Agreed. Considering the big amount of new fans that get into Zelda with BotW, a free to explore-No boundaries game, I doubt Nintendo is planning to continue the series with a segmented or restricted game.
The way I see it is, if Zelda were to be playable Nintendo would make it so that the game is still completely open air, which means either you switch between two characters with the same moveset, and which have access to the entire map, which seems pointless if they have the same movement. So rather than that a character choice would make more sense, but from everything we've seen focused on Link specifically from outfits to whatever it seems like that's out too?
I'm not fan of the total freedom approach of the first game and I would welcome some gated areas. But I agree with changing characters to do different actions parts. I would be really disappointed. Main reason I never wanted to play Genshin Impact.
Actually, this is a thing that I would dig very much.What if punished Link is actually Ganon inside Link's body. They have to unite and defeat a greater threat. /s
It won’t be segmented because you’ll phase through the ground and sky.
No I just meant in the sense that people say "You'll control Zelda underground and Link in the sky"
Right that’s not happening. BotW is open air. That’s what Aonuma is continuing.
What we really have to ask ourselves is what does the hand mean? You see, it seems to take the function of the Sheikah Slate, which in itself was a reference to the Wii U Gamepad and Switch. This means there is only one conclusion we can draw. The hand is foreshadowing and will be controlled by:The origin of Links new hand... Is this
What we really have to ask ourselves is what does the hand mean? You see, it seems to take the function of the Sheikah Slate, which in itself was a reference to the Wii U Gamepad and Switch. This means there is only one conclusion we can draw. The hand is foreshadowing and will be controlled by:
Nintendo you crazy bastards!
Thing is they only ever reveal their E3 (or whatever it is) plan around the time of their Q1 financial briefing at the end of April/early May (I'm too lazy to look up the usual date) so they wouldn't even tease that here yet since that's not been announced.
That's not how file size/content works. It's like the inverse of the silly "omg this game is only 2.7GB and you're charging full price for barely any content???". Most of the game size is textures and audio (and sometimes video files) so unless they have an enormous amount of new assets on top of all the existing assets then there's no reason to assume this game will be particularly "larger" in terms of file size than the previous one.
Or like, messages that appear in the world? Like for example if you put them in a bottle and throw them in the water?
That’s actually kind of interesting now that you bring it up, especially considering there is a full Xeno series thread here. Ironically, I think it’s because Zelda is too big/known to stir up the demand for a general topic specific to the Zelda series, so any topic that warrants in depth discussion (like say this thread or a “What do you think of _____ in the Zelda series?” threads) end up getting their own threads, while smaller whims, hot takes, art, tweets, etc. are just dumped into the general thread because that’s where the most activity is and more likely than not a sizable portion of the audience will appreciate it. That basically applies to all of the main series I suppose. Having said that, if anyone wanted to make a general Zelda thread they’d certainly be welcome to. Heck if there seems to be demand, I can make one. But that’s at least why I think there isn’t one currently.
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so is it just this or Elden Ring too? I'm... not sure yet. I feel that I'm not that big of a FromSoftware fan given that I've never played or barely played their games before (only DS2, which was bad to start with). I'd get "imposter syndrome" if I started an Elden Ring thread, but I really...
does this matter? it's not like this means anything. they're always just telling you about stuff they recently played that left an impression in regards to what they're making. it's not like that tells us anything like "ah, they played RDR2, so clearly that means the horses will all have meticulous testicles now and Link can bathe!"So, do we have an idea of the other game the dev team is getting inspiration? We know about RDR2, but what about the other?
Oh God, don't tell me that Nintendo is going to emulate RDR2 when it comes to Link's horses or something.So, do we have an idea of the other game the dev team is getting inspiration? We know about RDR2, but what about the other?
They aren't.Oh God, don't tell me that Nintendo is going to emulate RDR2 when it comes to Link's horses or something.
Yes it matters. That gives us a vague idea of some gameplay ideas adapted to the game.
Don’t think so. Maybe some game play elements or quest estructures. I guess we can only wait until they spill something.Oh God, don't tell me that Nintendo is going to emulate RDR2 when it comes to Link's horses or something.
We collectively and wisely determined to take the myriad arguments that would comprise the thread and instead cordon them into their own individual containment zones.
This is my basic take. Zelda, as a series, is more likely to develop and sustain individual threads for the sundry random thoughts that percolate or appear spontaneously regarding it.
That's all being saved for the Western-inspired game after this game. Link will also sport a stylish poncho. Please be excited.Oh God, don't tell me that Nintendo is going to emulate RDR2 when it comes to Link's horses or something.
Maybe some very vague, barely nebulous idea, given how any such inspiration is likely to be rather unidentifiable (How often do you suppose Skyrim is used as a point of reference for explaining Breath of the Wild, or in what capacity?).
Now that's a radical take, and I scarce believe it.
I can read the kotaku article in my mind already
I really don't think it does. Not in any useful way ahead of time. Like, again, going back to BotW and the two games Aonuma namedropped for that one: Skyrim and FarCry 4. What does that tell you even in retrospect that you've not learned as general input from interviews anyway? The goal was openness, Aonuma also played the OG Zelda 1 again, cited people being okay with getting lost a bit in response to the strict hand-holding in previous games. You can get lost in Skyrim, You can also get lost in Zelda 1, or get lost in numerous other games the people on the dev team have played and actually also taken inspiration from. What did knowing about FC4 tell us? Wild animals? Enemy camps? Gliding down a mountain? In retrospect you could make an argument that they may have gotten the idea of integrating the hang glider into combat and stuff from FC4. Maybe. But then you remember that they showed off the sailcloth already working like it does in the final game in that TGA demo gameplay in December 2014 - a month after FC4 came out. I just paused to google, he had just started playing it in February 2015 when he was interviewed. He also played The Witcher (3 presumably). What does that tell us for BotW? In 2016 he says he played The Last Guardian and compared the paragliding in both games - again, after it was already in BotW.
I'm confident the paraglider is just an extension of Skyward Sword's sailcloth + Wind Waker's deku leaf.
Right, that touches on something I've been saying elsewhere recently when everyone was falling over themselves saying they wished the release of Elden Ring was farther away from BotW2 so they could be inspired by it: they've already done versions of almost all of the things they could possibly learn from most of these games. They've had numerous takes on horse riding including combat, flying mechanics, seamless dungeons integrated into the overworld, labyrinthine open worlds, RPG mechanics, dungeons themed after all sorts of things, dungeon-like design in the overworld, gnarly 1v1 combat, etc etc.
We already agreed that Link's balls are gonna get the HD Rumble treatment.
It was an awesome tangent, not weird at all. Sometimes the world needs to be reminded that video games aren't all just derivatives of other popular video games.
For some reason I'd thought that used to be the general consensus, back when the paragliding was first revealed ... but maybe I imagined that?
As for the combat, I referenced in another thread that 3D Zelda has historically had combat with the same sort of give-and-take element, kind of action-lite; it doesn't match up one-to-one, but a potential evolution of the combat could have theoretically led to something similar. You don't have to look to From Software for this, as the seed already exists in Zelda itself.
Miyamoto said:
It's interesting, too, that this ties in with what appears to be something of a preference at Nintendo, as can be seen in that interview Serif posted earlier:
Eiji Aonuma said:
The same sort of concept as those blurbs you'll see on books: "For fans of The Hunger Games and Lud-in-the-Mist!"
Weird thought lately:
You want Ganondorf to finally have his Agent Stone. It's understandable.
(Seriously though this post is great; I teach modern lit at University level and students always get caught up on authors being "influenced" - influence is complex, multifaceted, and both conscious and unconscious, and rarely as simple as people think it is - you can be influenced by the coffee you drank in the morning, the object you stubbed your toe on, the tree in your garden, as much as the last popular or great art/entertainment that came along)
