/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7705301]

What was your reaction like when you first entered Hyrule Field?

[Anonymous No.7705307]

"damn this looks like shit and runs like ass"

[Anonymous No.7705313]

I imagine it was some kind of an embarrassing face, you know the one.

[Anonymous No.7705314]

>>7705301
I was playing all Zelda(in order) released at the time, so when I got to that part, pic related sums up my reaction quite well.

[Anonymous No.7705348]

"why is it so empty?"

[Anonymous No.7705365]

>>7705307
It was really the low point of 2020

[Anonymous No.7705370]

>>7705301

[Anonymous No.7705376]

>>7705348
Not only that, but populating it with a few pea hats and stalchild felt like kick in the nuts. Literally every other enemy is more interesting to fight. Looked like a lazy attempt to make Hyrule Field less barren.

[Anonymous No.7705546]

>>7705301
>Wait, there's nothing here? Why did someone design this area if it was going to be so empty?

[Anonymous No.7705624]

>>7705348
>>7705546
Literally nobody thought this. Stop larping.

[Anonymous No.7705639]

>>7705624
I thought this. It was deeply unusual to put players in a giant empty area at the time, it didn't become common until the next generations, zoomer. Zelda games prior to this had occasional, single overworld screens that lacked content - very rarely - but nothing as long and pointlessly devoid of variation as this.

[Anonymous No.7705695]

>>7705301
hmm where do I go next

[Anonymous No.7705765]

>>7705301
my mate was so hyped for it because he read in Hyper magazine that it would take a whole day to travel across. They didn't mention (or he didn't comprehend) that it was in game days, which is like 2 minutes or something.

[Anonymous No.7705785]

>>7705301
"That's it?"

It looks more like a desert. It's completely barren and empty compared to how full of stuff every screen in LttP was.

[Anonymous No.7705804]

>>7705301

[Anonymous No.7705916]

>>7705301
“wow that sure is the Hyrule Field from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64.”

[Anonymous No.7705959]

Maybe it's because I was a kid, but I never gave a shit. I wanted to hang out in the towns and talk to the NPCs.

[Anonymous No.7705998]

I don't remember how I reacted. It probably didn't interest me much. Later, after having commuted across the field many times, I began to judge it. I concluded that it was a mild annoyance. I felt that Link's job should not include a commute. But it's not a huge deal.

[Anonymous No.7706015]

>>7705301
>3D console gaming isn't ready for prime time
>*goes back to playing PC games and emulating previous console generations with superior everything*

[Anonymous No.7706017]

I will only give you that I didn't think that the horribly blurred stretched ground textures looked intolerably bad until adulthood. The emptiness was something you thought about right away.

[Anonymous No.7706039]

>>7705301
"Yes, this is certainly Hyrule Field."
Was I supposed to have a big emotional reaction to entering a mundane area? I probably reacted more to the big flying peahats.

[Anonymous No.7706160]

>>7705765
I remember reading that too. Was pretty confused when I actually played it. Like, "Where's the rest of it?"

[Anonymous No.7706309]

>>7705765

I like the thought of a magazine about nothing but Hypercolor shirts

[Anonymous No.7706485]

>>7705370
BOSS FIGHT

[Anonymous No.7706490]

It's big. It's just like real life .I am so happy right now

[Anonymous No.7706492]

>>7705301
"Where's the fucking Zelda theme?!"

[Anonymous No.7706515]

Unimpressive

[Anonymous No.7706561]

Yeah, I was around on the release.
And I can confirm I'm one of the people that was not impressed with Hyrule field.
It was just bland. I understand the technical limits but it felt more like the purpose was merely to be a large area.
Not saying the game overall was bad, many areas were plenty fun or spooky and the doomed future plot was interesting for the time.

[Anonymous No.7706584]

>>7705624
You say this because as soon as you acquired faster ways of locomotion there was no reaaon to walk around Hyrule Field anymore.

[Anonymous No.7706595]

>>7705765
Is there any game even to this day that would take a full IRL day to cross the map?

[Anonymous No.7706602]

>>7706595
Minecraft

[Anonymous No.7706608]

>Let's pretend like we always hated OOT, that'll make us look cool.
It never does.

[Anonymous No.7706616]

>>7706561
Dude, nobody gave a shit back then and you know it.
I didn't hear anybody say how bland or empty hyrule field is, especially compared to other bland and empty games on the 64, until I started coming on /v/ and /vr/ later on.
It wasn't a great system in general.
Someone's trolling and some other idiots are falling for it.

[Anonymous No.7706619]

>>7706608
>pretend

[Anonymous No.7706683]

>>7706608
You think this because we wanted to talk about one single awkward element of it? Do you always jump to the farthest conclusion you can think of when people comment on stuff? Why not, instead, just think of people as saying what they are saying?

[Anonymous No.7706704]

>>7706616
Which other "bland and empty" games on the N64 do you think were around at OoT's release? 5th gen 3D spaces were mostly smaller and denser because they were trying to work with system limitations and to not have to stretch small textures across giant spaces. Collectathons were in full swing, with both Spyro and B&K releasing prior to it, which meant even the bigger, more open environments were still always filled with stuff. What specifically are you even referring to?

[Anonymous No.7706728]

"I wish I was playing Mario 64"

[Anonymous No.7706739]

>>7705765
RIP Hyper

[Anonymous No.7706747]

>>7706492
I recalled Hyrule field theme when clicking on this thread. Good tunes in OoT. Fun game but waaaay overhyped by Nintendrones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yl2EoGe2zU

[Anonymous No.7706752]

I will regurgitate Egoraptors opinions because I never actually played this game, wasn't even born when it was released and need e-celebs to tell me what to think.

[Anonymous No.7706852]

>>7706616
I cant retroactively fall for supposed trollbait that didn't exist til some 20 years later.
No, really, at the time I thought the field was a letdown.
The previews I've seen before then implied there was more stuff in a "main" area such as some smaller forests & villages.
So seems they seperated that stuff, likely for performance reasons.
This is a small issue to talk about, but even small issues should be addressed to help avoid repeats.
Like Zelda 1, it was one of the top examples of an adventure game, but it had flaws like lackluster graphics and unclear goals. And so Z3/Lttp addressed that.

[Anonymous No.7706884]

>>7705301
literally this

[Anonymous No.7706895]

>>7705301

[Anonymous No.7706914]

i played oot several months after it came out which by then asheron's call was released on pc and its world was 99999999999x larger but with shit actually in it, so i didn't think anything of hyrule field

[Anonymous No.7706958]

>>7705376
eh I played this back in '97 or '98 and loved it but I did, at the time, think Hyrule Field was a little sparse on enemies
especially compared to its predecessors, where you could walk off the first screen and fight octoroks and tektites

[Anonymous No.7706960]

>>7705348
>how to spot a zoomer
No one thought this when the game was released. Way to out yourself.

[Anonymous No.7706996]

What was your reaction when you first entered the Hyrule sea?

[Anonymous No.7707075]

>>7706595
maybe Fuel, that racing game, if you were to walk it. But you can't. Still, it's like a 2 hour drive.

[Anonymous No.7707085]

>>7706739
is it finally dead? I read it during the Toose-Fish era, and then Cam Shea came and made it cringe, or whatever the equivalent of cringe was back then.

[Anonymous No.7707089]

>>7706996
"cool"

[Anonymous No.7707249]

>>7705348
It's a fucking field, that's why.
Must have been an unusual experience for city dorks.

[Anonymous No.7707258]

>>7707249
who mows the grass?

[Anonymous No.7707271]

>>7706852
>I cant retroactively fall for supposed trollbait that didn't exist til some 20 years later
Should be impossible, but somehow you managed.
Retroactive memory building, maybe?

[Anonymous No.7707276]

>>7707258
Has been done yesterday, they're gone now.

[Anonymous No.7707305]

>>7705695
Accurate. I spent a lot time exploring because I didn't read where to go

[Anonymous No.7707345]

>>7705301
This game is the ultimate pseud filter. Hyrule Field is a perfect example of something that gets criticized purely because the average person is too stupid to understand it. Hyrule Field is not a dungeon. It's not supposed to be filled with enemies and obstacles. It's a hub. It serves as a way to connect all of the various regions together, and allows for a degree of welcome downtime and breathing room between story segments. It gives you a chance to ride around and figure out your next move, stock up on items, search for the occasional secret area or simply enjoy the view and relax for a bit. I really don't understand how people even call it "empty" when it plays host to 10 secret holes, fairy locations, the poes, the running man, and a few other things. There is literally nothing wrong with Hyrule Field and the game would be worse if it were filled with trash enemies and more unnecessary garbage.

[Anonymous No.7707472]

>>7707345
Twilight princess and botw prove that a comparatively small and empty hyrule field is superior to something too big for it's own good

[Anonymous No.7707494]

>>7706996
I know this is a divisive game around here, but sailing the seas was extremely comfy.

[Anonymous No.7707712]

>>7707271
I know you're trying to be, but you're just being a butt.
Boring parts of games are very much a thing.
Just like training levels and slow cutscenes that can't be skipped.

[Anonymous No.7707727]

>>7705307
^this unironically

I wasn't a fan of early 3D games

[Anonymous No.7707737]

>>7706996
>Dungeons are great
>but boy this game would be so much better if they got rid of the ocean
it was the worst part of Wind Waker.

[Anonymous No.7707761]

>>7706996
>3D console gaming is finally ready for prime time, 3D Zelda is actually good now!

[Anonymous No.7707768]

>>7705301
I was all like DAMN these graphics suck and this game is BORING AS FUCK. I never played or liked Zelda.

[Anonymous No.7707813]

>there are zoomers larping itt
ew

[Anonymous No.7707827]

>>7707345
this anon gets it

[Anonymous No.7707843]

>>7706996
Good ass traveling music grabbed me immediately and I started panning the camera around like I was directing a grand and exciting sea adventure every time there weren't enemies, obstacles, rupees, odd weather or informative fish to see.

[Anonymous No.7707848]

If you can't criticize something weak about your favorite game, I automatically know you cannot be trusted to be objective about it and only like it for circumstantial reasons, not qualities it has.

[Anonymous No.7707860]

>>7706996
Didn’t have one cuz I bypassed that kiddie fag shit. This game’s art design is atrocious and was the beginning of the end for the series. Also, the gamecube is by far the most laughably shitty console ever.

[Anonymous No.7707865]

>>7705301
>post high-res emulator picture
>and not the jagged vaseline smeared eye-rape it really looks like
That's not what it looked like when anyone playing the N64 entered Hyrule Field you disingenuous faggot.
OoT is aged diarrhea and you cunts are too cowardly to admit it.

[Anonymous No.7707873]

>>7706960
>YOU WEREN'T THERE, MAN

[Anonymous No.7707879]

>>7705301

>whoa, this map is huge
>i wonder where this all leads to?
>oh shit, the sun is going down
>wait, the draw bridge can close?
>oh fuck, what are these things?

[Anonymous No.7707912]

>>7707345
based

[Anonymous No.7707949]

>>7705301
i was like, it's cool i guess

I was so young, I had no idea how bad non Nintendo games can be.

[Anonymous No.7707951]

>>7707879
Yeah the day/night cycle blew my mindddd, it was my fav game in part because of things like that

[Anonymous No.7707972]

>>7706996
At first
>whoa, cool!

Then
>well, it's not that cool

[Anonymous No.7707983]

>>7707494
gamers are whiney bitches if a game isn't bland and catering to their adhd

[Anonymous No.7708038]

>>7705376
can you even kill the pea hats? they're so out of the way i never bothered to try

[Anonymous No.7708048]

>>7708038
you can but it doesn't feel worth it

[Anonymous No.7708078]

I was blinded by its majesty. Paralyzed. Dumbstruck.

[Anonymous No.7708120]

When the I saw those floating plant things.

[Anonymous No.7708161]

>>7707345
You get it. Hyrule Field is interesting because:

a) It's large enough that it's not trivial to exhaustively search it, so secrets can hidden well through its sheer breath and sparsity, unlike most other areas in the game
b) Despite this, it's not so huge that it's unreasonable to explore all of it. so things can be hidden 'randomly' with the expectation that the player could find everything eventually
c) Traveling through it any more than necessary is completely optional. You don't even need to see a horse even once through the game to finish it, but that's still there to discover for yourself

[Anonymous No.7708182]

Like the zoomers amazed with overrated BOTW, except Ocarina was actually a technical achievment for its time, unlike Ubizelda.

[Anonymous No.7708194]

>>7708182

lmao this. BotW is just OoT's Hyrule field times a million and without any of the other things that make a good Zelda game

[Anonymous No.7708205]

>>7708194
and with literal meme phone games temples.... literally zoomda

[Anonymous No.7708212]

>>7705301
>holy shit, this place is HUGE
>let's run around and explore it
>cool, it's night
>WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT SUDDENLY A HORROR GAME WITH ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE
>good, it's finally day again
>hey, what's this odd plant
>WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS PINEAPPLE MONSTER THAT'S EVEN SCARIER THAN THE ZOMBIES

[Anonymous No.7708214]

>>7705301
looks gay

[Anonymous No.7708231]

>>7706996
*yawn*

[Anonymous No.7708462]

>>7708212
I can't tell if this postnwas made by a redditor or someone pretending to be a redditor

[Anonymous No.7708497]

>>7705639
Loosen your fedora and lose weight

[Anonymous No.7708515]

>>7708497
half of the bitching is overfamiliarity because they played, and enjoyed, the game multiple times

[Anonymous No.7708521]

>>7708515
Of all the nasty things said in this thread, this is by far the most insulting. Well played sir.

[Anonymous No.7708563]

>>7705301
"It's a masterpiece of liminal game design"

[Anonymous No.7708601]

>>7705301
I wasnt impressed technically speak, i was more overjoyed to finally be out of the shitty ass forest and go to the cool Volcano

[Anonymous No.7709279]

>>7708182
>Ocarina was actually a technical achievment for its time
lmao console meme

[Anonymous No.7709284]

>>7706884
Why does Adult Link look like Gourry Gabriev in this game?

[Anonymous No.7709398]

>>7706595
Daggerfall, maybe?

[Anonymous No.7709416]

>>7705307
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.7709419]

>>7709284

[Anonymous No.7709426]

>>7707345
>welcome downtime and breathing room

The word is "commute", anon. I already have a tedious job in real life. I don't need a fictional tedious job to provide me with rest in between sessions of relaxedly having fun. Watching a horse's butt bob around during what might as well be a cutscene every time I want to get to some other part of the game world is not relaxing to me. Playing a good game is relaxing. This buttwatching minigame in Zelda 64 is not a good game, any more than Desert Bus is a good game. It's a simulation of a bland commute.

[Anonymous No.7709452]

>>7709398
>Randomly generated
That's cheating.

[Anonymous No.7709520]

>>7708497
>deeply upset by criticism of one single area of a good game
Every time

[Anonymous No.7709537]

>>7705301
I don't remember. I was 8 and 3D games weren't that mindblowing to me because I didn't have a strong enough grasp on what video games "should've been" or whatever at the time anyway.

[Anonymous No.7709592]

>>7709426
CoD is more your speed. Not saying it as an insult, that game has no downtime or pacing whatsoever. Constant action, no need to travel anywhere, any parts of the game that would be considered puzzles or requiring any kind of thought are done automatically by an NPC helper buddy. Zelda style games are not your jam and that's ok.

[Anonymous No.7709968]

>>7705301
"THESE GRAPHICS SUCK! FUCKING BOOMER GAMES ARE SHIT"

[Anonymous No.7709973]

>>7709592
reddit

[Anonymous No.7709993]

>>7705301
"It looks like Hyrule Castle is to the north."

I love OOT, but it has the worst overworld in the entire series. Video games werent quite ready to take on maps that big in 3d just yet.

[Anonymous No.7710082]

>>7709973
cringe

[Anonymous No.7710085]

>>7710082
mad

[Anonymous No.7710219]

>>7707860
try harder

[Anonymous No.7710293]

>>7707345
>cares about story in video games
>needs a break in the action
Yeah I'm calling casuals like you cancer

[Anonymous No.7710298]

>>7705301
This game scared me as a kid, so when I finally braved the Deku tree and got into the Field I was stoked.

I promptly ran into the peahat, aggro'd it and freaked the fuck out. Turned my console off and didn't touch the game for another several months.

[Anonymous No.7710357]

>>7709993
>it has the worst overworld in the entire series
worse than SS's sky?

[Anonymous No.7710376]

>>7710085
meme

[Anonymous No.7710404]

>>7709426
Do you really need to make a reference to watching horse's butt twice in the same post? "buttwatching minigame" - yeah I hope you enjoy laughing to yourself with that man.

Your first three sentences were completely sufficient for getting your point across, everything else is turning this place into /v/.

[Anonymous No.7710410]

>>7710404
Seething tranny.

[Anonymous No.7710412]

>>7710404
>nooo stop talking shit about horse butt
lmao

[Anonymous No.7710487]

>>7709426
>pays more attention to the polygonal horse ass than the destination he's heading to
>>>/mlp/ is that way

[Anonymous No.7710526]

>>7705301
"Awesome, my computer can emulate that zelda game"

[Anonymous No.7710887]

>>7706996
I was amazed at moving so fast across such a big area. Zelda never felt so unrestricted as in that moment.

[Anonymous No.7711157]

>>7710357
Thanks anon, I was trying my best to forget that SS ever existed.

[Anonymous No.7711158]

>>7710293
>knowing nothing about the game and thinking Hyrule Field is empty
you're the casual.

[Anonymous No.7711161]

>>7705301
shut the fuck up you stupid owl<

[Anonymous No.7711167]

>>7709426
you can literally avoid ever going into Hyrule Field for most of the game using shortcuts/songs if you want, so your criticism is gay and retarded. if the idea of riding around a scenic field and collecting some items for 2 minutes is painful for you, you hate video games and i 100% guarantee you're bad at them.

[Anonymous No.7711180]

>>7706608
>Everyone in my 3rd grade class liked it, so that means EVERYONE liked it!

[Anonymous No.7711201]

>>7705301
Shit my pants. Fuckin pooped harder than then joe biden at a preschool.

[Anonymous No.7711205]

>>7706595
Daggerfall

[Anonymous No.7711489]

>>7705301
"This is what made boomers shit their pants in excitement?"

[Anonymous No.7711512]

>>7705307
zoomer go away

[Anonymous No.7712017]

>>7709419
Now he just needs a Lina.

[Anonymous No.7712258]

>>7705301
Woah. This is adventure.

[Anonymous No.7712265]

I didn't react I was busy playing

[Anonymous No.7712392]

>>7705301
Finally started enjoying the game.

[Anonymous No.7713189]

>>7712017
she's a redhead, close enough

[Anonymous No.7713317]

>>7707860
Damn dude, save some pussy for the rest of us.

[Anonymous No.7713321]

>>7713189
Too buxom to be Lina.

[Anonymous No.7713392]

>>7706595
Arma series model maps the size of (very) small countries