COG gets their hands on the final retail version of Wind Waker HD, the long anticipated remake of the GameCube classic, and they just can’t say enough about how good this game is.
"Back in the early days of the GameCube I didn’t have access to the Internet and often found myself purchasing games blindly off the shelf taking a gamble without any knowledge of what I was about to play. With Ocarina of Time being one of my all time favourite games I considered buying The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker as a no brainer despite not knowing anything about it. Given my past experience with the Zelda franchise I eagerly looked forward to exploring Hyrule once again. Well, you can imagine my surprise when I first started playing Wind Waker and I found that my beloved Link was an odd looking, cel-shaded cartoon character. Overcome with grief and disappointment I was quite close to trading it in; however, after I playing for a few hours I soon realized just how fantastic this game was and I came to appreciate just how beautiful it was."
20 years later, The Wind Waker’s Ganondorf is still The Legend of Zelda’s best villain.
Nintendo is a weird company. It has the most illustrious legacy of any single company in the medium and seldom chooses to take advantage of that fact. Countless classics are confined to their original platforms or only available through outdated retail models or a cheeky bit of emulation.
This holiday would've been great and it would've calmed my hunger for tears of the kingdom. It supposedly exists but why has it taken this long I wonder. Here's hoping it still releases before totk, maybe a trailer at the game awards and a shadow drop.
I wouldn't hope too hard. The Metroid Prime Trilogy or even just Prime 1 remaster supposedly exists and has been complete for several years now. Either Nintendo are evil bastards, or everyone claiming it's existence is full of shit. Frankly, I believe both scenarios to be true.
Wii U was such a great to play every 3D Zelda game and various 2D ones as well
It'd be nice if Switch caught up to that wealth of legacy content
Booted up WW HD through emulation on Deck. Forgot how much I like that game, it's so charming with how expressive Link is. Ninty has taken too long.
Nintendo wants the focus on tears of the kingdom. Though with these year Zelda old rumors I question if the collection ever existed for the Switch. Much like the Prime Trilogy that evolved into a remake or remaster of just Prime 1 in recent months.
Nintendo will be shutting down the eShop for the 3DS and Wii U completely in 2023. Makes sure to check out these games before they do.
If they're not important enough to be held on their own official storefront then they're not important enough to give your money to Nintendo.
Buy these, physically, used or simply emulate them.
This article comes off as nothing more than advertising games that Nintendo, themselves, don't care to offer you... buy now!
Wait hang on where all the outrage? I swear when Sony tried to do this with PS3 last year. There was outrage from all corners of the gaming universe.
Why does no one care Nintendo is doing it?
There has been.
A lot of it.
Simply type in "3DS" in Google and tell me what you see.
Oh I have a fair few websites reporting on it. But where is the outcry on here? I remember their was 2-3 approved top voted articles when Sony announced they where closing the PS3 store. All slating them and not caring about customers.
I should of worded it better. Where is all the outrage on n4g?
N4G is a fanboy site, mainly frequented by only Sony.
Microsoft is their direct competition, so you'll typically only see articles that are made to rile up those fanbases.
Nintendo does it's own thing, so they're rarely brought up, aside from their fans. The most you get is the same typical two or three posters claiming Nintendo is only for infants.
If you come to N4G for educated discourse and reasonable discussion, this isn't the place. Sad as it is.
It's lame that it is shutting down. Now I feel rushed buying all the rpgs I missed out on the system.
You guys know that even archive.org has 3DS roms, and all other console roms. I'm downloading 846GB of 3DS roms and will add the best games to my soon to be soft modded New 3DS 😁. Might as well throw in DS and other emulators in there to. Guys this would be the best way to play and enjoy the 3DS. Just need to buy a bigger micro SD card and format it to FAT32, which you can if it's even 256GB or larger there are ways.
This should help if you want to soft mod it excellent guide and up to the latest and probably last 3DS firmware update: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
$50 for an old game with new paint? Nope.
Also factor in an overpriced wii u. Hell no!
Can't wait to play this game :) WiiU is amazing, if you wanna go with PC or PC boxes (that's what I call the xb1/ps4^^) that's fine, I have a PC as well, but with WiiU at least you get something special.
"This is how you remake a game" lol. By retexturing the same geomitry, updating shading and by adding an overkill of hazy bloom? I don't think so. This is stupidity
"Wind Waker still holds up after so many years", now that would be more like it.
The day they announce a game I don't already own and one that appeals to me (Wind Waker 2/Twilight Princess spiritual sucessor, thank you!) I'll consider buying a Wii U.
Right now there's nothing I wanna play other than Pikmin and I own Wind Waker (I think the original is perfect) but I'm not buying a system for a game that's max 10 hours long.
i believe one of Pikmin's selling points is replay value.