What was it like to play Zelda Ocarina of Time on day 1 of its release?
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What was it like to play Zelda Ocarina of Time on day 1 of its release?
What was it like to play Zelda Ocarina of Time on day 1 of its release?
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It was like getting my oeenus weenies inserted into a nice warm, wet hole. There was a LOT of what I refer to as a sucking sensation and it moved up and down my member, with increasing frequency. After about an hour of this, I came so hard. then I told your mom to clean herself up so I can start playing
Your mum stroked me the whole playthrough
wholesomepilled
They had it playable in stores like walmart in the game section it was a big deal
Just as garbage then as it is now. Trash game that ruined Zelda. Good riddance.
You were not even alive when it came out.
>he's posted this 259 times now
>even after the webms proving how much better at that fight you can be
>that webm has been posted almost once a day, sometimes multiple times a day, since last September
I wonder what triggered the dude so hard he had to get a bullshot webm to spam constantly. It reminds me of the smug Zelda posted every day for six years.
>you CAN be
The original point was about skill floors, i.e. how skilled you MUST be to win at all
It's not a great point. Stalfos are mid-tier minions. If someone wants to kill them slowly, pathetically, take damage, and mash the same button impotently, OK, evidently they can do that. Not a great point considering all the time, health, and effort wasted. Why wouldn't you just wait and counter an attack when you know stabbing the shield does nothing?
A) Because it speaks to the skill floor as a whole. If anything, being lower on the totem pole exemplifies that even moreso. It's a great point to make when talking about difficulty. You only stand to argue it's not fun, but it proves a lack of true difficulty nonetheless, and to others, that makes it lacking in danger and thus unfun to them
B) It was a shitpost. The original webm was made to defend BOTW, where the problem is more prevalent and talked about, and it was juxtaposed with spamming against a lynel. It was pure cherry picking to get (You)s, especially as the BOTW webm it was originally juxtaposed with purposefully had few and bad weapons
It's still no Japanese Humor.
>holding forward Mashing B
This is very fricking Souls game too and homosexuals love saying that shit is so great
i didn't like zelda so i wouldn't know. i was playing diablo 2 at the time. 3d games looked awful back then and no, they didn't just "age" badly. we knew they were shit then too, which is why sprite graphics were still popular well into the late '00s.
>i was playing diablo 2 at the time
Are you a time traveler? You know, since OoT came out a whole two years before Diablo 2...
Doesn't "ye" mean "the"?
You
it means you
Goddamn zoomers are moronic as frick.
This is the fruits of Obongos commiecore program to dumb everyone down to the level of the lowest gorilla Black person.
>"Ye" is also sometimes used to represent an Early Modern English form of the definite article "the" (pronounced /ðiː/), such as in "Ye Olde Shoppe". "The" was often written "EME ye.svg" (here the "e" is written above the other letter to save space, but it could also be written on the line). The lower letter is thorn, commonly written þ but which in handwritten scripts could resemble a "y" as shown. Thus, the article The was written Þe and never Ye. Medieval printing presses did not contain the letter thorn. Thus, the letter y was substituted owing to its similarity to some medieval scripts, especially later ones. The "thorn" character was supplanted during the later phases of Middle English and the earlier phases of Early Modern English by the modern digraph "th". This substituted orthography leads most speakers of Modern English to pronounce definite article "ye" as /ji:/ ("yee"), when the correct pronunciation is /ðiː/ ("the") or /ðə/ (listen).
Imagine being such a dumb gorilla Black person that you're right by accident. homosexual.
Different things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_(pronoun)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Thou/the
here be thy (thou)
I dressed as Link in 1999 for Halloween. Pic related lol. Grandma made me the best outfit ever. Mirror shield and all.
even a pedophile would be disgusted by that face
Lmao and I still get more b***hes than you (been married 9 years). I’m 30 years old now and probably mog you I bet you’re way too much of a pussy to post your face on here. Typical zoomer hit and run behavior.
My popcorn is ready for the asian incel meltdown
Literally don’t give a shit about Asian incel rage. My wife wasn’t born in America anyway. She doesn’t give a shit aboutit either lol. I just hate these losers on Ganker who talk big game but in real life they sit naked on their PCs eating Doritos
Your wife unfortunately looks like a man in a wig.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
First, bagging an Asian woman is literally zero accomplishment if you're white and above a 5/10. You could be 5'5" and still wife one up without trying, ESPECIALLY if she's not from a real country and doesn't know any better. Second, the Asian incel rage you're supposed to be worried about is that of your son. Pic related.
>still acting like asians are easy
bruh, east asians are the most pursued of any of the races, are you moronic? competition is fierce for them
If you think they're a challenge then you're... an average Gankerner I suppose
>competition is fierce
stfu you virgin loser lol
You have literally not stepped outside your fricking room in 5 years probably
it's tough being the 8.5%
>black women have the lowest response to white men
fug
>east asians are the most pursued of any of the races
no that's still whites since they are a world minority unlike asians.
brown skin cope?
>that anon
>white
He’s clearly of European descent. Italian obviously. But tanned because he goes outside and he’s not a homosexual. Look at his child photo he had blonde hair
You think a bug knows any better?
dude...
how did you do it? i need tips
ugly asiatic btw
White women aren't loyal anon, stop falling for their tricks.
wtf? eastern euro? You look exactly like me , except I've started doing lots of drugs in the last few years.
Based lad stuck around to watch the Gankerirgins seethe
>Hapa kids
Its over
Congrats on your 4/10 trophy bug wife
You're too based for all these eastern europoorian incel virgins Anon. Leave this shithole before it's too late.
>shows character development by cutting off her hair
Life imitates art.
>people still their minds over a basic asian girl
Lucky bastard.
Are alive? Finally decided to commit suicide?
Did the same when I was 10.
Better times.
chad energy
Props to grandma on the bracers
Wholesome
Your gandma was the shit. That's a great costume.
My grandma is still alive guys. My grandpa died last month though. Loved him more than anyone. He was my father really. My grandma is my mother.
>I don't think it'll fit you though
what an adorable grandma
Cherish her, I still miss my grandma and mom every day.
Very jealous, miss my grandmother dearly.
I'm jealous. I wish I had good halloween costumes growing up.
I also still have my original OOT and MM. MY MM is fricked though when you make a new game every item slot is automatically an ocarina of time including weapons and shit lol. Ocarina is the 1.0 cartridge with the old music and blood. I have all my old games down to NES.
Shit I forgot my pic
Only 2 games for my N64 I didn't sell or trade in. I couldn't do it.
I'd hold trading in ANY of your games against you, but the truth is there was a lot of shovelware on the N64 not worth keeping.
Glover was not shovelware bro.
She’s all I got left
>Glover was not shovelware bro.
Glover is the most prime example of N64 shovelware I can think of. That and Wetrix
Glover had absolute ass controls which is bewildering because the N64 joystick was the only good part of the controller, for the first year or two of use anyways.
I was too poor in college and I had that Gamecube envy bad after my soph year when Smash came out. Trade-ins at the time weren't horrendous, (I actually worked at an Electronics Boutique before college and knew guys who still worked there who hooked it up on some major redemption), so it made sense.
I used to play a SHIT TON of the New Tetris on N64 though. I loved that friggin' game.
>when you make a new game every item slot is automatically an ocarina of time including weapons and shit
What a weird bug. I know the save watch battery can die, but I've never heard of items being switched just because a cart is old.
Sometimes the save battery ALMOST being dead can do weird shit. I ahd a copy of super Metroid where every action was bound to "X" in the control settings and you couldn't change it. Also, you instantly die in the Ceres station opening sequence.
I don't have any pictures, but I dressed as Link for Halloween around that time too (might have been 2000, not sure.)
cool as frick.
this guy is winning at life
what is a literal gigachad doing on Ganker
nice
>Grandma made me the best outfit ever.
Never had anything made for me. Must feel nice.
based grandma
Cherish your grandmas while they're still around bros
>big bro and little bro matching shoes
>both getting into character with badass poses
>tiny faced jackolantern
>the duck statue is dressed up too
KINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Neat
wholesome
Based king.
>king
go back to twitter
king is a 4chad meme that shitter took from us
Is grandma still alive and well?
BASED
SO FVCKING ZASED
I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO KNEEL
I was actually disappointed at first because I was locked in a gay fairy forest before doing the first dungeon. I remember my mom even consoling me, saying "well, they can't all be good." Then I finally got to Hyrule Field and the magic started.
about as good as playing it on day 4 of its release, but not as good as playing it on day 11
I played it a couple days before release, Nintendo was doing some promotional demos at select locations. It was fricking awesome
EB Games never gave me my preorder t-shirt
It was the first game I ever pre-ordered, I was 13. My friends and I were excited beyond belief. I remember calling up one of them and we both played through the first area in our houses while talking about it on the phone.
Good times :')
Yeah, my friend from across street got it day one, and yeah it was fricking magical. I know some anon earlier said it looked like shit and we knew it, that was true but no one really cared. It was a different type of game, completely different from what we were used to. Plus we were kids, everything is better when you're that young.
the face humper dudes were scary. It really blew my mind that stealing the sword actually destroyed everything. I was like "damn, this was not my intention!"
it was fricking magic. i dont see how kids can feel the same thing these days when every game looks the same. the jump back then was huge. maybe with vr.
I never did own one of the gold ones.
It was based af, I got a gold one on release day from EB games if I remember correctly, because someone didn’t pick up their preorder. I also picked up a copy of Bust-a-Groove during that trip.
They gave it away before even a day was over?
I'm surprised OoT gold carts aren't even that expensive. I think I paid like, 70$ for mine last year. I was expecting it to be one of those 200$ collector things.
The expensive ones are ironically the gray majoras mask carts.
>over half a pound of gold in value on a singular toy video game
>not even the rarest of the rare like the Wide-boy 64 or some prototype game, just the less-common variant of a store display version of a game
This doesn't feel right
Its true, its the same logic that makes the original charizard so expensive. People want it more because its more recognizable than other OG pokemon cards at the same rarity from that set.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/id_bOr_1z9Y
it's also not the full game, it's a demo cart
There's something similar with one of the Turok games. 1.0 carts are black and 1.1 carts are grey, and because back in the day you could only get grey carts by mailing in your black one for replacement (because 1.0 has a serious bug) the normal-looking grey carts are the rare and expensive ones.
I can't say that I've put much effort in finding one. Maybe if I see one at a brick and mortar store I'll pick it up, provided they don't gouge for it.
I always thought gold was the default cartridge colour.
Never did pay attention to later OoT releases.
Had a pretty good time with the game though. Don't think I really played anything like that up until that point.
>Don't think I really played anything like that up until that point.
Nobody really had. Closest thing might be some of those early TPS games, like Megaman Legends.
It was the most magical thing I’ve ever felt in my life
Pretty fricking magical tbh. I got to play it right before Thanksgiving and through that holiday season of 98. It really was amazing. I had my tonsils out and replayed it during Christmas break too. It really was a great game. I kind of miss that the rumble Pak vibration feature is dead on every port since then.
Rented it day 1, can still remember the building excitement reading the manual while in the parking lot.
still prefer 2D Zelda though
back then I was a kid and no other kids cared about day 1 anything we got video games at random and beatings at random life was like a gacha game except everything on tv was fun
My Dad got it on release and he says it was the bomb but he was 15 so was probably easily impressed and he also said all the cool kids had a psx so noone at school was playing it except him.
I got the second to last gold cart at Toys R Us. It was pretty incredible. The screenshots in Nintendo Power had me hyped but also completely unprepared for the actual game. Was mind blowing really.
I was 9 years old and hated it at first because you couldn't jump. I thought it was a shit game because Link wasn't as agile as Mario or Banjo. Then after doing the Deku Tree it all clicked and it became my favorite game of all time, and still is to this day.
It was awful. Back then the Tendie Man would randomly show up in the houses of anyone who played Ocarina of Time and take a massive dump on the TV. You couldn't fricking escape him. He didn't always show up, but when he did, your house would smell like shit for days. Eventually, he died from colon cancer shortly after the Gamecube was released, but trying to play Ocarina before then was just fricking awful.
God I wanted this so badly but I was too much of a homosexual to explain to my parents that the gold cart was limited-time-only so I missed it by a few weeks.
That shitty gold cart tradition is what fricked over American box art all the way up to LBW.
>That shitty gold cart tradition is what fricked over American box
Elaborate. I assumed the terrible box art of the 21st century was due to creative stagnation.
I had the "Sheik is Zelda" twist spoiled to me before I even knew what Zelda is thanks to Melee, didn't get to actually play this until the Gamecube release but messed around on my brother's copy just a bit when I was a toddler. Great game. Just replayed my gold cart recently, it holds up damn well.
Not sure. I managed to get my hands on the games years afterwards though, but it was the normal cartridge.
Perfect anon.
everyone who had a 64 at our class got it
we bet who would clear it first, without guides, guides used to come in magazines in those days.
eventually everyone beat it
it was a gorgeous week, simplier days, I would get home around noon, eat, play the game for 2 hrs or so, do something and later watch anime like dbz from 4 pm to 6.
later we would gather in someones home to play vidia, eat hot dogs, chocolate milk, have actual kid fun.
same happened when Majora was released, but that was was a lot shorter, it took us 3 days or so to beat it.
and dont get me started on the magic of getting a game, the box, the manuals, the cartridge, the parents making a surprise(back then we still had a mom and a dad),
i didn't have a 64 i had ps1 instead. i remember my friend asked me to ask my dad to print out a walkthrough though because he got stuck in a cave or some shit.
Even in 1998 I found the owl extremely annoying. But to answer the question, it was fun.
People will just overreact to anything nowadays. I had three more friends that also played on release and no one actually believed they were playing the best game of all time like tryhards and tendies says.
It was a fun game worth the money, that’s it.
I wouldn't know, my brother wouldn't let me play until he beat the game.
Played on christmas's dawn.
were the gold carts really limited edition? I've seen more of them around than I have the standard grey carts.
Gold OOT carts are from the collectors edition, so they are the preorder version.
Which does make them "limited edition" but there was no actual hard stop on the number made, it was just equal to have many people preordered.
it was very EH REH EH REH EHH REEHHHH
it was nice
Wait that was limited edition? Frick me, that was the one I had. Ah well
I remember thinking the water texture looked really good.
I love the water caustic texture old games used to do, new games just slap a normal map on top and call it a day.
I still almost never see water in games that looks as good as the water in Super Mario Sunshine. Tears of the Kingdom had absolutely dreadful water in the opening area of the game, there was super obvious repeated textures everywhere. Mario sunshine was a rushed (albiet kino) piece of shit from twenty years ago and Tears of the Kingdom was a six year long massive project built off of another finished game, what the hell happened?
Nintendo has just stopped giving a shit. The success of the wii ruined the way they run the company, as it showed them they didnt really need to try as long as their hardware was quirky.
>what the hell happened?
They realized they became the disney of vidya and didn't have to try anymore, the cult will consoom no matter what as long as they remain the only portable on the market that normalgays know about.
I loved this fishing area. Literally spent hours in there. Always where I went when I didn't feel like doing anything else in game.
To this day, I think it's an ideal fishing minigame. Fun, simple, addictive. I'm also really fond of the 2D Zelda fishing minigame from Link's Awakening.
>Sleepover at friend's house
>Would play vidya until it was light's out
>Wake up super early while everyone was still asleep
>Raid the kitchen for snacks
>Reach this place
>Spend hours playing this, enjoying the OST and catching humongous fish
God those were good times.
God I miss when Zelda used to be more medieval and fairytale-esque and not the weeb open world garbage it is now.
Same. I'm more okay with the weeb stuff but hate the magitech.
People will point out beamos, a single laser beam enemy, as some proof the series has always been like this.
As if thats even remotely the same as having fricking gmod cars driving around hyrule.
I mean does the newest game even have a point to using your horse?
Genuinely why the frick do people still use swords and spears when the Sheikah can also develop sky-cannon geograph maps? I mean even real world shitholes like Africa still have guns and smartphones in regular use because they're just THAT good of technology, and BOTW/TOTK Zelda seems to be pretty prosperous even with all of Ganon's shit. But somehow the monster-raping lasers in a world monsters are a regular problem were just abandoned? Pissed me off in Spirit Tracks that trains were something established to be around for years, yet we aren't fighting with a musket. Stupid, stupid worldbuilding logic.
>Stupid, stupid worldbuilding logic.
It's more like they just don't give a shit, which is worse. Stupid can be fixed, not caring or wanting the worldbuilding to be halfassed and all over the place can't.
I really wish we could've seen what this series would become if Koizumi was still in charge.
Here's a comprehensive first-hand account of exactly that (technically it's day -1 and day 0).
http://web.archive.org/web/19990423081956/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/98_11/19_vg_journal/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990423095236/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/98_11/20_vg_jeffcheck/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117000338/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/98_11/23_vg_zeldgerst/index.html
Man I really miss the age of crazy rumors and early internet secrets being shared about games. What was so great about it is it had every bit as much of a chance to be totally bullshit as it is real. Stuff like the Triforce rumors, and the Hylain loach. A secret eel that's incredibly difficult to catch that only shows up in the pond every four times sounds like absolute bullshit, but it's not. Diving under the frozen Zoras domain to find the secret Unicorn fountain from the old beta trailers also sounds like bullshit, and it is. There was so much fun in checking out the game for yourself to see if the crazy advice you heard/read was real, and you had absolutely no way of knowing until you tried it yourself. Now everything is perfectly Datamined day 1 with absolutely no false information, and to enjoy it blind you have to go on complete media blackout. But then you don't get to talk about the game either unless it's with other people that are also on total media blackouts or didn't have interest in the game to begin with. For fricks sake we knew everything there was to know about Tears of the Kingdom before it even officially released.
I miss it too. Me and my friend spent a little over a month trying to find the Temple of Light. At school we'd always talk about it and the different locations we search and techniques we tried. I'd like to think it actually is real and we just never found it.
I literally got so butthurt about missing the gold cartridge that I ended up never getting the game until i picked it up used like 9 years later and never ended up playing it.
I must have been moronic because none of my friends told me about the gold cartridge. I literally didn’t even know about it until I found out recently in the last 5 years. In hindsight, I probably should’ve wondered why Ganondorf’s blood was green in my game. Probably just chalked it up to a graphical glitch
>marketing company, come up with some ads for our game. you're a kid with a sword and you slash up monsters and solve puzzles
>ok, we'll make it look like a medieval times flyer
Amazing. Pure bliss. There was just nothing like it on the market.
I still remember the smell of the game manual. Can't describe it, but sometimes I smell something that's exactly like it and I'm transported back.
what a thread.
dunno, ignored it because it was "not zelda" to me at the time.
still have never played it. zelda isn't 3d, it's not zelda
>what the frick is this camera shit? Why can't I just see the whole map like in Link to the Past?
I hated how it looked and how it controlled because I was a snes babby and couldn't wrap my head around a third dimension. I think I traded it in for Wayne Gretzky hockey.
Shit was almost 25 years ago I don't even remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday.
It was magical like butterflies pooping down my urethra.
How did you guys react to MM on release? I was only 6 at the time. I knew of it but didn’t have strong opinions at that age. If you were a Zelda fan up to that point, what was the perception of MM? Weird because it had no Zelda/Ganon? That’s what I remember thinking, but that’s it.
I remember consulting the guide I had and I never finished it. Frick I wish I still had all my old consoles, games and guides. Shame my mom was a drug addict.
>what was the perception of MM?
Mixed.
People didn't really come to appreciate MM until way later. Its themes flew right over kid's heads, but as they grew older people started recognizing it and growing fond of how unique it was.
Was it ever considered low effort? Kinda like the TOTK’s perception? I just remember disliking the time limit and thinking it was creepy. I understood it was serious but I just thought it was weird. Did you guys appreciate the fact they were doing something different with Zelda?
>Kinda like the TOTK’s perception?
TOTK IS low effort. They fixed none of the issues BOTW had after all these years and only added more poorly designed bullshit. But we're supposed to call it a masterpiece because you can now drive lego cars around.
I didn’t like BOTW but liked TOTK. The ascend stuff is fun. My problem is how bad the temples
are. But you can’t argue with anyone here (or anywhere) about that. The cult of Nintendo is definitely real. People tend to think criticism is an attack, but it’s really not. We should be able to have open discussions about what sucks and what works. I don’t think blindly giving it a 9 or 10/10 is conductive.
>Was it ever considered low effort? Kinda like the TOTK’s perception?
Nothing like TotK because TotK is actually low effort to reuse so much while adding relatively little and fixing nothing after 6 years. MM's turnaround time was so fast and how it was marketed so different and it distinguished itself as unique immediately upon playing that people were complaining more about it being too different than anything. That and not liking the time limit, that was the big complaint.
>Did you guys appreciate the fact they were doing something different with Zelda?
It became my favorite Zelda so yeah. It felt very unique while still feeling like it fit perfectly within the Zelda series. I love MM's opening in particular. But at the time I couldn't really sit through it. I thought it was just weird, so much of it was going over my 9 year old head and the pacing was so different I couldn't get into it until much later. I didn't really like it at all compared to OoT or ALttP.
I was 14 when it came out, but I recall being caught off guard with how disturbing the game felt (to me anyway). Still enjoyed the game a lot. Thought the environments were quite well designed, and the use of masks and transformations was pretty entertaining.
In case you're looking for an earnest, real answer, first of all you're in the wrong place but second of all it was incredible. There wasn't all that much hype for it as far as I remember, obviously there were ads and there were a number of Zelda fans but since OoT was the majority of people's introduction to Zelda in the 90s, it didn't have nearly the hype that something like Halo Reach or any of the DOOM family games or even Mortal Kombat did, at least in my tri-state. But that ended up adding even more to the sense of wonder and amazement; since you weren't TOLD to expect something amazing, the little details like the signs being dynamically destructible and you can repair them with the lullaby or the shark at the bottom of the lab pool or the giant helicopter plants left an even more indelible and deep impression on you. It was less of a feeling of "games are going to copy this and this is the future of gaming from now on" and more "this is the natural progression of adventure games, we've reached the next era and this is an important moment" type feeling. Some cynics in the thread are gonna say "Nintendie" or some shit but only because they're 16 years old and don't remember, or are too much of a Ganker contrarian to have any fond memories of their own. I don't have a lot of respect for Zelda as a whole series but this was a monumental game and I'm glad I got to play it on release as a kid.
Magazines would dedicate 8 pages to the number of polygons in Link's nose. It was as hyped as you could make a game pre-mainstream internet. I remember when it came out here there was an entire shelf dedicated to just it. Must've been at least a hundred copies. It's strange to think back now that hyped games weren't giant piles of shit once.
It was amazing at the time. I bought 2 copies of the gold cart and traded it in like few months later like an idiot.
Even in a decade of non-stop revolutionary games, it was special.
No one in the game talks like this
It's also not at all medieval, so the font and parchment aesthetic doesn't make sense either
Wtf where they THIIIIINKING
the word is Magical.. I know everyone sees us as jaded old boomers but I truly feel sorry for kids who didn’t grow up with this
LINK
HE COME TO TOWN