How much actual hype was there when Ocarina of Time was about to come out? What was it like experiencing this on release day?

dunno

>>716266514 (OP)
I didn't even notice or really know about it.
I remember it was a Final Fantasy and Pokemon era for sure, though. Took up more of my and my friends time by far. Also Gex lol.
My 2 friends who had N64 didn't own OoT, one of their brothers did and asked me for help with the Water Temple because he knew I played LoZ, ALttP, and LA.
And I was still playing SNES personally.

I remember dropping it very early when I entered Hyrule Field and it was a completely empty and barren wasteland with no objects to interact with, gameplay variety, puzzles, treasure, rewards, enemies and boss battles

>>716266514 (OP)
it was extremely hyped in nintendo power and gaming mags. it's also my earliest memory of a game getting delayed again....and again...
that push from 1997 to 1998 felt like an eternity in child-years

>>716266930
>I remember dropping it very early when I entered Hyrule Field and it was a completely empty and barren wasteland

I know that feeling. I didn't, but I was disappointed. I'd played every previous Zelda and I just remember the first couple screens of LoZ were dense with Octorok and the landscape was mazelike with trees and rocks.

I really hate how Zelda has turned into essentially 1v1 combat most of the time, I want swarms of shit to slash.

>>716266957
Huh, I didn't know that (I'm a '97 baby). I played the gamecube version that came w/ windwaker. Did it live up to the hype for you?

>>716267406
what's your opinion on the souls games

>>716266514 (OP)
bags of sand

>>716266514 (OP)
Idunno I was 3 and playing Dreamcast

>>716268070
Never played/not really interested.
Not a fan of the soulslike tag though.

>>716267406
>I really hate how Zelda has turned into essentially 1v1 combat most of the time, I want swarms of shit to slash.
Did you not play BoTW or ToTK?

I remember reading about how it took a full 24 hours in real time to cross hyrule field.

you should have seen that "will thou get the girl or play like one" commercial with the conan music it was awesome

>>716268821
Yeah it sucked.

>>716269073
Doesn't matter. Most fights are against a group of enemies.

>>716269130
Yeah but it's gay and slow and slashing your sword should hit fucking everything in it's path not 1 dude and it shouldn't break.

>>716269197
Don't care. You claimed the new games are 1v1. They aren't.

>>716266514 (OP)
>This thread mostly being people not alive and old enough to remember
It was a big release but games were not hyped nearly to the level of more modern ones where the hype is this huge anticipation that explodes on release day. Games like OoT or Pokemon hit their highs well after release when enough people had gotten it via word of mouth so that everyone was talking about it. It was huge (with people who had an N64) about a month or two after release. It was not a cultural hype train like Pokemon was. It was a game that everyone ended up getting (along with Mario 64, Goldeneye, Mario Kart) and everyone pretty much loved it. Blockbuster had a wall of just OoT and people would rent N64s just to play it.

>>716266514 (OP)
exactly the same as the Switch 2, you would call the store asking if they had it in stock, and the first round of cartridges were gold

>>716266514 (OP)
it was more fun and mind blowing than anything a zoom zoom will ever experience, thats for sure. you also had mario 64, ffvii, mgs, kart 64, goldeneye, pokemon gen 1 releasing around the same time. no better time to be a young gamer.

>>716269221
Reread. Or just read because you didn't the first time.

>>716269426
I literally quoted you, you retarded faggot.

>>716269304
>This thread mostly being people not alive and old enough to remember
You think I'd be pushing 40 and still be on here? Ew.

>>716269221
>its not 1v1 even though you can only attack one enemy out of a group at a time
You sure showed him.

>>716269528
That's blatantly incorrect.

>>716269474
It will happen to you too, Anon.

>>716269368
It was amazing. Multiplayer in person kicks the shit out of online with randoms.

>>716269528
You could only attack enemies 1 at a time in old games too, what the fuck is your point?

>>716269073
it's easily in the upper echelon, whereas previous games aren't

>>716269462
Yeah and you didn't read. You're an idiot.

>>716269685
I accept your concession.

>>716266514 (OP)
I just remember Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and NSYNC/Backstreet Boys stuff in Walmart/Target.

>>716269639
lmao
In terms of fucking what.

>>716266514 (OP)
It was a mainline Nintendo game, hot off the Super Mario 64 craze.
And LTTP was very popular in its own right.
If it had sucked, that would have been the end of it. But it delivered more than even SM64.

>>716269695
My concession sells the footlong hotdogs so yeah, spread your buns for it gay boy.

>>716269625
>in old games
you might wanna be more specific

>>716269625
The 2D games all had faster paced combat and was more dangerous overall.

>>716269889
>>716269890
Sidestepping the point. Lol.

>>716269767
And that’s the crazy part-Nintendo could’ve easily fumbled it. Going full 3D was a gamble, but instead we got Ocarina, a game that not only nailed the transition but basically wrote the playbook on 3D adventure design. Lock-on targeting alone changed everything. The fact it holds up mechanically to this day says it all.

I remember buying montly gaming magazines and every one having a new images from time to time was fucking great, also that trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzhw_jxWJoU

>>716269580
First it was it doesn't matter that the swings only hit one enemy now you're saying he's wrong about the combat altogether.

>>716270117
>I really hate how Zelda has turned into essentially 1v1 combat most of the time, I want swarms of shit to slash.
This is blatantly incorrect. That's all I was addressing.
>slashing your sword should hit fucking everything in it's path not 1 dude
What are 2 hand swords? What is spin charge?

>>716269987
You can't tell me what my point is, faggot.
You swing your sword in 3 fucking D and it only makes contact with one specific target? Yeah 1v1. Gay shit.

It was the game of the generation, just like GTA 6 is for zoomers. It was everywhere in videogame magazines, it was the talk on websites and forums, and because the internet was so limited back then, only the most dedicated videogame fans cared about. Got it on day one and finished it in a week, without guides, not like it was hard.

>>716270241
Odd that you didn't mention this right off the bat when he claimed that. Now you have to kiss him.

>>716270558
I'm sorry you're too autistic to understand context.

>>716270618
>the context was me understanding his post perfectly
definitely

>>716270728

>>716266514 (OP)
No one cares Shitendo slop

Release days weren't hyped up by every faggot online leading up to it.
FOMO manipulation was still in its infancy.

>>716266514 (OP)
Only elder millennials will know the feel of the N64-PSX era.
It just felt...otherworldly in retrospect.
Like we were just seeing a glimpse of limitless potential.

>>716266514 (OP)
I got it Christmas '98, and had just started listening to industrial music and got a lava lamp as a present.
So my time playing Ocarina is linked to playing in a dark room in winter snowstorms, my bedroom only lit from dim red of
the lava lamp while songs from Remix Dystemper played softly in the background so I didn't wake anyone. I would also intersperse
jack off sessions watching scrambled PPV porn on the TV. So my experience with it was somewhat depressing but
oddly comforting as well.

When I hear this shit it gives me heavy nostalgia now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f87XWGxbL2g

>>716266514 (OP)
People who don't remember this should not be posting on the internet about video games, because they are clueless.

It wasnt like now where everyone knows about and gets a game day 1, finishes it in a few days, and then completely memory holes it a week later. I loved LttP and didnt even know this game existed until I had a sleep over and my friend whipped it out. No idea how long past launch day that was.

>>716273661
>and my friend whipped it out
you play with it?

It wasnt like now where everyone knows about and gets a game day 1, finishes it in a few days, and then completely memory holes it a week later. I loved LttP and didnt even know this game existed until I had a sleep over and my friend whipped it out. No idea how long past launch day that was. This was a game we would talk about and play on the side for months with Pokemon (cards and GB games) being the main thing.

>>716273823
Stop being a fag.

>>716273923
The game you fucking FREAK.

>>716273823
>>716274109
I dont remember if I played it at that time or not, I remember thinking 3D was weird. I did eventually get OoT and I played it a lot more than that friend.

>>716268821
Toxotransmosis moment.

>>716268821
That doesn't describe those games at all.

>>716266514 (OP)
I remember when my older brother booted up this game for the first time and I was totally enthralled by it. Same thing with FF8

It was a mystifying game in the lead up since magazines would put out beta screenshots that looked like a different game every time. 3D was in its infancy so it was hard to say what any game was really going to be like. It was highly anticipated by pretty much everyone interested in vidya though, and every kid I knew that had it (including me) played it for 6 months straight afterwards. it was a really unique era since the hype machine actually delivered on a consistent basis. Regularly seeing articles like "Keep an eye out for this Metal Gear Solid game, we didn't know anything about it but played it at E3 and can't wait for its release" and then it comes out and is actually awesome hit way different than almost everything since. The late 90's output was insane and they're still chasing its franchises trying to get the lightning back in the bottle 25 years later.

>>716266930
Sounds like Totk

>>716266514 (OP)
Video game magazines said it was good and there were "legend of zelda OoT out NOW" advertisements everywhere in walmart's electronic section. There were also a bunch of commercials on TV advertising it and I remember thinking that it looked awesome. That was about the extent of the hype surrounding it back then.

>>716280019
Oh, and also there were a bunch of demo stations in walmart's electronic section where you could try out the game and kids were always lined to playing it

>>716271992
No, elder millennials know the feeling of the NES and SNES era. I'm 39 and was hyped for the SNES more than I was for the N64.

>>716266514 (OP)
I was too young to get hype or marketing, but watching my cousins fuck around in kakariko graveyard is my very first "holy shit graphics will never get better than this" memory. Remembering what I THOUGHT it looked like still makes me laugh when I replay it.

>>716273838
Yeah, this is pretty accurate. I didn't really know the day that X game or system was going to release because I didn't even have the Internet at home until 1998 (I had to go to the library to use it before that and I only used it to play MUDS). I'd just go to funcoland or walmart and then the game or system would just be there lining the shelf. If it was a big release, there would be a bunch of demo stations set up for it.

>>716279814
Sounds like OoT because it is OoT.

>>716270414
I think you're going a bit far calling it the "game of the generation." I remember there being way more buzz surrounding Final Fantasy 7 than there was surrounding OoT. FF7 commercials ran nonstop.

Watching zelda videos
Love all the lore. Kicking my feet. Rubbing my belly. I'm enjoying this

>>716282182
>Love all the lore
STOP

>>716282182
Zelda "lore" has to be the gayest shit in existence.

>>716278204
Enthralled is the right word. I remember it was the first time I saw a video game trailer as one of the previews in the movie theater. Seeing the willst thou suck commercial on the silver screen made me so excited for the game. Until then I had only seen video games marketed in magazines or on TV. I was enthralled since that moment.
The game itself was every bit as magic as that experience made it seem. Seeing the animated title screen made you realize you were playing something special right away. Then starting the game and the amount of detail in Kokiri Forest with the little fairies flying around, it made you feel like you were right there with them in this wonderland.

>>716266930
Zoomer hands wrote this post. Absolutely NO ONE reacted that way to Hyrule Field in 1999, and you have to know absolutely nothing about what games were like back then to think that they did.

>>716266930
Me too, right after you skydive off the sky island and climb out of the water into that barren empty field. Then you go around and realize there's nothing interesting to discover at all. Man what a piece of shit game that was.

>>716282182
>Loving all the lore
You're welcome

>>716282996
>Zoomer hands
I'm older than you and have played more games than you. OoT's Hyrule Field is complete garbage and a stepdown from the very previous two Zelda games. Go ahead and tell what what you do on Hyrule Field.

>>716283180
>OoT's Hyrule Field is complete garbage and a stepdown from the very previous two Zelda games
That doesn't even make any sense in this discussion you retard. No one gave a shit about Hyrule Field because of what was in it, they cared because, holy shit, its a massive arena that you can move around in in 3D. You keep outing yourself as a zoom zoom with every post.

>>716266514 (OP)
It tasted like salty milk and coins

>>716283305
>No one gave a shit about Hyrule Field
Almost like it was shit lmao.

>>716283180
>OoT's Hyrule Field is complete garbage and a stepdown from the very previous two Zelda games
Link's Awakening didn't take place in Hyrule.
>inb4 y-you know what i mean!!!
I know you are a gay homosexual that knows less than even a zoomer.

>>716283373
You're retarded, I'm sorry. I don't think you're capable of grasping exactly how retarded you sound either, which is a shame.

>>716283405
>Link's Awakening didn't take place in Hyrule.
LA didn't have an overworld where every screen had something to do on it? News to me.

>>716283450
I'm sorry you're retarded and your single mother was stupid enough to buy you an N64 for Christmas which why you need to cope like this.

>>716283180
>Go ahead and tell what what you do on Hyrule Field.
Why do you expect to be able to do something on a barren field? Have you ever seen a field IRL? Does it have tons of people on it waiting to chat to you? Or is it empty? Use your fucking brain you ape

>>716283535
kot

>>716283535
>Why do you expect a video game to have level design?
I don't know

What console and what game was the kid from 1998 who didn't give a damn about The Legend of Zelda and didn't have, nor wanted to have, the Nintendo 64 garbage playing?

>>716283527
Meds

>>716283596
It's an empty field because it connects places to each other. But I guess your 18 year old zoomer brain needs constant dopamine shots so can't handle it

>>716282996
This. I refuse to believe there was even a single person who reacted to Hyrule Field with disappointment in the 90s. Simply not a believe claim given where tech was back then.

>>716283527
No, those anons are right, you sound dumb as shit.

>>716283628
His parents didn't love him so usually something like Croc on PSX.

>>716283727
>it's empty because it's supposed to be shit
Amazing argument. You know those linear zones connecting other areas are also garbage, right? Why doesn't it have anything remotely similar to the complex cave system in LttP to the north? Why do grottos have nothing in them, like maybe you get a chest with a single ruppee? You play MM and you find a grotto and it can have a mini-game challenge? Why is Hyrule Field so fucking empty.

>>716283842
No, I'm not an N64toddler with nostalgia.

>>716283879
I'd rather play any bad Playstation 1 game than a piece of crap like Zelda.

>>716283628
That child didn't exist, but if their parents were poor or uninformed enough to buy a PSX, it was Crash Bandicoot and FF7. If the parents were rich enough for a decent PC it was Starcraft and Diablo.

>>716284138
With just that name, I would never play a Diablo game.

Besides, playing on PC is simply a disgrace to good taste.

>>716284015
This anon was molested as a child and grew up to be a pedo btw

>>716284005
>>716284015
Getting the vibe that this is a 12-year-old snoy who has brand loyalty because his parents said he could only have 1 console, and he picked PS4

>>716284259
>playing on PC is simply a disgrace to good taste.
Yup, it's an retarded N64baby

>>716269697
Same I had a Graymon shirt

>>716284282
>PS4
At least the PS4 had Bloodborne. What games do the N64 have that's good and not made by Treasure?

>>716284479
Theory confirmed

>>716284479
>At least the PS4 had Bloodborne
>had
At least you're aware of how cucked your childhood was/is.

>>716284282
>>716284479
It's impossible not to love Playstation.
Playstation is too based

>>716284326
Sorry, I'll never kneel before that fat bastard (Gabe Newell), and I wouldn't give Nintendo my money for nothing.

I'd rather buy a Sega Saturn.

>>716284739
Take your anti-psychotic meds zoomie, I can practically smell the stench of your suicidal ideation through the fucking modem.

And the worst part is that there are actual 'people' on this website that will look at this 'argument' and think this is serious.

>>716266514 (OP)
I got the game when I was 5 so I wasn't exactly in the sort of spaces where hype was present. It was the first game I had ever seen with a story and I learned to read just because I was jealous my older brother was having so much fun playing it and I wanted to have fun too. I ended up not liking the game all that much and enjoying all the racing games on the N64 more and throughout our childhoods my brothers and I played just as much, if not more, of the Super Nintendo our family had gotten for cheap the year prior. Lesson is, never buy new systems for your brats, they won't be able to tell the difference anyway.

>>716284479
Anon here. Disregard that, I suck cock

>>716267406
Top-Down Zelda chads, RISE UP!

>>716266514 (OP)
I was 10 when it came out. I'd never played Zelda before, despite owning a NES, SNES and GB. I saw an ad on TV, and couldn't believe how amazing it looked. I rented it, but got filtered in Kokiri Forest, because I was a retard that didn't understand the puzzle-solving aspect (I mostly played platform and fighting games). I couldn't find the hole to crawl through in order to get the sword.

I rented it again, and managed to make it all the way to the road to the castle, but couldn't figure out how to get in (I didn't see the climbable vines). I was determined to beat it though, and play as the adult Link I saw in magazines. I bought a copy of the game from Toyworld with my own AU$30, and I used a guide to help me beat it.

It's still my favourite game ever, and I still have my golden cartridge. I also got Majora's Mask for Xmas 2000 - now THAT shit filtered me, and I didn't beat it until I sat down with it again in my 20's.

>>716284527
Crazy how you couldn't respond.

>>716266930
Gta 3 wasn't even out yet. There was no standard for big open game worlds. You're either lying or you didn't play ocarina near launch

>>716286162
>big open game worlds.
Yup, it's a stupid N64baby all right.

>>716267406
Well ocarina only had an illusion of hordes of enemies. If you were targeting one enemy, no other enemies would attack you

holy cow >>716284005
how is it that zoomers are simultaneously obsessed with liminal spaces while also demanding every single square foot in a videogame needs some kind of dopamine triggering sequence?

>>716280283
>39
No anon, you're a baby boomer. 39 is way too old for a millenial.

>>716287559
OoT is a terrible game no matter how much you cry about your make-believe zoomers.

>>716266514 (OP)
All I remember was that it was sold out everywhere except for online retailers and ordering like that at the time was an unique experience.

>>716283628
He probably had a Sega Saturn. Sad

>>716266930
Same here. When I first entered Hyrule Field I let out a deep sigh, put down the controller and said "ugh this game doesn't have enough rougelike elements"

>>716288559
Based early adopter. Back when ordering games online meant faxing your credit card to some sketchy website that looked like it was made in Microsoft FrontPage. Still better than getting elbowed by soccer moms in a Toys "R" Us aisle.

>>716289192
I wish OoT had even half the depth Rogue has.

>>716266514 (OP)
Very little. The hype for Zelda games back then came after you got home, popped it in the console, and realized you just bought the most kino game ever. I really wasn't expecting anything half as mind-blowing as what I got when I purchased this game at the store.

>>716286358
Only duelist types (Stalfos, Lizalfos, Wolfos). The rest will gangbang you.