Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Well, the last time you had fun swinging a sword was TP because Skyward Sword sucked the biggest of all youknowwhats. Worst Zelda game, ever and I mean that solely from a gameplay perspective.

This game won't have that issue, although I'm hoping with a bigger, more open-world concept we get a better story. I love Zelda, and I love collecting Triforce pieces, and amulets, freeing sages, what have you, but I hope we get more side quests, and a more developed story.

If it involves fetching, that's fine, but I want more than just "Oh noes, Ganon is up to his old shenanigans."

You guys want more this more that. I just want a game from one of the best developers who continue to make one of the best series in gaming history.
I'm pretty sure they also want to add more this and more that, since you know, they are freaking developing the game. But you can't have it all folks. Just sit back and relax and enjoy your games.

I think making it open world is pretty much all I need to try the game out, and I'm not a huge Zelda fan. I love Wind Waker HD, though.

I want a fleshed out story....like more story then anything else. With complex characters and a plot twist or 2

I've seen this being argued in a number of places now, but what do people think about the world size of the upcoming Zelda?

In an interview, Aonuma (I think it was him) said it was the size of Kyoto. Based on the data I've read, that would make it bigger than Xenoblade Chronicles X. And one of the biggest hand-crafted worlds ever created.

That doesn't seem to fit the size based on the map in that preview video though, which does seem to be a lot smaller. Which do people think will be right? And which would you prefer?
Personally, I'd probably prefer the smaller. It'd be incredibly hard to make a huge world interesting whilst also fitting with the Zelda formula. XCX looks like it can cleverly get around that kind of problem because having the dolls allows for a kind of temporary change of scale, if you will.

Looks like this game will have amiibo support http://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/amiibo-chart...

@Dezzy, IIRC didn't they say that what they showed at the Game Awards was just one area of the map and not the whole world? Anyways, I would like a big world but I also want it to be filled. But I would take a small world that filled with stuff rather than a huge world that's empty.

Shenaniganon.

I dunno. Gamexplain analysed the video and inferred that it's probably the whole map as when he was zooming out, the "zoom out" button greyed-out on the final stage. I think that probably means it's the full map. Some guys on the IGN forum did a calculation on that map and it came out as something similar to the world size of Skyrim. That sounds more than big enough to me!

I don't think that's actually true. I know they said that at one point but I'd double check it if I were you!

XCX is only about 10-20 km2, iirc. Japan is about 380000 km2. Kyoto is bigger than 20 km2, so if Zelda is about the same size as Kyoto's city centre, it would be bigger than XCX.

Xenoblade Chronicles X is said to be around 400 square kilometers in size, which is roughly half of Kyoto City.

All we know about Zelda U's map size is that Anouma had Kyoto in mind while describing it.

I hate area notation. Are you sure you've done that correctly? I think you're mixing notation. km^2 as given for the size of Japan usually means square kilometers. Whereas I think you mean 20 kilometers squared for XCX. And yes, those are drastically different for anyone wondering if I've got insane.

400; 20 x 20, I knew there was something related to a 20. Well, still nowhere near the size of Japan, and possibly smaller than Zelda U. But in all honesty, does it really matter?

Yeah, I realised I was wrong, apparently it is 400km2, about 20km x 20km, not 20km2.

Yeah, it's an easy mistake to make. Blame mathematicians for not coming up with better notation.

I think it does matter, yes. Personally I think if the Zelda map is bigger than the Xenoblade Chronicles map, it'll end up affecting the game for the worse. It's incredibly hard to make a big world interesting without a kind of GTA/Skyrim budget (which I seriously doubt Nintendo would spend on a 10 million install base). It'd be near impossible to fill a world that size with interesting and diverse locations so the only realistic outcome would be the Wind Waker situation. Islands (metaphorical) of interest with a whole lot of nothing in between them.
I think RPGs get around this because battles are part of the main progression in the game. Not so in Zelda. Puzzles, secrets and exploration are the main progression in Zelda. And those tend to need to be crafted with more care and more diversity. You can clone an RPG enemy a hundred times and it works within the context of the game. Clone a puzzle a hundred times and it's a disaster.

Zelda games have always allowed you to roam and explore a huge world.

Oh boy, here comes another round of Skyward Sword bashing.

I was kinda thinking the same thing but then again Nintendo would just use the argument that the flying part where huge and flying from one end to another took a while at a higher rate of speed that Wind Waker did. So in other words it was bigger with a lot of empty space in between.

I hope this game gets info on Link's parents .

...why?

[burp][/burp] Why not?

Name that film!