More Fun To Compute
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Downgraded textures, horrible next gen bloom. Pass.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Announced
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SnakeSlashRO
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I guess my wait is over. Time to play this for the first time in HD!
ImpassionateGods
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It would be nice to have sailing optimized by the gamepad screen. Tap a button to instantly change wind direction, stuff like that. As much as I love the atmosphere and music, sailing was so tedious and cumbersome it almost killed the game for me.
StreetsAhead
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TheCongressman1
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I have a suggestion. Have the same style waves and ripples, but give the water a transparency. Kind of like in the test room for WW. Not as clear, of course. Make it darker the farther it is from shore.
The textures looks like they were just run through a filter. It doesn't look good.
Dreamwriter
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I disagree, I've never gotten that feeling from GAF that people hate Twilight Princess more than Wind Waker. Wind Waker is commonly thought of here as the worst non-portable Zelda game (not counting the non-Nintendo platforms of course).
Me, I thought Twilight Princess was a bit flawed, but still great. Wind Waker I found boring and very flawed at parts. Especially since the game really had a LOT of potential.
PixyJunket
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Oh wow, I hope those screenshots aren't what the game will look like, they've destroyed the look of the game!
Visuals aside, all I ask for is a hard mode of some kind. Oh and a few new dungeons, big ones. Look, that's the game's one REAL weak spot. Six dungeons, and the first two are TINY. Otherwise, hyped as as muuuuug cause this is my favorite Zelda game (dungeon thing aside).
Plus, the Wii U had a built-in Tingle Tuner, yo.
Visuals aside, all I ask for is a hard mode of some kind. Oh and a few new dungeons, big ones. Look, that's the game's one REAL weak spot. Six dungeons, and the first two are TINY. Otherwise, hyped as as muuuuug cause this is my favorite Zelda game (dungeon thing aside).
Plus, the Wii U had a built-in Tingle Tuner, yo.
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
How about instead we agree that Phantom Hourglass shouldn't be the template for anything in the series, except for how not to make a Zelda game.
Twilight Princess is by far the most hated Zelda game and with very good reason. It makes you bored shitless
Dreamwriter
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So the fact that you personally hate it means it's the most hated Zelda game?
Every Zelda game is the most hated Zelda game.
If you believe in that Zelda Cycle nonsense
WrenchNinja
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I hope theres actually new stuff in the game and its just not a visual overhaul like OoT3D.
StreetsAhead
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The look almost exactly the same to me, to be honest. What gives the filter away?
Solid SOAP
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I think it's pretty obvious that this is not a finished product, and that the final version will likely look much different. They did say that they basically just tinkered with some editors and such and out came these screens, so I wouldn't be too surprised if the game looked much different/better at E3, or in motion. Is it realistic to hope for 60fps like OoT 3D? That'd be awesome.
Also, just to put it out there, I do kinda like the claymation look the game seems to currently have.
Also, just to put it out there, I do kinda like the claymation look the game seems to currently have.
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A More Normal Bird
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Was there any in motion media shown? The screens are probably very preliminary, the lighting is a very simple thing to change so I'm not worried. A lot of the textures are the same as the original whereas some look like they've been recreated or taken straight from the source. Or maybe I'm just seeing things and they don't plan to alter the textures or meshes at all.
Dreamwriter
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They said there were Gameplay changes.
Nope, just these screenshots which gives us more evidence that it's not the final visual style of the game and just the testing session they had.
WrenchNinja
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Did they say what?
Dreamwriter
Member
It's not the visual style of the game, yet they showed it to us as an example of what the game would look like???
They did say they were going to tune the gameplay. What that entails, we do not know.
I meant, the lighting, bloom, etc. I should have clarified. >_>
I'm new be nice
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Wind Waker is one of the few Zelda games I haven't played, and while i'm sure it is a phenomenal game there's no more interest in me to go back to this series once again.
I'm sorry but i've played at least 10 of these freaking games, i'm just soooooo bored of the concept. I don't understand how you guys can keep returning to this series again and again and again. Even with nostalgia at some point don't you get sick of the same themes, the same dungeons, practically the same battle systems.... it goes on and on. This series is devoid of life. Any series would be after this many releases.
It just boggles my mind that anyone can ever muster up even a little interest for this series. In my mind each game is made for a new generation of children, I can't imagine they make these games for returning veterans.
I'm sorry but i've played at least 10 of these freaking games, i'm just soooooo bored of the concept. I don't understand how you guys can keep returning to this series again and again and again. Even with nostalgia at some point don't you get sick of the same themes, the same dungeons, practically the same battle systems.... it goes on and on. This series is devoid of life. Any series would be after this many releases.
It just boggles my mind that anyone can ever muster up even a little interest for this series. In my mind each game is made for a new generation of children, I can't imagine they make these games for returning veterans.
Hopefully they add the removed "dungeons, items, etc" that we're supposed to be in the original, I was disappointed that Ocarina of Time 3D didn't add anything else other than the Master Quest and visual upgrade, so Nintendo added everything they couldn't add to the original + the visual upgrade is what I need for sure.
What can I say. If it's fun I'm there.
I'm new be nice
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Well, I appreciate that. I know the series is fundamentally fun, I just have a hard time understanding how people can return to it so many times when there isn't much effort to change the series (not that it should be changed, as I said, I can understand that they are making each game for a new generation of kids).
Solid SOAP
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I'm hoping they take cues from OoT 3D with the inventory aspect of it, being able to choose your items with the game pad would be fantastic. Even having gyro controls and stuff would be nice, much more accurate than stick controls in my opinion.
See You Next Wednesday
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Jesus Christ the Bloom. Ugh.
Would rather have a full on HD remake of OOT or Majorias Mask, but oh well.
Would rather have a full on HD remake of OOT or Majorias Mask, but oh well.
Monumental
Banned
Pfft, the remake looks infinitely better.
Hmm don't fix what isn't broken but new ideas are always welcomed.
Late, but:
It's mainly in the lighting. The level of detail (owing to using GC assets, another reason to not change the lighting unless you change those) is obviously in entirely different tiers, part of why trying for the kind of look they are doing in those WW HD screenshots should probably be saved for a new Zelda entirely as that's easier to justify building the appropriate assets for.I don't get it. How exactly does that new style look anywhere remotely like a Pixar flick?
brochiller
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Really does.
big fucking time, I think its time Nintendo gave the dolphin a run for its money.
Next in line, Metroid prime.
I can dream
I'll buy it anyway (cause my brother took my copy of WW) but if it did include the extra levels and stuff that would be awesome.
I didn't mind it in OoT cause its sauce material isn't that colourful and they probably wanted a softer more child friendly approach expecially for the handheld one. But WW doesn't need to change, its already colourful, that bloom just ruins it, it should be flatter sharper crisper colours not bloom bloom WOOOM.
They've kinda gone overboard with bloom in the past...
Surely they'll realize the lighting looks like hot garbage before they ship the game. Before E3, even.
I didn't mind it in OoT cause its sauce material isn't that colourful and they probably wanted a softer more child friendly approach expecially for the handheld one. But WW doesn't need to change, its already colourful, that bloom just ruins it, it should be flatter sharper crisper colours not bloom bloom WOOOM.
This is what I thought.
Sounds like many are looking for stuff to complain about.
Lighting looks great.
EmCeeGramr
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I just realized that we'll probably have to wait until E3 to actually see the game in motion.
MisterHero
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I wonder if they'll mess with the story and introduce Toon Shiek
nah
nah
Aquamarine
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Hell yeah. I actually love this over-saturated style. Makes the game feel almost tropical...you know, with salt in the air and sea fog misting up the towns...
Chet Rippo
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Probably, unless they decide to drip feed us through NDs in the coming months.
StreetsAhead
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Maybe, but if it's coming in Fall we may see something sooner.
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