The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will be reborn on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.
I avoided the Switch 2 and opted for an Ally to play PC games. It’s tempting to pick one up for this but I just find Nintendos pricing and policies to be really gross and anti-consumer at this point. I’ll probably just play the classic version again.
Love OOT, sitting this one out kinda sucks. But Nintendo is not getting my money.
I wonder how different it will be mechanically from the original. I think it holds up pretty well once you get used to the controls
A month ago, I would have been right there with you. But the Steam Deck RAMpocalypse pricing made me realize that there won’t be any new sub-$1000 consoles for a long time. I figured I might as well get a Switch 2 while the price is the lowest it will be in its lifetime so I can play the exclusives that come out on it, because I certainly won’t be getting a PS6 or new PC any time soon! The last time I gave Nintendo money was for TotK in May 2023 until I got the Switch 2 last week.
Just beat the recompiled version recently and damn is it impressive! This remake looks very odd, style wise. I’ll have to wait but I think I’m fine sitting this one out for now.
There will be emulation at some point.
!remindme
A fucking decade
Probably not for many, many years. Certainly nowhere near as fast as with Switch 1. But it is inevitable that it will be playable without a Switch 2 at SOME point in the future.
My only play-through of OOT has been the 3DS remake so really looking forward to picking this up again.
I play through this game at least once a year. Second favorite game of all time, just behind Majora’s Mask. Really looking forward to playing this one.
The club of people who like MM over OoT is super small. Glad to see another member in the wild!
I was a little bummed about a remake instead of a new game announcement, but I just remembered I’ve never played any of the N64 lineup. Put me in the “looking forward to it” group!
You’ve never played any N64 game? Not even on NSO?
I was a Final Fantasy teen when the N64 came out. I missed the whole generation and came back for GameCube.
I did have the GameCube special edition of Ocarina and Majora’s, but they felt like such a step back from Wind Waker and I was so busy with college that I just shelved it and never looked back.
“Such a step back from Wind Waker”
They’re a bit less hand-holdy, you mean. Man, I wish I had that disc. I’d play through them again.
My honest reaction (didn’t saw the direct, just the videos published later). Edit: some format things.
The game is coming out this year, so why didn’t they show even the smallest snippet of gameplay? So weird.
There might be a Nintendo Direct specific to this game soon. Remember they did a Star Fox Direct out of nowhere to present that game.
They looooove doing individual directs for their big games these days, I’m certain that’s what they’ll do for it.
I think the little bit they did show looked… off? I think I would have preferred a Twilight Princess remake.
Plus with next year’s Zelda movie they’ll do a gameplay/movie trailer wombo combo in like September
Is the switch 2 just the n64dd we never got? When is yoshi story and 1080⁰ dropping does Nintendo even make new games anymore or are they just gonna coast on our nostalgia forever
Wait until you learn about the first year of Switch with it’s many WiiU ports. Barely anyone noticed because barely anyone had a WiiU but Nintendo notoriously reheats cold stuff and then drizzles some extra cheese on it.
The scond one. Its why the are so litigious. No one can pirate what they dont create and they know they are not creating
By new games do you mean new IP?
Not neccesarily new ip I’d be fine with new plots in older franchises but they aren’t even trying
There are lots of new games in that case, even if the characters are same, the gameplay and / or story isn’t always the same. For instance, take the current Yoshi, Pokopia, Donkey Kong Bananza, Tears of the Kingdom, Fire Emblem, Metroid Prime 4, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, not to mention upcoming Splatoon Raiders, Xenoblade Genesis. They have also been releasing new entries in non-story games like Mario Party, Rhythm Heaven, Switch Sports etc.
Of course, nothing wrong with it if these games don’t suit your taste, but saying that Nintendo isn’t making anything new is far from the truth though.
We got the Yoshi game like last week actually. So basically, yes.
I wish they had shown just a little more! I’m mostly curious if they’re going to tone down the Shadow Temple because with this fidelity it’s going to affect the age rating for sure.
Can’t wait to see this guy in HD!
Huh, looks like they already toned it down for the 3DS, it’s been too long since I played that version (and only once). He looks like the took a shower before the fight compared to the original.
I noticed that, too. The remake will almost certainly have the blood cleaned up as well, but hopefully he’s nightmare-inducing regardless.
Why would it affect the rating? Skulls and ghosts and a few blades aren’t exactly M for mature material.
Blood and very direct allusions to torture. The Shadow Temple was strangely unaffected by all other changes to blood color in the game, but it won’t be hidden in muddy textures this time.
Was any blood changed other than Ganondorf’s at the end of the game?
Some enemies have blood effects and attacking the walls of Jabu Jabu’s insides does the same. Those aren’t ‘changes’ in the Ganondorf sense as there is no version where those are red, but they made the conscious decision to have blood effects in a softened form, which I consider a change.
Wonder how it’ll stack up to the recomp project
I believe this is a full-on remake, so it will probably be pretty different.
I just want a new game in a core franchise.
Like Mario Kart, or Metroid, or Donkey Kong, or Splatoon, or Fire Emblem, or Xenogears, or a Pokemon game BETTER than the core franchise?
I think “core franchise” here means “3D Mario or Zelda.”
Yep, I’m STILL waiting on new Star Fox and Fzero too after all these years. My intention wasn’t to put down the ones mentioned above, but not even getting a whisper of new Zelda/Mario before getting OOoT and Star Fox remakes is a bummer.
As a Metroid fan, having no new game is sometimes preferable. 😔 But I agree, F-Zero in particular has been neglected for far too long, even longer than Star Fox!
We won’t get a new F-ZERO until Mario Kart stagnates. Miyamoto once said something to the effect of Nintendo not wanting to have two racing games compete with each other.
I haven’t played since autumn but the new mario kart wasn’t great. I was so disappointed :(
I hope Star Fox is something similar to what Metroid Prime Remastered was for Retro Studios. They used it as a project to get a new team to learn how to make a Metroid Prime. This could be a project to learn how to make Star Fox on Switch 2. So it’ll hopefully be a new beginning with more titles in the future following the same style.
I don’t think we’ll hear about new 3D Mario this year if we didn’t hear anything around the movie. Like Zelda, it’s probably taking ages because they’ll make something proper and big. Mario needs to implement some new game mechanic, who knows what they’ll come up with.
I’ve been waiting for the next Zelda to buy a switch 2… but as someone who still has their golden n64 cartridge, I’m not sure this is it
It’s probably getting more of a revamp than Star Fox at least
It hasn’t been long since Tears of the Kingdom so it might be a while. I hope we get something within couple of years though.
Of right I forgot about that one. I haven’t played it, I was/am still kinda tired of the first one after 100%ing it
Just getting thru it myself. Actually just got my last shrines and light roots yesterday and headed to the final battle now.
It’s a joy to play on the Switch2 at 4k60 with very few frame drops.
The next Zelda will be a launch title for the Switch 3.
Both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom ended up in their list of best selling games, I doubt they will skip a whole generation.
Yeah, I was being facetious. It’s just gonna be while since TotK was only 3 years ago.
Ah, no worries.
It will likely come late in the generation as a bridge to Switch 3, as Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild were.
Heh, if we didn’t get a new Zelda game for Switch 2, I am going to blame you and @samus12345@sh.itjust.works 😄
This is definitely my worry, too.
I don’t think you should feel obliged to buy NS2.
I skipped the Switch and stuck to 3DS + Steam Deck, and now Switch 2 was a good deal since it covers two console gens.
So you could wait for NS3 in 5 years.
This is actually not a bad advice. I did this with PlayStation, and skipped PS4 (and it was such a good generation!), played what I had on PS3, then Switch and then got a PS5. I am still mostly playing PS4 gen games, so plan to wait for PS6 Pro release, 3-4 years into next generation at least, but it still in the future and plans can change based on the features, price and my affordability.
Ugh. I will never buy another Nintendo thing if I can avoid it, but I’d be lying if I said this game didn’t really test my willpower.
Buy a steam deck, emulate the n64 version. Win win.
I was actually looking into that. I might do that if there’s a bit more beefy Steam deck coming over the next year or so. Or maybe I’ll grab one of those Lenovo handhelds and throw SteamOS on it. I really wanna try some of these Switch 2 titles, though, so I think I’m gonna have to do my research and learn all the old pirate places again so I can do the ROM thing when the Switch 2 emulation gets figured out.
Switch 2 emulation is a long ways away. Its dirt simple on steam deck, just install emudeck, there’s a guide, then download your Roms and dump them in their corresponding folders. And its easy to emulate the n64 version. Deck still has my vote over the competition due to support, repair ability, and hardware overall. Even if it is a few years old at this point.
Buy it second hand! Or buy it if they really nail it and don’t make it a game key card
I’m pretty sure Nintendo hasn’t published a single key card game.
Pokopia?
Yep. I don’t follow Pokémon so I had to double check. There’s usually some weaselly stuff going on with Pokémon as it’s technically The Pokémon Company and Gamefreaks doing the heavy lifting… but Nintendo did indeed publish Pokopia outside of Japan. No weaseling out of this one.
Nintendo specifically said that Nintendo developed games wouldn’t be key cards, so even though it is weaselly, it does follow what they said.
Pokémon games while published by Nintendo are pretty much their own things. Even the polish and quality are not always up to the mark of other Nintendo games, but there is no denying that they are still part of Nintendo.
So Majora’s Mask next makes sense as well. I’d happily go through both with modern controls, the N64 emulation is neat but such a headache
Ok I’m pretty underwhelmed tbh. It’s pretty lame that Nintendos 2 biggest games this year are remakes of games I loved in elementary school.
Having said that…day 1 purchase for me.
And people wonder why they make low effort games that cost 80 dollars
