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Out of interest...what's your most 'intense' Nintendo gaming experience? Mine must be one of the following (it's so difficult to choose!)
- The 'Mansion' level in Shadowman when you're stalked by a serial killer through a near pitch-black, very scary level.
- Zelda Ocarina of Time, when you eventually leave the forest and head across the Hyrule Field as the sun sets - gorgeous.
- Zapping an opponent with lightning at the final jump in the Wario Stadium level of Mario Kart 64.
- Perfect Dark : on the multiplayer (the 'Villa' level with eight 'sims' and some meaty weapons)in the middle of a ferocious fire-fight.
What's your best moment?
Cheers
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth
- The 'Mansion' level in Shadowman when you're stalked by a serial killer through a near pitch-black, very scary level.
- Zelda Ocarina of Time, when you eventually leave the forest and head across the Hyrule Field as the sun sets - gorgeous.
- Zapping an opponent with lightning at the final jump in the Wario Stadium level of Mario Kart 64.
- Perfect Dark : on the multiplayer (the 'Villa' level with eight 'sims' and some meaty weapons)in the middle of a ferocious fire-fight.
What's your best moment?
Cheers
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth
The Gerudo valley looked amazing if you went there when the Sun was setting, so did Lake Hylia. Best Nintendo moment like Vottanator said was stepping out onto Hyrule field for the first time, my jaw dropped and my kegs where filled, warra gaming moment that was.
Errr..playing any in house Nintendo title?
Or just sitting on Epona on the hill in Hyrule, watching the sun rise, and then galloping off to Gerudo valley, through the fields and the gorge!
Or just sitting on Epona on the hill in Hyrule, watching the sun rise, and then galloping off to Gerudo valley, through the fields and the gorge!
Oh I've had a few. I think top of the list has to be Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - just the whole damn game! But I'll a say a few of my best, more specifically.
Goldeneye - 3 player (me, my brother and one of his/my friends). Archives. Pistols. License to Kill. First to 101 kills. All very skilled players - fairly even. But on this particular day, it was never gonna be my brother's friend who won. It was out of me and my brother. Got to 100 all between my brother and I with his friend only on around 80. My brother and I really don't wanna go against each other for the final kill so we stay away from each other. Then his friend respawns in the pillar room downstairs. We both head down there, I take a shot at the back of my brother's head from down the corridor as we go but miss (in what I believe to be the narrowest of misses :-D). My brother enters the room at one end. I enter at the other. His friend is in the middle. Lots of firing goes on. Probably each go through around 3 clips of the PP7, until eventually.....DUH DUH DUH DUH!!! Blood rushes down my brother's freind's screen. Who won?! I was sure it was me. He was sure it was him. And I was wrong!
Mario Kart - I remember Mario Kart was released in June sometime and my birthday is at the end of June. Anyway, I had round 8 mates. We played 5 a side football for most of the day and ended on a Mario Kart tournament. Again, my brother and I are fairly evenly matched but we didn't meet each other on the way up to the final. We met in the final. It was a race on Choco Choco Mountain rather than a battle. We were both in the lead for roughly even times but on the last lap, it was me in the lead all the way. Coming up to the finish (those bumps just before the line) I had 3 red shells and my brother was right behind me. He had picked up an item but it hadn't said what he had got yet. I didn't wanna fire my shells as I new there was always the chance they'd come straight back in my face. Anyway, the item he got turned out to be a golden mushroom. He boosted all the way past me. the gap between his crossing the finish line and mine was SO tiny that the red shells didn't even have time to lock on once I fired them. Again, I lost! :-D
Zelda - I was really disappointed when I first started playing this., The Deku tree was immensely boring and nothing really impressive had happened. BUT! As soon as I left the forest and that small cut scene of saying good bye to Saria was shown, it became the best game of all time! The music in Hyrule Field, the unbelievably good graphics. I think that moment of stepping out into Hyrule Field is probably the best moment of any game for me. Oh and then there was the cut scene when going to the castle after getting the 3 stones. That game ruled!!! I can't wait for the GC version!
Goldeneye - 3 player (me, my brother and one of his/my friends). Archives. Pistols. License to Kill. First to 101 kills. All very skilled players - fairly even. But on this particular day, it was never gonna be my brother's friend who won. It was out of me and my brother. Got to 100 all between my brother and I with his friend only on around 80. My brother and I really don't wanna go against each other for the final kill so we stay away from each other. Then his friend respawns in the pillar room downstairs. We both head down there, I take a shot at the back of my brother's head from down the corridor as we go but miss (in what I believe to be the narrowest of misses :-D). My brother enters the room at one end. I enter at the other. His friend is in the middle. Lots of firing goes on. Probably each go through around 3 clips of the PP7, until eventually.....DUH DUH DUH DUH!!! Blood rushes down my brother's freind's screen. Who won?! I was sure it was me. He was sure it was him. And I was wrong!
Mario Kart - I remember Mario Kart was released in June sometime and my birthday is at the end of June. Anyway, I had round 8 mates. We played 5 a side football for most of the day and ended on a Mario Kart tournament. Again, my brother and I are fairly evenly matched but we didn't meet each other on the way up to the final. We met in the final. It was a race on Choco Choco Mountain rather than a battle. We were both in the lead for roughly even times but on the last lap, it was me in the lead all the way. Coming up to the finish (those bumps just before the line) I had 3 red shells and my brother was right behind me. He had picked up an item but it hadn't said what he had got yet. I didn't wanna fire my shells as I new there was always the chance they'd come straight back in my face. Anyway, the item he got turned out to be a golden mushroom. He boosted all the way past me. the gap between his crossing the finish line and mine was SO tiny that the red shells didn't even have time to lock on once I fired them. Again, I lost! :-D
Zelda - I was really disappointed when I first started playing this., The Deku tree was immensely boring and nothing really impressive had happened. BUT! As soon as I left the forest and that small cut scene of saying good bye to Saria was shown, it became the best game of all time! The music in Hyrule Field, the unbelievably good graphics. I think that moment of stepping out into Hyrule Field is probably the best moment of any game for me. Oh and then there was the cut scene when going to the castle after getting the 3 stones. That game ruled!!! I can't wait for the GC version!
Mother Brain on Super Metroid. For anyone whose played it I don't need to explain. If you haven't then I cna't be botherd, it would take too long. Everything about it was just so fantastic.
In a 3-player Perfect Dark match last year I got my first kill by using my fists! I was hopeless in the match, and I just hit this guy who acts like he's Britain's no.1 PD player - yet he still could't hit me with a Magnum!!
I just ran up to him, un-armed, punched him, and he went and sulked for ages! :D
I've also had quite a few great moments in Ocarina of Time too.
I'm only upto the Shadow Temple, but it's mainly all the sequences with people like Shiek that keep me glued to this adventure!
Getting things like the Hover Boots and Hero's Bow is one of the things I also like best too.
And I love 4-player Battle Modes in Mario Kart!! :D
GoldenEye and Conker's BFD have good games too.
I just ran up to him, un-armed, punched him, and he went and sulked for ages! :D
I've also had quite a few great moments in Ocarina of Time too.
I'm only upto the Shadow Temple, but it's mainly all the sequences with people like Shiek that keep me glued to this adventure!
Getting things like the Hover Boots and Hero's Bow is one of the things I also like best too.
And I love 4-player Battle Modes in Mario Kart!! :D
GoldenEye and Conker's BFD have good games too.
Out of interest...what's your most 'intense' Nintendo gaming experience? Mine must be one of the following (it's so difficult to choose!)
- The 'Mansion' level in Shadowman when you're stalked by a serial killer through a near pitch-black, very scary level.
- Zelda Ocarina of Time, when you eventually leave the forest and head across the Hyrule Field as the sun sets - gorgeous.
- Zapping an opponent with lightning at the final jump in the Wario Stadium level of Mario Kart 64.
- Perfect Dark : on the multiplayer (the 'Villa' level with eight 'sims' and some meaty weapons)in the middle of a ferocious fire-fight.
What's your best moment?
Cheers
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth
- The 'Mansion' level in Shadowman when you're stalked by a serial killer through a near pitch-black, very scary level.
- Zelda Ocarina of Time, when you eventually leave the forest and head across the Hyrule Field as the sun sets - gorgeous.
- Zapping an opponent with lightning at the final jump in the Wario Stadium level of Mario Kart 64.
- Perfect Dark : on the multiplayer (the 'Villa' level with eight 'sims' and some meaty weapons)in the middle of a ferocious fire-fight.
What's your best moment?
Cheers
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth