No technology?

JJAB91 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 04:12 AM

Ok the Zelda series takes place over thousands of years right? Then how come they never develop new technology or anything? its always the same you
would think by the time LttP takes place they would have modern type houses.

Midna · #2 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 05:41 AM

Are you kidding me? There are enough games with technology... Hyrule is a fantasy world... I want it to stay like it is!

Papayo · #3 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by JJAB91

Ok the Zelda series takes place over thousands of years right? Then how come they never develop new technology or anything? its always the same you
would think by the time LttP takes place they would have modern type houses.

If there would be modern things in Zelda. It'd lose it's typical Zelda feel.

Imagine you walk in some house in Kakariko Village, and the people would be playing LoZ on the NES

(okay that was an extreme example)

mcfugg · #4 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 06:37 AM

Dat true. Death Mountain had lots of metal and magnets and stuff.

Smeezette · #5 (**permalink**) 02-24-2007, 03:34 AM

Hm, let's see here...

Working clocks (MM)
Cannons (TP)
Bombs (all LoZ games)
Complex dungeon areas (all LoZ games)

Ain't that enough?

nuclearjoel · #6 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 04:36 AM

magic isn't enough for you people!? now you want technology to go with it!? good grief

jordanzeldafan · #7 (**permalink**) 01-13-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by JJAB91

Ok the Zelda series takes place over thousands of years right? Then how come they never develop new technology or anything? its always the same you
would think by the time LttP takes place they would have modern type houses.

Stop trying to mix Metroid with Zelda...

JJAB91 · #8 (**permalink**) 01-13-2008, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jordanzeldafan

Stop trying to mix Metroid with Zelda...

I am not! Metroid has the tech of like the year 4300, while Zelda of the year 1500 im just saying if there was a good mid point like the present level of tech.

avelanch · #9 (**permalink**) 01-13-2008, 09:33 PM

Think back to the 1500s... there was no computer technology, hell it was less advanced or as advanced as Zelda is. Why ***** and moan about technology? Zelda does not need technology, hell every couple hundred years there is a great calamity that destroys a larger part of the known world, preventing tech from advancing

http://www.answers.com/topic/1500?cat=technology

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In the year 1500 Communication
By the end of the 15th century, about 35,000 different books have been published and printed. The total number of copies produced is estimated at 20,000,000 About 77 percent of the books are in Latin while 45 percent deal with religion. See also 1440 Communication.

Johannes Trithemius of Spanheim [b. 1462, d. Würzburg (Germany), 1516] writes Steganographia ("hidden writing"). Copies of the manuscript circulate for a hundred years. See also 1474 Mathematics; 1553 Communication.

Earth science
Leonardo da Vinci, who finds many fossils in canal building sites, proposes that fossil shells of marine animals are found on mountains because Earth undergoes transformations that cause areas once submerged under water to become exposed. See also 1250 Earth science; 1517 Earth science.

Energy
Gravity-powered water systems for towns are in use. See also 1600 Tools.

Materials
Hieronymus Brunschwygk's Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus, known as the "Small Book" or as "The Little Book of Distillation," describes the construction of furnaces and stills, herbs usable for distillation, and medical applications of distillates. He will publish his "Big Book," dealing with the same subjects, in 1512.
Medicine & healthJakob Nufer, a Swiss pig gelder, performs the first recorded cesarean operation on a living woman. See also 1497 Medicine & health; 1545 Medicine & health.

Tools
Leonardo da Vinci draws a wheel-lock musket, the first known appearance of this type of ignition, which will come into use about 15 years later. Earlier small arms had been ignited by various forms of matches; the wheel-lock is ignited when a spring mechanism causes a ratchet to strike sparks from iron and pyrites or flint. See also 1515 Tools.
Rifling in gun barrels is introduced. Grooves are cut in spirals into the interior of the barrels, imparting a stabilizing spin to the projectile.

Transportation
Leonardo da Vinci designs the first helicopter. It is not built and probably would not have flown if built. See also 1492 Transportation.
Chinese scientist Wan Hu ties 47 gunpowder rockets to the back of a chair in an effort to build a flying machine. The device explodes during testing, killing Wan, who acted as pilot. See also 1150 Transportation.