Stof nailed this one.
I think that we're talking more about what the leap that gaming made with these games felt like than about what playing them for their own sake felt like. I don't know that people who didn't spend a few years on older systems can really relate.
The jump to 3D with Mario 64 was amazing, but things didn't get really emotional until Ocarina. With Mario, I was impressed by what it was doing technically, and I was amazed at what I was able to do, but it wasn't a world. I was free, but I was only free within the limits of the game.
Ocarina really created the sense of a game world for the first time. It was fantastic at the beginning, but it felt like Mario 64. But when you see Hyrule field for the first time, you really do feel like there's nothing that isn't out there. I don't know that there's really a word for it. You feel free to explore limitless possibilities.
It makes me very sad on occasion that that feeling has all but disappeared now.
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