Which is wonderful because it means that there would not be a Pokemon game next holiday.
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RUMOR: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 Internally Scheduled For 2020 Release
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I'd love it for holiday 2020. Idk if it will make that but since it's an iterative sequel 3.5 years seems like enough and a good game to counter next gen launches
Classic 3D Zelda was experiencing series fatigue, wich is why they decided to change the tune going back to... Classic 2D Zelda in 3D
Because new person. We really need to stop using these Gamestop database leaks as proof it exists. Their almost beyond useless.
Take BoTWs engine/gameplay and just give me real dungeons, actual bosses, and weapons/items that aren't disposable and I'm all in.
BoTW was so good, but a few things held it back from being GOAT status.
BoTW was so good, but a few things held it back from being GOAT status.
How about you just read what people are writing and why they are taking issue with it?
This.
Zell always gave hints since forever that is a 2020 title
Making a gigantic overworld every time is not feasible, especially as game development time and costs increase constantly. Zelda would go to 1 game every decade at that point.
And also narrative focused Zelda's deserve to still have a spotlight.
Yup...go ahead and get yourselves hyped up for no reason, then when it doesn't happen, you blame Nintendo for something the never promised.
I really really hope they dont have any kind of transfer BotW save feature(to integrate the games or something).
"narrative focused Zelda" has never really been a thing though...
Yeah, this.
30+ years of a given formula is more than enough.
We are blessed to have gotten something so relatively daring—may the BotW approach get 30 more years of improvement and refinement
It's revisionist history and creates a false dichotomy between BotW and the previous games.
It's advocacy for linear Zelda games, not "story-driven" ones. And the good aspects of the previous 3D Zelda stories can exist within the BotW template—no need to go back to the tired, rote pre-BotW Zelda formula
I dont see how it means that, last year we had Pokemon+Smash+Mario Party and this year Pokemon+Luigi's Mansion+Ring Fit.
I think Nintendo wants to have multiple big games release near the holidays.
It makes sense for them to release a big game late 2020 but I doubt another Zelda is going to draw in a lot of people that aren't already on board with the Switch.
Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword both focused on a more narrative and/or character driven adventure. Quality is subjective, but IMO in TP's case, the art, atmosphere, characters, and plot(until ganon shows up in the present) were all leagues above BotW. Zant, Midna, Thelma, Malo, and even weirdoes like Ooccoo were some of the best designs in the series(or most memorable) Compared to... Kass, and 4 dead flashbacks with like at most 10 lines each.
Skyward Sword went full on with amazing and charming character writing with probably the best written incarnations of Zelda and Impa, and then Groose was just icing on the cake.
Hell, even Majora's Mask had strong narrative pull, with a loooooot more emphasis on the sidequests' writing.
Wouldn't this be realistic considering how many things are already established, from gameplay design to assets and such? I don't know anything about creating games, but I would imagine there's a solid foundation to build upon which is very practical.
Shocking. It always seemed like the most obvious release period given everything we knew.
It's 3+ years after BotW's release, that's plenty of time for a new game, especially one that is a direct sequel on the same engine using the same assets.
It's 3+ years after BotW's release, that's plenty of time for a new game, especially one that is a direct sequel on the same engine using the same assets.
I wouldn't be surprised. If you read between the lines of some tweets and have some deduction skills then it's entirely possible they have already started English voice recording for the sequel.
Now, I have no hard evidence for it, so don't ask. It's just a culmination of circumstances plus, call it intuition.
Anyways it would make sense too. They don't have to build a new engine and have been working on it since 2017, not to mention after Xenoblade 2 and it's DLC, if all that Monolith Soft and their by now HUGE development team have to show for is a Xenoblade Remaster (albeit an expansive one), it's pretty clear to me some of them are helping the guys at Nintendo again (also there were job listings pertaining to that I believe).
And they need something to go up against PS5 and presumably the new Xbox.
Now, I have no hard evidence for it, so don't ask. It's just a culmination of circumstances plus, call it intuition.
But I pride myself in being pretty good at that, I once predicted the album release of one of my favorite bands to the exact date and announcement time just by watching the tweets of people involved in the music video industry that hinted at working with them in combination with how things worked in the past.
Anyways it would make sense too. They don't have to build a new engine and have been working on it since 2017, not to mention after Xenoblade 2 and it's DLC, if all that Monolith Soft and their by now HUGE development team have to show for is a Xenoblade Remaster (albeit an expansive one), it's pretty clear to me some of them are helping the guys at Nintendo again (also there were job listings pertaining to that I believe).
And they need something to go up against PS5 and presumably the new Xbox.
Making the world map wasn't what strained development for so long, that was tuning the systems like physics and 'chemistry', and building the tools to iterate on placements and changes quickly among the team. Now that those systems are in place, development should be able to go more quickly for this style of game.
The core of Zelda 1 was an "open" overworld with dungeons containing items and areas you could only access with those items. And no handholding. BOTW also removed handholding(very good choice). The other stuff was Nintendo PR that people accepted or pretended to be true.
Imo all of the mainline games (except Zelda 2, TP and SS) have a structure more similar to OG Zelda than BOTW. I hope they embrace more Zelda elements next time to keep my interest in the series but I will probably be disappointed due to how this new formula appeal to mass market.
All of us are expecting Holiday 2020.
A sequel to the 2017 Game of the Year is how Nintendo can best compete with the buzz surrounding Sony and Microsoft's new consoles.
Aside from its strong reception, that's one of several reasons why Nintendo won't reinvent the wheel for a BotW successor. Just do a sequel using similar assets and mechanics so you can get it out the door in time to face the competition when the company most needs one of its biggest franchises in stores.
A sequel to the 2017 Game of the Year is how Nintendo can best compete with the buzz surrounding Sony and Microsoft's new consoles.
Aside from its strong reception, that's one of several reasons why Nintendo won't reinvent the wheel for a BotW successor. Just do a sequel using similar assets and mechanics so you can get it out the door in time to face the competition when the company most needs one of its biggest franchises in stores.
It'll be fall 2020. MAYBE it gets pushed to Spring 2021 at the latest.
I feel like this A. has been known for a while and B. is common sense.
I feel like this A. has been known for a while and B. is common sense.
it's closer to 4 (early 2017 to late 2020). maybe even more considering botw probably wrapped up sooner and was kept to launch alongside switch.
The fact that it's still the plan after all this time inspires confidence that it'll actually happen
Not to defend Sabi... But I don't know if Zell's track record is any better. Zell has press contact, but that seems to be it. All of his accurate leaks are days before a direct. He's got a lot of mistakes... Tomb Raider, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Pikmin 3, Monster Hunter. He walked back a Mario Maker prediction that would have been correct. He also knew about Cadence of Hyrule, but didn't know about Link's Awakening... claiming he knew nothing about any ports or remasters.