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[nikatapi]

Metroid Prime Trilogy HD *drool*

Oh shit, you should not do this to me. If they actually remade the gfx and add gamepad features i would buy once again.

 

[monome]

characters look shitty with this engine.

so two wiiU games this year, W101 and WWHD, both without releases dates.
One that has no Off-TV confirmed, the other that may or may not improve on the orginal experience.

hummmm. I bought a WiiU day 1, so I guess I'm a fanboy, but damn, if these are megatons, i'm probably way too irradiated by iwata's previous bombs to feel da bomb today.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Come on now. It doesn't really matter if it actually is or isn't cell shaded. The point I'm making is that the style doesn't look as good without the flat color look that JGR had.

I hope it isn't final because it just looks off.

Hey at least that's an actual reason.

Which I'm completely okay with someone espousing. It definitely doesn't have the stark contrasts between the lighted and shaded of the original.

 

[Smellycat]

The fact that Nintendo is working on two Zelda games on WiiU, makes me think that the 3DS Zelda game is a remake of MM, developed by the same team that remade OOT.

 

[Davey Cakes]

I hope the change some of the content. Namely, the Triforce fetch quest. There's should've been another 2-3 full dungeons instead.

That would be amazing, but I'm not expecting it.

 

[Kokonoe]

I bet this is a bomba

Spoiler

day 1

It's going to sell 50 billion copies at least.

 

[The Technomancer]

Hm, will wait to see more before passing judgement. Not a fan of the new rendering style, but maybe it will change.

 

[Violet_0]

bonus points if they include the cut dungeons

 

[jarosh]

Ouch. Looks like some of those early "next-gen" games from the 360 generation, mostly the UE stuff. Excessive color correction, bloom and ill-fitting shaders turned up to 11, harsh shadows and blown-out highlights. Not particularly pretty.

 

[Forkball]

The characters look a little off but wow at that scenery.

 

[thecouncil]

For me, this is the best possible news they could have announced... I'm sure they'll make us wait until 2014 though. I've always maintained that Wind Waker has the best graphics of any game due to my love of the art style.. the OP looks glorious. I'm thrilled.

fall release for WWHD. i think thats what they said.

 

[Easy_D]

HOLY SHIT. Sold.

 

[Neiteio]

This announcement would have me so hyped, IF NOT for the fact the sky looks like a fluorescent billboard and the ground looks radiated.

 

[mdtauk]

Thinking it through, couldn't they allow you to use the touch screen to change the wind direction...

 

[Uncle Rupee]

Ouch. Looks like some of those early "next-gen" games from the 360 generation, mostly the UE stuff. Excessive color correction, bloom and ill-fitting shaders turned up to 11, harsh shadows and blown-out highlights. Not particularly pretty.

Exactly.
Unless they tune it to look more like the original, I may even pass on it.

 

[Thoraxes]

HOLY FUCK

YES MY BODY

 

[vareon]

You know what, if a random gaming blog posted the screen renders "Fan recreated Wind Waker's Outset Island in HD" I would've believed it. Like that Pokemon Center render.

But hell, it's Wind Waker in HD, playable, from Nintendo themselves. Will. Buy.

 

[MvmntInGrn]

Wow. Interesting choice. Really hope the game is expanded either with more dungeons or better side quest content (and more islands). They really need to make sure the IQ is clean on HDTVs too or I don't think it will look as nice as even WW GCN does on Dolphin (or on an SDTV).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqdwT2pKYzY

I always believed!

I have to admit it hurts a bit to see them choose to remake a whole game and its not Majora's Mask

It would have benefited more than WW, but I guess we will get that one on 3DS.

This too. Wind Waker would have made a better 3DS choice (tuned port) while the older titles (much more held back by hardware) would have made more sense for the WiiU title.

 

[Wishmaster92]

question of the day: Will it be full 1080p?

 

[Beren]

Woooooow! now i need a WiiU! :O

 

[Lyonaz]

OFF-TV play you say?

DAY FUCKING ONE!!!!

 

[Lord Ghirahim]

Mock if old.

 

[zoukka]

If you really think the sailing was the best part of the game perhaps you're playing the wrong game? I'm glad that you were able to enjoy it, but man, it actually hurt my enjoyment of the game. The fact that you had to open and close menus to change the direction of the wind also got on my nerves. I hated it.

I'm sure they won't change it, though, so you'll be fine.

Yeah it's a really divisive game in that regard. I hate fast travel in any big RPG so it was perfect for me. I always tried to plan my routes so I could explore a new island on my way to the next story location. And the ocean itself is still the most impressive execution of large masses of water in games.

WW truly felt like "next-gen" to me in similar sense that SM64 did.

 

[Art.Menegatti]

GOTY if Nintendo ads 3 more dungeons UNDERWATER!

 

[DevilWillcry]

That looks great! I need to get a Wii U soon :O

 

[kaskade]

Welp, now I want a Wii U. Can't say I cared much before. Dammit Nintendo.

 

[bobbytkc]

They really messsed with the look.

Not sure I want.

 

[RagnarokX]

Hey, Nintendo, dial back the bloom a bit, k?

 

[Quackula]

If they decide to expand on the game and add in all the stuff they had to cut out, that'll be awesome.

If they don't though and we just get the original game as-is, I'm not gonna complain. I'll be perfectly happy with that.

 

[felialois20]

Now i have to buy a wiiU... Fuck

 

[Resilient]

Yeah, now that the initial fuck me factor has worn off, I really want to see this in motion. Right now it looks kind of eerie..

 

[Orbis]

bonus points if they include the cut dungeons

If they did. Wow. We'd finally have the 'true' version of this game. They have basically said the game will be changed, but whether that actually means adding content we just don't know.

Either way, I'm going to just sail that ocean for hours in glorious HD. Anyone reckon it could handle 1080p even with the fancy new effects and presumably upgraded textures?

 

[Neiteio]

Once the glow of the new announcement wears off, people are going to realize what they've shown us so far looks... Well, kind of ugly.

 

[reddwarf42]

The need to make it so that changing the wind direction is a menu option instead of having to play the ocarina every time you want to change wind direction. That annoyance made me not want to finish the game. That said I will be getting this game.

 

[PuppetSlave]

Cool, can't wait to finally upgrade my avatar to HD

Day 1

 

[brerwolfe]

It seems obvious, but do you think they'd make Tingle accessible through the gamepad since we don't have GBA's lying around anymore?

Again.

 

[Uncle Rupee]

Hey, Nintendo, dial back the bloom a bit, k?

You can tell Nintendo's internal devs are having fun playing with the "new" tricks, but they shouldn't be messing around with them in a game like Wind Waker.

 

[Sheroking]

Having recently replayed WW, the travel thing didn't bug me as much. All they really need to do is speed up the animation on using the WW to change the wind's direction.

Adding the 'lost dungeons' and removing or retooling the triforce fetchquest could well make it the best Zelda ever made.

 

[OmegaZero]

Hopefully it'll turn out better then those screens look.

 

[eXistor]

Sooo...drop the triforce hunt and re-implement the three originally planned dungeons? Please?

 

[MvmntInGrn]

Once the glow of the new announcement wears off, people are going to realize what they've shown us so far looks... Well, kind of ugly.

Its very bright. Like the Sun if falling.

Spoiler

Get it? Cause we've already had the Moon fall...

 

[HK-47]

Original style was better looking. The sunlight is too overpowering in particular.

 

[Lambtron]

Well then. Day one.

 

[mantidor]

I don't think it's safe to expect a big change in content. Adding dungeons, NPCs and quests in remakes never works out very well for a reason, they weren't intended to be there in the first place. They don't belong int the world or the structure laid out for the original game. At best they might include some optional dungeon or quest line but I don't expect great things there. Talk abou cut dungeons is silly, the concepts they cut were probably used in SS and TP if they were worthwhile.

What they should change easily is the difficul level. More damage, less hearts, more resistant enemies and there you go.

I mostly agree but in this case the game was incomplete, so those two dungeons missing should work, I don't see any reason to get more npcs though, what for?

even then I doubt we'll get new dungeons and I'm ok with that, put those efforts into the new game. I'm not saying it wouldn't be awesome but these games don't make themselves and Nintendo doesn't have unlimited resources.

 

[zroid]

Mock if old.

You have my love

 

[Various Artists]

The need to make it so that changing the wind direction is a menu option instead of having to play the ocarina every time you want to change wind direction. That annoyance made me not want to finish the game. That said I will be getting this game.

You should just swipe on the gamepad touch screen to change wind.

 

[revolverjgw]

Uh, the bloom or whatever it is looks rather horrible. The game looks better in Dolphin.

 

[SolarPowered]

I have to admit that the shots so far look kind of weird compared to the old Wind Waker. They definitely have to tone down on the bloom use.

Still plenty of time left to fix that.

 

[Krowley]

I think it looks fantastic. I'm surprised so many people dislike it. Still, i probably wouldn't buy it unless they added more content. I loved WW but it is one of the lesser Zelda games IMO, somewhere behind TP, OOT, and ALTTP. A couple of additional dungeons and maybe a difficulty slider might help a lot.

 

[ASIS]

This game won't be just about update graphics guys.