Legend of Zelda Wii U Gameplay Demo
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Looked rough to me, but I suppose that's to be expected. Very excited for it!
DAREALGUMMY
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*Tear* What I always wanted...
Look, people have a right to have complaints but it seems like a lot of people are dismissing what we saw as the final build.
AtomicShroom
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I'm gonna have to go with the family: That overworld looks awfully barren.... :/
Please don't accuse me of trolling.
Aquamarine
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HOW BIG IS THIS THING!?
Another one:
The dream originally realised by Nintendo is finally coming true. Really, really looking forward to this game.
Jason's Ultimatum
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I just can't get into 3d zeldas anymore that try and emphasize huge open worlds. I don't have the attention span for that as I get older. I thought oot an mm did it right with the over world.
Will the reason wh there is no musi is cause it not done yet, they probably havent even started on it.
Babymario26
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Yep, and last year people kept saying "That cannot be in-game" and i guess this was there way of proving it.
A negative opinion =/= trolling.
It was this year at E3
Dude, so without the name Zelda, that was most boring part of the awards? Come on man, you cant be serious.
He said the entire show, that is just wrong.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Hard not to think there's some inspiration coming from this:
The zoom-out arrow greyed out on that last push, so I'd guess so
editL nice edit
Babymario26
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Skyward Sword came out in 2011......
This will come out in 2015.
That is plenty of time. WW was a remake and ALBW came out in 2013 and is a handheld game.
That is plenty of time inbetween console releases.
Plus the Wii U is on borrowed time and probably will get replaced in 2016.
umop_3pisdn
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This is the sort of thing I imagined for 3D Zelda pre OoT. I don't really understand complaints that the world seems empty, there are a lot of cool details and the Ghibli inspired art style is suited to something with a naturalistic appearance, and I think it fits Zelda like a glove. For the sake of comparison a lot of those 3D Zelda games had the worst of both (fake feeling hub world lacking in content), and since this is Nintendo, I don't really see them sacrificing content purely for the sake of 'atmosphere'. And the atmosphere we are getting feels like a much closer approximation of the feeling of exploration I got from 2D Zelda games.
Yup. It's impossible.
Go to any Zelda thread and read requests from fans.
Zelda U will be hated by like half of GAF (If it's really good).
Parapraxis
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Sadly, I agree, and the cheers from an audience, (where was this shown?), for things that have been done in games for ages almost made me feel sad for the more die-hard nintendo fans.
Yeah, the game will most likely be good....but cheering at a hand glider (sail-cloth) which looks simpler than Just Cause, or the fact that you can shoot arrows while on a horse, it just seems some people give Nintendo a pass on being behind and actually praise them when they start catching up.
I love this, too. Completely unironically. Stay weird, Nintendo. Please.
I am legitimately concerned about both this and X releasing in 2015. Am I the only one who wants one of them to be pushed back to 2016? That's a whole lot of Wii U open-world fantasy stuff at once, unless X is coming out way sooner than anyone expected.
StreetsAhead
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Its hard to get natural sounding convo when it's two Treehouse employees interpreting Japanese.
I think those moblins are part mechanical, just like the spider tank of the last E3 trailer.
It's probably going to be a story of Nature versus Technology, in Miyazaki's style. The game seems to take a little from Mononoke Hime after all. Just like WW took inspiration from Mirai Shounen Conan.
TheSlySoul
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So glad they are going away from the Twilight Princess/Skyword Sword mentality with this game.
Imagine someone that isn't familiar with the Zelda franchise. We saw a video where they showed:
- zooming out on a map
- setting nav points
- a horse running around trees
- jumping off a horse and shooting arrows in slow-mo
There was nothing compelling about this footage in and of itself. To someone that's not a Zelda fan, it would come off as a fairly nondescript open-world game.
swazzyswess
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Ehhh...Before had a more vibrant looking world than Zelda. Without the Zelda name, people would probably be mistaking this for Fable 2.5.
Uncle Rupee
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10 years after Shadow of the Colossus, Nintendo finally gets somewhat serious about the way horses should work in videogames. Glad I don't see any carrot icons, too.
Generally, I agree about open-worlds. I personally don't think there aren't a lot of games that have done open-worlds well. Maybe GTA V?
But I don't think that Nintendo would have tackled it unless they had a good sense of how to approach it.
I'm not saying that we should use nostalgia as a yardstick (because everything's going to fall short of it); I'm just saying that they're kinda going for a feeling of Zelda that they've clearly wanted to evoke for a while now, but couldn't due to the technology.
In the end, as long as it has good dungeons (something they've been on top of since TP as far as I'm concerned), I'm cool with it.
plutoknight
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I have a feeling X is Summer and Zelda is winter. I'd love
I mean, hate
Also yeah....so many CG trailers and Nintendo is all "Hey let's just play this game lolz and we're on a coach we're so relaxed" it makes me laugh hahahahaha
superpickleman
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You can disregard the cheering. The audience was cheering for practically everything for no good reason. This was shown at The Game Awards.
You are noticing this JUST now?
Take out the remakes and you're looking at the last mainline Zelda in 2011, and before that in 2006. And the last handheld Zelda in 2013 and before that in 2009. This is hardly milking. Hyrule Warriors is a completely different genre than other Zeldas, to add that in is like saying there are too many Mario games and including Mario Kart on the list.
I don't get some people's need to re-buy old experiences. If I haven't played a game, a remake simply gives me the opportunity to add an enhanced version of the game to my backlog and subtract the old one. Big deal. Completely ignorable.
Jessie.Bristol
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I was pretty wowed by The Legend of Zelda. Just the scale of the world, the art style, wild horses in the fields... actually open forests. They have been teasing that since the first reveal of Ocarina of Time. Nintendo is making me re-buy a Wii U aren't they?
Well remove HW and the remakes/masters because those really are optional and the list becomes manageable.
I hope you're right, but then they've never revealed a game like this, and in 3D Zelda games you don't usually get out of the main town till you have the tunic, so eh, I don't know I'm worried.
Anyways...
That's one huge tower. :O
Notice the shield. It's a crappy wooden one. This is clearly early game.
Parapraxis
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Cheering aside, the footage was boring as shit.
brandonh83
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I stopped giving a damn after the Skyward backlash. People can think what they want to think, that's fine, but can't possibly agree with much of the negativity I see. I agree with a few things here and there but nothing game breaking like you'd be led to believe otherwise.
People need to stop using the word empty.
It's the raw size of the world that implies it will have a substantially smaller frequency of interesting stuff happening. No, picking arbitrary herbs, skinning wild animals; this isn't substantial gameplay opportunities; it's repetitive and boring. GTA, Skyrim, Far Cry etc. bore me to death.
Substance is gameplay like puzzle solving and combat, or meaningful NPC interaction i.e. not generic townsfolk with a line of wisdom as in Pokemon. It's logistically impossible to fill this vast world with a density anywhere close to SS.
Between Worlds had a small size, typical 2D Zelda. Don't confuse freedom with sheer scope. It's the scope part that automatically has negative consequences, due to simple logistics.
It's the raw size of the world that implies it will have a substantially smaller frequency of interesting stuff happening. No, picking arbitrary herbs, skinning wild animals; this isn't substantial gameplay opportunities; it's repetitive and boring. GTA, Skyrim, Far Cry etc. bore me to death.
Substance is gameplay like puzzle solving and combat, or meaningful NPC interaction i.e. not generic townsfolk with a line of wisdom as in Pokemon. It's logistically impossible to fill this vast world with a density anywhere close to SS.
Between Worlds had a small size, typical 2D Zelda. Don't confuse freedom with sheer scope. It's the scope part that automatically has negative consequences, due to simple logistics.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Well, I'm excited.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I think that's what it really comes down to, yeah
right now I'm seeing "now we can do open world stuff like all those other open world games. There's beacons and enemies in the overworld and maybe fast travel maybe".
I mean ok but that's really all that new or exciting in or of itself.
As long as they get the dungeons right, its whatever tho
swazzyswess
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yeah... unfortunately like a dozen companies have already achieved that since OoT came out.
Xenoblade X is releasing in Japan in the Spring and is supposed to hit sometime in the same year for the west.
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