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Top Overall Zelda Game?

The Legend of Zelda 4 0.74%
 
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 1 0.19%
 
A Link to the Past 67 12.41%
 
Ocarina of Time 103 19.07%
 
Majora’s Mask 47 8.70%
 
Wind Waker 46 8.52%
 
Twilight Princess 27 5.00%
 
Skyward Sword 23 4.26%
 
Breath of the Wild 208 38.52%
 
Other (list below) 14 2.59%
 
Total:540

The overworld in Skyward Sword suffers from the same thing that the overworld in all the home console 3D Zeldas, it's an obstacle course to get between points of interest, which are typically towns, dungeons, or some specific kind of item. Breath of the Wild and Link to the Past, in particular, have points of interest, but the worlds are much more about exploring and doing things inside them; Breath of the Wild most of all, as the world has thousands upon thousands of things that call for the player's attention and focus. Link to the past, the game is primarily focused on the overworld, and the dungeons happen to be in it - while Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword are really all about getting though the obstacle course, collecting items, and entering the dungeons... long.... long........ long......... dungeons. Link to the Past's dungeons are big, but take 1/10th as much time to get through.



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1. Ocarina of Time
1. Breath of the Wild
3. Wind Waker



CrazyGamer2017 said:

For me it's 1: Ocarina of Time, 2: Twilight Princess and 3: Wind Waker.
I cannot say about Breath of the Wild as I don't care for the Switch hardware, too weak in my opinion.
Maybe I'll be able to play BOTW in a few years if/when Nintendo releases better hardware that I consider worthy of its time, assuming they release again BOTW on such better hardware...

Come to think of it, I still haven't played Skyward sword. Oh well, same thing as I just said for BOTW.

Yet your top 3 were released on even WEAKER hardware *side eye* 



PortisheadBiscuit said:
CrazyGamer2017 said:

For me it's 1: Ocarina of Time, 2: Twilight Princess and 3: Wind Waker.
I cannot say about Breath of the Wild as I don't care for the Switch hardware, too weak in my opinion.
Maybe I'll be able to play BOTW in a few years if/when Nintendo releases better hardware that I consider worthy of its time, assuming they release again BOTW on such better hardware...

Come to think of it, I still haven't played Skyward sword. Oh well, same thing as I just said for BOTW.

Yet your top 3 were released on even WEAKER hardware *side eye* 

He IS crazy afterall.



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PortisheadBiscuit said:
CrazyGamer2017 said:

For me it's 1: Ocarina of Time, 2: Twilight Princess and 3: Wind Waker.
I cannot say about Breath of the Wild as I don't care for the Switch hardware, too weak in my opinion.
Maybe I'll be able to play BOTW in a few years if/when Nintendo releases better hardware that I consider worthy of its time, assuming they release again BOTW on such better hardware...

Come to think of it, I still haven't played Skyward sword. Oh well, same thing as I just said for BOTW.

Yet your top 3 were released on even WEAKER hardware *side eye* 

Oh you did not know? That "weaker" hardware was not so weak back in the day. If anything Ocarina of Time was done for very decent hardware for its time. Let me put it this way, that "weak" hardware had a good excuse: it was not released in 2017 when hardware has like no excuse to be "weak"...

In my humble opinion, of course

Perhaps you should accept that our opinions on this issue will remain divergent and move on?

Jumpin said:

He IS crazy afterall.

I am, guilty as charged. Yet my sense of logic is eerily intact.



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PortisheadBiscuit said:
CrazyGamer2017 said:

For me it's 1: Ocarina of Time, 2: Twilight Princess and 3: Wind Waker.
I cannot say about Breath of the Wild as I don't care for the Switch hardware, too weak in my opinion.
Maybe I'll be able to play BOTW in a few years if/when Nintendo releases better hardware that I consider worthy of its time, assuming they release again BOTW on such better hardware...

Come to think of it, I still haven't played Skyward sword. Oh well, same thing as I just said for BOTW.

Yet your top 3 were released on even WEAKER hardware *side eye* 

At the time of their releases, and probably at the time he played those games, all 3 used state of the art tech on consoles that were competitive from a hardware power perspective.

I don't agree with his stance about missing on the Switch just because it's weak compared to the PS4 and XBO. But I can understand where he's coming from. 

But I played the game on Wii U and thought the game looked gorgeous and played well, despite some framerate issues. I tried it on the Switch and it looks and runs much better on it. It's one of the best game of the current gen so far, so if he wants to miss out just because for him "fun = powerful hardware", that's his loss.



Hynad said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

Yet your top 3 were released on even WEAKER hardware *side eye* 

At the time of their releases, and probably at the time he played those games, all 3 used state of the art tech on consoles that were competitive from a hardware power perspective.

I don't agree with his stance about missing on the Switch just because it's weak compared to the PS4 and XBO. But I can understand where he's coming from. 

But I played the game on Wii U and thought the game looked gorgeous and played well, despite some framerate issues. I tried it on the Switch and it looks and runs much better on it. It's one of the best game of the current gen so far, so if he wants to miss out just because for him "fun = powerful hardware", that's his loss.

The flaw in his argument about the Switch is that it's stil state of the art for portable platform, TP was also on the Wii which had a far bigger gap between it and it's competitors.



Hynad said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

Yet your top 3 were released on even WEAKER hardware *side eye* 

At the time of their releases, and probably at the time he played those games, all 3 used state of the art tech on consoles that were competitive from a hardware power perspective.

I don't agree with his stance about missing on the Switch just because it's weak compared to the PS4 and XBO. But I can understand where he's coming from. 

But I played the game on Wii U and thought the game looked gorgeous and played well, despite some framerate issues. I tried it on the Switch and it looks and runs much better on it. It's one of the best game of the current gen so far, so if he wants to miss out just because for him "fun = powerful hardware", that's his loss.

The Switch also uses state of the art technology. While it is not quite as powerful as PS4 or XBone, it’s not like the games look significantly behind, either. It uses chipsets that give it all the required features of the current generation of consoles. Plus it has the added benefit of portability, meaning, wherever you can take your phone, you can take your Switch. That more than makes up for it, and prevents the Switch from being redundant to the PS4 in the way the GameCube was to the PS2. N64 also used low density cartridges and an incredibly small texture cache, which completely nullified the power advantage over the PSX - and so PSX games often looked significantly better than N64 games - it was a wider gap than PS4 and Switch.



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Wyrdness said:

The flaw in his argument about the Switch is that it's stil state of the art for portable platform, TP was also on the Wii which had a far bigger gap between it and it's competitors.

If I may, the flaw in your argument is that you think the Switch is a portable system only when in fact it purports to be both portable and a home console. And to be clear my argument is about the "home console" side of the device.

Therefore my argument has no flaw since it is not about the Switch as a portable.



CrazyGamer2017 said:
Wyrdness said:

The flaw in his argument about the Switch is that it's stil state of the art for portable platform, TP was also on the Wii which had a far bigger gap between it and it's competitors.

If I may, the flaw in your argument is that you think the Switch is a portable system only when in fact it purports to be both portable and a home console. And to be clear my argument is about the "home console" side of the device.

Therefore my argument has no flaw since it is not about the Switch as a portable.

No I don't think Switch is a portable platform that's an assumption on your part I think its a hybrid which either way highlights a flaw in your argument as it's still state of the art because it is also a portable platform which you can never deny it is even if you don't want to acknowledge it as one.