with NintendoS ‘ Switch 2 filming of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time due out this year, a reader suggests it could steal the Game of the Year award from GTA 6.
In the long history of video game teasing, I don’t think there’s ever been anything this extreme Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake find out. I think it was a mistake to show so little, but what’s done is done. Although I don’t quite understand why Nintendo had such a knee-jerk reaction to the Star Fox leak, from announcing it in the middle of the nightbut just continued with Zelda as if the leaks hadn’t happened.
However, it happened and we know it’s true, and that’s great. And we got to see a little bit of what the graphics will look like, and they were quite a surprise. They looked very high-tech and realistic. It had a bit of a cartoony element to it, but I thought they would try to make it look like concept art, but it seems like they’re not doing that at all.
If this is what the entire game looks like, then we’re looking at a best-case scenario where the remake ends up being the best-looking game on Switch 2 and a completely different experience as well (the Great Deku Tree looks like it’s been redesigned, judging by the presentation). It will be massive and will also go head to head with GTA 6.
Nintendo didn’t give a release date for the remake, but given that and the fact that they showed so little, it’s definitely not coming anytime soon. They’ll need to have another Direct first, maybe dedicated to it, and that’ll make it a fall release – that’s what everyone thought, since it’s their big one. Christmas game.
What it also does is put it close to GTA 6’s November 19th release date, and knowing Nintendo, they won’t care about that at all. Even ignoring the fact that they never seem to care what other companies are doing, GTA 6 isn’t on Switch 2 and it’s nothing like Zelda. So there really isn’t much conflict. A lot of people will like both, but they aren’t really competing with each other.
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I fully expect Nintendo to make Zelda the closest major game release to GTA 6. They just won’t care. They want that prime Christmas release slot and they won’t even let GTA get in their way.
But I don’t think this will be the only way Zelda tries to steal the limelight from GTA 6. Both games will be available for prizes and while I’m sure GTA 6 will be very good, Ocarina Of Time is still considered one of the best games of all time. So a modern update, which also changes a lot, should be as competitive as GTA 6.
You could argue that GTA 6 deserves more because it’s a new game and not a remake, but how different will it really be from the others? I bet all the delays have a lot more to do with this Roblox style creator content than some awesome new gameplay they’ve come up with. You can already see from the trailers that it’s the same old thing, even if the graphics are great.
I think a lot of award shows are going to be biased towards her just because she’s popular, like when Titanic won them all The Oscarsdespite being a mediocre movie that happened to sell very well. I’m not saying that GTA 6 will be mediocre, but there is no existing GTA game that is as good as Ocarina Of Time, and I doubt that will ever change.
So GTA 6 is not the shoe-in for game of the year, many people probably thought. It’s definitely still the favorite, I agree, because it has that non-remake edge, but if Ocarina Of Time is the top effort we all hope it will be, then I can definitely see it becoming the GOTY, if not the GOAT.
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