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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D |OT| of |OoT|
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StrikerObi
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I want this game, but I'm afraid I won't finish it since I've already played it. I played the Master Quest on GameCube and eventually I just stopped playing it because I basically already had played it. I wish I could wait for it to go on sale or drop to $20 but I know that will never happen because Nintendo never does that.
shadyspace
Banned
I'm as excited to see what all you guys who've never played it think as I am to play this again.
HylianScribe
Member
Well, just threw down 60 bucks to get Germany's pre-order bonus (just the 3DS pouch, not the game). Seems stupid Play.com won't ship to the US anymore (they're how I got my Zelda GBA SP bundle back in 2004), so I can't get the other 3DS case (for now). Pretty sure I'm gonna be out a few hundred dollars when it's all said and done collecting all this stuff (US, JPN, EU, AU versions of the game and all their pre-order bonuses).
PigSpeakers
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Synless said:
Please. Let's not get on this subject again.
Add myself into the group of people who have never finished this game all the way. I bought it at a yardsale with a whole bunch of games and N64 for $13 last year sometime. Played through a lot of it. At least up to the second dungeon in the second half of the game. But then I got sick of looking for heart pieces and doing mini-games and crap. Think I will do less of that this time through.
Also, I want to get that CD that comes with registering it, but I'm already at Platinum. I don't want to miss out on it though, so I may just register it early before the cut-off date.
popsicle_sundays
Member
Just reserved this, super excited to play my first 3d zelda game 
I hope i'm not disappointed! (doubt it)
I hope i'm not disappointed! (doubt it)Gonna go ahead and upgrade my shipping to overnight. I've only ever beaten the game once, and that was on the GCN, so I've probably forgotten almost everything about the game except the music. OoT isn't a game I'm particularly nostalgic for, but damn does the music get me every time.
I have this and Mercenaries paid off in full already. Can't wait to play OoT again, since I haven't played it in forever, and the new coat of paint should feel refreshing enough. I'm actually really looking forward to Master Quest as well, since I never played it before.
It's going to be a fun upcoming two weeks for the 3DS. Really looking forward to it.
It's going to be a fun upcoming two weeks for the 3DS. Really looking forward to it.
Small Mailman
Member
US preorders only got a poster with an image that's been around forever on it?
Small Mailman
Member
Oh ok, that's actually pretty rad.
Electivirus
Member
TEJ said:
On time.
Hokuten said:
Now that is a dramatic difference!
Really makes you see how drab and bleak OoT's world was in retrospect. So funny because I remember in the late 90s prob 1999 or so playing ALttP with my dad, and my uncle happened to stop by, and upon seeing what we were playing said "That's nothing, compared to what I am playing, you should see what I am playing!"
Turned out he had just acquired an N64, and OoT, and not long after that he brought it over and I saw OoT for the first time too, and I was so enthralled by the "AMAZING" graphics.
Contrast that to when I started playing it recently in Virtual Console for the first time in many years, and it took me forever to adjust to just how awful this game actually looks. Whether its the ultra low rez textures, the flat shaded character models, the sprite trees, the strange flat "dirt" walls all around Hyrule Field, my god, the game did not age well graphically.
It's a funny thing really, some games are timeless, and kinda loose there charm when they are updated. Mega Man, for instance, Mega Man 9 and 10 are so much better than Mega Man 8, and would have been crap had they gone the Sonic 4 route. Ditto old Sierra adventure games, the VGA remakes of the likes of Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry really lost the soul of the game.
On the other hand, I have yet to find and N64 game that I could say the same about.
Sooo looking forward to this remake!
shadyspace
Banned
I'm still concerned that losing that "drab and bleak" atmosphere will be a big negative of this remake.bummyhead said:
FTH said:
Good luck on that Final Battle. I had *loads* of fun trying to move stupid Zelda around with the stylus fast enough and have her actually go where I wanted her to go.
Not to mention how shocking it is I actually made it to the final battle in this truly lousy Zelda game, what with that atrocious, unexplorable overworld, tedious train travel that made the Wind Waker sailing look positively sublime by comparison, and annoying, (though workable) touch controls, except in the final battle that is.
I certainly do hope that when Nintendo decides to make an original Zelda for 3ds it does not include and stupid gimicks or touch controls.
Magicpaint
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Basically for me, they could add colours to Young Link's side and I would see it as a positive, but Adult Link's side should be suitably bleak and oppressive. The Temples should definitely not be compromised.shadyspace said:
shadyspace
Banned
What are your feeling on PH?bummyhead said:
Vinterbird
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shadyspace said:
I'm not that far yet,but Death Mountain still retains the omnious and drab feeling the original had. Some areas has a lot more color, but in general I feel so far it has just added to the atmosphere, and not detracted yet.
As I said in the other thread, the game now looks like we all imagine it to look like, when we think back on it now.
And the water is not horrible when in motion, there is even a nice little effect of water bubbles coming up after Link has surfaced.
shadyspace said:
You know what? I played it, and I did beat it, but I remember very little about this game, to be honest. I don't remember the story, the boss, the villain, nothing. That's how much an impression this game left on me.
I also barely remember the infamous temple we all hate, except that I know I hated it too. I also remember finishing the game and knowing it was the first Zelda ever that I would never play again.
I think my hate for ST is greater mainly because PH was new and experimental, so I was kinda willing to give it a bit of a break, even if I didn't think the game was worthy of being Zelda.
ST on the other hand took everything that was stupid about PH, and made it even worse, and frankly, IMO, they improved nothing. Taking the repeat dungeon and making is slightly less awful does not count as an improvement in my book. I guess you could boil it down to this:
I didn't know what to expect in PH, so it was hard to be disappointed. On the other hand, I expected ST to be a major improvement, and instead it was just as bad, and they managed to make the travel system worse. Big failure.
Every other Zelda is infinitely re-playable, except for the two DS games, IMO.
Ocarina of Time and Link's Awakening DX are the games that got my sixth-grade self into Zelda. It's going to be a sweet, sweet homecoming of sorts to have OoT 3D in the slot and LADX a short ways over on the main menu. *koolaidman oooooohyeaaaaaah*
But Skyward Sword with its shoebill birds and robo-girl and sexually ambiguous demon lord is stealing all my hype. :-\
Well, that and ghost-busting pharoah's tombs in Luigi's Mansion 2... Gliding over pipes and pines in Mario Kart... Bopping Boom Boom as Tanooki Mario in Super Mario... Slaying Hewdraw in Kid Icarus... Etc, etc.
And that's just the Nintendo systems! Then there's PS3, with sexy Batman and sexy Dark Souls and sexy Uncharted 3... And I'm telling myself I'll hold out on Vita and the sexy OLED-enhanced Vanillaware goodness of Dragon's Crown... I must resist... Too much too soon!
But Skyward Sword with its shoebill birds and robo-girl and sexually ambiguous demon lord is stealing all my hype. :-\
Well, that and ghost-busting pharoah's tombs in Luigi's Mansion 2... Gliding over pipes and pines in Mario Kart... Bopping Boom Boom as Tanooki Mario in Super Mario... Slaying Hewdraw in Kid Icarus... Etc, etc.
And that's just the Nintendo systems! Then there's PS3, with sexy Batman and sexy Dark Souls and sexy Uncharted 3... And I'm telling myself I'll hold out on Vita and the sexy OLED-enhanced Vanillaware goodness of Dragon's Crown... I must resist... Too much too soon!
One thing i'll say, OoT and MM had a really weird art style npcs that werent important to the story.
They improved with Spirit Tracks by making a great original overworld theme and actual huge bosses that looked threatening. Not much, but its still improved...and the train was alot more manageable/less boring than the boat.
bummyhead said:
They improved with Spirit Tracks by making a great original overworld theme and actual huge bosses that looked threatening. Not much, but its still improved...and the train was alot more manageable/less boring than the boat.
shadyspace
Banned
Pretty much.Insaniac said:
Teknoman said:
You honestly think that the train, which was literally on rails, was an improvement on the boat? That the stupid demon trains all over the place that served only to make travel even more tedious that it already was were an improvement? Honestly?
I'll give you the overworld theme though, it was a good.
shadyspace
Banned
Oh shit! There goes my Saturday.Dityrink said:
KirbYuuYuu
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Dityrink said:
Not in Anchorage. Of course :/
popsicle_sundays
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cacophony said:
I had the same dilema, however I held off on the DSi XL just because of the 3DS. I'll most likely be playing many DS games alongside a few 3DS (for now).
bummyhead said:
I'd like an actual overworld to travel around without being stuck to a vehicle, but the train was something new/always gave me something to do (that and I think trains are a nice way to travel in real life so i'm a little biased), so it just didnt seem as tame as the boat from PH. People complain about the boat from Wind Waker, but I enjoyed that since the game was so beautiful, and it was actually sort of relaxing.
EDIT: Really? No early event in Houston? C'mon.
