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I ONLY CLICKED IN THIS VIDEO TO to comment I clicked on do not show in my recommendations !
The n64 zelda games have an atmosphere and darkness that haven’t been repeated. That leap into 3D can’t be overstated either.
Let’s not forget Z targeting which was pretty much unheard of. Ocarina Of Time was the first game to master third person lock on fighting
A game is a piece of art. Things must match: narrative, soundtrack, difficulty, rewards. OoT is still unmatched in that regard.
Nintendo killed ocarina of time link, plus majoras mask themse'lves. They even admitted it 😓
The age of hardwork is over thats why we wont see any good games anymore. No one has the patience to do anything.
Even Skyrim which came much later couldn't get right what ocarina of time did. For example, time changing conversation…
I just feel like that link has SO much juicy lore he went through so much, the timeline splits and his whole design is just the best
I wish I could experience this game again for the first time. OOT was the first big game I remember playing all the way through and started my love of video games. ❤
I remember going through and writing notes in my player guide for endless hours. So much that it fell apart and I carefully put each page into a plastic page protector and filled a binder. So many great memories playing this game
This game and Parasite Eve on the Playstation. Are games that were cemented in my soul as a 9 year old gamer.
Only way they could reach it again is if they were to put a lot of research into full immersion VR and pioneer the industry in that direction.
2:59 – This game is not from 1998. This is Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artefact which released around 2000. And the actual TR3 released basically simultaneously to OoT. And TR3 was praised for being atmospheric af. Indeed, as a fan of Zelda and an expert of TR, I would even say while OoT has the better soundtrack, TR3 was a lot more atmospheric. And it actually looked pretty good as well (huge step up from TR1 and TR2), so I really can't see why you bring it up as a negative example here.
EDIT: Showing footage from 2011's 3DS remake of OoT directly after, isn't fair either btw. At this point you could have as well shown what the TR3 Remaster from 2024 looked like just beforehand :'D
Another EDIT: 5:03 – What the hell? No, it's not. Majora's Mask is the next game in chronological order after Ocarina of Time, not Twilight Princess. Wow, you really earned your dislike with this one…
OoT3D is just a remaster, not a remake. It's literally the source code from the N64 version put on 3DS with graphic updates. It's not hard to do 3 minutes of research to realize all Grezzo did was update an already finished game, not code one from scratch. Same with MM3D, TPHD, and SSHD. People have known this about OoT3D for 13 years already, it's not a secret. Don't spread ignorance, thanks.
Everything is soo true what you've said that I've not played another zelda game since majoras mask and won't unless I get the zelda game they teased us in space world 2000 that was suppose to be the true definite sequal and I can only hope they make it in my lifetime!.. I don't play games anymore but if they made the zelda game I always hoped for I would by the console just for that game and that game would be the reason I start playing games again!.. Every zelda game has sucked arse since that's how impressive and groundbreaking this game was and still is today!..
Ocarina of time has the perfect adventure feel to it… i wish they would make more games like this. Just a Zelda life long fan for the past 25 years… Not Breath of the WIld. Please to god No more Breath of the wild ;-;
I remember 2 video games completely blowing my mind when I first played them. One was Super Mario 64, and the othe was OoT. Nintendo nailed their introduction into 3D gaming.
Definitely one of the goats but twilight princess is the best ever made.
G.O.A.T
I'm one of those gamers who even after all these years Ocarina of Time is still my favorite game, and I think it really comes down to many things. First, we'll never ever be able to go back to a time where you knew for a fact that EVERYONE in the world who had a N64 was playing the same game as you. Stuck on the same stupid water temple as you. You go to school in every class and just ask your friends how they beat the levels your stuck on or telling them how you solved things they are stuck on. Back then before everyone was in their own echo-chamber. There was a time when nearly everyone in every school was playing the same games. In addition to that, everything in the game perfectly Synergized, the art, the music, the models, the story, the gameplay, it wasn't too easy, it wasn't too hard, and even after you beat it, it still had so many secrets you could stiff find and complete years later without any DLC, without any micro transactions, it was a "complete" experience –
My second reason for it being the "closest" to me personally is because I feel it is it genuinely prepared me for the world in a way that no other game or story does. Of all the Zelda Stories, OOT Link is my link because his story directly mirrors what most of us go through in real life. You go through crazy shit, you use every bit of your skills you possibly can just to survive and maybe keep your world together, and at the end of it, if you succeed… there's no celebration, there's nothing, you don't get the princess, the world goes on like you never existed, and despite accomplishing your goals and physically being the same, you're not the same anymore. You can never be the fun kid who walked out to find the Kokiri sword the first time again. That is the burden for those who brave the adventure and survive – And, I think that's why I feel that OOT Link is the truest most heroic variant of Link. He's the one who taught me that a True hero does the right thing even if nobody remembers or notices afterward with no reward, and I think that's just the position that most of us find ourselves in today –
Ocarina of Time will always be a special game for me. It was the very first Zelda game I was introduced to by one of my uncles. And the very first Zelda game I decided to play instead of just watching him play through it all the time. I will always love this game. And I agree with you. I don't think we'll see a game of this caliber in the Zelda series ever again.
I remember trading my PS1 with 22 games,3 memory cards, 3 controllers to a kid down the street for a 64 with 2 controllers and 4 games. Because one of those games was 007 Goldeneye and one was Zelda ocarina of time. And I thought I cheated the kid. Thats how much I loved this game.
We already saw a game that’s as impactful as OOT and that’s BOTW.
This was truly the game of time
We will never see a videogame like this, I agree.
Best game 🎯 ever
Ocarina of time majors mask best games they should of made windwaker in the same story and graphics a perfect trilogy that will never be
Yeah personally my favorite LOZ games are Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, they are both really great games and I could listen to the entire soundtrack without getting bored, I like the format of the newer games but I think the old format is the best, my Mom was 12 when OoT came out and when I watch her play Totk or Botw sometimes she’ll have trouble doing some stuff because there is too much freedom, totk really confused her at first because of some of the controls. I am really curious about the next big LOZ game they have planned next though.
3ds version of OOT & MM was a complete joke also played & look far waaaay worst than the n64 version hated 3ds version so bad…anyway Ocarina of time N64 Ganondorf is the most strongest most powerful most coolest GANSTA a** Ganon with the most coolest boss battle animations to ever exist in all of Zelda. he's the only version of ganondorf that fly around in a castle throwing insane DBZ energy blasts at LInk punching the ground like One Punch Man with incredible strength & then has his castle floating in the air all at the same time = PURE YOUNG OVERKILL POWER. and then the levels in the game were just the greatest ever. but you know who beats even that? my boy DEMISE is by far the most unreal powerful swole being of any zelda game. he so unreal & GOD-LIKE that he only appeared in one zelda game with hardly any screen time at all just like Broly from DBZ. i mean he was even summoning THUNDER/LIGHTNING from the sky just WTF. i hope nintendo brings back Demise someday in another game also remake ocarina of time in a new game engine for nintendo switch 2 in 4K this time
Im sorry but I tried playing OoT and just couldnt get into it. Felt like i was battling the controls the whole time. I'm 38 but just started playing games again a couple years ago. Lttp was last game i played as a kid. So i honestly think most of the praise today is nostalgia induced. I do think that the open world games will continue to figure out ways in order to bring back some of the formula with some areas blocked by item progression, better dungeons, etc….. Now that they already have most of the physics figured out i see game play improvements coming next
Or Majora’s Mask.
"Link below."
This video credits Ocarina with creating the Zelda formula, but it didn't. A Link to the Past did. Ocarina mostly translated its predecessor's structure to 3D.
A Link to the Past really doesn't get the recognition it deserves, which is a shame. It's debatably the best game in the franchise.
If someone manages to make a 4D game then yes, I think we would see a repeat of what Ocarina of Time accomplished.
Playing OoT is one of my earliest memories. This game might not have been what introduced me to gaming (that I'm unclear on) but I remember so much of it I could recite the major plot points from memory. I remember so much of this fantastic game, however many times I've replayed it, the impact it has had on my life has been massive.
I don't really get the point of this video. After BotW and TotK, people already want the old formula back? There's more games using the old formula than the new one, so that makes no sense to me if you like the new games. But later the point apparently shifts from the formula to the impact of OoT. That makes more sense to me, but BotW was exactly the game that made a huge impact again, right? So to me it sounds like you want the thing you already got instead of the thing you already got.
Ocarina of Time is the reason I am a gamer❤