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Where in the timeline should be the next Zelda game ? (3DS or Wii)

Between OoT and Wind Waker.
I wanna experience what happened in the introduction of Wind Waker.

He is not there because Link is sent back to have a childhood at the end of Ocarina of Time. Somehow Ganondorf breaks the seal and is now unopposed. Between the end of Ocarina of Time and the story at the beginning of Wind Waker you have pretty much experienced everything.
 
There is no Link. It's not a zelda game if you don't have link.

How do you know that?
There will at least be a person dressed in green clothes with a dorky hat.

Also don't you tell me you don't want to know how the Zora managed to evolve from fish people to bird people, or how Kokiri became these tree like individuals.
Or how the Deku Tree began sporting a stupid ass face... okay I'll stop now.

He is not there because Link is sent back to have a childhood at the end of Ocarina of Time. Somehow Ganondorf breaks the seal and is now unopposed. Between the end of Ocarina of Time and the story at the beginning of Wind Waker you have pretty much experienced everything.

Wind Waker takes place SEVERAL centuries after OoT. How did I experience everything?
 
Majora's timeline, more specifically a Twilight Princess's sequel. The catch? Not Hyrule, but Termina. TP's Link visiting the Land of Termina, many years after the "fall of the moon" business, and see how much it changed.

Going a bit "fanfic mode", I want Link to find the Hero of Time's relics he left in Termina, including the Masks and the Fierce Deity Mask, that the main villain seeks to obtain. And also lower technology setting. Termina was more advanced than Hyrule in technology, I would like to see that a bit more expanded.
 
There are two things I'd like to see:

1- A game taking place using dimension traveling between two timelines. It could pick up from the Wind Waker timeline where Hyrule has been definitely destroyed, with the enemies coming from an alternate world Hyrule where it still exists and it now has been basically conquered by Ganon.

2- A game taking place at the end of any of the current timelines, with some big time travel jump uniting a futuristic world with the standard fantasy Hyrule.

As far as "in between known event goes", the Great Flood seems like the only one that could add something new to the series, since it'd be a "bad ending", but I just can't see Nintendo going with it.
 
Majora's Mask timeline because next game is going to be the 3D remake of Majora's Mask for 3DS.

Or for the next original Zelda, I hope Nintendo will return to its roots and do something completely unrelated to timelines shemes and just blow the head of all timelines fans once again.
 
Like a lot of the posters I'd love a game set far in the future that actually has advanced technology, if done right it would be awesome.

Otherwise a game that's post MM or a game where you play as Fierce Deity are what I'd want.
 
I want it set after Spirit Tracks but this time Link drives a bus. And like an episode of Playdays you'll reach your destination a kid will go "Stop! It's the Forest Temple stop"

Also everything is made of sweets.

And it features a city building simulation game since your job is to rebuild Hyrule.

Dr. Wright/Write/Left makes a return.
 
So impressed with the GT video... before seeing this video I really didn't care at all about the timeline, I just loved playing the games. Of course it's something that was speculated about and you can't help but think about it if you're a fan. But now that Nintendo has come forward and provided new lore to help tie the games together, I think it's really cool.

Wind Waker stands out as a real high point in the series for me, and while playing another game that hearkens back to it would be a joy, I want to see something new. I want Nintendo to do more bold interpretations of the art style like they did with Wind Waker and, to a lesser and less-successful extent, Skyward Sword.

Also I like games that use child link: ocarina of time, majora's mask, wind waker... they all use child link to great effect and it kinda bums me when Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword went in different directions. Now that we've had two major games NOT use child link, I think it's time to go back to that.

Maybe they should advance a little further in the timeline since they have a tenancy to jump back, it would be refreshing. It didn't seem right at first to see things like trains in a Zelda game but I've come to accept it. If they can do trains, what else could they do?
 
(3DS) Sequel to Majora's Mask where OoT Young Link naturally ages into Adult Link, and continues the hunt for Navi. Using OoT3D engine.

Considering the way they handled trains, a futuristic Zelda would be fucking awful.

Wind Waker takes place SEVERAL centuries after OoT. How did I experience everything?

Ganon came back. Nobody opposed him. Shit got flooded. Unless you want a really depressing game where you don't play as a Link, would be a pretty poor game.

Legend of Zelda All Star Battle Royale! Featuring ALL the different Links in one crazy adventure to restore the timeline.

I've always thought this;
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With NES (Brown Hair) Link, Ocarina Link, Wind Waker Link and Twilight Princess Link would be pretty cool. Just one Ganon. And maybe Vaati.
 
Ganon came back. Nobody opposed him. Shit got flooded. Unless you want a really depressing game where you don't play as a Link, would be a pretty poor game.
Didn't consider that, obviously. :(

I've always thought this;

With NES (Brown Hair) Link, Ocarina Link, Wind Waker Link and Twilight Princess Link would be pretty cool. Just one Ganon. And maybe Vaati.
I'd like to see any 3D Zelda with Vaati in it. Or Vaati and Ganondorf bonding together to seriously fuck shit up in Hyrule.

I find it sad that Vaati only ever appeared in 2D games. He's such a novel character and antagonist, yet he doesn't get used often enough :(
 
I'd like to see any 3D Zelda with Vaati in it. Or Vaati and Ganondorf bonding together to seriously fuck shit up in Hyrule.

I find it sad that Vaati only ever appeared in 2D games. He's such a novel character and antagonist, yet he doesn't get used often enough :(

They'd rather use Ganondorf. Zant was a damn cool villain too
untill LOL just a puppet again
. They couldn't even resist it in
Skyward Sword, though it does make sense in a way.
 
Ganon came back. Nobody opposed him. Shit got flooded. Unless you want a really depressing game where you don't play as a Link, would be a pretty poor game.
I don't know, it being depressing would depend on a lot of things. Obviously, yes, it won't be a super happy end, but it's not unusual for Zelda games to at least be somewhat bittersweet in the end.

My fanfic sense is tingling, but what if you played as Zelda, who as Sheik must deal with the return of Ganon? Except she can't fight him head on, no one can, he's just an unstoppable force that turns into daring escape sequences when you encounter him. The goal of the game would then be for Zelda to awaken her power as Hylia as a last ditch attempt to stop Ganon. Hylia choose to send the towns into the sky as floating islands and then unleash a torrent of water on Ganon. Won't kill him, of course, but it'll hold. Bonus points of flooding Hyrule as Hylia is something you get to do yourself rather than a cutscene. Finally beating the unstoppable Ganon, but at a great cost. That's not a depressing ending. Plus, Ganon gets some villain cred back, he's just kind of been there since Wind Waker. Let him out, do some damage.

That would be a fun setting for a game, even if you don't play as Link. Getting to play as Sheik would be awesome, even better if she keeps the Smash power of transforming between Sheik and Zelda.
 
I'm still convinced the makers of these games never intended for there to be any sort of timeline.

I think you're right--to a point. Once they brought out Ocarina of Time, and stated that to be the "origin story" (at the time), I think it was from that game on that they actually started to make real considerations about the games having a true chronology. Which also kind of explains to me why almost all of the games that were released older than that all got thrown into the out-of-nowhere "The Hero Fails" timeline.

Things are left pretty open to interpretation now, because of everything that Skyward Sword established as what is currently the series' anchor-point. In a way it's actually kind of mindblowing: Gannondorf is born in OoT and becomes Ganon, a villain powerful enough to survive being sealed away in various ways throughout several generations, and is ultimately killed in Twilight Princess/Wind Waker...and with all of that, Ganon is really just one single incarnation of Demise's curse. Whether Vaati is another such iteration isn't known, but so long as Hylia's bloodline is continued, the potential is open now in any future games for Nintendo to establish a new rendition of Demise; one like Ganon who can potentially span multiple games and form a whole new arc in the mythos of Hyrule. Just thinking about that makes me more excited, even though I have doubts that Nintendo will actually take the idea that far.
 
I'm still convinced the makers of these games never intended for there to be any sort of timeline.

The second game was a sequel and the third game was a prequel. The fourth game was then a sequel to the prequel and the fifth game was a prequel to the prequel.

None of that was ever a secret to anybody.
 
How do you know that?
There will at least be a person dressed in green clothes with a dorky hat.

Because it was explicitly stated in the beginning of Wind Waker:

Wind Waker Intro said:
This is but one of the legends of which the
people speak...

Long ago, there existed a kingdom where
a golden power lay hidden.

It was a prosperous land blessed with green
forests, tall mountains, and peace.

But one day a man of great evil found the
golden power and took it for himself...

With its strength at his command, he
spread darkness across the kingdom.

But then, when all hope had died, and the
hour of doom seemed at hand...

...a young boy clothed in green appeared
as if from nowhere.

Wielding the blade of evil's bane, he sealed
the dark one away and gave the land light.

This boy, who traveled through time to save
the land, was known as the Hero of Time.

The boy's tale was passed down through
generations until it became legend...

But then...a day came when a fell wind
began to blow across the kingdom.

The great evil that all thought had
been forever sealed away by the hero...

...once again crept forth from the depths of
the earth, eager to resume its dark designs.

The people believed that the Hero of Time
would again come to save them.

...But the hero did not appear.


Faced by an onslaught of evil, the people
could do nothing but appeal to the gods.

In their last hour, as doom drew nigh, they
left their future in the hands of fate.

What became of that kingdom...?
None remain who know.

The memory of the kingdom vanished, but
its legend survived on the wind's breath.

On a certain island, it became customary to
garb boys in green when they came of age.

Clothed in the green of fields, they aspired
to find heroic blades and cast down evil.

The elders wished only for the youths to
know courage like the hero of legend...
 
I want set in an unknown time zone since I'm pretty getting tired of the time line, as much as I loved connecting the series in the past now I want something that is fresh and new.
 
I was about to make a new thread and then realized this one exists, so I'll just post here instead:


With Hyrule Historia officially released in English, I thought it might be a good time to think about what direction Nintendo will choose to take with the next two Zelda games chronology-wise.

As Skyward Sword went to the beginning, and the handheld DS games went to the end of one branch, it might be interesting to see the Wii U game as a sequel to Zelda II (a branch of the timeline which hasn't been touched in quite a while).

Regarding the 3DS title, I do not believe they will continue the Wind Waker branch yet again, and instead make another prequel to Ocarina of Time -- perhaps a sequel to Skyward Sword, documenting the establishment of Hyrule.

For reference:
 
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