Did you think there would never be a zelda game on it or something?
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Zelda Wii U announced - "Rethink the conventions of Zelda"
- Thread starter PapaJustify
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Did you think there would never be a zelda game on it or something?
get out!
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Open world Zelda? I shudder to think of how many trinkets I'd have to collect for npcs as optional missions.
Zoramon089
Banned
You do realize that's a release date PapaJustify is guessing. There was no estimated date in the ND
Chet Rippo
Member
People are crazy.
MvmntInGrn
Member
Absolutely my worry with non-linear Zelda.
I'm hoping they can address this by gradually increasing the amount of available dungeons. Maybe not all of them in any order but the first 3 then the next 3 or 4.
I really dislike the outer/inner dungeon mechanic personally. I don't really enjoy SS dungeons but I'm beginning to wonder if it can be attributed partially to this change in pacing. The whole damn game becomes interconnected micro-tasks and dungeons loose their purpose of being a focused challenge. Luckily for me this would probably have to go in a more non-linear Zelda.
MikeE21286
Member
Seems like an oxymoron in the title.
I'm hyped regardless.
Seemingly 2-3 years out at least.
I'm hyped regardless.
Seemingly 2-3 years out at least.
shinobi602
Member
I'd like this.
For everyone but Link, I hope so.
Here's another thought: what if the interior of a dungeon changes depending on your progress in the game? The item which you get in a given dungeon, and the visual theme and enemies you face in that dungeon are always the same, but the layout and puzzles are altered depending on how many other dungeons you have beaten at this point and what items you have available.
This wouldn't change the boss battles much either, because most of them are tied specifically to the item you get in that dungeon anyway.
Something like this could make the game much more fun to replay too.
PapaJustify
Member
Well, not if the conventions have been introduced after the first games. In my eyes they thought of the conventions introduced with the 3D games (and partly LTTP) and instead want to go back to the basics of the very first Zelda which was somewhat non-linear.
I'm willing to bet you wouldn't like what the end result would probably be though. Everyone else should have dialogue but I think people have this idea of Link in their head and no voice would fit for most people.
As for open world I'll take it. I just don't want motion control sword swinging like SS, much less fetch quests and waaaay less handholding.
MikeE21286
Member
That makes sense.
I associate myself more with the 3D games personally, so that's the angle I was coming at it from.
I don't really also think of Zelda as being linear, but I mean I guess it is in all honesty.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Hope not.
I liked sword fighting in SS but hated all the other motion stuff. I would love to have an option to use motion controls and Wii-mote, as well as having a full WiiU tablet control scheme. Then I could judge which one I use by how the game plays out.
Plus I agree everyone but Link could be voiced and still have it work out well. There are tons of games with great voice acting, if its done well, no one should really be able to complain. I don't mind too much though. Link should definitely stay silent though, because he doesn't talk in the first place, there is nothing to voice.
shinobi602
Member
I don't know...there's a 50/50 chance, true.
But hey, I was pleasantly surprised with Pit's voice in Kid Icarus Uprising. I think they could probably pull something good off.
MvmntInGrn
Member
I like that. I like it alot.
If they can do this and still make the dungeons feel like one big cohesive puzzle I'd be so on board.
EmCeeGramr
Member
I'm not so sure if it's multiplayer as much as it is Miiverse stuff.
Don't do this.
and i think you nailed it...
they actually didn't mention multiplayer... probably people will just be able to leave clues to other players and that's it
i don't trust you nintendo. the king has already been crowned:
LONG LIVE THE KING
Since my message wasn't clear enough the last time, I guess I have to make an example of how unacceptable it is to try and derail a thread this way.
Play GC version? On dolphin if you want to have it in HD.
Well to be fair, Pit was pretty much dead, and really didn't have an personality before Uprising, so it was easy for them to create a character for Pit. With Link, that's another story.
PapaJustify
Member
When was it confirmed there was multiplayer? It says play by yourself, which I assume means less handholding.
What depresses me is the fact that people are actually looking forward to a game being ruined by going "open world".
I had this thought years ago where dungeons could be done in any order and the dungeons change based on what items you have. It would add a ton of replayability to the game, but I think it would make the game too complex to develop. If there were 7 dungeons, you'd basically have to make 6 factorial + 1 dungeons. 721 dungeons.
But Zelda has always been an "open world" game since the first title. I think people are just misusing the word here. It's really kinda dumb.
Nah, that's not really true. You don't redesign every single dungeon. What you do is when you design one basic layout, you just consider how other items could be possibly used. You can also design rooms which have multiple different solutions based on what items you might or might not have. It would be more like designing 7 really big dungeons, and a player only seeing a portion of that design.
Art.Menegatti
Member
Obviously the art style will be more different than Wind Waker. Maybe the oppositte.
Ive posted it before and I thought they would do something like this. Now lets see how far they take it.
Very simply they could make it like Dark Souls progression where you die a lot and always go back to the beginning of the world or Village spawning a new Link. One who has all your key items and the environment shortcuts opened from your previous characters but the enemies have repopulated.
Progression is then done by finding items. Items give you new strategies and also unlocks new paths and environments.
I think they could pull it off. It would be like dropping you into an original Zelda HD forest not knowing a damn thing. Just a chest full of mysterious items and a sweet green outfit. It fits with the idea of the series having multiple Links and what not too.
Very simply they could make it like Dark Souls progression where you die a lot and always go back to the beginning of the world or Village spawning a new Link. One who has all your key items and the environment shortcuts opened from your previous characters but the enemies have repopulated.
Progression is then done by finding items. Items give you new strategies and also unlocks new paths and environments.
I think they could pull it off. It would be like dropping you into an original Zelda HD forest not knowing a damn thing. Just a chest full of mysterious items and a sweet green outfit. It fits with the idea of the series having multiple Links and what not too.
Hot damn.
Anyway, all this info is making me too damn giddy for a friggin' Wednesday morning. I need to go ly dow.
Sammy Samusu
Member
*waitiing forever*
This is not coming anytime soon.
This is not coming anytime soon.