If a game like Zelda 1 was made now by a indie developer, would it still be popular?
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no, because why would they play some half-assed knockoff when they could just play Zelda?
>>725989169Maybe. Make the MC a furry girl and /v/ will lap that shit up.
>>725989169The sheep lass thing seems popular
>>725989169how else do you think Edmund is swinging a $70 Binding of Isaac cartridge on Switch 2
>>725990271thisI'd buy it
>>725989169isn't that what Hyper Light Drifter was
>>725989169It was and it was called Tunic.And it was great.
Are there any good indies that shamelessly rip off the LA/Oracles artstyle?
>>725989169Bluntly, no. Success is, in a lot of ways, down to reading the room. Place and time, and so on. Zelda 1 was right for its time, but if it were released as an indie game today it would probably go unnoticed.
Lenna's Inception was pretty funDunno if it was popular when it came out, but it was playable.
Zelda was garbage what the fuck, why would anyone play that trash when good games like megaman and final fantasy existed?
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>>725990872Void Stranger. But it probably isn't what you're looking for
>>725991187>playing megafag and final faggotry
>>725989169Tunic was insanely popular despite being a mediocre shadow of what LoZ was. I have no doubt that something on par with LoZ would excel.
>>725990872The guys who made Shovel Knight have a game called Mina The Hollower that is coming out soon that is shameless in it's inspiration.
>>725990872Prodigal. Amazing game. Not on par with the Zelda games, but it's still great.
>looking for indie games like X>"dude play [insert indie game by a dev of fluctuating gender] it's just like X">*look inside*>it's a subversion of narrative and a satire of genre tropes and filled with meta humor and 4th wall breaking and is partially an ARG and oh yeah the protag is depressed and transI'm fine with nobody making clones of my favorite old games, because sincerity is all but lost with modern indie devs and nobody makes a game that's just a game anymore.
>>725990872Mina the Hollower by the Shovel Knight guys. It was supposed to release in October but got delayed
>>725991285>>725991258Even if an indie developer was allowed to make a nes game by nintendo back in the day (very unlikely), and they made zelda 1, it would still be shit. Nobody cared about zelda until n64. Sure, you can find nintendo apologists writing in magazines about it, because they were paid to, but everyone knew it really was one of the weaker games on the console.
>>725991674There are four examples of indie games that are good and not "big headed child in a bleak world" subversion for the Zelda genre ITT.You're right in a conversation with morons but this seems to be a genuine conversation answering the OP, stop being a faggot arguing with windmills.
>>725991961>There are four examples of indie games that are goodYeah, but I agree with >>725991674. Sure, there are 4 examples...but that's literally all of them. And most of them aren't actually even that good at being Zelda.
>>725989169>ZeldaOvermarketed slop
>>725989169Zelda 1 does not feel fun to play today. Link has a stick up in his ass and everything is too bland, you just go into samey dungeons and hit the enemies with the sword or bomb walls. And then you get lost because one of the dungeon entrances is too cryptic.
>>725990193I could see it getting big in the 2000's if it were a free flash game. I remember a Mario rip-off that was just mario but you could play as other Nintendo characters.
>>725993989you just go into samey dungeons and hit the enemies with the sword...And then you get lost because one of the dungeon entrances is too cryptic.That's Skyrim you're describing Skyrim
>>725989169Of course no, it was fresh when it came out but also primitive and quite hard, what helped it was being a Nintendo game that didn't suck ass in the 80s.
>>725991643Thanks kind sir I'll check it out.
>>725993989Zelda 1 was always shit. Fucking obnoxious contrarian rats pretending it ever held candle to the likes of castlevania, megaman, super mario, final fantasy, punch out, river city ransom, metroid, kirby's adventure, mr gimmick and more. It had decent music but the graphics were outright garbage, and the gameplay ass.
>>725989169I think your indie game has to be like Death's Door or Tunic level of quality to be popular as a Zelda-like nowadays. Unfortunately that means no 2D unless you already have a prior fanbase like Mina the Hollower did with Shovel KnightShort answer: No
>>725994121>And then you get lost because one of the dungeon entrances is too cryptic.nah that really doesn't sound like Skyrim at all
>>725994328filtered.
>>725994463There was that one long-ass dungeon in the mid campaign
>>725993697Out of the four mention which don't you think do a good job of recapturing the feeling of Zelda?Hell we have four games to actually talk about rather then just blanket and generic "the indie scene is depressed versions of games from my childhood" comments.I can talk Tunic or Hyper Light Drifter all night anon and it'll be a more genuine conversation then whatever a comment like>>725991674is meant to invoke.
>>725994506good bad games is bad use of time
>>725994328It was one of the first mainstream games to have saves, so it was very wide but ultimately shallow.
>>725995051The cart was also GOLD ooooh shiny
>>725990872this, but it's only a demo.
>>725991850>Nobody cared about zelda until n64.Zelda 1 sold nearly as much as OOT and was never a pack-in.
>>725989169No, have you played the first zelda? Its kinda a nothing burger. You run around lost while shit whittles down your health. You literally need a piece of paper to write down shit on the grids or be super fucking autistic. Fact is early NES games weren't that fun.
>>725990872>>725991643That same company makes a bunch of gbc looking stuff. Prodigal/Veritus are the zelda-esque ones
>>725995360You gotta think that the average gamer at the time was an 11 year old whose parents let him game for half an hour after dinner, games weren't expected to be that deep.
>>725994635>Out of the four mention which don't you think do a good job of recapturing the feeling of Zelda?Let me sort that out actually.Of the games mentioned in the thread as a recommendation, we have:>ProdigalThe one I recommended. Does a good job of capturing a narrative-based experience in a village, but leaves something strongly to be desired in the "adventure" department. Never felt like I was on the adventure, but rather living a life in another world. Fun, but not exactly Zelda-esque to me.>TunicCloser on the adventure scale, and really strong on the Zelda 1 feeling of a "wide world with puzzles and secrets," but ultimately went a little too edgy in some aspects, too "Dark Souls" in others (decaying world beyond saving with no relevant story beats that aren't just inferred/made up by the player), and the secrets got very one-note in the back half of the game. Also the art style never just felt very Zelda-like to me.>Binding of IsaacNever played, never had an interest in it. Seemed to me like it was just purely the combat from Z1, and I don't think that gets anywhere near close enough.>Hyper Light DrifterHaven't played or watched any videos of it yet, so I can't comment.>Lenna's InceptionNever heard of, but the trailers seemed very...off to me somehow? Also looked extremely subversive like the other anon was talking about.>Void StrangerHaven't played either, but it seemed more like a Sukobon puzzle game than a proper adventure.>Mina The HollowerNot out yet.>Death's DoorHaven't played, but looked very similar to Tunic.
>>725995470ameritard sales dont countyou are fat consumers and will buy anything
>>725995920>Tunic>edgyTendies are built different
>>725990193Chrono Trigger and FFX exist and people still played Expedition 33
>>725995998>AMERICA AMERICA WHAT ABOUT AMERICA?!kys retard
>>725996050I mean, yeah, it's really edgy to me to take an outwardly normal-looking fantasy world and subvert it by implying that everything magical about it is actually a sci-fi chemical extracted from living creatures and that their entire society and technologically advanced designs is based on this. It just feels really insincere and pointlessly cruel to me for no reason, and Zelda definitely isn't really about that.
