocarina of Time. Yes, it's really showing its age at this point, but back then, there truly was nothing else like it. You can't take away the feelings I got from when I first slayed Queen Ghoma, laid eyes upon Hyrule Field, met the frightening Redeads, and became an adult.

Twilight Princess comes in a close second because it's the only game that has come close to making me cry at the end. I never wanted the game to end.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Twilight Princess. Quite simply it does all of the things the Zelda series does better than all the rest of them.

Second place is a dead heat between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. Wind Waker would have taken it if not for the way the game feels artificially stretched out by making you do a bullshit scavenger hunt/grind rupees to pay Tingle so that he could afford his legal fees for the inevitable sexual harassment suit he was facing.