As many other people said, I don't want to see:
- first person view
- small Hyrule
- easy dungeons
- an annoying companion that points everything out. (personally, I loved Navi, but it's annoying when she points things out constantly)
- futuristic or scientific world.
- any major character replacements. Link is the hero, Zelda is the princess, Ganondorf is the bad guy. Don't change anything about that, and don't make any side characters far more important to the plot than the main ones are. (cough*midna*cough)
- Link talking
- Another one of those games that you can beat within a week.
- NO MORE TINGLE.
- no easy bosses.
Some new things:
- ocean travel. (I hated Wind Waker, a lot)
- another small, uninteresting castle market. The market has always been all decoration and no interaction. Twilight Princess? You couldn't enter half the shops or talk to anyone. For once I want something with personality and not just a small decoration.
- simple sword slashing controls.
- mount-less travel. When Epona came into the series, she really hit it off with me. It's not the same without her. I don't want another Wind Waker fiasco.
- areas only reachable by cannon/minigame/someone warping you there. That REALLY ANNOYED ME in Twilight Princess.
- bomb arrows. Wtf man? fail. Magic arrows are so much better.
- towns with nothing in them. Twilight Princess: Kakariko, Ordon, & Castletown Market. There was nothing in them! I want something I can interact with, with side quests and plots and intriguing characters. Lots of buildings I can explore. Dynamic and complex. Remember Clock Town? Remember Ocarina of Time & Link to the Past Kakariko? Though they needed a lot of fixing up, they were on the right track.
- Time not passing in buildings. It's not realistic D:
- Stupid plot lines where your character transforms into something else and can't interact and explore the actual world until halfway through the game.
- townspeople with no back story. They just say one sentence over and over again and are there for decoration. Yeahno.
- cartoonie graphics. Keep it realistic, man.
There's more I'm sure I can think of, but that's about it. Recent Zelda games have really irked me.