• CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      17 days 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!

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    17 days ago

    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.

      • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        Half baked, maybe

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

      • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        16 days 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.

        • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          There are some differences between BotW and TotK, but they are fairly similar. I’m still playing TotK, but I’m enjoying it. The biggest difference between the two was a great addition, imo.

          I’m also replaying OoT. My son is excited to see the game that goes with the music he loves.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      What’s the best way to play Majora’s Mask nowadays, PC emulator or like 3ds? I don’t have original hardware

      TotK lacked proper dungeons

      How?

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

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

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    12·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      17 days ago

      Were you older? Might be that that if they were younger and didn’t have a computer to play they just wouldn’t have the same context.

      Differing opinions between generations can be largely boiled down to nostalgia and someone’s age during that period informs greatly how much they could even experience prior to [thing] to compare.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        6·
        17 days ago

        Yeah, I was in my teens and by the time the N64 came out I had a gaming PC with a proper GPU in it. Between that and the N64 launching quite late over here (and doing pretty terribly) I definitely had a different experience than all the “Nintendo SixtyFoaaaar!” kids out there.

        But there are levels to it. Coming at it dispassionately in those circumstances I still played through all of Mario 64 and OoT and thought they were great and good, respectively. GoldenEye, Turok and the Banjo games not so much.

        Of course that opinion also has to do with controller support on PC being utter garbage until the Xbox 360 came out. For a long time the best playing 3D games on PC that weren’t shooters or RPGs were emulated console games with a PS2 controller adaptor.

        • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          17 days ago

          Oof, sounds like you missed the whole space sim genre then. Took extra hardware for the best experience, but even with a cheap joystick it could be amazing stuff. I enjoyed first-person shooters and the like, but TIE Fighter and Freespace were 3D to me back then. I loved my Sidewinder gamepad in that era, too.

          That may or may not be why fifth-gen console 3D does next to nothing for me. Until the Dreamcast came out, it all looked way behind PC, and almost no one was doing the amazing spritework that they excelled at anymore.

          • MudMan@fedia.io
            2·
            17 days ago

            Well, yeah, OK, flight sims. We had flight sims, too.

            And yeah, visually PC games were way ahead of the curve, but that was part of the frustration, right? You had all these super polished, advanced graphics and you were stuck on mouse and keyboard or trying to make do with a joystick or a remedial gamepad. Even when PC pads started including some form of analog stick they were so flimsy. I was on a PS2 pad for a good long while, both for native and emulated games.

  • zer0hour@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    17 days ago

    I remember a friend of mine got an N64 with Super Mario near release date and I hadn’t seen anything like it at the time. First time playing that and jumping through paintings and just playing a game in 3D

  • JoShmoe@ani.socialEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    And then you got outside, there’s a fiery volcano and zombies that make Link shit himself.

    • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      Those zombies terrified me! They really slowed my progress because I avoided all the places with them.

      The falling hands were also scary, but I had no idea when or where they would appear so I just had to deal with them.

      • JoShmoe@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        That hand and the zombies gave me anxiety. I think I was scared of that dumb tall ghost thing with the extra arms all around. The one in the well. Also that gross blob that eats you and steals your equipment.

  • 5in1k@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    17 days ago

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

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      6 days after Christmas to find and beat the first dungeon without the internet? Sounds about right.

  • Wimopy@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    17 days 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.

  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    17 days ago

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