majoras mask was great. it wasnt innovative since it wasnt a real sequel to ocarina of time, but it was great. better graphics, funny characters and clock town is a good zelda town. that it wasn't in hyrule has nothing to do with it being quality or not; Link's awakening wasn't in hyrule; still considered a great zelda game
Now, THAT is a confusing statement if you think about it...
As part of my massive N64 emulation drive lately I started Majora's Mask the other day. It certainly hasn't hooked me in early on like Ocarina did. Great. I am a Deuk Sprout. Oh my, that is so cool I cannot describe it. I am jumping in sheer joy. Woo-hoo.
Back to Perfect Dark, I think. You know, even being able to save whenever I like, I can;t get some of the fast times on that game... grrr...
Originally posted by mah
but it was still highly enjoyable.what madness are you sprouting ush? are you judging the game by the fact that you have to spend a limited amount of time getting back your original form of link?
and no, the zeldas are not in chronological order. there are indeed different links in them
On "Ocarina of Time"; it has been called the greatest game of all time by many critics. I think it is the funnest game I've ever played. And I've passed it more than two dozen times.
"Majora's Mask" was good, but it had less than half the temples, and it had a new format, which excluded Zelda and Ganon. But I still liked it. Although I've only played it through once.
"THE WIND WAKER"
I've gotten MUCH further. I sat down and played it last Sunday for four hours. I not only got the third pearl, but I placed them in the proper spots in the sea. Then I went on to defeat the Tower of the Gods. Then I went and kicked that eagles ass back at the Forsaken Fortress.
Then the plot REALLY thickened. And I love it. It has tied this game into "Ocarina of Time" perfectly. I'm not going to give it away, but this game has me HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now a little further into MM, it strikes me as a cross between an old text adventure and Groundhog Day. I rather like it, actually.
Emulation is the process of a PC doing in software what a console does in hardware- basically, you run a programme which emulates a console. Likewise, you download software which emulates the cartridges.
However, emulation is inefficient. In theory, PCs and coneoles a like all come down to the same basic principle so a PC should be able to emulate any of it. In practice, PC's are just unable to do what consoles do with the same focussed efficiency.
What this basically means is that a PC needs a LOT of power to get the job done, which in turn means PCs tend to emulate things one generation behind. So, when theN64 was out I used to play a lot of emulated SNES games. These days, I play all the N64 games I never played before.
The process is imperfect. You get little glitches and the occasional crash. But. as I described above, sometimes it runs better than the originak- Perfect Dark being a good example, running at full speed and never slowing down. But on the other hand there is some texture tearing and it sometimes crashes between missions.
The OTHER advanatge of emulation, however, is that as it is all done in software you can save ANY time you like. You just press a button to save, and a button to load; it takes about a second either way. This is, of course, flagrantly cheating but it is great for some thing- for example, I never played Banjo-Tooie; I have downloaded it but I want to re-familiarise myself with the original first, so I am zooming throught hat and saving all the time to make it faster.
And I was trying to do the Perfect Dark levels fast enough to get some of the cheats but even with saving I can't bloody do some of them. Grrr.
The other problem is that a keyboard did fine to emulate a SNES joypad. The N64 is harder as it is analogue. Apparently you can get adaptors to put N64 controllers in a PC, but I do not have one. But a decent anaolgue joystick with buttons in easy reach and a Hat to emulate the C-buttons works just fine (in fact, on Lylat Wars (Starfox 64 for you Yanks) a joystick is better than the original! A bit worse on a game like Zelda though).
And now I am playing Majora's Mask on the PC. I guess in a couple of years I might be playing Wind Waker. Trouble is now people don't use cartridges any more the download time on these games will be horrendous, not to mention the space they will take up.