Legend of Zelda thread - Lorefags GTFO!

[Lone Star]

They’ll definitely do side projects at least since each one of the “open air” Zelda’s takes 6 years to make.

Hopefully more than just remakes of other games.

 

[Mega Black]

The Depths are fucking terrible, I loathe going down there.

At first I was very excited to see this giant underground area full of dangers but when it became clear all it would be is a place to farm Zonite it very swiftly loss any appeal. There are bits of it that are good, but in comparison to the underground areas of Elden Ring it was pretty disappointing. All one biome with nothing but recolors and amiibo clothes you still can't dye for some fucking reason.

I do wish they'd expanded sky islands. I spent about a ten hour span exclusively hopping from island to island with contraptions and wound up really liking it. Shame I pretty much ran through everything up there twice as fast.

Honestly TP is probably a top 3 Zelda for me if you could axe the first, like, five or six hours that are nothing but a pure slog. Second half of that game is great.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I will say Twilight Princess certainly looked good

It's a shame Anouma and his team are absolute dogshit at overworld design.

 

[Never Scored]

I'm on board with shitting on Ocarina of Time, but I just never could get behind that concept. They both have similar structures: three smaller dungeons to collect three tchotchkes that open up the Important Room that takes you to Clown World and then you go through a number of other dungeons to collect all the other tchotchkes that unlock Gaon's house and then you go in and call him a fag and kick his ass. But that's about where the similarities end, because LttP just looked a lot better and felt a lot more structurally sound.

I got into an argument about this in this thread before because people don't understand the difference between similar stories and similar gameplay. OOT is quite different mechanically from what came before.

 

[Mega Black]

I will say Twilight Princess certainly looked good

Aesthetically and in terms of art design it's great. I think Numa has gotten really lazy with just copying Ghibli over and over. I wish we could get a proper Medieval fantasy style Zelda again.

Also move away from magitech bullshit or go all the way in and make a weird sci-fi Zelda already. I am sick of everything magic being a stupid fucking computer.

 

[Epoch]

Aesthetically and in terms of art design it's great. I think Numa has gotten really lazy with just copying Ghibli over and over. I wish we could get a proper Medieval fantasy style Zelda again.

Twilight Princess was said to be heavily inspired by the visual style of Ico, which was a homage in game form to Ghibli essentially. Even when they don't directly copy it they still end up doing Ghibli.

Also move away from magitech bullshit or go all the way in and make a weird sci-fi Zelda already. I am sick of everything magic being a stupid fucking computer.

The magitech style worked with Twilight Princess stuff because it was still grounded in magical fantasy, just with a sci-fi flavoring on top, and the Twili were supposed to be alien. With Skyward Sword it just got retarded and I kinda hate the entire Lanayru area because of just how ugly all the magitech future past stuff looks, it was also the start of the Shieka being some mysterious super advanced tribe. Breath of the Wild isn't even a fantasy game, its a post apocalyptic sci-fi game, what with Link using a literal tablet for everything, and robots everywhere, then Tears doubled down on that and made ANOTHER mysterious tribe into a super advanced sci-fi race with even more robots everywhere.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

then Tears doubled down on that and made ANOTHER mysterious tribe into a super advanced sci-fi race with even more robots everywhere.

Spoiler: The entire meeting for pitching ToTK was literally just this

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I liked it better when the ancient temples had greek pillars and shit like in Adventure of Link.

Magitech is gay.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

go all the way in and make a weird sci-fi Zelda already.

Ever since I saw that was the original idea for LoZ I've wanted to see sci-fi Zelda.

 

[X Prime]

Zelda is increasingly sci-fi to appeal to imaginationless zoomers.

 

[Mega Black]

Zelda is increasingly sci-fi to appeal to imaginationless zoomers.

I'm mad about how accurate this is. If it doesn't look like an iPad how will the Zoomies cope?

 

[Lone Star]

I almost wish Nintendo just went balls to the wall and did the alien invasion plot for Breath of the Wild. Would've it been dumb? Probably. Could it have been potentially so dumb is circled around to being good? I like to imagine so.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I think what Nintendo needs is two things:

1) To shuffle the senior creative staff out
2) To hire people who aren't sycophantic about their IPs

 

[Epoch]

I think what Nintendo needs is two things:

1) To shuffle the senior creative staff out
2) To hire people who aren't sycophantic about their IPs

They should let Monolith make their own Zelda, I think that fantasy concept art on their site from a couple years ago was thought to be Zelda, but nothing came from that.

 

[Lone Star]

Let Capcom make the third Oracle game, Nintendo. It's not too late.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I think what Nintendo needs is two things:

1) To shuffle the senior creative staff out
2) To hire people who aren't sycophantic about their IPs

I'd rather them just shuffle them around. Give GameFreak a 2D Zelda game to make, let MonolithSoft do Pokemon, etc.

Let Capcom make the third Oracle game, Nintendo. It's not too late.

And Minish Cap 2. I'd like them to get 3rd parties to work on their hibernating IPs, I'm sure Sega would make a good Mario & Luigi RPG.

I'll never stop being triggered there's no proper Mario & Sonic platformer.

 

[Lone Star]

And Minish Cap 2. I'd like them to get 3rd parties to work on their hibernating IPs, I'm sure Sega would make a good Mario & Luigi RPG.

I mean I was sort of half-joking, but I'd love it if Nintendo let some reliable companies work on smaller Zelda games. Especially if each new main entry is going to take five or six years to make.

 

[Epoch]

let MonolithSoft do Pokemon, etc.

That's just cruel for all parties involved. Gamefreak would get BTFO so hard they would all commit seppuku, and Monolith is too talented for Pokemon.

I'd actually really be interested to see what Retro could do with a Zelda game, I know they wanted to make a few before but Nintendo shot them all down.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I'd love it if Nintendo let some reliable companies work on smaller Zelda games.

Right? Capcom did a pretty great job that one time with Zelda IIRC

 

[NerdShamer]

I mean I was sort of half-joking, but I'd love it if Nintendo let some reliable companies work on smaller Zelda games. Especially if each new main entry is going to take five or six years to make.

Let Kojima take an stab at the series. We could use an stealh-based Zelda game where the goal is to spare the monsters for some ridiculous reason.