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Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 08:37:37 No.9586979 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw nearly 30 and still scared of OoT
I got the game when I was aorund 7 and was too scared to play it, and in the years since I've picked it up a few times and enjoy the first few hours, but the zombies scare the fuck out of me. I have to turn the sound off and take abreak every few minutes.
I'm really embarrassed about this and I'm sure everyone thinks I'm trolling but I'm not, this game (and majora's mask) really scare and unnerve me.

Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 08:58:23 No.9587002

Honestly Im kinda jealous, Ive played it so many times and play rando for it on like a weekly basis that Im just so used to jumpslashing redeads and using ISG every encounter that its hard to take the imposing atmosphere as a threat in some parts which is sad because the game has a killer sense of it, it's phenomenal. I still sometimes sit in grottos and stare at the fish and soak in the ambience though, those are my favorite areas

Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 09:16:03 No.9587028
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>>9586979
Should you be embarrassed? I dunno, maybe. I think it speaks to how well this game nailed ambiance. The difference between how the town feels as a kid compared with seven years later is enormous, and the redeads are genuinely creepy as fuck. I got a little scared of Wind Waker redeads as a kid, and not at all by the redead knights in Twilight Princess, but OoT and MM redeads are really disturbing, even today. I'm not too scared to play it nowadays, but accidentally jumping from the Kakariko warp point directly into the Royal Family Tomb on my brother's file was enough to make eight year old me spaz out and switch the game off from terror.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 09:30:17 No.9587050 >>9586979 Shut the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 13:24:52 No.9587313 >>9586979 >this game (and majora's mask) really scare and unnerve me. How do you feel about actual horror games, like.. Resident Evil and Silent Hill? Horror movies? you ever watch those. Curious if its just Zelda or actual fear for spoopy stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 13:28:27 No.9587318 None of that fantasy shit scares me. There will never be real zombies or ghosts or any of that bullshit. The only real horror comes from human beings, all the most fucked up shit I've ever heard of came from news articles, not movies or comic books.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 13:28:56 No.9587320 >>9586979 That location is one of the most atmospheric ever in a video game especially considering story and what the place looked like to you 3 min ago It's actually insane Nintendo had the balls for this

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 13:30:43 No.9587326 >>9587320 I'm still pretty sure Nintendo paid off the guys responsible for age ratings. Like, c'mon, zombies, red blood, a torture chamber

Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 13:41:39 No.9587352

>>9586979
>but the zombies scare the fuck out of me
I've been playing trought it dozens of times since it came out, 100% it multiple times as well, the fucking shrieking assholes still get me. I don't get the Sun's Song before the timeskip because of them.

Anonymous Fri, Jan 20, 2023 18:36:24 No.9587971

>>9587326
>I'm still pretty sure Nintendo paid off the guys responsible for age ratings
They didn't need to, there were such ratings in the japanese and european markets at that time and the ESRB only had three ratings (since A for adults only was very rare) and the difference between E and T had more to do with language or sexual-ish content than anything because >implying americans ever had a problem with violence

Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 02:56:40 No.9589029

>>9586979
>I have to turn the sound off and take abreak every few minutes.
You must be kidding, right? I get finding the atmosphere unsettling at times, or even getting a bit startled but actually being so sensitive that you have to take a break from a Zelda game is just pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 03:03:35 No.9589047 >>9586979 PUSSY!

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 03:16:02 No.9589095 >>9586979 my wife beat it

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 03:19:09 No.9589103 >>9586979 I feel the same but for re1 on ps1.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 03:20:01 No.9589106 File: 75 KB, 703x417, 1655358849001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9587320 i am just realizing now i think those are faces in the sky looking downwards. anyone confirm?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 03:45:42 No.9589154 >>9589095 You Wife was my Whore

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 03:51:55 No.9589164 >>9586979 Yes the redeads are a very effective spook cause of the scream and how they can catch you when you think you're avoiding their sight.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 04:05:14 No.9589186 File: 12 KB, 368x375, 1512570270385.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9589154 WTF

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 05:08:51 No.9589304 Why would you post this story again? Why do you like us calling you pansy? You should probably keep this to yourself. I don't get it. I hope you don't share this irl.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 09:42:41 No.9589704 >>9587318 >all the most fucked up shit I've ever heard of came from news articles Thats fiction too, dummy

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 09:58:42 No.9589732 >>9586979 Short but pivotal moments like that are precisely why OoT is goated

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 15:05:57 No.9590212 File: 224 KB, 488x262, 9220456.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9587326 >>9587971 In the case of some European countries; ratings were either generous or even completely absent before PEGI was introduced in 2003.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 16:04:28 No.9590312

>>9587326
I think it's an issue of standards changing. Nowadays, you'd get an E10+ or T rating from those elements. In the late '90s, however, people seemed to just care less about the degree of violence that appeared in children's media. So, you could get away with a little blood and death, especially if it was subtly put in.

The clearest example of "they could never get away with that today" in an E-rated game I can think of is Mega Man X4. One cutscene has a character slash some others in half as dark red blood splatters everywhere. Even with the whole "they're robots, so it's not really blood" defense, that scene seemingly got the X Collection a T rating alone.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 16:13:38 No.9590341 >>9587971 >>>implying americans ever had a problem with violence Fagddit-tier comment. Turok got an M rating, and it has no sexual content.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 21, 2023 19:54:36 No.9590790

>>9590341
If it takes Turok or Mortal Kombat to get M ratings, maybe there is something to it.
Friendly reminder that parental advisory labels on records took off because of sexual content in hip hop, not because of gore in heavy metal art covers and violent lyrics in either.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 01:02:25 No.9591536 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xx_TK58lA Well this is genuinely the creepiest atmosphere ever in a video game. Lucky if you didn't end up owning this version as a kid. Imagine that for 2 hours not knowing where to go

Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 01:35:52 No.9591597
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>>9586979
>play OoT for the first time
>leave ominous but peaceful home village behind to discover even more familiar places
>wander off a little
>encounter graveyard hidden behind local mill
>suddenly more serious atmosphere ushered by the ambience and omission of cheerful melodies
>knowing it's not OK in real life to moneky around in a cemetery and way too spooky anyway...do exactly that
>large tombstone with important-looking crest i can interact with
>find a secret tunnel
>heavy echoes, strange and distorted winds and the sound of metallic scraping and what could be someone's screams
>human remains everywhere
>enter the next room
>hear the exact moans of something from a game rated "Mature" that gave me nightmares for years
>only two hearts left
>decide to cowardly dash through the room
>moans turn into a scream
>literally freeze in my tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZJ_ijd0duA

You have to be dumb not to find Ocarina of Time spooky. No other games does such a sadistic job of juxtaposing cheery end eldritch atmosphere

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 01:45:31 No.9591610 >>9586979 if this scares you, never ever go down the offended page on encyclopediadramatica

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 02:26:22 No.9591678 >>9591536 This was the version I played on Project 64, very nostalgic.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 02:30:55 No.9591691 >>9591610 lol

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 09:54:03 No.9592371 >>9591597 Man the 3DS remaster really was poop in comparison

Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 10:45:13 No.9592465
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I really wish Hyrule Field looked like pic-related when you're Adult Link. Having the skies immediately be bright and sunny with the heroic field music back playing immediately makes you forget there's any agency going on and I call that a misstep from the game.

Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 15:43:22 No.9592972

>>9591536

I'm in the same boat as OP, however I disagree about the fire temple. I wanted to go into the fire temple because I figured it was the last place zombies would be. You typically don't hear about zombies near fire/lava. Then when I finally got in there, I thought the chanting was cool as fuck, made the fire temple much more atmospheric. I thought I could eventually find the guys that were chanting if I looked hard enough in the temple.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 15:58:35 No.9593008 wish the game had actual good rom hacks like alttp or super metroid has.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 19:45:57 No.9593567 >>9592465 >wanting to get rid of all the comfiness and beauty for some autistic random reason Dragon's Dogma sounds perfect for you

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 19:47:37 No.9593569 >>9593008 there's not a single good SM romhack anon it's all artificial difficulty shit for retards

Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 23:16:19 No.9594086

>>9586979
I remember being four years old and visiting the house of my mom’s friends. They were older than me, and they showed me OoT. I never had a console as a kid so my experience of vidya was limited. The one thing I remember is them going out on to Hyrule field: the sun sets, night falls, and suddenly these creepy skeletons appear. And it wasn’t so much the skeletons that scared me as the idea that you could be in someplace safe and canny and then it could dynamically change just like that. It blew my mind.

I was easily scared by vidya as a kid. Even now I admit that I have trouble playing horror games because I get too jumpy

Anonymous Sun, Jan 22, 2023 23:27:20 No.9594124

>>9592465
What I found the strangest upon replaying this game recently was that Big Poes are the only enemies in Hyrule Field when you're an adult. I would have liked to fight a Stalfos or something on the overworld every now and then. If this game had Bokoblins I bet they probably would have fit in well there.

Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 00:02:42 No.9594213

>>9590212
>>9587971
Wtf this literally explains why Nintendo went full kiddy in the 2000s when they were quite moderate before. Why does no one ever talk about this? We went from OoT to bokoblins wearing leopard loincloth in SS and we all know what happened to Mario 64 aesthetics and animal characters

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 00:20:29 No.9594258 >>9594124 Hyrule field was definitely kind of a fail. Made the game feel more empty

Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 00:37:21 No.9594287 [DELETED]

>>9594124
I had this discussion with some sperg a few weeks ago who was defending OoT's empty world, but I agree with you. awhile back I saw a video where a guy modded the moblins from spirit temple into the field and it was awesome. just giant evil goblins roaming around and attacking you when you got too close. that's what hyrule field was missing, some actual enemies to mess with during downtime.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 00:38:22 No.9594290 >>9594287 forest temple* i mean

Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 03:05:02 No.9594625

>>9594258
grassland plains are supposed to be a bit empty. in case you haven't noticed because you have severe autism, atmosphere is an important thing for zelda. not putting any bullshit in hyrule field was one of the most brilliant moves ever and the reason this game is often seen as perfect and not another janky video game to keep adhd kids busy

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 03:41:21 No.9594703 >>9587002 >I still sometimes sit in grottos and stare at the fish and soak in the ambience though, those are my favorite areas Based. The deku tree music in those grottos really adds to the ambience.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 09:50:02 No.9595257 >>9594086 >my mom’s friends. >They were older than me I should hope so.

Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 10:43:00 No.9595313

>>9594213
That, but also Sega failing hard while still trying to push the "cool and radical games your parents HATE" angle.
Meanwhile Nintendo were slowly but surely understanding that making games that parents will buy by default for their kids is a goldmine. Hence the steady supply of half-assed Mario games on the DS. That way when some mom needs a present for little Timmy's 8th birthday it's "ah yes the Mario game on the Nintendo, it looks like a cartoon so it's gonna be fine". Then she sees a reassuring "E for fucking normies" rating and that's all she needs to know.
Though the real winners of the ratings wars were the DS shovelware publishers in the mid and late 2000s when they could put out any low-effort game that looked safe enough, got the right rating and would immediately look good to parents.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 16:47:17 No.9595897 >>9591597 This was me on my second playthrough. OoT is one of the few games where the second or third playthrough is actually just as impressive if not more impressive

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 17:26:02 No.9595985 >>9593569 Vitality would beg to differ

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 19:41:10 No.9596324 >>9595985 >Vitality so they're not all artificial difficulty shit for retards that one still sucks shit though

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 23, 2023 23:51:30 No.9596906 It made me poopoo my pants

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 00:08:33 No.9596946 File: 27 KB, 343x343, OP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586979 You should play Resident Evil

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 05:38:24 No.9597798 >>9596946 Don't do this OP

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 05:56:19 No.9597836 >>9586979 It's cartoon skeletons. I will never understand people who got scared of innocuous games as kids. Like, that shits not real. It's a game

Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 07:45:54 No.9598016

>>9586979
when i was like 8 years old i remember that i got spooked by these skeletons and the dungeon in the bottom of the well, the shadow temple also made me feel uncomfy, in majora ikana valley and the ikana castle also were super creepy but now i have played them so many times that is whatever, im actually jealous of you, i wish i could feel again the uncomfortable creepy things that these games have to offer

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 07:59:20 No.9598037 For me it's the Forest temple. The fucking music and atmosphere.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 08:46:22 No.9598108 File: 424 KB, 627x438, detroit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9587318 >There will never be real zombies or ghosts or any of that bullshit. https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1674549972029434.webm

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 08:59:41 No.9598138 >>9591597 I don't know if I was born numb, but to me the sense of adventuring further over powered any horror themes. It's obvious as an adult what could be scary, but as a kid none of it came off like that.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 10:01:56 No.9598237 >>9591597 >eldritch Those are not actual burial grounds. Think gulags but the skulls were used to make the walls of the entombed dissidents.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 12:00:47 No.9598361 >>9586979 it's ok, I'm 37 and the skulltulas in the deku tree still scare me.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 13:15:44 No.9598469 >>9593569 are you mentally ill? most hacks are vanilla difficulty. you can tell you probably tried one hack and failed misserably.

Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 13:29:14 No.9598485
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>>9586979
i'm still scared of zombies and haunts in Thief. the sound design and overall atmosphere elevate them levels beyond what the graphics seem to lack.

when I was a teen and well past the age I should have been a big enough boy to handle such things, I got so terrified playing Return to the Cathedral in the middle of the night once I literally FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR scrambling to press escape to jump to the menu when a haunt suddenly chased me down a corridor. I rather enjoy having that as a memory oddly enough

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 13:30:41 No.9598489 >>9591597 I never got to enjoy OoT because my childhood was Zelda 1 & 2 and my adolescence was ALTTP, by the time it went 3D it felt like it wasn't my Zelda anymore.

Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 13:33:12 No.9598491
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>>9592465
>>9593567
This. Dragon's Dogma is one of the greatest (and most SOULFUL- no, I will NOT apologize for using that word) games ever made.
Don't care if it's not technically retro, it heavily aspires to classic aesthetics and the "feel" of old timey CRPGs (blended with modern action).

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 13:50:05 No.9598528 The Forest Temple music bothered me as a kid because one of the effects sounds like sexual moaning and I associated it with rape.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 18:44:46 No.9599105 >>9598528 It sounds more like Link is constantly interrupting a sneeze.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Jan 24, 2023 23:39:03 No.9599845 >>9598237 >Think gulags but the skulls were used to make the walls of the entombed dissidents. that just makes it scarier

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 05:45:41 No.9600780 >>9586979 It's a high IQ sign. Good imagination

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 06:35:14 No.9600860 >>9599845 The kingdom isn't as squeaky clan as later games make them out to be.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 08:46:00 No.9601047 >>9598491 It is retro. Anything at least a few years old or even not that old even is retro.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 10:03:04 No.9601161 >>9586979 I'm nearly 50 and still scared of AitD

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 18:20:41 No.9602092 >>9600780 Just like how only retards can't appreciate Blair Witch

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 18:59:47 No.9602243 >>9586979 pussy

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 25, 2023 19:43:34 No.9602453 >>9586979 They aren't exactly zombies in Zelda:OOT, they are called re-dead. It's scary because it is a real life doom coming soon.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 26, 2023 01:09:38 No.9603302 >>9602243 Say it to my face you little faggot

Anonymous Thu, Jan 26, 2023 13:58:11 No.9604371

>>9598491
>This. Dragon's Dogma is one of the greatest (and most SOULFUL- no, I will NOT apologize for using that word) games ever made.
It's one of the most overrated games ever. Can barely max out two classes and unlock their fun skills before the story is over, the world us empty and doesn't gave any enemies to test your skills on besides lul chimera which is braindead and the DLC island is literally just procedural generated dark and ugly shit that isn't what the game was advertised as

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