IMO, just because the game was mind blowing at the time, it doesn't mean another game can be better than it to people.

"Well, if you left your house for 7 years and then came back only to find your house burned down with a bunch of zombies walking around, you might find that things "drastically changed": I guess that was kind of cool the first time I was in town, but I was actually thinking about Death Mountain and the Zora's place which just got really boring after the time switch. Overall, I think the execution was very lacking and it didn't marry with gameplay very well...

"That was a really cool feature but it kind of just made it feel like one larger dungeon.": Thats probably a part of why I liked it so much. The dungeons are usually the best part of Zelda games, while the overworlds tend to be bland middle men between them, so making the overworld more like a dungeon was a huge plus for me.

Anyways, yeah, I didn't really expect to change anyones mind, it just makes me a little sad to see so many people talking down about a game that I love, and focusing on certain parts when there is so much good to be found in other parts. Also, that issue with the different TV is very strange, as there is no reason in the technology for that to matter (the game didn't use the IR sensor, so sensor bar positioning wouldn't matter)...Either way, I can see the frustration if the controls don't work, but I still feel like it may be a problem with the user and not the game :P Maybe I'm just a natural swordsman or something haha ^.^

Which takes more skill and which is more impressive? A game that redfines the way video games are played? Or a game that refines a game that redfines the way video games are played?

OOT was a master stroke. It was an abosolute mastery of art and design. The distance between itself and all other 3D games in it's era was as wide as it could get. When you compare WW to it, you must keep that in mind. At the time, we ALL had played OOT and we thought WW was just more of the same, with cartoon graphics, easier difficulty and boring fetch quests. It didn't wow us. It didn't have much of an impact at all.

In order to judge a game, you must only compare it to it's peers. You can only judge it by what other games were being released at the time it was released. And when you do that, OOT stands alone.

OK, let's compare Ocarina to Xenogears. I know it's not fair to compare an action adventure to a straight RPG, but there really aren't that many games from 1998 which people still talk about. 

1. Gameplay: Ocarina. Xenogears' gameplay was not bad by any means, as chaining combos and piloting gears both worked well, but Ocarina shaped modern action titles, particularly if they used swords. The Ocarina influence on Dark Souls is significant.

2. Graphics: N64 games will always look better than PSOne games, but Xenogears was no slouch, either. It uses traditional anime/ Square techniques to cover it's shortcomings as best it can.

3. Story: Xenogears. Xenogears runs circles around Ocarina in this department. Other Zelda games--both before and after, but mostly after after--prove that Zelda can tell good stories when it wants to.

4. Total Length: Xenogears. 130+ hours, anybody?

So no, in context Ocarina was really, REALLY good, but it doesn't deserve the oodles of praise no game could ever live up to. It was a good game, but it had some critical shortcomings and has since been thoroughly eclipsed.

if all then i gues Phantom Hourglass because of the shitty controls. And visiting the same place so many times was somewhat annoying.

If home consoles only
=Twilight Princess because of huge but empty world worst race design ever (after talking about an ancient mythical tribe living in the clouds etc and the awesome look of the zoras etc. I expected something better than skinhead chickens with boobs) and it has translation errors in some versions. It also has "you got a green rupee its worth 1 rupee" shit every time you start the game. Epona was semi useless because of the wolf etc...  also the game relies way to much on nostalgia (lost woods, temple of time, epona etc.)

but I have to say the end of the game was pretty awesome.