| HoloDust said: Just wondering, have you played OoT back in '98? If you're age in profile is correct (18), then my firm guess would be no. Anyway, I've played OoT when it released, and while it was good game and had great many people who loved it, there was also quite a few that didn't like what Nintendo done with Zelda in transition to 3D. Personally, I didn't care too much for it, at that point I was already big fan of Tomb Raider, so OoT dungeons didn't seem too new or revolutionary (actually, I thought "designers have certainly played TR"), I was deep into Might&Magic and played TES: Dagerfall already, so open worlds were quite normal and I felt that spirit of 2D Zelda was not preserved properly. It was still very enjoyable game, but claims "XYZ is best game ever" (no matter what XYZ) always sound quite silly to me. |
I was five when I played OoT for the first time, I played it after playing Zelda 1, and even then I was smart enough to tell that it was inferior to that game. I used to call Hyrule field the "bore bubble," because instead of being impressed by it's scale, I resented everytime I had to go back to the bubble whenever I wanted to get somewhere fun. Going from Zelda 1, where my favorite thing to do was exploring the overworld, to OoT, where exploration was dead, made it clear as day how much of a step down that game was, even at such a young age.
