You are in luck! Shadow of Mordor’s controls are exactly the same as those in the Batman games, so this will be an easy transition for you.

If yours was anything like mine, you murdered him like 9 times. Dude can’t stay down.

I KNOW RIGHT!? You would think that a race that has tablet computers would be better at preserving information.

Oh, completely. While the Devs may have introduced and fully support the idea of the timeline, the timeline itself is not always something that makes sense, and contradictions abound between games. Building off the sages from a Link to the Past, they go from being the various races as you mention, then to old men who…

I’m not saying games in the same series HAVE to always have anything to do with another. I’m also not saying the Zelda games fit together well in practice. I’m just saying the official canon stance as stated by the developers and games on multiple occasions is that the Zelda series is one timeline, and that this has…

Literally one of my top 5 lines from that series haha

It has been proven that they do indeed place the games into a timeline, but they have also stated it is not their priority, hence why contradictions appear. Their first obligation is to gameplay, then to the game’s story, and then after that they decide a placement. For example, it could not be any clearer that Link…

Proof, coming right up.

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Technically true :-D

I guess I just wanted to use an example that involved a clearly different Link

The timeline existed long before fans demanded it. It may not make perfect sense, but the developers did in fact choose a placement for each game before the internet became a big deal for debating timelines.

Furthermore, it’s entirely up to the developers what is canon and what is not, so regardless of what looks…

Oh, I’m not saying they care as much as the fans, they certainly don’t, but they do at least believe in a Timeline, and do in fact place every game somewhere on that timeline.

Entirely agreed. Sages exist in the Child Timeline, so there is no reason why one couldn’t be Ruto

You are correct, they do not. Their approach is always gameplay first, followed by story, and then once the game is complete they decide where it should go. They like having a timeline, but they don’t worry about whether or not it makes complete sense. This was confirmed in a developer interview.

See my reply to HAL, Zelda games taking place in one timeline has been established since A Link to the Past, and reemphasized in games and by developers many times since.

Every major Zelda release since a Link to the Past has made mention of the fact that they fit into a unified timeline, hence why the fans debate it. A Link to the Past was presented as being a prequel, as was Ocarina of Time, with Miyamoto himself stating what the timeline was at that point, this being before the…

There is absolutely no reason to believe that Ruto would not have awakened as a sage in the Child Timeline as well as the Adult and Downfall timelines. Rauru was a sage before the events of Ocarina of Time, so why couldn’t others become sages as well? And sages did in fact seem to be necessary, since we see them…

I was one of the many who was outraged at the takedown of AM2R, thinking at the time ‘How dare Nintendo remove this celebration of a great series’ 30 years when they have done nothing’. Now, after seeing the Samus Returns announcement, I realize that Nintendo was actually being pretty freaking cool. It’s clear from…

Yeah that’s true, in that sort of scenario it would definitely make more sense to ask the question that assumes the person is in fact a gamer.

Absolutely agreed, gaming may be more mainstream these days but gaming as a hobby is still something left for the minority of people. There are 14 people sitting around me right now in my team’s office, and 12 of them do not play video games, while I am not sure about the remaining two. The only time I would start…

Time to break out my old iPad third gen and get downloading!