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[grahamf]

The re-release of Four Swords for DSi made me realize that Zelda could translate well to an online multiplayer.
So Imagine this:
Art style is very similar to Wind Waker
Gameplay borows heavily from the other two Four Swords multiplayer games
Would be a 3D Zelda, maybe with the ability to switch to top-down perspective for moments where it is required.
TV is the overworld, gamepad is the map and items
Players can split up, with a teleport system for when teamwork is required
Players can either use the default dungeons, randomly generated dungeons, or player-customized dungeons
1-4 or ideally 1-8 players
different modes are available (teamwork, free for all, team vs team)

Thoughts? I honestly believe Four Swords Online would be an awesome game.

Edited by grahamf, 01 February 2014 - 11:45 PM.

[Auzzie Wingman]

Just give everyone a crossbow and make it an FPS.

[grahamf]

Just give everyone a crossbow and make it an FPS.

What would be the fun it that? Might as well use Kid Icarus

[Hunter]

I don't want an online multiplayer zelda. It would be ok as a spin off game but with the main series I just want to be immersed in the game by myself. I see no point in tacking on an unnecessary multiplayer mode to the game. 

[iEatTacos]

It would be cool, but something inside tells me that a Zelda game SHOULD stay single Player oriented. But That's just me. The Shadow Link street pass thing was fun in A Link Between Worlds and I also enjoyed the Letter in A Bottle feature from Windwaker. I would like for them to keep it that way

[AdmiralClassy]

Nope, main zelda games should stay single player, I wouldn't mind your idea a bit more simplified and as an eshop only game but not as a main zelda title.

[Pjsprojects]

Zelda hack n slash maybe. Sort of Ryse but with a gameplay aspect?

[grahamf]

Yeah a $60 game with a 30-50 hour campaign might be too much, but a 5-10 hour $10 eShop title might be very popular. it would have to be based off of ALBW or Zelda U in order to not cost too much to make.

Edited by grahamf, 02 February 2014 - 07:48 AM.

[Mahmoodinho98]

MMO Zelda !!!! !

[TheUltimateWaddleDee]

I say make something like this an extra mode. Zelda has done online multiplayer before with the DS games, zo they could make this alongside the main campaign.

[Kyle1503]

A Zelda MMO for Wii U! Like ESO!

[Chaos]

sounds interesting... probably wouldn't go over too well imo

[Raiden]

Well I think this would work just fine. Four Swords. Or heck even an expanded version of the Nintendo land game. On rails or Four Swords would work just fine. It would have to be an Eshop game and not a retail game unless they packed it on the disc of a major Zelda game as an unlock able.

[3Dude]

I think you are making the same gross mistake nintendo is making. That its the theme/characters that made zelda popular. And whoring out the themes/characters will garuntee sales.

Zelda became what it is today because it was a fantastic single player adventure game of impeccable hand crafted design. When people see Zelda, that is what they want.

You may trick people into buying by putting the zelda name and aesthetics on things that are not zelda, but all you are doing is weakening the steel you forged with that name.

Zelda is already an incredibly fractured franchise. You have people who say only top down 2d style games are zelda, you have people who say only oot style are real zelda's, you have people say only dungeon centric Zelda's are real zelda's, you have people who feel large overworlds with multiple towns to explore (Im in this camp) are what makes Zelda, Zelda. Zelda has already encompassed so much over the years its impractical for any single game to contain it all. Its gotten to the point that any given Zelda game will likely only sell to a fraction of the people who consider themselves 'Zelda fans', heralding it as the 'greatest Zelda ever' while it will be snubbed by the ones not catered to by the specific title, who will claim its the 'worse Zelda ever'.

Proposing to further divide the user base yet again would not help the situation.

A multiplayer adventure game of Nintendo quality sounds like a fantastic idea. Heck yeah, have four freinds get together, go online, explore a masssive world, full of strange wondrous scenery, giant dinosauric enemies, hop in a giant robot, and fly away to the beckon of wild adventure. It doesnt need to be hid under Zelda's skirt, nor would it be helped by it, it would probably just be distracted (HA HA!!!). It could, and should, be its own IP, with the marketing push required to cut through the noise and get it noticed. Instead of being a forgotten little zelda side project some loved and the rest hated, it could become its OWN Zelda. Nintendos next stable franchise.

[SirSlifer]

Zelda as an MMO wouldn't go over very well with many of the fans of the series unless it was a 3DS or handheld title otherwise. If Zelda did become an MMO it'd probably turn into something like Fable.

[xile6]

i cant see this working unless its a fps or time type thing.

4 people go in and first out wins type thing.

Zelda to me has always been a single player game. Just makes more sense that way.

i did the four swords thing and its a lil weird. your relaying on that person to finish the game and i becomes less like zelda and more like streets of rage or MMO games and it just doesnt seem to fit the mold lol.

[tboss]

better off with a new IP for a MMO.