[Courtney]

Well, it's been kinda a short road, but here we are: the finals of the 1st ever Pun's House Video Game Showdown. We started with 64 and are down to two. Let's look at our final combatants.

First, we have Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time which has been called the best Zelda game of all time by about half of you. Stomping its way over Wrestlemania 2000, No Mercy, Tecmo Super Bowl, Goldeneye and finally Tetris, Ocarina has come to do war with its opponent.

That opponent is not of small statute. Or wait, maybe he is. It's part of the Holy Trinity of Mario Games: Super Mario World. In which Mario can do everything he can in Super Mario 3, but only shinier and with Yoshi. Having triumphed over Gorf, Gauntlet, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Legend of Zelda, can it take out another LoZ game? We'll see.

Let the combatants meet.



[Michael Buffer]Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!!![/Michael Buffer]

[bdbdbd]

Oct 15, 2008 1:24:11 GMT -5 Courtney said:

That opponent is not of small statute. Or wait, maybe he is.

He is, then he gets a mushroom.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I am clearly biased because I have not yet played Ocarina but Super Mario World is fantastic. My wife and I are still playing this today on the VC and it is still very tough in plenty of places and has tons of hidden things to unlock. It is a great game to play 1 player or 2 player. I think that what lacks most from Galaxy was the 2 player modes as in previous Mario games. Why can't player 2 control Luigi and run through a planet after Mario dies or after Mario passes a world?

For me pesonally I had SMB3 at the top but I was a Nintendo Child but then a Sega Transfer. I played World at friend's house and didn't live it like I did SMB3. In hindsight I wish I bought the Super Nintendo. I've had so much fun even now going back and playing this game. It is a game I'd be happy to call the greatest of all time.

And even though I have voted against Ocarina most of the time this showdown has moved it to the top of the list of games for me to download from VC. I'm almost done with Twilight Princess and Galaxy. Hopefully before Christmas I'll have time to finish both and then I'm asking for people to get me Gamestop giftcards and VC points rather then new games because I have a bunch of games that I heard were great that I haven't played yet. By January I'm hoping to have started Ocarina and then sometime soon I can come back with an honest assesment of which game is greater.

Thanks to everybody for their time, especailly Courtney for running this. This has been one of my favorite showdowns and I have a bunch of titles that I'm looking forward to playing on the VC or purchasing used down the road.

[punk/core]

I swear Cole... if you don't download Ocarina by January like you say, I'm just gonna go on there and gift you the God damn game, so you have no choice other than to play it.

[salmonjunkie]

Just goes to show that Nintendo is awesome.

[Byrntrigan]

Ocarina of Time bitches. Better then Mario World.

I just wish Link to the Past was here. That one is the BEST GAME EVAR.

Thanks to Courtney for running this, these take time and effort to run ;D

[Lucky]

Funny, punker, I was going to say the same thing to him.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Oct 15, 2008 11:03:23 GMT -5 punk/core said:

I swear Cole... if you don't download Ocarina by January like you say, I'm just gonna go on there and gift you the God damn game, so you have no choice other than to play it.

I'm a new Dad spending shitloads of money on diapers and formula each week. If you gifted it to me I'd play it before January.

I can use all the gifts I can. We just spend $80 on jumper for the baby and then $200 at Publix because the doctor told me I can't eat Carbs for awhile and we needed to buy a bunch of food.

[Byrntrigan]

Ok, I say we start a "Gift fund" for Cole.

Ocarina is 1000 pts or $10 simolians.

Who'd be down to donate a buck or 2 ?

[National Champion Chris Cole]

That's the spirit!

[Eric O'Mac]

Can I be gifted too? I just lost my job yesterday.

[salmonjunkie]

Man Eric, I'm sorry.

Shit, I would've donated this extra set of 2000 Wii Points had I known this.

Instead, I sold it on eBay last week. Money, money, yeah yeah.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Sorry Eric... I know the feeling.

[Eric O'Mac]

Don't worry. I'll be ok.

Now vote for Super Mario World! The unemployed demands it!

[Byrntrigan]

Hell no! The unemployed's time to shine is 1:00 am - 4:00 am. ;D

BTW - sorry to hear about that. Unemployment $$$ is sweet though...

[punk/core]

The right game won this entire showdown.

[Courtney]

No, it didn't, but...

We have a winner. And according to Pun's House, the greatest video game of all time is...

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time!

Thanks to everyone who participated and voted. This was a lot of fun and, like I said, kept me distracted from some not-so-fun stuff going on. Peace.

[Lucky]

With all the craziness going on in my life right now and all the projects wiping me out for the last week or two has been this desire to plug in my N64 and play Ocarina. And I've been ignoring it so that I can stay on track with things I have to do. So now its become a great prize. When my life finally settles down and I have some time off to do pointless stuff I'm rewarding myself with Zelda. YAY!

[National Champion Chris Cole]

And if anybody was actually serious about rewarding me: 3130 9502 3903 5163

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I figured this is a good place to write this update.

Thanks to Lucky for gifting Ocarina to me. I have finally gotten a chance to play it a bit. It took me awhile to find the sword in the village. Then I was struck in the Deku Tree for a bit of time. I actually figured out that I was supposed to jump from the 3rd story onto the web to break it but I haven't quite been able to do it right. I looked up some tips the other day on GameFaqs. I'm beginning a week long vacation on Thursday and 3 of the days I should be home for. Hopefully I'll have some time to keep at it. So far so good. A lot of the things from Twilight Princess that I liked are in this game so it is cool to see that.

[Lucky]

Its been a long time since I played it but I seem to recall that first stage with the Deku Tree being the most laborious. Especially when you don't have the sword and you're trying to do shit with sticks. It takes forever. Then when you finally get the hell out of that whole tree/elf area the game starts to flow better. Of course maybe that's just me because I've been stuck on Twilight Princess in the village doing all those little chores and that's what's kept me from getting into the game. If I was killing shit and collecting shit I know I'd be more into it. I flew through the original Zelda in a couple of days. Of course last I played I was stuck because I couldn't catch a damn fish.

Of course there's plenty of aspects that are awesome about the game that are still pretty cool but not totally awesome having playing Twilight Princess. Getting Epona the horse won't be as super awesome for you as it was for us because Twilight Princess just gives a horse to you to start the game. Its still fun but I suspect you won't just ride around Hyrule on the horse like I did because it was so cool 10 years ago. Similarly fishing was a big new quirk of the game that is in the opening stages of Twilight Princess so there's no real new novelty to it. The Z targeting. And I assume ocarinas find their way into Twilight Princess at some stage.

Still, its an awesome game even without needing to be "new" and "quirky."

[punk/core]

And stop using Gamefaqs, you cheater!

But Lucky's right. I haven't played it in a long time either, but I assume a lot of the elements that were innovative and amazing ten years ago when the game came out, won't be anymore. But I don't think it'll make the game any less awesome.

If I remember correctly, the Water Temple was the longest. But I could be totally wrong on that.

[Lucky]

Yeah, no cheats until you get REALLY stuck. Like hours/days stuck!

Although in fairness I seem to recall spending HOURS trying to figure out how to break that fucking web the first time and it nearly had me giving up before I started. If I remember correctly you can also burn it by lighting a stick on fire. Or maybe I thought you could I frustrated myself trying that.

[punk/core]

Yeah, I didn't use a guide until I was at the very, very end and wanted to find the rest of the damn Golden Skulltulas. I had less than ten left and just could not find them.

[salmonjunkie]

Jan 6, 2009 13:47:51 GMT -5 Lucky said:

Yeah, no cheats until you get REALLY stuck. Like hours/days stuck!

Although in fairness I seem to recall spending HOURS trying to figure out how to break that fucking web the first time and it nearly had me giving up before I started. If I remember correctly you can also burn it by lighting a stick on fire. Or maybe I thought you could I frustrated myself trying that.

It's been a long time, but I could've sworn that's how I did it. Light a stick on fire and jump down to the web.

I also didn't use a guide until looking for the skulletelas. But that was senior year in college, when I was ditching class and making time for this damn game. As an adult with a job, I find I have less patience to spend hours on end being stuck on a game.