| AlfredoTurkey said:
You're too young for me to engage in any serious debate. According to your profile, you were only 5 years old when OOT came out. No matter how much reading you do, or how many hours you put into that game, you will never have the experince of playing it when it launched and getting to feel just how mind blowing it was. Awe inspiring doesn't even do it justice. With the exception of SS, I have played every Zelda as they launched and there hasn't been a game that blew me away like that game did. With all due respect, you just kind of need to have been there to appreciate it and understand why it is almost universially regarded as the magnum opus of the series. |
...Excuse me? Too young? I don't need to "get it." I don't need to experience it when it was new. I don't care how mind blowing it was at the time. It's not the best Zelda game and it absolutely never was. Not even "at the time."
No one is taking away what the game did for the industry, but it's not even close to the best Zelda game. It started a lot of terrible habits for the franchise that have only gotten worse as the series went on. It was a qualitative downgrade from ALttP. That's like saying Avatar is the best movie of all time because "Oooh 3d!" If OoT was the best Zelda game, it would have stood the test of time. When some one says that a game "hasn't aged well," it really means that it was never really as good as people thought it was, and now that the standard game release has risen above it, people can't ignore the flaws anymore. ALttP "aged well." Wind Waker "aged well." Even Zelda 1 has "aged well." OoT absolutely has not "aged well."
"No really, dude. You had to have been there. You'll never understand."
