Zelda, 2006

[Borman]

http://cube.ign.com/articles/642/642238p1.html


Nintendo announced this morning that its anticipated new adventure game, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (http://cube.ign.com/objects/572/572738.html), has been delayed. The title, formerly scheduled to debut this November around the world, has since been postponed to 2006 so that the developer can continue to make the game better.

[cahaz]

oh well, i guess the game will just get better. But that leaves the NGC without any major release for the holyday season. And nothing to counter the xbox 360 release. Twilight Princess could have made the NGC' second breath, but 2006 seems to be way too far and near the ps3 and revolution release.

[madhatter256]

This is the only game that will make me buy a GC...

[the_steadster]

Damn, looks like its not gonna be a good xmas for the cube then... :(

[TheDeathcoaster]

Goddamit! I bought another Gamecube just so I could play this in November (Yeah, i'm on my third cube now since the other two have crapped out completly). Dammit Nintendo :(

Only CastlevaniaDS to look forward to before christmas then.

[Taemos]

This looks more likely to go to the Revolution. Isn't 2006 the projected release date for that system?

You've had wierd experiences with Gamecubes, TheDeathcoaster. I've had one, and it looked like the owner had attached it to the bumper of their car and driven off with it. It worked like a charm :).

Edit: I'm doing very bad with spelling today.

[cahaz]

2007 for revo, or so they say.

[the_steadster]

Just had an idea on this:
Nintendo release it, for cube, at the time of the revolution launch. Revolution is backward compatible with Gamecube, and nintendo make the game "enhanced" with the revolution - e.g. higher quality textures, more polygons etc. Probably a possibility, and would keep the customers happy - It'd give people who've bought a revolution a way to show of their fancy new hardware, and would give owners of cubes a good game without the need to upgrade. Also would mean nintendo have a zelda for a launch of a console, which has to be a good thing, plus it gives them one extra revolution game at launch without much more work

comments?

[Taemos]

2007 for revo, or so they say.

Nintendo has a battle ahead of them, then. I can't see them coming out of this one intact... Sony seems to be making pretty bad decisions as well, if the pricing and development difficulty rumours are true.

[Jasonkhowell]

Nintendo has a battle ahead of them, then. I can't see them coming out of this one intact... Sony seems to be making pretty bad decisions as well, if the pricing and development difficulty rumours are true.

Very true, anything later then fall of 2006, and they will put themselves in a risk. They could do this if the GCN has a healthy ammount of games coming out and a good fanbase, but it doesn't right now.

[cahaz]

.. and i doubt it will in the future either. : /

if nintendo would still release Twilight Princess in november, i think it could somehow ''resurect'' the cube in advance. you know, november is the best month to release a video game, 'cause it's near the holyday. TP will sell alot of gamecubes, especially if it would be released in the holydays, and you know that no other games could sell a cube so much, just go back in time and see how OOT made an impact to n64 sales. Now, more consoles means more potential costumers for a game, wich is a good thing to attract third parties. More third party games means that the cube could
survive all the way to 2007, especially if the cube price goes down, since microsoft said they would like to completly switch to the x360 as soon as possible, and that the ps2 is less powerfull and that it's not the center of attention anymore. Next-gen games' production cost will get really high, so the old gen will last longer than before, imo. add the fact that kids will want that new x360 for christmas, but not every parents will afford the cost of the machine, but they'll know their son want a new system, and there's that new zelda playing on a really affordable system. If you take it like that, the x360 wouldn't be that bad for nintendo.

[GaijinPunch]

Nintendo has a battle ahead of them, then. I can't see them coming out of this one intact... Sony seems to be making pretty bad decisions as well, if the pricing and development difficulty rumours are true.

Well, everyone said that about the PS2... "It's too hard to program for. It'll die. Dreamcast will kill it." And look what happened. O_o

Inded, they are making bad decisions though.

[Mr. Casual]

Zelda in 2006. Damn. Oh well, they can make an awesome looking title even cooler with all that time.

[Evangelion-01]

god dammit..

[Mark30001]

This is the only game that will make me buy a GC...

I totally agree with ya! I would have bought the the 1st GC Zelda game back then before the GameCube was even released, if the author wouldn't have suddenly changed the characters to look like damn cartoons! :mad:

Remember the previews? Those were great, until all of a sudden you see a Link that looked like he came right out of some kids cartoon.

Well... this is the way Zelda should have been! I just hope Nintendo can release it for the Revolution without jeopardizing their future. That would seriously make me wanna get a Revo...

[cahaz]

Oh please, not that ''Wind Waker sucks ans is for kid cuz it's cel-shaded and cartoonish!!!1!'' again.. -_-

[Mark30001]

Hehehe, I never got around playing it. Did it have a good storyline?

[Jasonkhowell]

Hehehe, I never got around playing it. Did it have a good storyline?

Story was decent. I personally thought it lacked the emotion OoT and MM had until the very last area, but it was still pretty good. Too bad the Cel-Shaded link model looked like crap.

[Alien Workshop]

Hehehe, I never got around playing it. Did it have a good storyline?

I thought it was better than OOT, and Gannon was actually *gasp* tough. You shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I loved every minute of that game, and I think the cel-shaded graphics were perfect. I'm kind of disappointed that they aren't using the cel-shaded graphics for this new one.

[sayin999]

sucks, but im not shocked, it seemed that the game was comingout way too soon, and lets face it, no one wants to play a zelda that is underpar, cause i know that nintendo does not like to release stuff unless it is at least decent, but im guessing that they just dont want to screw this up, funny how one of 64s big last game was majoras mask, and this too will probably it, though im shocked mario 128 never got comelete for cube, would have saved nintendo quite a grace.

[cahaz]

emotionnal in a way it is (i feel like yoda! :D),you remember alot of things from the old school zelda games. the game is really good, and i must admit that at first, i wasn't one of those rare winwaker style lover, but now i like it alot. i also thought it was better than oot (wich is really good, but over-hyped). WW, on the other side, is really under-rated.

[GaijinPunch]

Wind Waker was great. I love cel-shaded graphics. The only thing I didn't like was sailing all over the place. Fun game... but as w/ most Zelda's, I wish there was more dungeon.

[cahaz]

i hope they'll spent all that new time to add lots of dungeons.

[Pikkon]

Its crazy,I made a prediction some time ago that the twilight princess would
would come out on the revolution.This is what I said on another forum.

And I think Nintendo is making a mistake
releasing Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes
on the Gamecube.They should hold off
and release it on the Revolution.


Well thats my theory.

[Greatsaintlouis]

Damn, that's two years in a row now that a major holiday release (Resident Evil 4 being the first) gets pushed back. This can't bode well for Nintendo, and without some big holiday title on the DS or GBA, they're really going to be in a tight spot. Maybe the Gameboy Micro, now that there's a release date announced, will keep things selling long enough for Twilight Princess to come around.

Bottom line though, is they're making a colossal mistake letting this one slip by for the holiday season.

[Yakumo]

Guys, tell me if Nintendo have EVER released a game or system when thery said the would. I'm not at all surprised this has been put back.

Yakumo

[Fabrizo]

I thought Wind Waker was an alright game (nothing spectacular) even with the annyoing ammount of sailing necessary to get anywhere. But (spoilers):






When Zelda, who had lived her entire, or close to, life as a rought captain of a band of pirates found out she was a princess and (magicly) grew a gown, adorned makeup, became frail and week in gesture and action, and then (litteraly) climbed under a large rock for protection while awaiting Link to protect her and save the world, the sexism reached new heights and it pissed me off. I don't care that alot of games portray girls as being heavily sexual, but to blatently disreguard and ignore a characters entire life in favor of making her a 'girly-girl' at the turn of a coin, is bullshit.

[Perkunas]

Shame Nintendo can't meet the deadline, but I think no one wants to see Nintendo do a LoZ: The Wind Waker again... They rushed that game, scrapping over three dungeons, and this really shows.

This move shows Nintendo wants to deliver this time. I have respect for that, but I am afraid the game will suffer in sales as a result of being released after the holiday season. Sure it will probably sell as much or even more as The Wind Waker, Super Smash Brothers perhaps even, but it might not live up to it's full potential. It all depends on when it will be released in 2006, the longer they wait, the less the anticipation will be. Look at FFXII.

[cahaz]

they scraped three dungeons? really? any images or any info on that?