@rasterman @ChristiJunior OOT (and the rest of the Zelda series) will be total dogshit once you get into the Ys series. Stop listening to these Nintendo peasants.
@xianc78 @rasterman @ChristiJunior I've never played Ys but isn't it an action rpg? That's a different genre, you can't really compare the two. Zelda is action adventure and, at least looking at the gameplay for Ys IX, Zelda is a lot slower and more deliberate with its combat and exploration. I've been interested in playing them for a while though, even downloaded one at some point but just never got around to it. Something about JRPGs just doesn't hook me a whole lot.
@beardalaxy @rasterman @ChristiJunior I know they are two separate genres but they are similar enough. I think Zelda fans would really like Ys, especially the later games.
To me, action-adventures, action RPGs, and metroidvanias are compatible with each other. If you like one genre you would like the other ones as well.
@xianc78 @rasterman @ChristiJunior I mean, I wouldn't say that F-zero is a vastly superior game to trackmania and that anyone who likes the latter will probably like the former even more, and those games are a lot closer in genre than zelda and Ys. They share similarities, but ultimately you'll have tons of people who prefer one style of gameplay over the other or even just like them for different reasons.
I think the games zelda is most comparable to outside of the action adventure genre are like, 3d platformers that feature combat. Even then though, those games are all level based instead of having a big, dynamic world for the player to explore pretty much freely.
@beardalaxy @rasterman @ChristiJunior If you play any of the Ys games, especially the later ones, you quickly learn that it's just basically Zelda with experience points (basically the only thing that keeps Zelda from being considered a true RPG). Ys puts an emphasis on exploration just like Zelda, but has the experience points and leveling up that you expect in an action-RPG.
Also, believe it or not, Zelda and Ys were basically rival franchises for a brief time. Though, it wasn't as big as OOT vs FFVII. It was only briefly during the 1980s in Japan. Ys was scene as the PC gamer's equivalent to Zelda and vice versa. Ys III even tried to copy Zelda II by being a side-scroller.
>I think the games zelda is most comparable to outside of the action adventure genre are like, 3d platformers that feature combat.
Yeah, I can see that. I like to think Zelda influenced the non-linearity in 3D games like Super Mario 64. But then again, I think Zelda had an influence on non-linear action games period: action-adventures, action-RPGs, Metroidvanias, platform adventures, sandbox games, etc. Pretty much all of them have openly admitted to having some influence to Zelda, whether directly or indirectly.