Does it hold up, or is it just a relic of the past?

Does it hold up, or is it just a relic of the past?

It's great unless your name is Arin.

it's dated but still ahead of its time. Plays prettywell all things considered; can't say I'm a fan, though.

it's legitimately worthy of being considered one of the greatest games of all time. that said, it's ridiculously easy if you're not playing it as a child, which is one of my only real gripes.

It's still more engaging than some game's released these days, so yes.

It's still easy and enjoyable to play, and has great, varying atmosphere. Thus, it holds damn well.

I just got an used WiiU, and the first thing I did with it was to mod it to run GC games and then test it with the Zelda Collection. What was meant to be a quick couple minute test run of the beginning of OoT, stretched out to be a full couple hour play session from beginning to the Hyrule town.

only the dungeons have held up
just look at that garbage empty overworld, what the fuck was the point?

3DS version is comfy

>overworld
it's not an overworld.
It's a field. Like a big room connecting different places. You seldom spend more than a minute in it.

>what the fuck was the point?
To let you ride a horse.
Yes, the times were totally different and more innocent back then.

Still totally holds up. Replay it every now and again and it hasn't stopped being a masterpiece.

To this day it has the best overall dungeons in two decades of 3D Zelda.

>hyrule town
So your run lasted 10 minutes?

Don't you have to clear the Deku Tree before leaving?

A new save.
From scratch.
You know, the stuff in Kokiri Village, then Deku Tree, Hyrule field, and finally the castle town?

yes.

Then that user must be one them speedrunning boys I keep hearing about because I sure as fuck took at least 1 hour before seeing Hyrule field.

I played it for the first time in 2011 and thought it was unplayable. I can't imagine ever going back to it, or trying it for a first time now after BotW is out.

>those grass textures
>vomitman.exe

>I played it for the first time in 2011 and thought it was unplayable.
How's that??
t. played it for the first time in 2010. On a real N64 at that. I thought it was damn amazing.

I only ever cheated at the Water Temple, after wondering around aimlessly for hours.

great game but it's not in the top 5 Zelda games

You try doing better with 4 kilobytes of texture memory and 32mb total storage space.

You're right. It's not IN the top 5. It's at THE top of them.

Can't really remember, I just didn't find it engaging, it was clunky to control, and pretty empty. LttP felt way more polished and had more content, and looked better. I got it off Wii VC so if I ever hook up that again I might give it one more shot but not any time soon. I did finish it though, but it was a slog.

This, the difficulty is really pisseasy, even when playing with no heartcontainers collected.

Its generally something Zeldagmaes suffer off since OoT

Eh. Playable by modern standards, but you won't think it's the greatest of all time if you play it for the first time now. Same with everything though. No game ages particularly well.

not even close not even in the top 3 3d ones

>LttP felt way more polished and had more content, and looked better.
funny, I beat LttP for the first time in 2003, and found it extremely meh in comparison. Floaty, souless, and overall very arcade-y.

OoT & MM share the #1 place in the series. Not joking.

>no ultimate cut with all the best aesthetic choices from the original and 3D

Yeh it holds up

Im 28 years old now. I dont know how old you are op.

it holds up fairly well.

t. OoT expert

he's such a retard

just admit you want OoT - Dark Souls Edtion. I know I do.

The game still holds up fairly well compared to other games in its era, the atmosphere in the dungeon is especially really good. Not a huge fan of the barren as hell overworld and the slow-as-fuck start of the game as child link.

Yes.

This repost is becoming a fucking relic of the past, that's for sure.

That's why you do a 3 hearts master quest iron boots and broken gorons knife only run.

It aged considerably worse than The Legend of Zelda. I would still recommend TLoZ as a good game. OoT is an enjoyable piece, but part of that rides on the ability to overlook it's faults and give it a free pass because it pioneered 3D game mechanics.

My biggest issue with it is the difficulty and also the fact that future zelda games tried so hard to copy the item system. TP and SS wanted to be OoT with a few flavors here and there and ended up with trash like the spinner and that stupid fucking whip thing in squidardsword.


Link to the Past is a good game and a very important game but it has some flaws that get in the way of how good it is subjectively for me based on playing later games first. But I'm not saying this as a "neo nintendoer" or whatever shit, I'm talking about the very next game released just one year later on inferior hardware - Link's Awakening. Everything about the movement, swordplay, collision, dungeon design, puzzles, overworld design is refined in that game; it's a clear evolutionary step forward from LttP that kind of colors it badly in retrospect for me.

This.
Never understood the hype around LttP, when LA did every single thing better. The DX version is easily the best 2D Zelda.

Like all early 3D games, it hardly holds up.

I tried playing OoT for the first time a few weeks ago. I never had an N64 growing up, so everything I know from that era is incredible PC games.

I tried. I really tried. Didn't look up any guides, went in totally blind, didn't use savestates and pushed through as far as I could stand. I got past the water temple before I just gave up. I can respect the influence this game has, but I only found it incredibly tedious and boring. The Forest temple was probably the highlight of what I played, but everything in this game is just paced so fucking slowly. It feels like it takes forever to do anything.

I've had mostly the same reaction to every other 3D zelda I've ever played, so I'm gonna assume I just lack the "enjoy 3D zelda" gene.

I was the same. I've heard the games are far more enjoyable to play as a kid, but even when I played OoT on an N64 back in the day I couldn't really get into it. I love BotW, though.

its a pretty good game, but I understand why I went for PC at that age

I've been putting off playing it because i want to play the 3DS version in HD on a home console like the Switch, i cant stand the N64 graphics anymore.

It's the perfect nostalgic game, every time I load it up all the sounds and visuals bring back great memories of hanging out with my best friends back in 1999.

Holds up way better than most N64/PS1 games that weren't 2d.

What did LttP need fixing that LA did?

No, but if you play it you will.

I just beat that and majoras mask for the first time and i like majora more but they were both fun

The forest temple could have used a BGM with a more upbeat strange funkish forest feel to it.

They were chasing the open world meme for that sweet skyrim money. It's still a good game it just needed to be a bit smaller.

EH REEEEEEEEEEEEH doo doo doo doo

I played OoT way after it was released and enjoyed it a lot. It's great.