curl-6 said:
Finding new art styles does not justify 5 years, nor does motion controls, nor does it being their first HD title. Killzone 3 to Killzone Shadowfall came up with a new art style, took 2 years. Oblivion was Bethesda's first HD game, and open world to boot, and took 4 years. And no, finding new styles of cartoon graphics is NOT harder than making complex, cutting edge realistic graphics. The Zelda team are simply inefficient. |
No, just finding completely new, unique, great and beautiful art style and graphics alone, or just finding dont finding new mehanics, or just beacuse is first HD title, dont justify 5 years development. But finding completely new, unique, great and beautiful art style and graphics, and finding and implementing completely new mechanics and staffs, and developing very complex dungeons and epic bosses, all that for open world adventure game with NPCs that is developed by team which in same time working on other projects too, and we add to that Nintendo obsesion of releasing very polished games with no bugs or any problems, so all that together clearly justify 5 years of development. If we talking about Zelda U, will add to all that that is first HD, true open Zelda with bigest world by far than in any previous Zelda games.
Finding completely new, unique, great and beautiful art style and graphics for every new game is definitely much harder than go every time for realistic graphics, especially when today almost every AAA game looks same.
So no Zelda team isn't inefficient at all, all things they are doing requires time and definitely justify 5 years of development.
Also you cant compare at all development of games like Uncharted or Killzone with development of 3D Zelda because of all of staffs that I mentioned. Also Zelda series is unique and very different series than any other series on market, you can't say same for Uncharted, Killzone or even Skyrim, and that certanly also is afecting on devolpment of 3D Zelda games.
But because with NX we have unified platform, and Zelda team already worked on HD and true open Zelda with huge world, I think we can expect completely new Zelda for NX around 4 years after Zelda U, but if they decide to pull again MM, probably for 2-3 years.
