It's not even my favorite Zelda game ever. Call me a 2D purest or something, but Link to the Past is still my favorite.

I'd say Mario 64 defined a genre as much if not more then Zelda did... and was closer to it's 2D forms in quality. (in my mind.)

In addition, the original Super Mario brothers set what a 2D platformer should be way more then either game... in a much stricter sense.

OoT is an excellent game, but my fav Zelda is Wind Waker... Hell the Minitendo gallery was awesome!

I beat this game last week, still magical

but in all seriousness Majora's Mask is better

I very much enjoy this game. It's awesome, it had problems aging, but it's still good.

I'm still thinking if I like Ocarina or Majora's Mask more, they're pretty different.

No... the game was great without a doubt but for me PH will have to take the crown for the best Zelda ever, and even that game is not in my top 20. For me there where always some detractors in a Zelda game that never let me fully get into them, like the lack of voice-acting, or the lack of more mature themes ( yes I know that some will say otherwise, thats why Il say again,m its just my opinion).

Never the less, OoT will always remain a milestone in the gaming industry, and it will be loved by millions of gamers. best game ever? Hell no! Deserves most of the praises it gets? definatly

@Zucas:
I assume you're talking about console games here. I would at least put some PC games of the past a bit higher.
Still it's up there with the best. Not my taste personally but I can recognize quality when I see it. And I've seen a lot of it from living with a die hard nintendo fan.
And is it just nostalgia that the best games seems to be made 10 years ago?

I have this games twice in N64 cattrige. Twice in GC dics and in the Virtual Console.

I disagree strongly.

Maybe not the best of all time, but the close. Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, and it is VERY flawed. Terrible combat system, incomprehensible quest system, very unforgiving. However, the size and detail of the world in Morrowind is just staggering. I would literally spend hours in a single dungeon just reading books, and I never once saw a repeated book, in any dungeon. The scale is just staggering (people may argue that Morrowind was a downgrade for the series, as Daggerfall had a much larger world, but the world in Daggerfall was just downright boring).

Morrowind set the standard for all WRPGs, and not a single WRPG has come close, with the exception of the Mass Effect series.

Half-Life 2 is tied with Morrowind. HL2 has an amazing story, great graphics and art direction, amazing voice acting, Alyx, the best female character of all time (tied with Tali), great shooting mechanics, fantastic level design, interesting and smart enemies. The game is simply a masterpiece.

Half-Life 2 set the standard, not only for first person shooters, but also for voice-acting (still hasn't been topped), graphics (only recently topped), facial animations (still haven't been topped), and story-telling (Bioshock gave it a run for it's money, but it's still the best). If any game can be considered perfect in every single way, it's Half-Life 2.

Ocarina of Time on the other hand, while I can't point to any flaws, it just doesn't reach Morrowind or Half-Life. It's not what's in the game, it's whats NOT in the game. Best game of all time, no. My number 3, Heck yes.

One of the finest crafted games I have ever experienced, definately in my all time top 10.