https://www.ign.com/articles/eiji-aonuma-hints-that-next-zelda-game-will-be-inspired-by-elements-of-hyrule-warriors-age-of-imprisonment>Aonuma even suggests that this fruitful collaboration might influence the next mainline Zelda title. “The inspiration we received from this collaboration with Koei Tecmo may be reflected in the (next) Zelda we create. Please picture this while playing Age of Imprisonment, and look forward to our Zelda.”Uh....I'm not sure how to feel about this. Did anyone even play the fucking boring DW spinoff?
>>729047850no that shit if for the birds
>>729047850how can we force that old fart miyamoto to make one last hurrah zelda before he dies of old?
He's only saying this to sell more copies off hyrule warriors which itself was sold on the premise of "fimd out what really happened in totk, the sequel to botw"
What was the story of AoI even about?
>>729047850This dude legitimately has no idea what he's doing anymore. BOTW was a neat experiment that resulted in a fun (albeit flawed) game. TOTK had some improvements but copy pasting 90% of the original world(much to TOTKs detriment) was just Aonuma happily sitting on his ass knowing so he doesnt have to worry about doing anything for another 5-7 years. He can't retire soon enough
>>729047850As long as its not actually set in the botw era, enoughs fucking enough
>musoushit as the future of Zelda
>>729047850Cool? Doesn't really mean much and it doesn't mean the next mainline Zelda is gonna be a musou either.If there's anything they should do for the next Zelda game it's getting Monolith Soft to write the story cause that Fujibayashi fella or whoever has been directing Zelda clearly has no interest in having a good story or at least somewhat good story in a Zelda game.
>>729048236>BOTW was a neat experiment that resulted in a fun (albeit flawed) gamehow out of touch does one have to be to think that statement is reflective on reality. i hate v.
I lost all respect for Aonuma when he let the sales of BotW/TotK get to his head and say this fucking garbage response to linear Zelda >It's interesting when I hear people say [I miss traditional linear Zelda]," Aonuma revealed, "because I'm wondering 'why do you want to go back to a type of game where you're more limited or more restricted in the types of things or ways you can play?'">Games which have a strict order of events are "kind of games of the past," Aonuma said, whilst modern games "can accept a player's own decisions and give them the freedom to flexibly proceed". This is the design philosophy of the Zelda team at Nintendo, he stated>"I do understand that desire that we have for nostalgia," he added, "and so I can also understand it from that aspect." However, you might want to keep your expectations in check for the next Zelda game, which is unlikely to be a direct sequel to Tears of the Kingdom, as Aonuma also said he believes "we as a people have a tendency to want the thing that we don't currently have".Genuinely what the fuck was wrong with him to say something like this
If this means Link will be a robot in the next Zelda then holy fucking based
>the next 3D Zelda will take another 5 or so years to come out and will probably share BotW's engine with some assets too again>The "story" will be random cutscenes you find in the overworld that all boil down to a bunch of shit>No items againI'm not buying the next one man, they fooled me with TotK. Not again
>>729048476Hes right. Nothing wrong with what he's said here you fucking nostalgia wanking idiot. Zelda series should continue to move forward and do new things. Makes complete sense to continue building on what they've achieved and come up with new things.
>>729048006Rauru and co find out that the other Zonai were genocided by super constructs (which are much more powerful than the constructs we see in TotK)One of those constructs gets part of the Master Sword broken in the TotK intro as its power source and basically becomes Metal Link (but he's a good guy)Meanwhile, Ganon gets his equivalent to Metal Link who's evil of courseIn addition to needing to stop Ganon and doing the hand-on-chest thing, Rauru and the others decide that the super constructs are too dangerous, so Zelda tells a hunchbacked autistic woman to burn all evidence of their existence so they'll be forgotten about, including Metal LinkThat's basically it, everything else is just stuff you could've inferred from watching the TotK memories
Lol
>>729048006You get mail
>>729048752Oh...that sounds dreadful
>>729047850aonuma was a mistake. he's a hack that destroyed zelda
sounds to me like he's just saying "prease buy musou zelda [laughs]"it's a marketing nothingburger
>>729047850I have BOTW fatigue.
>>729047850sounds like a nothingburger
>>729048006There's a Link robot and a malice robot and they fight to the death
>>729048897Koizumi should've taken charge, especially after the masterpiece that was Majora's Mask
>>729049354Based
>>729049354Its such a shame hes not working on Zelda
>>729048476He's pissed that the old Zelda fanbase didn't give his 2000s-mid-2010s games (when he was given control over the series) the same reverence or sales as Ocarina of Time, let alone more. He's hated living in the shadows of OoT's acclaim, so after Skyward Sword was received terribly (when it was supposed to be the series' big 25th anniversary game and the bold new starting point of the series), he decided to ditch Zelda fans and start pandering to outsiders who play open world/sandbox games on Playstation and Xbox instead. He got his acclaim from shitsucking outsider normalfags (the same kind who drowned out resistance to paid online when Nintendo pitched it for a second time), that's why he's happy to throw the old games and their fans under the bus.>>729048650>Zelda series should continue to move forward and do new things.Wait but I've been told for years that BotW and TotK were totally LE ZELDA 1 REMAKES. Why, if I didn't know better, that almost sounds like it was an insincere argument used by assholes to portray BotW as having false design seniority over LttP-onwards.
>>729047850is the game selling that poorly?
>>729048476He's right though, traditional Zeldas feel like shit to play
>>729047850>more aonumainto the trash it goesso many bad games in a rowhave someone else direct
>>729050335>oops! it was contempt for the past all along!
>>729048453He's right. BotW was a 7-8/10. TotK is bad though.
Miss him yet?
>>729047850>BotW>Age of imprisonment>??? (New upcoming game)>TotKWho... who wants this?
you niggas are never getting dungeons and linear gameplay back LMAOOOOOO
>>729047850>raped ip slopholy kek watch it sell 30 million copies.
>>729050513Considering how poorly TotK sold they'll probably backtrack soon.
>>729047850imagine saying this and thinking anyone would be excited to hear it
>>729050513why do switchfags revel in the idea of taking away and breaking existing nintendo fans' "toys"? that seems to be the only factor that matters to them for whether or not they enjoy new Nintendo games.
>>729050482I love WW but 2002 was a weird year for him. Helped direct two mediocre games
>>729047850Can he play Majora's Mask or Twilight Princess and draw inspiration from those?
>>729050612It's double edgedTotK sold 20 mill in the first few months but has had literally ZERO legs sinceI think in all of 2024 it barely sold over a million. That's astonishingly bad for a Zelda game. It loved purely off of the hype of BotW alone.
>>729048476Because believe it or not Japs are also retards especially the ones who gained success and drank the kool-aid juice. Aonuma saw the success of open world games like Minecraft and immediately think that is the reason why it is successful completely ignoring the fact that the game is multiplayer and can be modded. So he applied it to Zelda with average success because he didn't fully grasp why Minecraft was great.
>>729050857He thought making the Depths in TotK literally dark WAS his way of making a "darker" game like MM and TP.No. I'm serious.
>>729050857Aonuma himself said he has no idea why people love MM so much, and considering how he did stupid shit like adding the eyeballs in the remake....
>>729050857>>729050972>"The new Breath of the Wild or the sequel to it, it’s not necessarily going to be related to Majora’s mask or inspired by it... What we showed you currently is a little darker," Aonuma said.I'm fucking dying, THE RETARD FUCKING THOUGHT WHEN PEOPLE SAID THEY WANTED A DARKER GAME, HE THOUGHT THEY MEAN A LITERAL DARKER GAMEI can't
>>729051020Is this entire franchise made for stupid fucking retards
>>729050612It didn't have the longevity that BoTW had, but come on. "How poorly" is a stretch. I hate both games, but I fail to see how they'd take 20+ million sales as a sign to course correct.
>>729051347No, just after Aonuma took over.
>>729051124>>729051020All I wanted was BoTW with 9 OOT style dungeons and a linear story.I got BoTW with a dumb mechanic that I don't have the autism to care about and techincally amazing levels of verticality with fuck all to do with it.
>>729047850Homosexual intercourse with Link
>>729051413Also, with real fucking items.
theres barely any new ideas in Imprisonment to draw from. The only thing are the forbidden constructs, but can you really make another game out of that
>A third fucking breath of the wildOkay, sure do open world shit again, BUT HOLY FUCK WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE BREATH OF THE WILD AGAIN
>>729048880The Knight Construct ("Metal Link", as anon calls him) and his Korok sidekick (who becomes the ancient tree stump) are the real stars of AoI next to Rauru, since Zelda is basically just there. And if you ask me, their story is the best part of the game.
>>729049354I will never forgive Miyamoto for kicking Koizumi off of Zelda and denying us endless kino
>>729051405The entire franchise minus 2 games basically
The furry goat people better not be in the next gameEasily the worst Zelda race by a lot
>>729051635construct/calamo was kino, just a great story with a bittersweet end. Basically what we wanted from Age of Calamity. Koei got stuck with Aunouma's trash worldbuilding though and the rest of the game couldn't carry that weight
>>729050972>We liked the darker tones and themes of MM and TP, can you make it more like that?>Aonuma: "Wtf????? Uh yeah, let me turn down the brightness i guess... boom, darker game... buncha weirdos."
>>729051737Or, you know. 8.>Zelda 1>Zelda 2>LttP>LA>OoT>MM64>Seasons>Ages
>>729052014From 30 years ago holy shit what a dead end to be a smug faggot over.
>>729050132>Wait but I've been told for years that BotW and TotK were totally LE ZELDA 1 REMAKES. Why, if I didn't know better, that almost sounds like it was an insincere argument used by assholes to portray BotW as having false design seniority over LttP-onwards.Nintendo themselves used that argument for BotW, but they stopped doing it with TotK since the whole new appeal there was supposed to be the "build your own stuff" gimmick, which obviously had nothing to do with past Zeldas.
>>729051959If nothing else, I'm glad the sages were given more character traits than "ancestors who used secret stones to fight the Demon King in the Imprisoning War".
>>729051494The combat system having a much larger number of attacks per weapon than any mainline Zelda game?
>>729052093>that doesn't count because muh old!Then why do you uppity fucks keep trying to claim BotW is MUH CALLBACK to Zelda 1? You don't get to both shit on the past and claim it as yours.>>729052238>Nintendo themselves used that argument for BotWNo they didn't. Fujibayashi said in passing that BotW being nonlinear could be compared to Zelda 1 also being nonlinear. Journalists exaggerated the fuck out of this statement and said OMG BOTW AM ZELDA 1 REVIVAL, and that's what smugshit fanboys have been running with since - journo lies.
>>729049354>sees kino in a mistakeHe has an eye for quality.
>>729047850hate this stupid fuck so much
>>729049354>>729050042 >>729050079 >>729051638
>>729050728Not switchfags, but newfags in general. These people join in late, and demand that all old is thrown away without trying to see what works and what doesnt while they stand on the shoulders of giants.
>>729052363It doesn't count because half of those are shit and the people who directed the other half are no longer working on games in any fashion and only exist at game companies as figure heads to parade around.The people developing the next 20 years of Zelda games are raised on, at best, skyward sword, botw, botw2, echoes of wisdom, hyrule warriors and between worlds. If you're gonna be a snide faggot be whole faggot, you failure zelda troon.
>>729051934I cant believe we only saw two of them and they are an underwhelming bunch. This is not how you write a dying civilization.
>>729052616>It doesn't count because half of those are shitI'm sorry they make you actually play the dungeons and don't let you play crossdresser as a desert girl.
It's been like 8 years and the games won GOTY multiple times. It's time to accept that you have really shit taste if you think BotW and ToTK are not the best zeldas.
>>729052775>I'm sorry they make you actually play the dungeons Arguing with the people inside your head, hrt fucked your brain faggot>don't let you play crossdresser as a desert girlkeep your faggot shit to yourselfThis zelda queer has lost the plot.
>>729053036>appealing to the Game Awards fags who also gave the win to God of War 4, The Last of Us 2, and Baldur's Gate 3That's just sad.
>>729053036I'm from an era when games had gameplay, not minecraft and souls choring.I'd feel bad for the new kids, but you're all dumb as shit anyways.only thing the new kids know is sweating tryharding repetitive choring, souls mechanics, your weapon breaking all the time, etc.games are funthis shit the ~25 and youngers call good aren't games.they're chores.
>>729053085>Arguing with the people inside your head>hrt fucked your brain
I want a story where the Gerudo male born a hundred years later tries his damndest to not be Ganondorf.
>>729053334then it turns out he's another long lost incarnation of link being his twenty-fifth removed cousin
>>729047850>Did anyone even play the fucking boring DW spinoff?It was "fine", but still underbaked. Zelda never gets a less shit moveset, the Ganondorfs are unplayable, and once you complete the story, that's kind of it. There's no further real bit of content, just maxing characters out for autism's sake. It sure definitely not be the basis of a mainline Zelda game, and frankly there's no point in bothering anymore with the franchise if Aonuma openly says he might reuse Hyrule a third fucking time.
>>729048650>Zelda series should continue to move forward and do new things.>new things like Ubisoft sandboxes>and Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
>another decade of BOTW games
>>729053449They already said the whole reason ToTK didn't get any additional content despite people begging for it is because they were fucking tired of the Breath/Tears world and were ready to move on, I can only assume he means there's something in terms of a mechanic, story beat or general feel of the game that they want to carry forward>>729053669Fuck I wish they actually leaned harder into the vehicle mechanic of the game, outside of the missions to bring lumber to Lurelin there's just the Koroks for vehicle shit
>>729053669I mean it's still new creative game design. They don't need to do TOTK a second time, maybe refine it and make a better game next time.
>>729050854It was plagued with a terrible development cycle. Plus you had Aonuma intentionally hiding the project from Miyamoto.
>>729053907They have an engine now and we can only pray they don't take several damn years to make another new one to be "with the times", only let the Switch 2 take full advantage of it. They have the design blueprint that has inches of ideas in form and factor for TotK but they cut the corners wherever they could to make another retread with snippets of new ideas and content instead. They've got everything they need to refine for an actual game this time instead of an empty, barren sandbox of enemy encounters and basic puzzle boxes. But I know they won't do it.
I want the world to not be bigger. Instead I want it to be more dense with actual dungeons built into the landscape.
Zelda Impact Warriors 4
>>729047850How about a Legend of Zelda game inspired by an original fucking idea for the first time in 20 fucking years you feckless fucking idiots, holy fuck how did Nintendo let one of their crown jewel IPs get this fucking bad?>>729048650Open world slop has been a thing for longer than LoZ has been rehashing the same fucking game you fucking midwit, how is this in any fucking way, pushing the series forward? We're going on 9 fucking YEARS of this shit. Open world was a dead concept back in 2015, 2 years before BOTW released.
Japan has gone full soulless financial market analyst, and Nintendo has quadrupled down on that.You're never getting another good LoZ game ever again.>>729054097It will chase the trends of the highest grossing mobile games.We're in an era where nigh only the indie devs are making good fun games, and quality creative stories are a rarity.I dare say E33 is the last good AA/AAA of the DECADE.
>>729047850I'd be fine if they reused Hyrule for a third time if they gave us Seasons and Ages functionality.
>>729047850The Koei Tecmo Zelda games are pretty awful in single player mode. This is probably not a good idea.
>>729052543KINGzumi
>>729054379go actually fucking kill yourself
>>7290478503rd botw is going to be underwater slop. And yes, they will reuse the same map for the 3rd time in a row.
>>729052363>Fujibayashi said in passing that BotW being nonlinear could be compared to Zelda 1 also being nonlinearI don't even see how Zelda 1 is non-linear. The way you traverse the map is non-linear, but you still need items from the dungeons to even think about progressing through the game.
>>729054379Great idea! (raughs)
>>729054995It's not even comparable because ever since albw every single 'dungeon' is equivalent to a level 1 dungeon in terms of difficulty. Open world is a mistake and a fucking meme.
>>729048476He's right.
>>729051934First Hylia and now ZonaiWhy does Aonuma love adding in garbage to the lore
>>729055445I thought Hylia was Fujiyashi's idea?
>>729048453Yeah really did write this sentence without a hint of self reflection didn't you.
>>729050482>>729052543>Knocks it out of the park in the 90s>Fucking did Z Targeting and the 3 Day Time System>Genuinely a great creative director, his only two "misses" were Sunshine and Wind Waker, both games with notorious development issues">Directed Mario Galaxy, considered one of the best games ever made>.....sneaks in Rosalina's storybook into the game, Miyamoto plays it off as a joke that he's in trouble hahaha....>Suddenly relegated to Producer roles, then Supervisor>Finally moved off of games to the fucking Mario movies Miyamoto was a fucking asshole for sending Koizumi to the producer dungeon after he made that mistake in Galaxy. I've never seen a game dev with so much promise demoted to shit for trying to make a good game.
>>729051638>kicking Koizumi off of ZeldaYou make it sound like he got fired, he got promoted to Mario and got a brand new studio made just for him to run.
>>729047850Anyone else look at BOTW and TOTK as hollow games, like every time I look at my home menu and I want to play Zelda, I kinda get sad that these games used to be tightly packaged experiences, but when I think of BOTW and TOTK on my home screen, they both reek of poor structure and repetitive content, bad dungeons (minus the Gerudo Dungeons in both games). These titles feel as if only one playthrough is necessary because the content on offer is not well thought out, like 4-5 20 minute dungeons in a 100 hour game, with boss fights so easy you wonder why you would spend time getting shrines done for health. These games feel tailor made for people who want to pick up items for 50 hours and want to avoid combat.
>>729055497I can't tell anymore, they're both butt buddies now anyway since Fujiyashi directed the BotW games too.>>729055763Don't forget he also wrote LA and came up with the "it's all a dream" twist which back then was a pretty good twist for a video game like Zelda
>hookshot was originally slated for BotW>scrapped due to the climbing mechanics>then TotK came along and we fly anywhere.I think Hookshot's days are numbered.
>>729055859For what it's worth, even if I'm not a huge fan, BotW was a very good game for the open world genre. It offered a genuine sense of adventure and exploration throughout Hyrule. The biggest problem is these assholes spent 6 years just to do it again "but this time you can build shitty vehicles!" like who the fuck ever asked for something like that in Zelda? They had an entire extra year of dev time and they didn't spend it on at least making the Sky Island or Depths actually good?
>>729055964I miss BoomerangI don't care about building a giant robot or some dumb shit I WANT MY BOOMERANG BACK
>>729055763The Galaxy games were pretty story heavy for a mainline Mario title so I can tell Koizumi was behind them. No idea about Odyssey since I never played that one.
>>729055964Didn't the Just Cause games have a Hookshot-like mechanic in them? I suppose BotW would've been too similar since they both have a paraglider.
>>729047850grim.
>>729054780Nah, I'm going to play the next Zelda game because it's going to be excellent like the Tears and Breath of the Wild.
>>729056026i wonder if they'll keep the durability system. can't believe we've been on BotW's world for a decade when we could have revisited back locations. Hell I be surprised if OoT gets its own FFVII remake and I know I'm gonna be slammed for saying it, but you just know they're going to expand it and add in every cut content not in the original from the ground up and hypothetically make a bad end ending where Link loses. coming to think of it, Zelda 40th anniversary might comprise of;>Zelda99 for NSO....it's probably going to be like FSA but with 99 links on the field slaughtering enemies.>Ocarina of Time like setup for the Nintendo World Themepark (hyrule castle, great deku tree, lake hylia)>the Zelda movie might be a retelling of OoT or be a trilogy. Hell it could be somewhere inbetween any of the Zelda games. >Zelda merchandise for switch like controller skin. >remasters, remakes, ports....
>>729048650>>729055312Checklist games are not an improvement, they're a regression. >wow I could do this tedious filler content in any order
>>729055973I will say that I give BOTW much more credit than tears, that game is actually good. TOTK is the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced. Corny shit, but I would think about BOTW 2 daily and wonder what new shit they could add given the fact they were reusing the map. Maybe I got carried away but all I wanted were>8 1-2 hour long dungeons>2-3 new weapon types>8 dungeon items that open up progression in the open world>ALTTP tier bosses that make me want to get shrines done.>An enemy for every biome in the game, minor enemies like Deku Babas and more in depth foes like Darknuts >9th dungeon is sealed off until you beat all of them, no early game finishingDude, I was hoping to find a darknut in TOTK so bad, but when I found out the only thing they managed to add in 6 years was a fucking Lynel with some rocks on his body, I fucking almost put the game down and I've finished every game in the series.
>>729056407>it's not a checklist if i'm told to check it off in a specific order
>“In the first place, the reason I decided to make this a sequel to the previous work was because I thought there was value in experiencing a new game in that Hyrule place,” Aonuma said. “If that's the case, if a new reason arises, we might return to the same world again. Whether it's a sequel or a new work, I think it's going to be a completely new game, so I hope you're looking forward to it.”I don't want to explore botw Hyrule a third fucking time man fuck off
>>729051381It's a strong sign that the game was riding off pre-release hype and the actual reception wasn't great.
you think the next Zelda for switch 2 will promise us to give us what the pre-release footage of BotW. Hell what about that tech demo on wii u?
>>729056349>FSA but with 99 links on the field slaughtering enemiesMario 128 but Zelda? Sounds kino.
>>729047850Fucking imagine iterating your game off of Musou. Good fucking grief
>>729056818It just shows that he has no ideas of his own left.
>>729048650>game series should continue to move forward and do new thingsNot always, because when they experiment too much, it can go to their heads and create something that strays too far from what the game was originallyIn the case of Zelda, it worked with BotW and TotK because open-world games were in vogue. Now tell me, could you think of anything positive about having gameplay like Age of Imprisonment?I can already see what will happen with the new game, just like what happened with The Phantom Pain and the missions
>>729047850So we will get BOTW/TOTK 3.0.. Zelda is fucking dead.
>>729057937I don't know, it has been apparent since SS that he wanted bigger battles in Zelda.
>>729047850>musou trash infecting the mainline seriesit's so fucking over
>>729058359but hey we heckin owned the snoys and eric and macaco with botw's sales!!!
>>729047850The next Zelda will be inspired by whatever is trendy in the moment, just how BotW/TotK are inspired by the open world memeI'm guessing it will take inspiration from souls games and monster hunter since they're so popular both in Japan and worldwide
>>729058549>The next Zelda will be inspired by whatever is trendy 5-6 years before they come outftfy
>>729047850This is genuinely such a nothing burger quote that he just said to get people to buy age of imprisonment.
>somehow ruto has returned>and she wants kids
>>729048650>Zelda series should continue to move forward and do new things.except he said he'll just make botw clones forever, that's not "new things"
>>729058435I hate those famitsu faggots so much
>Zelda with deeper combat, more contrived lore, characters who exist only to die, and worse dungeon crawlingThat's nice and all, but we already had Darksiders
>>729059118Fagmitsu threads have been one of the top 3 worst things to happen to /v/. First with the goldfacing Sony fucks spamming the board with relentless unfunny anal vore memes thanks to winning most of the PS4 generation by default victory, and then victimsmugging Nintendo fucks who celebrate Nintendo's games being ruined for mass appeal just because they want revenge that badly for how poorly Nintendo was regarded from 2006-2016.
So more combat and less puzzles? Sounds good to me. I was getting sick of shrines anyway.
>>729059852>switchfags starting to throw BotW/TotK under the bus as soon as we get any peep about the next gameThis is ACTUALLY going to keep happening with every fucking Switch 2 game in an established series, isn't it?
>>729059852>musou combat>good
>>729048650>new things>shit Ubisoft had been doing for years
I'm sick of BotW's Hyrule and ancient tech made by an ancient race with more advanced tech. It was somehow more generic than traditional fantasy.
>>729060441BotW was fine with Magitech. TotK should've been about magic instead.
>>729060441The only way I'd be fine with them ever touching on technology again is if they fully commit to a near-future setting (and vary up the tech aesthetics rather than having it all use the same two or three fucking colors and materials). Otherwise, I agree - enough of tech in Zelda for a while.
Didn't they say totk was the last time they were using this Hyrule?I'm so fucking glad I didn't but a shitwch 2
>>729060250I doubt it will have mosou combat, they might be thinking about revamping Link's with more anime-like moves though. Huge spinning slashes, kamehame waves etc.Either that or they're talking about giving Zelda her own mainline game again for some godforsaken reason.
>>729059334>unfunnyThat was peak post wojak.
>>729047850FUCK! I love BOTW (hated totk though) it's my favorite Zelda game, but for fucks sake move on.
>>729050482My hero. Aonuma is the great Satan.
>>729056408All I wanted in TotK was actual dungeons and a good story, the very bare minimum for a Zelda game and they couldn't even deliver thatI was so disappointed
>>729047850>Thought that Aonuma had finally got IT with BotW after the speech he gave about it and why BotW was the result from the previous games and how they are breaking Zelda conventions.>Turned out, that it was a fucking lie and PR speak when TotK happened.>And the lesson he got was, you don't want traditional Zelda but the skin walker version of it that was TotK aping of Lttp/OoT, Frankenstein'd BotW and even more durability bandaidsCaptcha can tongue my anus, I'm fucking done forever
>>729061691TotK should've just been a ripoff of Diablo 1 where it's just multiple forays into the Hyrule Castle Depths, learning more of the history and whatnot.
>>729056537If we go back to this fucking Hyrule for a third time it's an automatic skip, I refuse to support devs who reuse the same map three times over the course of a decade and some
>>729060229Oh absolutely The second we get a proper trailer for the next Zelda game everyone who sucked TotK's dick swearing it was the Zelda theyve waited 30 years for, are suddenly going to trash it and call out the flaws we've been saying for two yearsLove it or hate it /v/ is always right
>>729061691Monolith Soft should honestly help write the story for the next Zelda. EPD clearly can't be bothered.
>>729048006Faggots being faggots. Faggotry in the past. Faggotry in the present. It's faggots all the way down.
>>729062898I mean... fuck, they can't POSSIBLY turn out an equally bad or worse story than the crummy Saturday morning anime writing firm they outsourced TotK's story to.
I miss old zelda
>>729048476A lot got lost in translation
>>729048476I bet he had big dollar signs in his eyes while saying this
>>729048752what was the point of robot link? where's the real true and honest link? is he still in the regeneration jo chamber?
>>729047850I can already imagine the "what do you mean it isn't like a zelda game? You fight a bunch of monsters so it's exactly the same as zelda 1. It's more of a true zelda game than ALttP and OoT."
>future of nuzelda is either ubislop or musouslopOofGlad I had already stopped giving a shit after totk
>>729064490That explains why there aren’t any credited writers in the credits.
>>729052319Man, the main thing that bothered me every time they came up in TotK was how incredibly fucking boring the "secret stones" were. Even their name is really fucking boring.
>>729051381When a game's sales drop off that hard there is no possibility other than it riding on, and subsequently killing, hype. Unless everyone at nintendo has actual brain damage, they know that the next mainline zelda game is going to be looked at with substantially more scrutiny and have to earn back customers. What they choose to do with that information is a whole other story.
I think after they release the OOT/MM remakes (which look good to me, people are too used to whining) they'll do an openworld game thats super hidef. Like more enemy variety but to the quality of the main three enemy types in botw. Totks new enemies just weren't interesting to interact with. They have to make swimming/diving a thing too probably
>>729066447totk ticked a lot of boxes on a product managers list, they didn't approach its development as a gaming experiencebuying it and playing through the tutorial was one of the most depressing gaming experiences I've had as it was just realising its pretty much the same game with tweaks
>>729047850fuck offf im tired of this style and blue link
>>729048453/v/ is depressed boomers, don't let the jadedness get to you too
>>729047850>weapons wont breakit'll automatically be better than totk/botw. i enjoyed hyrule warriors more than them because i could actually engage with enemies.
>>729056349>i wonder if they'll keep the durability systemThey would have to come up with some other godawful way to waste your fucking time if they got rid of it.
>>729050929"Average success"
>>729056408I had been looking forward to silksong, dragon's dogma 2, and botw 2. Of the three, I assumed silksong was in the least enviable position and was the least likely to be favorably compared to its predecessor. The way I figured it, all dd2 and botw 2 had to do to be 10/10 masterpieces was address the obvious flaws in their respective previous games. And I guess I wasn't technically proven wrong, since neither of them bothered to do that.How do you fumble such a clear, attainable goal? Th incompetence is so great it feels malicious.
Release in 10 years
>>729066669>the tutorial was one of the most depressing gaming experiences I've hadEven setting aside its implications about the rest of the game and its relation to botw, it's still depressing. Everything from the "music" to the color palette just drains your soul.
>>729049290Only part that matters
>>729048880Its pretty well done. Its entertaining for sure.Not high art by any stretch, but the story bits are a fun watch
>>729066012Real Link didn't go back in time
>>729067580yeah, the falling saxaphone motif was just a bizarre choice
I don't think I like the characters acknowledging their cyclical role, it kind of feels like the WWE admitting their shit is fake.
I hope there are more hot alien looking women
>>729048650Should've just had physics and survival gameplay and more side content without bloated open world wankery
>>729048006Haven't played it myself, but there are good spirits and there are evil spirits, and the good spirits have to overcome the evil spirits to save the world and stuff.
>>729049354What is Koizumi even doing nowadays? I honestly forgot he was even still at Nintendo until I saw him in recent direct where they brought back the Virtual Boy of all thingsWhy is he not allowed to make games any more? The last game he was a director for was Mario Galaxy 1 iirc
>>729070456He's one of Miyamoto's proteges, who also had one hell of an independent streak. As a result, he got dragged up the corporate ladder kicking and screaming and is no longer directly involved in game development
>>729070456Being the "producer" of the Mario series after Miyamoto raged that he dared to make a Mario game with a story and heading up Nintendo of Europe but I think someone replaced him there a while ago.
>>729055763Genuinely don’t understand Shiggy’s thought process here.>Koizumi adds the storybook>It becomes the most memorable and beloved part of Galaxy 1>Miyamoto has a melty and kicks Koizumi upstairs>Years later, storybook gets extended and released physicallySo clearly Shigger has come around to the idea of the storybook, so you think he’d apologise to Koizumi and let him work on games again.
>>729047983Miyamoto stepped back from the position of director too soon, the last game he directed was fucking Mario 64 in 1996. Miyamoto always prioritized the fundamental gameplay of Zelda and he believed thought Zelda should lean towards realism like Oot and TP, he cringed at baby shit like WW. (even though it was still a good game)
>>729047995yeah, by the time Zelda is revealed this quote will be long forgotten. he just says random shit, he gets a kick out of it when he says something vague and everyone starts theorizing.
>>729047850>Zeldafags cry endlessly about nu-Zelda being the future>Ignore the best classic style Zelda to come onto the sceneYou get what you fucking deserve.
>>729048006Literally the same as the memories in Tears of the Kingdom, except there was a Link construct with his Korok companion that helped in the fight against Ganondorf's army, and he fights off the evil Link construct, and all of this just happened not to be acknowledged in Tears of the Kingdom. It really didn't change anything about the story.
>>729066012They wanted to keep the story canon this time even though Tears of the Kingdom has one of the shittiest stories in Zelda, so they couldn't include the real Link, so made up a robot Link so that Link would still be in the game in spirit.
>>729047850>ubislop merged with musou wankamazing. more for my "never play" list.
>>729071152I played it, enjoyed it, recommended it, the works. I would be fine if the traditional format was relegated to lower budget offerings, the handhelds had a better track record anyway.
>>729048476is that an actual quote?thats retarded.they couldve removed all roadblocks and story triggers from the old zeldas too if they wanted to it wouldve literally been easier to do so too.but they didnt, because they wanted to make actual good games.depressing.
>>729070926Or Shiggy got put in the movie retirement home and has little say over what happens with the Mario games now.As for Koizumi I'm pretty sure his current position is better paid than game dev so I doubt he would work on games anymore even if he had the opportunity.
>>729055763I don't remember anything about the storybook except a friend lauging and saying it's for babies
>>729047850I believe Aonuma wants the next Zelda to feature a Hyrule that is actively at war.Link will be doing his usual adventure thing but now the player will have to navigate around warzones or take part in a battle.TotK had small traces of this with the side quests to help freedom fighters clean out monster camps.Don't forget MonolithSoft has it's own Zelda project in the works.
>>729047850extremely concerning
>>729070726>>729070729That sucks, so he's basically never allowed to direct another game again, not even a new IP
>>729071318>Bro doesn't read past the headline Typical, this place is just as retarded as Bluesky.
>>729048476This is the same kind of mentality that gave us Bananza, World and Prime 4
>>729066157This is why gatekeeping is important. Do people think those 25 million additional sales are people played a Zelda game before? They're invaders trying to rewrite what Zelda is about. The Zelda fans who suck botw's dick are like the liberals with the signs saying "refugees welcome" while the invaders come in and rape the franchise.
>>729071717>BananzaNigger I will cut you for implying that's a bad game.
>>729066208you have to wait for one last zelda reveal before all hope is lost, brother.
>>729047850>Zelda's Creed: Musuou EditionLol, lmao. It'll lose even easier to Larian's animal genitals next time.
>>729071762This is one of dumbest posts I have ever read on this shithole.
>>729048006It's the origin story of the BOTW-verse Great Deku Tree, and why he's guarding the master sword shrine and knows so much about it.Everything else, all of Zelda and Rauru and Ganondorf's story, is what you already saw in TOTK and therefore irrelevant.
>>729071776It’s not a bad game but it sure as hell isn’t a good one either
>>729071478Tbh it's a decent premise. More importantly it means 90% of the story wouldn't happen in goddamn memories again.The MonolithSoft thing was a mistranslation Nintendo just wants them to cooperate with the Zelda team in more important roles they're not doing their own game.
>>729050513What do you mean? They give that to us in Metroid now. lol
>>729071870>It's the origin story of the BOTW-verse Great Deku Tree,Thanks for confirming you don't know what you're talking about.
>>729066267>how incredibly fucking boring the "secret stones" were. Even their name is really fucking boring.The word "secret stone" is the most retardedly childish sounding thing I ever heard. No, not even a children's cartoon would have a name that fucking retardedly simple. It's like a father holding a rock in their hand and telling their 3 year old "oooo I have the seeeecret stone" in a half-assed attempt at entertaining them. Are we sure they didn't just do a really bad translation?
>>729071863why, are you some muslim lover or something? explain
>>729047850just make gta online: zelda at this point and sell kakariko cardsthey have no ideas left for the ip, it sounds like they're just shopping around
>>729047850Third BotW needs to be like Majora's Mask, a spinoff-esque that ends Link's story, hopefully not in Hyrule again.
>>729048752Where does that go in my little timeline? Also I thought the constructs were made by Sheikah, not the zonai?
>>729047850Age of Imprisonment honestly felt like a disappointment, combat in endgame just boils down to spamming zonai devices for elemental combos and in terms of weapon modifiers there's too few options outside of the spiky circle shape, hell the only generic square shape seal is fucking charge time reduction which is useless on a good chunk of characters. It's way worse than AoC endgame.
>>729071969Who do you think Calamo is? What do you think the giant tree at the ending cutscene is after he finally decides to root himself and there's millenia of timeskip?
>>729050612>>72905090620+ million is nothing to sneeze it but I also hope Nintendo sees it as Zelda not automatically being guaranteed a success if they just make a half-assed sequel with 90% reused assets and mechanics. Also Breath of the Wild even outsold Tears of the Kingdom at one point.
>>729071975The secret stones are supposed to be magatamas from shinto-buddism. I've no idea why they translated it like that
>>729048006Same shit as what's said in TotK except now they also show how notLink and a korok gather an army of normal NPCs to hold back the horde of monsters while Rauru and company fight Ganondorf.
>>729072031They have already stated the next game will feature a new Link and Zelda.Aonuma says they have done everything they wanted to do with BotW Hyrule.
>>729072061>Also I thought the constructs were made by Sheikah, not the zonai?The zonai constructs were made by the zonai.
>>729072061>Zelda is stuck as a dragonMaybe finish playing the game before you make theories. Or at least look up the ending on youtube
>>729051381Definitely far from poor, but the point is it shows a downward trend and Nintendo will realize they need to step their game up if they want Zelda to continue to be a monumental franchise.
>>729050906zelda games never sold well before botw
>>729072160Play the game, fucker.
>>729071659Really dont need to.
>>729050854The deadlines during the GC era were not his fault. Wind Waker's art style was also Aonuma's decision.
>>729050482Nintendo's best asset that was taken off Zelda duty years ago, and now promoted to a position where he is less hands on with games. What a shame. He was not in the credits for Bananza or anything other than a couple Mario ports and a couple puzzle games since Odyssey, so hopefully he's hard at work on the next 3D Mario.
>>729072270Yeah hear me out. What if the next game has better graphics and doesn't take place on the same map
>>729056045He was producer on Odyssey but probably very involved. The story is obviously not deep but Odyssey is definitely pretty cinematic, probably more than any other Mario game. There's a decent amount of cutscenes and big spectacles.
>>729055763sunshine was not a miss lol
>How about we replace the sheikah slate system AND the rod items for a combination of skills most characters don't have enough types of + zonai devices to fill those cracks that in most cases force you to menu toggle constantly because we don't have enough fucking buttons for all the choices or you'll need to use the devices while the equivalent skill is in the midst of its cooldown >Oh and let's put items for fusing in the same menu so we can bloat it even MOREIt's crazy how much clunkier it actually feels to play than Age of Calamity. Fuck I primarily use Lago BECAUSE he can reliably recharge his skill faster than anyone else via x spam so I know I'll never be caught with my pants down and need to cycle through a fucking menu just for a zonai device that serves the same function as a skill I already have tied to a R + a face button. Fuck I'll take a game whose meta is "spam stasis whenever a weak point gauge shows up" any day of the weak.Tying skills, zonai devices AND FUCKING FUSING TO THE SAME FUCKING SHORTCUT MENU WAS A FUCKING MISTAKE.
>>729072785Oh also forgot to add your HEALING ITEMS ALSO TAKE UP A FUCKING SLOT IN THE SHORTCUTS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MENU CYCLE
>>729070926The interview was misinterpreted. The whole storybook was shown to miyamoto and approved by him before the release of the game. Koizumi showed it to him as a "surprise" because he worked on the whole thing making it a finished product before even bringing it up.
>>729047850I might actually skip it then. I've played every mainline Zelda as they released but I don't like the open world ones and I don't have a switch 2 yet. I have no interest in playing a musou for more boring Hyrule lore. Send Link to another land for God sake. Aonuma sucks.
>>729071152I ain't no tranny
>>729048526He better have a Big Robot Cock (BRC).
The only Hyrule Warriors I enjoyed was the original, Hyrule Warriors should always just be a fanservice wankfest.Runs great on the Switch 2 in handheld mode now because Koei was retarded and made the Switch 1 run it at 1080p in handheld.
>>729050513>554 KB JPGyou niggas are never getting dungeonsGood to know you dumbasses still dont play the games you are talking about We literally had dungeons and linear gameplay in TotK
"Open world games" are on a downward trajectory for a while now, even the braindead normgroids don't want another "openworld" with time-wasting copy-paste busywor, there is already a hundred games like that.Tendies fell for it again with TotK because they are tendies, its not going to work again.
yeah bro I want empty corridors with nothing interesting happening in it for $80
Did anyone even play age of imprisonment? I saw 0 threads here but I've I also get no one here has money for switch 2s
>>729071067>Miyamoto stepped back from the position of director too soon, the last game he directed was fucking Mario 64 in 1996Officially, but he did the game design for Pikmin 1 despite being producer.
>>729048476kek, what a fucking nigger. I hope he will die soon
>>729073448>retard was fooled into thinking any of those were dungeons just because one had "temple" in its name
>>729072992If you see that statement and think BotW Hyrule is getting another game you might be brain-dead.
>>729048752But what about the Sheikah? Was there anything done to connect BotW to TotK?
>>729052543fuck man what a portfolio.and this man isnt working on zelda anymore.
>>729074092lollmaoSheikah did not exist in that time period. They came into existence much much later off screen.
>>729055770the problem here is that mario would probably still be fine if it wasnt for him working on it, yet zelda actually got fucking raped since he was taken off it.
>>729047850Skyward Sword was the last Zelda game.
>>729074420since Zelda brought her pad in the past I thought there would be an explanation why the tech is so similiar while also not existing at the same time
>>729051381its the same situation as monster hunter wilds, and capcom had to apologize for that.
>>729074702It broaches the question did the sheikah indirectly influence Zonai technology or did the zonai influence the sheikah
>>729071762Lmao, now I want Zelda to go the way of Final Shittasy to commit sudoku trying to cater to non-persons.
>>729056408>that game is actually good.wrong.
>>729073569Why would the Hyrule based lore tie into non Hyrule?
>>729070926thats not how japanese companies work.being promoted into a top suit position is seen as a good thing and these people end up earning way more too.
>>729071152looks gay and nothing like classic zelda.
>>729075017retard
>>729075056t. gay non classic zelda enjoyer
>>729074914Where are you getting Hyrule lore from OPs quote? He just said they'll take elements from AoI not the setting. I don't get why people are dooming about a third BotW Hyrule game.
>>729075076faggot
>>729071776Its painfully mediocre game with dumb gimmick
>>729047850Why does he look like a CHAD in his 80s?
I've played every Zelda game on Nintendo consoles. I've liked all of them. Some more than others. The one I probably like the least is Twilight Princess, but I liking it the least and disliking it are not the same. I still like it a lot. Since I've basically enjoyed all of them, I'm positive that there's a high chance I'll enjoy whatever comes next.
>>729072285He plants himself in the burnt ruins of the great forest west of death mountain, where their battle ends, and then it shows a timelapse of the forest regrowing around him.What retarded youtuber told you he teleports halfway across the kingdom into a lake in a crater?
>>729047850>musou now matters to ZeldaI'm numb to the pain.
>>729075451Japanese genetics
>Cutscene early on confirms there are weeks or even months between each mission>Cutscene after Sonia dies shows grief-stricken Rauru hallucinating and mistaking Zelda for SoniaI'm glad AoI at least gave us an answer for how there can be a royal lineage for Zelda to descend from if Sonia died with no descendants.
>>729076776Yeah even Sonia states Rauru is infatuated with Zelda with how he keeps gifting her his favorite possessions like his favorite knife. Sonia was too old for Rauru.
>>729047850>almost 10 years of botw wankwhen is nintendo going to actually move on from botw?
>>729077547When a gen alpha trend comes along to alienate us even more
>>729047850>BUYU OUR SHIT GAMU PREASUNintendo is disgusting
i don't care if it's shit im buying it
>>729077547Seeing how its almost 10 years of botw seethe, they probably won't.
>>729048476So glad you fags are being weeded out of the fandom. Now stop making threads for the IP and fuck off.
>>729048650>Zelda series should continue to move forward and do new things.there is no "thing"this is what Zelda isthe eternal triangleMario will never marry Peach either Nintendo is a toy company
>>729050513AND THAT'S A GOOD THING
>>729047850Botw3 with musou gameplay in the same map again. Anything except create good dungeons
>>729072721Man stop being a contrarian acting like Sunshine was an amazing gameI love it but it's mediocre as fuck and if you can't see that you're blind to your nostalgia to actually judge games
>>729076776>>729077007....you're joking right? Rauru fucks Zelda?
>>729048476You don't even have to make the games linear to have the real zelda formula, you just have to have actual progression and objectives in your open world instead of just "sandbox whatever you want and go fight the final boss when you get bored" like BotW and TotK.
>>729079590GOATED
>>729077547They already did? Inb4>Noooo that doesn't count!!!
>>729079712they only count proper man-child games only
>>729079495Would rather replay Super Mario Sunshine over botw/totk pretty much anyday of the week. Im not touching another open world slop game for years
>>729071975>>729072182Looking up the Japanese name, "hiseki", "secret stone" is the most basic translation ("hi = secret/mystery" and "seki = stone").Going by the context, though, it's clear to me that the stones are named for the mysterious powers they possess, not because the stones themselves are secret. So a more fitting translation would be "stones of secrets".
>>729047850why didn't link just flew the eagles to Ganon?
I'm bored of the BotW-verse. This is the longest Zelda has ever stuck with a particular art style or set of characters.
No Ashei no buy
>>729048006Semen King? Family Jewels?So that was the Impregnation War…Zelda is dead, foids and dudebros killed it and now pretend that they’re the TRUE fans despite statistically not playing any of the game before BotW.
>>729080154You'll get OoT remake slop next year.Nintendo will be pimping out that anniversary.
>>729047850>AoC is a prequel to BotW>Lol, just kidding. Fuck off, we already got your money.>TotK is a sequel to BotW>Lol, just kidding. Fuck off, we already got your money.I’m not touching a Zelda again until Miyamoto and Aonuma are a flickering memory.
>>729052543>straight up just the good Zelda games (except for the first two, and the later GB ones)Damn...
>>729080298>REMAKES!!!!!!I want a new game tho?
>>729080298Can’t wait for that 720p30fps bare bones port of the 3DS version with Epona locked behind a $30 Amiibo.
>>729072160He was actually the Ancient Tree Stump in Hyrule Field. The final battle takes place on the field, south of the castle. The Great Deku Tree's forest is to the north.The Switch 2 edition of BOTW and TOTK also added collectible voice memories, including ones where Zelda talks about certain legends surrounding the tree, and how researchers discovered an ancient spear embedded in the trunk. And as we see in AoI, Calamo uses a piece of a Gerudo spear to keep himself upright as a tree.
>>729080298>OoT with a “reworked story” so that it fits Fujibayashi’s new godwife canon
>>729080416Not until 2027 at the earliest.
>>729048476>SquareEnix said turn-based games are no longer popular>E33 was a generational success that swept everything in the FF franchise made after that statement>Aonuma says linear games are "games of the past"I wonder what will happen next????
>>729080582Based.Time to cuck that farm girl.
>>729047850>MORE BOTW slop For fucks sake. Move on already.
>>729080797I kind of like that this endless procession of BotW adjacents is souring people on BotW in general. I never liked that half-baked bullshit that Nintendo managed to snake oil onto the masses.
>>729080757Zelda will continue being successful.
Are people really not bored of this art/aesthetic style after almost a decade of it?
>>729080919You people are so silly.
>>729079712Indeed doesn't count. In the 2000s they didn't move on from OOT either even though they released 2D games.
>>729081005Us real hardcore Zelda fans have been sick of it for a long time.Cultists don't care
>>729080637More like 2030
>>729076776>>729077007>>729079590Ganondorf did nothing wrong.
>>729081005The aesthetic is fine, the problem is the make your own fun gameplay and how little anything you do matters.
>>729047983Nah we need Koizumi back for at least one more Zelda
>>729066012It’s not link per seIt’s just his will from a shard of the master sword
>>729081108>US TRUE SCOTSMAN
>>729081256uhh based?
>>729048006A waste of time and money>>729048236He’s also the same guy that said Smash wouldn’t be the same without Sakurai
>>729048476>why do you want to go back to a type of game where you're more limited or more restricted in the types of things or ways you can play?Gee, it's almost like some people prefer it when a game has proper structure and an intentionally tailored gameplay experience instead of being given everything and told 'go make your own fun you lazy shit'. God forbid game devs actually take the time and effort to do more than the bare fucking minimum.
>>729076776>>729079590>Zelda is simultaneously her own ancestor and descendant after taking goat-man dick Am I understanding this right? Holy fucking shit I thought nuZelda couldn't get any worse. Did not one person on the writing team sit down and say "this is the most godawful dogshit ever put to paper"? Not even a lobotomite could come up with shit this fucking retarded. Total Nintendo/Koei Tecmo Death.
>>729060689>Didn't they say totk was the last time they were using this Hyrule?I tried telling people that they were gonna use the world again. If the Switch 2 cards can hold more, and if porting that map from TotK doesn't result in performance issues, you better believe they're gonna do it, or even add more layers to it with weapon durability returning and more bullshit to collect without actually improving the gameplay or making your rewards meaningful.
>>729081446Fujibayashi is 100% behind this. He loves bestiality.
>>729053416>the new male Gerudo is the new incarnation of Link>the descendant of the previous Link is the new Ganondorf>this then becomes the norm and Link is never a white man ever again
>>729076776>>729077007>>729079590>>729081446>>729082026Jesus fucking....WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
>>729048453its 100% on point though?
Seems like no one likes totk
I remember right after BotW came out I used to tell my friends "Man they should just reuse the assets for the sequel, but make it smaller, around a new map, and more focused on story and dungeons, like Majora's Mask! It could be the best Zelda game if they did!"Well...I was right about the reused assets I guess.
>>729081446You're being trolled you dumb fucker.Have you forgotten this is a Nintendo game for kids?
Aonuma should’ve died in a car accident instead of Gunpei Yokoi.
>>729080919What really helped the fatigue was non-Zelda games starting to be infected with it too.>>729081024>stop caring about your favorite series, don't you know you look ridiculous to the fickle normie fans who didn't give a shit about it before being pandered to???
>>729082516It doubled down on everything I did not like about BotW while also failing to truly fix any of its flawsIf you loved what BotW had to offer it's probably gonna be your favorite Zelda gameIf you expected them to improve and change the formula a little then it's a massive 6 year disappointment
>>729047850>NEXT 3D ZELDA TO BE INSPIRED BY AGE OF IMPRISONMENTsounds like a terrible idea to make the next game inspired by one of the niche games most people didn't give a fuck about
>>729048476Yeah sounds like he doesn't like what made the original games popular and just wants to make a new game series but is too much of a pussy to make it a new franchise.
>>729082613Modern Nintendo is so dogshit that I wouldn't put it past them to write something so pants-on-head retarded.
>>729083046His experiment with Wind Waker really broke him.
>>729047850sounds cool?
Link’s Crossbow Training 2 when?
>>729082940When the Metroid Prime 4 trailer showed Sylux from that game nobody played, a select few creamed their jeans
>>729084034>SyluxThey should’ve made it about Metroid’s equivalent of the 40K Tyranids.
>>729079712imagine paying for this dogshit
>>729079712Cool Playmobil set
>>729078985sorry sweetie, you will be reminded that you consoom the raped ubislop zeldas until the series is actually back.get used to it.
>>729082516It was even being outsold by BotW in 2024.
>>729048752>metal linklol this sounds terrible didnt mario do this shit too
>>729048453He's right, lil bro. The hype train ended for BotW years ago.
>>729086962whatever helps you sleep at night lol.
Does anybody really want MORE BotW? There was already two of them.
>>729084327 That would’ve been kino honestly. Federation Force hinted at some creepy bio-engineered horror stuff and then they just... dropped it. The whole rogue A.I./space monstrosity angle would've been a thousand times more interesting than another "loner bounty hunter vs edgy rival" plotline. Give me Zerg-tier Phazon-abominations overrunning Galactic Federation outposts while Samus rolls in like Doomguy or don’t even bother.
>>729087112only one mapI'd like a second onebut not anytime soonwhich works out since it'll likely be ~3+ years away
>>729071268>They wanted to keep the story canon this time even though Tears of the Kingdom has one of the shittiest stories in ZeldaAnd that is the game's biggest flaw. They should have done another alternate timeline like they did with the last game. Every critic who reviewed the game said that the story was the weakest part because they kept things canon and we all knew what was going to happen. Nintendo half assed it basically.
>>729079712I liked it really fun game
>>729082676>If you loved what BotW had to offer it's probably gonna be your favorite Zelda gameIt would've been if it weren't for the terrible crafting and fusing mechanics. They ruined the game for me.
>>729071152Maybe it shouldn't have utilized the "make your own fun" nonsense of the nu-Zelda age. Stop making it so you can trivialize everything. >I'm just gonna summon this enemy to fight for me, an infinite amount of times, without any kind of restriction or cooldown, save for the amount that can be out at any time
>>729082391Had this game come out like 30 years earlier, you know this scene would've spawned at least a dozen doujins.
>>729090570Had they not turned Link into a crossdressing twink, we would have gotten that shit now.
>350 posts of seething about a game that does not exist yetwhy are NDS fags like this?
>Forget to put a story in your last Zelda game>Through together a mediocre story to fill in this gap in another game >Our next game will be more like this
>>729091582>that does not exist yetwuh?
>>729091582Nintendo DS?
>>729091783>force Koei to make a musou prequel to pad in any plotholes or inconsistencies
I am very tired of the BotW setting
>>729076776>Zelda fucks up so hard she creates a timeline where the royal family doesn't exist.Worst princess in the series.
is Age of Imprisonment fun, was considering getting it for christmas
>>729092752It's musou slop. Basically a braindead button masher, but now with 50 hours of cutscenes to bore you.
>>729092504Another game with time travel was the dumbest decision they could’ve done. It was already a tired trope in the series decades ago.
>more botw setting.... this doesnt surprise me, but at the same time it disappoints meI bet they will do nothing with OoT 30th anniversary, unless it is set in Botw to rewrite, somehow, og OoT
>>729093169zelda in general needs a full rewrite if they are going to be autistic and keep insisting every game is part of some big timeline
>>729047850this fuckface needs to get gunpei'd.
>>729093169>OoT 30th anniversary
Age of Imprisonment was so goddamned ass that I started skipping all cutscenes after a while.
>>729093786he earns, he's an earner
>>729052543I fucking KNEEL
>>729052543>4/5 hitsIts a shame that he couldn't tard wrangle Aonuma enough in Wind Waker.
>>729094987>>729052543IIRC Koizumi was barely involved in WW.
>>729072182>>729080065Yeah that makes sense. I had a feeling that was probably what happened but I didn't really care enough to look it up.
>>729095335He was assistant director, so I’m not even sure what he really did for Wind Waker.
Damn
>>729092949 Yeah, it’s like they looked at the most played-out mechanic in Zelda history and said, “You know what this tired setting needs? More convoluted timelines!” At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they retcon Skyward Sword just to shove in another future version of Hyrule that’s secretly post-apocalyptic again.
>>729093786Well now look at you, the monkey paw curled and the COD guy got it instead rip
>>729047850About the future of Zelda games. Anyone else lose interest in Legend of Zelda games because the modern games have made Link a joke? To summarize the more screen time Zelda gets the more annoying she is. I hate Zelda as a character. She's an annoying Mary Sue who can do anything making you wonder why the fuck does Link even exist and her shitty personality doesn't help. I don't want to protect a shitty ungrateful bitch. In fact that seems to be the thing in Nintendo's modern games since Princess Peach also rejected Mario in Odyssey. Yeah....female empowerment I knew this poison was going to happen eventually to Nintendo. And frankly its the reason my first negative experience with Zelda was Windwaker I hated Tetra and her Tough Pirate Woman Bullshit attitude bossing all the idiot men from her crew.The direction of Zelda is quite clear More Female Empowerment so expect Link to be treated more like a bumbling loser and WATCH OUT for that live action Zelda movie you know that's Hollywood they will fuck that up as well. Making the titular character of the franchise annoying is a huge red flag for the future of this series.
>>729099168Shut up Indian, go back to Prime 4 threads or whatever
>>729047850Back to Back Wrong Decisions....
>>729071268>They wanted to keep the story canonCanon? Zelda as a series stopped having any weight in the canon when they revealed the Fallen Hero timeline because that was random nonsense. The Zelda franchise is like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles its a Multiverse and each one is separate and isolated and the few times Zelda act like sequels its kept vague so that any newcomer can get into it. The problem with Multiverses is that nothing matters, there's no reason to get attached to anything that happens in this series.For crying out loud Link has officially gotten killed off and he reincarnates like nothing. The canon holds no meaning. The only Nintendo series which has maintained its canon linear story is Metroid.
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>>729047850Dude I just want to explore scary and dangerous as fuck dungeons
>>729047850So when do we get a Zelda game about an alien invasion that's all futuristic?
>>729074851It will. Zelda much like many famous franchises are being made by old men. They aren't long for this world. Doubly so if they are fat like the creator of Suikoden who died not that long ago. Basically once the old guard dies it will be a bunch of new young blood taking over.
>>729047850>People seething over imaginary boogeymen without an ounce or reading comprehensionThe illiterate generation must be on Christmas break. Everything Aonuma says is vague corpo-interview speak and reading the article only emphasizes that. It's easy to scream doom and gloom when there is 0 context behind what aspects might be 'influenced' or 'inspired' by the KT collab. Art? Level Design? Gameplay mechanics? Quest/story design? You have no idea, as does anyone else reading this.But all I see are retards screaming 'MORE BOTW NOOO' and 'MUSOU MAINLINE ZELDA ITS THE END OF THE WORLD'. Not even trying to dickride Aonuma and his mediocrity; you guys are just that fucking exhausting to listen to.
>>729099858Hmmm no I think you want to make silly meme robots! XD isn't this so much fun!!! Six years in development pls understand!
>>729100104Any inspiration taken will be badArt? ANOTHER game that looks like this Wiiu shit?Story? Another game with a trash story told in an incoherent way?Gameplay? By God nobody wants wants MUSOU mechanics in a main Zelda
>>729072030The only idea left would be to imitate Final Fantasy. FF started like Zelda a medieval fantasy but FF games started to get more technological with FF7 so we need Link using a smart phone and internet now exists in Hyrule and Ganondorf invents an evil meme to influence his rule. People love modernity. For crying out loud ever see the new cartoon Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel it shows Hell but its essentially modern civilization complete with internet.
>>729071478Could honestly be kino if the map is meaningfully updated and combat was overhauled to be more interesting. Next Zelda better have actual dungeons as well, not just shrines and bigger shrines.
>>729100294>Ganondorf plots to take over Hyrule because someone called him an incel that can’t get Gerudo bitches on the Sheikahnet
>>729100278Please elaborate and specify which part of what you said was confirmed in the interview and not conjured up in your mind-palace of faggotry. You're attacking hypothetical examples that I provided to extrapolate on how little information this 'interview' actually said, you troglodyte. Get angry at real things, not conditioned propaganda.
>The majority wants more slopIt's so over
>>729100278No breakable weapons already gives me a slither of hope. Mowing down enemies without worrying about >ur shitstick is badly damaged Would legit sell me on the next game.
