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Miyamotoo on 22 February 2017
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Hynad said:

Ocarina of Time took its "throne" during a time when gaming was still in its enfancy. When a lot of new kinds of mechanics were still figured out. It managed to take that seat because it was the first of its kind do to this so well on that scale.

But my take is that Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are better games than Ocarina of Time, because they control better and play better while using the same kind of game design. The rest is standard Zelda tropes that have been pretty much the same since the first game. The only thing I think Ocarina of Time still did better than most other Zelda games that followed is the story, but that's because I'm a sucker for time travel tales. That being said, Skyward Sword does give it a challenge.

Ocarina of Time may have been groundbreaking when it first came out, during a time when not every types of game had been attempted in 3D. These days, such things aren't going to happen on that kind of scale. That being said, Ocarina of Time has aged rather poorly from a game mechanics point of view. Sure, it introduced some that have now been adopted in one way or another by other games. But these have been polished and improved quite a bit over the course of the last two decades. The game's worst offender when compared to the games that came after it are the controls. They just ruin the game for me. They had that effect back then on the N64, they had that effect on the 3DS version, and the same applies to any other version I played. It may deserve its place in gaming's hall of fame, but to say it is still the uncontested best by today's standards is utterly ludicrous. Much better games have come out since then, some of them in the Zelda franchise itself.

Also, an endless amount of this:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Oot came out in a time when what it was doing was novel. People forget that review scores are a reflection of the time period and not a basis for all time.

When you talk which Zelda game was better, you need to think if for instance Zelda OoT was better game in 98" than TP is 2006", answer will be obvious. When OoT was out back in 98" it was almost perfect game without almost any flaws for that time (for instance OoT controls were great in 98" and actually much better than for majority games of that generation), it was great game all around, you cant say that for any 3D Zelda game after OoT, because everyone had some part of game that was weaker. That it combination with fact that was groundbreaking are reasons why is highest rating game in history. 

Ocarina of Time like every other game also age, but didn't aged poorly, it actually very good game even for today standards with its game mechanic, and 3DS version proves that, OoT 3D received score of 95.

 

Thats a main point if you want to talk about best Zelda game or best game owereal, there is no much sense to compare game from 98" and game from 2017" because every game age and of course buy time newer games will have better graphics, or better story, or better controls, or better mechanics...so thats pointels, it has much more sense to compare in way is it for instance Zelda BotW better game in 2017. than OoT was in 98"!? But you can't really gave most accurate answer if actually you didn't played OoT back then around 98".