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I was a huge fan of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask growing up (more so the latter, because I feel like it's deeply under appreciated by Zelda fans) but didn't play ALTTP till pretty recently. I was not disappointed. Really great, and really fun game. Great music, gameplay, and for its time, pretty good graphics.

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djchameleon

Yessir with that SSX Tricky mention. I spend so many hours on that game it was ridiculous. When you say Rage do you mean Streets of Rage?

I vaguely remember that game but didn't play it too much. I was more of a NFL Blitz fan.


Also I had no idea that Chrono Trigger got ported to PS1. I only remember it being on SNES.

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Aperture Science

Yeah, it was paired with Final Fantasy Tactics, I think, and put on the PS1. I tried to find it on SNES but it ended up being too goddamn expensive

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butthead aka 216

Blitz was fun too. Street 1 was the ultimate. My friends and I played 4 player with a rule that there were no running plays except QB scrmables. We played with the legends unlocked too so you had old school LT, The Fridge, Barry Sanders, etc. the sequels actually became more realistic although they added some fun mini games but it just wasnt the same.

YES i meant streets of rage, what an awesome game that was!!


There was also a game for Sega (i think) where it was a western shooting game. I remember shooting barrels thrown from a carriage in front of you. And i also remember bonus rounds or something where you were in a saloon and had to shoot as many liquor/beer bottles as possible. if anyone knows that games name thatd be awesome

Circe

How far back are we allowed to go with classic gaming? SSX Tricky doesn't feel like it was released that long ago, although it was amazing. Moby was my man.

LoathsomePete

You just made a bunch of us feel old.

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Circe

Hey, I can't help being in the PS2 generation.

Seriously though, Pokemon Crystal = the best thing ever. I sunk hours upon hours into that game and I never even figured out the Ice Path.

Stephen

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-djchamelon
Yeah Mutant League was weird as hell haha, but it was mad fun. I remember playing Blitz on 64 mad long ago. It was great. It reminded me of NBA Jam in a way, I used to play that so much man. So good.

As for Chrono Trigger, it was packaged as Final Fantasy Chronicles along with Final Fantasy IV, which is probably the best damn FF game ever.. My favorite story line in the series, at least.




-Aperture Science
Yeah dude Majoras Mask is definitely under rated. The whole time concept was crazy, it gave the whole game a sense of urgency to it.

It was also really cool getting to be the different races with the masks and how they all played a different instrument when you used the ocarina, always loved that. I used to space out and just jam on the different instruments haha Goron Link was sick nasty at the bongos



-Circe
Hmm, I was originally thinking anything during and before the psone,N64 era last but last console generation(ps2,xbox,gamecube) is fair game, even though they may not be considered classics yet. I would definitely say though that a lot of games from that era are classics in their own right.

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Majora's Mask is OBSCENELY underrated, and here's why. 1) and this can't be stated enough..it had the unfortunate task of following up Ocarina of Freakin' time. That's a goddamn tough act to follow. I suspect that's how FFVIII felt.

Naturally, I remember people were looking for things to complain about. "It's not Ocarina of time" was what the arguments boiled down to. In reality, what you heard was "it's too hard (it may have been a little bit less straightforward than OOT, but after all, it is a kids game..cmon, you can figure it out), the time system is dumb (again, bs. I think that added a really interesting and creative dynamic to the story, and is part of what makes the game work so well), "it's too short" (Yes, there are only four temples, but there was a lead-in to all four..and sometimes those were as time consuming as actual dungeons. Ocarina's "lead in" was "buy a tunic" or "Get an item" which took approximately .2 seconds. I'd argue, with the lead ins, the side-quests (I'll get more into that in a sec) that they were about even, Majora's Mask might even be longer.

Replayability. Ocarina had shiit for sidequests, and in-town games. The sword, bottles, a couple masks, maybe two games in-town, and the skulltulas..that's about it. Majora had so many more sidequests, better stories relating to those quests. Not to mention in-town games, and races, and such. There was so much more to do.

And the last, and in my opinion, one of the biggest thing adding to the replay..was the ability to re-play dungeons (cool if you didn't get all the fairies, otherwise, not as cool I guess), and REPLAY BOSSES. (Very cool)


This isn't meant to dump all over Ocarina.. I love it to death. But [I]Majora's Mask was a step up in almost every way conceivable from its predecessor..minus maybe the recycling characters and models.

It proved a Zelda game can deviate from the usual Mario-type story "save the princess from the evil man, get laid, etc" It was darker, grittier, in a lot of places, much more sad. It's amazing how they crafted a whole unique new world/experience using so much of the same from the last game.




And yes, I'd argue some of the games from the early ps2/gc/microsoftpaperweight era are classic

Grand Theft Auto III - a game that should get way more credit than it does. Sure the story was simple, sure the main character was a mute, sure there were no motorcycles or helicopters, but at least it wasn't a giant scarface ripoff like Vice City. Plus, it lunged the GTA series into 3d, the way Mario 64 did with Mario, and was the template for all future GTA games to come. Credit where it's due plz

Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3

Smash Bros Melee


just to name a handful. I've gone on way too long already

okbye

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