The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Famitsu gave the new Zelda game a 40 of 40. Only the 4th time they've ever ranked a game perfect...draw your own conclusions.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Nintendo fanboys? What were the other three?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.gamers.com/news/1281307/">ht ... 281307/</a>

It really sounds like you have this grudge against Nintendo, and I don't know why.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Still, they've all been quality games...so it's looking good I guess...

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I'm going to throw out immediately that it means a "perfect game" because such a thing an asbract notion which is impossible to achieve. What I'd settle on is "the best the industry has to offer." Ocarina of Time, maybe. I never played it all the way through. The other two, I never played.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I could definately think of better games, like C:SotN. Soul Caliber is a nice fighter and all, but I'd rather be playing Tekken 4 or VF4.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Everyone's a Nintendo fanboy to you, aren't they?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Eh...Soul Calibur's my all time favorite fighter...screw Tekken or VF...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>agreed, C:SotN owns all those.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think Ocarina and Soul Calibur were as good as you could have possibly expected games to be in those genres at that time, so if any games deserved perfect, they did. Never played Vagrant</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No perfect game has ever existed, but "as good as can be expected" or "better than we thought possible" is a good substitute for "perfect"</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Fully agreed. SC was so damned good that they hardly made any changed for Soul Calibur 2, there wasn't much they could do other than add new characters, change some moves, improved graphics (only slightly) and new modes</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Didn't matter to me. I was getting it, period</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Sine, by the power invested in me I hereby strip you of the ability to use the label "fanboy". Symphony of the Night was a solid game but it was a handjob by Konami to fans of the genre. Soul Caliber was a triumph, its appeal is universal.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Shit, I got nothing against handjobs...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>One, it was not a handjob, but a full fucking by a beautiful woman, which is why it is a perfect game. Two, SC is great for single player action, but it's two player falls apart with a lack of balance.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Heh...constrast and compare to Soul Edge now :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>I can see the first two but Vagrant Story?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>* name that quote and I'll give you a prize.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>* Like ManaMan, I've got no idea how Vagrant Story got in there. It's another angry redhead in my eyes :).

** Note that minor graphical issues aside I love SotN. I just don't consider it one of those transcendantly awe-inspiring games, like Gran Turismo or Soul Calib[e|u]r or Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time or...</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I dunno about that reasoning... because if it had come out a few years prior, it would have been the norm.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Awe inspiring, no, but I had a lot of fun with it. (And more than your analogies allow.)</div>