As someone who keeps hearing how OoT set trends and as someone who has had it on his backlog for a longtime, I have to ask. What trends and standards did OoT set?

Sorry but none of those games have good stories, NONE of them. They have 1/2 dimensional characters, plots that range from simple to contrived and not a single one would make for a great novel. The Last of Us blew me away for the simple fact that it was a video game with a decent story. Nothing earth shattering but there was some actual character development, something I have barely ever encountered in any other video game. Also, what was so wrong with the ending? It was one of the only endings that wasn't the usual, safe Hollywood style happy ending.

I agree about the whole gameplay coming before story and how Naught Dog needs to refine their gameplay more. I would personally call The Last of Us the game of the year but not the best of the generation or all time. I was just happy to see a game better than Ocarina force it out of the undeserved top spot is all.

Also, who cares what year Ocarina came out? I play games from the late 70's and early 80's all of the time and enjoy them for what they are. Ocarina is a flawed game and those flaws interfere with my enjoyment at times. I don't like the shallow, repetitive combat, the gigantic, empty overworld and I despise having to pause/unpause the game in the Water Temple to equip/unequip those damn boots! Also, where's the classic Zelda theme when I boot it up, it's supposed to greet me at the title screen :P. It's a great game, but I played better in 1998, let alone today. If we are going to give it the GOAT just because it innovated and pushed the medium there are other games just as deserving of the title.

The way you were raging gave me the impression that it was because Ocarina was upset, sorry about making that assumption.

Good list, tho these days it seems storytelling has a bigger impact than actual gameplay... Yes, i'm talking about Last of Us, MGS3 and The Walking Dead.

AWFUL LIST! The Last of Us over Ocarina of Time, Halo 1 or 2, and Final Fantasy VII??? LOLOLOL!! The Last of Us doesn't even have A THIRD of the impact those two games had.

This should be called "the most hyped games of the past 10 years" cause it seems to be voted mainly based on hype of recent games.

This list is...baffling.

I would add some / reorder some but overall great list, which is based on popular vote. Much more representative of broad core gaming than all my f-ing Top 20 are Nintendo games lists you see sometimes.

Not saying it was the first game ever to do so but it at the very least inspired many many many games that followed it. The 3D world exploring, the Z targetting... Ppl would be crazy to deny that it's puzzle and it's formula of going from dongeons to dongeons (altho present in previous games of the franchise) did'nt inspire many, it's sense of adventure... I could probably nitpick a few more examples but I think this is enough.

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How is it's gameplay a 10/10? What element in this game is so out of this world? Everything in this game has been done before. You can't possibly tell me that the shooting is 10/10 and best shooting you have ever seen. Cover based elements? Yep, done before. Stealth elements, also done before and done better by many... Upgrading you'r weapons, picking up items off the ground, trowing grenades, all done before. Melee fights, lol done before and way better, the melee from this game not only sucks, but it's also OP. I think I've killed more enemies by smashing the square buttons over and over than by shooting. Hmm... what gameplay elements does that game have... Oh yeah! The way you can manipulate your enemies, I'ts pretty neat I'll give it that, but not enough to make this game a 10/10. I think the best thing about this game are the clickers, and they are awfully underused.

And don't get me started on the AI, oh boy oh boy, I could talk alot about those. Like my allies screaming next to clickers or walking right in front of a ennemie and stand there right in front of him w/o anything happening....

So yeah, I just said what I think, but I'm very curious, what gameplay element does this game have that is so perfect? Cause the way I see it, the gameplay was shoehorned into the game in order to progress thru the story so they just added elements done before and well known cause it's probably not to hard to do so and called it quits w/o putting much brainpower into any elements (with maybe the exception of the clickers) cause all brainpower was focused on how to make us care and cry about these characters.