What was playing OoT like when it had just released?
>>736802753>>>/vr/
>>736802753Boring because there were no shrines or breakable weapons
>>736802753It was magical. Still play trough it and Majora's Mask once every year or two.
>>736802753>oh what a mysterious adventure this feels like, I bet there's all kinds of hidden secrets>anyways im bored now, time to play galaga in my Namco classics collection
>>736802753I just finished aLTTP fairly early by the moment OoT arrived. It blew my mind. I loved everything about it and the music and ambience won't go away from my mind ever.
It was the best christmas ever
>>736802753I only remember getting the game from the post office. I didn't know english back then so 3D zeldos was a bit too much.
>>736802753it didn't feel like playing a game, it felt like this incredibly intricate and fantastical world I was exploring, jam packed full of clever secrets and rich lore
>>736802753People were genuinely calling it the greatest game ever made. I don't blame them. I still think Half-Life was better.
>>736802753my face was this all the way through
>>736802753I played it across a long span of time in elementary school with my dad. He played in advance of me on a separate file and helped me when I got stuck. I thought bombchus were cool and the invincibility from Nayru's Love felt really powerful. I named my hamster Nayru.
>people actually had problems with the water temple to the extent that it still has a reputation for being difficult to this dayI refuse to believe any person over the age of 18 struggled with the Water Temple. >oh but 3d space puzzles were new!!No they fucking weren't. Even prior 2d Zelda games had dungeons with multiple tiers of height where you didn't get the benefit of being able to look up at shit.
>>736802753It may sound like a cliche, but it truly was magical.I didn't know anything about the game. I was just ten at the time. Internet was not yet part of people's daily life, and you practically had to be subscribed to a magazine to get the latest news.None the less, I ended up receiving OoT as a Christmas present back in 1998, more or less accidentally.Just reading the game's MANUAL made it clear that I was up for something remarkable and memorable; the colorful world map with various locations and characters implied of a vast, living world like I'd never seen in a game before. You gotta realize, that I'd literally been still playing 8 and 16-bit Nintendo and SEGA games up until very recently; 3D and big adventure / roleplaying games were still a fresh, exciting concept.And once I started playing the game, I was instantly hooked and amazed. The next few months, I would play, breath and live all things OoT. And the game truly kept surprising and amazing me every passing turn:The start felt like something straight out of the Peter Pan's Neverland.The Hyrule field felt like a vast new world of its own; if you're a youngin' who had his jaw drop after leaving the Vault 101 in Fallout 3, or the Shrine of Resurrection in BotW... you know what I'm talking about. It's the "Hobbits leaving the Shire" moment.Then you got into the Hyrule Market, a busy medieval town filled with people and action. Literal Kiki's Delivery Service vibes; a country pumpkin first visit to a big town moment.Every location had this sort of fantastical mood change. Every place and its people felt like a natural, "real" place with its own history and culture.And after you got used to the child-like wonder of the kid Link timeline... you get thrown into the dark and moody adult time period. Absolute peak "end of childhood's innocence" transition in a gaming form.Seeing the credits + "The End" gave me my first bittersweet feeling of accomplishment and... emptiness.
replayed it last year after playing through botw and totk and it is fucking insane how much more polished of a game oot is
>>736802753Genuinely amazing, it completely blew my mind. I remember that cutscene with the Golden Goddesses as the Great Deku Tree tells you about the creation of Hyrule in particular being something that floored me at the time. Something between the music and graphics was like pure magic. And that was just like the first two hours of the game for me.
>>736802753It was the first game I played that felt like more than a game. I was used to 2D games where you go level to level. OoT felt like a real place with endless possibilities.
>>736804475I think that's partly why OoT got the playground rumors, people didn't want it to end and wanted there to be more to discover
>>736803064>>736804475I also got it on Christmas and basically spent the next couple of months practically living in that game. I think getting it when the weather was really shitty so you spent more time inside added to the impact honestly.
>>736802753When OoT came out I was old enough to know how to read but not old enough to get any fun out of doing it. I was stuck in Kokiri forest for a while because I would just skip all the dialogue and didn't know what to do. Finally I started reading because I had to to make any progress and it changed my life. It was so much more than I knew a game could be. I had never experienced anything like it before than. >>736804398There is one key that's easy to miss the first time you pass through the room it's in and if you do miss it then its easy to get stuck in a cycle of missing it again and again as you search high and low for it. If you don't miss it the first time then yeah, it's easy.
>>736804862Nah, I wouldn't go that far.The game however was in the works for quite some time, and the endless Beta screenshots and footage did spark people's curiosity and imagination. It was also still common for vidya to have some crazy secrets, and the jump to 3D made previously impossible things seem more realistic possibilities.Finally, tons of games had a mountain of "Dude, trust me!" rumors that were invented by annoying Carlos-wannabes at the school yards.
>>736802753Genuinely like setting out on a mythical adventure.
Went to the local video store and it was on the shelf for rental. Couldn’t believe it - I grabbed it and my brother and I kept renting it over and over for week or two until we beat it. It was awesome.Never played anything like it at the time.I remember getting to Guerdo valet for the first time and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever.
>>736802753Truly the most memorable release of my lifetime. My best friend and I at the time had played A Link to the Past so many times and had read the Nintendo Power previews of Ocarina so many times the pages damn near fell out. When it finally released we were on the phone with each other from the Kokiri forest all the way through the Deku Tree and into Hyrule Field when our mothers made us go to bed. I will never forget it.
>>736804862I mean that's why I kept looking up rumors and glitches on a shitty modem internet connection back in the day on Odyessy of Hyrule. When you were a kid back then, these games like OoT and Mario 64 become your virtual playground where you'd just fuck around in it after beating it, trying to squeeze out every little thing you could.
>>73680275310 years oldGot it Christmas eve 98 with the guideWasn't able to play it Had to go to grandmother's houseRead tge guide on the wayWe came back around 10 PMParents said I could play for a bitWent to bedWoke up at 6Opened other giftsSister gave me a Playstation "she won it in a christmas raffle at workNow had a ps1 and n64Good times...Probably one of my top 5 christmases
Everyone thought it was a shitty version of alttp but don't tell that to reddit moderators who suck this games dick even though they weren't even born in 1998.
>>736806504Thanks for the historical input born after 2010 Anon.
My dad loved the game so much that he kept the N64 at his house just so he could play the game to completion.
>>736804747This. Hyrule felt endless, the sense of scale was unlike any other game at the time. Plenty of RPGs had come out and had bigger worlds, but OoT was the first to do it in 3D and let you explore every crevice and look at everything up close. It felt like an inexhaustible fantasy world that was lived in.
>>736804475>a country pumpkin first visit to a big town momentfor all intensive purposes i agree
>>736802753dunno but was awesome when i got a n64 in 2004
>>736804398People complain about the Water Temple because they miss a single small key that's easy to overlook. The "3D space" excuse never held water (haha) for me because it's no different than any other level. Nobody had a "3D space" issue with any other temple.
>>736804475I miss manuals so much. I kept every player's guide I ever owned, my favorite being ALTTP. Nintendo used to do a promotion where if you subscribed for a year of Nintendo Power you could pick a player's guide for free, and I still have mine from that promotion all those years ago.
>>736806504No one I have ever spoken to has said that, or even mentioned that they heard someone else say it. Complete and total bullshit. I doubt you were even alive when Ocarina of Time released. Fuck off and stop shitting on a thread for "le epic fun."
>>736802753I hope AI allows indys to go to this style. Just 3d soul.
>>736802753Scared the shit out of me desu. This specific shifting sound Stalchild do when they pop out of the ground at night still triggers something in me even if I played and replayed the game who knows how many times.
>>736811354That's the one guy that posts in Zelda threads and insists the series lost its identity after LTTP. He's a known schizo.
>>736811620How did you handle the well as a kid?My last two runs I finally arent completely creeped out by the zombies. That fucking scream used to still make me incredibly uncomfortable 2 decades latter.
>>736811761>How did you handle the well as a kid?My friend at school who was already hours ahead of me in the game warned me about it so when I got there I went super cautiously in, even preparing myself to plug my ears if I thought an undead was going to scream.
You bought a players guide to know what to do, specifically this one.
>>736802898it has 2 breakable weapons
>>736812280Are drku sticks the second?
>>736811667ALTTP is my favorite of all of them, but any of the "classic" style Zeldas (pre-BOTW) all have things worth seeing. Even Skyward Sword, a game /v/ endlessly shits on.
Going from 60fps ALttP to 20fps OoT, it was clear that 3D gaming was a mistake.
>>736804475>>736810391Generic reviews like this are a diamond dozen.
>>736804475>soul fog in top rightsoul
>>736815335b8 used to have at least a modicum of thought put into it.
>>736815726OoT literally runs at a locked 20fps on original hardware. Cope.
>>736815813and it's a million times better than ALTTP
>>736802753Actually too hard for my 5 year old self, I had to come back later and play it. Partially because my brother didn't want to share. He got OOT and I got Majora's Mask. He was an asshole and now desperately wants me to dedicate time to play games with him like Diablo when he never invited me to play growing up so I never got into it.
>>736802753Not mind blowing like seeing 3d in Mario 64 was and ALttP was already a really good Zelda game but OoT got the exploration and tones of previous zeldas right in a 3d setting. It kept all the good parts of the franchise intact which are: dungeons with new items, a sense of choice with the hub world, fun characters with side quests and secrets like the gossip stones. The story felt dark too which was a plus as an edgy teen.
>>736802753Magical>Witness one of gaming's peaks right at its release>Without any of the trendyness and hype of the moment that plagues modern releases>With no internet to fuck it up overtalking and overthinking about it burning out the game>Just people who liked games playing them instead of complaining about meager shit like resolutions, technicalities and what notGood fucking times.
>>736806504Having played it at release it became the 'best game of all time' almost immediately and universally
>>736806504I literally don't remember a single person saying this, I just remember everyone being blown away by the presentation. In fact I don't really remember many direct comparisons to LTTP at all even though the direct influence was obvious, people were treating it like a singular release.
>>736806504z-targeting unironically revolutionised the entire industry
>>736816493Nah, the internet back then made it more incredible, because you had all the cheat websites posting 5000 bullshit cheats that led to absurd things and if they didn't work it would just be 'nah, bro, you have the wrong version cartridge' or 'you fucked up the stop and swap.Also there was a long running series of threads on game faqs where someone claimed to see some weird pig monster while doing dampe's maze and holy shit were we invested in that (incredibly obvious now) bullshit
>>736815905>worse combat, puzzles, and dungeons>more pointless walking through empty early 3D areasOoT is trash compared to ALttP.
>>736816918>worse combati don't even know how to begin talking to someone with such objectively wrong takesALTTP combat is aggressively mid even if we're restricting ourselves just to 2D games
it was the start of a new era for video games
>>736812146This is the only player's guide ever written that richened the experience rather than made it more shallow and took you out of it. If OoT was a magical fantasy world inside your tv, this book was the mystical tome you discovered, which, if carefully studied and interpreted, would lead you on to even greater discoveries and eventually to understand the secrets of the world
>>736812146Was this the guide where the writer had a completely irreverent tone and swore in every other speech blurb? Because if so that's the one I had.
>>736802753I just played it through again using Ship of Harkinian and a Retro Fighters Brawler 64, the game was magical when I played it in the late 90s since there was nothing like it and it was magical now in the mid 2020s since there's nothing like it even today, only Nintendo make Zelda style games, and I still don't understand why.
>>736816859Yeah I do remember the internet existed back then, it's smartphones that didn't exist. Gamespot gave it a 10/10 review back when their word held a lot of weight (before they gave Gone Home a 9.2). OoT drove a lot of internet traffic it's just that a lot of shitter didn't get the internet until 2002, as if the internet was akin to fads like VR or AI or NFTs. I had Encarta encyclopedia and Netscape web browser back in 1995, I remember Javascript being debated then.
>>736806504it is but link to the past is good and so is ocarina of timeeverything past twilight princess is eh thobotw is fun but its more skyrim less zelda
>>736817869>there's nothing like it even today, only Nintendo make Zelda style games, and I still don't understand why.OoT is pretty objectively ubislop with better presentation, every dungeon but one is functionally just a straight line you can't deviate from, and the rest of the game is kinda just bland point of interests that kinda just function as keys jingling. Like literally every AAA open world game is pretty much oot, just shittier looking. It's no fun allowed: the game
It feels like there is completely unique qualia, aged and contorted by nostalgia specific to this game which is unlike anything else. When I look at pictures like this >>736804862 I get an indescribable set of sensations brought about from the associated memories which nothing else can replicate. Playing OOT on release when I was young was like this adventure into a magical world I didn't understand. I miss when video games could give me those feelings.
>>736818158>every dungeon but one is functionally just a straight line you can't deviate fromthis type of analysis will generate this conclusion about literally any game
I first played it about a month ago using the ship expecting it to be highly overrated nostalgia slop.I fucking loved it and my only real complaint was the Shadow Temple being a lottle too linear for being that late in the game, the atmosphere in that one was immaculate though. Game feels like the whole is more than the sum of its parts somehow, I was surprised how invested I got despite the limited graphics and the ending left me with that same sense of melancholy as when you finish a really good book.
>all the magical experiences ITTvery based. It's truly hard to describe, but it was a magical unforgettable experience. And is unfortunately an unrepeatable product of the time experience.I feel a little sorry for the nephews who'll never get a OoT (or Mario 64) moment in their life cause we're realistically never again going to get such a huge paradigm shift as we got from going to N64 from SNES without some fantastical Sword Art Online deep dive tier shit that's never going to be actually possible
>>736815335I tried the PC version at 60 FPS. Felt completely alien after playing the original for so long.>>736815905They are both 10/10 games as far as I'm concerned.
>>736818246Not really difficulty is typically layered in games, there's not only worse and better solutions, but also solutions that are riskier but give more reward. Like even in sm64, like I can play that game a lot more impressively than a 5 year old child, but with OoT, short of absolutely breaking the game, the skill ceiling peaks at what a 5 year old can do. This is a BIG problem, and you can pretty much split people who can perceive this into two very seperate categories of gamer. In fact, it's pretty much the only 2 relevant categories to sort people into. The sense of adventure in OoT is superficial, learning it is not a true journey. When I beat oot I'm not like "holy shit I can't believe I did that", I beat it because of course I did, it's designed to be easily beaten. It's a theme park ride.
>>736818478You could give them a bit of the same experience if they don't have a smartphone or internet access until they're a bit older and you show them the game at like 7 or 8 before they even give a shit about "missing out" on the internet.
>>736802753I met my best friend because I was whistling the Lost Woods theme at lunch one day in first grade. He gave me his copy of the game to clear Water Temple for him. He died in a car wreck right after we graduated high school.
>>736818519>but with OoT, short of absolutely breaking the game, the skill ceiling peaks at what a 5 year old can do.but that's wrong because there are sidequests and secrets and enormous headroom in combat from the creative usage of items
>>736817451The one for ALTTP was similar in that regard. It was almost like a retelling of a tale of the game. Instead of saying, "Use the hookshot to get the heart piece" it'd say something like, "Link used his trusty slingshot to cross the ravine and was rewarded with a piece of heart." Whimsical is probably a good way to describe it.
>>736818681There isn't though, like I always see people praise lizalfos and shit, but it's literally retard tier where you just shield then hit them and you'll never be in any danger. The whole game is like that. I'm utterly convinced the type of people who like oot are.... I don't want to say mentally retarded, but they definitely dont care about games even a little bit, not enough to even think about them. OoT is for the kind of person who's entire agenda for playing video games is "my npc brain fog finally kicked in, time to get on the dumb ride again".
>>736818910whimsyless hands are typing these posts
>>736818910The combat is broken because of power crouch stab and ISG making everything too simple and dropping hearts from literally everything makes it so mistakes aren't punished. Go play Ultimate Trial, it fixes all of this and you realize the combat is actually complex.
>>736802753Got my gold cartridge in the mail on like thanksgiving I think or somewhere around there and got to take it up to my Grandmas and had a whole room to myself with a tv the whole holiday break. It was pretty great.
>>736812146got this with my gold cartridge. Nintendo Power used to be cool
>>736818656Based, he missed all the worst parts of life
>>736818993>The combat is broken because of power crouch stab and ISGI already predicated my statement by clarifying it's impossible to do anything deeper without utterly breaking the game. You can play mario 64 better by just using the basic movement options better. It's really that simple. Everything in oot is like this, the only fun to be had is breaking the game to get one over the dev trying to keep you locked on the boring ride. It's a cinematic experience, not a game. Why would I want to backflip down hallways to move faster when I can just play a game that isn't designed for babies? I don't see the merit in clinging to childhood experiences when I could just play more mentally stimulating games.
>>736819237again, a stupendous dearth of whimsy
>>736802753I got scared of the rolling boulders where you get the sword. Thought it was the sorceror from links dream
>>736818158>, every dungeon but one is functionally just a straight line you can't deviate fromthis is new zelda games. in OoT you would typically have a few different locked doors to use a key on
>>736819363You lack the whimsy necessary to see the romantic ideal of conquering complex and challenging games, rather seeking casual simulations of people having fun. Fake fun is an actual thing and you're having it. If that's how you want to spend your time that's on you, but don't pretend it's something legit.
>>736819434I literally just played through it like 4 months ago. It fresh in my head how stupid the game is. Water temple is the only dungeon that's remotely open ended and people HATE it.
>>736819471you did not oneshot the water temple at the age of 10 no matter how intensely you analyse the linear story progression of a game with a story
>>736819570Bad timing on that post, see above. You're like a bot, I know exactly what you're gunna post.
>>736819616you're literally too autistic to understand how fixed puzzle solutions in a game you've already finished do not exclude the possibility of adventure
>>736819727I've said everything there is to be said, pushing a block into a hole is not a mentally stimulating puzzle for an adult, there is no way to solve those puzzles beyond what a child is capable of without breaking the game, it's literally just a toddler game. Feel free to carry on with your thread, but what I've said isn't going to change.
Thoughts? https://youtu.be/ccvufhTBcWc
>>736818478It's funny you mention Mario 64. I posted ITT earlier about that Ocarina magic, but Mario was truly the mindblowing moment. I really couldn't believe it was in 3D. Not to mention the joystick. You could go not just right but in all directions. And now here we sit talking about a feature that's so common it isn't even mentioned anymore. Never replicate that feeling again. Thanks for posting, pal. Hope you and yours are doing well.
I remember getting it for Christmas when i was like 7 and I couldn’t figure out how to equip items to the c buttons.
>>736806504Watch out, you're going to upset the OoToddlers pretending they are oldfags.
>>736819891It was the opposite for me. A friend had pilot wings so when I got Mario 64 I wasn't that impressed though the rest of my family thought it was wild. By Zelda though it hit me even though it was 9? months lattet.
>>736819803you're so smart for diminishing every puzzle and every quest to push block on button and knowing the solutions to a game you've finished your favourite game must be factorio
>>736819803You're talking to easily impressed nostalgiafags. Nothing you say is going to get through with them.
>>736817451Almost all of the Nintendo official Player's Guides were like this. I still have the Earthbound one (I wish to fuck I kept the box; I have the cartridge) and all of the official Nintendo (power) Player's Guides felt like something special. Some later guides from Prima and others (particularly the official ones) also did well and had tons of cool art, development stuff, and things to expand the game world and lore. Hell, I can remember how I had 2 guides for >Final Fantasy VI (aka FF3-US)the official Nintendo one which was awesome as usual, but I also got a strange unofficial one that had ALL THE JAPANESE NAMES AND CONTENT IN IT. So I was looking forever to figure out why I couldn't find a Bastard Sword or why magicite didn't give be Blizzaga or whatever the hell..
>>736818478It was magical but I still didn't beat it after 28 years because the zombies scared me. I beat the 3 first dungeons a bunch of times. Then when I emulated it back in 2006, I somehow got stuck in the water temple and never progressed beyond.I still say it's the best game ever you had to be there to trigger zoomies FOMO kek. I played mario kart multiplayer way more.
It was a lot of fun. Pretty exciting. I remember hanging out with my relatives and friends to watch and even take turns trying out things together. I've played it a few times over the years and still find it pretty fun. Please ignore contrarian revisionists trying to downplay it.
it felt gigantic. months of raw fun and mistery, years, even decades of good memories.
>Game about the passage of time focusing specifically on the changes from childhood to adulthood and how the past can influence your future>Anons ITT reminiscing on their childhood memories of the game as adults and how it impacted them
I'm 38 and I genuinely don't remember this game being that hyped and praised when it was released. Was I just in a bubble? I fucking LOVE LttP so I was still playing that when OOT came out. I somehow skipped OOT instead and only saw it played by my neighbor, nobody else I knew had the game. I did end up getting Majora's Mask right after it came out for Christmas and loved that game, but I never played OOT until I got that Master Quest Zelda bundle.
>>736819876As a kid its magical but as an adult I imagine link walking over a jpeg
I stood ffrom my couch and yelled KINO !
>>736821124Might have just been a local thing, the world was a lot less connected back then so naturally you'd have pockets where things that were big elsewhere didn't take off. Where I lived Nirvana wasn't that big of a deal but Pearl Jam was.
>>736802753It was greatThen majoras mask came out which was even better and came on a gold cartridge
>>736818158Congrats, this is the most retarded post I've read in years.
>>736821869He's right. It just upsets since you're a zealot about a mediocre game you played when you were a dumb kid and don't play much vidya.
>>736802753It made me feel happy and good playing it. I miss those days
>>736821996>He
>>736822124Ah right, I forgot that everybody who insults you is the same person.
>>736821996I wonder if anyone's stupid enough to believe this.
>>736818158I'm sure this is exactly what you thought when you played the game back in 98
>>736818158here you go, keep this (You) and kill yourself for making me read your retarded dogshit
>>736822281Don't kill the messager. Not my fault your growth was stunted.
there are 2 people max itt trying to say OOT was bad
>>736802753>Go to a gaming convention a year or so after release >Six N64 stands are set up with Ocarina of Time >Anyone can walk up and play for any amount of time, then just leave >All six are people just fishing>Attendants there says they've given up trying to put Link in other areas when nobody is around, everyone keeps just going back to the fishing holeComfy
>>736822789Just randomly having a fleshed out fishing minigame in what was otherwise a grand adventure game was pretty novel at the time honestly. And at the time of release it was genuinely one of the best virtual fishing games. I remember spending a lot of time there.
>>736802753everyone was captivated by the novelty of 3d at the time. that said, it has aged like milk and it isnt really very good. it is very primitive for the medium. sadly, some people got so captivated that they blew a fuse in their brain and never continued to develop, so they are stuck thinking that it remains the best thing ever made.
>>736822904>And at the time of release it was genuinely one of the best virtual fishing gamesYou really don't play games, huh.
>Thread about what your reaction was when the game came out>"Heh, I think that PEOPLE TODAY..."What causes this autism
>>736802753Comfy as fuck. Though even when it was brand new the frame rate annoyed me.
>>736802841boo hoo you fucking crybaby pussy
It was truly amazing. The best christmas ever. Me and my older brother stayed up all night, every night, during christmas playing this game.You have to remember that nobody knew shit about anything back in those days, so everything was a big mystery.I still remember that empty feeling I had after beating it…. then the oot rumors started popping up on the internet, about alternate endings, missing triforce piece etc. I think that’s the origin of My uncle works at nintendo meme originated.Anyway, it was great. Then I played FFVII, and oot seemed like complete shit on comparison.Fuck we had it great, fellow boomers.Oot, Ps1 era FFs, HL, CS, WoW. Internet all the way from dialup up to fiber. I’m completely convinced that my generation is the best generation of all.
game was great. my neighbors had the game when it came out and i didn't get it until over a year later. they were 3 brothers that each had their own save file and i was captivated. i got the strategy guide with it >>736812146 mentioned and had my parents order the figurines you could mail-in for of Ganondorf Zelda and Link.kind of an unpopular opinion, but I think every entry since then has improved on the formula for a better experience since then (including PH and Spirit Tracks)
>>736821559Yeah, I'm sure this was it. Zoomers don't really understand how most things spread by word of mouth because the internet was in its infancy and not the prevalent. I didn't have Nintendo Power at the time and I'm sure the game was all over that for months.
I was 10 and already deep into console wars and ofc I was on the winning side (playstation), so I didnt play oot until years later when the GC was already out. It was my second zelda after alttp. Fortunately, because I was so fiercely anti n64 I had not been spoiled. I experienced it as a total newbie. It was great. Basically playing oot made me purchase a GC because I wanted to experience more zelda. Greatly disappointed by ww. So I never switched sides. Never became a tendie. I will recognize oot and mm as great games. But nintendo needs to die already.
>>736804398>over the age of 18rated E for Everyone
>>736822389It's actually true, I also played the nes rom on metroid prime more than the actual game
>>736818158>OoT is pretty objectively ubislop with better presentation
>>736802753It was so memorable, or I was at such a formative age, that I pretty much haven't forgotten any of it. Actually sucks because I used a guide and will never experience a blind playthrough as a result.
>>736803064>>736804868These.Every moment of the game going in fresh was an experience you can't relive. >Leaving Kokiri Forest for the first time>Finding the Sacred Forest Meadow by accident before you were supposed to go there>Hearing the rumbling in the tunnel leading to Goron City and imagining what was going on>Leaving the Temple of Time as an adult and seeing pic relatedI could go on. Majora's Mask was the second time I felt that magic and I played that in 2003, so it wasn't nostalgia.
>>736821007It didn't prepare me to adulthood but it did prepare me to real music appreciation.
>>736802753Dunno, wasn't born yet
Easily my best experience playing video games
>>736803064>>736804868This and rogue squadron with the ram pack
>>736822904I remember the Bass 64 or whatever it was called were never rented at the game store. On particular busy days it was all that was left, like 5 of them on the empty shelf.
>>736802753It was fine. I had already seen great games on PC, so it was like"well alright! console finally gets one!" if only I knew that gaming plateaued.
>>736812146I still have mine actually.
>>736812146>the full page spread with this artwork on itkino
>>736827532they really blue-ball the fans with this EPIC ART that never actually happens in the game
>>736803042bleak life
>>736827928dude yeah. but even then it was sorta fun as a kid imagining scenarios where it did happen, like when it would be. I think NP had a legit poster of this one, I had it on my wall.
>>736827179You realize downvoting doesn't work on 4chan right
some of you anons have been joggin my noggin. the temple of light/triforce quest from the arianda almandoz posts on HTLOZ. the crooked cartridge trick found by VGX on the odyssey of hyrule site. the odyssey of hyrule was a fucking gem in the early days of the internet, had bangin ass music on the front page too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urdx7iHNO4c&list=RDurdx7iHNO4c&start_radio=1
anyone remember that version of the official Zelda site that was an actual game-style map where you controlled Link and navigated him to spots representing different parts of the site? I remember I struggled to get it to work back then, it was probably some version of java that wasn't supported by the version of the browser I was using in retrospect, but I remember thinking it was so fucking cool
>>736828457>redditor projecting
I got OOT and Starfox 64 for Christmas in 1998
I now understand being old where people who weren't around for your own childhood tell you how it actually was.
>>736829457this but OOT and goldeneye
>>736802753I still remember going with my older brother and my mom to K-mart to pick up the copy he reserved Shit was magic, yo. I can only imagine what it was like for him
>>736818158
>my brother, dad, & I all worked on beating it when we got it for Christmas>took forever, but it was an awesome experience>shadow temple scared me but toughed through it cause I knew it was near the end>can't beat Bongo Bongo>my dad beats him no problemMy dad came in clutch many times with games & we still run through Assault on the Control Room in Halo once in awhile.>he also showed me The Sopranos
>>736804398The key that fucked everyone up is the one where you are in the central tower room and you lift the water level up so the block rises and reveals a room under the block. You have no reason to go back down so it is very easy to miss.
>One Friday night, our cousin and closest friends come over, have a sleepover>Playing games, shooting the shit, I end up falling asleep early>Wake up early morning, brother cooks breakfast>We watch cartoons, after Pokemon ends, fire up Zelda >Everyone plays through the BotW (badumtiss) all the way through the Spirit Temple, sidequests included>Hours of nonstop fun, puzzle solving, trial and error and shooting the shitIt was a magical game and those memories still linger through me to this day.
>>736804398My understanding was that people just hating having to pause over and over to switch the iron boots on and off.
>>736802753Life-changing. So much better than playing BOTW for the first time.
>>736802753Fucking amazing. Nothing else could touch that shit.
>>736802753For me it was the moment I did a horizontal slash and the stalfols head came off
>>736804398a lot of people are bad at 3d puzzles like raising and lowering water. Also it had that 1 room that was very sneaky and easy to miss a key in, also it had a mini boss that was harder to figure out than average, ALSO some people would go in without the blue tunic because almost all of the temple is doable without it but 1 or two rooms is very hard without blue tunic and maybe impossible? There were quite a few things to trip people up. Also it was the temple that required longshot for some stuff and people wouldnt know about the longshot and try and use hookshot which obv wuoldnt work then they get confused.
>>736802753Not that special since masterpieces were releasing every other week back in the 90s.
>>736835952tbf, most people didnt really care about Chrono Trigger until much later. rpgs were still a niche genre compared to stuff like Super Mario World.
>>736836119I don't care about what normalfags think, or what you think normalfags thought at that time
>>736836260Im saying no one gave a shit about CT
>>736802753Fucking ridiculous. It was hard to put it down once you started.Back then there weren't 3D open worlds to explore, or minigames, or secret dungeons, or horses, or... a zillion other things OOT innovated in a time when there wasn't even much 3D gaming besides Mario and Tomb Raider.It just keeps going and going. The scale of it is so huge you can't believe it. When you jump time and grow into teen link it blows your mind, you weren't even expecting it. The whole world changes. It goes so hard in 1998 when it didn't even need to be 1/2 as long or as in depth as it is, it still would have been a best seller with half of the content.They just made it awesome to be awesome. It was like the culmination of the best 90s Nintendo talent creating something that blew their own minds.
>>736836302Maybe in whatever turd worlder football playing country you live in, but in human lands it won all sorts of GotY awards.
>>736836646I live in the US. We didnt care about it.
>>736836810?
>>736836947Journalists like that didnt speak for most people.
>>736818158okay retard
>>736836980>most people.Most people bought a console for the new Madden games. I don't give a fuck what those troglodytes do. Magazines were purchased and read by game enthusiasts, not Bubba-Jo six-pack.
>>736829457Are you me?
>>736802753Probably pretty fucking amazing.
>>736836980Yeah you're right. It doesn't matter if it was a best selling poll winning journalist acclaimed game, nobody heard of it until centuries after the fact.
>>736837117>>736837183No one was playing CT except for squarefags. Of course basement dwellers would poll it high.
>>736837271You know it outsold other well known titles like Megaman X, Castlevania, Kirby, Mortal Kombat, and more right
>>736826123>Finding the Sacred Forest Meadow by accident before you were supposed to go thereThis is such an underrated part of the game. It's so fucking cool that you can actually do this as the very first thing you even do right after leaving your house.
It's kind of crazy to think that OoT and Pokemon both released only 3 years before 9/11.
>>736836947>best SNES game award from Nintendo Power in the year when the Playstation came outI'm sure you had plenty of friends to talk about this game with, anon.
>>736840267Wait so it doesn't count because.... the generation was over and they had a near complete library to compare it against? Or it doesn't count because Nintendo Power rigged the results to favor a non-Nintendo game?
>>736840467I mean, if that's really the best evidence you can use to say that gamers totally cared about it back in the day, then so be it.
>>736802940>0:50Fucking lost
>>736815440you will never experience a generational leap in technology and oldfags laugh at you. The only way you will get the same feeling is if someone released a VR game that is one to one physical interactions with the environment with NPCs and players alike.
>>736840959even if I didn't have much knowledge of the 2d era that came before, it was still a breathtaking game. it really did feel massive and open and I had a great time exploring it and then when I'd check a guide I would wonder how on earth you were supposed to figure some things out without a guide. I remember the skulltulla house freaked me out a good bit.It's a game I think I'd wish I could go back in time for and experience for the first time all over again.
>>736802753I was 13 when it came out. I thought it was a bit boring desu, the controls were fiddly and there was a few annoyances. Thought the story was pretty generic.Then I got out of the woods and into Hyrule Castle and somewhere along the way I began to appreciate the whole world and the different biomes.It turned into very good. It wasn't life changingly magical for me because I wasn't a toddler and was grown up enough to be able to be critical of things, but it was very good. I preferred it to Mario 64. Half Life was better
>>736802753>8 years old, would write about discoveries and progress for my daily writing journals for class>teacher complained to my parents that I was only writing about video games
>>736815813lol, retard
>>736802753I rented it for one night and I couldn't handle the intrusive fairy sounds and the gay little 'hups' of the boy on every button press.
