Super Princess Peach

In OoT's overworld's favor: The night and day cycle was pretty cool and novel for the time, and still lends a nice atmosphere to the whole place. The first time I got to the overworld I was awed at how big it was, and it was pretty mysterious. The second time I came to it I had a horse, which was awesome, and shooting enemies while riding said horse with arrows was cool. It's pretty empty and plain, but it was really just a connecting hub for the other areas, it never really seemed like a big deal to me. The terrain in Majora's Mask was much better though, from what I remember.

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"Yes! I have a horse! Time to, uh... ride it around the backyard." There wasn't much of anything to see or do. I can't think of any reason it had to be so small and dull.

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You know you can take the horse out of there and travel around with it.

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Originally Posted by kbuchanan

You know you can take the horse out of there and travel around with it.

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I can't tell if you're trying to be cute or you're an idiot. Either way: stop talking.

That backyard I refer to is the pathetically small and uninteresting overworld. Wow, fences! It was as underwhelming as hell.

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Originally Posted by Salsashark

The first time I got to the overworld I was awed at how big it was

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I guess if you set your expectations low enough you will can't be disappointed. Even if it was big, hell, even if it would take 3 days to ride across, it'd be worthless if there was nothing to do or see. And there wasn't.

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Dude, it is a horse. Horse back riding in real life probably isn't all that uh, "amazing" either since horse = transportation. Not to be sarcastic, but did you expect a bunch of new hills, environments and temples to come poppin' outta the ground as soon as you mounted your ride? I had fun because I got what I was expecting: getting to pretend I was riding a horse in a Zelda game. Guess back in '98 I had my expectations managed?

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Originally Posted by Dylan1CC

Dude, it is a horse. Horse back riding in real life isn't all that uh, complicated either. Not to be sarcastic, but did you expect a bunch of new hills, environments and temples to come poppin' outta the ground as soon as you mounted your ride?

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You mean that doesn't happen in real life? You know, maybe this all stems back to these deep-seated issues I have with hating horses, I mean they fucked up my childhood pretty bad and... :cry:

No. Stop apologizing for this game. It is visually boring. The overworld has absolutely nothing to look at. No interesting geographic features, nothing. Just some walls, a couple trees, a little water (I think) and a ton of grass. Lots of grass. And some fences you can't even jump over unless you run at them exactly straight on. Blood Gulch has more to look at.

edit: And it's still unforgiveable that there is no fighting on horseback. It should have been there from the start. That arrow shooting crap didn't cut it.

And even if this game was anything to look at, it doesn't change the fact that the gameplay is entirely uninteresting. And young Link's wonderful noises made me wish on occasion that I was entirely deaf. Hell, I knew there was something wrong with this game when I spent the first part of the game hanging out with the Keebler elves and taking orders from a big tree. What happened to starting out like Link to the Past? Link's asleep in his bed, and next thing you know Zelda's all like "hey I need help" and Link's like "it's go time" and shit gets exciting!

Exciting. We need exciting. The next Zelda looks pretty exciting, but you never know.

So, uh, how about that Princess Peach game? I heard she cries when you hit her.

Boring? OK. "That's like, your opinion, man."

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No. Stop apologizing for this game.

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Apoligize for the fact that I like the horse riding and the overworld? Erm, nah.

Okay, I'll give you this, there was this part with this river thing, and spider things (I think), and I remember that being pretty cool.

But everything else was weak.

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Originally Posted by Grave

Wait, what? Those two games are absolutely nothing alike. You fail. At everything.

It warms my heart to see how many of you think OoT sucks. Anyone who disagrees should be punched in the neck.

On the subject of Marble Madness, I'd like to play it with the original trackball someday. It will probably make me even more insane than the NES version did.

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I didn't say it sucked.

I love how I should be punched in the neck for loving OoT where the guy gets overly defensive when people say it's good.

Random thoughts: I love OoT and think LttP is pretty good. Link's Awakening was like LttP but with a better overworld and more interesting premise. Majora's mask annoyed the hell out of me because I hate time limits on games based around exploration. Wind Waker had the best weaving of the story into the rest of the series of all of them. The original is simple by today's standards but stills plays great. OoT had the best Ganon fight of the series, followed by Wind Waker (although WW's was a disappointment at first since I was expecting something like Demon Ganon again instead of... toys). I have not played Minish Cap or Oracle of Seasons. Zelda II was weak, as were all the games in that style (like Battle of Olympus).

So: OoT > WW > Link's Awakening > Lttp/Original > Majora's Mask > Zelda II. I also fully expect Twilight Princess to be better then all of those.

Yay OT!