LoZ Nostalgia Thread

Oh how I long for the days when I would play a game and could feel myself being immersed in a rich three dimensional universe. A time when developers wanted to create a timeless and impactful product. A time when games were so good that I actually remembered every character. An era where saving the princess had a purpose outside of arbitrary feeling that princess' deserved to be saved. A time when game mechanics were intuitive and not intrusive. I miss how important every aspect of the game was to developers that every field (sound, graphics, etc...) had to be above a certain standard of quality. I miss the common denominators being the focus of conversations between gamers. I miss the early days of online gaming because it was like the first day of school when you were a kid. Everyone was new and polite with some exceptions that were rare.

Mostly I miss the feelings accompanied by experiencing certain sounds in the LoZ: OoT game. I can recognize any sound in The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and pin a memory to it. What a wonderful feeling I get when I hear the piano roll out those first few notes. A timeless feeling.

They're redoing Legend of Zelda: A Link to the past on some version of the Wii here.

That was the last Zelda game I enjoyed, but not because I hated the following ones, I was not inspired enough to try them. They might have been fun.

There were lots and lots of shitty games back then don't forget.