The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

The Wii U now that it's on a roll with games has made me stop caring about PC gaming and all the redundant, recycled, and tiring formulas of PC AAA games (which are just usually just bad and buggy ports of Xbone/PS4 games). I had big plans to upgrade my PC but I'm seriously falling in love with the Wii U and collecting physical copies of games again and caring less about my PC hardware.

This new Zelda game and the details emerging are just one of many reasons.. The current line up of games is the major other reason. I'm actually having fun gaming again and not raging in frustration with buggy ports and tired boring formulas. Hi-res textures and a dump truck of shaders don't make a game fun.. Original ideas do..

 

Yeah, nintendo is great clean fun. Zero bollocks and you can just focus on the game without the added stress like trying to get it to work, xxx.dll is missing please re-install the universe and viz runtime files, no buying a game and then using 1000 mods to try and justify your purchase of open-world favors and delivery jobs. Though, i guess that can be avoided on the pc, but its difficult imo.

I seriously think thats what i need right now, just a simple console and a game to pop in the thing and then just play. I miss only having 1 - 3 games a year instead of thousands that i for some reason feel i shouldnt miss.

The wii-u and its games just look sooo fun. I think i might pick one up next year with my student loan

 

I'm going to reply in full to this in the Wii U thread. Don't want to stray off topic too much from Zelda..

 

With Zelda looking like it's going to be somewhat amazing all I need to hear now is that they're releasing a new F-Zero game for the Wii U and I think I would walk right out and buy one. Does seem like Nintendo are finally getting stuff done.

 

Yes, launch title from the sounds of it now, so early 2017

 

Looks awesome

 

Source video for these gameplay videos, higher quality than the rips xcagegame is doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtZwAGNVjc0


Twitch has it even higher quality.

https://www.twitch.tv/nintendo/v/72391082
(honestly this is the whole nintendo E3 show)

 

Day night cycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV5f21oiv-E

 

Can guarantee if will be part of the plot, the blue tunic you've seen is special equipment for dealing with cold areas (it has less defense than the other clothes you can get in the demo). Some of the gameplay videos seem to break the progression but it seemed like it was a reward for manually surviving your way to the top of the mountain with special foods and fire.

Same as with how you don't see the master sword, since weapons degrade and break it's likely you won't get it til much later in the game.

Not sure if we're going to see any voice acting outside of this narrator whoever she is (probably zelda). For example, "old man" in demo does not speak.

One thing you might have noticed is that this plateau is part of a clear tutorial area, it's bordered by massive cliffs on all sides that you need a glider for, you get this from completing 4 shrines in the area. So once you've done this sort of tutorial and seen whatever small plot is in here you're free to jump off to any side and explore over there (we've seen forests, swamps, iceland and deserts so far).

I'll get an NX for this though, it'll just be 1080p with better visuals. Also of note is that the gamepad in the demo only showed button mapping, they'd shunted off any map from the gamepad to the screen based on feedback.

 

This looks awful.. It's like they took a GameGube SDK and upgraded it for Wii U purposes and good lord everything is harshly washed out in white... It's like they turned up the brightness to Spinal Tap levels..

Not interested..

 

This guy gets it, looks indeed stunning for a Wii U console, i still miss his green tunic tho hopefully we can still get it when the game comes out

 

High res 2160p press screenshots.

https://imgur.com/a/O8UwK

Spoiler

 

This no doubt is a sign that the NX won't have a screen gamepad, hopefully, i suspect the NX will go back to what works, joypad and possibly some form of wii motion controller.

 

No one knows, expect the same we saw in any ps3/ps4 title, basically higher resolution and better graphics/draw distance.

They've stated the game will play identical though.