What do you think the next zelda game is about?

Well we now have one picture it is too hard to tell from this picture what it is about but you can see some of the background in the picture.


If you look to the left you can sort of see what look to be be ganons nose, chin and lips. Does anyone else see that? And with that i think ganon is probably back I wanted a new villian. Also Link doesn't have a sword in his hand and the girl infront of him looks like the master sword so this is possible the first ever appearance of ganon and the first ever appearance of the master sword putting it very early in the timeline. Also i'm not sure if anyone noticed this but Link's stance is very protective so it looks like he's protecting the supposed master sword from what looks like is fire. That's all i got lol.
What do you guys think?

I like the protection idea haha.

Idk about Ganon, I'd like to see another MM-like game.

I got the feeling it's going to go backwards in the story-line, dont know why.

What Im afraid of is that since the master sword seems to be a spirit this time around, with no physical-blade-form manifestation (at least for the beginning of the game) the blattles may be:

a. Magic-spell oriented (which it might be good if done correctly)

b. Stealth oriented. It makes me cringe only thinking about, I hate stealthy shit, I want to go out there and slay those motherfuckers, not wait inside a barrel until the goddamn bear pig troll thing goes around the corner. /rant

Hmm
I think that Link is still going to have a sword just not the master sword I don't see Link in that art style using stealth, I can only see WW link doing that.
Magic sounds pretty plausible and might actually be pretty cool aslong as you get to use a sword aswell. atleast I think. But Shigeru said that the next Zelda isn't going to have any OMGHOLYCRAP changes but that it IS going to have some changes (not in those words )

if the next zelda game had a kitten gun where you shoot kittens at kittens
(jesus christ i NEED to make this game)

haha dude, how's that going? is it playable already?

I though about another sword too, but in most if not in all zelda games at one point you use another sword apart from the master sword, so that wouldn't be a new thing. Hell MM didn't even had the master sword.

MM is such a good game, the more I think about it the more I come to this conclusion. No Ganon, No Master Sword, no Zelda, completely new story that doesn't have anything to do with the Triforce, Ganon, Zelda, or even Hyrule, And you would think, "wtf? that's not a Zelda game" but it's so well put together you don't even feel the need for Ganon, Zelda, the Master Sword, the Triforce or Hyrule.

I think MM is at the top of my zelda list, what can I say, its innovative and it doesnt exploit the main storyline, yet its still canonical and fits perfectly in the whole picture.
Besides there are so many sidequests, I love the whole masks system, and I could go on and on..

no dude ive been procrasunating i need to start on it as soon as i can grasp the concept of coding

Did you think of writing a backstory? It would be cool to have a little intro explaining (in a total nonsense way) why you are shooting kitties at kitties with a kitty gun.

Oh and I found this at gamefaq, idk if you guys have already seen it.

Link to gamefaqs: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage....&topic=50030526

Im not too happy about this:

Will try "to make everybody happy"
Will try to appeal to a broad audience to the exclusion of "skew[ing] towards an older or more focussed audience"
Trying to keep the difficulty levels reasonable (reasonably low)

I don't think I see it... Could you re-post the pic with the area you're talking about circled?

I, too am suffering from a bit of Gannon-sickness. As awesome as he may be as a villian, I really would like a break from him for at least one game.
It's a bit too easy to just toss Gannon in as the antagonist because of the lack of anything beyond a very shaky plot connceting all the games. You could say that he first appears in OoT, (according to a timeline theroy) but there is no definitive point as to when he is killed once and for all which leaves kind of an unlimited potential for him to appear over and over and over and over and over again as the series continues to progress...hrm. lol

I like your interpretation of it. I myself don't really see much when I look at it. To be honest, I really didn't even see the Master Sword when looking at the statue in the picture. My mind first went to the Great Fairy in Wind Waker!

Had to comment on this...

Wow, so there's a good chance that this game's going to take the better part of 5 years to create.

Ok...Not sure what that means, but I'll take it as a good thing?

Woot.

EARLY 2010? (lol)

*Is cautiously optimistic*

Yeah...Lets not even think about that. *glad he doesn't have to worry about slitting wrists now*

Never played Wii Sports Resort, so I don't know what to think about this. So long as it doesn't include aspects of Wii Sports bowling, then I guess I'm happy. lolol

Trying to "Make everybody happy" is just going to end up making a lot of people pissed off. :\ I say just make a game for the long-time Zelda gamers, damnit! D:<

Sweet...?

yeah the "older more focused audience" is just the legons of oldschool fans who I for one really hope Nintendo doesn't fuck with this game...

Aren't Zelda games easy enough as it is? I mean how many times do you need to follow the "collect magical stones, get master sword, kill Ganon" formula before you get it down to a science. lol

I actually kind of like this idea. I mean, Link has aways been either a kid, or at oldest a teenager. (Maybe like somewhere in the range of 10-17) It would be cool to see a Link who's somewhere in his mid 20's maybe? It would kind of insure a more mature type of game, right?

I'm not sure what this means...The minute a Zelda game starts incorperating guns or any other non-medeval weaponry is when I start losing interest. Bigtime.

So I've heard...

Well, that's good. Most Zelda games have totally different sorty progressions anyway. (aside from OoT and MM, anyway)

Will he be donning a pink tunic for this game? That would appeal to the 7-10 yr female fanbase quite nicely. They do have to "make everybody happy", right?! lol

I did enjoy the graphics from TP. All the better if they're "amped-up".

Figures.

Haha that was funny, mz,.

"Will he be donning a pink tunic for this game? That would appeal to the 7-10 yr female fanbase quite nicely. They do have to "make everybody happy", right?! lol"

That one cracked me up,

"Hey Brit, have you like played the new Legend of Zelda, Link is like soooo cute!"

"played it? I've already like got the hello-kitty tunic! you know the one like, lets you go around in a hello-kitty tunic, its like the best thing evaar!"

"OMG!, I know!, I like got it too, its like the best thing EVAAAR!"

"I know!"

"I know"

"I KNOW, LIKE, I KNOW"

"LIKE, I KNOW, RIGHT?"

"YEAAH, LIKE TOTALLY"

*jump around yelling the highest high pitch possible (EVAAR!)*

"you are like my best friend, Brit, like"

"like, like, you too Summer, BFF! like"

"like, like , like"

"oh..you like those? I dont, like they suck your flower shield and hello-kitty tunic, and you have like to kill it to get it back.. I dont like like killing like likes, besides its like sooo gross, once I got my hello-kitty tunic back I was like, like I dont want to wear it again, gross! like"

"Yeah, like, like likes are like totally gross"

*disclaimer, not too many tweeners were hurt during this "joke""

HAHA "omg a new zelda and new moon are coming out in the same year! best year evar!"

Backstory ehh... that could just be the best idea ive ever heard. or quite possibly the worst

Haha yeah, may be you can pull off one of those this-story-sucks-so-fucking-much-its-fucking-awesome backstories.

yeah i think i could something like that
How about something like this
The year is 2289 The doggy holocaust has been raging on for a hundred years(known by histiorians as the dogacaust) which was caused by the cats. Thats where you come in, a dog lover since day one Harry H. Ardcore decides to rebel and create some purr-manet damage

Haha yeah I like it, specially "Henry H. Ardcore"

Mid game you can reveal how Mr. Ardcore used to have a cat himself, "Mr. Flufflels" (yeah I spelled that right, that's its name) but he left, leaving Henry brokenhearted and thats why he had to turn to dogs for a companion.

Of course the last boss (you have bosses now, or at least one, the last one) is the evil nazi commander (wait for it.. wait for it...) Mr. Flufflels! yeah, I bet you didn't see that one coming, huh?

holy shit my mind is BLOWN!!!!

there is a genius in this group and it is not i