Do you think we'll see the pre-BOTW style again?

[mαrkαsscoρ]

I'm wondering what you guys think the future holds for 3d Zelda. Do you think there's at all a chance for us to see the old style of 3d Zelda games again? Or is open world now and forever how 3d Zelda games will play like?
Additionally, how much would you want to see the old style to stick around? My answer to this is very much

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

This is what I was referencing when I said Zelda is dead and we killed it


We're never going to see a new Zelda game with classic Zelda gameplay ever again. The best we can hope for is remakes and remasters

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

For sure. I'm happy to have these two open-air games but Nintendo is the best in the industry at experimenting within their ip. I'm honestly more worried that we'll never see another top-down title.

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

This is what I was referencing when I said Zelda is dead and we killed it


We're never going to see a new Zelda game with classic Zelda gameplay ever again. The best we can hope for is remakes and remasters

more like ports since all of them already got remasters

For sure. I'm happy to have these two open-air games but Nintendo is the best in the industry at experimenting within their ip. I'm honestly more worried that we'll never see another top-down title.

I don't think that should be a worry, that's like it's own thing entirely so it's just a matter of time

 

[VikzeLink]

I really hope this is just a temporary thing. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but it's not really Zelda to me. I fell in love with the old style, those were the types of games that I adored. These new ones are fun too, but I don't want the old style to go away

 

[thePlinko]

I’m really not sure. I really want the classic style to return, but I don’t have much hope for it. The best I can see happening is them trying to fuse the two styles together somehow, but even that doesn’t sound fun to me.

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

more like ports since all of them already got remasters

Oracles and minish cap

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

Oracles and minish cap

I'm specifically talking about 3d zelda, I'm sure we'll see more top down zelda at some point

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

I'm specifically talking about 3d zelda, I'm sure we'll see more top down zelda at some point

I could see an ocarina of time dx outsource

 

[Fraxinus]

I'm sincerely hoping for it, though I'm not sure how realistic it is. Nintendo has always been about gimmicks for their Zelda games and then moving onto the next one, with maybe some design philosophies they picked up along the way making it into the next title along with the new gimmick. Even if BotW leaves a permanent mark on the series, the open world was arguably its gimmick (and you know, Majora's Mask as a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time did share its gimmick of time travel, so...), maybe the next title will ease into something else. Really impossible to say though, but the series would become tragically monotonous if they stopped that variability entirely to just stick to the open world format just because a game happened to be successful.

 

[LegendOfMeesh]

I’m not really sure what to think. I would like to think that they’ll go back to the old style, but it really wouldn’t surprise me if they just stick with open world going forward as that’s what seems to be most popular these days.

I wonder this about Pokémon as well.

 

[Chevywolf30]

Open world a la BotW+A classic item/dungeon system please.

 

[thePlinko]

Open world a la BotW+A classic item/dungeon system please.

You mean Windwaker?

 

[Chevywolf30]

You mean Windwaker?

Haha true, but I was thinking also have the inventory mechanics of BotW and whatnot, and then you have a key items section, or even make the runes the key items.

 

[thePlinko]

Haha true, but I was thinking also have the inventory mechanics of BotW and whatnot, and then you have a key items section, or even make the runes the key items.

Yeah like treasure pouch