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[Sety]

http://media.cube.ig...738/vids_1.html

*dies drooling*

[Hero of Winds]

Just... f*cking... incredible.

[Flint]

mmm.. thats good stuff.

[Zythe]

Is Link a werewolf? Is the theme for this animals?

The gorons and the ghosts look so cool...

[Khallos]

That was.......amazing. It looks beautiful, it seems to play beautiful as well and I'm guessing the music will be top notch. I think like MM this will allow you too turn into animals, though if Link is a werewolf it would be great. The ghosts and when he appears to hijack the wild boar also look amazing.*watches it again and again and again* When this comes out, I can die happy.

[Zythe]

Another thing I like, is the bosses and the lens of truth and the dragons. But, they seem to be going very Sony with this, LOTRification.

[Hero of Winds]

Zelda + GCN realistic graphics = a game that looks like LOTOR because there's no other way it can look.

[thabto81]

wah! i can't see it til i get home cause this f'ing computers a dumb sh!t f*ck!! damn it!

[Khallos]

Another thing I like, is the bosses and the lens of truth and the dragons. But, they seem to be going very Sony with this, LOTRification.

You can't really expect anything less from it as they're both set in a sort of Fantasy Medieval time period. However personally I don't really mind the look, and the fact is the LotR games never looked or played as good as this it seems.

[Hana-Nezumi]

meh, it mostly just shows more of link fighting enemies. i want to see the villages, characters, etc.

[Zythe]

Well, that one guy looked like Darunia.

[Alakhriveion]

AGH I can't watch it on the Library's computers! Need... need to get home... need to watch...

[Black Knight]

Wow! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of this game. When is the release date?

[Flint]

December 2005 for Japan, early (maybe Spring) 2006 in the US, i'm guessing 2010 for Europe.

Needless to say, it's going to make one hell of a graduation gift for me. m/

[Masamune]

Unless they are planning a simultaneous release for Japan and America. Which would be good, because it would make a killer Christmas release (even if it meant that I had to spend less on my family so I could buy it the day it comes out.)

[Hero of Winds]

I doubt the game will be released in America in 2006. That's far too close to Revolution's launch.

Since it comes out later this year, and Reggie himself said the game would launch this holiday season, my guess is either...

A) A worldwide release around the same time (only happened once, with OoT)

or

B) The game is released in Japan in October or November, with the American version coming out in December.

I mean, if the final version will be ready at E3 this year, then what else, besides localizing the game for American and European gamers, will Nintendo be doing for the six months between E3 and the holidays?

[Flint]

Hm, I dunno. Last I heard I just thought it was December 2005. Maybe we'll get it sooner than I thought.

[SteveT]

I just hope I dont' have to sit through an opening cutscene about ancient history

[Alakhriveion]

You will. This is the commandment of the Sequel Gods. Do not disobey them.

My local stores all tell me that it's shipping in early October, but I've found that every single person who sells video games withing forty miles of my house is a liar. I have never once been told the truth by any of them.
"Do you have a used PS2?"
"No, we ran out of those around last week. If you sold us one, we'd have it."
"But you just told that man you've got ten in the back."
"Yeah, he's not getting one, either. Want a Mario-shaped Lollipop instead?"
"OK."
"Too bad."


But I digress. In those six months, Nintendo will be making us wait for it. Not as evil as deliberately undershipping, but evil none the less.

[TJ]

*jisms in pants*

[lord-of-shadow]

Moved to General Zelda.

Zelda + GCN realistic graphics = a game that looks like LOTOR because there's no other way it can look.

Don't be ridiculous. Even if this game WAS photorealistic (which it's not, and obviously not even attempting to be), there would still be plenty of room for it to differentiate itself from LOTR. For all practical purposes, there is infinite room for stylistic variety among fantasy worlds. One just haas to compare the world of Warcraft to that of Fable, or LOTR itself, or Zelda: OoT, or MM. All of these are set in pseudo-medieval times, none of them are trying to be celshaded cartoons like tWW, and yet none of them are really alike at all. Even OoT and MM, who used most of the same graphics models, managed two wildly different styles.

But this? This trailor seems to lack any sort of distinctive or good style at all, to me. It just comes off as a LOTR-wannabe.

[Flint]

http://www.freewebs....dofzelda2_2.wmv

downloadable windows media version. should work, let me know if it doesn't.

[Hero of Winds]

Meh. Say what you will l-o-s, I will not be swayed!

[Alakhriveion]

Yes, it does look a bit like LotR, in the same way TWW looks a bit like Tom and Jerry. A couple things are to be noted:

The entire neo-RPG Hero's quest with angry green monsters Paradigm is ripping of LotR, it's been that way forever. OoT was too, you know that. Compare Rivendell, whose Elven inhabitants are protected and preserved by a powerful magic in their forest home, to the Kokiri Forest, whose Elven inhabitants are protected and preserved by a powerful magic in their forest home.

LotR rocks extremely hard.

They almost only show large battle sequences in this trailer because, really, people don't care about story or anything, they buy it because they want to kick ass. This also helps it look like LotR, which was largely popular not because of the cinematography, acting, or story, but because it contained more digitally-enhanced ass-kicking per frame (DEAK/FIB) in it's battle sequences than anything else.

Looking like LotR and having a lot of fighting in the trailer and early images is inevitable.

[SnowsilverKat]

Well, for all it's worth, I'm blown away...

Those water effects are pretty.

And there are kitties.

[SOAP]

Funny. I thought they were dogs. I don't know what the hell those things are but they seem to follow Link everywhere he goes, even on horseback. Cool! Looks like you can actually keep pets in this game! That''s something I've always wanted in a Zelda game since OoT came out with those cute little Terriers that followed you everywhere. Up until you leave Hyrule Market of course, which sucked.

[Hana-Nezumi]

trailer analysis, if you haven't seen it yet:
http://www.zeldalege...php?p=130&s=565
^my emphasis on the last paragraph

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

...I love the cats! And that ghost-in-the-tunnel scene blew me away. Link communicating (?) with ghost has always been a dream of mine.