DanneSandin said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
DanneSandin said:
Yeah, I wonder why they've always kept the world small-ish... Maybe because of hardware limitations, but that's NO excuse this time around! Skyrim was biiiig, Hyrule could be even bigger (not saying that it should, just that it could).
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Seeing as there were 6 towns in Zelda 2, I don't think hardware limitiations are the problem. They've just kept Zelda as a "small-scale" epic since ALttP. Every single villager and aspect of Hyrule has a purpose. I think this is a mistake. There should be lots of "filler", pointless NPC's and buildings and areas. These should be there to add a sense of scope, and to make the relavant characters/objects/areas feel more important. I would like to have a bit of a journey with Zelda, where you go to several new towns and solve there problems and move on to the next challenge in your journey.
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I agree with almost everything you said, except that "There should be lots of "filler", pointless NPC's and buildings and areas"; that's not the way to go. Every town should have a purpose, and every villgae should have important NPCs - if only to give you hints or legends about what you should/could do. They could be the fast travel points on the map, and your base of operations in a certain area, where you can get equipement.
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I appreciate the interest in more places to visit, but I think the designers need to be careful about adding too much stuff. The focus of any Zelda game, in my mind, should be dungeons. This is where the magic happens.
I like the idea of having lots of nooks and crannies to explore in the overworld, but I'm not sure if more towns and NPCs is the way to go. I don't really want the series to wander into RPG territory.
