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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

god getting to the light world forest for the first time in link to the past was a dream. the way the shadows hit everything

then going up to the master sword area and seeing all the animals go across while it was eerily quiet <3

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

And OoT still holds up. Gameplay still feels pretty modern even if you play it today unlike most games on the N64 and PSX. Even the single analog stick controls with z-targeting hasn't really aged much. Also OoT and Majora's are still my favorite Zelda games, the non-Switch mainline games after the N64 era just feel derivative with gimmicks slapped on top to make it feel new even tough it still the same quests for the same items you gather in the same type of settings with the same kind of dungeons. Wish they just followed Majora's Mask and completly mixed the gameplay up for every sequel, instead of rehashing LttP and OoT in a different theme. While BotW and TotK are a breath of fresh air and they are great games, they lack that Zelda magic and feel more like sandboxes where you can fuck around rather than an epic adventure in and they lack proper dungeons.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

The Ship of Harkinian PC port makes it even better. Free camera controls alone is a vast improvement!

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The divine beasts and temples aren't proper dungeons?

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I liked them, but it felt like going to the same place over and over again once you were in there. (Which is why I’ve never finished Phantom Hourglass).

I absolutely loved the world around them though, and the lore of the characters.

I haven’t played Tears of the Kingdom.

I’m currently playing Wind Waker again.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Half baked, maybe

Which is how I describe most Nintendo sandbox games in their entirety...

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What makes a dungeon full baked?

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

Having more than five minutes worth of content.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Kerred@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I recommend Tunic if you want to be 8 years old again.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 15 points 23 hours ago

Beats just having it handed to you by an old man!

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Even as a silent GIF I hear something like this masterful rendition of the song play in my mind’s ear.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 children)

What makes the OoT animation a bit cooler is that Link is older after the animation, like the beams hide him from your view and after the flash of light, he grew old (and everything else changed as well, but you only see that after leaving the cathedral)

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Lucky you. I only had Lee Carvello's Putting Challenge. I kept hitting the ball in the parking lot.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

should have picked putter instead of power drive

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Would you like to play again?

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

I have selected no

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (6 children)

Meanwhile 8year old me with a ps1 seeing this for the first time and thinking I can never be happy again

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

playing aerith's theme during jenova life T__T

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why didn't you just use a Phoenix Down on her? Are you a monster?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

i used the last one to one shot the cave of the gi :(

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Me, but when I gave the stripper money in Duke Nukem 3D.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

"I got time to play with you!"

"Uhh, shake it, baby!"

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

You wanna dance?

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me having my first 'open world' experience with TES Oblivion and not enjoying it until my inner monologue suddenly switches from "I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do" to "I can go anywhere. I CAN DO ANYTHING!" and then I am slaughtered by the guard for trying to kill the nearest random peasant.

-Sometime in 2007

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[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

First time playing oblivion, still in the tutorial/intro. Grab the first bow and arrow laying a few meter from a well. Of course the only targety looking thing is the well's bucket. Hit the bucket, it swing, cool. The bucket stop swinging and behold! It is now tilting on the side where the arrow is stuck in. Coming from Morrowind I had lots of gripes with oblivion, but that first arrow in the bucket feeling has been in my mind forever.

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[–] Wimopy@feddit.uk 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm not entirely sure what scene I would've said had me similar when I could still more surely remember those first years. Possibly a game I've forgotten since. Maybe one of the Bionicle Mata Nui Games or some other big online game. Or Imperium Galactica 2.

But a moment that will always stick with me is from the first Homeworld game: when you return from your first hyperspace voyage. That entire game was epic, including the intro sequence, but it's that sequence that I think can stand forever as a masterpiece.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Same but the 80’s and you picked up the first Triforce.

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[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

hey i just did this for the first time last week!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Sweet! I'm glad people are still getting to experience it for the first time.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Is this real?..

Or is it Memorex?

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Same, but in Breath of the Wild, circa a few years ago.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

When you leave the cave of renewal and walk to the cliff's edge.... Oh my god, I still get chills just thinking about it!

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

See, to me it was more like the first level of Panzer Dragoon in 95, because yeah, I was that guy.

By 1998 it took a lot to blow my hair back, though. I'm not saying it was a better game, but FFVII had been out for a year, and Quake 2, Half-Life and MGS had come out already. Things had changed.

But hey, the good news is by the time I did get around to OOT, later and through emulation, I still thought it held up alright, even if I'm not on the same "best game ever" boat as a lot of people.

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[–] criitz@reddthat.com 8 points 23 hours ago

The coolest thing ever HAD just happened

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

I wonder if there's a timeline where Link is wearing flood pants when he first meets Rauru on that weird fountain platform in the Chamber of Sages

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