Hacker News Reader

Comment by tyleo | Hacker News Reader

I wonder whether future Zelda games will be more like this title, or more like its predecessors. I have had great experiences with both, and Ocarina of Time now contends with Breath of the Wild as my favorite game. Even I don't know what I would prefer.

View on HN

If Nintendo follows their pattern you won't see another major Zelda title for 5-6 years at least, maybe even more. There will be smaller Zelda-themed titles that have other gameplay mechanics but with a Zelda theme, like what they did with Four Swords, etc.

But we'll maybe see a similar engine with something else from their franchise. I'm really hoping they do Metroid with this engine!

I wonder whether now that they have a functioning engine and tools for large open worlds it might take less effort to create another open world like this — and then allow them to spend that time on also having the more traditional big dungeons in there. That'd be neat at least.

I think getting some longer more traditional dungeons as DLC would be amazing.

There are two DLC packs coming later in the year. Hopefully they do just that.

I'd like to see them succeed with episodic game play.

I'm not sure if anyone really ever did that. I know that Valve wanted to do it with Half Life 2 and then just stopped after two episodes.

It sounds like Witcher 3 had two great extensions, but that's it pretty much.

It sounds like one of my favorite childhood games had that in mind, but then others figured out how to create content, and they let the community create new content instead.

Is anyone actually doing episodic game content successfully? I guess MMORPGs like WoW do, but is anyone successfully doing episodic content for games outside that genre?

Maybe we'll see another game with the same engine and systems but some different characters and a new game mechanic at its core. Like how Ocarina of Time's engine got reused in Majora's Mask, along with most of its resources.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com