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Blacksaber on 28 March 2009

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Rpruett on 28 March 2009
RolStoppable said:
Rpruett said:
RolStoppable said:

Ocarina of Time was great when it was released, but it got completely obliterated by Majora's Mask two years later.

That is one hell of an accomplishment considering that Majora's Mask plot only involves saving a princess as a side story.

Ew.  No way.   Majora's Mask was a pile of ass compared to OoT as far as I'm concerned.

You wouldn't know art if it crawled up your ass, died and blamed Wii Fit.

Ah yes.   Such humor.  That was almost as funny as that thread you recently started, seriously. Lol.

 



NanakiXI on 28 March 2009
RolStoppable said:
Rpruett said:
RolStoppable said:

Ocarina of Time was great when it was released, but it got completely obliterated by Majora's Mask two years later.

That is one hell of an accomplishment considering that Majora's Mask plot only involves saving a princess as a side story.

Ew.  No way.   Majora's Mask was a pile of ass compared to OoT as far as I'm concerned.

You wouldn't know art if it crawled up your ass, died and blamed Wii Fit.

 

A little harsh but damn funny!

Yes Majora's Mask was a better game and that was a great feat to accomplish for the 2nd game in the 3D series to accomplish. The whole time passing thing was just awsome and sometimes I would just stare at the moon until it got closer and closer and... Bam!!!



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Son1x on 28 March 2009

I didn't really like OoT that much, maybe because I tried it few years ago.

Hmm, I did like Link to the Past though, which I played at about the same time.



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SmokedHostage on 28 March 2009
RolStoppable said:
Rpruett said:
RolStoppable said:

Ocarina of Time was great when it was released, but it got completely obliterated by Majora's Mask two years later.

That is one hell of an accomplishment considering that Majora's Mask plot only involves saving a princess as a side story.

Ew.  No way.   Majora's Mask was a pile of ass compared to OoT as far as I'm concerned.

You wouldn't know art if it crawled up your ass, died and blamed Wii Fit.

 

 That joke was funny the other 3 times you said it.



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Rpruett on 28 March 2009
RolStoppable said:
SmokedHostage said:
RolStoppable said:

You wouldn't know art if it crawled up your ass, died and blamed Wii Fit.

 That joke was funny the other 3 times you said it.

Not everyone stalks my posts as much as you do, you know.

By all means continue,  We all truly find you hilarious.  A real riot.



griffinA on 28 March 2009
SmokedHostage said:
griffinA said:
It was the atmosphere of the game. It oozed mystery and scope. The music helped in this way.

It was the innovations. The lock-on targeting system and the context sensitive A-button.

It was the mythos. While it had a simple overall story the world itself had TONs of backstory and legends and myths.

It was the details. Little things like signs on all of the blocks that corresponded to the sheikahs symbol. The fact that you could see the Forest Temple early in the game but couldn't get there until much later. The fact that the fishing game was a game within itself. The devil is in the details.

It was the characters. I haven't cared for characters so strongly in any game (except maybe Chrono Trigger). They were all characterized well and had unique personalities. Dialogue was almost NEVER boring.

 

 The owl says hi.

I did say 'almost'.

 



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radha on 28 March 2009

i think ZELDA is good but overrated never stud a change against final fantasy 7 which come out about the same time, FF7 catapulted RPGs to the mainstream and was a decisive player in the PSX domination, while zelda could not pull gamer towards the N64.

I remember back there was a confusion that led many to believe the game was like GTA, kind of like a sand box game and would take players half a day to cross the entire world map, later was clarified that nintendo meant it would take half a day to beat the game, well this meant that OoT was around 12 hours (i beat it 20 hours) long, compare that to FF7 that was 40+ and lots of replay value, image the disappointment. Also many things weren't as spected, liek epona that was very stiff and really did at anything to the gameplay (only speed) since you could only use her in a small area of the world. The game was great but far from what many are saying.



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yorch on 28 March 2009

If you come to troll...

Mmm... I finnished FF7, and yes, it was long, but because you don't even played 3/4 of the time... you stayed all the time watching the same animation of shiva, ifrit and demon...

I remember sephirot, with the summoning of the comet, it was a 2:30min animation!!! You saw mars and jupiter destroyed 5 or 6 times before you kill him....

At least zelda was 20h of REAL playing....

 

FF7 is a very good game, but it was long because you were constantly fighting and fighting to level up... not because of the complex history...



tehsage on 28 March 2009

I hold Majora's Mask up there as good as Ocarina of Time. They are my two favorite games of all time.