So you're saying a game that came BEFORE other games in the series has a worse control, camera and mechanics? Fancy that. Next you'll say the graphics are worse too.
Really, it sounds like you never actually played them in their day. When I played Ocarina, it had just came out and it was the first game of its kind for me. In fact it may have been the first Zelda game I'd ever played, and was definitely my first N64 game. It introduced so many mechanics that I had never seen in games before, or that simply didn't exist before that point, in much the same way that Mario 64 pioneered a lot of things. Yes the story was similar to AlttP but it was done in a cinematic way that hadn't really been seen that much before its time.
It's like saying Mario 64 is bad because the controls and level designs aren't as good as Sunshine or Galaxy. Today it's true, but at the time it was groundbreaking and you can't just fail to recognise that fact. You can't look at games from that era with the eyes of someone today and expect it to live up to the 20+ year hype, but there's plenty of reasons why people still look at it fondly after so long and that's because at the time it left a tremendous impact not just on gamers, but on the games industry as a whole.
I remember Ocarina fondly because of how it made ME feel in the day, I just loved being in a huge open world and exploring, questing and delving into dungeons because it was the first game I'd ever played that allowed me to do that. I got invested in the story because it was the first game I'd played that really had one worth getting invested in. It has aged poorly, and what game hasn't, but it has a legacy that'll live on and that's why it's one of the greatest games of all time for many people.
Really, it sounds like you never actually played them in their day. When I played Ocarina, it had just came out and it was the first game of its kind for me. In fact it may have been the first Zelda game I'd ever played, and was definitely my first N64 game. It introduced so many mechanics that I had never seen in games before, or that simply didn't exist before that point, in much the same way that Mario 64 pioneered a lot of things. Yes the story was similar to AlttP but it was done in a cinematic way that hadn't really been seen that much before its time.
It's like saying Mario 64 is bad because the controls and level designs aren't as good as Sunshine or Galaxy. Today it's true, but at the time it was groundbreaking and you can't just fail to recognise that fact. You can't look at games from that era with the eyes of someone today and expect it to live up to the 20+ year hype, but there's plenty of reasons why people still look at it fondly after so long and that's because at the time it left a tremendous impact not just on gamers, but on the games industry as a whole.
I remember Ocarina fondly because of how it made ME feel in the day, I just loved being in a huge open world and exploring, questing and delving into dungeons because it was the first game I'd ever played that allowed me to do that. I got invested in the story because it was the first game I'd played that really had one worth getting invested in. It has aged poorly, and what game hasn't, but it has a legacy that'll live on and that's why it's one of the greatest games of all time for many people.