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Legend of Zelda Wii U Gameplay Demo
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Relaxed Muscle
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Looks good but those barren fields..., I always thought it was the case on TP cuz tech limitations, but I see is Ninty not having a clue.
Now let's hope that in another 10 years they get open world design.
Now let's hope that in another 10 years they get open world design.
Last trailer had people not believing the game would have a real open world, or that that trailer was all CG since Link leaps off Epona and fires his bow. Now we see a true open world and that Link can in fact leap off Epona and fire his bow in real time and all that can be disused is how bad the ground looks. We went through this with with other U games. There are always a lot of complaints about the use of CG trailers, and Dark Souls 2 using an old lighting engine for footage but when we get real footage of a in dev game the graphics get nit picked to death.
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I cant wait to see more of this game. I do wonder what Nintendo will do besides Epona for traversing the land. We have the Sail Cloth for traversing from high to low it would be my guess that we will get some new for of the different grapples that would allow for climbing. From seeing the other wildlife its possible we may get more then just Epona for traversal. If not a Loftwing but maybe a Air Ship given the tech we have seen in the world already. The over world itself looks like a joy to explore just like GTA V I can see myself just loosing hours in just wandering with no goal.
Rant over.
I cant wait to see more of this game. I do wonder what Nintendo will do besides Epona for traversing the land. We have the Sail Cloth for traversing from high to low it would be my guess that we will get some new for of the different grapples that would allow for climbing. From seeing the other wildlife its possible we may get more then just Epona for traversal. If not a Loftwing but maybe a Air Ship given the tech we have seen in the world already. The over world itself looks like a joy to explore just like GTA V I can see myself just loosing hours in just wandering with no goal.
That's what I thought, Zelda U running on Voxels.
Why do people think OoT would have been like this if they had the technology? They're completely different games in different genres.
brandonh83
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And what do those have to do with the Zelda series? People are happy because it's pretty much a first for the series.
Krappadizzle
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Nice. I got a chuckle.
Catching up? Height based gliding and shooting arrows on horses aren't new to Zelda either. In fact even OOT had both in 1998.
Jessie.Bristol
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I was speaking primarily of Zelda. Simply because other Open World games may have achieved it first, but Zelda plays differently from them.
Because Nintendo showed open forests and more exploration when they first revealed Ocarina of Time.
Rewatched the footage again, got a real Shadow of Colossus/Princess Mononoke vibe from it. Looked a little rough but I'm sure give it another year of polish and it'll look great. Kind of wish they ended the segment with another brief teaser like at E3.
Regardless, I'm all in. I will keep playing Zelda games as long as they keep making them.
Regardless, I'm all in. I will keep playing Zelda games as long as they keep making them.
Epona clearly won't be the only means of traversal, it makes sense to have all forms of traversal available for the player to find or unlock. Have all the forms of traversal from 3D Zelda present.
Epona: Most maneuverable, can travel on land, reach most areas but not all.
Magical hang glider: Can cover the most ground, must be used on higher peaks or cliffs, drains magic from the magic meter quickly. Hitting something causes Link to drop immediately, if you run out of magic you switch to the parachute.
Magical boat: "Motorized" so to speak, can explore the ocean and rivers/lakes, uses magic slowly, quite speedy.
Epona: Most maneuverable, can travel on land, reach most areas but not all.
Magical hang glider: Can cover the most ground, must be used on higher peaks or cliffs, drains magic from the magic meter quickly. Hitting something causes Link to drop immediately, if you run out of magic you switch to the parachute.
Magical boat: "Motorized" so to speak, can explore the ocean and rivers/lakes, uses magic slowly, quite speedy.
HOW BIG IS THIS THING!?
Another one:
The dream originally realised by Nintendo is finally coming true. Really, really looking forward to this game.
Hell, even the layout of the map is similar to that art. Ocean on the right, mountains up north, rivers/lakes in the center.
Granted that's Fantasy RPG Map 101, but still.
BloodMoney
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Windom Earle
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Sorry, not really directed at you.
let forget xenoblade and X.
It wasn't a trailer. It was a gameplay demo for a game that is about a year away from launch to show off the scale of the world. This was not a Nintendo Direct. Would you rather get what the Order: 1886 gave us? You probably was not excited but the most boring part of the show?
We are 20 pages in, who are these people?
No one has gotten open world gaming right yet.
Of course Nintendo certainly won't be the first to do it.
WindWaker was great though, maybe this can find a way to be too.
Mango The Magician
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At around 3:14, if you listen really closely you can hear Link's manly shout, sounds like the same actor from SS is back. Also, gonna go analyse that map. ;P
Yep, this guy is right Jessie.Bristol. Other companies have done this before so please don't be excited for this game for his sake.
Um, did you hear what got cheers for the entire 3 hour show?
Everything
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And if the sail-cloth got a cheer, it was probably a nostalgia one, (since it's been in a lot Zelda games), and not a "omg" one.
zoomed high Quality Version.
can we all agree that this zelda looks fantastic ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PRLhX5qKW4
can we all agree that this zelda looks fantastic ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PRLhX5qKW4
If you remove spin-offs and remakes, no, we don't get that many zelda games. The last mainline console zelda game was 2011. If you count handheld games, too, then the rate still isn't that bad.
Jesus. I thought for sure that the world was about as big as we saw in the reveal. This is going to be massive.
brandonh83
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Yeah isn't the prospect of an open world game without a list of chores and probably bugs and a shit frame rate and microtransactions kind of nice?
Shadowlink
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Wow! That looked amazing. :O
This barren over world thing is way over blown, when I play AC3/4 and I go to the woods there is nothing there but tress, water and grass, then I will see a few animals, GTA woods nothing much there, Skyrim nothing much there.
I care more about once I get to towns that its not lifeless and feels like a real town with people going about their daily lives.
Out in the open I dont expect to see a whole lot going on, of course their are gonna be areas out in the woods with creatures and enemies. But what was shown today is just how big the world is and how riding Epona will be.
The game looks gorgeous and I cant wait to see more.
I care more about once I get to towns that its not lifeless and feels like a real town with people going about their daily lives.
Out in the open I dont expect to see a whole lot going on, of course their are gonna be areas out in the woods with creatures and enemies. But what was shown today is just how big the world is and how riding Epona will be.
The game looks gorgeous and I cant wait to see more.
BloodMoney
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"Real fucking horses don't run into real trees......... dummy.... DUH!"
why are Japanese translations always so literal?
why are Japanese translations always so literal?
Chicken gliding is best gliding.
OminousShadow
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I can't get over the size of the world map. Its humongous.
I'm hoping there's a lot of random points of interest to stumble upon while you're travelling around the place.
I'm hoping there's a lot of random points of interest to stumble upon while you're travelling around the place.
My god... they finally did it. The illustration that Miyamoto had in mind back in 1986 of how vast and big the world of Zelda can be it'll be now possible on Wii U! <3333333333333333
can you upload the video you made?
eyeball_kid
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I think the blue in the distance is probably the lake shown in the map. This is the part right before he comes across the wild horses, and curves to the right. I think he's riding alongside that lake. I've blown up and sharpened the screenshot a bit, which was taken around 3:47:
By the way, people keep saying it's 4-5 minutes to the marker, but he said that after riding quite a ways. I'd guess it's more like 10 minutes on horse to the marker.
By the way, people keep saying it's 4-5 minutes to the marker, but he said that after riding quite a ways. I'd guess it's more like 10 minutes on horse to the marker.
swazzyswess
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It's your right to be excited. I honesty wish I could experience child-like wonder and amazement at things I've seen a dozen times before just because they're now associated with an IP I like.
Forgot to mention that with the amount of water present I am hoping for a boat as well. I have been waiting since WW for them to incorporate a Boat into a world like this.
Raging Spaniard
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Looked amazing, a Nintendo take in a truly open world game is super exciting.
The overworld will have plenty to do. Zero worries about that stuff. The purpose of this video was to show basic open world functionality, thats it. Some of these reactions are so cynical, its like they show you one thing and you cant even begin to enjoy it because youre already complaining about the bext thing.
The overworld will have plenty to do. Zero worries about that stuff. The purpose of this video was to show basic open world functionality, thats it. Some of these reactions are so cynical, its like they show you one thing and you cant even begin to enjoy it because youre already complaining about the bext thing.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I've been playing Zelda games since 1995. The way the franchise got milked after Ocarina didn't go unnoticed.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
whoa, Skyward Sword/Majora's Mask fan, lets wait and see how the game actually pans out, yeah? Can't quite mark that off the list yet.
Crossing Eden
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Chrome getting hammered by this,we need these in webm form. Most beautiful Zelda game ever.
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