So, I've beaten Twilight Princess, now what? [SAFE: NO SPOILERS] [Archive]

apfhex

Dec 15, 2006, 03:14 AM

But what do I play now?
Wow, I haven't even gotten Zelda yet and I have more than enough gameplay to keep me busy — Wii Sports, Excite Truck, Red Steel, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (granted that's for the DS). I'll be getting Rayman too.

Curious about Elbits, hear it's fun, but probably will wait because I'm going to have too many other games to play. I don't think there's anything out or coming out this year for the Wii that will match Zelda though. You'll probably have to wait for Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, and others ETA 2007.

twistedlegato

Dec 15, 2006, 06:52 AM

Im in the last dungen! 55 hours in!

Redneck1089

Dec 15, 2006, 07:26 AM

Have you done absolutely everything--from getting all the poes, heart pieces, fishing lures, fairy spring locations, golden bugs, etc.?

What a good game, huh?

srobert

Dec 15, 2006, 07:27 AM

But what do I play now? I have Rayman, but that is no substitute for this masterpiece.

Do you own a Gamecube? If not, we could also suggest you some epic gamecube games. Alternatively, do you own another console? (360, PS3, DS, PSP) We could also suggest some good games on competing formats.

Just picked up elebits yesterday. Haven't had time to try it yet. I'll let you know if it's any good but I'm pretty sure this is not Zeldaesque in scope (and not intended to).

bowens

Dec 15, 2006, 08:10 AM

Yeah, so I beat it tonight. Final time: 87 hours (did a lot of exploring and fooling around, also left it paused for 10 hours on accident :P).

But what do I play now? I have Rayman, but that is no substitute for this masterpiece.

Wow, 87 hours. I'll probably be up there too. I'm in the 3rd dungeon and I'm about 24 hours in. I spent a few hours trying to find a way to get to the fishing pond and then a few more hours fishing once I got there. I let my wife and her father do some fishing. Then my wife and I tried the rapids a few times each. This is an incredible game. I'll probably end up spending 100 hours in it.

.Andy

Dec 15, 2006, 08:13 AM

also left it paused for 10 hours on accident :P).
I did this too and it constantly makes me sad when I save :(. 10 hours shouldn't be there I was in the menu screen dammit :mad:.

steelfist

Dec 15, 2006, 08:57 AM

well, wiisports is a good game...you should have it

kjr39

Dec 15, 2006, 10:46 AM

Ahh, the joy of owning a console at launch. Only a game or two that is worth playing.

Replay Zelda...

Winstonp

Dec 15, 2006, 10:56 AM

Mackilroy

Dec 15, 2006, 11:10 AM

Resistance Fall of Man for PS3...good game

If there were any PS3s to be had.

GFLPraxis

Dec 15, 2006, 12:40 PM

I'm 22 hours in. :)

Rayman is a solid choice, I've been planning to get it. I LOVE Excite Truck, I've also hooked a few racing fans on the game, the controls are great once you get used to them :)

WarioWare comes out in January.
Just be prepared to dance. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsfc3JXzt0)

afornander

Dec 15, 2006, 01:42 PM

i dont think this would be a spoiler, but, after you beat the game and kill whoever the final boss is and all that. does it allow you to continue to play side quests, fish, ext... ?:confused:

apfhex

Dec 15, 2006, 01:43 PM

Do you own a Gamecube? If not, we could also suggest you some epic gamecube games.
You realize the Wii is fully backwards compatible? :D Heck, if it's GC games you're talking, then if you haven't played Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2, or Resident Evil 4, then those are some great games to tide you over while you wait for the epic Wii releases. You do need a GC controller, of course, but those are cheap.

GFLPraxis

Dec 15, 2006, 01:48 PM

You realize the Wii is fully backwards compatible? :D Heck, if it's GC games you're talking, then if you haven't played Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2, or Resident Evil 4, then those are some great games to tide you over while you wait for the epic Wii releases. You do need a GC controller, of course, but those are cheap.

srobert is saying that if the OP never owned a GameCube, he could suggest some GameCube games. Of course he knows its backwards compatible :)

srobert

Dec 15, 2006, 02:01 PM

srobert is saying that if the OP never owned a GameCube, he could suggest some GameCube games. Of course he knows its backwards compatible :)

Bingo. ;) There is a treasure trove of good games out there for Wii owners who never had a Gamecube.

Have a look at the "All-Time High Scores" list at lower right of this page (http://www.metacritic.com/games/gamecube/).

Wind Waker could be a good game for you if you liked Twilight Princess. (If you don't mind the art style and calm sailing bits). I personally have a craving to replay Skies of Arcadia Legends (Dreamcast port to Gamecube) even though it's not the same kind of RPG than Twilight Princess.

What kind of games do you prefer seenew? Action RPGs? Adventure?

seenew

Dec 15, 2006, 04:23 PM

Also, :( I beat Rayman today, too. Now I am left with Wii Sports until Christmas. (which I think I'll be getting NFS and SMB)

i dont think this would be a spoiler, but, after you beat the game and kill whoever the final boss is and all that. does it allow you to continue to play side quests, fish, ext... ?:confused:

No, it's not a spoiler to tell you. You don't get to play any further after you beat it, in a sense. It doesn't lock your game file or anything, it just doesn't allow you to save AFTER you beat the boss. It's like, Mario 64, you know? You can beat Bowser with just 70 Stars and see the credits, and after the credits you have to restart the system, load your game up, and Bowser still inhabits the castle. Same thing here. So you can beat the final boss, and still be able to go back and do all the side quests. Like, when I load my game now, I'm still outside the final dungeon.

So no worries. :) I'm off to tackle acquiring the magic armor and then the Cave of Ordeals. I don't know if I feel like worrying about the 24 bugs... I mean, I've only got like 8. :\

I will for sure replay this game when I get tired of my original game file.

GFLPraxis

Dec 15, 2006, 04:44 PM

Get Excite Truck. Won't last you too long but its fun.

MacRumorUser

Dec 15, 2006, 04:49 PM

monkey ball. Solid single player than will tax you on the harder levels and 50 mini games, all of which are better than the ones in Rayman.

Rayman has dissapointed me the most of all wii games, including RedSteel.

RoxStrongo

Dec 15, 2006, 05:04 PM

Yeah, so I beat it tonight. Final time: 87 hours (did a lot of exploring and fooling around, also left it paused for 10 hours on accident :P).

But what do I play now? I have Rayman, but that is no substitute for this masterpiece.
well you can tell you're a student. iv had it a week now and managed to clock 8 hours. that's what the real world does to you.

seenew

Dec 15, 2006, 05:18 PM

well you can tell you're a student. iv had it a week now and managed to clock 8 hours. that's what the real world does to you.

No, actually, I've been on Winter Break since Thanksgiving. SCAD is on the quarter system, so we've got like a six-week break. I bought a Wii at launch and resisted the temptation to play anything but a few rounds of Wii Sports until finals were over.

I'm a good student. :P I'm on the dean's list.

TequilaBoobs

Dec 15, 2006, 05:22 PM

seenew

Dec 15, 2006, 05:49 PM

in that amount of time you couldve learned how to fly a plane.

If I wanted to.
Wait, can you fly a plane when you're 18?

Maybe I should rethink videogames...

TequilaBoobs

Dec 15, 2006, 06:11 PM

If I wanted to.
Wait, can you fly a plane when you're 18?

Maybe I should rethink videogames...

dunno about the age, but it does cost a lot for flying lessons, but if youre rich, might as well...

Antares

Dec 15, 2006, 06:40 PM

If I wanted to.
Wait, can you fly a plane when you're 18?

Maybe I should rethink videogames...

You can get a pilot's license at 15. Before your driver's license....That's interesting, huh? :cool:

coffey7

Dec 15, 2006, 06:58 PM

Wait a few years until the next one comes out. I was always a little upset with nintendo over the lack of games for the gamecube. I hope they do better with the Wii. Maybe, Mario will be out in a year or so.

bobber205

Dec 15, 2006, 07:05 PM

Tales of Symphonia -- a masterpiece of rpgs.

And it's like 10 bucks some places. :D

sam10685

Dec 15, 2006, 07:36 PM

Maybe, Mario will be out in a year or so.

i thought it was coming in march.

SilentPanda

Dec 15, 2006, 09:12 PM

I must be weird. I beat it in 40 hours and did most of the side stuff.

AppleIntelRock

Dec 15, 2006, 09:15 PM

I must be weird. I beat it in 40 hours and did most of the side stuff.

You could be weird of wrong. Or, you could think you did "most" of the side stuff when really, the game is so HUGE you haven't really touched "most" of the side stuff.

Cassie

Dec 15, 2006, 09:18 PM

You can get a pilot's license at 15. Before your driver's license....That's interesting, huh? :cool:

Really? here, it's 13.

AppleIntelRock

Dec 15, 2006, 09:20 PM

Really? here, it's 13.

Whatever it is, it's much too young. I think 18 is a good age- TO BE FLYING AN AIRCRAFT! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Spanky Deluxe

Dec 16, 2006, 01:15 AM

You can get a pilot's license at 15. Before your driver's license....That's interesting, huh? :cool:

Whatever it is, it's much too young. I think 18 is a good age- TO BE FLYING AN AIRCRAFT! :eek: :eek: :eek:

My dad did that! He could fly a plane a year or so before he could drive a car!! Also the first time I had a flying lesson I found it to be *much* easier than my first driving lesson. Think about it, no roads, virtually no traffic, its not actually that hard to fly a plane. To do it well, cope with all potential situations and hazards etc it takes a while of course but you could take off, land and fly around after just a few lessons imo.

So far I've played 7 hours of Zelda. The first was really slow and I wasn't enjoying it much. Since then I keep saying to myself "I'll play until I next..." and have now ended up playing until 7am. Ah well, at least I have sod all to do tomorrow!! One dungeon down. I've been pausing at leaving it lots too, at least an hours worth so far. :( I knew the Wii's time keeping doesn't keep track of pauses but I would have thought Zelda's own timekeeping would. :( As it is my Wii thinks I played Mario 64 for like 14 hours straight or something, and I only have about 22 stars in that!! Of which 2 apparently took me 14 hours!

seenew

Dec 16, 2006, 02:18 AM

I must be weird. I beat it in 40 hours and did most of the side stuff.

Well, I don't want to make excuses, and I probably could have done it in a little over 50, BUUUUUT:

-was my first Zelda outing
-let my girlfriend ride Epona around a lot, accomplishing very little, if anything
-again, left it on for 10 hours paused
-got stuck quite a few times :(

TheMonarch

Dec 16, 2006, 02:50 AM

AmbitiousLemon

Dec 16, 2006, 03:49 AM

agreed. The whole I beat it faster than you thing is rather silly. I could see if it was your second time around you might have fun going for a quick time, but the first time around I just like exploring and wasting time finding bugs (almost have them all now), fishing (spent at least 15 hours so far fishing probably), and shooting birds. I even spent a half hour trying to see if I could pick up a squirrel - I don't think you can :( I also wasted a lot of time trying to get one particular heart piece - seems impossible, still haven't gotten it.

Wasn't there a thread here a few weeks ago with someone complaining about no side quests in zelda? Thats sort of how I imagine all you people who finish in like 20 hours. Zipping past so fast you ignore all the side stuff.

As for other games, I think we need to hear back from the OP on gamecube games, VC games, what style of game play he likes, etc.

sikkinixx

Dec 16, 2006, 09:23 AM

i am 20 hours in and I havent played in 10 days (doesnt help that the power has been out for almost two days lol) but yeah, I can't find the will to play thru it anymore. I'm kinda bummed I spent 500$ on the Wii with a game/xtra controller and such and I am bored of the blockbuster title already :(

rockthecasbah

Dec 16, 2006, 09:23 AM

I don't get this whole "I beat it in XX hours!" thing... What's the rush?

If anything, I hope it takes me 120+ hours to pass it [Only have 9 so far], that way there's less waiting time for the next Zelda.

I say take time to enjoy the game, not just whizz past it as soon as you can. :cool:

I agree. Right now im 29 hours in at the fourth dungeon and am just as happy (if not happier) that i spent a lot of time running around exploring. I found small little secret places that I don't think anyone could really address just because they are following just the plot and nothing else! :D

Malus

Dec 16, 2006, 09:41 AM

Fortunatly for me I injured my wrist NOT from the wii, so I'm not allowed to swing the wii remote for a little while. I beat it and was started to get all the poes, bugs, and just exploring the vast world of Hyrule.

Don't worry, Mario Galaxy is on its way, and don't forget about Super Smash Bros Brawl. Why not get a gamecube game or two, I picked up Metroid Prime for, get this 4 bucks!! What a steal, and that game is amazing! I can't believe the gamecube was third in the console race.

SilentPanda

Dec 16, 2006, 10:01 PM

You could be weird of wrong. Or, you could think you did "most" of the side stuff when really, the game is so HUGE you haven't really touched "most" of the side stuff.

Nah, I looked online afterwards. Don't get me wrong though... I enjoyed every minute of the game.