favorite place to hang out in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

isn't kakariko the only answer here basically

might go with lon lon ranch

this is really hard. i loved the lonely scientist in his weird little house by the lake. but once i got accepted at gerudo's fortress i used to imagine it as my home base. maybe that's cuz i was 10 and everyone else there was a badass girl.

Gerudo's Fortress x a million

the graveyard+well come very close to putting karariko over the top tho.

maybe that's cuz i was 10 and everyone else there was a badass girl.

― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, February 1, 2013 12:08 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

haha that's the reason why I go to lon lon ranch

malon obv the best of link's prospects, just above saria. zelda a distant third.

nah ruto owns too

omg forgot about ruto

don't tell my father

This is my favourite Zelda for bosses but my least favourite for hangs, I could explore Link To The Past forever i.e.

the graveyard+well come very close to putting karariko over the top tho

man i dug the karariko vibbbeeee....

these threads are killing me tho

i had this painful moment where i remembered how excited i was when i first got this game, like that little kid cant breathe whole body excitement all day, waiting to get home from school and play it oh man

having really fond memories for kokiri forest, like the way you feel when you remember the home you grew up in

I had the limited edition gold versh with the gold cartridge and the big gold placard that was glued onto the regular box

there's nothing here as evocative as the beach in majora's mask or the homeless camp under the bridge in LttP but sometimes the scale of places could get you all by itself. like, hyrule field is basically a big waste of space but at least in 1997 space was the only justification space needed. same w the hugeness of the lake.

absolutely love how everything changes between young link and adult link, the difference between young world and old world is like the difference between the america I grew up in and the America I know now, everything's ruined and iago is running jp morgan

this game was absolutely massive for its time, like its got at least 50% more content than they had to include for it to be an instant-classic.

having really fond memories for kokiri forest, like the way you feel when you remember the home you grew up in

saria showing you her "favorite place" deep in the lost woods as a kid and then that same place being the entrance to the forest temple, which you come to as an adult because saria's disappeared and where would saria have gone, was just A+ emotional manipulation.

also fuck link forever for just throwing away the ocarina saria gives him as soon as he gets a "better" one.

This is my favourite Zelda for bosses but my least favourite for hangs, I could explore Link To The Past forever i.e.

i liked exploring link to the past cuz it was a little more navigable for me mentally but it lacked the bigness and the danger of the N64 ones. 'link to the past' is probably the one i most want to play rn cuz its just a little more manageable all around. the one with the best hangs for me is majora's mask tho

hahaha whenever you google a character to remember what they look like you get 50 images of fanart instead, don't fuck with my nostalgia google

didn't appreciate majora's mask as much as a kid but feel like I would probably enjoy the hell out of it 2day

majora's mask is probably the best ever zelda.

i liked majora's mask, i think its about as good as this one just in a different way.

i think wind waker is the best of the 3d zelda games though and also has aged the best

didn't appreciate majora's mask as much as a kid but feel like I would probably enjoy the hell out of it 2day

yeah it didnt like it as much when it came out cuz i was hard into REAL RPGS but my bf got the virtual console version a couple of years ago and it was really enjoyable - i think its one of the best 'urban' environments theyve ever done and its a blast to just roam around in. i also really dug the masks the second time and the structure of the game as a whole.

majora's mask kinda blew my mind w/ all the giant moonbeasts at the end just throwing moonmountains at each other or w/e

oh man that field where you meet majora at the end and everything looks like somebody programmed a 'on drugs' filter??

Wind Waker had some decent hangouts. Lots of islands and watchtowers that you could claim for your own.

wonder if I could get a poster of the glaring moon I would prob tape it to my ceiling and stare it as I go to sleep

Twilight Princess either had no memorable environments or I was too old.

so many sad little stories in majora's mask. the carpenters who are building the tower for the town's annual festival, but by day 3 they've all fled the descending moon except for their leader who's standing in front of the unfinished tower with his arms folded shouting COWARDS! LET IT FALL!

Twilight Princess either had no memorable environments or I was too old.

― jim, Friday, February 1, 2013 12:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah now that I am in my 20s I feel like I shouldn't even bother with the gamecube zeldas + beyond =(

@ Lamp yeah Majora's Mask is my favourite overall with a bullet. For favourite hangs I'd pick any major location in Wind Waker. Unfortunately Wind Waker had that treasure-hunt-the-Triforce segment

smoke weed/fish lake hylia everyday

it was such a major revelation the day my friend taught me how to get the triforce in ocarina of time

wind waker is really really special and i love the way the quest is handled (for the first half all link wants to do is save his sister, not necessarily the world) and the way it turns out to literally be a post-apocalyptic zelda where all the old communities are scattered and decentralized and clinging to existence on isolated crags of rock in the sea, but twilight princess can go fuck itself.

i thought the dark world parts where you played as wolflink were really evocative - particularly the first time you go to hyrule castle. there were also a couple of really well-designed and eerie caves/dungeons outside the major ones. also, again because im a sucker for ice levels i really vibed the yetis palace level particularly the snowy grey gardens stuff. these two bewildered recluses trapped in a couple of overheated rooms while the rest of their grandeur falls to pieces around them...

http://i.imgur.com/UZZuInA.jpg never 4get

it was such a major revelation the day my friend taught me how to get the triforce in ocarina of time

zeldas are the best single-player multiplayer games ime

i just wanna spend the weekend eating pizza and playing zelda, arguing about whether or not theres a hidden heart piece in this one random area, i mean its in the game for a reason

yeti's palace was yes awesome. but every time i'm like i should play twilight princess again cuz of that yeti level i stall out wayyyyyyyyyy before i get there. idk there's a dreariness to it, visually to some extent but also tonally.

dfl you are otm all over this thread

My favourite shots in OoT are the stationary camera POVs. The overhead angle as you walk into the market, or the wide angle view of the Temple of Time

dfl = dlh, I don't know what I was typing

the draconian views of the hyrule market!

difficult 4 lyfe

zeldas are the best single-player multiplayer games ime

i just wanna spend the weekend eating pizza and playing zelda, arguing about whether or not theres a hidden heart piece in this one random area, i mean its in the game for a reason

― castle grayscale (Lamp), Friday, February 1, 2013 12:35 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah so many memories of going gold skulltula hunting w/ my friend

when i went into the temple of time i used to walk really slowly cuz it didn't seem like the kind of place where you should run. (well, that is, the first time. eventually you have to go back there every ten minutes to switch time periods and my reverence bled away pretty quick.)

a gf and i used to get stoned+play this and she'd never played it as a kid and watching her experience the environments as real places instead of as the thoroughly scoured and memorized series of obstacles they'd become for me over the years was the best shit ever, like, she crept uncertainly into dodongo's cavern and stopped to look up curiously at one of the eye statues and it blinked at her and started firing a laser beam and she screamed and ran away

One of my favourite moments in games is the beautiful underwater palace in Wind Waker where you claim the Master Sword, and colour and life floods back into the palace and you get to feel like a badass taking on this army of enemies.

sounds like I need to play wind waker

yeah i think so, he's a recurring character in a lot of the games

http://www.game-art-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Redead-OoT-Model.png

I liked to hang out with those dudes

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpj618WmNI1r0tl4ho1_250.gif

fuck those dudes, but iirc the biggoron sword kills them completely?

why would you kill such chill dudes? he's just kissing link's forehead

dunno if I'll fuck w/WW HD but I can def see me getting into another new zelda

maybe I'll try skyward sword

Oh yeah, the ultimate hangout spot is the Bombers' clubhouse in Clock Town. Very exclusive.

!!! totally

Dolphin apparently works well with this. The Giant Bomb guys recommend trying it out

you could freeze all the redeads in a room by playing the "sun song" (for some reason).

dark link just leaning against the tree in the center of the pool room was the eeriest sight in the game.

majora's mask made really terrific use of the limitation of not having the time/budget to make (many) new characters: all the OoT characters recur in different guises. literally uncanny, unheimliche. the mask salesman, who was like less than peripheral in OoT but was still somehow unsettling, is unleashed to be deeply creepy. evidence: if you type "happy mask salesman" into google it suggests "happy mask salesman angry".

My fave bits/environs of OoT were moments, like first riding Epona's across Hyrule Field, or the first time jumping off a ledge whilst holding a chicken, or the dancing hurdy-gurdy man in the windmill that you jam with

I enjoyed the fish powers/mask in MM too much. Zooming thru the waves at max speed to that music

I replayed this on the 3DS and in a magical way it made me experience it like I did the first time, the wonder and awe of the environments, the charm of the characters and villages, the smoothness of the gameplay, which isn't as smooth anymore on the N64 but improved to modern standards on the 3DS. The remake playthrough actually cemented it as my favorite Zelda game and for anyone interested in playing it again I'd say it's the ultimate version. I'd started replays when it was packed in as a bonus for the gamecube games and I downloaded it on the Wii, but I think it needed to be transplanted into the modern world for me to experience it anew.

Even in this day and age I found myself blown away by the amount of content. There's the sheer size/length, but despite the ribs on Hyrule Fields' emptiness there are so many small things, emotional links from young to old, games to play, all the things you can _do_, planting seeds, finding secrets.

my nephew got this for the DS and couldn't get as far as getting the fricking sword

what a goron

It took me a few hours to get the sword. I got lost in the Lost Woods.

i like when you get the sword and it says "this is the ancient treasure of the kokiri, but you can borrow it for a while" and you never return it

i guess it's old news that link is a manic kleptomaniac tho

This is all really making me want to go buy Skyward Sword.

are wiis like £10 these days

I bought Skyward Sword with my little brother like a week after it's release. I was humiliated. I couldn't make it into the first dungeon without being killed by these stupid flowers. I'm getting to old to learn how to use the wii-mote, apparantly. My little brother has completed it, and says that it is great.

Twilight Princess was hit and miss. I liked how slow it started out, so you really got to know the characters. And I liked the sad mood. And I loved the dungeons (Goron mines was incredible) But not the stupid goats and fireflys and sumo-fights. Quite a lot of it was sort of a waste of time.

Twilight Princess is a brilliant 20 hour game trapped in a 50+ hour game

I've restarted Twilight Princess based on this thread, and the character designs are hilariously bad:

"Okay, we are at the apex of the Gamecube and the start of the Wii, we got a lot of flack for the 'Celda', now we can finally make a realistic game with recognisable humans!"

"Excellent! But boss.... what are humans?"

That said, malevolent baby is all-time.

Yeh all those derpy faces. Midna is such a great character tho.

I've restarted Majoras Mask based on this thread. Am just spending time filling out the notebook, never did that before. Such a great atmosphere. (also restarted mario 64, but that is another thread)

Wind Waker has a few other things going for it:

- Its world is convincingly big. You actually feel as though you're sailing across a big expanse of ocean, and the islands look as big from the outside as they do from the inside.

- It feels more polished than either of the N64 games. Everything is artfully designed. The graphics don't show their seams. Link to the Past had a similar polish.

don't remember that much about link to the past tbh

link's awakening doe...

link's awakening best 2d zelda

10 years old crying at my Gameboy

mechanically and as-a-world link's awakening is def the best 2D zelda and i am usually all about Graphics Not Mattering but the lushness of LttP is hard to beat on the green pixelated gameboy. also having only two buttons basically turns the entire game into the water temple.

this thread rules

broke down and ordered a game cube. the s-video/composite -> vga converter is gonna end up costing more than the 'cube

wait why would you do that. get the old Wii with backwards compatibility!

wii's are still like $80

also it looks like wind waker regularly goes for like $40+ =(

it was cheaper to find a guy selling the whole kit and kaboodle for $25 (gamecube + controller) than it was to buy a wii + gamecube controller (like $80 + $20 for the controller)

zelda games probably gonna be pricey still but there's a handful of neat cube games that you can probably find dirt cheap, like eternal darkness and such

zelda games tend to hold value p well so you could always just buy and resell

yah will prob do that

just walked into a GameStop and wow in ten years gamers have not changed at all lol

i'd argue if you're gonna want to use component video might as well get the Wii - the cables for GameCube are like super expensive as you said

but whatever. go buy killer7 and mario sunshine

Gamecube has the cool GBA adapter you can plug into the bottom of the console and play, or just emulate the games like the rest of us on a desktop or PSP

play n64 every day

the two games that came with this thing are 'the tasmanian tiger' and 'shadow the hedghog' wth

-everything smells bad

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Picked up a cheap copy of Ocarina a while back and ended up unintentionally sinking a LOT of soothing hours into it this winter. I still hold to my college-era opinion that MM is substantally better in all respects, but I haven't played that in like 13 years so who knows. Lots to love in Ocarina even if Navi's annoying, combat's thin, and some key things are needlessly opaque; this thread gets it right by focusing on environments. Field and Lake notwithstanding, they're all great, nicely-scaled and evocative, and if you didn't want to spend time there then no amount of goodie-collecting would make it fun - especially in places where over-large spaces have been put between things, which really hurts Hyrule Castle Town imo (the slog to the time altar especially, since you have to make that trek sooooo many times).....

The dungeons are mostly good too, though Forest Temple feels a little dinky and under-themed. I loved the Water Temple - one of the few places where the shift to 3D adds much of anything besides polygonal ugliness (the thrill of the hookshot is basically the only other boon), and also where I really felt like I had to use my brain to solve something rather than following really obvious hand-holding cues. The shadow-Link room is probably the most memorable single location. For chilling, I guess I'll be a weirdo and say Kokiri Forest, even if it quickly feels like a place you've outgrown. Lots of stuff to climb upon and hop between, and everybody loves you! Gerudo Fortress would take it if they'd programmed in more stuff to interact with once you're welcome there, or more dialogue for the locals.

Finally: how sad is it that beating the Water Temple doesn't unfreeze Zora's Domain or the shortcut to Lake Hylia? Feels just plain unfinished, like the dead-end threads at the end of Ultima VII Pt. Two. The Gorons get to come back home! Do love the 'frozen' verson, very eerie, but it would be so much more satisfying to feel like you were, one by one, undoing all of Ganon's evil acts.

no votes for Zora's River smdh that place is gorgeous

Is there any way of getting this for the WiiU?

you can play the n64 version on the wii u virtual console iirc