How hard will the next Hyrule Warriors game flop? It feels like no one wished for it, and after the reveal no one still wants it.

the 7 furries who want to see the dead goats again care
(me)

>>715358725
(also me)

Hyrule Warriors Complete is one of the best musou games of all time because it has a trillion characters, maps, and challenges. It has all the Zelda games (not even all the characters, so there's room for more). It has all the Zelda artstyles.
These new Hyrule Warrior games are stuck in the ugly Breath of the Wild style only, have no characters, and few levels.
Maybe not relevant on Switch 2, but Age of Calamity literally runs at an N64 framerate on Switch so even the gameplay is terrible.

>>715358059 (OP)
I believe this game will be financially successful.

>>715358059 (OP)
>Hyrule Warriors is a love letter to the entire series with so much content you could play for hundreds of hours and still not finish it all
>Age of Calamity pigeon holes itself into being set in the past and even with time travel in the premise it has a piss poor roster of characters and way less content and mission variety than its predecessor
>for some fucking reason the new game is set EVEN FURTHER in the past with EVEN LESS characters that anyone gives a shit about

What the fuck are they thinking? Who the fuck are you going to play as? Are all the precious characters going to both inexplicably make time jumps to justify having them be playable or is it going to be Zelda, Raura and some generic champions? WOW! Masked Goron! Who gives a shit?

>>715359478
>It has all the Zelda games
Not the ones made by Capcom.

>>715360515
Don’t forget it ran at 15/20 FPS and dynamic 720p.

>>715359478
I'm playing Hyrule warriors legends on my 3ds and it is funny how good it is compared to the two fire emblem ones and the other zelda one.

>>715360234
I believe this post is AI generated.

>>715358059 (OP)
It should have been a standard Zelda Hyrule Warriors that has characters across the entire franchise like the first game.

It won’t flop because retards will buy it on recognition alone but it won’t be any good

>>715361214
This. The insane price tag for switch 2 and only One Game, Pokemon selling millions despite the constant shit quality, and over priced ports shows that tendies will buy anything

>>715359478
Aside from origins no musou made after 2005 can ever be considered 'one of the best'

>>715358059 (OP)
I want it : )

>>715361214
how did age of calamity do? wasn't that well received.

>>715361962
It is the most sold musou of all time

>>715361962
It ran like ass. Not a problem anymore on Switch 2, though.

I lost motivation to play Age of Calamity when I learned it was some alternate timeline bullshit

>>715358059 (OP)
WE want hyrule warriors not botw warriors and I want Cia's tits in my face now!

>>715358059 (OP)
I want a Kirby or a Mario Warriors game.

The first HW was lightning in a bottle

if they are making a new one, is there any point in playing the older ones? these games look so samey

>>715365207
yes because they still won't be better than the first HW

>>715366432
i heard they fucked up the visuals for the definitive version cause it was based on a 3ds port or something

>>715366614
Yeah wii u version handled mob density better but had less content so they went with 3ds version.
Similar to how DQ11 used switch version for DQ11S even though it looked worse than other versions

>>715360993
I am not an AI. I generally believe the new Legend of Zelda Warriors game prequel to tears of the Kingdom it's going to be financially successful for both companies involved.

>>715360515
>in the past with EVEN LESS characters
* even fewer

>>715367347
Nobody cares

>>715368752
Usans care

>>715360515
>it has a piss poor roster of characters
What?
>Link (Sword and Shield, Greatsword, Spear, Nunchucks)
>Zelda (Slate, Bow, Master Cycle)
>Impa
>Mipha
>Revali
>Daruk
>Urbosa
>Sidon
>Teba
>Yunobo
>Riju
>King Rhoam
>Terrako
>Master Kohga
>Hestu
>Calamity Ganon
>Battle-Tested Guardian
>Robbie & Purah
>Sooga
Just about the only character you CAN'T play as is Astor.

>>715369925
Oh, and the Great Fairies are playable too, forgot them.

>>715358059 (OP)
I was one of the few that loved AOC, but I just wanted Link and Zelda to go back in time in a tears follow up, following AOC ending. They really think they can sell retarded ass Zelda from TOTK and a bunch of characters nobody cares about. What a fucking joke

>>715358725
He will return as well!

>>715369925
Really weird that Sooga was DLC and they never even put in Astor

>>715359478
>Age of Calamity
runs well on switch 2

>>715372368
Based. I really like Terrako's flashback mission.
>Terrako arrives before the war has even begun
>In Hyrule fields the Hylian soldiers are trying to contain a monster outbreak
>Navigate your way through it to reach the Colosseum
>There the corrupted past Terrako consumes the life of some monsters and transforms into fucking Mutated Ganon, the strongest form of Calamity Ganon
>Terrako and Mutated Ganon butcher each other so hard they both lose all their power, beginning the game properly with Link finding Terrako
>Calamity Ganon only reclaims his power to transform into Mutated Ganon again near the end of the game
Little eggbot's a badass.

>>715361962
the actual game is great but it ran like ass. apparently switch 2 runs at stable 30fps. let's see if those fags at koei can actually update the framerate to 60

>they made another shitty ass botw musou instead of xenoblade or something

>>715361565
Origins is trash that flopped

>>715358059 (OP)
Age of Calamity and Totk really killed my interest in the botw. I'm not expecting an overly mature story from a Zelda game, but it really seems like they've gone out of their way to kiddiefy everything. I remember how expected everyone was to see Link sacrifice himself against the guardian horde to save Zelda in age of calamity, only for them to pull the alternate timeline bullshit for everyone to live happily ever after. I don't know why they even bothered pulling the fake out death for Zelda in the next game, it was obvious that wasn't going to happen for real

Three Hopes was kino, Hyrule Warriors was kino
What went wrong with Age of Calamity?

You know I finished AoC but never bothered to go back and get the DLC. Was it any good?

>>715373950
Yes. Sooga is fun, Robbie & Putah are broken, the BTG is broken as fuck, Cycle Zelda is as broken as Slate Zelda, and the additional missions are good.

>>715373778
they forgot to add the content

>>715360515
>AoC
>piss poor roster
AoC roster is more mechanically diverse than HWDE but they really stretched BotW's meager content fucking thin reaching as far down the barrel as letting you play as the fucking sheikah monk. I honestly have no idea what they were thinking with Imprisonment other than uhhh we have the assets might as well milk them because TotK left the sages nameless and faceless. I believe in Omega Force's capacity to prop up even the most ill-conceived crossover but holy fuck they have their work cut out for them.

I would get it in a heart beat if they just ported over the Hyrule Warriors characters and brought back the adventure maps

>>715359478
>one of the best musou games of all time
Not a high bar

>>715373604
I couldn't help but notice how "Pokemon"-ified TotK's tone was compared to the first game. The Zora crying about getting stuck in icky poopoo slime with zero stakes, etc.

I want it to flop just enough so they move on immediately from it but not for it flop so badly that Nitnendo thinks nobody wants any more warriors from their IPs.

>>715358059 (OP)
It will break sales records and Ocarinafags will continue to seethe until the heat death of the universe.

>Age of Calamity features all of the prominent story beats mentioned through Zelda's Memories and Zelda's diary in BOTW
>the story diverges at the point where Link falls and the story would conclude if completely faithful, opting to include new content
What was the problem again? I get the complaints about the lack of troop management, but there was only so much you could do with BOTW's story.

>>715379995
I didn’t mind the story. I hated the deviation from the last one where area control was basically gone and nearly every objective boiled down to “fight this Lizalfos”

>>715359478
Age of Calamity had more characters than Hyrule Warriors 1's launch. And more varied gameplay between them, especialy with how they used items (Sheikah Runes).

>>715358725
If you play TotK Switch 2 Edition with the Zelda Notes you get to hear extra goat commentary.
Or just look them up on YouTube it's just voice clips lol

>>715372368
No he won't because Sheikah tech is absolete now, it's all about Zonai tech

>>715380563
we'll get to play as one of those little robots then
unfortunately

>>715380164
And using Runes/Wands is much more manageable then how they handled switching dungeon items in the original game.

>>715380127
See, that criticism I understand. At the very least, the quality of the combat was commensurate with the influx of combat-focused objectives. The devs definitely put a majority of their focus there.

>>715380386
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Seems to be just Rauru? That's a bit disappointing.

>>715358059 (OP)
I am pretty excited for it. Age of Calamity is easily my favourite musou game by a pretty wide margin.
But for Age of Imprisonment I really couldn't give less of a fuck about the past sages. They were nothing-characters and I'm unsure of to what degree Koei could change that even if they tried to. But being able to play as Mineru I'm very much looking forward to, and I kind of hope we get to play as some kind of hybrid-dragon Zelda at some point. And I'm sure that most of the AoC characters will return for AoI anyway.
I do hope AoI makes strongholds and allied NPCs more relevant than in AoC though. But I'm fairly hopeful for AoI in general. I am thinking it's likely to be an improvement, and if it is then I'll probably love the game.

>>715381367
Rauru in the skies, Zelda on the ground and Kohga in the depths.

I will buy this IF it has the same combo/action depth as AoC but also battlefield management like a musou,, if it's just another hack and slash like AoC then I'm out.

I'll probably still get it anyways to have something new to play tbqhfamalam

>AoI won't have based Teba
Flew too close to the sun

>>715381959
Oh. That makes sense.

>>715381959
>the new eventide memory with zelda

>>715358059 (OP)
Wasn’t really excited for it since I didn’t think that that BOTW’s world needed more games after TOTK, but now I warmed up to it and am bit more excited.
The biggest problem I had with AoC was that it was a what if story instead of an actual prequel, which this new game won’t be according to early interviews so this mean that the story won’t be a complete throwaway this time.

>>715358059 (OP)
I'm expecting a moderate success, despite how hard they fucked up with ToTK and the lore of the previous Warriors game. The BoTW-stanning fangirls will probably buy it for playable Zelda.
(But everyone's really waiting for the OoT remake though, let's be real here.)

>>715386681
Unfortunately it's TotK story which resets itself into a sweet fuckall at the end

>>715386681
>The biggest problem I had with AoC was that it was a what if story instead of an actual prequel
It's not just a what-if though. It's a parallel story.

>>715369925
Who cares about half that list? I know you can say that about every single autistic character mash-up game but at least the randos in those games probably gave someone nostalgia or a boner when they appeared. Nobody is feeling nostalgic or horny for Hetsu and Rhoam.

>>715374216
>I honestly have no idea what they were thinking with Imprisonment
I'm pretty sure they were thinking something along the lines of
>holy shit, age of calamity is our best selling musou ever
>let's make a sequel!
That's my guess at least.