AzureSkies
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The game is well worth playing now, it's held up pretty well. My favorite in the series and I first played it in 2009.
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Aonuma on Majora's Mask remake: "Say that I laughed"
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The game is well worth playing now, it's held up pretty well. My favorite in the series and I first played it in 2009.
Banjotanooki
Member
What does this even mean?!?!
A MM remake would expose it to a whole new audience of people who didn't get to play it. The game came out late in the N64's lifecycle, it NEEDS more exposure.
in the JP version, you can't save at the owls. you can only save with Song of Time.
if you've played the game a lot, you'll know how big this change was and the horror japanese players had to go through.
truestatic
Member
TheJollyCorner
Member
Aonuma: *laughs internally*
peanutbutterlatte
Member
You can't silence MM fans. They will shove down your throat that it is a classic.
OOT3D made too much money at too high a profit/development margin for them not to do it.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
Aonuma: (laughs)
Red Rudolph
Member
How does it get me every single time
For some reason, that makes me want him to take over for Iwata if Iwata is replaced, he seems to have mixed feelings about how things are in Nintendo (plus he's played Skyrim, so I know he doesn't lock himself away from modern gaming). BUT that would probably cause him to have even more stress...
I loved MM by the way, it was a world that would slowly reveal itself and add onto itself over time (I also think those eels would look great coming at you in 3D).
TheCongressman1
Member
I'd rather not right now. Just make new games, please.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
You can resell a masterpiece, but you can't improve it.
Cygnus X-1
Member
Majora's Mask needs so much more consideration...
MvmntInGrn
Member
I'd be ok with a overhauled version of the game with completely new assets, models, and re-imagined environments under the same co-directors of the first game (AKA Aonuma AND Koizumi).
A OOT 3D style "remake" though? Why bother.
Banjotanooki
Member
I believe he played skyrim solely because it sounded like skyward sword.
i'm starting to think that MM's remake would be better as a launch title to the 3DS's sucessor. as it is, it is going to be a late release on 3DS if it happens and that's going to put it in the same boat it was originally and it will suffer the same fate (being late into the console's lifecycle limited its exposure a lot)
also, while i think OoT3D looks pretty good, it is still not quite enough. i hoped for better improvements overall and the current 3DS won't make it look vastly better.
Holy Order Sol
Member
Indeed. Not just in terms of exploration either, the sidequests achieved the same effect as you were rewarded with lore/NPC-related elements in addition to the usual items.
moltonasty
Member
call me clinically insane, but i love all the main entries into the series after MM. Skyward Sword, while not necessarily the pinnacle of the series, was sublime for me.
KillerTravis
Banned
They should bother because OoT 3D is a huge improvement over the original. Just remembering the desert segment makes me want to replay it all over again.
But I want to play it with pretty graphics on my Wii U
But MM reuses most of OOT's assets and they already remade all the OOT assets on 3DS. I can't see any way this would ever be on WiiU over 3DS. Especially since they could easily outsource it to Grezzo again like they did with OOT.
Yep pretty much, everyone knows that we are getting Marjora's Mask 3D it's like the worse kept secret ever.
vasametropolis
Member
While I wouldn't agree with the word "bad" in the slightest, I think he's trying to say that everything post Majora's Mask represents an obvious decline in the series. I would let Wind Waker sneak in there, though. When I went back to play WW last year after never having played it before, despite it's uniqueness, I was reminded of the N64 Zeldas.
Yep, there was a thread about that a few days ago! I remember back in 2011 I was busy in November with Skyrim and Skyward Sword as well, weeks apart. But it's good that he doesn't scoff at the idea of playing others' games.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Meh OOT3D looked really impressive in its way. The use of 3D was actually great, and OoT was never intended to look super realistic or anything. The damn colours are beautiful too.
Why does Majora's Mask deserve this special, launch title exposure? Why can't it be a late, 2015 title to bridge the rather empty gap between a new handheld and the 3DS? That'd be absolutely fine.
Actually I'd say its intro is perfect. Teaches you everything you need to know about the game in a subtle, non-handholdy way, and it's skippable by talking to the scarecrow.
It's the rest of the game (most notably Great Bay), that needs some patching up.
vasametropolis
Member
Whenever I think of my ideal Zelda game, I imagine an NPC-voiced version of Majora's Mask at the core, and then let my imagination run crazy off that simple starting point. I still maintain this is the route to take. I want Zelda to be heavy on sidequests and give me a living world with compelling NPCs. While they're at it, feel free to make an unconventional game and maybe ditch Hyrule and/or Ganon for a couple turns.
mask mechanic = good
wolf mechanic = bad
mask mechanic = good
wolf mechanic = bad
Most of the masks were uhh... situational at best.
Both mechanics have their ups and downs.
fart town usa
Gold Member
Good for him. He probably gets tired of the same questions and feels that having a laugh is better than actually speaking.
vasametropolis
Member
Well I probably should have specified I meant the transformation masks. Stone Tower and its temple alone justified the use of multiple masks wonderfully.
Fixed.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Hot Coldman
Banned
The masks often had an interesting story to them, though. I can barely think of a single mask in that game that doesn't have some cool back story to it. So I can forgive the disposable nature for a lot of them, because their presence is still justified through narrative means.
Majora's Mask did a fantastic job of merging its mechanics with some incredibly strong contextualisation within its world. Whereas Link could have been a fucking fish on a tricycle in Twilight Princes for all the impact his being a wolf had on matters.
Holy Order Sol
Member
They will animate his corpse so that it can continue making Zelda games.
The game does need a remake. Kids aren't going to play a game with N64-style graphics.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Kids weren't gonna play Majora's Mask anyway
well most of the work was done by GREZZO with the engine update on the OoT-Remake.
I for one wouldn't think that a MM remake would be that off rails. even with more added content.
edit:
love his zero nada-answer! that's the kind of stuff you start to answers when asked about a quadrillion times.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
would love a 3ds version