I’ve never played Zelda. There, I said it. I know, it’s hard to believe. Not even one. Yeah, that includes Ocarina of Time. I have never held a controller from any gaming system and used it to move Link around or stab a ghost or whatever the heck it is you do in Zelda. No, I don’t really know why, I just never have. I didn’t even know Zelda is the princess until I was in University. Dude, get off my back. They just looked boring, alright?! I remember watching my cousin play The Legend of Zelda on his NES and it just didn’t look that great. I mean really, does this look fun?
Well it didn’t to me, so shut up. And then, after my NES, I didn’t get another console until my PS2. By the time I got an N64 it was used and they weren’t making games for it any more so I wasn’t exposed to the hype of Ocarina of Time (and playing N64 at my friends’ houses in high school was always Goldeneye or drinking and crashing in Rush 2, not a single player game like Zelda). I was too busy playing games on my computer to worry about sequels to some lame looking game my cousin used to play. Granted, I’ve just checked some screen shots and OoT looks pretty sweet.
Perhaps I’ll try the 3D version when I get around to buying a 3DS. Or maybe I’ll just pick it up for my N64 now. Who knows? I could also borrow Twilight Princess from Roz (who hasn’t spoken to me since the coffee break when all of this was revealed this morning – apparently I’m not the man she thought I was) and then I could try out some Wii Zelda action. On that note, I could even go out and get Skyward Sword. But I think I should start a little earlier, familiarize myself with the basics a bit. Carmen (a tech in our lab) tells me I should start right at the beginning and work my way through all of them, but I think that is a little excessive. Anyway, now I’ve revealed the biggest, geekiest shame I have. What’s your secret geek shame?
IT'S LIKE I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU
ReplyDeleteBut we can fix it.
I mean, I'd never played Portal until recently and certain geek friends (griends? frieeks?) still talked to me.
My shame used to be that I'd never finished watching Pulp Fiction. Now it's probably that I haven't seen all the Simpsons episodes. What? There are sooo many of them and I didn't really watch it in high school. What?
There is no shame in not having seen ALL the Simpsons episodes. Really, anything after season 9 doesn't matter. But not having watched it in high school, during the height of it's awesomeness (because you're old)?! SHAME!
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"[...] apparently I’m not the man she thought I was [...]"
ReplyDeleteWait, what? Roz thought you were a man?
I never played Zelda until Wii. The orginal graphics never swayed me either.
ReplyDeleteDirty gaming secret? I just finished (maybe the 8th time... ok, I lied, I'm in double digits) playing Ultima 7 (both parts). That was my most favourite game evah. The puzzles, the action, the aimless wandering because you dropped an important rock, the sex (yes, you can get laid in this game). Thank god for DOS enablers.
Ultima VII fucking rocks. Arguably my favourite RPG of all time and easily in my top 5 games ever. It has such a living world that has not been anywhere near matched since. It's now available on Good Old Games which will probably help with a lot of the compatibility issues, although Exult came with some super handy shortcuts for using keys and stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteI remember needing a hintbook for both those games because I found them so hard (and easy to get distracted). Although I have only beaten both of them once. And I didn't do it until I was waaaaaaaaay older than when I first got the game. I remember failing to see where the Tetrahedron actually was after beating the beast inside.
And Dupre. Clearly a man that the people of Trinsic would appreciate after his time on Serpent Isle!
I think it was only Serpent Isle that let you get your nookie on. The first time I put on the serpent earrings scared the living shit out of me too hahaha. Although more modern RPGs allow the sex factor too. Fallout 1 and 2 probably being the most entertaining, but also Baldur's Gate 2, Dragon Age (both of them), Mass Effect. Heh, a lot of BioWare games. Alpha Protocol probably has the most hilarious entertaining sex scene ever! Oh look I'm rambling...
And the Guardian still gives me the creeps at The Black Gate:
"Damn you Avatar! DAMN YOU!!!!!" Kaboom. Eat it guardian.