You should always expect something like this by now. It's the reason I cancelled my PS4 preorder. I'm waiting for that sweet FFXV Limited Edition PS4.
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Special Edition Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD Wii U confirmed [Hero Mode trailer]
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You should always expect something like this by now. It's the reason I cancelled my PS4 preorder. I'm waiting for that sweet FFXV Limited Edition PS4.
RPGCrazied
Member
Meh, just the gamepad has artwork on it? They could have went all out. A gold Wii U, or at least artwork on the Wii U itself.
brandonh83
Banned
My bad. That's true. Whatever the case, it sucks.
So is 32GB the cap for flash memory or something? Should I not expect anything higher?
Captain Chaos
Member
oh wow, would not buy. Its not even gold.
If Nintendo thinks this game will reverse its Wii U fortunes then they are wrong... and I'm a huge WW fan.
If Nintendo thinks this game will reverse its Wii U fortunes then they are wrong... and I'm a huge WW fan.
It is compatible with external HDDs.
Don't expect them to go all out crazy for an upgraded re-release.
Smiles and Cries
Member
lol not coming this year for sure lol
not sure if serious, but comments like this are beyond lame. Your reward for buying early, is oh I don't know, actually being able to enjoy the product a full year before non early adopters. I don't understand why people think they need to be rewarded for buying something like this early.
Jaded Alyx
Member
My Gamepad has a case on it at all times, so this doesn't affect me in the least 
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
So Zelda WW is included on the HD, or is it a separate disc?
Azure Dream
Member
That's all Hero Mode is? I hope there's more to it than that. Turning off heart spawns and doubling damage sounds like an incredibly simple thing to add, that just required a bit of testing to make sure it was feasible.
Maybe there'll be a surprise to it, like halfway through, or once you get the magic armor (I forgot WW had magic armor), where it suddenly says: "Guess what? The Double Damage has been DOUBLED!"
Honestly, though, tweaking damage output and cutting down health regeneration spawns is a classic "lazy videogames" way of adding difficulty. I hope we find out they made the dungeon layouts more challenging, mixed up the placement of items, or something.
Maybe there'll be a surprise to it, like halfway through, or once you get the magic armor (I forgot WW had magic armor), where it suddenly says: "Guess what? The Double Damage has been DOUBLED!"
Honestly, though, tweaking damage output and cutting down health regeneration spawns is a classic "lazy videogames" way of adding difficulty. I hope we find out they made the dungeon layouts more challenging, mixed up the placement of items, or something.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I would have been bummed too if it was Gold lol
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Meh, hero mode sounds more like "annoying mode" than like a good hard mode. Why do this boring stuff at all ? Redesign the dungeons to have harder puzzles, make the enemies stronger by adding new patterns and "harder" attacks, don't just throw a multiplyer and an added annoyance into the mix >.<.
? Redesign the dungeons to have harder puzzles, make the enemies stronger by adding new patterns and "harder" attacks, don't just throw a multiplyer and an added annoyance into the mix >.<.
Allan Holdsworth
Member
I've got the Zelda 3DS but this looks like nothing special. Still if it was like $250 I would bite, but it's simply too expensive right now, as much as I want to play NSMBU, NSLU, DKCRTF and SM3DW.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
He means if on the Wind Waker edition of the Wii U is the game preinstalled or does it come in a disc.
Something I too am curious about.
You shouldn't unless you want the thing to cost more.
They're not thinking that and that's no secret. Their whole thing this E3 was "it's not about ONE game, it's about the overall line-up."
Read the OP, please.
That's the reason it's even in there. It's the same thing as in Skyward Sword.
We still live in reality.
I don't know what you were expecting lol. If it helps any, when I played the original game a year or two ago with 2x damage Action Replay code, it did make things pretty hard if you so much as fumbled up or had a group of enemies around you. I know for a fact the Savage Labyrinth will actually be hard now, at least,
You realize this is a unreasonable request, right? That's like what the gamepad costs by itself. They're still selling at a loss at the current prices.
Smiles and Cries
Member
they are already losing money on the thing now how is losing $100 each time they sell a new Wii U to someone a smarter move?
Meh, hero mode sounds more like "annoying mode" than like a good hard mode. Why do this boring stuff at all
Nintendo hasn't remixed their dungeons in rereleases since Master Quest, and even that was from a prior project. It's not their thing
Meh, hero mode sounds more like "annoying mode" than like a good hard mode. Why do this boring stuff at all
Redesigning dungeons? Yea sure, like that would not take a significant amount of time and work, both of which they don't have the luxury to invest into something like this.
ConradCervantes
Banned
I can get this from Target for $297 through some friends employed there. Fuck yeah, I'm jumping in.
I old still remember the original wind waker commercials as they used to come on television. And then it was some girl in a cave at the end who went 'to save... me'.
I haven't seen many broadcasted Nintendo commercials in a longtime besides the few they had mentioning the Wii U or the Wii.
Heck I still remember the Link to the Past commercials on TV.
I haven't seen many broadcasted Nintendo commercials in a longtime besides the few they had mentioning the Wii U or the Wii.
Heck I still remember the Link to the Past commercials on TV.
brandonh83
Banned
Right, but I really don't want to have an external attached to the console. It's 2013!
Honestly, though... you kinda did know this was coming. Maybe not exactly this but something like this. At this point, it's not rocket science to figure this stuff out.
It wasn't a cave, it was a realistic version of Forsaken Fortress!
And it was very memorable.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
its hardly obtrusive at all to be busy
Hey, why am I the bad guy? That's just what I want to happen so I can justify buying one. I never said it would actually happen.
Azure Dream
Member
Wasn't Savage Labyrinth this long enemy gauntlet? Like the only remotely challenging spot in the game? I remember very nearly dying there, once. But I was majorly screwing up, and IIRC, I realized after that I'd forgotten about my potions.
They want to charge for a $60 premium product? The same cost as Wonderful 101, or Super Mario 3D World, or on another platform, Infamous: Second Son, for example? Then maybe there's the expectation they put more than a little work into what is otherwise a port of a game they fully developed and released for a console two generations, 13 years, ago. Tiny tweaks, Tingle bottles, and "selfies" do not cut it.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Imo they then should not bother with such a port/remake at all. In Skyward Sword they also had this horrible kind of hard mode, I really feel a bit trolled by it.
Yes, that is correct. It is the Cave of Ordeals equivalent, except I don't think it goes down 100 floors...?
For what it's worth, no final pricing has been announced. Everybody is basing their rants off of amazon's placeholder price.
I know this is nit-picky but it is neither port nor remake. It's a remaster that is shaping up to be the definitive version of that game.
Yeah, I seem to remember Darknuts hitting for stupid amounts of damage. I can't have forgotten that much...
walking fiend
Member
Not having played WW before, I guess this will be the offer I cannot pass; unless it eventually ends up being more expensive than regular deluxe bundles, or doesn't include NL.
Sgt.McTigerbuns
Member
Could have done a bit more I think. Made it gold or something. If they released a gold Wii U pro controller... and had more games that needed it... then I would consider that
Bit off topic, but have they toned down the bloom?
Bit off topic, but have they toned down the bloom?