My very own Zelda game

[Weltall]

Of course Star Wars isn't original, it's basically an homage to a dozen different movies from a bygone era of filmmaking.

But Xenogears and Star Wars are somehow on different sides of the very fine line that seperates 'homages' from 'ripoffs'? Or are you just all about the double-standard?

Well NO SHIT! I don't play Zelda for the storyline, silly. Of course the story is simple, and in some cases pretty much nonexistant. I play it for the wonderful gameplay. Stories can enhance a game experience, but without gameplay all you have is... a bad game with a nice story. Which leads me to...

Right. Zelda games don't have story, and I don't expect them to. However, Wind Waker had crappy gameplay also. The game wasn't even the slightest bit challenging. It was like OOT gameplay, simplified dramatically, with tons of long-ass backtracking and mindless roaming. It was a poor game with no story.

Well yes, I much prefer Eternal Darkness over SH as it much better gameplay. Silent Hill has atmosphere and mood in spades, but in terms of gameplay it's even worse than Resident Evil.

I didn't enjoy ED a whole lot, because the gameplay was okay, but it was also very repetitive and the storyline bordered on ridiculous at times. It could have been so much better if they had removed about half of the stupid chapters and expanded on the better ones. The gameplay was again, okay, but you're essentially using the same two weapons against the same three enemies the whole time. There were some wonderful concepts and ideas, but I felt they were not taken half as far as they could have been.

And, it wasn't the least bit scary.

Then you must not have read many good scifi stories. Or any, really. The combat is not original at all, I can't see how you can say that. Combo-based turn-based combat systems have been done before. Xenogears just made it more repetitive. If there weren't stupid battles every five damn seconds I wouldn't have minded it, but unfortunately that was not the case.

There isn't a single videogame out there with a storyline to match Xenogears. There are several books, sure. But that's apples to oranges.

As for the rest?