Zelda official timeline. Agree or disagree?

[Arjahn]

Yeah no, the Zelda timeline makes no damn sense and still excludes several games. For example, where's a link between worlds? I assume that it's not the same Link from "A Link to the Past" but then how do they connect? Honestly, retrolinx's idea about these stories just being retelling's just makes a lot more sense than a branching timeline.

Its my understanding that the reason Link Between Worlds was excluded was because it came out two years after Hyrule Historia was published.

You are wrong, but they've also had a lot of time to include it in the timeline in some way since it's release. Not doing so makes it seem all the more likely that they just made a timeline up to the most recent Zelda game at the release of the Historia with little or no plans to keep updating it afterwards. Something ought to be done before the new Zelda comes out or I really am going to call total crap on this timeline. It's just a really odd one that doesn't make a lot of sense if it doesn't keep updating.

How am I wrong? Hyrule Historia was originally released in Japan on December 21st, 2011 in Japan, whereas Link Between Worlds was released at its earliest in November of 2013. The original timeline released with the Japanese version is identical to the English release, and it was being translated by a third party (Dark Horse Comics) while Link Between Worlds was being developed, since the English version was released very shortly after LBW was and thus they wouldn't have had time nor an official space to include it on the timeline.

It's not really Nintendo's responsibility to include the exact time frame of every single game they release either, that's part of the fun of Zelda sometimes, talking about theories and stuff with friends. They threw this one into Historia to settle people who take these things too seriously down as a nice gesture, and evidently it blew up in their face with incessant fans demanding they update it every time they release a game.