Zelda:OoT the best game ever?? yes?? no??

I stumbled across This article on Cnet, and was wandering what you think.

The basic idea is that edge recently voted zelda:OoT the best game of all time, and this guy is explaining why it isnt. I thought he might have had a good argument untill I read "Well, I don't just judge video games on how well they played or if the storyline was better than another. The best video games are those that shape an entire industry and help make the video game business progress from its periodic years of no growth."

Saying that is total rubbish in my eyes. Games should be judged on how much fun you have whilst playing them, not how much they influence the industry. Saying that you have to say that the cathode ray missile game from 1947 is the greatest game ever because it invented the industry, or possibly the first one to be played on a screen.

I agree that zelda:OoT may not be the best game ever (to be honest, I've never realy given it much thought) but his reasoning is total crap.

A very verygood game but not the best :)

Well, been gaming for 17 years, and although I'm a big strategy game fan, ocarina of time, which I played on release back in 1998, was the BEST ALL-ROUND VIDEO GAMING EXPERIENCE EVER CONEIVED IN MY OPINION.

Strangely enough so many other people tend to agree. :)

I believ if you didn't play the game the year it was released, you have no right to judge it,because for it's time, it was bliss, it was 99.99999% perfect.

Few game released since or before can claim that on release. Few games are 99.9999999% perfect for so many people.

Having played many of 'Greatest Games of all Time,' I feel privilged to be able to have an opinion at all on this matter.Zelda:OoT is NOT the greatest game ever, it merely has the title of Best Game Experience.The Greatest Video Game Ever w00t TM, only exists on a personal opinion. FF VII was a very fine game, as was Metal Gear Solid 2 and as was Halo, but giving a very good game the best ever tag is superficial is my opinion. I hate all these polls and reviews saying that this games better, or that one's the greatest, and trying to force that opinion over onto the readers/customers.People have different tatses, so a RPG fan will not call Halo the greatest ever and vice versa.

Quit the whining and consider yourself privileged that you can play these games at all.

Nope. It's not even the best Zelda game. Alttp was, and Majora's Mask is IMHO the best 3d Zelda (TP is a close second)

It's a great game though, and I had lots of fun playing through it.

Depends if you which genre, and those zombies in the game scared the heck outta me :(. Good old times.siggip89

Depends which genre* lol