Shadsie
Sage of Tales
I read the article today on the front page: http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2014/09...-be-any-style-other-than-medieval/#more-96774
And it got me thinking.
What are some of the oddest ideas you've seen or had for a setting-tweak for Hyrule and surrounding lands? What are some of the ideas you think might actually work?
And don't say "ONLY MEDIEVAL!" - because the GAMES THEMSELVES so far haven't actually been very good at sticking to the magic/medieval/generic fantasy-setting roots. Maybe the first few games, but... right now, I'm replaying a game that has the great Hero and the spirit of his princess riding around on steam-trains. When I go back to replaying Skyward Sword, I will be interacting with intelligent robots. Twilight Princess had the shootout at the OK Corral - er, shootout at Old Kakariko Village. Also, The Grand Era of Seafaring and Piracy, anyone?
Nintendo experiments a lot with the Zelda series. It makes one wonder if they are going to up the ante and really milk a setting-tweak.
On the topic-main-page, I got to speculating how "The Legend of Korra" took an animated Asian/Medieval setting (for "Avatar"), industrialized it and turned it into the rough equivalent of the 1920s. I actually *don't* want to see that for a proper Zelda game because Nintendo would be accused of ripping off the good folks at Ginormous Madman Productions. However, in idle speculation, I can't help but think that might be a fun setting, if for nothing more than to see cheesy movies about the Hero of Time done up like the Nuktuk serials for the current Link to cringe at whenever he visits a theater in Castle Town.
Some people would like Zelda to go more futuristic...
Personally, I am partial to the idea of the Wild West mixed in. It was played with in Twilight Princess. Then I started writing fan fiction about such settings. I've actually written not one, but two Zelda-Westerns. Dramatic-style, not comedy. The Great Desert is my famous/infamous one, written with a co-creator. It incorporates science-fiction, too, and really got weird and wonky by the end. I see it reviewed on random websites when I Google myself and it seems to be a "You love it or you hate or you love it and then hate it" kind of fic. Never really got the remake off the ground Then there's Westward! - which is a little more "Zelda" in that it is a sequel-ish thing to Twilight Princess and doesn't have a single gun in it, as I recall. It's a story about Link leading an Oregon Trail-type of expedition into lands newly acquired for Hyrule.
--- I don't really know if my fanfic settings would work in an actual game, but they were fun to write and do provide good examples of fan-speculation (my own) of Hyrule being given weird settings.
How far do you think Hyrule can be stretched? What alternate / possible future setting mix-ups can you envision?
(Note: Please don't flame my fanfics here. They were posted as examples only. If you want to flame them because you think they suck, I don't put an restrictions upon who can leave guest-comments over on my fanfiction dot net account). - They are merely samples here of "Look! A fan, over the years, has come up with weird settings!"
And it got me thinking.
What are some of the oddest ideas you've seen or had for a setting-tweak for Hyrule and surrounding lands? What are some of the ideas you think might actually work?
And don't say "ONLY MEDIEVAL!" - because the GAMES THEMSELVES so far haven't actually been very good at sticking to the magic/medieval/generic fantasy-setting roots. Maybe the first few games, but... right now, I'm replaying a game that has the great Hero and the spirit of his princess riding around on steam-trains. When I go back to replaying Skyward Sword, I will be interacting with intelligent robots. Twilight Princess had the shootout at the OK Corral - er, shootout at Old Kakariko Village. Also, The Grand Era of Seafaring and Piracy, anyone?
Nintendo experiments a lot with the Zelda series. It makes one wonder if they are going to up the ante and really milk a setting-tweak.
On the topic-main-page, I got to speculating how "The Legend of Korra" took an animated Asian/Medieval setting (for "Avatar"), industrialized it and turned it into the rough equivalent of the 1920s. I actually *don't* want to see that for a proper Zelda game because Nintendo would be accused of ripping off the good folks at Ginormous Madman Productions. However, in idle speculation, I can't help but think that might be a fun setting, if for nothing more than to see cheesy movies about the Hero of Time done up like the Nuktuk serials for the current Link to cringe at whenever he visits a theater in Castle Town.
Some people would like Zelda to go more futuristic...
Personally, I am partial to the idea of the Wild West mixed in. It was played with in Twilight Princess. Then I started writing fan fiction about such settings. I've actually written not one, but two Zelda-Westerns. Dramatic-style, not comedy. The Great Desert is my famous/infamous one, written with a co-creator. It incorporates science-fiction, too, and really got weird and wonky by the end. I see it reviewed on random websites when I Google myself and it seems to be a "You love it or you hate or you love it and then hate it" kind of fic. Never really got the remake off the ground Then there's Westward! - which is a little more "Zelda" in that it is a sequel-ish thing to Twilight Princess and doesn't have a single gun in it, as I recall. It's a story about Link leading an Oregon Trail-type of expedition into lands newly acquired for Hyrule.
--- I don't really know if my fanfic settings would work in an actual game, but they were fun to write and do provide good examples of fan-speculation (my own) of Hyrule being given weird settings.
How far do you think Hyrule can be stretched? What alternate / possible future setting mix-ups can you envision?
(Note: Please don't flame my fanfics here. They were posted as examples only. If you want to flame them because you think they suck, I don't put an restrictions upon who can leave guest-comments over on my fanfiction dot net account). - They are merely samples here of "Look! A fan, over the years, has come up with weird settings!"
