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  • 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.

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #32211  by Tortolia
 Wed Dec 11, 2002 8:54 pm
<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>

 #32214  by SineSwiper
 Wed Dec 11, 2002 9:17 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Nintendo fanboys? What were the other three?</div>
 #32219  by kali o.
 Wed Dec 11, 2002 10:33 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Still, they've all been quality games...so it's looking good I guess...

KO-</div>
 #32222  by Kupek
 Wed Dec 11, 2002 11:18 pm
<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>

 #32225  by SineSwiper
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 12:40 am
<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>

 #32228  by Tortolia
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 1:28 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Everyone's a Nintendo fanboy to you, aren't they?</div>

 #32229  by Tortolia
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 1:29 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Eh...Soul Calibur's my all time favorite fighter...screw Tekken or VF...</div>

 #32231  by Flip
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:33 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>agreed, C:SotN owns all those.</div>

 #32238  by Zeus
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 8:52 am
<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>

 #32239  by Zeus
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 8:53 am
<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>

 #32240  by Zeus
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 8:54 am
<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>

 #32241  by Zeus
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 8:54 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Didn't matter to me. I was getting it, period</div>

 #32249  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 5:25 pm
<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>

 #32252  by Kupek
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 6:54 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Shit, I got nothing against handjobs...</div>

 #32254  by SineSwiper
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:38 pm
<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>

 #32255  by SineSwiper
 Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:42 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Heh...constrast and compare to Soul Edge now :)</div>

 #32257  by ManaMan
 Fri Dec 13, 2002 2:13 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>I can see the first two but Vagrant Story?</div>
 #32260  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Fri Dec 13, 2002 7:35 am
<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>

 #32262  by Kupek
 Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:49 am
<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>

 #32263  by Kupek
 Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:51 am
<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>