Zelda games are almost always delayed, it doesn't mean they're completely redoing the game from scratch. There's not much point worrying about it now anyway, whatever happens happens. If it comes out next year with more ideas, great. If it comes out in three years completely different then we'll be disappointed now but believe it or not, we'll manage without.I am still mad about the no E3 part, that's just so stupid. The delay, I can understand but no show at E3 is just too ridiculous. I was hoping that in the April Fools direct, at least the no E3 part could've turned out to just be a joke but no such miracle happened.
And this whole "new ideas" thing is annoying the heck out of me, especially when combined with the no E3 thing. It really worries me that Zelda U has been rebooted and that the game will be like a totally different game next time we see it, kinda like, like I said earlier in this thread, like the transition from Zelda 64 to OoT. Zelda 64 got sent to the concept graveyard while it's rebooted version counterpart, OoT got to have the glory. Again, not to say that OoT is bad or anything, I love OoT, just that I'm sad that we never got to play Zelda 64, it had such a beautiful artstyle, I always thought the nice cel-shaded like graphics were so amazing and very fitting for a Zelda game.
I still really think that Zelda U is going through the same kind of process, especially the idea being is to change the conventions, kind of the transition from 2D to 3D, only this doesn't have to do with dimensions but instead, conventions. It's the transitioning process from traditional Zelda to non-traditional Zelda, old conventions to new conventions. So in a way, I can kinda understand why Nintendo is like on overflow with ideas, kinda like they were with the process of making Zelda 64 go from the remembered and loved old concepts and beautiful inspiring artstyle of Zelda 64 to the great masterpiece we all know and love that is OoT. That said, Zelda U's final version counterpart, like OoT, might also turn out to be a masterpiece but this time as a part of it's own kind of Zelda.
Yes, what I'm saying is that I, yet again, believe that Zelda U might not set in the timeline we are familiar with but actually it's own timeline. Though, as Aonuma stated back in E3, he seems to consider it as like a "break" from traditional Zelda. So he's not completely abandoning the Zelda we know and love, just taking a break from it by introducing a new or rather alternate Zelda timeline that is parallel to the one we're familiar with. This new timeline could be an alternate reality that could at some point connect to the timeline we know of.
I like to think of this new timeline as the "Non-Traditional Zelda Timeline", where unlike in the "Traditional Zelda Timeline" that we well know of, in this new timeline, tradition is that big of a thing. It could be like Final Fantasy, where things change so drastically all the time in such a way where each story is not connected that much in such a way. You know, where every era and age has their own stories.
Think about it. That could be why Link and Epona both already looked so different to begin with in the first place. Plus, Aonuma even confirmed that he wants the new game set place in very new and different Hyrule than anyone has ever seen before. The land may have familiar like features like a bridge kinda like the Great Bridge of Hylia, a volcano area like Death Mountain, a lake like Lake Hylia but it could it still be a different Hyrule all together, it just has it's own Great Bridge of Hylia, it's own Death Mountain, and it's own Lake Hylia. Just because it has familiar features like what that the Hyrule we know has, doesn't mean it's the same Hyrule.
Now that I of it, I might make a video or just a thread where I will talk more about this.
Anyways, that's all for now, I'm tired.
Zelda games are almost always delayed, it doesn't mean they're completely redoing the game from scratch. There's not much point worrying about it now anyway, whatever happens happens. If it comes out next year with more ideas, great. If it comes out in three years completely different then we'll be disappointed now but believe it or not, we'll manage without.
You might be right about the timeline, but it's really too early to tell without more information. There are so many theories that all make sense, it's not possible to pick a place on the timeline or off of it for sure.
Here, you're jumping to conclusions and stating them as fact. Nintendo put TP on wii and no one thought it was a good idea, it was clearly a mistake so why would they do it again? I'm not saying they won't for certain because I don't know, but it would be a bad move so I don't see why they would.1) The fact that the game won't be at E3 this pretty says it all. They're obviously making some big changes to the game, like Link's design, the overworld, the enemies, and maybe even Epona. That said, by the time we see the game again, it will not be the same game we saw in 2014, it'll be very different.
2) After the whole NX announcement, then the delay of Zelda U, the no Zelda U at E3 announcement, I can already see that the game may not release until at the earliest, 2017, assuming that the game will be ported to NX. That would mean we won't see anything new for Zelda from Nintendo until 2017 at the earliest. Which sucks in my opinion and I kinda hate Zelda U for that reason but at same time, I also still love Zelda U, mostly because I still want a new Zelda game.
In a way, it makes me mad that they couldn't just stick with the vision they had formerly.
3) Well my idea of the non-traditional timeline makes the most sense when it comes to timeline placement because there's so much evidence proving it, including the fact that we keep bouncing back and forth from one placement in the traditional timeline to another, still leading up to a dead end cause the game has mix of things from other games, making it impossible to place anywhere in the traditional timeline.
Plus, with a completely new Link, a new Epona, and a new Hyrule, it's very possible that this game set place in a new timeline.
4) My theory of how this new timeline could work, how it exists, and how it connects to the traditional timeline is that there could've been a split may have occurred sometime before SS because something that happened in the traditional timeline like a wish or something. What ever caused the split, this new timeline leads to Zelda U which could be a parallel counterpart to SS. That explains why it shares a similar artstyle and why the bokoblins appear to be of the same type of species as the ones seen in SS. Though, of course this just speculating from the Zelda U we've seen not the final game. Who knows what changes Nintendo is doing.
For we know the final version of the game could turn out to be a parallel counterpart to OoT, seeing as the game will be like a spiritual successor of OoT.
Anyways, I'll explain more in the near future.
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