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What we know about Legend of Zelda Wii prior to E3 2010
- Thread starter Skiesofwonder
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Metroid Killer
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Fuck! I'm starting to feel the hype! We'll get details on the next Zelda pretty soon man!
Why would you do that?
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Perhaps you can take solace in the fact that the money you're making can go toward all the cool stuff they announce?Jangaroo said:So I have work in like 6 hours and I wont' be able to see the conference. WHHHYYYY?!!! The universe hates me
In my case, if I skip stuff to see the E3 conference live, I'll be out $150... but that's $150 that'll help buy me a 3DS!
Edit: It's so cool that Twitter can send your phone SMS messages. Unfortunately, I have to pay 10 cents per incoming SMS
Otherwise, I'd just get incoming messages from Nintendo's or someone else's Twitter.
IrishNinja
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...anybody else finally playing through TP in excitement?
man, next zelda better not take like 3 hours to get moving along. fuckagoat-herding, and fuck unchangeable inverted controls!
man, next zelda better not take like 3 hours to get moving along. fuckagoat-herding, and fuck unchangeable inverted controls!
Metroid Killer
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^And the fact that you can always watch it when you come home(spoiler-free if you want thanks to that thread), and it's 'just' a conference.
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Nintendo, there is $200 riding on this announcement. Impress me and it's yours.
Son.Ralph.Funk
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Bizzyb said:
Seeing as how the next console is at least two years off I sure as hell hope not.
I booted up my save file and just screwed around with the broken Spinner for, I think, 2 hours. I went everywhere and only stopped when I crashed the game.IrishNinja said:
I tried that thing where you spin yourself up really high in Hyrule Field, then let go of the Spinner, and bomb yourself in mid air. I think I laughed for 5 minutes straight when I saw what happened.
I have 1 week before school becomes annoying again, so maybe I'll finally play LA if Zelda Wii is exciting enough.
Haha, yes I suppose you're right. Getting home to see the conference will be the greatest thing ever. Hopefully.Why would you do that? said:Perhaps you can take solace in the fact that the money you're making can go toward all the cool stuff they announce?
In my case, if I skip stuff to see the E3 conference live, I'll be out $150... but that's $150 that'll help buy me a 3DS!
Edit: It's so cool that Twitter can send your phone SMS messages. Unfortunately, I have to pay 10 cents per incoming SMS
viciouskillersquirrel
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I just finished a workout and I'm good and tired and waiting for this bus to take me home. I'm going to eat some dinner (I cooked up a big batch of Morrocan chicken last night), set my alarm to 1:40 am local time, put on some warm PJs (even though I normally sleep in boxers) and get some sleep.
After that, I have a date with my PC, a warm blanket (winter here) and Nintendo's E3 conference. I will have to avoid nerdgasming too loud (I.e. No squealing like a schoolgirl at the Zelda reveal) so I don't wake up my girlfriend.
YEAH! I KNOW HOW TO PARTY!
After that, I have a date with my PC, a warm blanket (winter here) and Nintendo's E3 conference. I will have to avoid nerdgasming too loud (I.e. No squealing like a schoolgirl at the Zelda reveal) so I don't wake up my girlfriend.
YEAH! I KNOW HOW TO PARTY!
LegendofJoe
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I wonder if Nintendo will unveil the name and logo of the game at the show. If they do I hope they take inspiration from the logo in LttP, of all the logos they've done for Zelda it is easily my favorite. Anyone else have a favorite logo?
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Deleted member 30609
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it's been a year. soon.
LegendofJoe
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upandaway said:
And 6 years since the last unveil for a console Zelda. I'm so hyped for this I can barely focus on my work.
I can't believe it... normally we people in EU are 7 hours ahead of US but because th US has many fucking "times" across the country I messed up and made an appointment EXACTLY at the moment of nintendo's conference and the unveiling of this game..
Fuck the world and its stupid times.
Fuck the world and its stupid times.
klier said:I have to work this afternoon (EU) so I can't see the conference live
Damn, the Nintendo conference at E3 has been a highlight for me for many, many years...
Oh well, at least when I get home, I get to see everything!
What are you using to watch the repetition of the conference? I can't think of any site I can watch without spoiling stuff.
LegendofJoe
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klier said:I have to work this afternoon (EU) so I can't see the conference live
Damn, the Nintendo conference at E3 has been a highlight for me for many, many years...
Oh well, at least when I get home, I get to see everything!
Where in the EU are you? It should be staring from 17 to 19 depending on where in Europe you're located. Keep in mind that the start time is PST, meaning that there is 8 to 10 hours difference between California and the EU.
GeneralIroh
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Anymore awesome fan art like this around?UltimateIke said:I saw a few posts about changing avatars to something Zelda related, and I was all "that sounds like a great idea!" for a few minutes.
And then I remembered where my avatar of the past year came from... :lol
We need the Song of Double Time from Majora's Mask! Please let the next few hours pass quickly!
Mt Heart Attack
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Fuuuck I'm so pumped
The one I like the least is the Phantom Hourglass logo, the Spirit Tracks one is rather shitty too.
The Link's Awakening logo looks the same as this one and yes it's easily the best one.LegendofJoe said:
The one I like the least is the Phantom Hourglass logo, the Spirit Tracks one is rather shitty too.
IrishNinja
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LegendofJoe said:. Anyone else have a favorite logo?
yeah, and you just posted it, man.
seriously, the original 8-bit one is classic, but how is that not the most awesome Zelda logo ever? i remember seeing that on the box and knowing this game was gonna be the best.
GeneralIroh
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Bentendo said:Great job at choosing a badly made picture.
Wind Waker is a beautiful game. It's just unfortunate that this rumor isn't true because of the artwork Nintendo released
(remember: Wind Waker art good, Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass art bad)
No way dude, I thought the spirit tracks, minish cap and phantom hourglass art for link looked better than the wind waker artwork of Link.
Andrex said:
No, Zelda is not about combat. Which is why all this motion plus combat focused distraction with all these potential problems is an issue, because it's making sword fighting this big thing... and it's doing it at a risky proposition in the first place with the way motion plus works. So the fact that there seems to be this big push to fundamentally change the way combat works (and as a result, emphasize its importance), while potentially introducing a fuckton of new annoyances that were never in the old Zelda game...
...that's what I mean when I say things like that. That's pretty much why I'm pessimistic. I'm over ten some pantomiming sword swings to pretend I'm Link has no appeal, I just want always reliable and to-the-point controls that don't have to deal with the plethora of issues that come along with this new tech. Much of Nintendo's new change has been really really bad for games I love, Mario aside (and Mario uses the motion controls as background noise 90% of the time!).
But we'll know in six hours just how far down the rabbit hole they intend to go.
Amir0x said:
Action-wise, original game's pacing is much closer to No More Heroes than Ocarina of Time.
Hence, there probably should be a ton more focus on combat.
Again, it might be ok if we were merely talking about a traditional controller implementation, but we're talking about swinging the wiimote around wildly like a sword for every encounter we get into. Any focus that is too centered on combat will ruin any appeal Zelda has for me personally.
For me, Zelda is about great level design and great dungeons/puzzles/bosses. Nothing more nothing less. I believe, actually, that motion/motion plus has great applications in Zelda puzzles: imagine the way Zack & Wiki handled many of its puzzles, but imagine that applied with Zelda teams intermittent brilliance. I just don't believe motion/motionplus focused combat Zelda is at all appealing to me. It has too many problems and is a significant downgrade from traditional controls.
For me, Zelda is about great level design and great dungeons/puzzles/bosses. Nothing more nothing less. I believe, actually, that motion/motion plus has great applications in Zelda puzzles: imagine the way Zack & Wiki handled many of its puzzles, but imagine that applied with Zelda teams intermittent brilliance. I just don't believe motion/motionplus focused combat Zelda is at all appealing to me. It has too many problems and is a significant downgrade from traditional controls.
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I can't see combat being much greater a focus. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an Arena mini-game or something, though.
I see where your are coming from, but why couldn't it be both? I mean, great leveldesign/dungeons/puzzles/bosses etc and good motion plus combat. When I read your posts, it seems to me that you think Nintendo will drop the "great leveldesign/dungeons/puzzles/bosses" more to the background in favour of motion plus combat. Do you have any reason to believe that they will actually do this?Amir0x said:
Personally, I think they will balance both elements in the game.
For a good long while in the beginning Zelda was far more about combat than it was about puzzles, and it's missing from the 3D games. Fighting enemies in games like LttP enhanced the experience more than the puzzles in them.Amir0x said:
The thing I'm looking forward to the most in Zelda Wii is the return of focus to the combat. You hate the motion controls, alright, but don't say combat in itself is bad for the series. In the least likely chance that they make a motion interface that you like, combat will do more good than bad to the game.
Not necessarily, but the talk about where the game has going has seemed to uniformly focus on how they're going to change the combat, and so naturally my mind wanders to pessimistic thoughts. I am by nature an "assume the worst" guy.
Like I said, we'll see in six hours just how far the rabbit hole they're gonna go. If the motion plus combat is rare, I can ignore it for the rest of the good stuff. I somehow doubt it's gonna be rare.
Like I said, we'll see in six hours just how far the rabbit hole they're gonna go. If the motion plus combat is rare, I can ignore it for the rest of the good stuff. I somehow doubt it's gonna be rare.
beelzebozo
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i hope they give you bullet time again, like in the nes zelda when too many enemies were on the screen and it would slow it down so you could handle it
upandaway said:
er... I don't trust this. Your link is to a post with links to the conferences.
Once the conferences are over, banners, infos, posts, etc. will be ALL over those places, to the right to the left, up and down....
damn, thanks anyway, I'll see what I can do.