Topic: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

[赤月]

It's looking pretty.
Looks like we get to use the touchscreen a lot.
The graphics look updated as well.
Maybe I should get a 3DS now.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) - Gameplay Clips
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) - JPN Overview Trailer

Here's the commercial:
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) - Commercial

[Claimh Solais]

I like the way this looks so far. I love how they made the animation so fluid. But... there's something I don't like about the way the models look. They look stiff and their faces seem kinda squished. Also the cloth physics on Ganondorf's cape looked nicer in the original N64 version. :\

[Munchy]

The framerate is greater than 15 FPS? IT'S A WITCH AAAAAAGH

*punches hole through screen*

[Dark Nemesis]

I just need to find a job, so i can grab a 3DS..........

[Successor The Cruel]

Awesome! Gotta' get this. Ocarina of Time is probably my favorite game. It left a huge impact on me and whenever I go back to it, it never fails to captivate me. Master Quest is the bomb!

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

You get Master Quest AND Boss Rush.  That's pretty 'boss' right there.
I'm getting this, definitely.

[BullockDS]

This has been on my want-list for so long, and it's drawing ever closer now.

I heard a rumor a while ago that Nintendo was planning on porting OoT to the original DS, but then they eventually scrapped the port. If that's true, I'm glad they waited until they released the 3DS to port it; the wait has really paid off in terms of absolutely gorgeous enhanced graphics that still keep the charm of the N64 original's visuals (unlike those dime-a-dozen Rice's Video Plugin texture packs ), delightful goodies to keep players coming back, the ease of equipment use thanks to the touchscreen, and the 3DS' slider pad (ughh... imagine having to play OoT on a DSLite or DSi with their thumb-raping D-pads; it'd be worse than Super Mario 64 DS). With all this in mind, OoT3DS looks to be a stellar package overall that I can't wait to get my hands on!

[cecil-kain]

There has never been a video game I loathed as much as Ocarina of Time.  I grew up with Zelda, and I still think A Link to the Past is easily one of the best games ever made, but this game disappointed me in almost every possible way.  What Miyamoto's done to Zelda is a lot like what George Lucas has done to Star Wars.  Both men are brilliant, but they're shamelessly exploitive and disrespect their his own art.  The graphics on the 3DS are a fantastic improvement --if I were a graphics whore I might even give it a second chance, but the game's overall design and story are far too broken to take it seriously.  The only things I really enjoyed were the battle system and the dungeons, but even those highlights make Wind Waker look like a masterpiece.  Castlevania's clunky continuity is at least cohesive, Zelda's a nightmare --talk about a series needing a reboot...

[Claimh Solais]

but even those highlights make Wind Waker look like a masterpiece.

Well, I dunno. The game's were only released several years apart from each other.

Nah. I kid. I understand your point completely. OoT had tons of parts that just annoyed the hell out of me, whereas I enjoyed A Link to the Past the whole way through. I still hold OoT as one of my favorite Zelda games though.

I would go as far as saying "I've never loathed a game more than Ocarina of Time". Cuz honestly, I'm pretty sure there's other games you've played/seen before that were much, much worse. Try Zelda: Majora's Mask, with your three day time limit.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Eh, that game is pretty good in other ways.
The worst Zelda is "Faces of Evil".  Seriously.

[Puwexil]

Cuz honestly, I'm pretty sure there's other games you've played/seen before that were much, much worse. Try Zelda: Majora's Mask, with your three day time limit.

Majora's Mask leaves every other Zelda so far behind in the dust it's ridiculous. That game had balls.

Which is pretty much potentially the best thing about Ocarina 3DS, that it might encourage them to put Majora on the system as well, somewhere down the line.

[Rugal]

Majora's Mask leaves every other Zelda so far behind in the dust it's ridiculous. That game had balls.

Which is pretty much potentially the best thing about Ocarina 3DS, that it might encourage them to put Majora on the system as well, somewhere down the line.

This times a billion. People who hate on Majora's Mask only due so because of the 3 day cycle which is one of the best features in that game

[Claimh Solais]

This times a billion. People who hate on Majora's Mask only due so because of the 3 day cycle which is one of the best features in that game

Never said I hated on Majora's Mask. I love the whole concept of time behind that game (had more time-related things in it than OoT) and I loved the Mask system.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Random aside but somewhat related:

Is anyone looking at Nintendo's E3 right now?
Holy crap they're showering us with Zelda goodies due to it being the 25th year anniversary.

FREE Four Swords download (for 3DS?) and some other stuff.
FREE Zelda music CDs (including orchestral renditions) for the first few who register Ocarina of Time 3DS (or was it Skyward Sword?  It's all happening too fast) on Club Nintendo.
Promotional golden Wiimote for Skyward Sword.

[Tanatra]

I wonder what they're going to do about the Fire Temple music, because the track that they replaced it with after the Muslims got offended was just horrendous.

If a group of people are offended by a music track, then the correct response would have been to have only that track play throughout the entire game, mandate that it be included on every game released on a Nintendo console, as well as play on every page of Nintendo's website.

EDIT: Episode 9: Fire Temple Chants - Pop-Fiction

According to this video, it seems that Nintendo intended to remove the original track before the game ever hit the market, though for reasons unknown it still appeared in the earliest versions of the game. It still doesn't explain why they changed the Gerudo symbol; it resembles an Ottoman crescent.