Aonuma on valuing feedback from Zelda fans

[Cloudman]

Kai_Mao said:

Cloudman said:

Yeah, I did list before those 2 things as the potential reasons why this Zelda is taking so long. Though if true, that does seem a bit of a downer. Usually Ninten is the one leading by example, and now they are kinda falling behind...

I wonder myself how big Zelda is going to be... I can't imagine it being huge like GTA or FFXV...

Oh ok. I missed what you said about that. Well HD is not considerably easy in the first place. I mean, didn't Sony and Microsoft have their own intial struggles when the PS3 and 360 initially released? Nintendo was obviously going to have growing pains with HD. Hopefully, with NX or whatever it'll eventually be, they'll be more prepared.

Miyamotoo said:

Cloudman said:

Well, considering the quality and doing open world, I think it's understandable if they need more time. I'm not sure if Ninten themselves have tackled anything like that before since the 1st Zelda, and to do this well, it may be a lot of work for them to make it as good as possible. So at this point in time, I'm willing to wait one more year for them to finish up on it.

And also, they did show that short bit of it at the last direct, which I thought was pretty good.

Not only first true open world, but also first HD Zelda game, and Nintendo already said they had huge problems in HD development at beginning. Also Zelda team done or was involved in so many other Zelda projects this gen, so IMO 5 years developing time for Zelda U is understandable.

No prob. I feel the same way on why Zelda U is taking longer to make. It's probably ambitious in Zelda's case due to those 2 things. I wonder if HD really is a big deal and hard to work. I wouldn't know, since I know nothing about game development. But at this point in time, I can keep waiting. I just want the best Zelda game ever!!

 

Miyamotoo said:

Cloudman said:

Yeah, I did list before those 2 things as the potential reasons why this Zelda is taking so long. Though if true, that does seem a bit of a downer. Usually Ninten is the one leading by example, and now they are kinda falling behind...

I wonder myself how big Zelda is going to be... I can't imagine it being huge like GTA or FFXV...

From what we saw Zelda U is huge, but definitely will not be big like Xenoblade X (world of Xenoblade X is bigger than Skyrim, Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3's maps combined), also I am pretty sure Nintendo will use this whole year of delay to more populate that huge Zelda U world with content, because one of complains after that TGA video was that world looks little barren.

Yeah, I hope the world is filled to the brim with secrets to find haha. I def want to be able to run around and find all sorts of cool secrets or just small houses in the forest or something. Would def be cool xD