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d21lewis on 16 February 2020
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Hynad said:
Mnementh said: 

And there is another factor. Final Fantasy was a symbol for Playstation winning over Nintendo. they made advertisements with that. That produces an emotional divide thinking about FF7. People invested with Playstation will see FF better than it is, people invested with Nintendo worse. And as I said, three times as much people had a Playstation. So this helps. I would like to see the split on above poll for europe and America. I have a strong feeling in europe FF wins strongly, as N64 didn't have a strong presence.

The same applies to OoT, even if the reasons may slightly differ.

People invested with Nintendo see OoT better than it is, and those who aren’t see it as worse.

Prior to FFVII, Final Fantasy was a Nintendo franchise. Personally, while I was a Nintendo fan, I sold my Nintendo 64 in 1997 (got another one when DK64 came out for my little sisters but I didn't play it anymore that gen aside from Conker). I preferred the PS1 and bought like 100+ games for it. I loved PlayStation.

I finally got my hands on Ocarina of Time when it was free with a pre-order of Windwaker and my mind was blown. Even on the GameCube, I said "Man, I see what the fuss was about!". Prior to OoT, the only Zelda I'd played was Link to the Past back in like 1993. Never even played Majora's Mask until the 3DS re-release.

I went through a bit of a phase where I appreciated older games more than the new ones. Some of my thoughts at the time:

-"Super Mario 64 is actually better than Super Mario Sunshine"

-"Chrono Trigger is actually better than FFVII"

-"Ocarina of Time is actually better than Wind Waker."

-"Soul Calibur MAY be better than Soul Calibur 2..." 

I can only speak for myself but, as invested as I was in FFVII (rented it, beat it in a weekend, immediately bought it and beat it again trying to do everything I missed), it had nothing on the first time I played a Ocarina of Time--five years after launch and a better experience than any PS2/GC game I had played to to that point.

I'd even played Star Fox Adventures before playing Ocarina of Time and it borrowed A LOT from Zelda though I didn't know it at the time. Suddenly I understood why people thought it wasn't a great game. It was a step down.

Sorry for the long post!