I'll be happy with a remastered version of the 3ds remake. I'd hate for them to mess with the art style , and make it look like BOTW.
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Ocarina of Time; Visual remaster or full-fledged remake? When?
- Thread starter MasterYoshi
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Yes. Albeit upscaled, I would presume that would be the most likely scenario.
Nintendo doesn't do the kind of remake you're asking for, the most you get is a graphical overhaul and minor additional content. They done it probably dozens of times by now, whereas they've never done a re2 style ground up reimagining. Nintendo simply isn't going to spend the 3-5 year Dev cycle on a remake like you're imagining when the same team could be making a new game instead.
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The 3DS remake is already perfect, just port that to Switch and improve the textures, maybe the lighting too if possible. I wouldn't want any other changes past that.
Did he really grow, though? It was a similar situation to the movie Big.
I know, there's something very nostalgic about the spent youth and getting another chance.
i think at this point you'd need a full fledged remake/reimagining. Keep the same story beats and general makeup of the game, but expand it to the nth degree and redo all temple puzzles so it's a new experience for everyone. My biggest issue with replaying the games now is I somehow still remember most puzzles and how to solve them
That's why Majora's Mask works so well as a direct sequel. It's a story about a kid who has been forced to grow too fast, trapped in an adult's body in Ocarina of Time. He's now, in his kid's body, forced to live again and again and again the same few days...
Even more horrifying, he's trapped in a world of death. A world supposedly doomed to being destructed, and even without the moon, it's a world of stories of death, of hatred, of regrets, of mourn.
Seen from the eyes of a kid, who isn't really a kid anymore.
Link got his whole youth taken from him. While Ocarina of Time ends on a wonderful, cheerful and hopefull ending, Link ready to finally have a youth, Majora's Mask arrives and is a tragedy during the whole thing. In the end, Link just goes back to his world, and goes back to his journey, kinda like a samurai's or western's protagonist.
I mean, it could happen I guess, but I think Nintendo would need to plan it out. For example, if the next 2D Zelda is going to be a remake (like Oracles) then after BOTW2 the next 3D Zelda being a remake may be seen as a disappointment for many, unless it's a complete re imagining.
Maybe the solution is for a new 2D Zelda and 3D remake. And they could sort of alternate.
Maybe the solution is for a new 2D Zelda and 3D remake. And they could sort of alternate.
I'm kinda shoked to see so many "don't remaster/remake it" votes. Why ? Update the 3DS version for HD.
It's such a perfect version. Sure I'll go back to the N64 version when the N64 Switch Online App will launch, but damn I don't think I'm ready to go back to that old version.
It's such a perfect version. Sure I'll go back to the N64 version when the N64 Switch Online App will launch, but damn I don't think I'm ready to go back to that old version.
Like Mario 64, Wii Sports, ALttP, Mario World, Super Mario Kart....
Nintendo likes to dump old games on us, but complete remakes beyond slightly improved graphics are rare.
That's still a lot better than what a lot of the other games have. Zelda 2, 3, and Skyward Sword don't have any remakes or remasters at all. ALBW started as an LTTP remake, but evolved into a full fledged sequel. Zelda 1 only has the Satellaview remake, which is so obscure and different that it might as well not count. And that's just the mainline home console games.
I'd say around 2022-23 it will be likely -- officially a remake but really more of a reskinning of the original with a few quality of life improvements, like the "Link's Awakening". My reasoning is that BotW2 looks to be 2020-21 and in 2021-22 I'd expect DLC and smaller titles -- almost certainly quickie ports of the HD versions of WW and TP and Skyward Sword.
However, I would expect another version of the Switch Lite before the next generation, much like the 2DS XL was launched late in the 3DS lifecycle -- probably hitting late 2022 or early 2023. It will need a launch game and Zeldas usually do well for Nintendo to sell consoles. SS isn't anywhere near popular enough (if anything, I expect them to try to position it as the "fitness" Zelda by remapping the motion actions to Ring Fit style mechanics). However, being nearly OoT's 25th anniversary, OoT would be the obvious title - not as big as a whole new game but still huge name recognition. Enough time will have passed -- for those who first knew OoT through the 3DS to be adults susceptible to nostalgia -- think how much of Link's Awakening's advertising played explicitly on nostalgia.
So yes, I think that's highly likely -- and Grezzo are already very familiar with the game. Yes, it's relatively soon to do another remake but a 12 year gap is roughly the same as between Wind Waker and WW HD, let alone TP and TP HD. Also, Zelda has been hugely backward-looking as a franchise in recent years. Therefore I doubt it will stray too far from the original apart from graphics but it will still be billed as a remake rather than an upres.
Personally, I'd prefer a wholly original 2D game but I'm not sure EPD3 can give attention in-house to a full-scale 3D and a full-scale wholly original 2D game concurrently (without delaying the 3D one at any rate, and they'll want a new Zelda title for it asap). So it would be carried by Grezzo and they seem, in the main, happier to keep Grezzo doing remakes rather than original works.
However, I would expect another version of the Switch Lite before the next generation, much like the 2DS XL was launched late in the 3DS lifecycle -- probably hitting late 2022 or early 2023. It will need a launch game and Zeldas usually do well for Nintendo to sell consoles. SS isn't anywhere near popular enough (if anything, I expect them to try to position it as the "fitness" Zelda by remapping the motion actions to Ring Fit style mechanics). However, being nearly OoT's 25th anniversary, OoT would be the obvious title - not as big as a whole new game but still huge name recognition. Enough time will have passed -- for those who first knew OoT through the 3DS to be adults susceptible to nostalgia -- think how much of Link's Awakening's advertising played explicitly on nostalgia.
So yes, I think that's highly likely -- and Grezzo are already very familiar with the game. Yes, it's relatively soon to do another remake but a 12 year gap is roughly the same as between Wind Waker and WW HD, let alone TP and TP HD. Also, Zelda has been hugely backward-looking as a franchise in recent years. Therefore I doubt it will stray too far from the original apart from graphics but it will still be billed as a remake rather than an upres.
Personally, I'd prefer a wholly original 2D game but I'm not sure EPD3 can give attention in-house to a full-scale 3D and a full-scale wholly original 2D game concurrently (without delaying the 3D one at any rate, and they'll want a new Zelda title for it asap). So it would be carried by Grezzo and they seem, in the main, happier to keep Grezzo doing remakes rather than original works.
The 3D version is great. There's no need to remake OoT or MM.
You'll be able to play them on the Switch when Nintendo inevitably releases the N64 app for the Switch, like they did for NES and SNES.
You'll be able to play them on the Switch when Nintendo inevitably releases the N64 app for the Switch, like they did for NES and SNES.
It already got a remake on 3DS. In Nintendo's eyes, that may be enough, especially if they view it as an obsolete style of 3D Zelda post BOTW. I do not agree on either count, but it doesn't matter what you or I think, it matters how Nintendo sees it. They may not view OOT in the same light anymore. I don't personally think we're ever going to see an HD remake of it . I doubt we ever see a port of the 3DS version to be honest. I think the most we will ever get is the N64 version on a Classic Console or the Switch Online Service.
If you think that sounds absurd or cynical, I'll point out that that's just how this industry is with retro games. There are a ridiculous number of amazing, classic games you can't play on a modern platform at all, and probably will never be able to. This industry and these big companies are just not concerned with preservation of their classics. Nintendo used to be better about this, I feel, but they have taken a big step backwards so far on Switch.
Oracle of Ages and Seasons say hello. They need it as much as LA
Though LA being the limpest of all possible remakes by being stubbornly over-faithful makes anything by that team eh
The 3ds version is cool and all but its still so similar to the original and you can't play it on console. It was also worse in a bunch of visual ways ie the colour palette in some situations and the censorship.
As someone who finds OoT vastly overrated preferably neither.
Give me a remake of the Oracle games.
Give me a remake of the Oracle games.
Cadence of Hyrule if you wanna be pedantic. Plus the NSO ports.
Why is only one an option? 3ds Zelda wasn't first party and there are some incredible bigger budget remakes such as SoTC.
As much as I would be fine with an HD port of the 3DS games on the Switch, I'm totally willing to wait for a Hero of Time collection for whenever the next Nintendo console can do it at 4K and 60 fps, with adjustments to lighting and additional changes to the Majora's Mask remake (such as having mask switching on the d-pad, Deku jumping being fixed, etc.)
I think Zelda games have a lot more differences between them than the average series personally. Even Twilight Princess I think has more differences from Ocarina of Time than people say, though I definitely get how it feels like a reimagining of OoT in a lot of ways.
I never ever understand how people say Twiight Princess is OOT 2.0
Is it because of the artstyle? becuase outside of the first 3 dungeons being Forest-Fire-Water,They barely have anything in common story wise or gameplaywise
(Also id rather Skyward Sword get a remaster first that fixes some of the issues the original game had like OOT 3D, MM 3D ,WW HD and TP HD did)
It's the same basic story, human Ganon wants to conquer/destroy Hyrule except this time uses Zant and the power of the twilight. Many locations like Hyrule Town and Zora's domain are the same but bigger, Kakariko Village is more western-themed but is placed on death mountain yet again and like you said the dungeon order. It also brings back the poe hunting. It brings the temple of time back right next to the master sword and plays the same music as you enter it.
But it doesn't have to be exactly the same, as remakes and reimaginigs often aren't but Zelda games often feel like they are anyway so why spend a few years instead of making a new game? It's not like Final Fantasy where each time they do a new villain, or world with a completely different modern or technoligal art style.
I think all we'll ever get is the same game with a fresh coat of paint, but that already happened on 3DS. I think if it does happen again (or a fully fledged remake), it ain't happening for a while.
This though the HD version should be closer to the original in some cases.
Anybody who jogs from one end of Hyrule Field to the other and doesn't think the game is in desperate need of a full-fledged remake is crazy. It's got such a strong nostalgic place in my heart, but that game is a chore to play by 2020 standards. Combat and puzzles would need an overhaul as well. I would love to see the N64 vision fully realized on Switch.
How does ocarina 3d look on uprezzed emulators and stuff? I imagine it's probably surprisingly nice.
Give me Link to the Past with orchestral music, 360 degree movement, boss updates and the quality of life improvements from Links Awakening on switch. Animated cut scenes also welcome.
Give me Link to the Past with orchestral music, 360 degree movement, boss updates and the quality of life improvements from Links Awakening on switch. Animated cut scenes also welcome.
Just visual + some little tweaks here and there if needed. I can't see how you could modernize gameplay/level design without changing it completely.
