Same world, slightly later in time and with changes due to world events etc will make it all the more of a believable world in which you can lose yourself etc. It will now have some history that you were actually part of. 

I’d be happy with completely different, but I have no issues with sequel in same base map. In Nintendo I trust.

There has to be a time travel theme going from the music, right? It'd be cool to see Hyrule Castle in its pomp.

Paul the sparky wrote:

There has to be a time travel theme going from the music, right? It'd be cool to see Hyrule Castle in its pomp.

possibly, I felt it kinda fitted in with what they did with the music in the last game. Anything evil gets a lot of synthesised/manipulated stuff in it to separate it from the nature feeling of the natural piano.

equinox_code wrote:

I didn’t realize people actually liked the piss dungeons in anything

It took over 300 devs 4 years of full time work to make Breath of the Wild. 

So from what we know this is them taking the map and altering it, for a game that started work in 2017, likely with a smaller number of devs due to Nintendo's comparatively packed lineup. 

Consumer preference or not, it's still not a great stance. These are human objects.

Like, altering a map isn't just jumping into an editor for a few lazy afternoons of work, the amount of effort they put into designing Hyrule was insane if you read up on some of the candid dev talks they put out.

Anyway I am done tearing my hair out over this. I do understand the reticence in revisiting Hyrule, but I trust Nintendo to make it worth it. 

It's still a case of damned if they do, damned if they don't. Games end up with huge swathes of cut content (just think of Wind Waker and MGSV to name two famous games with huge chunks cut that were still brilliant) so when they do something to ease the load on the devs, it's them taking an easier path? And why not? They created a masterpiece.

I just hope it has the motorcycle as I didn't buy the DLC and I want to try it.

Classic moot and his "fuck the working man" bs. It's shameless.

I can't truly enjoy a videogame unless I know it's made of the ground-up bonemeal of human souls.

Paul the sparky wrote:

There has to be a time travel theme going from the music, right? It'd be cool to see Hyrule Castle in its pomp.

I’m interpreting that more as an unsettling inversion of the familiar. Where in BotW we saw Ganon’s dark power creeping through the environment like ivy or tentacles, it is now back in force, an alternate location woven through the fabric of the Hyrule we can recognise. Imagine if it was even a Soul Reaver approach...

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Breath of the Wild was built from scratch, it's not inconceivable that a sequel could be too in terms of possible/not possible captain - theoretically speaking.

I realise I’m not at all knowledgeable about the franchise and how previous sequels have worked. My understanding, though, is that each instance of Zelda is a bit of history repeating. The story not always the same, but the constituent parts playing out their roles in thematically, aesthetically different settings. That being the case, does it not make sense that this, a direct sequel to a telling very much enshrined in its location, is set in some altered version of that same setting?

Majora's is a direct sequel, no?

Google says Majora's is indeed a direct sequel, it's the same young Link.

That's precisely it, yeah. Like going back to the USG Ishimura in Dead Space 2. 100% more impact because you'd already spent 10+ hours there in the previous game.

That timeline is the most glorious bollocks on the planet. I can't help but be impressed by it.

retroking1981 wrote:

Maybe they could do them but have the weapons disintegrate in sun light or breaking killing the boss. Something silly along those lines anyway. It would stop things like the hookshot breaking the outside world.

This is a good idea. Something along those lines anyway. Botw was a bit too open. If you can go almost anywhere at anytime, the game doesn’t know how far along you are. You don’t get the same level of progressing challenge if something is designed to be completed first or last or anywhere in between. It made some parts fall a bit flat for me (like the divine beasts). The traditional mix of over world and gated dungeons gets round that. So I don’t really care how it happens but I’d like something more structured.

I enjoyed BOTW despite not taking to other Zelda games I tried, if that's worth anything.