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With you on that one.
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I haven't been playing all of the hundreds of games I own nearly enough.
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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I like StarFox Assault more than Starfox 64, and I liked Starfox Adventures more than Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
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Some lady on the internet said all the games where you kill sex workers is somehow troubling.
But I never even play the levels, I just go around killing sex workers. :(
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Hows this for shameful.
I'm freaking brilliant. I have a BA, three Science certificates, am a decorated debater, mock-statesman, award winning author, and five time salesman of the month at Blockbuster video.
But when it was popular, I never ONCE won a game of "Words With Friends." Not once. Literally dozens and dozens of games. Not one. Not against my little cousins, not against old high school buddies, not against foreign people I befriended on Facebook just to play "Words with Friends" with. Not a single time.
The shame haunts me.
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TheBoost said:
Hows this for shameful.
I'm freaking brilliant. I have a BA, three Science certificates, am a decorated debater, mock-statesman, award winning author, and five time salesman of the month at Blockbuster video.
But when it was popular, I never ONCE won a game of "Words With Friends." Not once. Literally dozens and dozens of games. Not one. Not against my little cousins, not against old high school buddies, not against foreign people I befriended on Facebook just to play "Words with Friends" with. Not a single time.
The shame haunts me.
Ouch!
That almost as bad as my losing a death match to my little sister.
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It took me a year to kill and get past the big snake in Resident Evil PS1.
...And I have never been able to get a single mini onto the coach at the end of The Italian Job PS1.
Bah!
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I get goose bumps and almost tear up every time I finish Ocarina of Time, which is about twice a year.
Every. Time.
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Ocarina of Time's ending is incredible . . .
The end of Twilight Princess never fails to leave me heartbroken and morose. 'Devastatingly final' is the only way to describe it—with Midna leaving forever, you know Link's life will never be the same again. So much so that he leaves behind everyone and everything he's ever known, disappearing to who knows where.
Everything prior to that is portrayed with subtlety, and from a storytelling point of view I find it really interesting that they were able to do so much with it. Even though the characters were not 'together', it is strongly implied that they wanted to be, so even though Ganon is defeated and the good guys win, the end feels very tragic. When the love of your life decides they can't be with you, even if it's for a good reason, it's not an easy thing to live with . . .
Actually, I know very well how true that is, since last year I had a doomed romance that ended in a similar way to that shown in the game. I've been in quite a bad place for months because of it. It is very difficult for me to get through the end of TP, because I know what's coming and how it's going to affect me even before it happens. However, since I have much more of a crush on Midna than I should (lol), that was true even before any of the real life stuff had happened.
I finally started playing TP again for the first time in a long while. I haven't been able to face it until now; but it's such a good story that I keep coming back to it, despite everything.
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Ocarina of Time's ending is incredible . . .
The end of Twilight Princess never fails to leave me heartbroken and morose. 'Devastatingly final' is the only way to describe it—with Midna leaving forever, you know Link's life will never be the same again. So much so that he leaves behind everyone and everything he's ever known, disappearing to who knows where.
Everything prior to that is portrayed with subtlety, and from a storytelling point of view I find it really interesting that they were able to do so much with it. Even though the characters were not 'together', it is strongly implied that they wanted to be, so even though Ganon is defeated and the good guys win, the end feels very tragic. When the love of your life decides they can't be with you, even if it's for a good reason, it's not an easy thing to live with . . .
Actually, I know very well how true that is, since last year I had a doomed romance that ended in a similar way to that shown in the game. I've been in quite a bad place for months because of it. It is very difficult for me to get through the end of TP, because I know what's coming and how it's going to affect me even before it happens. However, since I have much more of a crush on Midna than I should (lol), that was true even before any of the real life stuff had happened.
I finally started playing TP again for the first time in a long while. I haven't been able to face it until now; but it's such a good story that I keep coming back to it, despite everything.
I know how you feel man. You aren't alone.
In a way that's what happens with link in OOT as well. Except instead of a love, it was Navi. (lol) which is how Majora's Mask get's set up.
Ocarina of Time's ending gets me in a simialr way TP gets you as well. I once had a relationship with an older woman that I cared very much for that ended because of the age difference, and the line where zelda tells link to "Go Back home to your time, where you are supposed to be... the way that you are supposed to be" really hits home for me. Because metaphorically it's what happened. It was sad when zelda said it, even though it was the best, and it was sad when it happened to me, even though it was for the best.
Now that I think about it, Legend of Zelda get's me really emotional at times...
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When I was a kid and played Mario Kart SNES I got so angry that I bit the controller once. Teeth marks are still there
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Good thing you weren't into the Mega Man X games for SNES...
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I guess this isn't really a "Shameful confession" as I feel no shame about it, though other fans feel that I should....
Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link is one of my favorite games in the series.
It seems that at least one other OT member will agree that it's a great game, but I don't wanna jump to conclusions...
I'll go further into this possible shame by saying it's also the only Zelda title I take as being a sequel or any sort of continuation from the original. I actually view it as the second part of the first game.
I think it actually is at the end of the official timeline, but other than this one, I view all the Zelda titles to be re-tellings of the same Legend, not sequels or prequels to an on-going story.
(I've actually only played through the first bit of Majoras Mask, so I'm not sure if I'll consider it a true sequel to OOT or as it's own thing yet. Also I haven't played A Link Between Worlds at all, so that may be another instance of linking (ha!) two titles.)
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(I've actually only played through the first bit of Majoras Mask, so I'm not sure if I'll consider it a true sequel to OOT or as it's own thing yet. Also I haven't played A Link Between Worlds at all, so that may be another instance of linking (ha!) two titles.)
Majora's mask is a sequel to ocarina of time that is also it's own thing. It's story does not have anything to do with ocarina of time's story, except for a few things.
It's the same Link in this story. He is walking through the lost woods with epona from oot because he is feeling lost after his big quest and because Navi left him, and he's kinda hoping to find her. (Weird right? I woulda said good HEY. LISTEN. FUCK OFF.) And as he gets his ocarina back he has to recall from his time with Zelda and play the song of time from oot to set things right.
So it is it's own thing in that it is a separate story that is not continuing the threads woven in ocarina of time, but it is also a sequel in that it is about the same character and takes place directly afterward, perhaps even weeks or months after, in the timeline.
Either way, fantastic piece of art that one. I would even consider it tied with oot, possibly surpassing in some aspects even, as the best video game of all time.
It's beautiful, and the story is so creative as you get going.
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I think you may have missed my point.
I know MM is officially a sequel to OOT, but the entire series is also officially connected as prequels and sequels and sidequels. But, in my personal canon, most of the games are just different re-tellings of the same Legend. It's changed each time the same way other legends change as they are passed down through the ages.
So, even if I do end up enjoying MM (I've started three times and just can't get into it), that still doesn't mean I'll view it as a sequel to OOT.
KnowhatImean?
I almost bored myself to death typing that. Sorry if it put anyone to sleep.
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No, I don't see what you mean. It's about the same character, and follows his timeline after OOT so how is it not a sequel? It's not a retelling of the same legend either. No hyrule, no zelda, no princess at all. No mention of the triforce.
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No, I don't see what you mean. It's about the same character, and follows his timeline after OOT so how is it not a sequel? It's not a retelling of the same legend either. No hyrule, no zelda, no princess at all. No mention of the triforce.
Exactly. I can't believe that people on originaltrilogy.com think that the triforce was in the OOT! It's so obviously an SE addition...
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Possessed said:
No, I don't see what you mean. It's about the same character, and follows his timeline after OOT so how is it not a sequel? It's not a retelling of the same legend either. No hyrule, no zelda, no princess at all. No mention of the triforce.
Exactly. I can't believe that people on originaltrilogy.com think that the triforce was in the OOT! It's so obviously an SE addition...
The joke would have worked if he said OUT instead of OOT.
Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.
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Hey! OOT is used just as often as OUT around here, even if the latter is more correct.
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No, I don't see what you mean. It's about the same character, and follows his timeline after OOT so how is it not a sequel? It's not a retelling of the same legend either. No hyrule, no zelda, no princess at all. No mention of the triforce.
So, since Nintendo claims it as a sequel to another game, I have to accept that?
No.
I have my own ideas and can implement them anyway I want, thank ya very much.
George says that Star Wars is currently six films, yet in my personal canon there are only three. (well, two, really).
The official timeline can link all the Zelda games together into some sort of weird continuity and I can continue to ignore that and make of them what I choose.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE!
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It is more than just nintendo "Saying so".
*It's about the SAME CHARACTER.
*It takes place IMMEDIATELY AFTER.
*It is a NEW ADVENTURE (with a completely different story I might add) starring said SAME CHARACTER.
I guess I just don't see the logic in saying it isn't a sequel. It's a new story about the same character from a different game in the same time period.
I DO understand your point about the other zelda games, timelines, retelling of the same legend and stuff. That part makes sense and I understand. But MM takes place immediately after OOT, doesn't follow the traditional zelda storyline but is about the same Link immediately after OOT. Hell, it even directly refers to the events of OOT as leading up to it, and continues that characters path.
What would it need to make it a sequel? Be called Ocarina of Time 2?
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One time I got so angry at Goldeneye 007 for N64 that I shot Natalya to death during a mission (who hasn't?)
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Possessed said:
What would it need to make it a sequel? Be called Ocarina of Time 2?
I'd just have to like it is all.
I'm not saying it isn't "officially" the sequel to OOT.
I haven't played much of it, but what I have played I didn't enjoy, so it isn't part of my canon... yet.
I'm about to take another stab at it. maybe this will change.
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It is a little hard to get into at first, but I highly recommend it. Once you get past the first section, it's amazing. It's a highly rewarding experience, the story is so beautiful. It's spiritual.
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I've never beaten DOOM II without cheating.
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I woke up my then girlfriend to comfort me when Aerith died.
*SPOILER ALERT* :-D
What? That I had a girlfriend?
C'mon guys. Everyone remembers Sluggo and TheBoost.
