Current Events > Currently playing OoT all the way through the first time

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I'm at the last dungeon and the game is great...easily a 9 or 9.5/10. Its definitely not the greatest game ever by a long shot. I could list off some better games easily (Portal 2, The Last of Us 1, Metal Gear Solid 1/2, Arkham City, Mario Odyssey...etc)

Long story short it's a great game but people who say it's the GOAT are high

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Samman123 posted...

Long story short it's a great game but people who say it's the GOAT are high

It holds up remarkably well for being ~22 years old, but at the time it came out, it was the pinnacle of exploration/adventure gameplay design.

Smooth, responsive controls with three-dimensional combat in real-time, an innovative multi-button item-mapping system for items that still holds over to modern Zelda games, Z-targeting to solve issues of fighting/moving in a 3D space, well-designed environments with tons of atmosphere and top-tier music, etc. etc.

It may not be the undisputed GOAT, but it's in the running. It's nearly perfect by today's standards, and for its time, it was beyond perfect.

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9 to 9.5 is a pretty damn good score.. like top 10 easily.

And it depends on the person. Certainly my favorite 64 zelda game.

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Played it for the first time like 2 or 3 years ago on 3ds. My favorite game ever.

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discodancer77 posted...

Played it for the first time like 2 or 3 years ago on 3ds. My favorite game ever.

Honestly pretty amazing that a game that's over 20 years old can still become someone's favorite game these days. I replay it ever 1-2 years and it's so fucking good it's embarrassing.

incredible in its time, but it's aged pretty poorly

wind waker is probably the only timeless zelda game

Kaiganeer posted...

but it's aged pretty poorly

I disagree. The 3DS version has decent graphics for last gen.
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Kaiganeer posted...

wind waker is probably the only timeless zelda game

Timeless, my ass, though. Wind Waker suffers from pacing issues and a lack of dungeons. Ocarina of Time is a constant journey from one compelling locale to the next, while Wind Waker is more like a waiting simulator. Point your boat in a direction, play the song, and wait...eventually you'll get someplace cool. Or maybe you'll just find a random island in the shape of a die that serves no purpose.

When Wind Waker is good (sunken Hyrule Castle, for example) it's really good, but there's a lot of fluff between the good bits. Ocarina of Time has a world that's large without being tedious. Wind Waker hit the tedious mark and rocketed straight past it.

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