OOT is the best game ever?

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He probably said that since this thread was asking if OOT was the best game of all time, not best game of 1998, so it probably makes sense to compare it with new games.

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Really, it sounds like you never actually played them in their day.

Well... I said this:

I played the game once (on Game Cube mind you) and stopped playing shortly after the first dungeon, because I didn't liked it. I watched on YouTube for more to see if it's worth spending my free hours... it wasn't. Then I used my time to play something else instead...

I played SM64 when it came out and back then I really liked it but after playing games like 3DWorld, Sunshine and the others and then replaying it, it simply isn't feeling good anymore (for me at least). Graphics are out of the question (even if I always thought that 3D stuff always looks worse than 2D but that just my personal taste... I'm a sucker for hand drawn graphics these days).

The legacy it left is part of what makes it great NOW though.

So, what are you saying is basically, because it was good years ago, it stayed to be good, because it was the first one and made the others that way good? Yeah... Megaman 1 should be also better than 4, 5, 6 and so on, because it was the first... and still people hate that one a whole lot compared to the second one. But if the game is loved like Megaman 2, then it's okay to use its age as an excuse for every flaw it has ("sorry guys, Quick Mans level sucked because we didn't know yet how to design levels yet. Not that almost every robotmaster level from the first game is better designed than this one").

Even games I liked a lot before are being beaten by newer games, like Sonic 3 is no longer my favorite Sonic game, because Sonic Mania now takes its place. Despite the fact that Mania is in many ways like Sonic 3, it mostly improved on the spots where Sonic 3&K had his flaws.

Saying that a game is good because of its legacy is (at least in my eyes) not a solid statement. Solid statements would be like "it has a very good story that draws you in" or "it controls like a dream" or "it's fun to pick up, because of the variety and moves your character is able to do", not "it was ahead of the games in the year 1898".

It's good if you and I have great memories about these old games and we very much like them (and I have nothing against it, if OoT is your favorite game or one of them), but if we facing the pure facts that this game didn't age that well on N64 and what problems this game has, due to being the first 3D Zelda they did (game performance controls, etc.), this game is no longer worth a 100% rating, at least not for today's standards, when we compare it to the games of 2017/2018. It might have been mind blowing back then, but now this game probably feels like the bare bones of a newer Zelda title. Comparing its Hyrule Field with like TP, it even looks emptier than TP, even though TP is known for its large and empty Hyrule Fields (It now looks like an alpha map for this game).

Had a lot of discussions about that theme/topic in my past with a whole lot of different people and I can already tell, where this conservation will be going, when I continue to talk about it. "I will not get it" and others wouldn't change their mind either, so I do I even bother?

I will now leave this here and let it be. I know my taste in videogames is bad in the eyes of the majority, but as I said, I'm not the majority. I have my own opinions about games and that is how I see OoT. I just gave my two cents about it, if OoT is the best game ever. I think it's not, said why I think that is and that's it for me.