Zelda time-line ....come on ppl we can figure it out. ^_^

Ok so those who love Zelda know about the time-line, I have a smidgen (small) of an idea of what the time-line should look like or at least have figured out what the important aspects that are featured in almost every Zelda game are that link (no pun) the games together.

I realized that I couldn't do it on my own, for one I haven't played all the Zelda games. For two....I may miss something important so I make this Forum so Zelda fans may post connections, interesting facts, theories or possibly your own take on the whole time-line.

Lets get one thing straight though..this is working on a split timline theory and that means everything is not in one big order

Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are the only for sure games that are parallel to eachother meaning both in separate times..TP after majoras mask and WW after OoT where Link no longer exists.

I'll also place my theory time-line.....soon enough. :D

That's not true.

The Minish Cap is the first game in the Timeline. The rest is speculation really.

The timeline theory that makes the most sense to me is the one from Gametrailers:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15194.html

There's no definate timeline (well, if there is, nobody's said anything officially) for Zelda. However, you might be interested in Gametrailers' Zelda retrospective. The whole thing is interesting, but the last one tries to put all of the games in a timeline. I don't even really like the Zelda series but found it really interesting and entertaining.

Here's a link to the timeline video specifically.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15194.html

*Edit*

Bah! Pinksolidsnake beat me by less than a minute.

GT's timeline is fine except for one thing: Twilight Princess comes 100 years after Majora's maskSuperMario_46

Thing is though is that GT made that way before TP or PH came out.

[QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]GT's timeline is fine except for one thing: Twilight Princess comes 100 years after Majora's maskpinksolidsnake

Thing is though is that GT made that way before TP or PH came out.

[QUOTE="pinksolidsnake"]

[QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]GT's timeline is fine except for one thing: Twilight Princess comes 100 years after Majora's maskSuperMario_46

Thing is though is that GT made that way before TP or PH came out.

agreed lol

GT timeline is pretty nice and everything except of the fact they divide Oracle of Ages and Seasons when they take place one directly after the other. Anyway, I just can't work out when was Ganondorf captured. He may have been captured after Ocarina of Time but then what? Another Link appeared or what? No, TP destroy any sense of cohesiveness. Daxol

Ganon is captured after OoT and then sealed away in Twilight until the events of TP

All that we know is this

OoT->MM------>TP------->WW->PH

well obviously the zelda games were not released in order.......come on man focus on the point or am i missing something here about metroid

All that we know is this

OoT->MM------>TP------->WW->PH

MrDziekuje

[QUOTE="Daxol"]GT timeline is pretty nice and everything except of the fact they divide Oracle of Ages and Seasons when they take place one directly after the other. Anyway, I just can't work out when was Ganondorf captured. He may have been captured after Ocarina of Time but then what? Another Link appeared or what? No, TP destroy any sense of cohesiveness. SuperMario_46

Ganon is captured after OoT and then sealed away in Twilight until the events of TP

I reckon that Oracle of Ages and Seasons happen after the events of TP, and I believe that its currently the final game/s in the series. You can't tell which one happens before the other unless you play one then transport over to the other, but you can do the exact opposite. In the Oracle of Ages and Seasons Twinrova try to resurrect Ganon by sacraficing Zelda, so that must mean that he is definately dead, not imprisoned like at the end of OoT and the start of TP. Man this is confusing. The Metroid timeline is much easier.

ya .....isnt that because metroid happens in order??RemusLupo

[QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]

[QUOTE="Daxol"]GT timeline is pretty nice and everything except of the fact they divide Oracle of Ages and Seasons when they take place one directly after the other. Anyway, I just can't work out when was Ganondorf captured. He may have been captured after Ocarina of Time but then what? Another Link appeared or what? No, TP destroy any sense of cohesiveness. freek666

Ganon is captured after OoT and then sealed away in Twilight until the events of TP

I reckon that Oracle of Ages and Seasons happen after the events of TP, and I believe that its currently the final game/s in the series. You can't tell which one happens before the other unless you play one then transport over to the other, but you can do the exact opposite. In the Oracle of Ages and Seasons Twinrova try to resurrect Ganon by sacraficing Zelda, so that must mean that he is definately dead, not imprisoned like at the end of OoT and the start of TP. Man this is confusing. The Metroid timeline is much easier.

But, i thought zelda 1 and 2 are supposed to be the last for that reason(Ganon is killed in 1, evil people are trying to use link's blood to resurruct Ganon in 2)...

I know that Minish cap is supposed to be the first, and i think the other games involving the four sowrd are shortly after it, caus i have a theory that the four sowrd is the master sword...

[QUOTE="freek666"][QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]

[QUOTE="Daxol"]GT timeline is pretty nice and everything except of the fact they divide Oracle of Ages and Seasons when they take place one directly after the other. Anyway, I just can't work out when was Ganondorf captured. He may have been captured after Ocarina of Time but then what? Another Link appeared or what? No, TP destroy any sense of cohesiveness. Toki1776

Ganon is captured after OoT and then sealed away in Twilight until the events of TP

I reckon that Oracle of Ages and Seasons happen after the events of TP, and I believe that its currently the final game/s in the series. You can't tell which one happens before the other unless you play one then transport over to the other, but you can do the exact opposite. In the Oracle of Ages and Seasons Twinrova try to resurrect Ganon by sacraficing Zelda, so that must mean that he is definately dead, not imprisoned like at the end of OoT and the start of TP. Man this is confusing. The Metroid timeline is much easier.

But, i thought zelda 1 and 2 are supposed to be the last for that reason(Ganon is killed in 1, evil people are trying to use link's blood to resurruct Ganon in 2)...

I know that Minish cap is supposed to be the first, and i think the other games involving the four sowrd are shortly after it, caus i have a theory that the four sowrd is the master sword...

[QUOTE="RemusLupo"]ya .....isnt that because metroid happens in order??freek666

1. Metroid/ Zero Mission
2. Metroid Prime
3. Metroid Prime Hunters (I think)
4. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
5. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
6. Metroid II: Return of Samus
7. Super Metroid
8. Metroid Fusion

[QUOTE="freek666"][QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]

[QUOTE="Daxol"]GT timeline is pretty nice and everything except of the fact they divide Oracle of Ages and Seasons when they take place one directly after the other. Anyway, I just can't work out when was Ganondorf captured. He may have been captured after Ocarina of Time but then what? Another Link appeared or what? No, TP destroy any sense of cohesiveness. Toki1776

Ganon is captured after OoT and then sealed away in Twilight until the events of TP

I reckon that Oracle of Ages and Seasons happen after the events of TP, and I believe that its currently the final game/s in the series. You can't tell which one happens before the other unless you play one then transport over to the other, but you can do the exact opposite. In the Oracle of Ages and Seasons Twinrova try to resurrect Ganon by sacraficing Zelda, so that must mean that he is definately dead, not imprisoned like at the end of OoT and the start of TP. Man this is confusing. The Metroid timeline is much easier.

But, i thought zelda 1 and 2 are supposed to be the last for that reason(Ganon is killed in 1, evil people are trying to use link's blood to resurruct Ganon in 2)...

I know that Minish cap is supposed to be the first, and i think the other games involving the four sowrd are shortly after it, caus i have a theory that the four sowrd is the master sword...

Well according to Gametrailers ALTTP came after number two, and I dont think Ganon was resurrected in 2. So that means that the Oracle games came after, but then how would ALTTP come about because he was trapped in the dark realm so he cant be dead, just imprisoned. Damn Nintendo making everything complicated.

The timeline theory that makes the most sense to me is the one from Gametrailers:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15194.html

pinksolidsnake

except GT says that TP is in the same timeline as WW. Which isnt true.

It was kinda funny because people in my class thought that link was always the same persons.Minishdriveby

[QUOTE="Toki1776"][QUOTE="freek666"][QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]

[QUOTE="Daxol"]GT timeline is pretty nice and everything except of the fact they divide Oracle of Ages and Seasons when they take place one directly after the other. Anyway, I just can't work out when was Ganondorf captured. He may have been captured after Ocarina of Time but then what? Another Link appeared or what? No, TP destroy any sense of cohesiveness. freek666

Ganon is captured after OoT and then sealed away in Twilight until the events of TP

I reckon that Oracle of Ages and Seasons happen after the events of TP, and I believe that its currently the final game/s in the series. You can't tell which one happens before the other unless you play one then transport over to the other, but you can do the exact opposite. In the Oracle of Ages and Seasons Twinrova try to resurrect Ganon by sacraficing Zelda, so that must mean that he is definately dead, not imprisoned like at the end of OoT and the start of TP. Man this is confusing. The Metroid timeline is much easier.

But, i thought zelda 1 and 2 are supposed to be the last for that reason(Ganon is killed in 1, evil people are trying to use link's blood to resurruct Ganon in 2)...

I know that Minish cap is supposed to be the first, and i think the other games involving the four sowrd are shortly after it, caus i have a theory that the four sowrd is the master sword...

Well according to Gametrailers ALTTP came after number two, and I dont think Ganon was resurrected in 2. So that means that the Oracle games came after, but then how would ALTTP come about because he was trapped in the dark realm so he cant be dead, just imprisoned. Damn Nintendo making everything complicated.

There is no real time line. The series was never really planned out . Alot of zelda games don't have alot to do with eatch other as well. We can only guess witch is the real one. deadmeat59

Th important thing to remember is that there is a split timeline...thats what this forum beleives..thats what i beleive anyway and i made the forum based on that..so tp and ww are separate parallel games...and ocarina came before...thats cleared up.RemusLupo

yeap... and yeap... the 2 story is one where link stayed a kid and the other is an adult (I think I do not remember exactly)

but at the end all there is are theories, they have nevr being release any official timeline or any game that actually connect one to the next. You do not even need to play them in order to understand/enjoy the game (e.g. like RE series, pry SH, maybe FF.. ) :P

MC is first followed by FS and then OoT and MM. After that TP and WW take place parallel to each other and PH is directly after WW. AoL is LoZ's sequel and LA is LttP's sequel. OoA and OoS must be on the same timeline. The rest is speculation, but I have a pretty good idea since I've beaten them all more than once (except for AoL which I couldn't bare to beat twice).

Child timeline: MC-FS-OoT-MM-TP-FSA-LttP-LA-OoA/OoS
Adult timeline: MC-FS-OoT-WW-PH-LoZ-AoL

[QUOTE="deadmeat59"]There is no real time line. The series was never really planned out . Alot of zelda games don't have alot to do with eatch other as well. We can only guess witch is the real one. RemusLupo

I don't believe in the whole "time-line" theory thing either.

The Zelda story-lines change so drastically from one game to the next, to try and sequentially piece together such different yet frighteningly similar stories is not possible to do properly in my opinion.

To even try, (as attempted in the Gametrilers retrospective) becomes too convoluted to make any logical sense. Each Zelda game has been extremely enjoyable on it's own, using many of the same characters, but in different settings.

You can't piece them together, that's BS. How can Link be a Kokori in one game living in the forest, yet in another game being the exact same age living with his uncle right beside the Hyrule castle?

The timeline theory that makes the most sense to me is the one from Gametrailers:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15194.html

pinksolidsnake

[QUOTE="RemusLupo"][QUOTE="deadmeat59"]There is no real time line. The series was never really planned out . Alot of zelda games don't have alot to do with eatch other as well. We can only guess witch is the real one. chefstubbies

I don't believe in the whole "time-line" theory thing either.

The Zelda story-lines change so drastically from one game to the next, to try and sequentially piece together such different yet frighteningly similar stories is not possible to do properly in my opinion.

To even try, (as attempted in the Gametrilers retrospective) becomes too convoluted to make any logical sense. Each Zelda game has been extremely enjoyable on it's own, using many of the same characters, but in different settings.

You can't piece them together, that's BS. How can Link be a Kokori in one game living in the forest, yet in another game being the exact same age living with his uncle right beside the Hyrule castle?

MC is first followed by FS and then OoT and MM. After that TP and WW take place parallel to each other and PH is directly after WW. AoL is LoZ's sequel and LA is LttP's sequel. OoA and OoS must be on the same timeline. The rest is speculation, but I have a pretty good idea since I've beaten them all more than once (except for AoL which I couldn't bare to beat twice).

Child timeline: MC-FS-OoT-MM-TP-FSA-LttP-LA-OoA/OoS
Adult timeline: MC-FS-OoT-WW-PH-LoZ-AoL

GamerForca

[QUOTE="GamerForca"]

MC is first followed by FS and then OoT and MM. After that TP and WW take place parallel to each other and PH is directly after WW. AoL is LoZ's sequel and LA is LttP's sequel. OoA and OoS must be on the same timeline. The rest is speculation, but I have a pretty good idea since I've beaten them all more than once (except for AoL which I couldn't bare to beat twice).

Child timeline: MC-FS-OoT-MM-TP-FSA-LttP-LA-OoA/OoS
Adult timeline: MC-FS-OoT-WW-PH-LoZ-AoL

RemusLupo

FSA is part of the series. It has a broken mirror of Twilight (remember TP's ending?), it shows Ganon's rebirth (he died in TP), and it shows how Ganon gets the trident, which he uses in LttP.

When you say OoX games, you mean the Oracle ones, right? Those are also part of the timeline officially. Capcom made them, but Shiggy over-looked it.