TP was slow and clunky. I wished for something new so that the game would play a bit faster. Seems like it's more of the same. Waggle-waggle in TP wasn't fun at all so I'm not holding my breath for more precise waggle-waggle.

" @Willy105 said:

It's troubling to see people think this way.  Would you rather play a new game with characters you know and love, than the same game but with characters you never seen before?  The Zelda series has yet to get tired, mostly because it changes significantly every installment, and of course, the games don't stop becoming hugely acclaimed games, as well as commercial successes, with each game winning at least one Game of the Year. "

Tell me the huge innovations since the series went polygonal. Seriously, they're running on nostalgia and hardcore fans at this point. "

Nintendo haven't done anything new with Skyward Sword from what I have seen so there is nothing to hype me about the game. 

Dunno what people expected really, if they change it to much it seizes to be Zelda.
I am pretty pumped for Zelda tho, I always enjoy playing the franchise that is basically the pinnacle of gaming.

I think the game looks fantastic. I've enjoyed every Zelda I have played and I have no doubt I will enjoy this one aswell. Unfortunately on the internet the Zelda fanbase is full of annoying whiners who DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. That's just how it is.

I think the game looks great, but I also believe that they need to start thinking about where they want to take the franchise. The same old rehash is getting old.

This is just how I feel about Zelda at this point. The whole time I was playing TP, I just.... didn't feel the same magic. It's hard to describe, but I didn't feel anything pushing me along, any desire to keep going 
on with the story or dungeons. Also, to me, that game felt almost 90% dungeons, besides travel. 
 
So the new Zelda has me kinda lukewarm. I would hope they changed the game up, but they only showed the new swordplay and new artstyle, and while both seemed fine, just seemed not different enough to me. 
 
My favorite Zelda game and favorite game of all time is Majora's Mask, which is almost and open world game, in the vein of open world games like GTA, in that I almost felt the focus wasn't on the main quest/dungeons, as  
it clearly was in TP.  The focus was on the world, the side quests, and the characters, and I really do love that game. 
 
So, anyways, yeah. I was hoping for more changes more prominently shown, but I'll keep my hopes up. Zelda. Let's do this.

" @Lashe said:

" @ryanwho said:

" @Lashe said:

" I'm on the 'please for the love of God do something new with the Zelda franchise' side of things. So I'm totally disappointed.  "

This is great because you have an avatar from Suikoden. Hilarious. "

That would be an intelligent and witty reply if it wasn't an image from the first game in the series.  "

He was in Suikoden 2 as well. Because they reused a ton of shit. And you love Suikoden 2. You make special exceptions for when sameness bothers you. Its fine, you're a hypocrite. "

I'm more psyched for the Ocarina Of time 3DS, I have yet to be sold on Skyward Sword may check it out.

They haven't shown a single thing to prove that this changes anything from old zelda. The motion control stuff is a gimmick that i don't thing will sustain any amount of fun during the game.

It's ridiculous how many people are already writing this game off. All they showed was a small little Wii Motion Plus tech demo. Hardly anything to be making judgements like "It's the same thing!". I'm not saying it won't be, but it's still way too early, everybody is just making assumptions right now.

Blending the visual style of Twilight Princess and Wind Waker is like trying to blend Peter Jackson's LotR and the  Rankin/Bass RotK cartoon.
 
There's no real crossover and it ends up looking artistically uncommitted either way.

" It's ridiculous how many people are already writing this game off. All they showed was a small little Wii Motion Plus tech demo. Hardly anything to be making judgements like "It's the same thing!". I'm not saying it won't be, but it's still way too early, everybody is just making assumptions right now. "

Right, people want a realistic Zelda, so they get Twilight Princess, which bloody rocks.
 
Then Nintendo goes back (kinda) for the next game, and people yell that they are so disappointed and Zelda has not innovated?
 Is this the goddamn age of bloody overreacting?
 
We got our realistic Zelda, for better or worse, now let Nintendo do what they do best (next to milking XD).
 
*begins singing: Have a lil faith in me...!

I imagine the people who want the realistic Zelda are the same people who dress as a knight on the weekend and know the whole 'One ring to bind them' speech off by heart.

" Zelda is dead to me. "

Wow I think Ryanwho is more of an asshole than regular Ryan

I wish they stuck with the Wind Waker look, but I like this and think it's the second best style I've seen from a Zelda.
 
At first I was kind of underwhelmed, but after letting it sit for a few days I think I don't want them to change up Zelda games that much.  I just want less heavy-handed stuff.  Less key characters and a minimalist story, just enough to get by.  When I see the older version of Link I think of Twilight Princess and imagine they are listening to people with different tastes than I've got and are going in the opposite direction.  But the more I sit on it and the less reactionary I am about it, the more positively I think about the upcoming game.

"I imagine the people who want the realistic Zelda are the same people who dress as a knight on the weekend and know the whole 'One ring to bind them' speech off by heart. "

"Is this the goddamn age of bloody overreacting?"

   

    
It's a twofold problem. A certain portion of the Zelda fanbase are unpleasable manchildren and a certain portion of the Giantbomb readership (and the internet at large) are unpleasable manchildren that haven't played a Nintendo game since they wrote the Gamecube off as kiddy back in elementary school.

Thus, you have every response to a Zelda trailer released over the last decade.

I have enjoyed Zelda games in the past. And it seems that I enjoy the ones that deviate from the Zelda format, which is why Wind Waker is still my favorite. 
@Insectecutor said:

" @Lashe said:

" I'm on the 'please for the love of God do something new with the Zelda franchise' side of things. So I'm totally disappointed.  "

Why on earth would Nintendo take a risk with Zelda? The idea is insane. Incremental updates is what Zelda has been about since forever, and it sells. It is a shame about the technical difficulties and the script that followed extolling the amazing one-to-one accuracy of motion plus. But hey, it's Zelda and therefore pretty much guaranteed to be good times.  Edited: I shouldn't call people morons on the internet. That is what morons do. "

" I'm a little confused why some of you are disappointed that they aren't doing anything new...when we haven't even seen anything. Not even a single dungeon. We saw two redone enemies, new controls, and some of what is clearly a demo/tutorial level.  I dunno, I'm with you guys in the sense that advancing Zelda is important, and that means moving farther away from the classic style. But I feel people are reading a bit too much into it.   

I hate the way the game looks, just make it look like TP god damn it!! :@

The internet is full of morons who bitch no matter what Nintendo does with Zelda. They bitched about TP. They bitched about WW (which was God's gift to mankind). Hell, I bet there were people bitching about OOT, but I can't say for sure because I was still a kid experimenting with AOL at the time and wouldn't discover the larger gaming community for a few years yet.

I'm interested to see how it goes when they are developing a zelda game with the wii in mind. Twilight princess was a gamecube game with wii controls.

" I hate the way the game looks, just make it look like TP god damn it!! :@ "

I am extremely bugged by his baggy pants.  Link should either wear tights or nothing at all...
 
 
And I mean that in the least perverted way possible.

I love how people say that this game is the same old shit when we haven't even seen anything the game has to offer beyond a demonstration of the new controls.  And that once again, people are whining about the art style.
 
Some things never change.

I don't own a Wii and this game won't make me buy one. I keep waiting for that one game to convince me I should get a Wii, but so far I can't find anything on there that I want that I can't get from my PS3. I got everything that I wanted out of a Zelda game through Darksiders anyway, so I'm waiting for the sequel to that instead.
 
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories felt like a contender at one point, but after playing it at my sisters' it felt like they could've done more with it.
 
In summary, RANT RANT it looks like more of the same Zelda, great for all you Zelda fans.

We've seen like... 3 mins. of actual gameplay of a game that still has over a year to polish and get it all looking and playing right. And to everyone that has played it at E3, they've said that everything works fine. 
 
This game right now, is LESS than a demo, at least wait until everything is dialed in correctly before nailing it to the cross.

I've just finished Ocarina of Time, the first Zelda I've ever played. Oh my! I'm a newly converted Zelda fan-boy and I'm on a quest to play all the Zelda's and I'm really looking forward to the new one. Just working my way through Link to the Past now...Its good!