After checking the Zelda Wiki after JG's mention of the series on the RPG thread, I stumbled upon the section on Majora's Mask and had a rush of nostalgia.

Majora's Mask had (I thought) the deepest and most compelling plot of all the Zelda games (since it deviated from the standard Link wanders around Hyrule on a quest to defeat Ganondorf) and the fact that all the events of the game went on, even if you weren't there, at specific times during the 3-day cycle, was just cool as hell. It was definitely the least linear and least railroading of the games, especially in comparison to *cough* Twilight Princess *cough*

The main reason I miss this game is that after I got an all-clear with ALL the masks (including the Couple's Mask which was the most frustrating thing in the world) and the Fierce Deity's mask, I brought the game over to a friend's house and LOST it there (or perhaps someone stole it), and I never saw it again That was like the last time I ever got 100% complete on a game.

Anyways, post your stories of meaningful missed games of days gone by. And not JK.

Deus Ex

EverQuest - Still the best MMO in my opinion, and addicting as ****. Definitely not the best now, textures outdated and no one plays it anymore, but I absolutely loved the spell, class, and race system
Perfect Dark - Played with three or four others of my friends all the time during the summer. I don't even remember the single player
The game currently in the NTG thread - Besides Jedi Knight/MotS, I consider this game to be the most nostalgic for it's art and scenery. I also played sick when I was younger to play this game (as with JK).
Icewind Dale - <3

Majora's Mask timing system is what infuriated me. I don't like having a time limit on my RPGs.

I fondly reminisce the late 1990s when most games hadn't gone through "darker and edgier" syndrome yet... or in the case of most games today, brown and blurred.

Naturally that era produced a lot of funny and creative games that most people know even if they haven't played them (Duke Nukem 3D for instance), so I better list some of the neatoes that I miss and which most people don't even know about.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Shadow Warrior
Shogo: MAD
Abe's Oddysee
Theme Hospital
Phantasmagoria I + II

Quite many others too...

Naturally I could play them whenever I wanted since I'm not shallow in any form (of course they look and in parts feel dated as well), but I don't seem to have the time to play a million games anymore. Hmph.

.. and of course if I really wanted to list games that I miss in one way or another it would take way too much time. Not as long as the list for games that I would have wanted to play in their heyday, though.

i cried on majora mask on the wedding part

so sad the man became young boy

but that damn wedding mask was so hardest to get, i agree pommy
i do have to say that goron race was hard too
it was also fun going back to old bosses and killing them w/ diety mask


i miss pokemon red with that cinnamon island trick

i miss the old style of game where they didnt have so much to focus on graphics, but on story developement
and also that new crazed "choice" factor
i miss side scrolling games, like metroid


oh yeah for board games, i miss hungry hungry hippo

YES!!!!

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Diablo, which I'm replaying right now, and Neverwinter Nights.

Donkey Kong 64
Jet Force Gemini
Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer

All on N64. Good times...

Asheron's Call.

The first MMO I ever played and still the best

Scorched Earth.
Jill of the Jungle.
Commander Keen.

Thats all I can think of right no.

Deus Ex, System Shock 2.

Mostly, JK. I'm sad that I was too young and too late on the editing bandwagon. I wish I could have made something sooner.

Indeed.

You guys may think I'm crazy, but I was obsessed with Banjo Tooie.

So much, in fact, that I spent over 200 hours of gameplay on it, and got 100% on two seperate save files.

I liked it because as silly as BK is, Tooie just had a slightly darker atmosphere that somehow drew me in.

Mumbo's pimp cane sealed the deal.


....Then I hear Banjo Kazooie 3 is VEHICLE BASED!!

WTF!

There's this wicked 2D platformer called Flashback that was awesome...from time to time I fire up radiant or hammer or whatever and begin work on my epic Flashback TC. Then 10 minutes later I remember that I suck at modelling and don't have the inclination to learn.

Monster Bash (Apogee)
Dark Forces

And most of all....

Spyro the Dragon series (i still try and play the original PSX trilogy once a year). I can't find the discs though anymore

Are you guys aware of the Dark Forces engine rewrite being worked on at DF-21.net? It's no half-assed job, it's really ****ing nice.

What's the main point of the rewrite? Is it a graphical upgrade, does it run better on XP/Vista or whatever?

That and more. 3D, fancy texture filtering, mouselook, etc.

I was going to say Dark Forces for this thread. I'm happy to see this posted.

Tribes/Tribes 2

This.



me and my friend played multiplayer nonstop.



as far as games I miss. I miss when eveyone played JK and MotS. Also I miss Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Love that game.

someone mentioned Jet Force Gemini, I think besides OoT that was probably the best N64 title. Highly underrated.

I don't see what everyone's gripe is about the "time limit" in Majora's Mask. I thought it was a nice change of pace. The only time it bothered me was when getting the wedding mask.

Also, I don't really miss any games now because I'm able to play most all the ones I've played. Maybe Tiny Toons Cartoon Workshop for the NES, but that wasn't really a game. Maybe one of those cheap games that came with my one computer like MegaRace. "Miss" would be a strong word though.

It's not an rpg.

Play the song of time backwards.

The game would not work on any level without it. It's what makes the game what it is.

Well that and the topsy-turvy dungeon. Water temple? Simple by comparison.

It's an RPG.

And nothing you said changes how infuriating being "on the clock" was.

I hate time limits in games. It impedes my ability to leisurely explore and generally just screw around for the fun of it.

I'm definitely an explorer myself, but I guess I felt it worked well with both the story and gameplay, and realized that the "time limit" was mostly psychological. All you lost was temporary items (rupees, bombs, etc.) and doing some minor backtracking if you were in the middle of a dungeon or whatnot. And the time limit, especially when you slowed it down by half, was plenty of time to do most everything. And it's CERTAINLY plenty of time to just waltz around.

you know i always thought happy mask man was sorta creepy



He definitely has pedo smile

look how he clasps them hands together, like he hunger for something..like LINK, especially deku link

and the music was very eerie and a scary

oh the scariest part of majoras mask was those hands that attack you and you need lens of truth to attack. it was sort of like an invisible molester trying to grab you

another scary part was like a the part when you shoot farm people and the aliens!!!!! like whoa, those aliens were creepy and it sucked when you would miss

i really wish for the zelda franchise company to make a nother off set sequel like majoras mask

Monkey Island II : Lechuck's Revenge
Goblins 3
King's Quest 6 : Heir today, Gone Tomorrow
Gabriel Knight : Sins of the Fathers

Zelda games are not RPGs. They are 'action adventure' games, which actually just means a platformer with lots of puzzles.

Can we have one game thread that doesn't go into the rpg debate?

NO!

Majora's Mask was my favorite until The Phantom Hourglass came out. There are some nifty tricks in that game.

Linebeck > Jack Sparrow

Anyways, Majora's Mask is still one of my favorite Zelda games of all time.

I enjoyed the time system.