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Hyperion on 22 March 2008

What I'm really trying to ask was how it felt to play such great games in 3D for the first time. I really started getting into gaming in the early 2000s when I was about ten, so 3D graphics were pretty commonplace for me.

This thread is for all the gamers out there who have seen the evolution of gaming. Try to describe as best as you can the feelings of elation, wonder, and ecstasy (if there were any) that you experienced going from A Link to the Past/Super Mario World to Ocarina of Time/Super Mario 64.

How did it feel to see Hyrule in 3D for the first time? Were the graphics for Ocarina of Time fantastic when you first saw them (I bought OoT today and the graphics are not very good any more XD, but perhaps they were for their time)?

Please discuss.



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stof on 23 March 2008

Freedom. It felt like Freedom.

Sometimes you'd just turn on Mario 64 and run and jump around outside the palace. Absolute freedom...



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WhiteDevil on 23 March 2008
stof said:
Freedom. It felt like Freedom.

Sometimes you'd just turn on Mario 64 and run and jump around outside the palace. Absolute freedom...

 i never ownd a n64, but i remember playing it a bit at my mates. and just jump around lol it was fun



DaCountOfFat on 23 March 2008

Dawg - the first time I played OOT, and had played trough the first couple of task and was aple to step out into the "open world", I was was like "Oh my god - I can go anywhere where I want now, in this huge open world?? :-O"

I don't think, that any gaming experience will ever be able to top that sensation again....



starcraft on 23 March 2008

Awesome.



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tarheel91 on 23 March 2008

I was too young to really understand the true scope of what I was playing with SM64. However, I was still awestruck by Ocarina of Time. The game was so epic and beautiful. It did help that that's like the definition of my favorite type of game.



thekitchensink on 23 March 2008

You know the feeling when you and three buddies order five gigantic pizzas, and all of you pay for it, but then the three of them start to feel really sick and you get all five pizzas to yourself? A lot like that.



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coolestguyever on 23 March 2008

Ask me later, haven't played either.



makingmusic476 on 23 March 2008

An indescribable feeling of awesome.



Griffin on 23 March 2008

inever felt too m,ucj when i played oot and mario64 for the foirst time, they were just mmore games to mee. I was never a big fan of the os game games, maybe more nintendo fans will show up and give ideas about the game, but oot was cool, it had the horse opoons and the big field where you could run around. it also had the sea at the south where you could fish. i remember killing the ckickens and having them ome after me, that was pretty cool,