The apples probably restore hearts. That's as close as you're probably going to get.
Also, some of you really need to check your sarcasm meters.
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Legend of Zelda Wii U Gameplay Demo
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The apples probably restore hearts. That's as close as you're probably going to get.
Also, some of you really need to check your sarcasm meters.
Palculator
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Probably mostly for the demo, you can hear the Fi-ish fantasy language in the background they'll be using.
Edit: Also.
Wow so much trolling here you guys are up early.
For people who actually play zelda games, I thought the main point of the video was to show the scope and engine. The e3 image left a lot unanswered: how big is it really, how does it run, are there any sacrifices made to the presentation? Answers is it runs as smoothly as ever, no pop in, great animation, beautiful lighting.
Nintendo has already released information about the gameplay approach, how they are working hard to bring the world to life, to make it more interesting that twilight, to do new things with the dungeon order. This video is not about that.
And it was a good fit for the awards. I enjoyed the banter, the casualness of the whole thing while dropping bomb after bomb to fans hungry for a little something. Great tone, and directed at the fans.
For people who actually play zelda games, I thought the main point of the video was to show the scope and engine. The e3 image left a lot unanswered: how big is it really, how does it run, are there any sacrifices made to the presentation? Answers is it runs as smoothly as ever, no pop in, great animation, beautiful lighting.
Nintendo has already released information about the gameplay approach, how they are working hard to bring the world to life, to make it more interesting that twilight, to do new things with the dungeon order. This video is not about that.
And it was a good fit for the awards. I enjoyed the banter, the casualness of the whole thing while dropping bomb after bomb to fans hungry for a little something. Great tone, and directed at the fans.
Saint Gregory
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LOL, a lot of sarcasm going over people's heads in this thread.
I thought the footage was underwhelming last night too, a trailer would have been better, but I'm never again falling into the trap of judging a Nintendo game based on early footage after the crow I ate with 3D World.
I thought the footage was underwhelming last night too, a trailer would have been better, but I'm never again falling into the trap of judging a Nintendo game based on early footage after the crow I ate with 3D World.
fart town usa
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fuck yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
#ABAP
#ABAP
Graphics Horse
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Dr. Feel Good
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I have no desire to watch a horse avoid trees for ten minutes while I have nothing to do.
So much this. I would rather have an interesting and organic world than an enemy/cave every 5 steps just to satisfy the people with an attention span of a fly.
I really don't get what people want. People were complaining of Skyward Sword lack of open world that connected the places and now there is a problem with a natural overworld connecting them.
Because that's the way the series is trending in my view, and the fact that they showed off a bunch of gimmicky stuff like Epona dodging trees and horse combat worries me. Zelda no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt I'm sad to say.
I think it looks excellent and so far it captures the adventure mood created by this original Zelda artwork
oh look, you just blew my mind
not_so_special
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man,why so agressive? u think u are the only who knows how game development works?
They also skipped forward a lot...so who knows what we DIDN'T see.
I get being concerned based off of what we did get to see but some people are acting like the game comes out next month and shit.
This goes for every reveal and not just Nintendo...but I feel like people are too jaded lately and focus far too much on the negative in an attempt to seem to be critical and not accepting sub par products and whatnot...and it only comes off as nitpicky at times.
Every reveal lately has a bunch of people rushing into threads to basically go "meh, I don't get why people are even excited about this game....". It really doesn't add a much to the conversation as you may think. It is basically the alternate version of "OMG ALL OVER MAH FAAAACE" posts.
again the funny part is that most of the concerns are valid as fuck...but I do think we are better off waiting until the next look in instead of judging it off of a very quick look at an offscreen streamed version of the game.
I get being concerned based off of what we did get to see but some people are acting like the game comes out next month and shit.
This goes for every reveal and not just Nintendo...but I feel like people are too jaded lately and focus far too much on the negative in an attempt to seem to be critical and not accepting sub par products and whatnot...and it only comes off as nitpicky at times.
Every reveal lately has a bunch of people rushing into threads to basically go "meh, I don't get why people are even excited about this game....". It really doesn't add a much to the conversation as you may think. It is basically the alternate version of "OMG ALL OVER MAH FAAAACE" posts.
again the funny part is that most of the concerns are valid as fuck...but I do think we are better off waiting until the next look in instead of judging it off of a very quick look at an offscreen streamed version of the game.
Prevolition
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You are searching for a dungeon. Once you've discovered it you'll be able to teleport there. Seriously, I'm so disappointed in the lack of adventuring spirit in some gamers these days.
Please, a dramatic reading of this.
oh look, you just blew my mind
Ok I think this is a pretty fucking amazing find even if it is just coincidence!
Heartily disagree with the last point - wrong tone for an awards show. Awesome for something like a Nintendo direct. This needed something a lot more impressive, in your face, explosive, akin to the last 30 seconds of the original reveal.
Talking about dodging trees is the most hilariously tepid shit to talk about when revealing this game for like the second time ever. Does anyone vet this before it goes live to air? This was like the fishes swimming out of the way in CoD.
Also, why was the whole thing off-screen. Everyone in the room with me kept hollering "direct feed!" And rightly so.
I hope there's no sidekick at all.
Beelzebufo
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First time I saw it I was unimpressed, but after really looking at it, I'm really excited! I loved the oceans in WW, and it looks like this is a similar concept that they can do a lot more with.
It's the horse! But seriously, whatever it is should be less intrusive since there's a gamepad right?
Kissenkopf
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A fairy would be nice. :3
Edit: Or make Epona your sidekick. A friend you stick to the whole adventure. Like Yakul is to Ashitaka in Mononoke.
Bel_Air_Jeff
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This post wins.
I dont think you will be sarrhing for dungeaon, it will more like hey yo there a deugeon over here over there
No, but judging from your posts you certainly have no idea.
MagnaderAlpha
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oh look, you just blew my mind
This! The vista is gorgeous and I immediately thought of that OG artwork. When I recall Miyamoto talking about LoZ being based on his childhood adventures exploring, I think having a great world full of wonder and secrets is prime to capturing that sort of "feel". Hell, looking at both pictures(the original LoZ artwork and the screenshot of Link overlooking the world, I think both encapsulates the idea of "A World of Adventure".
Leatherface
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First off that looked incredible. How they can pull that off on a WiiU is just amazing. Secondly, those worried about not having enough to do or too sparse, relax. This is Zelda. The game will most likely be a masterpiece.
Beelzebufo
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A major problem with the last Zelda game was that the open world had literally nothing of consequence to do outside of Skyloft
I'm not as worried with this one though, since there's not two worlds from what I can tell.
Woah thats true, I know I had seen something there D:
I can understand the "it looks boring" comments when only talking about the footage shown. They didn't exactly blow the lid of the game. It was a another small amount of info shown for he sake of showcasing the scale of the game. For me personally it was fantastic to see but i'll agree it wasn't the most "exciting" thing.That said if you honestly believe they would finally go out and make a giant Zeglda world only to leave it barren then get ready to eat crow when the next trailer comes around. People said similar things about 3d world and that was even closer to release. It looks bland, all the levels look boring, what's with the cat suits, it's literally just 3d land ported etc.Then couple months before release epic trailer and everything changed.
brandonh83
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This is the image I thought of when Epona was running through those trees. I remember poring over the Zelda 64 development screens for HOURS on the internet. Oh, the days of Windows 95.
I remember staring at those early images in awe. I used to dream about that shit. Ocarina was great but it didn't really have those open forests and mountains that I was hoping for.
This game however...
The geography of the overworld also resembles the Nes games a lot. Mountains in the North-West, an ocean in South-East. Me likey!I think it looks excellent and so far it captures the adventure mood created by this original Zelda artwork
I hope they can capture the following for dungeons too
dehydratedbabies
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Solid post, thanks for writing it for me.
NHarmonic.
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Looks fucking beautiful. Really.
The emptiness is understandable at this time of development, though i hope they add lots of NPCs fauna, and such.
The emptiness is understandable at this time of development, though i hope they add lots of NPCs fauna, and such.
they did it for Twilight Princess. Everything in between the dungeons/towns/etc was barren and boring. Great game, one of my favorites, but that was the big the flaw of the title. There's a reason people even have this concern, because it has been a problem in the past with certain 3D Zelda titles.
You were yelling at a pre-recorded video?
Beelzebufo
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I guess he's saying the difference is that TP didn't have one huge overworld, it had lots of 'rooms' of overworld kinda. Best comparison would be to Wind Waker, and I guess the argument is that it's easier to make compelling stuff out of traveling on land than water.
The thing that scares me the most is that they brought back the sail cloth. I hope that doesn't mean we'll see a lot of other SS stuff like Hylia or whatever.
I think that was all of it.
brandonh83
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A major problem with the last Zelda game was that the open world had literally nothing of consequence to do outside of Skyloft
I don't see how that was a major problem. It functioned just like Hyrule Field. You weren't supposed to spend a great deal of time there and there were some small, cool areas that I enjoyed for example the bamboo island, the islands that were basically small puzzles to figure out how to get the items they housed, the freefalling mini game, Pumpkin island, etc. It wasn't totally empty, there was stuff to do, and Skyloft was the main attraction (and it was quite dense).
Otherwise it only takes a moment to reach the three major destination points. The sky overall never stood out to me as some kind of flaw. I guess it could have been bigger with even more features but the main destinations and dungeons gave me all the gameplay I needed.
Another clear sign of downgrade is the fact that the game dosent run on full screen anymore. The playable area is now only a small box to the left, while the rest of the screen is taken by the image of two man talking. Here´s proof
Compare it to the footage shown at e3 and you will notice that the old version uses the full screen, instead of the terrible downgrade we see now
Bravo sir
Look at the top. Its a clock that reads 19:00. I believe it represents in-game time, as 19:00 would match the sunset seen in the gameplay. I doubt that its real-world time since the home button shows that already, and we saw clear daylight pouring into the room with Miyamoto and Aonuma. So, I can conjecture that its a specific time from in the new Zelda game. Yeah, so what? Nearly every Zelda game had different times of day, right?
Well, the only Zelda games to have exact hours and minutes in their clocks are Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask. The only two games to feature the Hero of Time. I want to believe, GAF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXD5DxbXog
OMGOMGOMG I thought he was kidding, but you can really listen to the battle song on the Japanese footage!!!! I cant!!..dsandjkawhjk
OMGOMGOMG I thought he was kidding, but you can really listen to the battle song on the Japanese footage!!!! I cant!!..dsandjkawhjk
TheDarkTriforce
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No one knows this right now, but I believe there will be a mirror map too like in Zelda: A Link to the Past or A Link between Worlds
they could have just changed the clock on the console for the demo
would make sense considering it's a nice even number when it's shown
Fantastical
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Some musings over the map:
There are 2 icons on the map: a town and a tent. The tent icon has a 1 next to it. Could these be fast travel camps?
The big lake on the map looks pretty similar to the big lake in Zelda 1, including being fed by a river from the northeast.
I'm not 100% certain, but I think lighter = higher. The beaches (including those around lakes) are all dark and the topography gets lighter moving inland. The lava, which would likely be death mountain, is on lighter topography. This would indicate that the desert is very high up. It has a canyon/crevice dividing it like the desert in Twilight Princess and looks like it has a huge oasis in the southwest corner.
There's a stormcloud reminiscent of thunderhead from Skyward Sword in the southwest corner of the map. I'm thinking it could be like snowhead.
Why is a dock important enough to indicate on the map? This is a small lake near the town. Maybe it's the starting village and you can learn how to boat here on calmer waters?
There are 2 icons on the map: a town and a tent. The tent icon has a 1 next to it. Could these be fast travel camps?
The big lake on the map looks pretty similar to the big lake in Zelda 1, including being fed by a river from the northeast.
I'm not 100% certain, but I think lighter = higher. The beaches (including those around lakes) are all dark and the topography gets lighter moving inland. The lava, which would likely be death mountain, is on lighter topography. This would indicate that the desert is very high up. It has a canyon/crevice dividing it like the desert in Twilight Princess and looks like it has a huge oasis in the southwest corner.
There's a stormcloud reminiscent of thunderhead from Skyward Sword in the southwest corner of the map. I'm thinking it could be like snowhead.
Why is a dock important enough to indicate on the map? This is a small lake near the town. Maybe it's the starting village and you can learn how to boat here on calmer waters?
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