Will Ocarina of Time ever Be Surpassed and When?

[DivinePaladin]

contestgamer said:

ps3-sales! said:
OoT has clearly already been surpassed. By many games in fact. Most recent Zelda games are far superior.

Everything is relative. A 99 on metacritic in 1999 means nothing for today's standards.

Lol, who is talking about metracritic? Check any greatest games of all time list and OOT is almost always #1. Many modern Zeldas dont crack 100. Zelda OOT is also most widely considered greatest game of all time in polls of gamers themselves.

Most GOAT lists also give random constrictions, like "one game per series," because spreading the wealth is better than accuracy to those writers. Hence why you'll usually only see OoT and LttP on lists, because they're gimme picks. Since TLoU came out, it's more often than not ended up #1 on many GOAT lists, whether it deserves that distinction or not  

 

Polls are also hard to consider accurate because of sample size. VGC's own poll recently put MM above OoT.

 

OoT WAS surpassed years ago. Once the nostalgia wave blows over and the 90s kids stop shouting the loudest, that will be clear. And that's coming from one of those 90's kids. OoT was one of the most significant games of all time, probably only below Super Mario Bros., but certainly not the greatest nowadays. After all, SMB was considered the greatest game of all time until a new wave of young'ns got to start screaming their favorites at everybody (LttP). And then FFVII/OoT. And now TLoU. Doesn't mean any of these games deserved that distinction necessarily, just means people are good at shouting.