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Twilight Princess (HD?) Icon Discovered in Wii U eShop
- Thread starter Tom Nook Sawyer
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A bit too close to the likely release of Fire Emblem: Fates, don't you think?
Again, the next big Zelda game is still Wii U-bound. That being said, I'd be shocked if it didn't get Twilight Princess'd for the NX Console & NX Handheld (assuming the shared platform thing for the NX Platform pans out). If this is really Twilight Princess given the Wind Waker HD treatment, it's more likely to be a stop-gap meant to make up for the absence of the actual Zelda U this Holiday.
Nah, not really. Nintendo doesn't seem to care much about releasing games on the same days anyways. Plus Z would likely have an international release, while Fates is just localization.
Stilton Disco
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Or better yet, give the option of GameCube or Wii versions at the start of the game!
Oni Link 666
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I'd rather have a GC port, but that aint happening. Those early shoehorned Wii motion controls have not aged well.
ShadowFox08
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If its an HD remake, it NEEDS left-handed Link.
Zombegoast
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Remastered or not, It gives me an excuse to replay the game.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.
PensivePen
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This game it'd be amazing if they just fixed the serious pacing issues and added in hero mode (it'd probably still be too easy 
) so hopefully it does get the full WindWaker treatment.
) so hopefully it does get the full WindWaker treatment.Fuck yeah. That's the dream.
foxuzamaki
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Don't do this to me nintendo
dancrane212
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I'd certainly appreciate if there was a tightened up version of Twilight Princess out there. I know of plenty of folk who gave up because of the very slow start to the game and missed some of the best dungeons in the series.
It is pretty surprising how much Nintendo has gone back to the well with all the Zelda remakes this generation. Still won't give me a Prime HD trilogy though.
It is pretty surprising how much Nintendo has gone back to the well with all the Zelda remakes this generation. Still won't give me a Prime HD trilogy though.
FloweryMarston
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i love TP, but i think it's just a wii re-release.
If that rumor about a HD port was true and this is it then it has been in development and planned for quite a while. I am guessing the new Zelda game was never planned for 2015 but they announced it anyway for some reason.
Is there an actual rumor going around TPHD or is just wishful thinking?
The rumor going around was that Nintendo was planning a HD port on Wii U for 2015. No actual game was ever mentioned. I think it was by someone who had information about the last Pokemon remakes and something about Devil's Third.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=874817
Gonzo The Great
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No thanks. I'd rather have an HD remaster than a downgrade.
The rumour is that a western porting studio was working on a port of a game from older gen -> WiiU, and that there would be a WiiU -> PS4/X1/PC port. The latter already happened (it was ZombiU getting ported).
But I doubt it's TPHD that western studio is working on, considering Nintendo done WWHD in-house outside of textures.
Aaron Strife
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Probably just inferred from Nintendo saying they experimented with all three GameCube/Wii era Zelda games in HD before doing WWHD, developed a program to make converting GameCube games to HD easier, apparently said they had another remaster coming and visually I can't think of any other big GC/Wii game that would need a graphical update more. Mario games are always timeless because of their cutesy art style and Skyward Sword's art style is what it is and will probably age better since it doesn't go for realism.
TP HD would be so fucking dope (until it looks like poop again in nine more years).
So the intro section? I honestly think the game is paced excellently aside from the very beginning.
Gonzo The Great
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The icons for Wii games show the title screen with white borders. This is either fake or an HD remake.
FloweryMarston
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the only moment that was boring in TP was the intro for me, the rest of the was excellent in my opinion. The dungeons were top top, the game had so many memorable tracks and characters. And considering that the game is pretty lenghty, i didn't mind in the grand scheme of things that the intro, which lasted about 3 hours tops to me, was boring or anything like that.
PensivePen
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The light bug collecting segments could use shortening (or preferably to be completely removed or turned into some optional side thing).
Well then consider me glad if the latter, indifferent if the former.
Thats like the entire point of the first wolf sections and not hard at all.
How?
it's all fairly unnecessary until you get to the first dungeon. and i love twilight princess. i bet the tear hunting stuff would need to be changed up too. skyward sword did it better with it being a test of knowledge of your surroundings instead of tp's way of teaching you where you could go.
I can see maybe cutting the number of bugs down, but those sections honestly never really bothered me that much. Each time is in a new area and I always liked the vibe of the twilight realm. I definitely get people being turned off by them though.
John Kowalski
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i'm playing through this right now, liking it a lot even though there are some weirdly non nintendoey things here and there
foxuzamaki
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What do you mean? Like in terms of atmosphere or enemy design? Or maybe cause it's pretty in cinematic for a nintendo do EAD game?
Well, there's some story element in that part before the first dungeon, so changing it to make it better while avoiding to cut it completely is not gonna be an easy task.
balladofwindfishes
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Without the Wii Border, maybe it's actually the GCN version and this is the first GCN VC game?
Twilight Princess doesn't use the analog triggers, so it would be a good game to start with.
Twilight Princess doesn't use the analog triggers, so it would be a good game to start with.
Aaron Strife
Banned
Someone's gotta resurrect that Rogue Squadron trilogy game. Or just leak it.
Addressing tear hunting is basically mandatory but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't touch it because of how much of an overhaul it would need. It's, at the very base, completely different to how Skyward Sword does it and it's used to pad the game out. I have a feeling Nintendo might not even see it as an issue that's possible to address...
Unless they made all the bugs easier and quicker to find somehow but they're so designed to be found in a certain path that changing it would disrupt whatever "flow" they might have. And some are even tied to scripted sequences (NPCs reacting to them, the burning house, one of them is a boss, etc)
Anyway, TPHD would be a great thing to have and so I hope that's what this is -- make it so both motion controls work and you can use a traditional controller like the GamePad and the Pro Controller, update a ton of the texture work, 1080p, update character models, and address some of the issues with the early game and TPHD could be really great. And if they address the tears of light, even better! Those parts are the main drag of replaying TP. All the other Wolf stuff is perfectly fine.
I would be pleasantly surprised if this was also releasing this year to make up for the lack of high profile holiday titles after SF0 got delayed and Zelda U got pushed to next holiday. But at the very least I would expect an early 2016 release to satiate people until the new Zelda comes out later that year. Kind of filling the same time frame Majora's Mask 3D took this year.
Presuming it (TPHD) happens. My fear is it's just a pointless digital Wii re-release.
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