Could Zelda Wii U be The Legend of Zelda 3?

[Jayro]

Before all this timeline bullshit (which isn't even needed, to be honest), The games were just sequels of what came next. Link To The Past is the 3rd Zelda game, hence it IS ZELDA 3. Case closed. Link's Awakning is the next game made, making it Zelda 4, and IS a direct sequel to Link To The Past. Zelda 64 though... Why is that such a pivotal game? Overhyped and basic is more like it...

I just play Zelda titles in the order they come out in, and treat them as individual stories of the same protagonist. I don't need some "timeline" to "make sense of it all", or to "Link" the games together. Maybe it's just me, but I don't care if it's even set in Hyrule, or if Princess Zelda is in it. Link's Awakening didn't have Hyrule or Zelda, or any of that crap from the previous 3 games (Maybe some dungeeon attriburtes and weapons, but thats expected), and it did just fine all on it's own. Still the best Zelda game I've ever played, next to Twilight Princess.

 

[Sakitoshi]

i think the legend of zelda is better.if this is a reboot of the series .

Every Zelda is a reboot

No seriously.
You can play whatever game in whatever order and doesn't matter, every game is so self contained that fells like a reboot.

 

[MAXLEMPIRA]

It most like the Child Era "The Legend of Zelda" Counterpart, if you realize a couple of things... first of all, sure you've notice that Twilight Princess and A Link to The Past have too many similarities, not to mention that those "Imprisoning Wars" sounds too much like post Majora's Mask Events mentioned on Twilight Princess, also where LttP and post stories are situated in time is called "Light & Dark Era", we could think of "Twlight and Shadow" as it's counterpart on Child Era, where Ganon is killed and resurrected again like LttP and Oracle Series, then we must get a "Golden Era" and finally our "please understand" delayed game "Zelda U". After all the line from The Defeated Hero has been worked too much and the Child Era only has two games. Another important point it's the Wolf Link Amiibo, which will transfer data to the new game... this is clear that it takes place thousand years later (Like most of the games) from TP.

 

[Hells Malice]

On a less stupid note, it would be pretty neat if they "remade" (though it'd be more like a re-imagining) of Zelda 2. Zelda 1 didn't really have much of anything, but Zelda 2 had a bunch of towns, special items and moves/magic, and unique bosses. It'd be very cool to see it in glorious modern graphics.

 

[mediabob]

You don't need to understand the Zelda timeline to enjoy the games, they each stand individualy on their own, and you really couldn't play them in chronological order because after OoT the timeline splits based on if the hero succeeds or defeated.

Even direct sequels reference very little front the previous game so it's not like you would miss anything by playing them out of order. The stories are connected by lore not events.

Play the one you like, in any order you like. Like is said if you want to get all technical, the very first Zelda is the next to last game chronologically, and if the hero succeeds in OoT then the story never happened anyway.

 

[urherenow]

When is the new Zelda coming? And will it actually be on the Wii U? All I hear news about recently is a TP remake. Dunno if I want to buy it or not... it's like paying $60 for an amiibo

Although a savegame exploit with it would be hilariously funny and an epic fail