Zelda: Link’s Awekening Remake announced for Switch

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:31 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U-_XfDGgDw

Haven’t watched yet but it’s my second favourite Zelda game!

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:39 am

Rofl instead of a BOTW treatment it’s getting a 3ds zelesa treatment on the switch

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:58 am

I've never played this game except I think a bit on ROM. Given how well loved this game is I'm pretty excited. Not excited enough to pay the almost inevitable Nintendo $60 price tag for an old game that was simply given the Secret of Mana treatment.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:54 am

Yeah definitely not gettting this fulllll price

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:02 am

Looks charming. Maybe I’ll finally play farther than stealing shit from the shop and getting murdered.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:25 am

That's a pretty accurate description of how far I got in Skyrim. Most of the time I wasn't even trying to steal shit. I hate the interface in Western style RPGs.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:26 am

WaWard wrote:Rofl instead of a BOTW treatment it’s getting a 3ds zelesa treatment on the switch

A Link Between Worlds is actually my 4th favourite Zelda game.
Link’s Awakening is my favourite. I was obsessed with it back in the day and completed it about 4 times, back-to-back. Over the years, more and more people have claimed it’s their favourite, so I always knew it’d eventually be getting remade. I’m not really down with the look of it though, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it. It’s now my most anticipated game.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:50 am

Im totally ok with it. I just thought it’s the sort of game that could’ve benefited from a BOTW treatment. Oh well. I’m likely buying it as it was my favourite Zelda until 2G17!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:54 pm

BotW as in huge open world? The map in Link's Awakening isn't all that big. I guess they thought about it, but making it too much like BotW would obviously get people drawing comparisons and viewing it unfavourably as a result. This is more of a release schedule filler than the next AAA system shifter.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:20 pm

Yes but can you imagine a re-imagining of it! BOTW on a bigly island with a yuge egg on top of it!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:31 pm

I don't think that'd suit Link's Awakening at all. Link's Awakening is better than Breath of the Wild, as it is.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:34 pm

Link’s A-weakening is more like it

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:44 pm

Damien wrote:I don't think that'd suit Link's Awakening at all. Link's Awakening is better than Breath of the Wild, as it is.

I wasn’t hoping for a remake though. A new game inspired by it really. I’m happy about it okay!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:08 pm

Perhaps that's what they'll knock out next. From the comments section on social media, it seems a large portion of the current Nintendo fan base has never played Link's Awakening and doesn't really know much about it.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:42 pm

Damien wrote:I don't think that'd suit Link's Awakening at all. Link's Awakening is better than Breath of the Wild, as it is.

I very much dount this but I still question whether it wpuld be sensible to do it in BtW form. Seems like remaking it in that form woulsld probably make it lose almost everything that makes it Link's Awakening in the first place.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:50 pm

Yeah. It'd just make it a really small BotW and then people would be asking why it wasn't top-down/free DLC, etc.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:46 pm

Let’s be honest. People are gonna complain regardless of what Nintendo does with zelda

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:07 am

They should remake BotW with Wind Waker graphics.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:00 am

How about Picasso graphics?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:31 am

Remake all the other Zeldas to be like Zelda II.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:31 pm

Only way they could make Ocarina of Time worse.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:31 pm

Lord Golbez wrote:Only way they could make Ocarina of Time worse.

Maybe. They could make it like that awful DS Zelda game

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:57 pm

I still think Ocarina of Time was worse than Phantom Hourglass. I guess Ocarina of Time would be worse if it were the same exact game but you could only use touch controls like on Phantom Hourglass.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:58 pm

Golbez is such an OoT contrarian.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:57 pm

A COoTrarian you could say

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:58 pm

Definitely.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:30 pm

I really forced myself to like OoT, mainly because of the hype and the fact I loved the series up until that point so much. I remembered liking it, but not sincerely. It seemed a bit naff, even at the time. Wind Wanker and Breath of the Wild are the only 3D zeldas I think truly match up to the 2D ones (not that they’re all gray though).

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:35 pm

WaWard wrote:A COoTrarian you could say

I don't know what that means, but I'm almost sure that you're wrong.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:23 am

It’s true they’re not all gray, that’s just Link’s Awakening.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:36 am

Lord Golbez wrote:
WaWard wrote:A COoTrarian you could say
I don't know what that means, but I'm almost sure that you're wrong.

It’s a bad dad joke

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:44 pm

There’s another Zelda game coming

Developed in gastown too.

It will henceforth be known as Breath of Gastown.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/sta ... 40609?s=20

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:17 pm

Is Gastown a new video game hub?

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:35 pm

Hasn’t it been for sometime?

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:00 pm

I don’t know, I’m asking you. You’re the Canadian guy. All I know about the Canadian video games industry is that Ubisoft Montréal is supposed to be pretty good, and their former director has just been poached by Google.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:30 pm

Gastown is pretty far. IDK

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:59 pm

I didn't know about videogames being made in Gastown.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:35 am

Anybody else got/getting it?

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:22 am

Mine is in the mail
I intend to play this one with my kids

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:14 pm

I'm really looking forward to playing it. Especially after hearing impressions of it and how it feels just like the original. That's all I wanted, the same game but colourful and fresh feeling.

Asaroth Larot · Post by **Asaroth Larot** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:47 pm

Yeah. Im really looking forward to this one too.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:02 pm

It's a remake of the best Zelda game ever! Counts as worth being excited for.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:30 pm

WaWard wrote:Yeah definitely not gettting this fulllll price

Did waward find an offer?

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:18 pm

My copy was discounted 25%!

Asaroth Larot · Post by **Asaroth Larot** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:25 pm

Just arrived.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:54 pm

There's no way I'm paying $60 for this on principle alone, so Nintendo better offer a price drop at some point.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:08 am

It’s the retailers that set prices. At least here. All Nintendo can do is recommend a price point. I paid £38 (and got a free poster and keychain). For a remake of one of my top 5 favourite games of all time, I think that’s fair.
I actually think I almost got a bit emotional a few minutes into playing when I realised just how true to the original it was.

Asaroth Larot · Post by **Asaroth Larot** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:53 am

Jealous

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:29 am

Canada has had deals on preorders since the late 2Gs during e3, with savings up to 33% depending how many items you preorder. It started with Best Buy but then amazon got into it and BB stopped and now amazon made it only for prime members and later even stopped that, but now Walmart picked up the slack.

I get a better price on switch games than they will likely ever get for a new copy when I preorder

My FFVIII/R copy cost me $50 instead of $80

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:34 pm

Cool. It's supposed to cost $20 though.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:08 pm

Why? A lot of work went into this. Probably just as much as a new game.
It’s not a rom. Or a half assed port like FFVIII which went for $30

I understand it’s not for you but I respect the pricing.