/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9942605
It has nothing to do with "muh aging" bad or good, stop copping out just having bad taste as a kid. It was a mediocre game then and it's still a mediocre game today

i still like the game to this day. its great.
i think the secret thing you should do to improve your experience is to save all exploration for the triforce quest. just focus on the main stuff until then. and then after that you can just sail around exploring. its cool. its way better than the modern zelda game

>>9942605
What are you finding didn't age well? I haven't played it since release but remember it being pretty fun. I don't typically like Zelda though so I think it was mostly just the sailing and exploring.

>>9942605
It was the Zelda game for Gamecube.

>>9942605
babbies first celda.

>>9942605
because of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3CSWLFL5u8

Sounds like OP aged badly

I still haven't played it but I always liked the Windwaker art style. I did really enjoy Phantom Hourglass, underrated DS game.

Used to dislike the game because of how short and easy it is. Nowadays I enjoy it because of how short and easy it is. It's just a nice adventure the whole way through, and Link is really likable in this game.

>>9942605
Nintendo game
Gamecube game
Zelda game
Ugly but cel shaded graphics
All give it plenty of baggage that over-inflate its relevance

>>9942662
>It's just a nice adventure the whole way through
>the whole way through

>>9942698
ill never get the issue with this. its fun

>>9942702
It's not, it's tedious padding

>>9942703
it works for me. like i said thats when i do all my exploring so it all falls in nicely. it doesnt feel like padding to me. i acknowledge its flaws though. WW would have benefited from more development time and TP not being made at all

>>9942619
>>9942629
>>9942664
This. It only achieved "cult status" as a cope for how hideous and kiddie it was.
Nintendo teasing pic related, then pulling the rug and making the tendies defend celda instead, will never cease to be one of the funniest things that has ever happened in gaming.

>>9942715
Them attempting to make it up by releasing TP and the game ending up being worse than WW was even funnier.

>>9942715
>tendie
/v/ tourist.
6th gen will never be retro btw

>>9942605
Only thing I really dislike about it is how the boat controls, which is unfortunate because of how big of a part of the game it is. Otherwise I think the artstyle looks great and contributes to the game actually aging well, and I think Ganondorf's backstory puts him a notch above other incarnations in the series. Overall not the best Zelda game, but a good Zelda game nonetheless, and better than Twilight Princess in my opinion.

>>9942765
Twilight princess was so forgettable

>>9942605
>zelda thread
>"it didn't age well"

>>9942721
If they initially released Twilight Princess instead of WW everyone would've sucked its cock and acted like it was the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ to this day.

>>9942605
another datapoint: played this for the first time last week and loved it. Just all-around very unique and atmospheric, with fantastic anamations and music. Honestly I think its much better than breath of the wild

very sad of you to realize, that the good feel can be changed to not good feel

>>9942806
Yeah, pretty forgettable. I didn't like its atmosphere that much too, I thought it was a little too one note grimdark.

>>9942756
>6th gen
>not retro
cope. 7th gen is older today than the NES was when the PS2 came out.

>>9942703
>this is the opinion a youtuber told me to have
Hey alright

>>9942605
yeah Play the wiiu version on hero mode and get the fast sailing much better i can't go back to OG

>>9942721
At least TP is a game and not an infinite blue plain of boredom

>>9943050
considering the state of TP's map the difference is cosmetic at best.

>>9943052
I meant it has dungeons, like, actual dungeons that aren't corridors. WW only has sea and nothing else. Sad.

>>9942965
>>this is the opinion a youtuber told me to have
Please, try to explain how grinding out rupees to decipher charts isn't padding or tedious.

>>9943058
dopey

>>9943068
you had to be there zoomie

>>9943075
Gamecube is literally the zoomer console though

>>9943083
untrue. i am on a discord filled with zoomers. alone. And most of them started on a Wii U or a late Wii. first zelda being SS or TP. The earliest zoomer would still not be old enough to have a gamecube bought for them when it was relevant

>>9942605
its the least shitty zelda out of the modern 3D titles anon

>twilight
was not great other than the aesthetic and links model
>skyward
ost carries the game

windwaker might not be better than the n64 entries but its certainly better than what came after

99% of the world is empty. I remember when crt's were a thing that I switched over to regular tv while holding the stick in a certain direction because sailing between islands took literally minutes. blahblah you get the retarded song I know but you dont have it right away and you still need to sail to explore shit and whatnot. this was probably the downfall. twilight princess went in the same direciton. they added a fast mount and made the overworld 10x as big but also 10x as empty. oot and alttp had the perfect balance, every single area had something of importance to explore and everything felt so dense.

>>9943281
Nigga it's a game where you set wind direction towards one of 5 corridor dungeons where you fight enemies with an auto parry button. TP isn't good but it wipes the fucking floor with WW

>>9942605
>Why did it achieve a cult status again?
Graphics, animation, music, basically the art direction. This game gets completely murdered by the way the devs chose to handle spatial progression: moving to point A to point B is consistently an aggravating chore, and I'm not just talking about the boat.

>>9942605
Because it wasn’t well received on launch and it’s got Zelda in the name. Showing me the spaceworld 2000 video then this comes out has made me eternally bitter.

>>9943537
This reply is like seeing a youtuber come to life, uncanny.

It had SOVL.
Gameplay was kinda limited ass though, but the art and music made up for it.
The people who got buttmad about it not being a realistic zelda shut up pretty damn quick about that shit when they actually played it.
But the thing about the gameplay, 3d Zelda gameplay only got good with BOTW, so this is quite literally the least shitty 3d zelda.

>>9943560
>It had SOVL

>>9943565
Minish cap came out after windwaker.
Also was 2D.
Also the gameplay of MC is utter ass compared to the GBC and/or SNES games.

>>9943560
>The people who got buttmad about it not being a realistic zelda shut up pretty damn quick about that shit when they actually played it.
Not really, since the game only proved their stance that the art style was for tiny babies right when the game's difficulty was substationally lower than the games that came before it.

>>9943568
>Minish cap came out after windwaker.
Doesn't matter
>Also was 2D.
That's actually a good thing
>Also the gameplay of MC is utter ass compared to the GBC and/or SNES games.
I haven't played the Oracle games yet, but I have played ALttP and LA. I didn't enjoy TMC as much as i did ALttP, but I did enjoy it more than LA. That doesn't matter though, because my point is that TMC has more SOVL than any of these games.

>>9943585
>you must be 18 to use this websitr

>>9943604
>You express opinions I disagree with! You must be under 18!

>>9943090
Earliest zoomers were born in '97 dumbass, for many of them the Gamecube was their first console

>>9942965
>you have the same opinion as a YouTuber I watched! Therefore you must be stealing your opinion from him!
please go back to /v/ faggot

I really enjoy it but am I allowed to or do I need to kym?

>>9943565
this and the oracles are the only 2D Zeldas I have yet to play
are they any good?

>>9944581
Funnily enough, there's a similar discussion happening right now: >>9944368

>>9942605
It was a mainline zelda game. The worst one in the entire series.

>>9944596
>The worst one in the entire series.
Wouldn't that title belong to skyward sword or twilight princess or something?

>>9944596
It was the worst one... until the one after it, which was the worst one until the one after that... which was the worst one until the one after that...

>>9944720
There's some poetic beauty in Wind Waker turning the series into a sinking ship.

>>9944720
Not really, there was still A Link Between Worlds which was pretty good, as well as The Minish Cap which was alright.

>>9944738
he said mainline zelda

>>9944747
Fair enough, although I consider ALBW mainline because it is a direct sequel to ALttP (and also because it influenced some of the game design of BotW). Although I guess by that logic Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks are mainline as well, but whatever.

>>9944772
Handheld should be able to be mainline or else Link's Awakening isn't which is crazy - that game had huge influence on OoT.

>>9944773
>>9944772
Phantom Hourglass is the worst mainline Zelda game.
I can’t pick between Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, or Skyward Sword as the worst console Zelda game. All I know is Four Swords Adventures was the best console Zelda between Majora’s Mask and Breath of the Wild, that game fucking owns.

>>9944789
>All I know is Four Swords Adventures was the best console Zelda
I haven't played it yet, but I find it pretty interesting that Nintendo decided to make a home console follow-up to Four Swords, a handheld game by Capcom that wasn't particularly popular.

>>9944806
i don't know about that, now. ALttP GBA sold like 2m copies, which is pretty damn good for what is literally a repackaged SNES title. i can't speak for anybody else but me and my friend played the four swords component extensively. having a multiplayer zelda was the coolest thing ever. i'd wager a lot of people who bought it felt the same way, so turning it into a proper console release was a no brainer. though, Nintendo was at the height of their brainless "do experimental thing for no reason" phase with the GC so maybe it was just brash hopefulness instead of a calculated decision.

>>9944806
I get it, but the two games are leagues apart. FS GBA is a neat side distraction but not much else. FSA is a fully realized game, some people don’t like the self-contained-levels format but I think it’s perfect for a multiplayer Zelda game. It also has what I think of as the “definitive” ALttP soundtrack, as most of its songs are upgraded, more fully fledged versions of ALttP songs.