http://cube.ign.com/articles/606/606585p1.html

The question now is...WHEN WILL IT BE RELEASED?

70 hours!!

*cheers*

Im going to have to borrow a game cube and buy the game when this comes out

*drools*

I am glad I bought Silicon's GC

3 times as big? are they having that 70 hours mostly traveling time like windwaker was?

How do they figure these hours of gameplay? Is it just based on the main storyline or does it include all mini-games?

Q4 2005. Read it in some release date list. Not sure if it's Japan or US.

I imagine they compared it to OoT instead of Wind Waker for size for that reason -- I'm sure most of that extra space will be better used.

Was windwaker good? I never got to play it.. or see it for that matter

Wind Waker was pretty good. I was originally turned off by the cel-shaded graphics but I was eventually swayed and had a blast playing it. Except for travelling between islands. That's about as fun as being dropped into a pit of hydrochloric acid.

The question I would like answered but hardly likely until the game is released is what time frame does this game take place? Is it part of the OoT story line or is it another alternate universe? If the former, does it take place some time long after majora's mask but before wind waker (assuming this Link is the "Hero of Time")? Will any of the chars from the past game make an appearance? Am I asking too many damn questions? Should I shut up now? Can I have a tuna sandwich with no pickles? Are there voices in my head? Am I scaring you with this odd babble?

... ok, I'll shut up now.

I heard it was supposed to take place between Wind Waker and Link to the Past.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Mar/bga20050404029843.htm

There you have it:

The Legend of Zelda: The Realm of Hyrule

September 27th 2005!

The title implies that this will take place either slightly after majora's mask, or between WW and link to the past.

I hope it's the former. PLEASE be OOT storyline. PLEASE!

Ummm... wasn't the games before the N64 such as the original Zelda, Zelda 2, Link to the Past, and Link's awaken a completely seperate storyline than OoT? If you ever played OoT, you can clearly see it is a completely unrelated story compared to its predecessors.

I think it would be cool to hear Link talk in this one. I am also curious as to how Zelda comes into the story and if she does at all.

It's supposed to be like after WW in the world of Ocarina of Time... or something.

And IMO Windwaker sucked. The Cel Shading was something I got over after awhile, but it seemed to lack a depth to it for some reason. The boat/water system, personally, was a major turn off. While I accepted it at first, eventually it became repetetive. Having a world as an ocean wiht islands just didn't have mcuh of an appeal to me.

Plus the game seemed like a giant treasure hunt. Might as well ahve bought a pirate game.

Link probably won't talk. They have a voice actor for him, but likely it's just for the "HIYAH" etc sounds we all know and love. :p

I'm actually playing through it now.. and I like it alot, the treasure system is completely optional, and once you get the warping power the game move's at a much faster pace.

Don't worry. Halfway through the dev-cycle they'll decide cell shading is in the best interests of the game...

That would have been some time last year.

*nudge* It was a joke...

Minish Cap takes place before all of the other Zelda games. It's more or less followed by Four Swords, which is followed distantly by Four Swords Adventures which leads straight into Ocarina of Time. It's followed directly by Wind Waker, which is most likely going to be followed by this game. After that is LttP, which is followed distantly by the original Zelda which is followed directly by Adventure of Link. All of the Zeldas from all of the Zelda games have been different people.

Why not just say each game stands alone?

Because they don't and it's very obvious that they don't.

It's not very obvious to me. But that must make me inferior.

I think it's obvious that they stand alone. Now what say you to that?

>.> <.< you'd have to be stupid not to see the OoT and LTTP references in WW

I never played WW.

And referencing something is one thing. Being connected is something else.

Kill Bill Volume 2 references The Good the Bad and the Ugly. That doesn't make Kill Bill a sequel to it.

The thing is they CAN connect chronologically in-game, and Miyamoto himself has said that certain games likely come before or after others.

HOWEVER, I'm also pretty certain the intention of the games are so that they can ALSO stand alone, without having any direct sequel connections to each other.

After you destroy Vaati in Four Swords Adventures you fight Ganondorf before he attacks Hyrule.

In Minish Cap your opponent is Vaati before he changes form and before he's sealed away by the Four Sword.

In Wind Waker Hyrule has been sealed away by the gods to protect the people from the power of the Triforce.

In Ocarina of Time, Ganondorf attacks Hyrule and steals the Triforce of Power.




In SPED they give kids little cards depicting a story and tell them to place them in order. If retarded children can do it we shouldn't have any problems with Zelda. :p

Except the order of the Zelda games is widely debated. I recognized a somewhat similar order from Kirby021591's "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" FAQ found on GameFAQS.

Kirby021591's order:

• The Minish Cap
• Ocarina of Time
• Majora's Mask
• A Link to the Past
• The Legend of Zelda
• Link's Awakening
• The Adventure of Link
• Oracle of Ages
• Oracle of Seasons
• Four Swords
• Four Swords Adventures
• The Wind Waker

And Jon`C's (which was missing a few games):

• Minish Cap
• Four Swords
• Four Swords Adventures
• Ocarina of Time.
• Wind Waker
• (possibly new game)
• LttP
• original Zelda
• Adventure of Link.

Besides missing a few games, let's ask at least this: why does Ganon show up in his monsterous form BEFORE OoT?

You give me the study where they have retarded children agree on an order and their logical reason and I'll give you your credit.

Just because the pieces to connect the games together are there doesn't mean they REQUIRE you to connect them by any means.

1.) From Wind Waker we see that Ganon[dorf] is freely capable of changing from form to form. It's also not unreasonable to assume Vaati is capable of this. It does not appear to be a power granted by the Triforce.

2.) In OoT Ganondorf is described as a "sorcerer". Even then, without the Triforce of Power, his abilities are quite incredible. Hell, at the end of Wind Waker he loses the Triforce and ends up having a sword of evil's bane embedded in his brain, and yet he presumably survives. Yeesh.

That's why I think Ganon shows up in his full glory.

Look, no matter what the storyline *has* to go in this order:

Ocarina of Time has to be before WW and LttP because it contains events in the backstory of both games.
WW has to be after OoT.
LttP has to be after OoT but before the original Zelda (hence the title, Link to the Past)
AoL has to be after the original Zelda because it's the only game where Link has both the Triforces of Wisdom and Power at the start.

There is a legend of the Hero of Time, it's known to the Hylians before the great flood, and they honestly expect him to return. Which means I'm guessing the great flood happened no more than 50 years after the start of Ocarina of Time.
It's generally accepted that Minish Cap happened either first (and the Four Sword is somehow destroyed at one point), or that Minish Cap happened toward the end of the timeline (since no other sword has the Four Sword property).

Some people have really dug into this stuff... probably more than Miyamoto...

This guy things Wind Waker is an alternate future which will never happen. WTF?
http://www.memoriesofzelda.com/timeline.php

I guess the timeline for this Zelda has not been decided yet.



http://www.zeldauniverse.net/content/view/397/1/

Y'know why didnt they just start with the first zelda and go from there. All the games starting with the first should be in chronological order. From what I have read. Realm of Hyrule is supposed to be the furthest one yet, in Links life (if that makes any sense). I also wonder if Zelda will have anything to do with this game...?

OoT was my favorite.

I got back into playing OoT a few days ago. Now I'm up to the shadow temple. I've forgotten how much fun it is.

It's times like this that I wish I had a console instead of a PC... but I get over it pretty fast.
I learned how to play the ocarina because of OOT. *sigh* Twas such an awesome game... This new one looks awesome.