Honestly, ridiculously massive lush world can be double-edged sword.

For example in Witcher 3, Vellen is too open, too big and with too much vegetation, so, unless you play with markers for POIs, it quickly turns into combing the map affair. Skellige on the other hand is more geographically constrained, and it's really enjoyable for exploration without any helping options on.

So, instead of massive world, I'm mostly hoping for big world with landscape that is cleverly made for exploration. From little that was shown in gameplay trailer it seems that they understand the pitfalls and that they're on the right track and, if any, that they're taking their cues from some of the WRPGs that have that aspect nailed.

I don't think any games going forward will top ~97, but this could certainly be one of the all time greats... Zelda is as good a franchise to bet on as there is really.

It'll review well because it's openworld and critics are willing to overlook significant gameplay flaws if it's openworld.

A significant number of critics will complain that theres no awful skyrim esk voice acting. This alone will stop it from scoring too high.

Sigh, sigh and resigh. Disappointment is such a subjective concept, you cannot relate it to everyone. If it was the case, why in hell would Zelda be such a monumental pop culture movement? Why would it generate such heat everytime a game is unveiled? If to you, no Zelda games is on par with Ocarina of Time, you are entitled to your opinion, but express it so we understand it's your opinion, and not some fact you're trying to apply as absolute truth.

In regards to my statement, I can say that Majora's Mask is a much more compelling game. But that's just me.

Not just you, I share that sentiment as well.

Voted it's possible.


I doubt it will happen but... Why not?

No, it won't happen.

I'm just am hoping that it's a better scoring game than Skyward Sword.

Well, I didn't mean TOO ridiculous. But they did make the claim that TP's entire game world would only take up one small corner of the overall size of the game world in this new Zelda. I agree that I don't want to get lost. But then again, it strikes me that Nintendo has always been far better than most of these modern western developers at helping the player NOT get lost, even dating back to the old Zeldas. I just want a huge world to play around in and explore, that's all. It doesn't have to be "sandbox", just Zelda on massive steroids. ;)

Gut feeling and prior reputation of the series aside, they have shown absolutely nothing about the game apart from a few minutes of gameplay to come to such a conclusion.