Favorite Legend of Zelda?
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Topic: Favorite Legend of Zelda?
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Subject: Favorite Legend of Zelda?
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:21
I've finished playing Spirit Tracks recently and have been wondering what the folks on PA think of The Legend of Zelda. I hate to be obvious, but it's hard to admit that Ocarina of TIme is anything less than flawlessly made. Even though there are games that I like better, every aspect of that game had a tremendous amount of care put into it, and the way the story and gameplay progress is nothing less than amazing. However, I'm going to give my vote to A Link to the Past. There are few games that are more magical and entertaining, and it's a joy to play from beginning to end. Also, I don't want Ocarina of Time to get all the votes which is what will inevitably happen.
So, gamers, which installment of this classic series do you fancy the most?
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:23
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Haven't played Awakening, Oracle of Seasons/Ages, Minish Cap, Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks. It's so hard to pick a favorite. I can't choose yet. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:24
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I've only played the first three, and liked them all for different reasons. Well, the second one is a bitch and kind of made no sense, but there you are. There is something special about A Link to the Past for me. It was one of my favorite SNES games. I really enjoyed it. It gets my vote as well. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:30
| Ocarina of Time. |
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Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:32
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:55
I have spent weeks and weeks worth of time playing that game, a lot of time was just playing around with some of the glitches.  |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 15:58
Adventure of Link was indeed a "bitch that kind of made no sense," and is definitely my least favorite of the series. It was pretty groundbreaking and it would have been interesting if the "levelling" system was kept intact, but it was still much more frustrating than fun to play. A Link to the Past does have that special something that you can't just put your finger on, and it's one of my favorite SNES games as well.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 16:06
It really says a lot about how good a game is when some people can spend 15 hours playing through it or 50 hours playing through it. Definitely a game that's all it's cracked up to be.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 16:13
I was going to mention the same thing, now when I start a new game the first "obstacle" is having to wait through the dialogue. I have forgotten the layouts of most dungeons, so it takes me a while to readjust, but after that I can get through them pretty easily.Another thing I love about that game is the atmosphere. One thing that bothers me now is that I love the feel of the fighting system in TP, so it isn't as fun to fight in OoT, although to be fair I have done everything in that game so many times nothing is a challenge anyway. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 16:18
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The one where you beat dungeons and get the sword, bow, and boomerangs.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 16:34
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 16:37
I like Like Likes the most. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 17:01
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You forgot Zelda: The Wand Of Gamelon, Link: The Faces of Evil, and Zelda's adventure. Wand of Gamelon is the best game ever man!!
 Alright, for real: very difficult pick between A Link To The Past and Ocarina of Time. I choose the former, though. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 17:08
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I happen to be playing "Spirit Tracks" right now on my daughter's Nintendo DSi. Great game and taking me a long time to complete. I found it on sale recently, and haven't played (or barely played) any of the other Zelda games.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 17:14
I just knew someone would mention those games by the first page. Since no one would seriously vote for those games and few people have actually played them, I didn't include them. Just pretend they never happened, even if they are a good source of comedy.
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 20:02
Best (worst). Cutscenes. Ever. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 20:05
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Ocarina of Time, best game ever for any system. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 20:05
All Zeldas are excellent but when I was a kid I had Oracle Of Seasons so I grew to like it  Ocarina Of Time and Windwaker are also awesome 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 20:29
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 21:09
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The quotability and hilarity of those cutscenes are endless. And I thought I'd just say Majora is one of the creepiest bosses ever.  The only boss that gives me a creepier feeling is Giygas off of Earthbound. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 21:32
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Haven't played them all but of the ones I have Ocarina Of Time is easily the best. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 22:22
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Well, I have "only" played 5 of them and easily A Link to The Past is THE game. It's smart, friendly, interesting and great... The Ocarine of Time is another of those brilliant games... both worth the playing... I think none of the humans should live their life without at least giving it a try... both are wonderful games.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 22:24
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I'm the first vote for Twilight Princess?
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 22:29
Apparently so. It's actually my third favorite after ALTTP and OOT, and the best game for the Wii in my opinion. Personally, I'd rank the series like this:
1. A Link to the Past (5 Stars)
2. Ocarina of Time (5 Stars)
3. Twilight Princess (5 Stars)
4. The Wind Waker (4 Stars. Could've been 5 if it weren't for the sailing.)
5. Spirit Tracks (4 Stars)
6. Majora's Mask (4 Stars)
7. Phantom Hourglass (4 Stars)
8. The Legend of Zelda (4 Stars)
9. Adventure of Link (3 Stars)
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 01 2010 at 02:46
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I was giving this thread half a page or so until it descended into a CD-I game quote-fest.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 01 2010 at 03:14
Definitely OoT. Thanks for reminding me Josh, now I'm gonna have to play it again these holidays  ------------- 
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Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: July 01 2010 at 04:33
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Wind Waker for its beautiful cel shaded graphics and for the hours of fun I had exploring the many islands and searching for treasure. ------------- ''Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.'' - Albert Camus |
Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 17:29
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Time to revive a 4 month old topic! But only because it is so dear to my heart...
I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I'm gonna go with Majora's Mask as my favorite. It's not the most popular, and I feel it gets overlooked because of the "play the same three days over and over" aspect. But the two main elements of it's greatness are the character development and the surrealist art direction. In fact, those aspects are done so well that I would consider Majora's Mask to be one of the main arguments for "video games as art". The terror of the townsfolk in Clock Town, healing the souls of the three mask spirits, the Kafei and Anju romance story... It's captivating and genuinely moving. And surprisingly in-depth.
Yes!! Completely agreed. The whole end of Majora's Mask, with the four kids running around the tree... Awesomely weird. But yes, Giygas takes the cake. "I....FEEL....GOOD...." Craziest boss battle ever. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 17:35
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The first.
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Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 18:03
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The first Zelda is great. It contains one of my favorite lines of dialogue...
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 18:21
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 19:22
My vote goes to OOT - it was the first Zelda I played through completely (I played the NES original when I was 8 on a friends NES but never got far. I've tried playing it since - never get far now either xD). I have quite enjoyed a lot of the others - I've been playing MM for about a year now (no joke, sometimes i go months between a gaming session these days  ) and I think it's just about as good. I actually love the way that they did the three days system and have been, in my head, trying to come up with a finite-time game design ever since the first time I played the game that would be fun without being frustrating. If you could save anytime like you could in OOT, it'd be a lot better though. Twilight Princess is also great fun. I've played most of the GB ones, beaten none of them but liked them all. I almost beat LTTP but I'm just not as good at the 2D ones as I am at the 3D ones it seems, I couldn't get past the last temple and just forgot about it after a while.
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Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 19:43
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Majora's Mask, followed by OoT, then Twilight Princess and Wind Waker. They're all stunningly great games, but the whole surreality of Majora's Mask plus the novelty of the whole time traveling thing, and how the game in the later days changes with what you do in the earlier days gives it a slight edge as my favorite over Ocarina. (sorry for the massive run-on). I also enjoy that it's the one of the only games in the main series to go in a totally different direction than "Ganon kidnapped the princess." But again, I love 'em all. Good poll! ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 20:58
Yep! Classics! My favorite though has got to be: "Ones who does not have Triforce can't go in."
I do the same thing! I started a file in Chrono Trigger recently, and then got distracted for a couple weeks. When I tried to come back to it, I was like, "I have no idea what's going on right now."
Agreed!  And you don't even miss that aspect of it because it's been done so much. (No disrespect to the other games.)
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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 05:21
| Link to the Past! Followed by Links Awakening. There's just something magical about old school nintendo games. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 06:11
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The lines are horrible, but who gives a sh*t about the text when you are busy being a 10 year old boy killind the motherf**king Ganon, destroyer of Hyrule. Seriously you guys. the other Zeldas are pretty great too. -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 07:12
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Ocarina,simply one of the best games of all time.A Link to the Past is a close second though.I recently bought and downloaded it from the Wii store and have been playing it on the Wii.It's been really fun reliving that wonderful game again after so long. -------------  |
Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 09:34
Of course! The poor Japanese to English translation is just another treat for you when you go back and play in your late teens/ early 20's 
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Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 09:35
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And seriously, "I AM ERROR" from Zelda II?
Hilarious! |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 13:06
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Ocarina is the PERFECT Zelda game, Link's Awakening was the first TLOZ I
played, it get me into the Zelda world, I love when you collect all the
instruments to open the egg in the mountain, I always saved just before I did this part: ------------- 
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Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 20:01
This is one I haven't played all the way through yet, but it's next on my list. That's the owl that was in Ocarina of Time later right? |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 01:36
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^ That's the first time when the owl appear in Zelda world (i think). The only TLOZ game that I like less is Adventure of Link, the whole thing of playing like in a conventional adventure game doesn't fii with the saga. -------------
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Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 05:54
Yeah, I just beat Adventure of Link. It was way too difficult to be fun.  Definitely my least favorite. But I did like the battle with Shadow Link.
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Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 11:48
| Majora's mask because it remembers me so much. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 12:07
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Believe it or not I actually think Wind Waker was the most solid Zelda game. That would be followed closely, though, by Majora's Mask, A Link to the Past, and Twilight Princess. Unfortunately I've never finished Ocarina of Time because the three times I've done it I've gotten hung up on game-ending bugs.  -------------  
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 12:09
I've beat that game like 20 times and never encountered any. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 13:29
Well I know two different ones were in the water temple, I don't remember the third but I kinda gave up because I was frustrated about having to start over. -------------
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Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 17:31
| The Water Temple in OOT took me a WHILE the first run through. |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 17:37
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The first one is the best.
The Adventures of Link sucks.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 17:54
Oh yeah, I've changed my mind from a few months ago- OoT, hands down.
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 18:05
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I have played The Aventure of Link, A Link to the Past, The Ocarine and The Oracle of Seasons...
and A Link to the Past it's just something that I can't forget, what an amazing story and great action... ------------- |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 18:06
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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: November 28 2010 at 20:00
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1. Ocarina of time 2. A link to the past 3. majora's mask i need to |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: November 28 2010 at 20:07
A Link to the Past is one of my most precious childhood memories. i didnt had a life since then- |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 00:53
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Ocarina of Time was my favorite game until Fallout existed. The original Legend of Zelda is most certainly my second choice. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 01:25
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I still think Ocarina is an absolutely brilliant game, I just got kinda frustrated with it. -------------
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Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 09:55
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Being a hardcore Zelda fan who actually frequents some zelda forums and zelda wiki, I have to go with Ocarina of Time. It is overall my favorite Zelda game, although for every other zelda game (except Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks), there's some unique quality about them that I have grown to appreciate. Majora's Mask comes second and A Link to the Past comes third. ------------- 
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Posted By: theteaclub_dan
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 13:48
| what zelda forums do you frequent spookytooth? |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 13:51
Back in the day I used to frequent a forum dedicated to making Zelda Fan Games. I still have some of the games I started. None were really games though, mostly walk-demos.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 15:12
| I once tried making a Zelda game with Game Maker, but it basically amounted to a walk-demo too. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 16:58
Finally restarted my Ocarina Of Time playthrough which I usually do every school holidays, man I love this game. 
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 21:34
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: June 26 2011 at 22:27
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My two favorites are Ocarina of Time and The Phantom Hourglass. |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 08:03
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My fave is Majora's Mask. Too bad it always gets overshadowed by Ocarina of Time (not that I dislike OoT, on the contrary, but Majora's Mask dared to break away of the standard formula.) ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 08:29
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never played any Zelda
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Posted By: tupan
Date Posted: August 28 2011 at 10:27
my vote goes to Ocarina of Time. But Majora's Mask is really great, and their bosses are the best from the N64! ------------- "Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen) |