Many gamers have a soft spot for classic games. But is nostalgia stunting the creativity of tomorrow's titles?
Nintendo's classic action-adventure game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, is set to receive a fanmade port for the Sega Dreamcast.
Gary Green said: Being a writer exclusively for PlayStation is immensely rewarding, yet it does have its drawbacks. It was easy enough to distance myself from the ever decreasing number of Xbox exclusives, yet parting ways with Nintendo was hard, and it only got harder over time. Sooner or later, I knew I'd be back, and as I frantically search for the most efficient and cost-effective ways to play the Nintendo classics which I've missed out on over the years, revisiting the best of the best comes first.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out during a time where every console had its charms. Whether you were team Sega, Nintendo, or Sony, everyone knew the game's potential, and the players who invested in Nintendo's chunky N64 console were not disappointed. Like Sega's ill-fated Saturn, it may have been a console which lacked in quantity of games, but the quality was certainly there.
Ocarina of Time was a game that was hard to put down. We would bounce home excitedly from high school, ready to wander the lands of Hyrule once again to find another secret or two, before preparing ourselves to tackle that next intimidating dungeon. It's time to retell this story. Ready your ocarina.
Yes, this is one of the true masterpieces that I believe every core gamer should play.
It even holds up to this day.
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Hot damn that's a good list. The only one i never played is AOE2 and i never finshed Chrono Trigger but it was damn good.
Speaking of what's old but holds up amazingly well and plays like a dream.. i played Symphony of the Night for the first time in 2019.. yep that's right. It became one of my favourite games of all time that i replay almost every year. I couldn't believe how good it was. That is almost impossible for me with newer games let alone older ones. Truly a special gem.
The only one I’d disagree with is doom. It shows its age badly I think. After 5 minutes of play these days you put it down.
So, Yahtzee says that even Ocarina of Time isn't that good? Somehow not surprising.
It's good, but old. If I drop 250 ( I know it's now 170) on a system I want more than a game that came out 15 years ago! Right now the line up sucks and the only thing to look forward to is another Mario and Mario Kart, oh, wait there is also another game that came out 15 years ago. When I was in middle school and high school I played the crap out of starfox and zelda, but that was 15 years ago. Stop recycling and make something new please Nintendo!
i liked the whole article except for one part
"I admit that Ocarina of Time hasn't aged as gracefully as other games"
OOT has aged amazingly well compared to other titlesits still feels and plays as solidly as it always has and im not talking about the remake
but in the end i guess that could be left to opinion
don't meet your childhood heroes
well the main side effect is realizing it's not that great or it has serious problems or even worse...it's a piece of cr@p.
some times its good to replay some games that you grew up playing, but try not to judge and enjoy it as it is.
Recent Zeldas are more of the same. Ocarina of Time is my favorite 3D game in the series, and I might get a 3DS just to play it again.