First off; my wife told me today that she already pre=ordered The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess for me. She also told me she wants to camp out at a local Target on 11/19. I can't believe how supportive she is of this whole thing, she usually frowns on my video game habit. Its really refreshing to have her help and support.
By the way, there are some sites out there that will tell you how many Wii's are located at your local Target(s). Here's a good one:
http://wii.clambert.org/
Secondly, and what makes me even more excited, I ran across this video of LOZ:TP today:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BVW8p6820jo
It does contain some minor spoilers., but basically makes me salivate at the mouth.
Theres also some impressions, albeit with minor spoilers here:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/744/744044p1.html
I am about to jump out of my skin. This is basically the first real Zelda game in 10 years!!! Yeah I liked LOZ:WW and Majora's Mask, but MM was an offshoot and WW wasn't true Zelda goodness. Ten years coming!
I can't believe they are saying the game will be 70+ hours in the first playthrough! Unbelievable!:googly:
Ahhh.. The excitement of a new Nintendo system.
NOOO! Don't do this to me, I'm excited enough I don't need more fuel to get me excited!!! LoL I've been watching zelda videos for hours the past couple of days reading previews and everything.
Now you got me all psyched again and I'm about to go to bed. I'll never SLEEP!!
LoL I so can't wait, 11 DAYS!!!
You think you've got it bad?? Try living in the UK - we'll have to wait another month at least.
Oh my god I just watched that video and he talked about items and showed how you play and holy crap, what am I gonna do with my self until then 😞
Screw homework I'm gonna play LTTP now and watch more TP trailers I think.
Man that's Harsh, My head would explode if I had to wait another month :S
29 days for Australia and counting. 😞
Good news is that EBgames here are having a pretty nice midnight launch event, apparently.
could you shed some more info on this "event" you speak of goki? as im aussie and am intrigued about it.
franpa wrote:could you shed some more info on this "event" you speak of goki? as im aussie and am intrigued about it.
Well i was speaking to one of the girls at EBgames in this afternoon, and she told me the Albury Store will be having a midnight launch event, with all sorts of entertainment, food, and of course, Wii. You, being in good 'ol Bris-Vegas, would have no intention of coming to Albury, of course, but i'm sure somewhere in Brisbane there will be a similar event.
Sweet. 9 dungeons. Just like in LoZ. 😃
I've read that the game is 70+ hours too. I don't know how they get these numbers, but I doubt it will take me that long. (unless of course you have some insane amount of side quests to get hearts like in the Wind Waker, or something like the ring system in the Oracle games that takes forever)
Also, I think I'm one of the few people that likes Majora's Mask better than Ocarina of Time. Yes, OoT was more epic, but there's just something about MM. Wind Waker was great too - I just wish it had more dungeons.
That first site is cool. I'm not getting mine at Target, but if a store like Target can get 24 systems around here, I shouldn't have a problem at Best Buy (which presumably should get more since that is more exclusively what they do).
vegeta1215 wrote:Also, I think I'm one of the few people that likes Majora's Mask better than Ocarina of Time. Yes, OoT was more epic, but there's just something about MM. Wind Waker was great too - I just wish it had more dungeons.
That goodness I'm not the only one. MM had some great character development. I really liked seeing the characters live out their last days over and over, it made for some interesting scenarios. The Wind Waker I agree could have used more dungeons- in fact, a mini dungeon for wach of the triforce pieces would have made it the perfect length (8 additional full-length dungeons, in addition to the rest of the game, would have made it too long I think). Nevertheless I loved it as well; Ganon's dialogue toward the end of the game is just beautiful.
There are 9 dungeons yes but it seems like there will be alot of places as big as a dungeon that arent acctually "dungeons". In that video they guy is talking about being in a cave that he thought was a dungeon and it wasnt. He also said that about another area.
I also read that one of the people at nintendo who was playing the game who knew where everything was and where he was going and it took him 27 hours and he was just barely half way through the game.
I am also one of the people who liked Majoras Mask better than Ocarina of Time, It had a cool style to it and alot of interesting new things that I loved.
The only thing I hated about wind waker (and I really hated it) was gathering the triforce pieces in the boat. I never played past this part because it was too annyoing and tedious. If they had of tweaked the boat a bit a removed the triforce gathering, or made it more interesting I would have loved it.
Hmm....I wonder how the speedruns are going to be....gah.
MANDRAG GANON wrote:There are 9 dungeons yes but it seems like there will be alot of places as big as a dungeon that arent acctually "dungeons". In that video they guy is talking about being in a cave that he thought was a dungeon and it wasnt. He also said that about another area. I also read that one of the people at nintendo who was playing the game who knew where everything was and where he was going and it took him 27 hours and he was just barely half way through the game.
I am also one of the people who liked Majoras Mask better than Ocarina of Time, It had a cool style to it and alot of interesting new things that I loved.
The only thing I hated about wind waker (and I really hated it) was gathering the triforce pieces in the boat. I never played past this part because it was too annyoing and tedious. If they had of tweaked the boat a bit a removed the triforce gathering, or made it more interesting I would have loved it.
As quoted from Matt Cassamassina at IGN,
"Adding insult to injury, diabolical Nintendo translator and localization manager Bill Trinen told me that he was working on his second play-through of the game. Knowing what to do and where to go, and skipping cut-scenes, Trinen said that he had logged about 27 hours to make it approximately two thirds of the way through the temples themselves - and that doesn't account for any of the side quests or time-sucks like fishing, a single operation that could easily add hours upon hours to Zelda's depth."
The game will be 70 hours the first play through...easy.
Tygore wrote:That goodness I'm not the only one. MM had some great character development. I really liked seeing the characters live out their last days over and over, it made for some interesting scenarios.
That's what I like about it too. It's just so interesting to learn about all the people in Clock Town, and every time I play MM I find some new detail I hadn't seen before (it's so neat to track down each of the characters during the last hours before the Moon crashes into Clock Town)
Also, although there were only 4 major dungeons in MM, all of them are fantastic - the Stone Tower dungeon is the most ingenious dungeon of all Zelda games imo. (Link's Awakening holds my vote for second best Zelda game in terms of dungeons)
The Wind Waker I agree could have used more dungeons...Nevertheless I loved it as well; Ganon's dialogue toward the end of the game is just beautiful.
I would've liked 2 more big dungeons, and maybe one more "town" island. I will say the last two major dungeons (the ones where you are accompanied by a helper character) were quite beefy.
On the story side, I feel Wind Waker to be leading the pack of the Zelda games in terms of story. Yes, the dialogue is great. Despite it's cel-shaded look, it's one of the more morbid Zelda games too (next to MM of course)
i thought that the gloomy feeling in majora's mask is what zelda games need :P more terror and less childish... and i have to say that ttp looks breath taking... im gob smacked at the quality... granted ive only watched the one video from this thread.... thanks for the info goki... and yea i highly doubt id go there 😊
I consider MM better than OoT, hoping that TP will be more like MM than OoT. Why do I think it's better?
The environment is so much... better. OoT's world is pretty boring, but there's something in MM that fixes that, perhaps the timer. With the 3 days, you think to yourself, "Hey, I've got to hurry" and for whatever reason, makes MM better. Though it had 4 dungeons, the side quests kept you busy enough.
Nine dungeons with a quasi-MM game... Perfect. 😉
I agree that the timer gave a unique feel to Majora's Mask. With just about any other game, the "drastic" situation is a plot device, and no matter how desperate things may seem, you can go adventure and do side-quests all you want and there will be no sense of urgency. In MM, you HAD to complete whatever task you were doing within the 72-hour time frame. Sure, you can always play the Song of Time, but then the dungeons/side quests reset. It was a great mechanic, although I'm not sure if it's something that should be done too frequently.
I have to sya that I liked M more than OoT as well.. Personally my favorite thing was the transformation masks (Deku, Goron, Zora, Fierce Deity, and Giant) and maybe helping all the people.
Well folks, for most of you, the long 2-and-a-half year wait for the Greatest Game Ever is almost over. IGN has an excellent display of new screens and videos, so I suggest you begin the hype with that. Now. NOW.
For me, twenty-nine days! 😊
It's like waiting for Christmas, x 1000.
For me it pretty much IS waiting for Christmas.
I suspect I will cave and get the Wii version, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
goKi wrote:It's like waiting for Christmas, x 1000.
lol nice South Park quote
Gamespot got their Wii on Friday and played it on camera for an hour plus. Here's the link... enjoy!!
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/video_player/popup.php?sid=6161522&pid=undefined
There's some great footage of Zelda, albeit with some minor spoilers. There also is some great footage of the Wii Sports, which I now am offically excited about too. They also play Excite Truck, Monkey Ball, and check out some of the other features of the Wii.
One week to go!!!
Stop rubbing it in, you bastards!
Am I being serious or am I joking around? Wouldn't you like to know.
Australia gets the Wii almost 48 hours before all of Europe, making Australia officially not the last major country in the world to get something. Change is good. Sucks to be you, Marsden.
They're gonna have to build a whole new wing in hell by the time I'm done with you.
This game is looking great. It got a 5 out of 5 at GameSpy. It also got a 9.6 out of 10 at The Hylia (0.2 deducted for no camera control; 0.2 deducted for GCN-style graphics). So does this mean the GCN version might be 10.0-worthy?
Only 5 days for some, ranging all the way to another 27 looong days for others.
Sick with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkS2DJ6VX_g
To quote another You-Tuber, (after watching it) "I Wiid Myself".