"When Hyrule was created by the three goddesses at the beginning of time, there were certain side effects of its creation which Din, Nayru and Farore did not anticipate. As the three holy women breathed life into the world and chased away Emptiness, their potent breath slipped through tiny cracks in the folds of space and created millions of alternate worlds in the process. One of these worlds became the land known as Termina"
-Zelda.com, the official site
HA!
You are of course aware that that site is NOT owned by Nintendo, and as such is not a valid resource?
I"m pretty curious as to why he made a new topic when he could've just replied in the original one.
Because Tacheon never made a topic (that I know of) about his idea Termina is all in Link's head.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the recent one he made about Termina and the events of MM being in a different time rather than a different place.
My bad.
Quote from: Tacheon on August 29, 2008, 06:00:27 PM
You are of course aware that that site is NOT owned by Nintendo, and as such is not a valid resource?
Are
you aware that it actually is, as it has the familiar Nintendo logo near the bottom.
Awwww, he's so cute Commodore.
:o
Ummmmmmmmmmm......
Thanks?
Quote from: HylianHero92 on August 29, 2008, 06:09:22 PM
Are you aware that it actually is, as it has the familiar Nintendo logo near the bottom.
Well, it's not necessarily HARD to put a logo at the bottom of a webpage.
Why would they lie about being the official site?
EVERYBODY says EVERYTHING'S the official site. WE'RE the official Desert Colossus.
Besides, it's probably because of publicity. If your site is thought to be the "official site," you'll probably get a lot more hints because, "lol teh sites offishul!" It makes sense to me, anyway.
Don't you think that Nintendo would send some sort of "cease and desist" notice to sites falsely claiming to be official, though? Zelda is one of their properties, so they'd want to protect it.
They probably haven't noticed/don't care.
You don't think anyone at Nintendo ever noticed a website called Zelda.com? A website bearing the title of one of their biggest franchises going completely under Nintendo's radar for years? I'm very doubtful of that, and I'm even more doubtful that Nintendo wouldn't care about it claiming to be official if it wasn't. It's not like it's a small Geocities website that anyone can make and only a few people will ever see, it's Zelda.com. I think any website bearing the name of one of a video game company's biggest and most popular franchises that claimed to be official when it wasn't would be either brought down or bought out by that company in order to protect that franchise.
In short, I'm positive that it's the official website. Whether or not the content is 100% approved by Nintendo and regarded as canon remains to be seen.
Even so, if it were sanctioned by Nintendo, it still doesn't mean that the content on the site is all true and good. Chances are they found a bunch of geeks willing to devote their lives to Zelda (coughlikemecough) and decided, hey, let's let them do all the work and make us look good.
Exactly why I said:
Quote from: Twilight Wolf on August 31, 2008, 03:33:10 PMWhether or not the content is 100% approved by Nintendo and regarded as canon remains to be seen.
To reiterate, it's the official site, but the information may not be official.
So pretty much you're saying that this entire topic is easily negated as an unfactorable variable?
Sorry, but could you rephrase that with slightly simpler terms? I think I get the gist of what you're asking, but my mind isn't at its sharpest right now.
I see.
*erm*
Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?
Let's find out. A-one, a-twooo, a-three. *CRUNCH*
The world may never know.
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In layman's terms, I guess we'll never know, so let's disregard anyone's opinions but my own! =D
That's really not helpful, you know. I asked you a serious question.
Just forget it, now, though.
And that was my serious answer. There is reason to doubt anything but Nintendo's official opinion, and since it's impossible to know their ACTUAL official opinion unless they post it on NINTENDO.com or the NOA branch (since every other site could just as easily be a fansite that Nintendo favors), it's always going to be a matter of interpretation. Heck, even Hylian Dan realizes that.
Oh, sorry. Like I said, though, my mind isn't at its peak performance right now, so that would explain my confusion. I get what you're saying now, though.
Well, if it really isn't the official site, it's free online advertising on Nintendo's part, isn't it? They wouldn't need to worry about spending more money on advertising if it's that easy to go to a large Zelda site.
Though your view seems likely, too, TW.
Well, thing is, they've got like the official soft drink of NASCAR, but it doesn't mean NASCAR owns Pepsi, right?