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Nintendo Dismisses October Zelda Launch

Posted by Zonk on from the we-can-dream,-can't-we? dept.

Nintendo is dismissing rumours of an October launch for the newest Legend of Zelda title as nothing more than hearsay. From the GamesIndustry.biz story: "We haven't announced any potential release dates for the new Legend of Zelda title. Everything published to date is entirely speculation and we hope to announce more about the game at E3 in May."

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  1. SND? by grub · · Score: 3, Interesting


    When a company's denials of a rumour make it to /. I know it's a slow news day.

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  2. Why wait? Buy now! by aztektum · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Why not just stop by your local EB Games? They apparently already have it in store

    Is pre-ordering a game really that necessary anymore? There was >1 million pre-orders for Halo 2 and I still saw plenty on the shelves when it shipped. I can even find copies of WoW in my area and have been able to since it was released as well.

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  3. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by TheGuano · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you even played it? It is anything but a POS. Honestly, I'm kind of disapointed they went with the new look. The cel-shaded look was unique, it added style to the game and it looked damn good. Ditto, WW was the first console game I picked up after YEARS of hardcore PC gaming, and it was such a breath of fresh air. The evel of detail, production values, gameplay...just wow. The new Zelda does look very good, and I think the "standard anime" style works in that it places the game in a darker, more serious place. But I also wish we could see more of the WW-style cell-shading. Guess there's always Revolution to look forward to.

  4. Re:More delays? 4 years running for this title... by miyako · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really liked the look of WW, but IMO it was barely passable as a Zelda game.
    My biggest problem was the last half of the game, sailing around that damned ocean forever searching for triforce fragments and trying to get rupees to buy tingle maps. The warps helped a little, but it seemed to me that the game really failed where OOT shined, in making the world feel vast, but still dense.
    The quality of the zelda games seems to be going down lately, OOT was really great, but Majora's Mask seemed a little rushed to me, it lacked the refinement of OOT. Four Swords seemed like an attempt to sell a crappy game just on the zelda branding (though to be honest, I never explored the game that much in depth).

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