SELECT/START: L.O.Z. - OCARINA OF TIME REMAKE REVIEW

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This week, CEO of Nvidia or former CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has resigned. Geoff Keighley is bringing the Game Awards to Disney Plus, a new PlayStation Portal with a much anticipated feature may be coming soon. I also give my thoughts on Marvel Cosmic Invasion's new DLC, The Siege of Castle Doom. Then in our final stage, I grade and give my thoughts on my first time ever play through of ZELDA Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo Switch 2 All this and more in this edition of ACMG presents TALK TIME LIVE EXTRA, SELECT START. Welcome to the show to give you all the news, views and opinions in the world of gaming. This is ACMG presents TALK TIME LIVE EXTRA, SELECT START. With your host, Xavier Josiah.

Folks, welcome back to another game filled edition of Let's Start the Video Game Podcast for ACMG. Presents TALK TIME LIVE and TALKTIMELIVECOM. I am your host, Xavier Josiah. We got a loaded episode for you today, man. In the season or month to be thankful, I am very thankful to be here to talk about this news with you and have a discussion about things in the gaming world. This is just some wild stuff. So some very good news, some controversial news, especially in, you know, especially if you're a like a gamer on PC, like this, you have to be glued to the recent news regarding Jensen Hung. We're going to talk about that as well. We got a lot of things to talk about. We might brush into some other things as well.

It's been a crazy week. It's been a crazy month. It's been a hell. 2026, for me personally, has been an incredible year. It's just it's really amazing. But involving the gaming world, man, it is it is stepped up. So we're going to talk about the latest news going on in this fandom. And then I'm going to talk about my first ever playthrough of Zelda Ocarina of Time. And like people don't understand. I think I mentioned this already. But this is not only just my playthrough of the remake Ocarina of Time. This is my first time playing Ocarina of Time completely. Like I recently just beat it like the other day. And yeah, we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about that, especially this is out for the old school fans as well. The old school gamers who played the OG version on the Nintendo 64

Yeah, I get it. I didn't have a real. I didn't have like a real, real.

Infatuation for the game when it first came out on N64, like I'd be honest, I'm a superficial guy, like I love great graphics, I love visuals and stuff like that because I'm an artist, I'm a designer. Like I like really good visuals. I hate really, I hate gritty looking visuals, you know. And during that time when the 64 came out, it was it was the genesis of the polygon era, the 3D era and all this stuff. Yu Suzuki, you know, really kicked it off with Virtual Fighter. That's like one of the first 3D games ever. That's why that game, that's why the game cab, I believe, is still at the Smithsonian Museum to this day, which I it's absolutely phenomenal that video games are celebrated in that way. The Smithsonian Museum has some of the most exclusive items and relics in there from, you know, past things that impact, you know, the world, if not, you know, history in the world. They honored Yu Suzuki by putting his cab in the Smithsonian Museum because they recognize it as the video game that started and transitioned everything from Pixel to Polygon. And it was Virtua Fighter that did it, and Yu Suzuki was a huge part of that. Sega, no matter what Sega goes through, if you look back at the history of Sega, they are huge in the gaming history in terms of revolution of the gaming industry. The 3D era, like all these games we play in a day, it started with Sega. Sega was the first ones to do it, and it spare hit it, the PlayStation era is spare hit it everything. By the way, y'all can talk about fighting games all you want, whether it is still considered one of the top gaming genres out today, it still holds a candle because if you look at the history, of fighting games, Virtua Fighter is a fighting game that actually came out, and it was at the height of fighting games. Fighting games was the most popular genre during that time, so taking it to 3D and being able to see, do what they did with that, it was a credit to the popularity of fighting games and why people were so drawn by it. So, there's a, I mean, gaming people, y'all can't just be fans of games and y'all can't claim y'all true gamers, or fans of anything without looking at the history and respecting the history. Go back, go back to, even back as far as we got, as far as Pong, and see how it evolved. I did a, I did a, you know, art history, like, research paper on the parallel comparisons of art history, of art history versus video game history, which in turn, video game is another art form in itself. And you can never deny that because art spans an unlimited amount of different mediums. Video games is another medium of that. Art in its definition, by definition means way, the way you do things, how you do it, the way you master it. Art is another art form in that sense, but its history really mimics that of actual art history and in terms of evolution. So it's an incredible thing. So like, back then, going back to, you know, Zelda Ocarina of Time, you know, it was the very, very beginning of that era. And also animation too. Transformers Beast Wars. I remember that. In Reboot, you know, those animated shows, they were starting out majorly doing 3D polygon animation in early CGI, and it didn't look as appealing to me at the time. Beast Wars, I was not a fan of solely, mostly, because of the 3D character design. And I knew in hindsight, I'm like, yeah, this doesn't look appealing to me now, but I know, I also know that eventually it's going to get better. And look where we're at now, 2026 And we have some of the most phenomenal 3D animation in character design in both animation and, I mean, we've come such a far way, but to look back at the history and evolution of that, it's very well worth doing it if you're actually a true fan of all this. If you got the same energy as actor Iman Villani has for the Marvel comic universe, that's a true fan. And by the way, we're going to talk about that on Sunday, on Sunday's show, because I'm going to be giving my thoughts on...