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[Coen]

I'd love for Nintendo to come up with different art styles for both systems, playing of the graphical strengths of both. There needs to be a next water color effect like in Valkyria Chronicles or toon shading like Wind Waker. Wouldn't it be cool if the next console Zelda used pointilism or broader brush strokes to make it look like a painting come to life?

 

[cartman414]

I will not list wars you. But SMW is the best platformer ever. Just know that you're wrong.

In what parallel universe is SMW a better platformer?

2D Zelda will never be as good as ALttP or LA ever again, so I don't think there's much of a point.

3d Zelda will never be as good as OoT/MM/WW/TP ever again, so I don't think there's much of a point. See what I just did?

 

[IchigoSharingan]

Link's Awakening, Oracle games, Minish Cap, Spirit Tracks. :U

spirit tracks was terrible. The rest were good. LA is god tier.

 

[Djamb3]

Let Capcom do a Zelda game like Resident Evil. A survival fantasy adventure where you have to find herbs out in the forest and fairy fountains and you have limited rupees, arrows and deku nuts the entire game.

Forget Resi, let Capcom do another Oracle game.

 

[Cygnus X-1]

Skyward Sword remained quite in the shadow after E3. I wonder when the campaign will start.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Wind Waker-style graphics in HD with fancy post-processing and other cool stuff? Please?

 

[jump_button]

RIP 2D Zelda games.

shouldn't that be top down Zelda games?

 

[YoungFa]

I give shit about Zelda until they make a new 2D Zelda.

 

[Chet Rippo]

Forget Resi, let Capcom do another Oracle game.

The director of the Oracle games is directing Skyward Sword.

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

2D Sidescrolling Zelda that takes advantage of the S3D!

 

[Randy]

It's getting real gimmicky now. Don't know if I can put up with obligatory 3D in my Zelda-games.

 

[Lord Ghirahim]

He gave me one highly suggestive hint, leading me to believe that the team is further along than just thinking about the new title: "It will be a game in which having 3D will mean something."

 

[Triton55]

Miyamoto did say he would like to remake LttP with 3D effects for different layers, so there could be a top-down game that incorporates 3D effects in that way.

 

[Graphics Horse]

2D Sidescrolling Zelda that takes advantage of the S3D!

That makes the most sense to me, or maybe it's just something about the moon in MM.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

spirit tracks was terrible. The rest were good. LA is god tier.

no, it wasn't

I don't expect a Zelda 3DS until 2013, not expecting realistic style because of the screen and OOT 3D. Probably a mix between WW and ALTTP, which will be goooooooood

 

[Hot Coldman]

They should just licence out Zelda to some dev who could fart out awesome 2D Zeldas like Flagship could. I'd say Wayforward, but I'm honestly not sure if they'd live up to expectations.

 

[Sadist]

I'm actually enjoying Spirit Tracks at the moment. I'm not that far in though.

 

[Gravijah]

Spirit Tracks is allowed to exist because it has the best overworld theme in the series.

 

[Hot Coldman]

I'm actually enjoying Spirit Tracks at the moment. I'm not that far in though.

Spirit Tracks is an awesome game full of pure Zelda goodness, wrapped around a shitty train-driving game.

 

[Salih]

isn't a nintendo conf. coming up?

DUN DUN DUN

 

[Gravijah]

Spirit Tracks is an awesome game full of pure Zelda goodness, wrapped around a shitty train-driving game.

I stopped playing when they pulled out the "pitch black dungeon where you can fall into holes" card. No thanks.

 

[Graphics Horse]

Spirit Tracks is an awesome game full of pure Zelda goodness, wrapped around a shitty train-driving game.

Which they reveal

Spoiler

could have been fun

right at the end.

 

[Electivirus]

Spirit Tracks is an awesome game full of pure Zelda goodness, wrapped around an amazing train-driving game.

FTFY. ;D

 

[Hot Coldman]

I stopped playing when they pulled out the "pitch black dungeon where you can fall into holes" card. No thanks.

I don't even remember that one. I'm guessing you had to sketch a route on the map to traverse it?

And the train stuff was cool at the end, agreed. That first train segment of the end-game, that was hard... for me at least, lol.

 

[Varjet]

Which they reveal

Spoiler

could have been fun

right at the end.

That was such a dick move.
Alternatively, they could have implemented a sensible warp system like in any other Zelda game.

 

[Gravijah]

That was such a dick move.
Alternatively, they could have implemented a sensible warp system like in any other Zelda game.

ZELDA II WARP SYSTEM WHERE YOU AT

 

[Varjet]

ZELDA II WARP SYSTEM WHERE YOU AT

Come on, Zelda II is always an exception

 

[Gravijah]

Come on, Zelda II is always an exception

IT WAS A LEGITIMATE QUESTION I REALLY WANT TO KNOW

:'(

 

[Hot Coldman]

Zelda II isn't canon. With anything.

 

[Masked Man]

RIP 2D Zelda games.

Aonuma's hatred of the first LoZ lives on!

 

[Boney]

I stopped playing when they pulled out the "pitch black dungeon where you can fall into holes" card. No thanks.

siiiiruisly

 

[Emitan]

I stopped playing when they pulled out the "pitch black dungeon where you can fall into holes" card. No thanks.

But you beat Zelda 2, where you do just that at the beginning?

 

[Seraphinianus]

I'm pretty sure the boomerang will make it into the 3DS version, but WILL THERE BE BOOMERANG IN THE WII-U VERSION?!!!! WILL THERE?!?!?!?!

 

[rezuth]

They stated it was basically just Twilight Princess in HD.
I don't know why people kept thinking more of it.

Which would be freaking perfect.

 

[D-Pad]

I'm pretty sure the boomerang will make it into the 3DS version, but WILL THERE BE BOOMERANG IN THE WII-U VERSION?!!!! WILL THERE?!?!?!?!

There better be. The boomerang is what makes a Zelda game Zelda.

They need to buff it though. The next boomerang should be as deadly as the one in Link's Awakening.

 

[Neon_Icarus]

I wish Aonuma's team would just focus on a new IP for 3DS, instead of churning out yet another Zelda. The poor guys really need a break from the series. A remake of Majora's Mask should be good enough to satisfy any cravings for a handheld Zelda anyway.

And please, no Wind Waker-style graphics for Wii U. A graphical style akin to Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword would be better served by the move to "current gen" graphics anyway.

 

[Mengetsu]

That HD Demo blew my mind...I would really wish the next one looks like that.

 

[Teknoman]

You know...they could stick to Wind Waker graphics for handhelds, since now with the 3DS, they should be able to accurately mimic Gamecube level shading/animations right? Maybe even surpass it...(wishful thinking here).

Miyamoto did say he would like to remake LttP with 3D effects for different layers, so there could be a top-down game that incorporates 3D effects in that way.

Oh snap. I'd play that, remake complainers can go sit an a corner.

 

[Emitan]

3DS is supposed to have much better shaders than the Wii. I'm assuming we could get an awesome Wind Waker true sequel.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I stopped playing when they pulled out the "pitch black dungeon where you can fall into holes" card. No thanks.

you're braver than me, I stopped playing immediately when I found out the only way to control the game was with the stylus.

 

[Boerseun]

I want to see Nintendo continue the product line they started with Wind Waker which went on to spawn Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks on DS. This series is great, in my opinion, and I'd love to see another entry on 3DS.

In the mean time, I too want to see a more realistic graphic style in the next console Zelda. The look of the E3 demo is fine (loved the superb lighting!). I just want a world and characters that are supremely detailed, in terms of polygon counts, textures and visible armour, items and weapons. Proportions don't have to be realistic, but the sheen that covers the world needs to be. Like someone else has said, Twilight Princess in HD is a good starting point, but ramp up the detail times a thousand and blow us out of the water with its graphical fidelity. That would definitely make me happy.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Forget Resi, let Capcom do another Oracle game.

Your avatar is awesome. Yeah, Capcom doing another Zelda using WW artstyle.

 

[Easy_D]

Your avatar is awesome. Yeah, Capcom doing another Zelda using WW artstyle.

Isn't the team who made the Oracles etc at Nintendo abyway? Iirc it was the same team pretty much who made the DS Zeldas

 

[FatCat]

Basically what they said at E3 for Zelda U.

Now, we need more news for 3D Zelda. Can't wait to see that one.

 

[chickdigger802]

Hope the next 3ds zelda is... well portable. OoT is a good game, but man that game is a horrible portable game. Odd that they didn't bother adding the option to 'quicksave' on the spot or add some kind of autosave function. I've lost probably 1-2 hours of dungeoning because 3ds died. doesn't help that the battery indicator is pretty low. Kinda hard to see if your focusing on the top screen.

 

[TheCongressman1]

It's getting real gimmicky now. Don't know if I can put up with obligatory 3D in my Zelda-games.

I doubt it will be gimmicky. Think about how they are showing Mario 3D land. They said that the 3D actually matters there, and it does, but not as a gimmick. The 3D simply helps the platforming aspect due to better judgment of depth.

 

[Deku]

Forget Resi, let Capcom do another Oracle game.

MINISH CAP is the best 2D Zelda game since LA. and for all the homages to LTTP, Minish Cap comes closest. I want Capcom to do something like that, if they can't do something unique.

I believe Flagship developed the Oracle games.

 

[firelink]

Wasn't everyone complaining that the 3D in the 3DS is useless because no game actually uses it to its advantage?

And now that Nintendo is interested in making a Zelda game that actually requires the function and would put it to great use, everyone is pissed?

I'm so confused.

 

[StickSoldier]

Wow, am I the only one who liked Spirit Tracks? I'd go as far as to say that I liked it more than the other portable Zelda games.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

MINISH CAP is the best 2D Zelda game since LA. and for all the homages to LTTP, Minish Cap comes closest. I want Capcom to do something like that, if they can't do something unique.

I believe Flagship developed the Oracle games.

the Oracle games destroy Minish Cap, which is still a good game but highly overrated, my opinion mang