h2ohno on 19 October 2016
Of course the world and characters are harder to get invested in in OOT. It was the first 3d game and the first N64 game. It was on a 32 megabite cartridge. It was never going to spend enough time with the characters to make them stand out the way later games would be able to, otherwise it would have been like Majora in cutting down on the amount of dungeons.
I first played OOT in 2007 at the same time as I was playing through TP on the Wii. I stopped playing OOT to finish TP because I having much more fun with the latter game and only came back to OOT after I had beaten TP. If you didn't play OOT on the N64 the improvements later games made are very apparent.
