Poll: Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages.

[Onyx Oblivion]

No.
Nonono

A million times no.

They're the only Zelda games I really loathe

Oddly enough, they're the only ones that I'd call perfect. Even LTTP and OoT had their flaws.

And the oracle games don't?

Not as many, in my eyes. Then again, they were my first Zelda games. And the villain in Seasons is named Onyx.

Getting Dimitri as the pet lets you swim early on. And THAT IS AWESOME.

Onox actually. Knox if you're one of those types who prefer the japanese name (which thanks to the terrible translation they actually call him a couple of times).
The games were repetitive as hell and seasons was the only truely original one and even then it wasn't that original.
Portals to another land (Seasons with Subrosia and Ages with the past/present)? Link to the Past did it with the light/dark world.
Time Travel? Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask did it, and they didn't keep you limited to some shitty time travel until the end of the bloody game.
The only truly new item outside of the harp/staff was the magnetic gloves which admittedly were cool.
Every over world puzzle that didn't require your animal friend (which were just annoying by the way, dimitri was the only one who wasn't terrible in every way because he swam faster then Link did) was the same. In seasons you swung your penis rod around until the season matched whatever you needed. In ages you just switched times until you found the right person to talk to. The dungeons just recycled like four puzzles right up until the very end (though this is a general Zelda formula problem.
The password system is utterly inane and basically exists to try and hook up on the pokemon craze that companies loved to get in on by making two people get two sides of one game and play together to play the whole game. Ultimately you had to beat the game twice to get the real plot which is utterly pointless.
The rings were also a stupid idea. They served no purpose at all other then the "don't get hit by zora fire" one.

One thing I'd give these games would be the fact that they don't always go "use new item on boss until dead" like the 3D games tend to. However it's quickly taken away once you realize that rather then "use new item" it's "use new item and shoot seeds" or in some cases just "shoot seeds". The seeds were pointless. They got rid of great items like the pegasus boots, fire rod and magic powder for a completely stupid mechanic.

I never claimed they were original. And I LIKED the ring system a ton. Let you customize a bit.

Do you also like the CD-i games?

And more on topic postage for me, I'd prefer a Links Awakening remake. I'd fucking love to see the Wind Fish in glorious 3D.

Did ANYONE like the CD-i, and I use this term loosely, "games"?

The only people I've met who did also liked the Oracle games.

That's a damn blatant insult against me and the Oracle games, sir! The Oracle games don't feature this shit:

They're not much better.

Spoiler: CD-i

Spoiler: Oracle of Seasons

Honestly your video managed to make seasons look even more boring. Just walking, walking, walking with nothing interesting going on. But thanks for reminding me of that godawful dancing minigame.

Every Zelda game has walking...and I'm pissed that I reminded MYSELF of the dancing mini-game. The biggest flaw in the game. But you don't have to do it much.

Yes but that's all your video showed pretty much. Walking in fields, almost no decent footage of the dungeons besides the bomb throwing scene and the mine cart. little to no fighting and a whole lot of nothing.

Looking I wasn't looking for an awesome trailer. Just one that said: "This plays nothing like CD-i"

 

[Kingsman]

Seeing as Seasons and Ages were the first Zelda games I ever owned and played through, I'm very tempted to give a massive finger to everyone nay-saying them and leave this thread forever.

That would be immature, though, so basically, can someone tell me exactly why Ages and Seasons are worse than a Link to the Past? And no comparisons to 3-D games, they're an entirely different type of ball game.

 

[Bloody Crimson]

I never played them, but if they remade them for Wii or something, I'd totally buy it.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

*snip of the beast king*

I don't understand you...You liked Link's Awakening, right? This plays like that does to a nearly identical degree.

 

[Piorn]

I loved it, but I hated the dancing!!! Hated it in Seasons, and couldn't even complete it in Ages. I only finished Ages once because someone else did the dancing for me.
The rest was fine though, I would like to see a remake.

 

[tk1989]

I generally dont like remakes... but i would buy oracle of seasons/ages just because i never played them before...

 

[Rickyvantof]

Seasons > Ages

But they were very awesome.

 

[Grounogeos]

Depends on how the do the remakes and how well they do the remakes. If it's at lest as decent as the originals, then yes I'd probably get them.

 

[silver wolf009]

no because i dont like zelda.

 

[De Ronneman]

I'dd buy the games, my first flirt with the Zelda series, and seasons hooked me, where ages punched me. Seasons is more straight forward, where ages let's you wrestle a bit, I like it.

Also the rings and 3 different pets are cool(bar ricky...).

Good games, shame I can't have 'em on my ds, or at least downloadable on the wii.

Anyway, great games, liked both, storywise not bad and, most importantly, they're fun.

Play Links Awakening. The oracle games pretty much ripped their entire gameplay from it.

Is that the one in which you start of escaping a castle with Zelda? Never even got out of the castle... If it's not that one, I don't know which one is escaping the castle...

Anyway, I'm running miles away from my point, thanks, I'll see if I can get my hands on it. I know this cute littel gameshop that I think would even kill to get a game for you if you'dd ask 'em nicely...

That would be Link to the Past. Links awakening was for the GameBoy and later remade into Links Awakening DX (which is the version you should get) for the gameboy colour. I'd recommend you download it I guess since finding a GBC game is a bit difficult, especially if you don't have a GBC.

I still have a working GBC, and a working GBA SP(Tribal edition)
Till 1 year ago I even had a working GB, the big grey collosus. It died on me a year ago, whilst playing Super Mario World...

Anyway, Thanks a lot!

 

[De Ronneman]

I'dd buy the games, my first flirt with the Zelda series, and seasons hooked me, where ages punched me. Seasons is more straight forward, where ages let's you wrestle a bit, I like it.

Also the rings and 3 different pets are cool(bar ricky...).

Good games, shame I can't have 'em on my ds, or at least downloadable on the wii.

Anyway, great games, liked both, storywise not bad and, most importantly, they're fun.

Play Links Awakening. The oracle games pretty much ripped their entire gameplay from it.

Is that the one in which you start of escaping a castle with Zelda? Never even got out of the castle... If it's not that one, I don't know which one is escaping the castle...

Anyway, I'm running miles away from my point, thanks, I'll see if I can get my hands on it. I know this cute littel gameshop that I think would even kill to get a game for you if you'dd ask 'em nicely...

That would be Link to the Past. Links awakening was for the GameBoy and later remade into Links Awakening DX (which is the version you should get) for the gameboy colour. I'd recommend you download it I guess since finding a GBC game is a bit difficult, especially if you don't have a GBC.

I still have a working GBC, and a working GBA SP(Tribal edition)
Till 1 year ago I even had a working GB, the big grey collosus. It died on me a year ago, whilst playing Super Mario World...

Anyway, Thanks a lot!

Oh, wow, you lucky duck. I miss my translucent purple GBC with the broken back cover that never stayed on. I never did find out what happened to it. It just...vanished one day.
But yeah, Links Awakening DX is fucking great. Bomberman Quest is too if you can find it, I'll toss that up as a recommendation while I'm recommending LA.

A bomberman RPG? Sounds good, never knew it existed. I always liked bomberman, especialy multiplayer on the N64 with friends, but I didn't know it was there as an RPG too.

A translucent purple one? Cool, mines really, REALLY bright green. This colour, to be exact. It's not mine, I googled this one: http://8bitcollective.com/items/images/DSC00890.JPG