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#61 MikePetersSucks

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Posted 21 August 2009 - 11:20 AM

I don't believe in the split-timeline theory. I don't know about any of you, but I am a person who likes to follow the story as I play the game. So, if there were a split timeline, then if one set of stories is to happen, that would mean that another set of stories never happen in the storyline. Why follow a story if it is never to happen. I say there can be a single timeline without conflict, in fact, less conflict than there is with a split timeline.


I highly advise you never read DC or Marvel comics, then.

The timeline I have made is far more detailed than the one in my signature. I have made a year system and I have explained what happens between each story, which also ties the stories together.


If you have to "fill in gaps", it's probably not that good of a timeline.

(A new hero is born every 100 years.)


Have a source for this, or is it just an arbitrary idea of yours? If the latter, you can't use it as evidence in a timeline.

OT:MM:WW:PH:TP:OS:OA:LP:LA:MC:LZ:AL:FS:FSA--ST?


I'm sure you're atleast aware of the potential problems of this timeline.

Appearently:

MM:WW:PH:MC:FS:FSA:OA
OT<
TP:LP:LZ:AL:LA:OS

...ghey.


LOL, if you honestly think this is the standard split timeline, I...I'm sorry, but I can't take you seriously, then, Sir.

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Posted 21 August 2009 - 12:16 PM

I highly advise you never read DC or Marvel comics, then.

You mean you highly assume that I've never read American comics; because advise is to direct someone toward doing something that would benefit that person. It would make more sense if you had said "I advise that you read DC or Marvel comic books." Yes...

Have a source for this, or is it just an arbitrary idea of yours? If the latter, you can't use it as evidence in a timeline.

Yes; I will seek the source because I am sure it was in one of the older Zelda games. I apologize for my vague comment on that.

If you have to "fill in gaps", it's probably not that good of a timeline.

I don't fill in gaps with non-related information I use what is in the storyline of each game (including the instruction booklets).

I'm sure you're atleast aware of the potential problems of this timeline.

Find a problem in my timeline and present it to me, then.

LOL, if you honestly think this is the standard split timeline, I...I'm sorry, but I can't take you seriously, then, Sir.

My split timeline was based on the comments that Miyamoto and Aonuma have said. Although, I have revised this:

TP:MC:FSA:FS:OA
OT<
MM:WW:PH:LA:BS:LP:LZ:AL:OS
>End (The Oracle endings are linked together)

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Posted 21 August 2009 - 12:16 PM

I will update my signature.

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 04:17 PM

You mean you highly assume that I've never read American comics; because advise is to direct someone toward doing something that would benefit that person. It would make more sense if you had said "I advise that you read DC or Marvel comic books." Yes...


Don't lecture me on semantics, it's not relevant and it's a failed attempt at looking smart. My point is that your argument basically states that the split timeline is true because it divides the story, but I can find you thousands of popular comic books, video games, movies, and literature involving a split in the timeline. Infact, the theory has some merit in real world physics.

Basically, instead of using evidence against the theory to try and disprove it, and making a solid argument on whythis event can't exist in the timeline, given that the purpose of timeline theorizing is to find the timeline that the creators may have intended, you're instead throwing out ideas purely because you don't like them, truth be damned.

Yes; I will seek the source because I am sure it was in one of the older Zelda games. I apologize for my vague comment on that.


I really look forward to you finding this source. Because, well, the statement doesn't exist.

I don't fill in gaps with non-related information I use what is in the storyline of each game (including the instruction booklets).


Really? Then explain how you put TP after PH when TP is said to be nigh a direct sequel to OOT? Go on. Try and justify it, using only stuff in the games and instruction manuals. No speculation allowed.

Find a problem in my timeline and present it to me, then.


After PH, how does Hyrule magically revive for TP, and people reference OOT with more coherent information than the people of TWW had? How come no one remembers a flood that destroyed their country? How come artifacts like the Mirror of Twilight had apparently been preserved perfectly when Hyrule and all it's artifacts were washed away and lost? How do the Oracles Games come after TP, when Oracles requires the Triforce to be kept in a palace, even though the Triforce of Power TP Ganondorf possessed vanished, instead of manifesting for Link and Zelda to claim?

After that, when you get to LTTP, how do you get the Triforce from a palace to being in the Sacred Realm where it apparently hadn't been disturbed for as long as anyone can possibly remember? Furthermore, back to OOT, how come Twinrova is trying to revive an incarnation of Ganon that, as far as your timeline is concerned, never existed before?

Why do you place MC after LP instead of LA, even though LA is a direct sequel to LTTP, even referencing LTTP's events in the game manual and game prologue? Why do you place LZ and AL inbetween MC and FS? How did the Triforce magically vanish from the country for the events of MC only to appear up in LZ? Yea, sure, you can use the Triforce of Courage/Sleeping Zelda story, but that doesn't explain why the Royal Family of LZ doesn't have the Triforce of Wisdom and Power, even though by all logic they should and must?


It's a trainwreck.

Alright, you revised your split timeline, so I'll look at that.

WW:PH:LA:MC:FS:FSA
OT<
MM:TP:OS:OA:BS:LP:LZ:AL


Let's start with the WW branch. Why does LA come after PH? Because they both have oceans? LA Link is on a different boat and is traveling with no companions, and his journey is to find enlightenment and new adventures, instead of a new land. Where the hell is Tetra and the priates? Why does Link look so tremendously different? How come he mistakes Marin for Zelda when he should be calling out Tetra's name? Nevermind that Marin and and any seabound Zelda look nothing alike. And what about LA Link having set sail "after saving Hyrule and putting the people at rest about Ganon"? If I recall, Link didn't save Hyrule, he ultimately destroyed it, and the people of the oceans never even learned about Ganon. And then of course we have a new Hyrule magically appearing out of thin air somehow.

TP and onwards. Again, why does OOX come after TP? We have the same problems here. Same with OOX to LP. You have a lot of explaining to do, sir.

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 10:21 PM

He's advising you to NOT read Marvel or DC, because they have inconsistent continuities and alternate universes and stuff like that all over the place. If it bothers you with Zelda, you'd absolutely hate trying to follow any given superhero's storyline.

Also, a bit of advice: If your timeline is merely for personal use/enjoyment, I would strongly suggest not bothering to argue it here. I did the same thing a few weeks ago, and it just doesn't work, for a few reasons. The most important reason is the canonicity of creator quotes, something I don't personally hold to, but the majority does. This being the case, a timeline split is damn near universally considered confirmed canon. If you like to fanfic to make the pieces fit in your timeline (which I don't hold against you; I do the same thing), this isn't the place to do that. And from what I've seen, your timeline requires no small amount of that. Again, I don't think anybody would begrudge you this, but don't expect to change the minds of anybody who holds strictly to established canon. The approaches are just too different to jive.

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Posted 23 August 2009 - 05:04 AM

Thank you, MikepetersSucks for pointing out those flaws in my single timeline. I will have a good look at what I have overlooked. I do apologize for bringing my, still, incomplete project into the public, but it was for the best for said project. All else considering, yes I do acknowledge the split timeline to be canon and I admit that I still have work to do on that theory because I know that Miyamoto nor Aonuma have released their "huge document" concerning the timeline and that it won't be official until they do. However, I still hold my theory that as long Zelda games are made, the timeline will never be completed and that it will change drastically in about 10 years; give or take. The same that it has been for the last 10 or so years. That being said, I will keep my work going along as usual, waiting for the next game to come out. After all, it may only be rumored as of yet though it seems likely anyway, the creators are said to be hard at work making the next game after Spirit Tracks. From a weeks ago on out, I will have two theories, a split and a single timeline; though the split-canon theory is confirmed to the majority. Also, yes I will acknowledge the problems you have pointed out to my split theory as well. I will admit, it has been awhile since I have played the older games or read their respective booklets and I will dig those out (the booklets), as well as look up the japanese transcripts, and will make some educated changes to both timelines.

Also, yes, I too look forward to finding said quote.

I really look forward to you finding this source. Because, well, the statement doesn't exist.



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Posted 23 August 2009 - 02:42 PM

Thank you, lshsic (can I call you that?) for not responding with a huge fuss. Honestly, it's refreshing to not have a blowing up flame war.

OT:MM:TW:HF:MH:TP:BS:TG:DI:HF:AL:MFTCE:MFTCTS:FS:FS+--WE?


I don't think I get some of these acronyms. HF? MH? TG? DI? HF? MFTCE? MFTCTS?

Appearently:

-----MM:WE:TP:BS:TG:DI:MFTCE:MFTCST:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW:HF:MH:FS:FS+

...ghey.

-------------------------MH:FS:FS+:WE
-------MM:TP:OS:OA<
-------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-------TW:HF

,,,haha.


I don't get it, you're entertaining two split timeline theories?

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Posted 23 August 2009 - 03:38 PM

HF? MH? TG? DI? HF? MFTCE? MFTCTS?


Hm, I'd guess
HF=Hyrule Fantasy (aka LoZ)
MH = Mysterious Hat (aka Minish Cap)
TG=Triforce of the Gods (aka ALttP)
DI = Dreaming Island (aka Link's Awakening)
MFTCE = Mysterious Fruit of the Tree Chapter of Earth (aka Oracle of Seasons)
MFTCTS = Mysterious Fruit of the Tree Chapter of Time and Space (aka Oracle of Ages)


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Posted 23 August 2009 - 03:44 PM

はい。正しい。日本の題名。

Yes. Correct. The Japanese titles.

You also forgot Hourglass of Fantasy and Whistle of the Earth. Which are Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks respectively.

Edited by リンクの獰猛な神, 23 August 2009 - 04:18 PM.


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Posted 23 August 2009 - 04:17 PM

Thank you, lshsic (can I call you that?) for not responding with a huge fuss.

You're welcome. Since you have much more experience at the language than all of us, I can see why it could be like that now.

I don't get it, you're entertaining two split timeline theories?

Haha, yeah; the point to it was that it might as well be that many since only one set of stories can happen after OT.

I can see how the creators would do this, though.

First:
BS:TG:DI:HF:AL

Second:
OT:BS:TG:DI:HF:AL

Third:
OT:MM:BS:TG:DI:HF:AL

Fourth:
-----MM:MFTCE:MFTCTS
OT<
-----BS:TG:DI:HF:AL

Fifth:
-----------------------------FS
-----MM:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
-----------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----??

Sixth:
-----------------------------FS
-----MM:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
-----------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW

Seventh:
-----------------------------FS:FS+
-----MM:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
-----------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW

Eighth:
-----------------------------MH:FS:FS+
-----MM:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
-----------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW

Ninth:
---------------------------------MH:FS:FS+
-----MM:TP:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
---------------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW

Tenth:
---------------------------------MH:FS:FS+
-----MM:TP:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
---------------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW:HF

They did say that they didn't want to just contunue the story, they wanted to jump around the timeline and add new adventures to and after previous quests.

So you see, this split timeline is just as logical as the single-split timeline theory.

Also, I put another split after MFTCTS because little attention and discussion has been done about the MFT games. So I figure, since the Chapter of Time and Space deals with traveling through time, I could say that Link returned to his original time but behind another tangent.

So, this must be my *ghey* split timeline. *sighhhh*

The Legend of Zelda series just doesn't seem as much fun anymore knowing that some stories don't even happen in the legend in each tangent.

Edited by リンクの獰猛な神, 24 August 2009 - 02:10 PM.


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Posted 24 August 2009 - 12:57 PM

Yes. Correct. The Japanese titles.

You also forgot Hourglass of Fantasy and Whistle of the Earth. Which are Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks respectively.


Despite my Japanese language skills, I only played the games in English, and I'm too used to referring to them by the English names, as I'm sure most people are. It's going to be hard for me to remember both.

Tenth:
---------------------------------MH:FS:FS+
-----MM:TP:MFTCE:MFTCTS<
---------------------------------BS:TG:DI:HF:AL
OT<
-----TW:HF


Clearing this up so it's easier for me to read:

---------------------------------MC:FS:FSA
-----MM:TP:OOX<
---------------------------------BS:LTTP:LA:LoZ:AoL
OOT<
-----TW:PH

What? Why does OOX cause a timeline split? It doesn't meet the very special circumstances OOT required for a split timeline to be created.

So you see, this split timeline is just as logical as the single-split timeline theory.


No it's not.

Also, I put another split after MFTCTS because little attention and discussion has been done about the MFT games. So I figure, since the Chapter of Time and Space deals with traveling through time, I could say that Link didn't return to his original time correctly, leaving behind another tangent.


But it doesn't work like that. You can't just say he couldn't return to his original time correctly, because he did over and over. At the end, Link restores the timeline and resumes his normal life. Time Travel here is different in OOT because there's no temporal inertia. When Link makes a change, it changes immediately in the present and everyone seems to remember it, with comments like "Was that tower always there? It just sort of appeared." This form of time travel isn't conductive to a split because it's not really following a linear course of temporal events.

The Legend of Zelda series just doesn't seem as much fun anymore knowing that some stories don't even happen in the legend in each tangent.


Oh give me a goddamn break. I remember back in the 90's when the majority opinion was that all of the games were just retellings of the same, singular legend, and that there was no timeline. Single Timeline theorists who try to use the "omg split timeline ruins teh elegance" are just spoiled, imo. Atleast you live in an era where we know for a fact that the games go in a timeline and have sequels to each other, and that there's more than one goddamn Link.

Kids these days.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 01:38 PM

Oracle of Ages/Seasons and Oracle of Seasons/Ages are clearly two parallel universes. Suffice to say, there are three timelines altogether.

On an even less serious note than that, while the Adult Timeline would have two timelines because of that, then Majora's Mask would have created dozens of different timelines in the Child Timeline, with all but one of them ending with the Moon destroying Termina. I remember when I used to make fun of the Split Timeline way back when.

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Thank goodness for the validity of the triangular timeline.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 02:23 PM

With a single timeline, I still believed in several Links. It isn't all that much fun because it wasn't the elegance that was ruined, it was the chronology. Now that there is a split, many of the stories never happen, which defeats the purpose of experiencing a game.

I am well aware that the timeline was restored, but he was still traveling through time (and space). What I am saying is when he fixed the timeline and went from one time to the original, that time he left behind is a tangent. You can't disprove me on that because there is such little discussion about it by Aonuma and Miyamoto because people never care about the games. The interviewers never ask them questions about it.

Kids these days.

Well what kind of full grown adult sits on his ass bothering teenagers and kids about a game for teenagers and kids on a forum, anyway? Don't you have better things to do with your life? We all have our theories, we are young; and another thing, everyone has a different theory, why do you have to go around attacking people with opinions/theories that are different than your own. That doesn't make you right, that makes you an immature, self centered asshole. You're no different than those self-contradicting, in-denial christians running around in America today. You can have your own opinion/belief about Zelda, but don't force them on us who have different opinions/beliefs about it.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 02:44 PM

Now that there is a split, many of the stories never happen, which defeats the purpose of experiencing a game.


Sorry if this comes across as rude but... none of them happened. It's fiction.

Anyway, who cares if the events of WW have no bearing on the events of most of the rest of the timeline? It doesn't change the fact that WW is a damn good story. Hell, I got in a similar argument with someone over the newest Star Trek movie (we didn't realise the "split" existed at this point), and the guy was pissed that now only Enterprise and the new movie officially "happened". I just don't get this. It's not like my DS9 DVDs suddenly disappeared. I can still watch the original shows.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 02:48 PM

none of them happened. It's fiction.


Well...you know what I mean. The story doesn't happen in the storyline. I would like all of the stories to connect since it is called The Legend of Zelda, indicating that there is one legend and one storyline to go with said legend. Well, that was the original intent, anyway. I think they should change the name to The Legends of Zelda, since there is going to be more than one tangent of the legend.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 02:54 PM

Eh. It doesn't bug me much. Most of the stories work whether you take them as part of a whole or as individual stories anyway. Hell, even the "sequel" games generally work on their own (and I'm including WW here). The timeline is a cool thing to figure out and all, but it doesn't really make the stories any better or worse, if you ask me. :P

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 06:13 PM

I must admit it bugs me. For example, people who say that OoT future was erased because Zelda sent Link back to stop it happening; then really, what was the point of anything? The past jolly well should be immutable. Once something has happened, it's happened, there's no going back and fixing it. Time travel doesn't even make sense, all there is is the present. Time isn't a thing. You could, granted, change the present so that it resembled the past in nearly all aspects; but that's it.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 07:02 PM

You can't prove anything that happened yesterday. Now is the only thing that's real



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Posted 25 August 2009 - 12:37 AM

Pseudo-philosophical bullshit.

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Posted 25 August 2009 - 09:57 AM

:P

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Posted 25 August 2009 - 02:08 PM

With a single timeline, I still believed in several Links. It isn't all that much fun because it wasn't the elegance that was ruined, it was the chronology. Now that there is a split, many of the stories never happen, which defeats the purpose of experiencing a game.


1) That IS the elegance. Stop arguing semantics, you suck at it.
2) Happening in a split timeline doesn't make the stories not happen. Get over it, that argument doesn't work.

Well what kind of full grown adult sits on his ass bothering teenagers and kids about a game for teenagers and kids on a forum, anyway? Don't you have better things to do with your life? We all have our theories, we are young; and another thing, everyone has a different theory, why do you have to go around attacking people with opinions/theories that are different than your own. That doesn't make you right, that makes you an immature, self centered asshole. You're no different than those self-contradicting, in-denial christians running around in America today. You can have your own opinion/belief about Zelda, but don't force them on us who have different opinions/beliefs about it.


You also suck at picking up on Satire, and at the same time went out of your way to offend a whole group of people who have nothing to do with that. Way to be a self-contradicting immature asshole <3

Anyway, I'm probably younger than you or the same age. I'm not even out of my teens yet.

I must admit it bugs me. For example, people who say that OoT future was erased because Zelda sent Link back to stop it happening; then really, what was the point of anything? The past jolly well should be immutable. Once something has happened, it's happened, there's no going back and fixing it. Time travel doesn't even make sense, all there is is the present. Time isn't a thing. You could, granted, change the present so that it resembled the past in nearly all aspects; but that's it.


Magic would like to take a little bit of time out of it's day to say "Fuck You, Sir Showsni, and have a wonderful day in your secular universe."

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Posted 25 August 2009 - 02:21 PM

Timeline theories make me hate time travel, im now a victim :(

I think that the future is erased as it hasnt happened yet when link is sent back, hes the controller variable,
as in: Where ever this "hero of time" goes becomes the present, and the present is the only thing that exists
at any given time, (past is yay or nay, seems to obviously be present all the time) if he goes back in time, then
so does everyone else, you see: Future Zelda wasn't visited by link in the past, but when he goes back he
visits her, time must change at a consistent rate in Zelda no matter what. Following?

Simple:

Link goes back in time, future is changed automatically, everyone is effected.

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Posted 25 August 2009 - 03:50 PM

Magic would like to take a little bit of time out of it's day to say "Fuck You, Sir Showsni, and have a wonderful day in your secular universe."


:P

This seems to sum up how I feel:

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Posted 25 August 2009 - 08:45 PM

Anyway, I'm probably younger than you or the same age. I'm not even out of my teens yet.

Yes, I admit I was a little hasty to make that comment. However, you still need to leave people alone about their theories; or at least tell your side and present it as what you believe and not like it is absolute. I understand that certain things are absolute, but you do it whether it is absolute or not. Do it if you want if it is absolute, but when it isn't and when it is just theory and people sharing their personal thoughts; seriously, fuck off--or like I said earlier...

everyone has a different theory, why do you have to go around attacking people with opinions/theories that are different than your own. That doesn't make you right, that makes you an immature, self centered asshole. You're no different than those self-contradicting, in-denial christians running around in America today. You can have your own opinion/belief about Zelda, but don't force them on us who have different opinions/beliefs about it.

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Happening in a split timeline doesn't make the stories not happen. Get over it, that argument doesn't work.

I am well aware of the split, and I have read all of the quotes (on the more-complete compilation of Zelda Universe's post of them) and I know that it is split. I just think that it is a dumb idea--to put it simply. Also, hypothetically; if the real world's timeline had split, would we have any knowledge or make any legends about it? No. Never happened. Exactly what would happen in Hyrule. They have no prior or existing knowledge of the stories that split into another tangent. For instance, the people of HF would know nothing of the stories of TW. Same goes for the people of TP knowing nothing of the adventures of the Hero of Winds because they never happened. Get it? Eh, probably not. But what could one expect of someone from a website as behind as Zelda Legends. <_<

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Posted 25 August 2009 - 11:48 PM

But what could one expect of someone from a website as behind as Zelda Legends. <_<

Okay, this made me laugh. It really did. You let me know when ZU can stop arguing over Goron/Gerudo reproduction and provide quality translations for most of the Zelda games.

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 12:19 AM

Exactly what site is ahead of Zelda Legends? I sort of stopped actively theorizing because this forum got too detailed! It's anything but behind.

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 12:23 AM

Besides, members of this forum figured out the triangular timeline. We're way ahead of the curve.

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 01:20 AM

Anyway, I'm probably younger than you or the same age. I'm not even out of my teens yet.

Yes, I admit I was a little hasty to make that comment. However, you still need to leave people alone about their theories; or at least tell your side and present it as what you believe and not like it is absolute. I understand that certain things are absolute, but you do it whether it is absolute or not. Do it if you want if it is absolute, but when it isn't and when it is just theory and people sharing their personal thoughts; seriously, fuck off--or like I said earlier...

everyone has a different theory, why do you have to go around attacking people with opinions/theories that are different than your own. That doesn't make you right, that makes you an immature, self centered asshole. You're no different than those self-contradicting, in-denial christians running around in America today. You can have your own opinion/belief about Zelda, but don't force them on us who have different opinions/beliefs about it.

:(

Happening in a split timeline doesn't make the stories not happen. Get over it, that argument doesn't work.

I am well aware of the split, and I have read all of the quotes (on the more-complete compilation of Zelda Universe's post of them) and I know that it is split. I just think that it is a dumb idea--to put it simply. Also, hypothetically; if the real world's timeline had split, would we have any knowledge or make any legends about it? No. Never happened. Exactly what would happen in Hyrule. They have no prior or existing knowledge of the stories that split into another tangent. For instance, the people of HF would know nothing of the stories of TW. Same goes for the people of TP knowing nothing of the adventures of the Hero of Winds because they never happened. Get it? Eh, probably not. But what could one expect of someone from a website as behind as Zelda Legends. <_<


It's not a dumb idea. The old timeline was getting overly complicated and instead of letting the series get bogged down by the crushing weight of it's own mythology, they simply took the series in a direction with TP. OoT's "two endings" was the perfect opportunity for them to reboot the series but still have all the old games still canonically valid. Which games fit after TWW and which games fit after TP was left up to the fans.

What was a dumb idea was having TWW so directly associated with OOT. Instaed of it being a sequel to OoT hundreds of years later, thus seperating OoT and the rest of the timeline with a hard to dismiss catcalysmic flood, it should have been at the very end of the timeline or at least after ALttP. If it was done this way, there'd be no need for a split timeline. This would have been my timeline:

OoT/MM >> TP >> OOX >> TMC >> FS/FSA >> ALTTP/LA >> LOZ/AOL >> TWW/PH

Edited by SOAP, 26 August 2009 - 01:28 AM.


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Posted 26 August 2009 - 07:38 AM

Exactly what site is ahead of Zelda Legends?


Both Zelda Universe and Zelda Legends are behind. I have enjoyed this website for, not only their keeping current; but also for their theories and such.

http://www.zeldadungeon.net

However I admit, if I had to choose between the two, I'd choose Zelda Universe. They at least keep current on news and new games. Oh, and I far more enjoyed their compilation of creator quotes for it was more complete and far more organized. Now as far as theories go, I think all websites have their theories that differ from the rest. Zelda Legends isn't any different than any website when it comes to coming up with unofficial theories.

I do go to Zelda Legends once in a while to see if they've caught up, and they never are. However, I still try to see if they are trying harder / as hard as other sites.

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 07:44 AM

What was a dumb idea was having TWW so directly associated with OOT. Instaed of it being a sequel to OoT hundreds of years later, thus seperating OoT and the rest of the timeline with a hard to dismiss catcalysmic flood, it should have been at the very end of the timeline or at least after ALttP. If it was done this way, there'd be no need for a split timeline. This would have been my timeline:

OoT/MM >> TP >> OOX >> TMC >> FS/FSA >> ALTTP/LA >> LOZ/AOL >> TWW/PH


Well, according to mine and some others' split timelines, TW and HF do go at the end of a tangent. That might be what the creators were aiming at. Although, that could change with the games to come (WE and ZeldaWii2). I think that none of us have the timeline right. I also think, however, that it is fun to come up with theories that makes sense to ourselves and it is fun to go out and compare that to others' timelines.

Edited by リンクの獰猛な神, 26 August 2009 - 08:07 AM.





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