The first quests you ever played?
#1
Posted 17 May 2012 - 04:00 AM
Judging from sigs, most nowadays members only played 4, 3, 2, 1 or even 0 quests so far and even those are just the most recent ones, but still.
When I found out that ZQ isn't only for you to throw a LoZ quest together and safekeep it on your computer till it gets accidentally deleted rather you can use many tilesets and upload them, Link to the Darkness was the first one I downloaded (after playing some Demo EX). It was what made me think superlative of ZC as opposed to what I would have thought if I tried certain other quests at first (it's like that if I learned about ZC only nowadays, I probably wouldn't even have downloaded it). If I played some bad quests, I would have thought ZC couldn't be used for good and if I played HoD or MMDWRDC for first, I would have thought one needed to be a genius to use it.
But Link to the Darkness is a quest that is great, not bad and has some BS/Newfirst tileset with LoZ mechanics instead of being a PTUX story. And it is perfectly built, seamlessly balanced, so I decided this ZC thing was the next thing to use.
While playing LttD (being a bit uneasy for "darkness" being in its name, I was that sensitive at that time), I seen example screenshots of Zelda's Quest for Link by Rocksfan13 (Link). I mistaken the BS (or such) walls taken from LttP with actual LttP graphics, so I was in awe. While playing, I found that it wasn't an actual LttP quest rather still LoZ-ish, that was when I started to learn that each quest is worse than how I estimated from the teaser screens. It was still a great quest, nonetheless. Along with Fall uh de Honky Pig.
Then I played the sequels of LttD, but I got stuck in each of them. I even looked one up in ZQ, but I still couldn't find the solution! I still don't know to this day. That also was when I finally understood dmaps and palettes, previously I didn't know how to segment one overworld map to smaller overworlds.
Then I played the Chains of Destiny demo and then Link to Tortuga, both making me totally puzzled how one could make scenes and whatsoever. I nearly blacked out at the curtain intro scene.
I also played the difficulty quests (Armageddon quest, James quest, etc.) quite early.
I also tried but got stuck in countless bigger quests, lik Isle of Wind and other DFW works, completing some only years later.
And this all while I was making my first quest (one month maybe). Then I played Hero of Dreams. Playing it with lower ZQ knowledge and before I would play OoT all helped me appreciate it better, but it's still one of the very top quests, triggering a complex system of inspiration.
Then I just played and played and played away 90-99% of quests released till 2009 spring, finishing many of them (FQotM, FQotM, FQotM).
Again, I'm so content and relieved that I'm not one who played 2-3 quests and immediately declared that one of them is the best of all. Now I go back making NTCC while I'm hoping that I can find time to finish playing Souls of Wisdom and Zelda's Butt still in this century.
#2
Posted 17 May 2012 - 06:41 AM
#3
Posted 17 May 2012 - 07:15 AM
#4
Posted 17 May 2012 - 10:54 AM
After losing my save file, I moved on to other quests such as LQFTH, TLoZ: Fort Knights, and other quests I do not remember the names to but were still pretty good. I have to give all these quests credit, I mean, they are all what inspired me to make my own quest in the first place.
After the 3 or 4 years I've been using ZQ, I think I'm now at my full potential. (Just have to stay with a tileset!)
I also have to give big credit to Wild Bill, Mr. Z, and Akkabus for making the pure tilesets, and Akkabus for making the EZGBZ tileset.
(Still using Pure Tileset Update V2.2 up to today! )
Other quests I played and enjoyed were SoR (before it was cancelled in classic tileset ) Origin, Lost Isle, The Hidden Duality: Director's Cut, Link's Birthday, Link to the Heavens, Isle of Winds, Mario's Insane Rampage, (Kill me) Link in Cestria, and many others of which I cannot think of the names right now. They were all a huge influence (except for Mario's Insane Rampage) on my quests.
So thank you to all of you guys who are making quests.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 11:00 AM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 11:36 AM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 01:48 PM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 01:59 PM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 02:02 PM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 03:15 PM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 07:44 PM
#12
Posted 17 May 2012 - 08:08 PM
First quest I actually downloaded, I can't remember (it was a LONG time ago, well more than ten years). If I had to guess, I'd say A Link to Another Dimension. That was a pretty ambitious quest - after beating the first eight dungeons, you open a completely different dark world and have a second round of eight dungeons to beat. I remember enjoying the game - not sure if it would hold up for me today.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 08:12 PM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 08:24 PM
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 08:29 PM
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