I've been playing ALBW a lot since yesterday. I'm floored with it. Honestly, I haven't had this much fun since Wind Waker. I feel like Zelda games lately have lost most of what made me like Zelda to begin with, but this game is knocking it out of the park. The world is super fun to explore, the game is smooth, combat is actually fun, I love it all.

That being said, I think that Zelda U should be in the same style. 3D Zelda has it's strengths, but really, I think 2D Zelda is overall better.  I'm sick of wrestling with the camera, and I want to be able to move and fight as fast as a 2D game. I truly believe that 2D Zelda is the best Zelda.

Thoughts?

I'll have to say no as well. I love 2d Zelda, but I think Wii U would benefit much more from a beautiful 3d Zelda. Knowing Nintendo though, they'll probably fuck it all up. What they need to do is to go back to the roots of what made Zelda so great. It really was the first open world game, back in the day. Take a que from Skyrim. Don't Be like skyrim though!

sure of course, because Nintendo dont want sales. Simply put both the game and WiiU would suffer a loss of sales with a 2D Zelda.

Top down on the Game Pad and 3rd person on the screen with the option to switch.

That's never going to happen... would be interesting though.

Thats what I'm saying! i honestly have no faith in Nintendo's ability to make a good 3D Zelda. I mean, I know TP and SS have their fans, but for me, they were kind of awful. It's clear though with ALBW that Zelda team is capalbe of making a great Zelda game, just in 2D.

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I can't go a generation without a 3D Zelda no matter how fun top down Zeldas might be (actually enjoying ALBW).

Well, I thought both TP and SS were great... but what the Zelda team did with ALBW was to go back to the roots.  Not making it linnear. Had they also chosen to set it in a different/new Hyrule I think the game would have benefitted; there's quite a few ppl who thinks the overworld is too... familiar since they've already played ALTTP. I see ALBW as a step in the right direction for the entire franchise. Hopefully this will lead the way for the 3d Zelda as well. Although, you'll probably always be stuck with certain camera issues (like with all 3d games), and combat wont be as fluid as in 2d, but all in all, I think Zelda U might be great!

No, Wii U Zelda needs to show the full capabilities of the Wii U. Besides, we can still have the top-down Zelda on the portable and the same game on 3D for the Wii U. Like Ocarina of Time was for A Link to The Past, if I am not mistaken.

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