Why is Ocarina of Time not in your top 5 games list?- Smeags top 250 thread proves it is in your collective top 5!

[Runa216]

cyberninja45 said:

Runa216 said:

spurgeonryan said:
Amazing! I had no idea. I guess my preference and the hundreds of gaming sites with there top 100 lists are wrong. Wow!

Nostalgia is a powerful tool, my friend.  

Keep in mind a LOT of people's first forays into videogames were in the mid 90's, right when the PS1 and N64 first came out, so for many people Ocarina of Time was the first major release they played, giving it a nostalgic leg-up.  

Lots of people in this thread have given truly fair and understandable explanations as to why it's not QUITE as good as people tend to think of it, but yet you still seem to think it's okay for you to pull a temper tantrum becuase people don't like what you like?  How would you like it if I made a thread asking people why they didn't have Final Fantasy VI or A Link to the Past at the top of their lists?  Hell, I could even 'pull rank' becuase I'm a game reviewer and that could, in theory, make my opinion more valid than yours.  I mean, it's NOT more valuable than yours, such a statement would be absurd, but claiming it was would definitely piss you off something fierce, wouldn't it?  

People who write 'best 100 of all time' articles are prone to just as much bias and nostalgia as you and I; you'd do well to remember that.  

HOLY SHIT you are a game reviewer and it took you 10 years to beat OOT, no whether I have I no respect for game reviewers.

And yes just for its pure innovation OOT could be considered the greatest game of all time, nostalgia has nothing to do with that and time cannot take that away.

it didn't 'take' me 10 years to beat it, it took me 14, and I only didn't beat it the first time becuase I was bored as hell by it.  it just seemed really uninteresting to me so I couldn't force myself to keep playing a game that bored me.  There are games I can beat but don't becuase I know better than to keep going once I've come to the realization that I don't like something.