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Ocarina Of Time Ten Years Today
MikeRyu
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Penny Arcade isn't the only one celebrating a decade of life.
I hope that there isn't a thread on this already, I didn't spot one.
Ocarina of Time turns ten years old today so huzzah to 3D Link!
Here's a link to an interview with Eiji Aonuma about the development of the game.
http://www.thehylia.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1227242511&archive=&start_from=&ucat=26&
Ocarina is my personal favourite Zelda. A lot of people say that it's just nostalgia but I didn't even play it for the first time until two years ago and I thought that it was amazing. It managed to capture a kind of magic that hasn't been fully repeated yet.
So I guess this birthday is as good a reason as any to have a topic on this.
What did you think of it back in 98?
I hope that there isn't a thread on this already, I didn't spot one.
Ocarina of Time turns ten years old today so huzzah to 3D Link!
Here's a link to an interview with Eiji Aonuma about the development of the game.
http://www.thehylia.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1227242511&archive=&start_from=&ucat=26&
Ocarina is my personal favourite Zelda. A lot of people say that it's just nostalgia but I didn't even play it for the first time until two years ago and I thought that it was amazing. It managed to capture a kind of magic that hasn't been fully repeated yet.
So I guess this birthday is as good a reason as any to have a topic on this.
What did you think of it back in 98?
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Granted, I was 12.
Finally got around to playing it again when it came out on Gamecube with the Wind Waker bonus disk. Masterpiece
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That was pretty much me.
I just wasn't interesting in Zelda when I was 13 despite playing and loving A Link To The Past and Link's Awakening years before. I got it on the Gamecube bonus disk and it just relit my love of Zelda games again. all these years later.
I play this game at least once a year.
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personally, I still find "A Link to the Past" more fun.
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OoT's release was huge. I had the gold cart preordered at TRU and everything. I remember having feverishly done everything I could possibly have wanted to with Metal Gear Solid so that I could totally concentrate on OoT when it came out.
My best friend and I both got it launch day, and did pretty much nothing but play it after school for days. Unfortunately, we both lost valuable play time due to Thanksgiving trips. I remember getting to the old Link parts before him, but the Water Temple raped me and he finished the game before I did.
But man, this game was epic. I don't think I've been able to approach a game with as much wide-eyed wonder since. Just something about being the right age (15) at the right time with the right game.
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"I wish I could go back via time warp and make the Iron Boots into an item, not equipment. That would have made the Water Temple more fun."
That -was- a gigantic improvement in Wind Waker/TP.
I remember that I first tried it out at a JCpenny demo station (or it might have been Sears) and I just had to have it. Hell the only thing I played was like first 5 mins of screwing around in Kariko village and I was hooked, in fact everytime we happened to be at the ball I asked my mom if she needed anything from Sears so I could go play some more.
Coincidentally, this was also the year I firmly confirmed that Santa wasn't real though I had my suspicions haha. I saw my parents put a Sears bag up on the top shelf of the closet so I did some snooping and found a copy of OoT waiting for Christmas day to show up. Possibly the best Christmas ever =] .
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OOT is a great game, though. I might try and play it again today. My most recent save file is still at the Shadow Temple boss...
Hover boots blew my mind when I was nine.
I concur, something about slinging magic from a sword and shooting fire/ice arrows makes you feel so awesome. Also Din's Fire kicks so much ass, just had to say that.
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I meant magic like as a metaphor for that certain specialness that can't be described, but yeah the magic in OoT was cool. Din's Fire was my favourite.
Kind of amazing that this and Half-Life came out within a couple days of each other.
It couldn't have come at a better time for me. Except for the Water Temple, a sentiment which I'm sure is echoed by many. Fuck that place.
I knew what you meant I was just adding the literal magic in the game onto my agreeing statement. I don't think I've ever wanted a game as badly as I did when OoT came out and thats a feeling I haven't felt in forever (not even for Zelda:TP) pure magic.
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My favorite temple would be the Fire Temple. I just love the atmosphere and the background story surrounding the Gorons and Volvagia. That conspicuous key in the Water Temple gets me every time which I imagine happened to a lot of people. The Shadow Temple and the bottom of the well were pure Nightmare Fuel.
The solution? I played through the whole thing with my Dad, taking it in turns to use the controller, and working out all the puzzles and stuff together.
It took us ages to finish it, me being 8 and my Dad having never really played a vidjagame before, but it's easily my best gaming memory.
So to celebrate, I'm playing Majora's Mask for the first time! It's giving me anxiety, and I won't be surprised if I develop a nervous tick while playing.
I must admit that I never really cared about OoT and that I liked MM a lot more. Part of that might be because I didn't play OoT when it was new and I played through MM on my cousins N64.
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You can't stop there. The end fights are so awesome. They are "Top 10 Gaming Moments" material. Then the end is kind of cheesy except for this one moment. So good.
But then that doesnt make any sense.
On my second playthrough i beat the game without getting any extra hearts (except for the 1 or 2 you needed to pick up in order to progress). I dont even know why i was compelled, there wasnt even an acheivement for it
I don't ever remember any required hearts
I do like Majora's Mask more overall, but Ocarina is still a fantastically well-designed game.
I don't know, I doubt I'll ever be as excited about videogames as I was during the transition from the SNES/Genesis era to the N64/Playstation/Segastillsucks era. I don't know, now our new generations are just prettier and prettier, but back then, that transition was a paradigm shift; 2d to 3d, simple as that. Maybe it was because I was younger, less jaded, still a teenager but with a job that allowed me some spending money. Maybe it was because I didn't have ready access to the internet, and waiting a month for a trickle of news made everything more intense.
Whatever it was, it was pretty great.
I am so ragey right now.
I got this game the first Christmas in my new house/town. I remember how cool it was after I got the Master Sword and went to the Forest Temple the first time.
I still think the hardest boss in the game was the Phantom Ganon from the Forest Temple.
I think I got this, golden eye, and starfox. But its been so long I might be confusing years.
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Sryus? Ive never looked up the right way to do it... but i could have sworn there was a boss whose arena you couldnt escape unless you hopped in the little tranportation portal that had a heart right in it.
But here I am now, 21 years old, having played innumerable games since Ocarina of Time came out, and it is STILL my favorite game of all-time. It's hard to see that ever changing. The game is perfect.
Pretty sure. I beat it with 3 hearts and only 3 hearts. I think. Fuck, let me go check.
edit, yeah,this video shows someone beating the final boss with only 3 hearts
http:// www.youtube.com /watch?v=vEOS4qboxtw
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Personally, I think that Ocarina of Time has some parts that are really great, but it also has some things that I find annoying.
I was 16, went to get it at launch (reserved for gold cart and all). The launch day for me was nice and all, I had a great day playing it and forgetting any and all homework I had. It was really cool. However, the real memory comes later on, about 2 weeks after launch.
I was spending the night at this girl's house I had met about a month prior. We weren't dating, but we became really good friends pretty fast and I was to go to her house and help her with math homework. Well, I went over and I realized she had an N64 (which surprised me, she was absolutely not the gaming type. Typical hot blonde type of girl). Well, after we got done all our homework and she started understanding the stuff better, she asked if I ever heard of the new Zelda game....I was kinda shocked and was like "yeah I got it, it's awesome" so she has me go to her room and we played for like 4 hours. It was around 11pm and I was tired as shit so I just kinda fell asleep next to her. We were in this huge beanbag type chair. She later told me her parents came up to her room and saw me sleeping, but just left me alone instead of waking me up. So, anyways when i woke up at 6am I saw an N64 controller leading to the girl (Kristen was her name), left in her hands and her head was resting on my shoulder. She was sleeping and the game was left in the Water temple.
She woke up and the first thing she said was that she didn't invite me over to help with her homework (even though she actually did need the help). She kissed me and we dated after that for about a year.
so when I hear someone say stuff about the water temple in OoT, the last thing I think of is "bad".