/vr/ - Retro Games

Link's Awakening for sure.

LA is very simple and charming, has an interesting world that's not too large and empty and not too small either. The story is nice and well done for what it is. It's not very difficult, but some of the dungeons (Namely 7) had me scratching my head a bit. It also has a cast of memorable characters.

For some reason, I don't really like the 3D Zeldas, and the other 2D titles lack the same charm that LA has. I do like LoZ quite a bit though because sometimes it's just fun to explore a large world, even though a lot of it doesn't have much in it.

Gotta go with Ocarina of Time, but I've never played through the original completely and barely touched Link's Adventure.

>>1809030
Top three for me are:
1. Link's Awakening
2. Link to the Past
3. Legend of Zelda

My friends have been telling me I need to play the Oracle games for years, now, but I've just never gotten around to it.

>>1809081
For some reason, I always stop playing the Oracle games around the 7th or 8th dungeon. I don't know why, but I suddenly lose interest and never finish them.

Ocarina of Time.


It shocked me as a kid and I've always kept that deep admiration for it.

I liked the oracle games too.

It's gotta be Adventures of Link. Love the ability to jump, the side-scrolling design, has some of the best songs in the franchise (dat temple theme), and the fact that it was one of the few actually challenging Zelda games ever created. I don't really care for any of the 3D or portable Zelda games because they felt inferior to what came on consoles before them. Link to the Past is also great, and improved on everything about the first Zelda game. So yeah, AoL and LttP are the best Zeldas.

My top 3 (order of release)

A Link to the Past
Majora's Mask
Wind Waker (not /vr/, but still goes on the list with the other 2)

A Link to the Past has fantastic dungeons and, in my opinion, the best replay value in the entire franchise. Majora's Mask is entirely different from every other Zelda, and I really enjoy it because of its haunting atmosphere over anything else; its atmosphere is my favorite of any game, period. Wind Waker had my favorite art design, the lighthearted attitude that the first game felt like it would have had in the 80s, fantastic exploration, fluid combat, and it never tried too hard to be anything other than a fantastic adventure game.

>>1809030
Link to the Past because muh nostalgia.

>>1809030
Link to the Past. However, if you'd said "Best Zelda?" I'd probably respond Link's Awakening.

Link's Awakening.

3d = OoT

2d = Link's Awakening

>>1809140
>A Link to the Past has fantastic dungeons

Really?
I've recently played ALttP and all dungeons look the same, except for that horrible dungeon with huge rooms.

Link's Awakening. But without nostalgia seasons might be better.

I also have a soft spot for Adventure of Link, but xp + limited lives make it kinda meh for me - it certainly had the potential to be way up there, though.

As it is, however, Link's Awakening.

>>1809030
I only like link to the past. the gameboy ones are pretty good too I guess. Not my kinda games though

I consider the best zelda but not my favorite : Alttp
my favorite 2d:links awakening
3d:Majoras (it looks horrible now thought and i pefer 2d)
Honorable mention: Minish cap,Wind Waker
Didnt like : Twilligth princess,OoT(not trolling,maybe i discovered it too late to enjoy and i think it is overhyped )


I cant choose one :(

The Faces of Evil.
/thread

Seriously, why is the first one so fucking impossible without the soluce ?
I had to look at the soluce for the entrance of the 8th and 9th dungeon (muh spectacle rock) and for killing Gannon, even though I haven't killed him yet and I only know that the silver arrow (required to kill him) is somewhere in the 9th dungeon

Keeping it /vr/ it'd be

>Link to the Past
>Ocarina of Time
>Legend of Zelda

But those are the only /vr/ Zeldas I've completed. If this list was not /vr/ it'd probably look different. I tried to get into Majora's Mask but it seems time limits in games, even ones I can reset at any time, freak me out. Can't explain it.

>>1810754
>Not Wand of Gamelon

Do you even scrub floors, anon?

>>1810770
HELP
I have wasted all my bombs and I have only found the red ring.
Where is the silver arrow?

>>1811167
Look for the C stair way and then go up

>>1809030
Based on your pic OP, I guess your favorite Zelda was the limited edition one they made especially for ants.

In all seriousness though, I really enjoyed Oracle of Ages. I'm not a huge Zelda fan by any means, but I really enjoyed the over world and puzzles.

>>1811173
k thks.

>>1811186
Oh, but fuck goron dancing.

Yeah, I forgot that. I don't know if it was because I just lack rhythm or I was playing on an emulator on a shitty phone.

>>1811193
The end credits say there will be another quest. Can't wait.

>>1809072
Exactly this

My top 3, in no particular order, are Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Link's Awakening.

I really feel the series peaked around the SNES, N64 period, and I think it's just been on a constant downward spiral since Wind Waker (I love WW to death, but everything after it, for the most part has been shit).

Link Between Worlds was fucking glorious, though. Which is funny because I had almost no faith in it going in. I really hope that's a signal that they're going back to what made the franchise so great instead of the nonsense that led to Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword.

I like Best Zelda. You know: the original.
Put your best foot forward, I guess. I'll refrain from speaking on the rest of them.
>I you can't say something nice...

A Link to the Past
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask

In no particular order. Holy Triforce right there.

>>1811363
Zelda 1 is a game that has no merit unless it happened to be the first "open world" game you ever played as a kid.

>>1811502
>Zelda 1 is a game that has no merit

This is what millennials happen to think

>>1811502
That's just, like, you're incredibly stupid fucking opinion, faggot.

Oracle of Ages.

I've never been able to get into the 3D Zelda games.

>>1811502
>>1811506

>>1811506
There's absolutely nothing Zelda 1 did that hadn't been done years before. It doesn't even have the benefit of polish that kept(and still keeps) the later Zeldas afloat.

The only people who like it are people who were kids in the late 80s. Anybody who was old enough to be playing more complicated games, like say Ultima IV, would have found it trite. Anybody too young to have played it when it was new would have no biased memories, and could judge it for what it really is.

>>1811573
You're measuring the game's merit on whether or not it was the first to ever offer an experience like it did. It most certainly was not an entirely original concept or implementation, but it was a very solid one, and made for a very entertaining game. You get a vast open field with many secrets. It's not overly complex, it's fairly simple once you know what you're doing, but it does offer a sense of wonder.

There's certainly merit to it, not for its originality or its contribution to the genre but for its characteristics as a game. And I'm telling you this as someone who first played it in 2011.

>>1809030
Twilight Princess. It's everything OoT should have been. My favorite retro one is LttP.

>>1811502
I like it because it's an adventure. You aren't told what to do, or where to go, there's no prophecy to fulfill. You're just a kid with a sword and a shield in a big world with a lot of secrets.

>>1811604
"Solid" is code for "unexceptional" and possibly "mediocre". There are hundreds of open world games that you'd be better off playing before Zelda 1. The fact that it still gets put on a pedestal by 30-something NES kids is all the excuse I need to be mean to it.

>>1811573
OH WAIT didn't they port Ultima IV on the nes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzN0kpQk-DU
Bwahaha they did.

>>1809030
cool

1) Wind Waker (not vr but it answers the question)
2) Ocarina of Time
3) A Link to the Past

I'm a very plain person

>>1811637
>if you don't have nostalgia you can't possibly like it
>saying you liked it is actually code for you didn't like it

>>1811637
>"Solid" is code for "unexceptional" and possibly "mediocre".
"Solid" is not code for anything. Yes, it does mean it's "not exceptional", but again, not every single game has to reinvent the wheel. And it doesn't mean mediocre unless the game sets out to reinvent the wheel. Faulting Zelda for not being revolutionary is like faulting Dragon Quest for not having improved and more complex Ultima-style mechanics. None of those games set out to do that, they did their own thing on their own limited media.

I guess your beef is how overrated Zelda is (people even praise it as "inventing save games"), and if that's the case you do have a point. It marks a faux beginning of a genre for the hipster retro crowd that's gotten into gaming only recently. But being overrated doesn't make it mediocre or bad by default.

>>1811637

So what. The game doesn't have to be exceptional to be someone's favorite. You sound like a person who reads top 10 lists and doesn't even enjoy games.

>>1809140
This entire post is like the epitome of the internet hipster.

>>1811502
This idiot here

>The game has no merit because [bullshit reason]

>>1811737

I don't even know whether people are trolling anymore because some posters actually think like this.

>>1811737
The game has no merit because you can't finish it without the soluce.

>>1812715
>soluce

>>1812721
> solution
Sorry if my language isn't the same as yours.

>>1812726
Estonian?

>>1812736
french
;_;

Is the GBA version of A Link to the Past any good?

>>1812907
It's like the original version.

>>1812914
But is it better than the original version?

>>1812919
As far as I remember, it is the same thing. But youtube disagrees :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_1v2zG6G0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNjO_6DKrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17V4By_r2AI

>>1812907
It's playable, but there are a few changes to it, like adding a yelling sound effect to the sword swing and lowering the screen resolution.

lttp is the only one i could ever get into. not sure if i even finished it. action-adventure genre a shit

>>1814272
> be a teen
> play lttp
> fight against ganon
> he says bullshit like you came too late ! AHAHAH
> whatever
> he wasn't joking, some apocalypse shit happens
> realise I am only in the middle of the game
> I feel like shit
> quit the game

MM>OoT>WW>SS>TP

>>1814304
WW=MM>OoT=TP=SS

Legend of Zelda Majora's mask And Link Between worlds.
Those two are the best!

Is Zelda II worth playing ?
I tried it for 10 minutes, it was laggy as fuck and I had an epilepsy attack everytime I died.

>>1814361
>Is Zelda II worth playing ?
Yes.
>it was laggy as fuck
Elaborate.
>and I had an epilepsy attack everytime I died.
Are you trying to be funny or are you serious?

>>1814373
>Elaborate.
Sometimes, when I walk, it becomes very slow. Playing on higan btw.

>Are you trying to be funny or are you serious?
I was trying to be funny, but the death screen really hurts my eyes.

>>1814384
>Playing on higan btw
Different anon here, this might be the issue. As I understand higan isn't great at non-SNES games.

If it hurts your eyes, then don't play it.

For 2D Zeldas, A Link to the Past, but only by a little(Link's Awakening is my second favorite). It has such a great sense of adventure, and the worlds are so interesting and full of neat stuff, it's one of the reasons I found Ocarina so lackluster, the world felt empty and bland.

As for favorite 3D, it has to be Wind Waker, but my favorite out of the two /vr/ 3D Zeldas has to be Majora's Mask, it's so weird and the world and lore it creates is so interesting, plus it has a ton of amazing mechanics that I wish made it into more Zeldas.

>>1814286
>some apocalypse shit happens

Did you play the right Zelda game?

>>1814875
> being a rabbit
> not the apocalypse
Pick one.