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Do you remember the first time you played it when it was released (I don't mean people who played it 10 years after it was released) - that feeling that this was something genuinely magical and revolutionary in videogames - I doubt i'll ever get that feeling again with a videogame.



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Yes. It's the same way I felt when I played uncharted 2 last night. I am one of the lucky people to get a copy early. Mine is signed by Amy Hennig :)



why does 30+ age???....im not 30, but I had OOT on christmas day( it was released a on NOV 23..only a month), and yes it a Xxperience i will never 4get



Dunno how it felt

but probably similar to how it felt when I played Final Fantasy X the first time......amazing graphics & music, amazing world!



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Xxain said:
why does 30+ age???....im not 30, but I had OOT on christmas day( it was released a on NOV 23..only a month), and yes it a Xxperience i will never 4get

No reason, I just thought most original OOT players would probably be in their 30's by now or approaching that age.



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I also played it back when it was released, it was an amazing game, but it didn't gave me that same revolutionary feeling as playing something like mario 64 or shenmue, mostly because the game has a very slow beginning



I'm only 26, but I remember getting my gold cartridge the day it came out and having my mind blown by the gigantic world, horse-riding, music, and the battle system with the new/fresh/amazing Z-targeting system that's still used in most 3rd-person adventure games to this day, including stuff like GTA.

But I still think Link's Awakening and Twilight Princess were better!



Yes I do and it's still deservedly acclaimed as the best game ever by many people for that reason. Prime might have been the closest any game has come to that feeling since then, but then it gave me more a feeling of being awed than enchanted, if that makes sense.



from the first moment i entered hyrule field to the final battle with ganon, it was all magical experience that no game has yet to reach for me, i remember the first time i beat ganon, my whole family gathered to witness the awesomeness.

i was not even hyped for OOT, i was hyped for turok 2 and ignoring zelda, but after beating turok 2 in about a week or two i traded it for zelda OOT and the rest as they say is history.



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My favorite gaming experience is when I got the gold cartridge for X-mas, I ran downstairs put it in the N64 and started playing it right then. Everybody seems to remember the first moment they walked onto Hyrule field for the first time but I'll always remember Kokiri forest and the Lost Woods as the most amazing areas. Great world, great music, great graphics, great gameplay. The only game to surpass Chrono Trigger in greatness.



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