It looks like more of a good thing

No. Don't think it looks like any of those things.

Yup

Well, it looks same-same, but different...but still same...

It looks like a great sequel to a great game to me.

I wouldn’t say it looks stale or dated…

But it’s not My LoZ so I’m more than likely taking a break from “mainline” LoZ for now.

Definitely love the series overall, and am all for if they remake/remaster any of the classics again.

what was you expecting??? is a sequel not a new game, it will look like the previous one

Same this is actually the first ever Zelda (not including remakes/remasters) that I'm not buying/playing

I don't know what to think tbh. So far all we've seen is the same old game with a handful of new powers and some sky islands. That hasn't got me excited at all. It looks like a DLC.

Thing is though, they've been working on this game for six years! And they started with an existing game engine, world and assets. So I simply cannot believe that all we’re going to end up with is what we've seen so far. They could have made a second entirely new landmass in that time.

We still haven't seen much of the new game world and where it plays out. Some of those sky islands look like they have interesting looking buildings on them. Dungeon entrances perhaps?

Will wait and see. I agree that what we've seen is underwhelming. I just can't believe that'll be the lot.

This. Glad for people that love the vibe, but I’d rather a return to OoT-through-SS glory & feel.

I’m just done with current mainline trajectory, unless there’s something drastic we don’t know about Tears.

Gimme WW&TP remasters on Switch! Give me a brand new Top-Down entry, or Minish Cap & Oracle remakes!

It’s been the same since skyward sword tell me I’m wrong

The previous game was one of the best singleplayer games ever made, if it aint broke, dont fix it. I think they went the right way focusing on opening up creativity options than making graphic enhancements, to end up with something pretty on the outside but empty on the playability end.

What they've shown doesn't really make me more excited. What I imagine they're holding back does. Dungeons, tons of new content, etc. They had 6 years to work on this building off the base of the original, theres gonna be plenty of new stuff to explore and if you like the original, its gonna look and play the same at its core.

100% agree. nothing against botw but I don't want it to define all Zelda games rom now on. Zelda games have almost always been unique to each other and each one add their own thing, I hope that keeps happening instead of just making them all like botw.

to clarify do you mean it started with SS or that SS was the last unique one?

BotW sucked.

If you agree, then so will this.

It doesn’t look like anything to me.

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Hopefully after TotK, they can return to form.

Glad for those who enjoy the current LoZverse but there’s a reason many people don’t enjoy it in comparison to past greats.

Careful, you’re going to anger them….

and yes, looks like DLC to me.

Dated in terms of graphics, no.

Boring? My only comparison is BOTW so at the moment it's really hard to tell even with the new gameplay being shown (Though very limited) if it is just going to be the same experience all over again.

I really hope it isn't. But they've not given us much to go on.

If they're really hinging this games success on the ability to glue items together I will be thoroughly disappointed.

It definitely didn't suck. It wasn't the best thing I've ever played but to say it sucked is such a cut and dry thing to do.

The edgiest of all the lords.

Nope. You just don’t grasp what was shown

Most involved content: chasing after Koroks - fun value 1/10 Most "varied" content: four or five different biomes that you can see in any other open world game 9/10 times - fun value 3/10 Weapon durability system - fun value -10/10 No dungeons - fun value -100/10 Shrines - repetitive/10

Game sucks.

I am sceptical about the whole fuse mechanic.

You've given it some high praise and you're still saying it sucks.

That's high praise?

Are YOU high?

Here's another downvote for you because of the wagon hopping hate.

Graphics are the same as the last, gameplay looks mildly improved.

More I’ll take, botw never overstayed it’s welcome to me

You've given stuff 10/10s on your comment. Unless you were being sarcastic for some attempt at humour.

No. It's marketing collateral.

Your reading comprehension is concerning.

Hardly my fault your comment is structured that poorly.

Formatting would be better but reddit mobile doesn't allow a whole lot of that. You want to find more excuses for your exceptionally poor reading comprehension or are you going to acknowledge that I gave you a reason for the game sucking?

Damn god of ragnarok must've also looked like dlc to you.

Reddit mobiles restrictions are not a good excuse for everything it is you're doing here.

I don't see anything as black and white as you do. Games don't just simply suck or are absolute perfection. There's a scale to everything.

If the game unequivocally sucked, nearly everyone would hate it. Which they don't.

I don't think the game is great, it has things I don't like. But listing those things out doesn't detract from the good aspects.

So to outright say it sucks because of some problems is such an amateurish response.

Congratulations, you've just described Nintendo and everything they do!

Nope.

It's not an excuse for everything I'm stating here. It's an explanation - which you don't deserve - for why the formatting was bad. Your reading comprehension is still failing you miserably here. I don't think attempting to argue a moot point with me (to denigrate an opinion, no less, because you don't agree) is the best use of your time when you clearly have other things you need to work on.

Finally, amateurish in what way? Care to elucidate? If you can.

Ah so you can put hard returns into comments.

Like this.

It's quite easy see?

Amateur, your opinions are amateur. You can't critically analyse. Hence, amateur.

Using words like "Elucidate" doesn't do a great job of hiding that fact.

Holy hell, you are a piece of work. 😂

Cope on then, keyboard warrior.

But seriously, work on your reading comprehension. For everyone else's sake if not your own, and maybe consider coming up with better snark while you're at it. Gl mate.

I don't think it looks super different but I don't think it looks like dlc either, just a pretty direct sequel. what would they need to show for you to think it doesn't look like dlc?

Something new…

Oof. There he goes. Bye bye.

I mean, they have shown off new stuff. areas, enemies, story, game mechanics like fusion and ultrahand.

Btw BotW sucks

It looks exactly the same as Breath of the Wild. That isn't in itself a bad thing, but I feel like Nintendo just refuses to innovate, anymore, let alone make better use of it's MANY ip's beyond Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon.

It looks like a better version of Breath of the Wild, which is the greatest Zelda ever made. So I’m excited.

Here's a downvote for you, and an upvote for them, for you thinking that changing one's mind in the face of new evidence is a bad thing.

Oh shit was Ragnarok set in the same map as its predecessor? I never knew that.

You're right, it's not a new game. That's the problem.

Yes parts of the game was the same map just frozen over lol.

Parts of the game or the vast majority of the map?

"New evidence" lol.

Well if that's how your revisionist perspective works...

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Legacy dungeons. More interesting world. Better story. There was nothing that they showed today that I felt was very interesting. I felt Elden Ring did everything that BOTW was trying to do with the open world much better, and I was hoping they were going to fill out the empty world from the first game more.

Yea I hope this is the case. I liked the first one enough despite not finishing it, though it seems gimmicky gameplay is the new direction of LoZ. Online coop w/ Zelda and Link might be fire though.

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The Nintendo Fanboys dont care. They are used to getting the same shit over and over again. If Nintendo just re-released Mario 64 without any changes for 60€ they would fucking buy it.

how does promotional art look stale and dated? do you even know what those words mean?

Looks like a shitty fan mod. Also Everything Everywhere sucked and wasn't as deep or meaningful as reddit likes to think. Puss in Boots 2 is the best animated film of the last decade.

Cope. 😂

As someone who was of age to play LoZ from the original release to now, this is DEFINITELY my LoZ and I'm thrilled with the direction. BotW reminded me so much of the original and what it felt like to play it back then, before the series got bogged down by formula.

I just love the core formula.

Change some things yeah, like new forms as Wolf Link, mechanics & traversal Sailing, or Minish sizing up/down, Merging into walls etc as much as you like but whatever LoZ you played - they had the same core formula and charm.

BotW, fun in its own right, didn’t have what makes LoZ a LoZ - to Me.

It looks very similar to Botw's concept art. Look at how that turned out.

For those that are old enough, they remember that this already happened with Ocarina and Majora's.
So, no need to be afraid of "will this be what LoZ will ever be from now on?"

I totally get that, and that's valid. I think maybe a better way to say what I feel is that after OOT, the 3D Zeldas slowly started to lose me because I could never shake the feeling that I was playing "OOT But X" (sailing, wolf, etc). BotW was the first 3D Zelda to make me feel like I felt playing the 2D Zeldas again.

That's not to say I thought the 3D Zeldas were bad games. Not at all. But after a certain point, I didn't feel the connection to the franchise I once had, until BotW pulled me back in.

I am not old enough,but looking at the pattern I can tell that is what happened. I just don't want Zelda to be defined by one game only and that goes for oot and alttp as well

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Hard disagree, with the implementation of weapon durability or ruined the franchise. Never has been a part of zelda, and never should have been.

I’m hoping they fleshed out much better dungeons unlike the beasts.

There’s no confirmation dungeons are returning unfortunately. Here’s hoping !

No.

There it is. You’ve actually summed it up well - “OoT but X” is, in essence, what I want.

Someones been to thailand.

Yeah, we all saw that graphics are basically the same, gameplay is basically the same and mechanics are probably gonna be the same with mild additions.

Like Zelda games always presented huge developments compared to the previous ones. They've always been average games that captured us with lore, characters, setting and nostalgia. Maybe they were innovative some 1 or 2 decades ago, now it's just gonna be your umpteenth 3rd person action rpg but this time the protagonist is Link.

BOTW was a reasonable 6/10, I'd expect the same here.

I don't know what to think honestly... I'm excited because I love the series and have played every zelda game, but I'm apprehensive because new games these days are getting lower in quality somehow.. Sure they all look real nice but the gameplay, story, etc is bare minimum effort. I loved botw minus the weapons breaking every 2 seconds but I hope they bring back some sort of dungeons I didn't mind the shrines as a pseudo replacement but typical zelda dungeons would have been better. I really hope it doesn't just feel like a reskin job of botw with minor changes to the landscape.

If it doesn’t have dungeons with competent bosses it might be a dealbreaker for a lot of people