Is there such a thing as a Zelda Survivors Club?

[RosieH]

Somebody was just whistling, and the tune sounded like one from the Ocarina of Time songbook. And I felt a sadness in my heart, like I had just come across a long-forgotten photo of a lost love that made me weep.

I think I need professional help.

Or a support group.

[El Pibe]

It's perfectly normal, for weirdoes!!!!

I just need to hear a refrain from a cello and I'll get quite nostalgic the days when I explored roman, egyptian and mayan ruins. A lute will have me reliving the first time I set foot in the Prancing Pony.

It's clearly not healthy!

See also technological synaesthesia

[RosieH]

Yes yes yes. Exactement! But why should it make me feel so sad?

Now, tell me of this Prancing Pony. Is this some kind of LOTR game? A lute wouldn't seem quite apposite for the burly blokes of Bree.

[Otta]

I get that kind of sadness when I come to the end of a series of sci-fi fantasy books. When I was a teenager I read the chronicles of prydain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain and remember feeling very meloncholy at the end. I guess you escape in to this worlds and characters in a way that you don't when things are set in our own world (boring).

There was also something very special about Ocarina of Time that hasn't been captured by a Zelda game since (possibly equalled, but not improved upon).

[El Pibe]

I do find that ocarina has aged much worse than link to the past, some vague causal link with the uncanny valley I suppose.

[Otta]

But that could be because it was so ahead of anything else at that time, that it was pushing what the N64 could do. Link to the past was / is a nice top down game that fits well with current hand held devices, which has given it a new lease of life I reckon.

[El Pibe]

Ooh, wrong place but you might like the look of this otta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tenpLSKU-9U

They're doing a 'proper' version of slender man.

---

And yes Rosie, it was LoTRO (Lord of The Rings Online), basically a middle earth version of World of Warcraft....without the players. Some of the early game stages in Bree Land and The Shire were rather lovely to wander around.

You could buy a lute and play it with the keyboard, shift for a sharp, ctrl for a flat.

I think I managed match of the day

 

[RosieH]

Oh my god, I imagine I could lose whole weeks of my life to that.

I WANT to be hipster; I just can't help being Dungeons and Dragons.

[numbers]

I long to hear the sound of the ocarina playing. I had this for my game boy.

Those were the days.

D&D, on the other hand, just reminds me of my nightmare Christian Death loving ex. And those bloody pointy dice.

[RosieH]

I should clarify that I've never actually played D&D - closest I came was that cartoon on the telly...

But I do love a good wizard.