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[EatChildren]

Once again confirmed for the people that keep insisting there isn't one.

“Yes there is a master timeline but its confidential document!” explains Aunuma-san. “The only people to have access to that document are myself, Mr. Miyamoto and the director of the title. We cant share it with anyone else! I have already talked to Mr. Miyamoto about this so I am comfortable in releasing this information – this title [Skyward Sword] takes place before Ocarina of Time. if I said that a certain title was ‘the first Zelda game’, then that means that we cant ever make a title that takes place before that! So for us to add titles to the series, we have to have a way of putting the titles before or after each other.”

~ Eiji Aonuma

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[[Nintex]]

oh jesus fuck no

 

[badcrumble]

aonuma you motherfucker

 

[Hugbot]

oh jesus fuck no

.

 

[Genesis Knight]

So...why is the timeline such a big dark secret?

 

[Foxix Von]

:lol

 

[NathanMcMahon]

So...why is the timeline such a big dark secret?

Because they have no idea what the fuck is happening and so they need an excuse to cover the fact that each game is it's own game and a reiteration of previous games. Who really cares though? Why do we need a timeline?

 

[Prince of Space]

So...why is the timeline such a big dark secret?

Because not even Nintendo can make sense of it.

 

[Regulus Tera]

I AM SHOCKED

 

[Wizpig]

Once again confirmed for the people that keep insisting there isn't one.



~ Eiji Aonuma

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Oh, Aonuma... :lol :lol
10 bucks that if we ask Miyamoto we'll get a different answer, and he'll say that the important things about Zelda are obviously other things.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Wonderful. . .now knock my socks off with this game. Do something different. Mix it up a bit. Anything.

 

[Reluctant-Hero]

I lost track of the timeline for any games released after OOT. This is rediculous. Miyamoto needs to release the "official" timeline or I'm calling shenanigans on this crap.

 

[Genesis Knight]

Because they have no idea what the fuck is happening and so they need an excuse to cover the fact that each game is it's own game and a reiteration of previous games. Who really cares though? Why do we need a timeline?

Hooo boy okay. Thanks for making my first and last trip into ZeldaGAF relatively painless. :lol

 

[Giolon]

Here we go again.

Who's on team "two timelines"?:lol (not me!)

 

[TunaLover]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22487582&postcount=4033

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Aonuma trolls internet, smiles

 

[TacticalFox88]

Well...this thread should be fun. *popcorn*

 

[ZealousD]

It's cute that they try and keep this facade.

Anybody who hasn't already driven themselves insane already understands that Nintendo just makes it up as they go. I think Aonuma and Miyamoto just do this for the lulz.

 

[Vinci]

Yes, just like the X-Files writing staff actually had a plan all along. Right. Beyond that, who cares? Just make fun Zelda games.

 

[Jenga]

nintendo attempts to make a cool timeline that they're convinced hardcore fans would love


hardcore fans hate it and GAF whines


poor nintendo

 

[Mama Robotnik]

No he's just us guaranteed TEN MORE YEARS of timeline charts. Just as things were quieting down.

Spoiler

IS IT BEFORE MINISH CAP IS IT BEFORE MINISH CAP

 

[Varjet]

Oh, Aonuma... :lol :lol
10 bucks that if we ask Miyamoto we'll get a different answer, and he'll say that the importing things about Zelda are obviously other things.

Actually...

For every Zelda game we tell a new story, but we actually have an enormous document that explains how the game relates to the others, and bind them together. But to be honest, they are not that important to us. We care more about developing the game system... give the player new challenges for every chapter that is born.

 

[NathanMcMahon]

Hooo boy okay. Thanks for making my first and last trip into ZeldaGAF relatively painless. :lol

no prob

 

[shuri]

This is like Ed Boon who keeps talking about undiscovered secrets in MK1 :lol

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

The timeline exists when they tell us what it is.

I think they have a chart that they throw darts at to figure out where each game goes.

10 bucks that if we ask Miyamoto we'll get a different answer, and he'll say that the importing things about Zelda are obviously other things.

Miyamoto actually gave us an official timeline--problem is it totally contradicts everything we know from the games.

Timeline fanatics sweep that one under the rug.

 

[Christine]

Once again confirmed for the people that keep insisting there isn't one.

It's not so much that there isn't one as that there are significant contradictions that make pretty much every ordering incoherent to one degree or another. The Master Sword in particular is a pain in the ass.

At least SS is unlikely to fuck things up any further. *knocks on wood*

 

[Bentendo]

Here they come. I see them over the hill. They're coming in droves. We may not make it through this one.

 

[Genesis Knight]

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Split_Timeline_Theory
http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Multiple_Ganon_Theory
http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Single_Link_Theory

HOLY SHIT WHAT

 

[pakkit]

As if Zelda fans needed half a reason to talk about this shit.

 

[farnham]

oh jesus fuck no

:lol :lol

 

[Bentendo]

Oh my God... IT'S A TUNNEL!!!!

 

[Tiktaalik]

There is no timeline dammit!

 

[Scuba Steve]

they will release the timeline on 12/21/2012

 

[EatChildren]

 

[SirPenguin]

The game better end with you retiring the skyward sword in an old temple, guarding it with a giant door locked by three different colored gemstones.

 

[BitchTits]

Why does Zelda even need a timeline? The way I've always looked at it is each game just like a separate retelling of legend of a simple townboy coming of age to fulfill his destiny and rescue a princess.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

The game better end with you retiring the skyward sword in an old temple, guarding it with a giant door locked by three different colored gemstones.

THE GAME WILL END WITH A FLOOD I'M TELLING YOU IT ALL FITS TOGETHER

 

[EmCeeGramr]

hahahaha


really though, as long as they fix the clusterfuck that was supposed to be the connection between oot and link to the past, it really is kinda straightforward

Why does Zelda even need a timeline? The way I've always looked at it is each game just like a separate retelling of legend of a simple townboy coming of age to fulfill his destiny and rescue a princess.

yeah but like every zelda game since oot has called back to previous games

wind waker explicitly talks about ocarina of time, and phantom hourglass and spirit tracks explicitly talk about wind waker

 

[789shadow]

Oh jeez, here we go again.

 

[Yaweee]

Having a timeline doesn't mean there's any logical continuity between games.

 

[Callo Merlose]

The game better end with you retiring the skyward sword in an old temple, guarding it with a giant door locked by three different colored gemstones.

That'd be awesome.

 

[Branduil]

Why does Zelda even need a timeline? The way I've always looked at it is each game just like a separate retelling of legend of a simple townboy coming of age to fulfill his destiny and rescue a princess.

So I guess you didn't play Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, or Twilight Princess, where other games were explicitly referenced.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

phantom hourglass and spirit tracks explicitly talk about wind waker

Yeah and look how well that turned out.

 

[Regulus Tera]

I'm wondering if Ganondorf will be around this time.

THE GAME WILL END WITH A FLOOD I'M TELLING YOU IT ALL FITS TOGETHER

It happens before Ocarina, it cannot end with a flood.

 

[freddy]

Timeline :lol

 

[Marvie_3]

Oh shit. :lol :lol

 

[Altazor]

Aonuma: (laughs)

 

[Vinterbird]

I'm wondering if Ganondorf will be around this time.


It happens before Ocarina, it cannot end with a flood.

Time travel or flash forward!

I hope they bring back Zant or someone else then Gannondorf, just to make things a bit different.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Yeah and look how well that turned out.

phantom hourglass was shit and ruined tetra's character because apparently the director of that game didn't like her, but spirit tracks was a quality game and i liked the callbacks to wind waker (old man Niko with photos and bits of the ship in his house, your mentor being Gonzo's kid/grandkid, Zelda being Tetra's granddaughter)

 

[ShockingAlberto]

The game better end with you retiring the skyward sword in an old temple, guarding it with a giant door locked by three different colored gemstones.

It'd actually be kind of neat if you had to go through the dungeons to put the gemstone somewhere safe.