Topic: Will the next Zelda game be an FPS?

[King of Twitch]

Zelda: Four Swords Cuckoo Hunter? Definitely jives with the farmer boy theme of TP but leave guns out of it

[DAaaMan64]

Are you permanently on your period?

[Dirk Temporo]

Steampunk is lame.

YES IT IS

My nerd rage burns with the heat of a thousand suns. If you don't like steampunk, you have no soul.

I can't tell if you're joking, but I'd dig a steampunk Zelda. There's a lot Nintendo could do with the concept. Besides giving the series a new atmosphere and environment to work with, Nintendo would also gain a great opportunity to restart the franchise, especially in the story department. I can imagine a "futuristic" Zelda in which the Triforce, Link and Zelda have become legend and much of the game would involve finding out what happened way back in ancient Hyrule.

I knew I wasn't the only one. There's only so much you can do with the same setting over and over again. Even if it's not in Hyrule (Majora's Mask), it's still the same goddamn thing. Zelda needs something COMPLETELY new, which means dragging it kicking and screaming out of the dark ages.

[animecyberrat]

Zelda needs something COMPLETELY new, which means dragging it kicking and screaming out of the dark ages.

I agree with this 100%, the only Zelda I have ever finished is ALTTP and as much as I wanted to finish OOT and TW, It gets boring doing the same thing over and over. Not that I don't love OOT or TP, but I would like to see Zelda in a futuristic setting, but I seriously doubt Nintendo would ever do this so making me want it is evil of you guys.

[DAaaMan64]

Steampunk is lame.

YES IT IS

My nerd rage burns with the heat of a thousand suns. If you don't like steampunk, you have no soul.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I've finished all the Zelda games except for:

1. Handheld titles (Besides Minish Cap)
2. Zelda 2
3. Majora's Mask

[animecyberrat]

I tried, I really did, I am on the last dungeon on Zelda 1 for NES, but I can't find the silver arrows and I keep dieing. I only played the first five minutes of MM and WW I got stuck on the first island and gave up.

[Ian Sane]

My only objection with steampunk Zelda is that steampunk is cliche.  I don't want Zelda to look like some generic anime.  Putting Zelda in another setting and style is a cool idea.  But having it fit specific style conventions is limiting in a similar way that staying in the existing Zelda style is limiting.  Cyberpunk Zelda could also be a potential future Zelda setting but again it would be cliche.  Just because it's the future it has to look like Shadowrun?  No, of course not.  The beauty of creating a fantasy world is that you can literally make up whatever you want.

[Bill Aurion]

I think if the game were to be "futuristic," it should be a design that is both "cybernetic" and natural at the same time...Something that takes both nature and technology and melds them together into something unique...

[NWR_insanolord]

I think if the game were to be "futuristic," it should be a design that is both "cybernetic" and natural at the same time...Something that takes both nature and technology and melds them together into something unique...

I am Ganondorf of Borg, Resistance is Futile.

[Kairon]

Wait... We are ALL forgetting one very important thing about Zelda. Zelda is about discovering caves while on a picnic. I believe that's how Miyamoto was inspired originally, and perhaps our western, hardcore gamer sensibilities are losing sight of that original purity.

[NWR_insanolord]

Wait... We are ALL forgetting one very important thing about Zelda. Zelda is about discovering caves while on a picnic. I believe that's how Miyamoto was inspired originally, and perhaps our western, hardcore gamer sensibilities are losing sight of that original purity.

That was the original game, they've built onto the original concept since then. Anyway, I thought you were only into third party games, shouldn't you be complaining to Namco that new Pac Man games aren't inspired by Pizza?

[Kairon]

Namco isn't trying to make steampunk Pac-Man.

Personally, I think we should be afraid of Nintendo doing to Zelda what Sega did to Sonic. *shivers*

Don't go for cool. Make something new, but don't aim for pre-conceived notions. Make a good game, make magic without limits, period. Make me a Nintendo game Nintendo, and I shall be happy.

[Bill Aurion]

Like you need to tell Nintendo to do that...

[Kairon]

Like you need to tell Nintendo to do that...

^_^

[GoldenPhoenix]

Personally, I think we should be afraid of Nintendo doing to Zelda what Sega did to Sonic. *shivers*

Thought they already did that with Zelda: PH? Oh ZING!

[Bill Aurion]

As in make it an incredibly entertaining DS game?  Yes, I will most certainly agree with you there!

[Kairon]

Bill, I love you.

[Dirk Temporo]

My only objection with steampunk Zelda is that steampunk is cliche.  I don't want Zelda to look like some generic anime.  Putting Zelda in another setting and style is a cool idea.  But having it fit specific style conventions is limiting in a similar way that staying in the existing Zelda style is limiting.  Cyberpunk Zelda could also be a potential future Zelda setting but again it would be cliche.  Just because it's the future it has to look like Shadowrun?  No, of course not.  The beauty of creating a fantasy world is that you can literally make up whatever you want.

Steampunk only exists in anime, and cyberpunk only exists in Shadowrun. No exceptions.

[Ceric]

Go back to top down might not be bad...

[NWR_insanolord]

Go back to top down might not be bad...

That's a damn good idea for a Wii Ware game.

[Bill Aurion]

Go back to top down might not be bad...

That's a damn good idea for a Wii Ware game.

FOUR SWORDS ADVENTURES ONLINE OR DEATH!

[NWR_insanolord]

Go back to top down might not be bad...

That's a damn good idea for a Wii Ware game.

FOUR SWORDS ADVENTURES ONLINE OR DEATH!

That would be awesome and should be done but I meant a full 2D Zelda adventure on Wii Ware. I don't know why I'm so into that idea, though, I still haven't beaten 5 of the 6 top-down 2D Zeldas (I only beat Link's Awakening) so it's not like I'm lacking one of them to play.

[IceCold]

What the hell is steampunk

[Chozo Ghost]

What the hell is steampunk

Some sort of appetizer at Red Lobster? *shrug*