Is Skyrim killing itself slowly? How about Half Life or Dishonored?

Having your character speak isn't "progress", it's killing immersion.

So I guess you still watch silent films right? Matter-of-fact why have Nintendo put that much effort in it. Since we are using our imagination when it comes to dialogue, why not use our Imagination when it comes to visuals as well. How about nintendo just show us a few pictures for evrry level of the game, and we GUESS what happened right? Wrong, video games, cartoons, comic books, movies, snd the recent push towards virtual reality etc. are all part of trying to evolve entertainment to a more immersive experience, the only reason Zelda is AAA, without voiced dialogue, is because reviewers CHOOSE to only rate a game based on what it TRIES to do. For example, Killzone 2 had pretty generic dialogue(I felt Killzone 3 did much better) but they had such little dialogue in the game, they COULDN'T factor it into the score much, and it rate a 92 overall. So you may not care for dialogue, but most core gamers, want a good story, likeable characters, and enjoyable interractions between characters, if I can take the liberty of making a pretty easy gyess. Not saying a game can't be good without it, but it can be a very forgettable experience with out these things. Because scientifically speaking, humans DO NOT think in words, we think in picture, SOUND, and feeling.

I guess you don't remember Spyro The Dragon or Crash Bandicoot. Playstation has plenty of RPGs as a matter of fact they have TONS of JRPGs that's what the Vita is coated in. Nintendo tries to do nothing but sell nostalgia and talk mad $hit like they are the best around and it's pretty funny. They are doing worse than Sega did with the Dreamcast, and keep proving that the stigma/stereotype that they are only for children proves to be true.

Sure they have backwards compatibility this gen, they have a blatant copy of Skylanders called Amibo. Sure they have a terrible network infastructure, and little to no dlc support and over priced marketing techniques but they lack variety. If Nintendo would just improve the variety of genres on their system and actually care about their hardware that goes into their machine and target more than just the average 13 year old they would be a lot better off.

Nintendo should
-Improve their infrastructure
-Improve their hardware (It's 2014 and you have no Ethernet port integrated or dedicated to your console)

-Allow people to buy gamepads if they wish (Can only get a new one if you call them when yours breaks)

-Improve support for Wii U Pro Controller for those who don't like the tablet controller

- Allow HDD to be upgraded without having to buy an external

- There aren't any true hardcore JRPG's on the console so get some for it.

- Stop making shovelware products/games

The reason I don't care for Nintendo is for all I have listed, and the fact that their games are way too easy and only encourage people to buy their games for nostalgia and simplicity. Nintendo has become a extremely casual gamer company and I refuse to play games made by them that are solely for casuals. I didn't purchase my PS4, or Vita, or 3DS, or Dreamcast, N64, PS3, Gamecube to play games with a learning curve as low as Angry Birds.

@telekeneticmantis
"so you still watch silent films" yes i do , matter of fact The Artist( a silent film) was the best Film of 2011, easily...

Zelda may not have words but itdefinitely has sound and feeling as you say, if you knew anything about good cinema, which you cleary don't, you would get that silent characters done right is such a beautiful thing. Skyward Sword's charm and humor are on par with old pixar.

We aren't using our imagination when it comes to dialogue, Nintendo is a master at using sounds and music to establish a mood and what a character is feeling. see Fantasia, see most pixar or disney's shorts, see any sergio leone movie.

Nintendo has a lot to improve on... but the quality and innovation of their games is not one of them.

@ Big_Game_Hunters

LMAO! But OF COURSE you watch silent film right? Just so happens you are a Nintendo enthusiast, and a HUGE silent film consumer right? Lol. Man the wonders of google. Oh, oh, let me try... Welp turns out from 1990 to 2013, ALMOST ALL "best picture" winners, were films with voiced dialogue, you know the way us humans choose to communicate with eachother(lemme guess, you speak in sign language aswell right?). Matter-of-fact 22 out of 23, were voiced dialogue movies, outside of the film you googled, lol. Man you guys would say anything to defend your purchases, I rather VOICE my opinion, instead of being SILENT, and force these companies to release better products.

@telekeneticmantis

Voices aren't something I'm expecting for the next Zelda game for Wii U. Open world give us new possibilities and that's what I want, something more ambitious for Zelda. Putting voices to the characters doesn't necessarily improve quality. I mean, Nintendo can put them, I'll be okay with that, but at the same time I won't care.

@Chrischi
What are you talking about, we don't acknowledge Nintendo games as new ips? if its new then its new despite fanboy logic. I don't see the last of us as a new IP twice. You're not really making sense, I see Nintendo's incredible quality of games, I was just responding to dudes comment about Sony only having games without gameplay (kinda stupid logic is that).

You got a bunch of broken stories, game play and ideas masked by voice overs and tech.

It's like you guys are defending Micheal bay movies and asking for books to be just like them.

If voice over is your biggest problem with zelda then you are not paying attention.

@telekeneticmantis.
Just because they don't come out frequently doesn't mean they can't be on par with other movies. good silent characters , or the use of silence is an Art form in movies. Do you even know who charlie chaplin is? It saddens me that there are closed minded people like you thar believe if it doesn't have big explosions and voice acting it can't be a good story or better than a story with them.Books have no voice acting, its all our imagination. so why with little exception don't Videogames put out Novel quality stories. Or maybe you don't read much, i wouldn't be surprised

and no i'm not a Nintendo enthusiast, I'm unbiased unlike you, it just so happens that Nintendo makes a lot of my favorite games, it may be foreign concept to you but someone can love somthing without being a fanboy.

Having a voice wouldn't make the series "evolve into something better".
That's just delusional.

Having more innovative dungeons to explore, items to use, and a deeper storyline that actually gives Link some much-needed romantic progress would be the better options for making the series evolve into something more.
Perhaps the next 3 Zelda games could be done as a series with each story inter-"linked".
It would be a real first for the series, because honestly, the closest we've gotten is OOT and MM, but even their storylines weren't as closely tied as they could have been.
Having a trilogy of games that continue through into one long storyline would be a grand undertaking for the story direction of the Zelda series, and if they do it right then it could be an outstanding achievement.