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[Shikamaru Ninja]

Nice chat with a mate reveals some new info.

New development team and new director working on the project. Been in development for several years. Biggest change will be the camera system.

Journalist describes Nintendo is selling out with Mario and Zelda. Which for once.. is good for us.

Media from Nintendo late March-April to set up E3.

 

[GaimeGuy]

wait, selling out ? What?

 

[APerfectCircle]

Nintendo is selling out? i don't get that.

 

[lexi]

Biggest change will be the camera system.

Like, say, from a 2D perspective?

One can only dream.

 

[Justin Bailey]

Juicy.

 

[Odnetnin]

so the Japanese crowd feels that Nintendo has gone a tad too far with the whoring too?

bad nintendo. Make new franchise. Mario isn't everything,,, nor Zelda. NEW FRANCHISES!!!!

 

[sprsk]

hmmm what else could they do with the camera???


well, consider me interested.

 

[Guns N' Poops]

A "mate", I see...

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Pretty much typed what i got. I'm not paraphrasing or summarizing.

Fixed camera: I don't think it's 2D.. maybe just not behind the back.

Selling out: I believe the whole point is Nintendo is appealing Mario and Zelda to the mainstream. Making Zelda as LOTR as possible and Mario as nostalgic as possible. No more quirky stuff that hurt Nintendo's pocket.

 

[Wario64]

Split screen action, inspired by tv show 24.

 

[Hollywood]

??? This info ... isn't much.

 

[The Main Event]

New development team and new director working on the project.

That scares me, A LOT.

 

[jett]

This game doesn't exist.

 

[En-ou]

...nor Zelda....

zelda is everything!

 

[IAmtheFMan]

I'd be glad if this were out for GC, but I'd better see a brand spanking new, high-quality Mario game at Revolution launch...

 

[Socreges]

Yuh huh...

 

[duderon]

A "mate", I see...

Don't doubt the EAD Ninja, he's got connections up the wazoo.

 

[Odnetnin]

zelda is everything!

nah. WW was ruined by difficulty (But salvaged but MC). RE4 n MGS3 has displaced LOZ's greatness ....


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Spoiler

for now

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Well the SMS team did leave Kyoto to form the brunt of the Tokyo studio. So I guess Nintendo had no other choice.

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

 

[Justin Bailey]

Don't doubt the EAD Ninja, he's got connections up the wazoo.

Yeah, for the uninitiated - Mr. Ninja is one of the few reliable sources here when it comes to Nintendo.

 

[Rorschach]

Split screen action, inspired by tv show 24.

Mario is fighting terrorism.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

That scares me, A LOT.

Well, it's not as if Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario 64, and Super Mario World shared a great number of staff, or had the same director.

 

[Matlock]

I, for one, would like to see a Mario game in full 3D with a filter to make it look like sprites, a la Darwinia.

 

[Odnetnin]

Well the SMS team did leave Kyoto to form the brunt of the Tokyo studio. So I guess Nintendo had no other choice.

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

Now that's good news.

DO we hear a whoosh?



whoosh

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Saying a game doesn't exist is impossible. Especially at Nintendo. Where games exist but are never released.

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

Well the SMS team did leave Kyoto to form the brunt of the Tokyo studio. So I guess Nintendo had no other choice.

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

you sir may need to be quiet with all this don't want anyone starting up the 'M' word again do we?

 

[Odnetnin]

you sir may need to be quiet with all this don't want anyone starting up the 'M' word again do we?

miyamoto?

 

[Scrow]

Making Zelda as LOTR as possible...

i love LotR and I love Zelda... but they are not meant be together to create a game...

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

no i was thinking Mega

Spoiler

man

, but close

 

[Socreges]

EAD Ninja!

...I thought he was shuri...

 

[Grubdog]

Well the SMS team did leave Kyoto to form the brunt of the Tokyo studio. So I guess Nintendo had no other choice.

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

GBA? Aww, what about DS.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

[Overscrutinization] Mario will be in every EA Big game. [/Overscrutinization]

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

i love LotR and I love Zelda... but they are not meant be together to create a game..

Nintendo is doing what it has to do. Zelda is supposed to be a mammoth franchise, and as business men, the company has a job to make it appeal to everyone at GAF and everyone who doesn't visit GAF. Wind Waker did not get the job done..

 

[Odnetnin]

i love LotR and I love Zelda... but they are not meant be together to create a game...

um... I never understood this whole LOTR Zelda comment? Not even close. so a few pieces of chainmail + horse on Teen Link = LOTR?

And we've seen 3-4 screens.

Talk about overreaching + overreaction

 

[Odnetnin]

isnt' NST horribly untalented (and makers of 1080? WRBS?)

 

[Scrow]

Nintendo is doing what it has to do. Zelda is supposed to be a mammoth franchise, and as business men, the company has a job to make it appeal to everyone at GAF and everyone who doesn't visit GAF. Wind Waker did not get the job done..

yes, but TOoT, MM, LA, OoA, OoS and LttP got the job done without being LotR ripoffs.

 

[neptunes]

Let me guess, big names= square-enix right?

 

[teepo]

how the fuck is it a lotr ripoff?

 

[cvxfreak]

Biggest change will be the camera system.

The last time that happened, we got this:

Count me in!

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

um... I never understood this whole LOTR Zelda comment? Not even close. so a few pieces of chainmail + horse on Teen Link = LOTR?

And we've seen 3-4 screens.

Talk about overreaching + overreaction

On the one hand I agree with you. Wind Waker wasn't dozens of hours of smiling, winking, and tricking enemies into running off cliffs.

On the other hand, it is Shikamaru Ninja specifically talking about "selling out" and replying to such comparisons without denial.

 

[Odnetnin]

Let me guess, big names= square-enix right?

whoosh?

i call SE + CAPCOM + NAMCO + KONAMI...


I call JAPAN.

 

[Scrow]

um... I never understood this whole LOTR Zelda comment? Not even close. so a few pieces of chainmail + horse on Teen Link = LOTR?

And we've seen 3-4 screens.

Talk about overreaching + overreaction

i'm not talking about screens or the videos that have been shown, I'm talking about this comment.

Selling out: I believe the whole point is Nintendo is appealing Mario and Zelda to the mainstream. Making Zelda as LOTR as possible and Mario as nostalgic as possible. No more quirky stuff that hurt Nintendo's pocket.

how the fuck is it a lotr ripoff?

i don't know, i'm just going off what Shikamaru Ninja has said. And just as an initial example that big fire creature with the chain we saw in the E3 trailer was very Balrog-ish.

 

[neptunes]

whoosh?

i call SE + CAPCOM + NAMCO + KONAMI...


I call JAPAN.

Capcom and Namco already support nintendo, and konami to a smaller extent.

 

[lexi]

Well the SMS team did leave Kyoto to form the brunt of the Tokyo studio. So I guess Nintendo had no other choice.

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

I suppose writing cryptic backward messages and posting vague lyrics from songs is out the question, then?

 

[Hero]

Well the SMS team did leave Kyoto to form the brunt of the Tokyo studio. So I guess Nintendo had no other choice.

Oh. And a big NST-GBA game in development =D and Revolution partners at E3 will be very big names.

What's with the smiley after mentioning the NST-GBA game? Is it supposed to be good? Or a resurrected franchise?

And does your original post incline that Super Mario 128 will indeed be for Gamecube and not Revolution?

 

[Drinky Crow]

Mario with DMC fixed camera = ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

 

[ourumov]

This game doesn't exist.

Just described my opinion.

 

[Hollywood]

Are you just posting what you hear, or withholding info? What's this character say on the Revolution?

 

[Odnetnin]

On the one hand I agree with you. Wind Waker wasn't dozens of hours of smiling, winking, and tricking enemies into running off cliffs.

On the other hand, it is Shikamaru Ninja specifically talking about "selling out" and replying to such comparisons without denial.

he is reporting.. its not his opinion. you read too much into it. I'm all for a serious zelda anyhow. OOT+MM were both less sunny than WW sometimes was. I want NPCs in a LOZ game I care about. All the characters in WW could have died for all I care... and yes, that includes Grandma and that snotfaced kid. MM's however.. I wanted to save them all.

 

[Deku Tree]

My frothing demand for Mario 128 and Zelda LOTR increases.