Top down for me, but only by a nose. Zelda 1 is my favorite. I like the precise control, the varied weapons. Whipping a boomerang across the screen the running around and having it curve back to you and stun an enemy is just so rewarding. 3D Mario, with auto-aiming and other challenges/solutions of 3D gaming, just isn't as fun to me in a pure gaming sense. That said, it does offer a greater level of presentation and immersion (though the old 2D games require more imagination). I would absolutely love a 2.5D style Zelda - top down but completely modeled with modern polygon graphics. Something like Diablo 3 maybe. It would be the most pumped for a game I've been in some time. But I do enjoy the 3D Zelda's too. I would just prefer a change-up in the control. I would lose the necessity of auto-aim lock on and move the camera above to a set roaming position when enemies appear. Explore in 3D then fight in a quasi-2D way... kinda like the Batman Arkham games. My top two Zeldas are 1)LoZ and 2)OoT. So I like them both almost equal.
