That was, by far, the stupidest clip I have ever seen. The song itself is quite funny, but making a clip of footage of a video game character on a boat and then overlaying a song, making no attempt to sync the video to the audio in any way, does not a good clip make.
@Rey Rodrigues: Nothing like some dry humor to get your day going.
Vintage
April 27, 2009 at 2:23 AM
@gomerkyle9: and i jizzed. in.. my. pants. =\
Vintage
Jesustron
April 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM
@Zorantor:
umm...hes on Saturday night live? they pay attention to him because he makes funny parody music that people with no sense of humor don't get, like yourself.
Nâ—Gage Croal
April 26, 2009 at 6:07 PM
@gomerkyle9:
I have just learned this is by the same guys as "Lazy Sunday" and other comedic songs. And that's awesome.
Nâ—Gage Croal
April 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM
@LadyXbox:
That's a paddlin'.
AllHailShake
April 26, 2009 at 5:32 PM
This was not even close to being worth my time. Granted it's only forty-five seconds, but I've come to expect better from Kotaku that these stupid, asinine, fan-made music videos. If it's that slow of a news day, don't post anything, but don't put this shit on the front page.
AllHailShake
LadyXbox
April 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
@Rey Rodrigues: Thread made me wet.
what, too easy?
NiGHTSSTUDiO
April 26, 2009 at 3:00 PM
@Rey Rodrigues:
WATER you guys doing? I don't get it....
twinturbo2
April 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM
I would have preferred Hydro Thunder gameplay footage to that song. IMHO...
Wakkadude21
April 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM
@716: I saw a Spanish guy doing the Bartman.
Wakkadude21
mcdonnr
April 26, 2009 at 10:42 AM
@Solday: I second that. I, for one, am getting damned sick of all the "transportation-centric" Zelda games. Like the new one... a train. Fucking sweet... I have a train. Maybe next time I can have some kind of primitive flying machine!! Er, wait...
WoozyB
April 26, 2009 at 8:07 AM
@gunluva The Steam servers are too busy to handle your reque...:
Seeing as how they mostly parody different hip hop styles and their profanity, then yeah, I guess I could see that.
Doesn't make the lyrics any less funny or the production values any less amazing.
WoozyB
Jackablade
April 26, 2009 at 7:28 AM
So... you mean to tell me that this boat song is an actual commercial song?
Jackablade
NINTENDO_ZEALOT
April 26, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Did Link fuck a mermaid?
Spartanidiot
April 26, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Im so sick of that song. I cant go anywhere without someone yelling Im On a Boat! The Lonely Island was good for the first 5 minutes they released their cd
Spartanidiot
JellyDoodle91
April 26, 2009 at 7:00 AM
@Rey Rodrigues: heh. water.
JellyDoodle91
716
April 26, 2009 at 6:36 AM
@Etheris: YEEEAH BUOY!
716
Mokai
April 26, 2009 at 6:34 AM
Nice boat.
716
April 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM
@CmdrBladeHearts is replacing his perfectly good screen name...: We didn't do The 'Bu this month, we didn't do The 'Bu! * clap clap*
716
PirateSquirrel
April 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM
@Koneesha: I don't think it's only that specific video. There are several like it. But I guess it might have played a role. ;)
PirateSquirrel
The Question
April 26, 2009 at 6:21 AM
@Rey Rodrigues:
This thread has realy wet my appetite for water puns. I shore am ready for some more...
*dies from bad puns*
Toasticus
April 26, 2009 at 6:21 AM
@The Question: I keep drifting back to this thread for more, but it seems like it's just becoming diluted.
The Question
April 26, 2009 at 6:14 AM
@Etheris:
Well blow me down, I'm surprised that you could get so many water puns in a row. Your post has certainly blew mine outta the water...
SpishackCola posts comments Like
April 26, 2009 at 5:50 AM
@Quicksilver4648:
Would've been more awesome if he had a boombox.
ParadoxControl
April 26, 2009 at 4:48 AM
Even though its a Game Cube game, it still looks really good today.
ParadoxControl
Man In Gauze wants KZ2
April 26, 2009 at 4:48 AM
Ah man, I was waiting for the "I fucked a mermaid" part.
bla19
April 26, 2009 at 4:21 AM
@Everyone in this thread: I mostly had the same experience as Bronyaur, I played the game up to that point and really enjoyed as much as any other game in the series, then I tried to do the Triforce collection and after like the first two shards lost all interest. Essentially all Zelda games are a giant fetch quest where you go to dungeon A to get item x which allows you to get to dungeon B and get item y and so on, but maybe it's that it's not a dungeon. I don't know if there is truth to this but I read that the triforce piece was supposed to be in another dungeon but they scrapped it and did the treasure hunt to get the game released faster. It also took me forever to get the crane to pick up the treasure, I think because the cell shading basically took after my depth perception. I noticed the same problem when you had to leaf glider into that one dungeon. Oh and I also had to get rupees each time to buy the damn maps too because I never had enough. Eventually I'll get around to finishing it.
I don't get it. Unless the joke is that the song is "I'm on a boat" with lots of swears while showing the Link game with him on a boat -- being ironic that a child-like animated game would have such music in the background. Does that qualify as a joke?
Xsid
Toasticus
April 26, 2009 at 3:30 AM
@Etheris: Damn the torpid hoes, full steam ahead!
svenhoek: When In Romero
April 26, 2009 at 3:27 AM
@Koneesha: Correction, the MOTHERFUCKIN space olympics!
svenhoek: When In Romero
DrunkRaba
April 26, 2009 at 3:25 AM
@gomerkyle9: Actual Song epic, song with link, not so much.
DrunkRaba
April 26, 2009 at 3:23 AM
@The Question: on Deborah's desk
BassForever
April 26, 2009 at 3:20 AM
@Rey Rodrigues: I'm surprised how long it took for someone to make this.
delta-kapa
April 26, 2009 at 3:12 AM
@Kenny: what?!? no swim trunks?
delta-kapa
Koneesha
April 26, 2009 at 3:11 AM
@TRT-X: Nice
Koneesha
Koneesha
April 26, 2009 at 3:09 AM
@PirateSquirrel: So that's where this song came from?
Koneesha
Koneesha
April 26, 2009 at 3:08 AM
@Tenshigure: This is the space oylmpics.
Koneesha
Etheris
April 26, 2009 at 3:04 AM
@Toasticus: All of this nautical nonsense makes me want to chill on a boat with some hose.
Toasticus
April 26, 2009 at 2:57 AM
@Jnas: Well, that was out of the blue. Put down the reefer!
Jnas
April 26, 2009 at 2:46 AM
THIS THREAD IS LIKE...H20.
Toasticus
April 26, 2009 at 2:42 AM
@OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.: The occasional pearl of wisdom makes it completely worthwhile, but these threads can be hard to navigate sometimes.
OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.
April 26, 2009 at 2:31 AM
@Rey Rodrigues: This is a great thread. All the puns are ferry impressive. Sometimes these puns threads can be junk.
OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.
Azza
April 26, 2009 at 2:23 AM
@Rey Rodrigues: OH GUYS.
I was expecting a boatload of puns.
Jnas
April 26, 2009 at 2:21 AM
WATER.
I dunno if i did it right.
heartless_king
April 26, 2009 at 1:53 AM
The funny thing is my fiance is playing WW right now and the other day I was sitting there watching her play and I started belting out the song as she was sailing around for the triforce pieces.
Wish it was cleaned up though, and longer. It looks and feels like they just sloppily smashed it together.
Nitrokart
April 26, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Someone should make a video of Wind Waker with the song "Boats and Hoes" from the Step Brothers movie. xD
Xaif
April 26, 2009 at 1:24 AM
@nworobes: I agree with you where the Wind Waker is concerned, the fetch quest really didn't bother me, considering I found the whole idea behind the WW was to explore.
49 islands was it? An enormous ocean with all of those islands, if you found searching for the 8 triforce pieces a chore, I guess you found most of the game in general a chore. I'd assume you probably found next to no treasure maps as well, another large aspect of the game. People whinged about WW's length, sure the story wasn't as long as Ocarina, but the sheer amount of exploration and side quests to do trumps Ocarina's entirely.
Assassin_Kensei
April 26, 2009 at 1:21 AM
@Quicksilver4648: I'm on Shrooms!
Assassin_Kensei
MrPerson
April 26, 2009 at 1:12 AM
@The Question: Boat him! In water on to.
MrPerson
The Question
April 26, 2009 at 1:10 AM
@Quicksilver4648:
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:
*vomits*
Krytha
April 26, 2009 at 1:08 AM
@The Question: Titanic threads always get iced.
Krytha
The Question
April 26, 2009 at 1:08 AM
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:
Then who was boat?
The Question
April 26, 2009 at 1:07 AM
@The Question:
Sorry, I meant "Kotaku." One more typo and, I swear, I'm gonna go off the deep end!
The Question
April 26, 2009 at 1:04 AM
@Rey Rodrigues:
Man, koatku is really going down the drain...
Toasticus
April 26, 2009 at 12:45 AM
@monkeysaresilly: Yeah, it's going to stay afloat just fine.
punjabifury
April 26, 2009 at 12:41 AM
@PirateSquirrel: I have never seen something that so perfectly encapsulates everything that is wrong in the world.
Tenshigure
April 26, 2009 at 12:41 AM
@nworobes: (Almost tagged everyone in the thread...) You do all realize that the original premise of the original Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda 2...okay, ALL OF THE ZELDA GAMES...was to traverse the land to combine the pieces of the triforce scattered over the land, right?
Sure, it may not have been as "treasure hunt" style, but it was all "to get to one dungeon, you had to get the bombs from another dungeon, and to get those you needed the grappling hook from another, which couldn't open the door until you had the boomerang from another dungeon".
Toasticus
April 26, 2009 at 12:40 AM
@Neko (Mimi) Mode: No way, my ship hasn't come in yet. I think there's a link between water puns and dry humor.
monkeysaresilly
April 26, 2009 at 12:37 AM
@Neko (Mimi) Mode: You're all wet. We could saturate this thread for weeks!
monkeysaresilly
NekuSakuraba
April 26, 2009 at 12:35 AM
If I hear my friends at school singing this song I'm going to go "Nice Boat" on they're asses.
iJustice
April 26, 2009 at 12:32 AM
@ShinuZERO: LMAO this song is amazing and so is this video.
TRT-X
April 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM
@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: Now that's actually a song you could mash up with video games.
TRT-X
April 25, 2009 at 11:24 PM
@Koneesha: But believe me when I say...he f**ked a Zora!
TRT-X
April 25, 2009 at 11:24 PM
@henhowc: No, he thought it was Akon, because of how Autotune makes everybody sound the same.
Fadecy: Rival Schools for PSN/XB
April 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM
They should have put it to boats and hos from step brothers =D
0xC001D00D
April 25, 2009 at 10:59 PM
this song is shit ._.
tralfaz23
April 25, 2009 at 10:48 PM
amazing. so much potential yet so lazily executed
PirateSquirrel
April 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM
@Moonshadow101: You have to watch it in context with other music videos on boats. They're quite some of those and they're always all about posing.
@Kenny: Man, I was at Kinko's straight flippin' copies.
spinthelights
Neko (Mimi) Mode
April 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM
@Rey Rodrigues: We should abandon this thread. It has been a total wipeout.
Horusz
April 25, 2009 at 9:52 PM
@Ken:
I love that song as well, sue me.
Horusz
Ken
April 25, 2009 at 9:48 PM
@mercatfat: I love the song... >__>
Ken
Seriouslyno
April 25, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Pure fail. Great song ruined.
Seriouslyno
mphz
April 25, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Amusing, but I don't think it holds a candle to "The Adventures of Duane and Brando: Mega Man 2" in terms of win and awesome. It's also NSFW or small children. :p
Protector one
April 25, 2009 at 9:36 PM
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!: I link you forgot to.
the7k
April 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM
@CosmicElement: A cool breeze blows in and I ...
mightyg
April 25, 2009 at 8:38 PM
where's the mermaid.
mightyg
RyuuzakiBjorn
April 25, 2009 at 8:21 PM
So basically they took clips from trailers and the stuff, only put boat clips on and put I'm on a boat on it?
I don't get it.
nikolaj
April 25, 2009 at 8:18 PM
@Rey Rodrigues:
looks like the situation in Hyrule is becoming un-bear-able.
no?
nikolaj
ShadowOdin is sad he missed Wyat
April 25, 2009 at 7:48 PM
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!: He should have that checked
Strider-Kojiro
April 25, 2009 at 6:54 PM
TAKE A PICCHA, TRICK!
bobtheduck
April 25, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Kotaku posts AMVs now? That's cool. I'd do an AMV if, ya know, I didn't think it would get WMG'd.
mercatfat
April 25, 2009 at 6:45 PM
@Koneesha:
yeah.
in short, your amusement is the x in an algebraic equation of how deeply disconnected you are with modern pop society.
not that there's anything wrong with not being able to look at things beyond face value!
Alienation
April 25, 2009 at 6:17 PM
@Spiffyshaun: If you think this thread is all washed up, why don't you just sail over it?
Alienation
Eulogy
April 25, 2009 at 6:16 PM
@Ganepark32: You realize The Lonely Island is universally amazing, right? Do you not understand their comedy, or something?
Spiffyshaun
April 25, 2009 at 6:13 PM
@Rey Rodrigues: Water you talking about? This thread is all washed up.
skewt
April 25, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Well that was massively underwhelming. Sounded like an excellent idea.
skewt
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
April 25, 2009 at 6:12 PM
@Sammo21: Yea, same here, and the funny thing is I don't watch SNL anymore, but I only know about this through a friend showboating this around like it's funny. I prefer "Boats and Hoes."
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
Connoisseur
April 25, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Was that Link singing~!?
Koneesha
April 25, 2009 at 6:03 PM
@gomerkyle9: But this isn't SEa World. It's as real as it gets. Im on a boat Motherf%%ker don't you ever forget!
Koneesha
Koneesha
April 25, 2009 at 6:02 PM
@hiryu3: I never thoguht i'd see the day!
Koneesha
Koneesha
April 25, 2009 at 6:02 PM
@ShinuZERO: now thats a good joke.
Koneesha
Koneesha
April 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM
@LuigiHann: Correct. T Pain makes it for me though. Repeating everything in his voice and stuff. Also i like how in alot of thier songs they bring up movie stars.
Koneesha
linkthe2nd
April 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM
@gomerkyle9: He took the boat?! But who could resist the call of the mystery box... The boats a boat, but the mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!
linkthe2nd
ShinuZERO
April 25, 2009 at 5:35 PM
@undefined:
I sea what you did there
MellowJade
April 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM
WTF did I just watch?
LuigiHann
April 25, 2009 at 5:17 PM
@Zorantor:
It's mostly because they're rapping so enthusiastically about something so mundane. Also there are some amusing rhymes in there.
LuigiHann
Marceuse
April 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM
@Indypunk: This.
Marceuse
fecalchaos
April 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Disappointed that he didn't get to the nautical-themed pashmina afghan.
Combine
April 25, 2009 at 4:55 PM
@ShinuZERO: That was a very shallow comment.
@Leanid: I was swept away by your gesture.
Combine
jamesjohnson01
April 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM
@BlitzGrilo: Like seriously, did Kotaku just post a Wind Waker AMV? Seriously. Wow. That was so pointless.
hiryu3
April 25, 2009 at 4:40 PM
@MjrShake: hey he's on a boat mutha fucca don't you ever forget
Zorantor
April 25, 2009 at 4:39 PM
@Solday: It was an awesome game, but yeah, the boat rides really did an excellent job of taking way too long.
Zorantor
April 25, 2009 at 4:38 PM
@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: Who the hell is this guy? Why do people keep paying attention to him? He's not interesting.
ircmaster
April 25, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Oh man the song wasn't funny with the original video, but seeing it used with wind waker is some of the funniest stuff ever.
ircmaster
Zorantor
April 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM
@Moonshadow101: Agreed. Someone was very enthusiastic to show me that video, and all I had to say about it was "so?"
It's really beyond me why people think that's so funny.
henhowc
April 25, 2009 at 4:34 PM
@henhowc: Just curious because umm T-pain is actually in it. haha
henhowc
April 25, 2009 at 4:34 PM
@Darkest Daze: Huh? Do you mean T-Pain?
kbot707
April 25, 2009 at 4:33 PM
"Never thought I'd be on a boat."
Now they need to do "Dick in a Box" using Portal.... think about it.
henhowc
April 25, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Reminds me of all those anime "music videos" with Linkin Park or some other band playing on top of random clips that are terribly spliced together.
NoHoldsBarred
April 25, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Wonder if he fucked a mermaid...
NoHoldsBarred
Darkest Daze
April 25, 2009 at 4:21 PM
@gomerkyle9: It's sad how auto tune makes everyone sound the same. I thought it was Akon in that song.
Darkest Daze
nworobes
April 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM
@Bronyaur: Thanks, that answer was actually very insightful. Since, as you said, it's doubtful that very many people just flipped out over the fetch quest and vowed to never play the game again, but that was probably the scenario I was imagining in my mind.
And I'm certainly no stranger to that sort of indifference, where you just don't care enough to bother finishing the game.
I've never finished Super Paper Mario, because to unlock each new area, you have to explore the main hub town until you find a new path. After having done that 6 or 7 times, I just didn't care to meticulously explore that boring, drab hub town again.
Though in that case, I feel like part of it was that I didn't particularly care to see what came next in the game. Super Paper Mario was a pretty "meh" experience for me, and I feel like I had a pretty good idea where the story was headed, so something else came along to distract me from SPM, and apparently at no point did the urge to play it ever get rekindled in my heart
I guess I just don't see how someone could have the same situation with Wind Waker, which I found to be a much more compelling experience than say Super Paper Mario.
But hey, I guess everybody's different.
nworobes
Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the i
April 25, 2009 at 4:08 PM
@Farnic: A winrar is you
ShinuZERO
April 25, 2009 at 3:59 PM
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:
Epic.
gunluva The Steam servers are to
April 25, 2009 at 3:52 PM
@Noodle-Works:
I guess I just hate profanity.
TrjnRabbit
April 25, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Is it too late to dive in with another pun that just wouldn't float anywhere else?
TrjnRabbit
interim has his cake and is eati
April 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM
@Leanid: What, you mean this affluent stream of posts?
interim has his cake and is eating it too
Leanid
April 25, 2009 at 3:48 PM
How can I nominate an entire thread?
Leanid
LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!
April 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM
@CosmicElement: jizzed in your pants?
Bronyaur
April 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM
@nworobes: I wish I could.
I've played all the zeldas since OoT. I played all 3 metroid primes. I don't mind doing tedious stuff.
But I never did finish Wind Waker, because I just found the hunt too... tedious? Boring? I couldn't tell you. It's not like I threw down the paddle and sad "I can't take this any more!". I just stopped playing it, and didn't really care to change that.
The funny thing is I did get a lot of extra treasure I didn't need. It just really wasn't fun, I think is the bottom line. Even tedium needs to have some degree of fun to keep me going.
Keep in mind this is purely subjective, but I don't think you're going to get a satisfactory objective reason to your question.
Bronyaur
LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!
April 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM
@Combine: I think you all need to take a "bow".
LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!
April 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM
@ReconToaster.: every chunk of water out there!
Ganepark32
April 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Good game. Terrible music. The two shouldn't be mixed. It's amazing how well Wind Waker still holds up but then it isn't overly old yet. But it'll still look great 10 years down the road (unless you work at Kotaku in which case it'll look awful because it's a Nintendo title. That's right I went there because it's true).
Ganepark32
spannu
April 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM
@Indypunk: Yeah... this basically ruins the game and the song both.
spannu
Kenny
April 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM
@ShinuZERO: With his FLIPPY FLOPPIES no less.
Combine
April 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM
@interim has his cake and is eating it too: Okay, I won't. I'll try to stay afloat with a floatation device of puns.
Combine
Crash__Man
April 25, 2009 at 3:27 PM
this > fiddycent
Crash__Man
B33
April 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM
@Rey Rodrigues: What I wouldn't give to pun (natch) you all out of your impending misery.
But it's rather late and I'd rather not toil away any time conjuring up a somewhat decent pun when I could just throw in a mediocre one.
... Now I'm beginning to sound like the average "creative mind" in the entertainment industry.
B33
Rauzaruke
April 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM
@Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the impossible:
Your right. We shouldn't have to "wade" through this crap.
othertim
April 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM
@Bissrok: It's a real song though it's off a comedy album by The Lonely Island (which has two writers and one actor from Saturday Night Live.) Between this and "Jizz In My Pants," it's pretty hilarious.
Moonshadow101
April 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM
@Koneesha: ...You do?
Really?
WHY?
Moonshadow101
Ghostwise
April 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM
It's The Lonely Island. They do digital shorts on Saturday Night Live mostly. All of them hilarious. Jizz in my Pants and Dick in a Box are by far the two funniest music videos ever made.
Ghostwise
Bissrok
April 25, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Is that a real song?
If so, I'm pretty sure I could dominate the rap market with very little effort.
Bissrok
Sammo21
April 25, 2009 at 3:22 PM
@Volante007: I loved the sailing, until it was time to get the tri-force pieces. That is, for me at least, when the game fell apart and got boring. Other than that, it's still the best Zelda game in recent generations.
Ravenhood
April 25, 2009 at 3:22 PM
@nworobes: Urgh, you got to this just before me. >_< I've never understood it either. I, personally, loved the search for the Triforce pieces. Part of my love for the series is never knowing if I'll get the Triforce, or how I'll put it together... Fetch quests are no big deal to me, so long as the world isn't completely impossible to navigate/so long as I'm not collecting anything set by random drops (TOO HUMAN... >_<). Otherwise, I'm fine with it.
interim has his cake and is eati
April 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM
@Combine: Don't sink down to their level.
interim has his cake and is eating it too
Reptar2022
April 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM
I got my swim trunks, and my flippy-floppies
Reptar2022
Noodle-Works
April 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM
@gunluva The Steam servers are too busy to handle your reque...:
You've gotta be kidding me! you're either one of those rare super jaded people on the internets- i heard they're are a COUPLE of them left online these days.. OR you don't like fun.
I think its the latter.
The lonely island skits and adam samburg are the only things that keep SNL fresh and interesting. every other cast member is under-utilized and the writing is awful.
Appreciate it for what it is, its silly and dumb and over the top and in your face. just like the internet! yay! what with your LOLs and FTWs and don't forget the blogy blogs, myface, bookspace, tweety tweets, nano-apps, iboobs, google this and that and metubes!
Noodle-Works
Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the i
April 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM
@Combine: This entire thread makes me want to walk the plank.
Volante007
April 25, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Clearly not long enough. We need a full 30 minutes of NON STOP BLOODY SAILING.
Yeah...Wind Waker's ruined for me. Getting all the sculptures and all the treasures...so much sailing...so much endless sailing... I love it, seriously, but WAAAAAY too much sailing to do everything. And wind changes.
Phantom Hourglass got it right. Motorboat FTW.
Volante007
ShinuZERO
April 25, 2009 at 3:17 PM
@Danin:
Haha, I beat you to the punch!
nworobes
April 25, 2009 at 3:17 PM
@bla19: Upon looking at more gaming forums and comments in the past couple years, I always see this ("the Triforce piece scavenger hunt") as the one complaint people always bring up about Wind Waker.
I really don't get it. Sure, having to get the pieces of the Triforce was a pointless fetch quest (albeit it's at the end of the game when you've explored most of the ocean and should have the teleportation song to speed things up). But what game doesn't have some sort of stupid fetch quest these days?
All 3 Metroid Primes have a fetch quest at the end that you have to do before going to the final area, and somehow whenever one of those games gets mentioned online, no one jumps in to exclaim "Yeah, that game was pretty good, except when the devs made you search around for those goddamn artifacts at the end of the game." Yet without a doubt, multiple people think to mention that in articles on Wind Waker.
Admittedly, in the Metroid Prime games, the items that you're fetching are meshed into the world a little more believably, as opposed to in Wind Waker, where they're just buried near random islands for no logical reason.
So is that it? Do people not mind going on meaningless errands, as long as the devs spend three seconds tricking the player into seeing some reason for doing so? Do gamers not even notice the numerous fetch quests they are sent on, unless they're as obvious as Wind Waker's?
I ask these questions as a person who player Wind Waker, and had no problem with gathering those pieces of the Triforce, because I had already spent half the damn game sailing around and occasionally digging up buried treasure, so the extra 30 minutes to get some Triforce pieces really didn't seem like much when I was able to tolerate (enjoy, even) sailing around for the previous 30 hours.
So please, someone explain this to me.
nworobes
The_M
April 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I hate that hot rod guy. He is unfunny.
gunluva The Steam servers are to
April 25, 2009 at 3:13 PM
@Noodle-Works:
Ugh. I hope this Lonely Island nonsense blows over. Lazy Sunday was good, but everything else just kinda missed the mark.
Combine
April 25, 2009 at 3:11 PM
@soulgrunt: That pun was a shipwreck.
Combine
Sammo21
April 25, 2009 at 3:08 PM
The sad part is the second I saw the title of the post this song popped into my head.
interim has his cake and is eati
April 25, 2009 at 3:08 PM
@Rauzaruke: Oh god, I'm drowning in terrible puns.
interim has his cake and is eating it too
MjrShake
April 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM
@Indypunk: But it's not Sea World, its as real as it could get.
Rauzaruke
April 25, 2009 at 3:03 PM
@soulgrunt:
Oh dear, here comes the wave.
Noodle-Works
April 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM
@ithyphallus:
you just jealous cuz you're straight makin' copies. not on a motherfucking boat with your flippy floppies.
Noodle-Works
Ryguy226
April 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM
@bla19: My friend and I just had this conversation on going back and playing Wind Waker again, but we both agree that the only thing that will hold us back is that damn inevitable triforce searching. Nearly killed the game for me, luckily everything else was superb
Okari
April 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM
I still can't even beat the game. It must be pure luck finding the Frog in the cyclone to get the song because I sure as hell can never find him. 3 hours looking all over that cursed ocean, and I never saw one big cyclone. :{
Okari
ithyphallus
April 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM
so monkey fighting sick of this monday to friday meme
ithyphallus
ReconToaster.
April 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:
THE WHOLE WATER?
ReconToaster.
J.D.
April 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Such a good idea, played out soooo poorly.
could have done better for sure.
J.D.
tnasoundlug
April 25, 2009 at 2:53 PM
WUT
tnasoundlug
Indypunk
April 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM
@ShinuZERO:
I bet that dolphins splashin, gittin evry body all wet.
CmdrBladeHearts is replacing his
April 25, 2009 at 2:48 PM
@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: Nonsense, Bing Bong Bros came out in 2005, and it's still my favorite.
gomerkyle9
April 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM
@Danin: Gettin' e'rybody all wet.
gomerkyle9
CmdrBladeHearts is replacing his
April 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM
@Quicksilver4648: You might like our penises.
Kuwabara Kazuo
April 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM
@The Maginomicon: It's weird for me reading Link being referred to as "the Link."
Kuwabara Kazuo
Solday
April 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM
I couldn't get into wind waker. I couldn't stand all the boat riding.
gomerkyle9
April 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM
@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: It took them that long and it wasn't even any good...
Link was on the Nintendo Dolphin, if that counts for anything.
Indypunk
April 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM
@Dangeresque, Eliminating Targets:
Aaah, well there you have it. The actual music video (+full song) is much more epic, in its parody-humored fashion and all.
gomerkyle9
April 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM
@+ Watch video
gomerkyle9
Tenshigure
April 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM
@gomerkyle9: You're a winner!
jasu78
April 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM
@Indypunk: This is the exact comment I was going to make after I saw this.
It's not that I could do better per se, as my skill at video editing skills is roughly on the same level as my skill at making good analogies (read: non-existant,) but I was expecting a lot more than what actually showed up... you know, like when you get that really big box under the Christmas tree or a big fat gelt envelope for Chanukah or whatever the hell it is you do for Kwanzaa and opening it and finding a sweater with a cat and a ball of yarn on it. Sure, it's nice and all, and someone made some kind of effort, but in the end, you just kind of wish they hadn't bothered so you wouldn't have to be polite.
jasu78
gomerkyle9
April 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM
@CosmicElement: Cash or credit?
gomerkyle9
soulgrunt
April 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM
@Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky: water you saying? links all washed up.
*shoots self*
soulgrunt
Ghostwise
April 25, 2009 at 2:41 PM
I hope he remembered his flippy floppies.
Ghostwise
Dangeresque, Eliminating Targets
April 25, 2009 at 2:41 PM
@Indypunk: I love Windwaker. I have never ever heard this song before. So maybe it's just the magic of the epic song glossing over bad editting, but I LOVED that shit.
Dangeresque, Eliminating Targets
CosmicElement
April 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM
@ShinuZERO: When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense I...
CosmicElement
Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky
April 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM
@Rey Rodrigues: Yes, I think we need to make another splash.
Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky
Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the i
April 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM
I wonder if Link was ever on a Dolphin.
Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSi
April 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Geez, it took this long for someone to do this thing? Come on, internet! We've moved all the way ahead to bein Like a Boss now!
Did you see the part where he was eating BOILED GOOSE?
Danin
April 25, 2009 at 2:37 PM
That's bullshit, Link never rides on a dolphin doin' flips n shit.
Danin
reyrey
April 25, 2009 at 2:36 PM
@bla19:
qft
B33
April 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM
@bla19: The infamous "dick move" developers tend to throw in their games from time to time.
B33
LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!
April 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM
@[kotaku.com]
Water puns ahoy!
falcoboot
April 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Ahh epic stuff
ShinuZERO
April 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
I wanna see Link riding on a dolphin, doin flips n shit
bla19
April 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
That's pretty funny. I actual loved Wind Waker... until the Triforce piece scavenger hunt that is.
bla19
Indypunk
April 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
I love "I'm On a Boat" I love windwaker.
I....don't like them meshed together sloppily in 43 seconds....
BlitzGrilo
April 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
great game, the music is so so... fail montage
BlitzGrilo
Koneesha
April 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
lol. Love that song! And it goes perfect with WW
Koneesha
Quicksilver4648
April 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Man, Link captained that boat LIKE A BOSS.
LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!
April 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM
I think Link accidentally all the water.
The Maginomicon
April 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Love the Link screaming at the end... O.O
Rey Rodrigues
April 25, 2009 at 2:31 PM
time for more water puns!!
Rey Rodrigues
FlipSwitchX
April 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM
@Okari: Check GameFAQs he appears in specific locations
FlipSwitchX
FlipSwitchX
April 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Funny stuff... mainly because this rap is like 4 year old babble. LOOK AT ME I'M ON A BOAT!
FlipSwitchX
slight
April 27, 2009 at 6:59 PM
@Zorantor: Have you seen any of the many rap and r&b videos set on yachts that it's parodying? If not then I'm not really surprised you don't get it :)
slight
lolomfgisuck
April 28, 2009 at 1:39 AM
43 seconds? Why even post this?
What's next, 27 seconds of "I believe I can fly" put to screen shots of Superman 64?
lolomfgisuck
timotei360
April 28, 2009 at 3:54 AM
needs more linebeck.
timotei360
Numanoid
April 28, 2009 at 8:09 AM
@nworobes:
For me it was having to give Tingle so much fucking money.
BigMoose
April 28, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I'm certainly late to this show, but I've been really bogged down with a hurricane of school work.
BigMoose
lockheart
April 29, 2009 at 6:34 PM
@bla19: And that is the point at which I stopped playing :(
Avalon
April 26, 2009 at 4:39 AM
@Koneesha:
The song came from a SNL skit.
Sniktbub
April 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM
@Indypunk: Quite right, that was a poorly done video. Nothing was synced up well and it was only 43 seconds...I was expecting something GOOD.
Not to mention the song isn't applicable anymore, Link rides trains now.
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That was, by far, the stupidest clip I have ever seen. The song itself is quite funny, but making a clip of footage of a video game character on a boat and then overlaying a song, making no attempt to sync the video to the audio in any way, does not a good clip make.
@gomerkyle9: You're a winner!
@Indypunk: This is the exact comment I was going to make after I saw this.
It's not that I could do better per se, as my skill at video editing skills is roughly on the same level as my skill at making good analogies (read: non-existant,) but I was expecting a lot more than what actually showed up... you know, like when you get that really big box under the Christmas tree or a big fat gelt envelope for Chanukah or whatever the hell it is you do for Kwanzaa and opening it and finding a sweater with a cat and a ball of yarn on it. Sure, it's nice and all, and someone made some kind of effort, but in the end, you just kind of wish they hadn't bothered so you wouldn't have to be polite.
jasu78
@CosmicElement: Cash or credit?
gomerkyle9
@Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky: water you saying? links all washed up.
*shoots self*
soulgrunt
I hope he remembered his flippy floppies.
Ghostwise
@Indypunk: I love Windwaker. I have never ever heard this song before. So maybe it's just the magic of the epic song glossing over bad editting, but I LOVED that shit.
Dangeresque, Eliminating Targets
@ShinuZERO: When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense I...
CosmicElement
@Rey Rodrigues: Yes, I think we need to make another splash.
Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky
I wonder if Link was ever on a Dolphin.
Geez, it took this long for someone to do this thing? Come on, internet! We've moved all the way ahead to bein Like a Boss now!
+ Watch video
Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare
@Quicksilver4648:
Did you see the part where he was eating BOILED GOOSE?
That's bullshit, Link never rides on a dolphin doin' flips n shit.
Danin
@bla19:
qft
@bla19: The infamous "dick move" developers tend to throw in their games from time to time.
B33
@[kotaku.com]
Water puns ahoy!
Ahh epic stuff
I wanna see Link riding on a dolphin, doin flips n shit
That's pretty funny. I actual loved Wind Waker... until the Triforce piece scavenger hunt that is.
bla19
I love "I'm On a Boat"
I love windwaker.
I....don't like them meshed together sloppily in 43 seconds....
great game, the music is so so... fail montage
BlitzGrilo
lol. Love that song! And it goes perfect with WW
Koneesha
Man, Link captained that boat LIKE A BOSS.
I think Link accidentally all the water.
Love the Link screaming at the end... O.O
time for more water puns!!
Rey Rodrigues
@Okari: Check GameFAQs he appears in specific locations
FlipSwitchX
Funny stuff... mainly because this rap is like 4 year old babble. LOOK AT ME I'M ON A BOAT!
FlipSwitchX
@Zorantor: Have you seen any of the many rap and r&b videos set on yachts that it's parodying? If not then I'm not really surprised you don't get it :)
slight
43 seconds? Why even post this?
What's next, 27 seconds of "I believe I can fly" put to screen shots of Superman 64?
lolomfgisuck
needs more linebeck.
timotei360
@nworobes:
For me it was having to give Tingle so much fucking money.
I'm certainly late to this show, but I've been really bogged down with a hurricane of school work.
BigMoose
@bla19: And that is the point at which I stopped playing :(
@Koneesha:
The song came from a SNL skit.
@Indypunk: Quite right, that was a poorly done video. Nothing was synced up well and it was only 43 seconds...I was expecting something GOOD.
Not to mention the song isn't applicable anymore, Link rides trains now.
Sniktbub