its not a bad thing to take ideas from these other games. Nintendo need to focus zelda I think. The focused a version of zelda with cell shading, but they need to focus the next non cell shaded zelda in a way that lets us know exactly what nintendo want zelda to be. At the moment there are many other distinctive series out there. The 3 I play are elder scrolls, assassins creed and fable. Each are very different but they do overlap in alot of areas. At the moment every element of zelda is suck in the last gen. It has its own distinctive elements but these are just simpler versions of the elements found in these other RPG and adventure games.
Assassins creed focuses on combat from an assassins point of view. Fable focuses on the players interaction and shaping of the world around them, and elder scrolls is just pure rpg goodness in all its glory. At the moment Zelda is just a shalow adventure game with a story line and world every one has come to love because of its history. It makes no advancements for the gaming industry to stand back and be like "wow we must follow zeldas lead" but because this is nintendo I believe they should be shaking the industry with their games! because thats all they ever talk about with the wii, but I'm yet to see them make a wii game that advances the industry as far as game play mechanics go. adding motion controls is not a game play advancing mechanic, its just a substitute for pressing a button.
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