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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Announced

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JollyWolf

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No way, saying the models are horrible is absolute BS. I think the colors looks much better now. Looking at the screenshots you posted of Windfall makes it seem clear that the color choices have been improved. For me, they just need to reduce the bloom and they got something that looks better than the original.

And I am saying that they look a lot worse now. They made the characters look like dolls and look out of place. And I have the exact opposite view of the colors.
 

pakkit

Banned
I'll wait for more information. But those screenshots do look tasty.

Some hopes: Since they know that this will be many gamers second run through, I hope it comes with a difficulty level that actually challenges.
 

Hypatia

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I hope they re-implement the DOF. That missing is one of the worst things about Dolphin Wind Waker.

Yeah that bugs the hell out of me in Dolphin. I didn't like the perfect emulation either though since it's so low res but some actual DoF would be really nice.
 

daxy

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I don't have photoshop on this laptop so do you think you could use a colour match to try and make the HD version have the same colour pallet as the original? I'd really love to see that that would look like.

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Did what I could, ha.

edit: didn't realize just how cyan the remake's colour scheme is until I had them side to side.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Eh?! This is... real?

What is up with this week, you guys? Too many megatons.

Gotta see it in motion. I dunno if I like the bloom either. But I do like the colours a little better, most certainly.
 
My God.

Praise the Wii U. Its lineup is going to turn out much better than the Wii. I can already tell.

I cannot believe they even did this. I was not expecting it. Wind Waker was a fairly controversial game and many viewed it like the cutesy scrappy of the franchise. Whereas I loved the super cutesy look. The only thing that was a culture shock to me was the seafaring instead of medieval theme.

But Wind Waker is just... perfect. Everything I want to see out of the Wii U in terms of theme and feel.

I love you so much right now, Nintendo.
 

BY2K

Membero Americo
I hope tuning up the experience means they'll scrap the Triforce Quest or at least part of it and replace it with the cut dungeons we hear so much about.

Looks absolutely stunning, otherwise.
 
It would look great if it wasn't for that bloom. It's way overdone. People have every right to complain.

My only guess is that they have added a new plot in the game, where nuclear bombs are constantly going off in the ocean.
 

DarkKyo

Member
I feel like people defending the graphical changes don't quite understand the problem, or don't care about the art side of the game.
 

Margalis

Banned
The blue tint from the sky and the green/red tint under-lighting on characters is stuff they can ramp up or down by changing one number in a shader. I wouldn't freak out about it. Same with the strength of the rim lighting etc. These are the types of things you constantly tweak throughout production.

Edit: Same with the amount of bloom. These things are probably tweakable in-game and change on an hourly basis.
 

PK Gaming

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SO THE BEST ZELDA GAME GETS A FUCKING HD REMAKE

AAAGHHH

Sometimes gamers have it a little TOO good. SHEESH. I'm more excited about this than the new Wii U Zelda game hahaha
 

Tathanen

Get Inside Her!
Hopefully they give it a proper title sequence this time around. For all the random things people bitch about re: Wind Waker, the fuckin faces floating around in bubbles were the largest offense for me. Gimme something like OOT thanks. And render the goodbye scene after it in realtime instead of compressed FMV.
 

Snaku

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Seems like they're offering up Wind Waker to hold us over till Zelda U, much in the same way they offered up Ocarina of Time to hold us over till Wind Waker.
 
Did Nintendo confirm additional content or other gameplay enhancements? Didn't seem like it from the YT link so I'm confused at all the hype around an HD port when graphics were not the problem with WW. Certainly not enough for me to double-dip on the game.
 

1138

Member
Entered this thread to say WiiU purchase confirmed, but them i Saw the new graphics. Not touching this with a ten fot pole, looks horrible and devoid o charm.
 

NimbusD

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so, am i the only one kind of disappointed it looks less 2d/cel shaded than the original?
i dont know...meh
it looks off

Yeah I'm a lil 50/50. On one hand it looks gorgeous in HD. On the other hand it looks to have weirdly dropped some of the vibrance and crisp cel shading that made the original so fun.

And that BLOOM EVERYWHERE (is that what it's called?) wtf, its supposed to look like a cartoon, get rid of that.

EDIT: That said, I'll be picking this us especially if they fix the crappy tri-quest and add in things that seemed to have been blatantly cut from the original (jabu jabu just handing you that jewel thing or w/e it was my memory is bad)
 

Randy

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I'm curious what kind of improvements Nintendo will make concerning the animations (though they were already pretty good in vanilla WW).
 

Dr Dogg

Member
Damn it! I just said the other day the only thing that would get to buy a Wii U would be a Wind Waker remake. Way to come out of the blue eh.
 
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