Rumor: Ocarina of Time 3D to see limited initial release

@Snooki

It's totally the system seller. If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say "I'm holding out on a 3DS until Ocarina of Time is released," then I'd have enough money to actually buy a 3DS myself.

Which I'm holding out for.

Until Ocarina of Time is released.



It's a sad day when a scary, orange Italian monster-muppet from New Jersey can state the obvious, but Nintendo themselves seem to be clueless.

@Urethra Alfredo Nintendo is only clueless if this stupid rumour is true, which it isn't.

@(Unverified) Zelda, as far as i'm aware has never really been sucessful with mainstream audiences. Everyone knows who Mario is but not nearly as many know Link.

@NathanDTS
People who don't know who Link is does not mean people don't know what the Legend of Zelda is. I know people who've been playing since before OoT and don't know who the hell Link is. They think his name is Zelda or that he doesn't have a name.

@NathanDTS That's because they all think his name is Zelda.

Tis true, back when I was less knowledgable of Nintendo games I thought his name was Zelda... lol
It was only when I played Smash Bros that I knew his name.

@Snooki

Not to give joystiq crap for this, but this is PURELY FOR JAPAN. Zelda has never been as strong of a series there as it is in the west. Nintendo is doing this in japan after what happened with spirit tracks, where only 2 months-ish after release, you could find spirit tracks for the equivalent of roughly $5.

Except a standard launch for the game in the west. Joystiq just didn't read very closely :P

@NathanDTS

Please tell me I didn't read that. Like, thats a typo right? You couldn't possibly say that LoZ is not a household franchise.

@CaramelZappa
Also one should note that Spirit Tracks was a very weak game (as was Phantom Hourglass).
OoT on the other hand is a game that people already love. With the extra content Nintendo puts into the 3DS version they really can't mess this up except they make the controls really awful which I don't expect.

@CaramelZappa

You want a worse idea? make the game a pack-in with the system so all those poor slobs that already bought the system would explode..in 3D

@Trilancer

I was actually hoping for a bundle to happen, lol.

@Trilancer
lol I'm waiting on an orcarina bundle....you know it'll happen.

@Comet 20

Aye... was gunna let my mum casually buy this as its out 3 days before my B'day..... think i'll be ordering it and letting her ...get me something else xD...

*Goes to replay the title screen music again*

@Comet 20 yeah i agree before sellers on eBay charge over a hundred bucks for one.

@Special Agent Bob. There will be blood on the streets if there aren't enough copies for the fanboys. Those angry zelda fyou are a roudy bunch, i tell you.

@thund3rstruck best game ever made according to the general populi

@DarkSan00

And critical consensus.

@thund3rstruck I liked Windwaker better than OoT.

@DarkSan00

The general populi also deems Avatar to be the best film ever made. Popularity only proves popularity, not inherent quality (assuming you're an objectivist in the first place).

@(Unverified) : "Yes, because YOUR opinion is the only one that matters. Seriously, people need to stop posting dumb sh*t like this."

So my opinion is dumb sh*t and yours is superior. Get bent idiot. I'm entitled to my opinion, which is obviously contradictory to yours.

"Unless you're completely clueless, it is a well known fact in the gaming industry that OoT is one of the best titles of all time. "

A fact is established by the wealth of empirical data that supports an assessment. What empirical data can YOU provide to make such a claim? A games rating is a reviewer's opinion therefor any statement regarding a game's quality is based on opinion.

I understand that OoT was the darling of the industry back in 1998 because I was in college and I played it on the N64. It was vastly over-rated back then and it's even more over-rated today.

@Aerothorn lol - that's sad. Avatar? Best 3D movie for now, yes. Best movie? Yeah, if about a few hundred+ other movies didn't exist.

@thund3rstruck

Whoa, calm down, buddy. Clearly your taste is better than that of the unwashed masses. Now simmer down and go play those new Black Ops maps.

@thund3rstruck
Joysitq!..... I'm not too happy with you right now... How dare you name a none Valve title best game ever made.... You shall not see me again until you quote something about a Valve title... I guess I'll see you tomorrow

@Victoryismine52: I'm not sure why everyone is burying my comments and projecting false assumptions on me. I find it absolutely astonishing that anyone would call Zelda OoT "the best game ever" but that's just my opinion. Given the tone of the comments towards my original post I'm finding it difficult to believe that any of you are actually old enough to have played OoT when it was released.

According to the masses, Avatar is "the best science fiction film ever" when in reality, it's just a (very poorly contrived) ripoff of Dances With Wolves [in space]. OoT is a great game in it's own right but it's certainly not worthy of a title as distinguished as 'Best Game Ever'

@thund3rstruck
It's because, instead of saying something like "Eh, I didn't like it as much as some other games," you're going off the deep end and making an ass of yourself. Kind of like the guy you responded to who also got buried.

@thund3rstruck There are no 'masses' who think Avatar is the best movie of all time, or even the best 'science fiction movie' as you claim. However there are lists upon lists of best videogames of all time, OoT is ALWAYS in the top 5 and very often it's #1. I would say that if you took a consensus of all those lists and averaged them out, then yes, you'd get Ocarana as the top game of all time. You are remembering incorrectly if you remember otherwise.

@Hoops : Look, I'm not going to argue this point anymore. If you read my earlier posts then you are already aware that I concede the fact that OoT was a critical darling; there is no debating that. Unfortunately, I have a mind of my own and attributes that make me unique and one of those characteristics is being only marginally impressed by OoT when it was released. I have played it several times since then and I remain as marginally impressed with it now as I was with it then.

It's a good game; when judged by 1998 standards but no I do not PERSONALLY feel that it even remotely deserves any 'best game ever' descriptor.

This is not true of all older games; for example I feel that Super Metroid for Super Nintendo is vastly superior to OoT as is Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII.

Its just my opinion.

@thund3rstruck It's the best period, no one cares you dislike games cause they're too "popular" and you have to be a hipster.

It changed gaming as we knew it, was revolutionary and was simply just amazing.

@Aerothorn I have never heard anyone call Avatar the best movie ever made.

Even my frat buddies didn't go so far as to say that. General Consensus I thought was Citizen Kane, which I think is a pretty damn good comparison.

The work itself shot the medium forward, but if it hadn't been the first to perfect so many things it would be forgotten. These days because everyone copied all the best parts.

@DarkSan00 theres more than one populace???

@thund3rstruck
Majora's Mask is the best game ever.
Case closed.

@thund3rstruck Dude, it's better to just not comment on gaming sites. Not that you should hide your opinion, but gamers always, nearly always, take a differing opinion the wrong way and blow a simple statement out of proportion.

I also concur with your sentiments- Ocarina of time was good but it isn't my "best game of all time". Somebody say up there that it's usually always on someone's top five "greatest games of all time" list, but me, I only seem to notice that from gaming website and magazine articles. this doesn't mean Ocarina of time isn't frequently on this list, but OoT isn't on *everyone's list*.

Finally, I usually don't like to say anything to a rabid fanbase, but I honestly don't see the appeal in buying yet another copy of OoT. I've been playing some version or other at either my own or a friend's house for, what, a decade now? Now, I don't expect to sway anyone into not buying the game or a 3DS; i'm not arguing that. But really, don't any of you think it's a bit silly to buy the same handful of "classic" titles for every nintendo system that releases? (Before someone pipes up calling me an idiot for generalizing: I know not everyone has multiple working copies of old games. But we all know people do exist that buy the same games over and over. It's more directed at them.)

@Scuffles
New IP? You do realize your talking about Nintendo right? they're not exactly known for releasing anything decent other than Mario, Zelda, and Metroid games right? (I realize they have other IP's that they also do this with i.e. kirby and donkey kong) Your not exactly talking about a company known for creating new IP's this generation.... I think re-releases may be your best bet for a system seller right about now.

@Victoryismine52
Nintendo isn't exactly known for new IPs since the end of the 80s. The only significant additions I can recall (other than their perennial flagpole, Pokemon) are Pilotwings and Pikmin, if you can call those significant. More experimental than anything else. And Smash Bros. is a mash-up, not an original IP.

@Victoryismine52

I'm not entirely sure but I believe Pandora's Tower is a new IP from Nintendo this generation.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/04/29/pandoras-tower-chain-battling-gameplay-clip?objectid=99018

@Deuce

"And Smash Bros. is a mash-up, not an original IP."

No, Mario Sports Mix is a mash up. Smash Bros. is of the Heavens.

@Co
As mash-up casual fighting games go, it's okay.

@Scuffles

Although you're right about a remake not being a system seller, I think this kind of game is the best option when the system launched recently.

A new IP would be nice, but it's too risky to sell a new system with new IPs. It's better if they use a known brand of character.

They do new IPs all the time, people don't buy new IPs.