NEW ZELDA: LoZ : Spirit Tracks (Tentative title)

Originally Posted by Tingle :)

An absolute master class in trolling there mate.

Not really, just someone who understands how Nintendo works.

Originally Posted by Teekay

No one on this Zelda site, for sure

It's nothing more then misplaced loyalty.

Originally Posted by Skermefaten

@ Dr Zaius I wouldnt count on that one, Miyamato is trying to make Zelda Wii good. You never know if it will be as good as some of the greatest Zelda games.

It's not going to redefine gaming as past Zelda games d id.

Originally Posted by Aleitheo

He has some truth in what he says though, the Wii will not be able to get better the way the Ps3 and 360 do.

That's clearly what I'm talking about.

Originally Posted by thrairth

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*weeps with joy*
At last... a new Zelda.... it looks so awesome....

Right.....

I wonder what the box art will look like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0tKewy7z4

Originally Posted by Skermefaten

They are, remember seeing Link fight? I'm sure that some battles are taken on foot. If the game was all steer it would be boring.

Those fight scenes were from a dungeon. What I meant was the freedom to hop off the train and trek through the nearby fields.

Now about the plot: I believe this might be a distant sequel to the WindWaker storyline. Link and Tetra have found a new land and this game follows their descendants many years later. This would would explain a new Princess and as well as the new Link's role as messager boy/train conductor

Originally Posted by Triforce of the Gods

*Facepalm*

High Voltage is the only company pushing the Wii to its limits so far. Anf guess what they managed to do on the Wii? Get graphics that rival early 360 games.

You would have a good point there if it weren't for the fact that really awesome graphics don't make a game.

Also like you said, High Voltage are pushing the limits of a 2 year old console and just managed to get it looking like a game that came out 3 years ago.
The Wii is a good console, it just lacks the power to do that much with it and so we only have a small few must have games like Mario Galaxy, Brawl, Twilight Princess, Metroid, ect.

Originally Posted by Z-MAN7

Those fight scenes were from a dungeon. What I meant was the freedom to hop off the train and trek through the nearby fields.

Now about the plot: I believe this might be a distant sequel to the WindWaker storyline. Link and Tetra have found a new land and this game follows their descendants many years later. This would would explain a new Princess and as well as the new Link's role as messager boy/train conductor

That might work. It would only work if Link and Zelda knew eachother in this game, as descendants I mean. If they did know eachother, then Link would have a better job, or a royal place because Tetra knew him?

*Yes I hit 100, Goron *

Originally Posted by Skermefaten

Nintendo probably unveiled ST first because it was faster and easier to make than Zelda Wii. At least Zelda Wii will be shown at E3.

Imo, if they would show of a Wii Zelda game first, and then show off a DS one I would end up showing more interest in both. Cause as soon as I will now see footage for a Wii Zelda I'll be forgetting all about the DS one.

Originally Posted by Aleitheo

You would have a good point there if it weren't for the fact that really awesome graphics don't make a game.

Well duh, but the Wii already has game play down and it doesn't take fancy hardware to make a game harder.

If you don't think graphics are everything, then I fail to see why you think the Wii is mediocre seeing as MP3 graphics were amazing enough. The only thing the 360 has over the Wii is graphics seeing as the majority of the 360's library is generic FPS.

What the !!!???

.............I dont know about this game, where is the series headed???
Even so, too early to say. More info on it should be released soon...

Lame. I really want a console Zelda... not a DS Zelda. I can't afford a DS right now but I do want more reason for liking my Wii (which has dissapointed me greatly since they stopped making good games for it. Nintendo is sucking right now...

I have to say, once I'd seen Phantom Hourglass, I had a feeling I knew where Zelda as a series was going, and why Twilight Princess was the last "traditional" Zelda game. Looks like I was right on the money. Seems there might also be some "SIM" gameplay possible.

For the record, if this is a sequel to Phantom Hourglass (and the frontier setting might imply that) I do not think it preceeds any current game. Wind Waker was intended to end "Hyrule" by its own words, opening the series as a whole up for different lands and different gameplay. Say what you want about single or split, I still think there's no reason to believe that any games aside from Phantom Hourglass take place after it in any sequence. (Future games obviously exempt.) It would be interesting to have a completely new world for them to explore, and not have it tied to Hyrule in any way. It also appears that technology is booming, if Linebeck and Train Link are any indicator.

On the other hand, if we're NOT talking Phantom Hourglass sequel, we could be talking about an unknown time (like most other portable Zelda games). Zelda in princess mode could easily imply that, and Link in this particular case could just be a child prodigy at building infrastructure who happens to cut a deal with the princess to build some railroads. And, as in games before, the kid is somehow, for some reason, called to wear the green outfit and save the Kingdom as time goes on.

I have one final thing to say. Train Link = CUTE

I believe WW was the begining of the cel-shaded timeline (as i call it) i believe cell-shaded will stay with the handhelds and realistic graphics with the consoles (timeline 2)

Originally Posted by Triforce of the Gods

Well duh, but the Wii already has game play down and it doesn't take fancy hardware to make a game harder.

If you don't think graphics are everything, then I fail to see why you think the Wii is mediocre seeing as MP3 graphics were amazing enough. The only thing the 360 has over the Wii is graphics seeing as the majority of the 360's library is generic FPS.

The more power a console has, the better you can do with a game. Its not all about the graphics you know, compare Dead Rising 360 to the Wii version. "Fancy hardware" makes a noticeable difference, developers tend to use the more powerful consoles for the more serious games and the weaker ones for practically anything (hence why the Wii has loads of casual games and the PS2 won last gen)

Also the majority of the 360 library is not the FPS genre, thats a false and out of date stereotype made up years ago by people who didn't like the Xbox and the only exclusive they knew was Halo.
The 360 has a large library of awesome games, I'm finding plenty of great games I never thought I would be a fan of (Half Life, Oblivion, Fallout, Halo, ect.) and am struggling to find games worth buying amongst the casual Wii games.

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To summarise, the Wii is a console where too much effort has been put in to making it more accessible to non-gamers and not enough to the already existing audience, thus crippling it and making great games not stand out much.
I used to think like you until I got a 360 for only 3 games I could find that I wanted, now I have got more 360 games than Wii games in less than half the time than I have even owned the Wii.

Now lets end this here and get back onto topic

wow. pretty much what went though my head:

zOMG A NEW ZELDAAAAAAA!
wait...trains? WTF?!

ugh. I don't like the idea of Zelda getting technology. at all.

but, y'know, I hated MM before I played it (3-day time limit, then reset everything, WTF?!), and now it's one of my 3 fav Zelda games of all time. so I'm not going to knock it before I try it...but admittedly, I'm worried about the direction the series is heading in.

...y'know, if Nintendo is smart, they'll put this out compatible with either version of DS, then put out a second version later with features only compatible w/ DSi...like what they did with LA (DX).

Originally Posted by Mr_Zora_Decu

I believe WW was the begining of the cel-shaded timeline (as i call it) i believe cell-shaded will stay with the handhelds and realistic graphics with the consoles (timeline 2)

Now that one I don't know about. If Tales of Vesperia has anything to say about it, Cell Shaded graphics on a full console can be absolutely gorgeous. I think it's one of the reasons Wind Waker was so visually pleasing in the first place. I think we'll see another "Cellda" on the big console eventually.

Originally Posted by Shaelyn

wow. pretty much what went though my head:

zOMG A NEW ZELDAAAAAAA!
wait...trains? WTF?!

ugh. I don't like the idea of Zelda getting technology. at all.

but, y'know, I hated MM before I played it (3-day time limit, then reset everything, WTF?!), and now it's one of my 3 fav Zelda games of all time. so I'm not going to knock it before I try it...but admittedly, I'm worried about the direction the series is heading in.

...y'know, if Nintendo is smart, they'll put this out compatible with either version of DS, then put out a second version later with features only compatible w/ DSi...like what they did with LA (DX).

Pretty much everything invented is technology, a rock and sling is technology, wheels are too.
Though if you mean how modern the train is, remember that Zelda has telephones, cameras, bazookas and robot statues made out of stone. The train is not even worth worrying about, especially since it isn't the most "modern" invention in Zelda

I hope there's a scene where Gannondorf ties Zelda onto a set of train tracks and Link gotta save Zelda from a speeding train.

Originally Posted by Snow_Storm

I hope there's a scene where Gannondorf ties Zelda onto a set of train tracks and Link gotta save Zelda from a speeding train.

XD XD
to impliment this old cliche would be a valid reason to make the game!

Originally Posted by Rew

Personally, I was hoping for a console release and something that wasn't a PH clone.

But hey, if I'm disappointed now, maybe that means I'll be pleasantly surprised when I actually get my hands on the game.

As they said in The Matrix, "There is no spoon Wii Zelda."

Originally Posted by The Goron Moron

DSi? Damn... I just got a DS Lite recently... :/

I just got one two weeks ago too. XD

Originally Posted by zoraprince

i waited to years for this moment!

1.5, perhaps?