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[Paladin0707077]

Still, Nintendo has Zelda, Mario, Kirby, Metriod, and all the other series. Plus, they'll be starting more new series on Rev.

Yeah, it has all that, but unfortunately, that's about it right now (that and Pokemon *shudder), and they're starting to get a little tired. It's easy to over-do a series when that's all you rely on to carry your system. And what if the unthinkable happens and those series have a flop? Then the whole platform would be sunk.
As for new series, I know they'll have them. Same as Sony and Microsoft will. They have to have something else.
What I've heard from them does sound promising, though, if they can deliver.

[Corsair5]

They haven't made a very good zelda game since Ocarina of Time. And that one pales in comparison to A Link to the Past. Metroid Prime was cool, though. But Mario series has been effectively dead ever since they stopped making them platformers.

And what the heck is with Mario Golf?

I've never played any Kirby games. Never had a method to do so.

Have any of you even read up on Oblivion? Just to make you salivate, here you go.

 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Now if you can go to the screenshots page and say those aren't the most impressive graphics you've ever seen, well, I may have a fit and go on a stabbity rampage.  

[Jafar]

They haven't made a very good zelda game since Ocarina of Time.

Hey, what are the Oracle games and MM, chopped liver? I haven't played much of WW, but it was a good game from what I've played.

Mario series has been effectively dead ever since they stopped making them platformers.

I wouldn't say dead. Sure, he's mostly appearing in spinoffs and sports games, (Which I admit, I think they're overdoing a little) but there have been real games out (Paper Mario 2) and there's a new platformer coming out on DS.

Now if you can go to the screenshots page and say those aren't the most impressive graphics you've ever seen, well, I may have a fit and go on a stabbity rampage.

Not to send you on a rampage, but I've seen better.  

[Corsair5]

Activate emergency temper control sequence.

Where. I want to see these graphics that supposedly put Oblivion away.

[Jafar]

Have you seen the next Zelda game?

[will729]

the unreal 3 engine has more impressive graphics......

[Jafar]

Well, it takes alot more to get me excited about a game then graphics. I mean, I still play games from the NES!  

[Jigen]

Ah the old NES Le Classique

Now he's a question, how many people here are actually OLDER then the NES?    

[Corsair5]

Hey, you gotta post a link to screenshots. Until then, Oblivion has the best graphics on the market.

And it's not another mind-numbing FPS that people have made too many of! Radiant AI for the uberwin!

[lazygamer]

Oblivion certainly does have amazing graphics, but awesome AI? I don't put any faith in game previews. There is such a thing as a mind numbing RPG too.

@Jigen: I got the NES beat by a year.

[Corsair5]

Did you ever play Morrowind? Well, each of the Elder Scrolls games have consistently won awards. For example, Morrowind, the most recent, was, I believe, Game of the Year. Bethesda never failed me before.

[will729]

here are some screenshots and here's a tech demo movie and this is an actual game using it. i will give credit to the new elder scroll game though, they have patrick stewart giving the monologue for the trailer O_O

[Corsair5]

Not bad. Really good, in fact. But not the same style as Oblivion, and I think Oblivion's is better.

[Paladin0707077]

So then you admit that it's simply personal opinion, as opposed to better tech, which is keeping you from saying that Unreal Engine 3 beats Oblivian.

I like the new Zeldas. I do. But it seems like they're starting to run together. The story seems to be getting pretty tired: get the Triforce from Gannon and save Princess Zelda. Wow, like we haven't done that a billion times before. EVen the whole Light World/Dark World thing is starting to lose its appeal to me.
That's why I like Majora's Mask so much. None of that is there, which makes the story come alive. And they still have that Zelda feel to the game in general. I want to see more Zeldas that do that, forget the triforce and Ganon, and concentrate on new adventures.

I'm 3 years older then that system. And I wouldn't have survived without it. I still have mine and play it.

[Corsair5]

I'll be honest with you. Unreal 3's graphics are incredible. But I think Oblivions are just as good. Maybe it's because I can actually tell what I'm looking at, rather than a confused pile of corpses and rubber hoses.