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[Stumpokapow]

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

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[Kyzon]

It's April 1st somewhere on earth.

 

[atr0cious]

Pretty sure an auto runner version of Link's Crossbow Training for iOS would sell hot cakes. Pay me, Nintendo.

 

[Oersted]

Eric Erikssen. A viking. Make it happen.

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

[*]Every character has full voice acting.
I feel this will enhance the Metacritic score by 1/7. Feel free to add any other suggestions.

Came to see this old chestnut, was not disappointed.

0/10, these ideas suck.

 

[DragonSworne]

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

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Origin of the Art of Trolling?

 

[Amazeballs]

Link needs to be more witty and hardboiled and he should have access to gunplay and stealth combat. Zelda needs to be a playable sympathetic female partner. With a more mature, open-world setting like Dark Souls and full voice acting the game is sure to sell gangbusters.

 

[SenorArdilla]

Zelda needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.

Is the Temple of Time not a time machine of sort?

 

[Tomohawk]

responses in bold

Have not played Skyward Sword yet, so apologies if they implemented all this while I wasn't looking.

source: google

• You start off in a dungeon/temple/whatever. Like, as soon as you start, no tutorials or annoying people to talk to. As you finish the dungeon, you walk outside...into another dungeon.
  Throwing some one straight in to a dungeon may be cool, but i rather start outside and have the feeling of wonder of finding a dungeon like in zelda 1
• The entire world is a gigantic outside dungeon consisting of smaller inside dungeons. All the towns have been destroyed. It's also Metroidvanish. How about that.
  metroid is kind of like a 2d zelda so I'm not sure what you mean. Also the gigantic world with smaller dungeons could be cool, but to properly implement is extremely difficult. The closest I think a game has come to such thing is maybe darksouls.
• There are no side quests ever because side quests are a waste of time.
  
  Spoiler

  Sidequests are meant for world building and in games like majoras mask and links awakening elevated the games to new heights no side quests is a terrible idea.[/B]
  [*]Every character has full voice acting. In the beginning Link does as well, voiced by Troy Baker, but his voice gets stolen by the villain and he spends the rest of the game communicating in a series of honks.
  I rather just keep Link the silent protagonist and have him as the avatar you enjoy the world through.
  [*]You can replay all dungeons via level select and can upload your fastest speed runs to an online leaderboard.
  Could be cool, kind of like a boss rush mode. Will probably be boring if you already now puzzles.
  The rest are terrible, except parkour was kind of done in skyward sword.
  [*]Whenever Zelda's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Zelda"?
  [*]Link should be able to jump. In fact, he should be able to wall run and do other parkour stuff. This will improve puzzle complexity by up to at least 52%.
  [*]Ganon(dorf?) has retired from evil. The main villain is now Ganon's teenage son, Eric.
  [*]As well as the standard horse, you now have access to a dolphin pal, called Dolpha. You can travel underwater with him, and shoot arrows at gerudo sharks. There's an emotional scene later on where you have to choose between Dolpha and your horse.

Spoiler

I feel this will enhance the Metacritic score by 1/7. Feel free to add any other suggestions.

Spoiler

Edit: I feel like I took this post to seriously.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Rastafy Ganon by 10%.

 

[Makai]

This is obviously a joke, people.

 

[genjiZERO]

The dungeon within a dungeon thing sounds good. As does starting you off in a dungeon. Also, I abhor tutorials. Link did jump in Zelda 2, and honestly I wouldn't mind another in that style. Everything else sounds terrible.

 

[shisno626]

I actually like the idea of having the aesthetic of an all dungeon Zelda game. You could do some cool stuff story wise.

 

[brandonh83]

Every character has full voice acting. In the beginning Link does as well, voiced by Troy Baker, but his voice gets stolen by the villain and he spends the rest of the game communicating in a series of honks.

this is amazing.

 

[MikeXXIeaf]

Nintendo isn't FROM, they're targeting a much wider audience with Zelda. Most of these ideas would kill the series for sure.

 

[fvng]

Great thread, no sarcasm

 

[Cess007]

ALBW has no tutorials

it is also the best zelda game in 15 years

Nop. That's still Majora's Mask.

Anyway, on-topic. The part of Ganon son actually made me laugh xD

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

Laughed out loud as soon as I saw Troy Baker was the voice of Link, but would do no voice acting.

:golfclap.gif:

 

[Tomohawk]

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

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But whether the glass is full or not is based on your perspective quite simply. You know what i'm saying and i'm not.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I'm concerned at the amount of people who weren't 100% sure this was a joke.

 

[nded]

Man, I can't decide it that first post is also a joke or completely serious.

 

[Ferrio]

In every dungeon your tutorial guide gets brutally killed and you have to recruit a new one but only after you've arranged the funeral.

 

[Kyonashi]

Is this supposed to be an April Fools? Because it's kinda just not... at all funny.

 

[Sadist]

Should have added a bare minimum of three sidekicks for Link who travel with him all the time.

HEY LISTEN

NO LISTEN TO ME

... p-p-please.. if I may... guys... I'm still here

 

[Tomohawk]

In every dungeon your tutorial guide gets brutally killed and you have to recruit a new one but only after you've arranged the funeral.

They should have David cage as the writer, that way in the end it'll turn out you were killing the tutorial guide the whole time.

 

[Minister of the Dog]

Okay, there are at least two Simpsons' references, Poochie and the stolen movie script. Are there any others I'm missing?

Fantastic thread btw.

here's another idea

There should be a real love story between Zelda and Link, with Link being all wanting to be with Zelda, and Zelda being all tsundere. Oh and we need a new moe sidekick

How about a yandere Malon/Saria/Ingo?

 

[Insaniac]

here's another idea

There should be a real love story between Zelda and Link, with Link being all wanting to be with Zelda, and Zelda being all tsundere. Oh and we need a new moe sidekick

 

[Ragus]

Eric.

Ahahahaha

 

[Shaanyboi]

kills me everytime

 

[3bdelilah]

A Link Between World was crap as it removed a lot of the charm that the Zelda series is known for.

*looks at name and date*

 

[TropicanaTwista]

• You start off in a dungeon/temple/whatever. Like, as soon as you start, no tutorials or annoying people to talk to. As you finish the dungeon, you walk outside...into another dungeon.
  

I feel like you were trolling, but I do hope they do what is bolded above.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

I love how it all goes downhill after the first idea.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Love the bit about Link's voice being stolen to be replaced by a series of honks. Hardcore fans breathe a sigh of relief when this happens along with stowing away their torches and pitchforks.

Spoiler

 

[Orayn]

• You start off in a dungeon/temple/whatever. Like, as soon as you start, no tutorials or annoying people to talk to. As you finish the dungeon, you walk outside...into another dungeon.
• The entire world is a gigantic outside dungeon consisting of smaller inside dungeons. All the towns have been destroyed. It's also Metroidvanish. How about that.
• Link should be able to jump. In fact, he should be able to wall run and do other parkour stuff. This will improve puzzle complexity by up to at least 52%.

I am unironically on board with these ideas, epecially the second. Sounds like a very cool fusion of the world design of Dark Souls, Skyward Sword, and ALttP/ALBW/LA.