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Cream147 on 30 January 2016

Aonuma, if the game is due out this holiday season then I'd suggest you don't have time to "think long and hard" about that. If there was going to be voice acting in the game that decision should definitely be made by now, and really the decision about whether Link speaks should've been made too.

Personally I can't imagine how voice acting could possibly work in a Zelda game. It would turn the writing from pleasant and slightly whimsical to awkward and cheesy.



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Mystro-Sama on 30 January 2016

The days of silent protagonists are over. What purpose does it serve exactly? It just feels unnatural, to me at least.



curl-6 on 30 January 2016
Cream147 said:
Aonuma, if the game is due out this holiday season then I'd suggest you don't have time to "think long and hard" about that. If there was going to be voice acting in the game that decision should definitely be made by now, and really the decision about whether Link speaks should've been made too.

Given how far along the game should be by now, I take this to mean it's already decided it won't change for this entry, and that he's talking about future ones.



Cream147 on 30 January 2016
curl-6 said:
Cream147 said:
Aonuma, if the game is due out this holiday season then I'd suggest you don't have time to "think long and hard" about that. If there was going to be voice acting in the game that decision should definitely be made by now, and really the decision about whether Link speaks should've been made too.

Given how far along the game should be by now, I take this to mean it's already decided it won't change for this entry, and that he's talking about future ones.

I hope so, but I think it's fair given his and Nintendo's track record to be a little suspicious when he makes comments like this that the game isn't quite as far down the road as we might believe...



curl-6 on 30 January 2016
Cream147 said:
curl-6 said:
Cream147 said:
Aonuma, if the game is due out this holiday season then I'd suggest you don't have time to "think long and hard" about that. If there was going to be voice acting in the game that decision should definitely be made by now, and really the decision about whether Link speaks should've been made too.

Given how far along the game should be by now, I take this to mean it's already decided it won't change for this entry, and that he's talking about future ones.

I hope so, but I think it's fair given his and Nintendo's track record to be a little suspicious when he makes comments like this that the game isn't quite as far down the road as we might believe...

Gotta be honest, if Nintendo came out later this year and announced that Zelda was pushed back to 2017, I would not be surprised.

Appalled, but not surprised.



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Naum on 30 January 2016

We have a saying here in Sweden, maybe you do too but...the direct translations is

Speech is silver. silence is golden.



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AlfredoTurkey on 30 January 2016

The idea of no voice acting in Nintendo games was alway something borne out of financial stubbornness. In short, it raises the costs of development. You also increase the file size of the game to epic proportions. Nintendo has avoided it because they don't want to spend the money.

But having said that, at this point, I'm not sure their current IP needs it outside of Zelda and that game only needs it for NPCs. I feel like giving Mario a voice was a bad idea. Back in the 80's, us kids imagined him as he was... a 40 something Italian man trapped in the Mushroom Kingdom. When Super Mario 64 came out, all of a sudden he sounded like a deranged lunatic high on LSD and helium. Luigi now sounds like he's suffering from Down's Sydrome... it's just weird.

So I vote no for old IP and maybe for anything new they put out.



POE on 30 January 2016

Thank god!



Cream147 on 01 February 2016
curl-6 said:
Cream147 said:
curl-6 said:
Cream147 said:
Aonuma, if the game is due out this holiday season then I'd suggest you don't have time to "think long and hard" about that. If there was going to be voice acting in the game that decision should definitely be made by now, and really the decision about whether Link speaks should've been made too.

Given how far along the game should be by now, I take this to mean it's already decided it won't change for this entry, and that he's talking about future ones.

I hope so, but I think it's fair given his and Nintendo's track record to be a little suspicious when he makes comments like this that the game isn't quite as far down the road as we might believe...

Gotta be honest, if Nintendo came out later this year and announced that Zelda was pushed back to 2017, I would not be surprised.

Appalled, but not surprised.

Yeah, basically! I won't believe that Zelda U is going to stick to a release date until I have it in my very hands on that release date!



S.Peelman on 02 February 2016

Good, Link doesn't need to talk.