What is the greatest Legend of Zelda game?

Link To the Past.

A Link Between Worlds, but that isn't listed for some reason.

Out of the ones mentioned above, ALttP.

Ocarina of Time baby! or Majora's Mask. Maybe I came to the 2D Zelda games late but they feel lesser than their 3D rivals.

Having said that, I'd pick ALTTP over any of the GC and on ward Zelda games.

ALBW. But then MM.

Anything but oot basically.

1a is LttP and 1b is OoT. The rest of the order doesn't matter honestly. Those are also my two GOATs.

The **** is this? Wand of Gamelon is the greatest thing ever constructed by humanity.

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1. Windwaker

2. Ocarina of Time

3. Link to the Past

4. Legend of Zelda

5. Twilight Princess

6. Skyward Sword

7. Zelda II

8. Majoras Mask (have yet to finish)

@quatoe: How have you not played A Link to the Past???

EDIT: Oh, you edited the list

A link to the past is one of few games I'd call perfect.

Zelda: the wand of gameleon

TSHBO

Skyward Sword is still mine. I have a feeling thats about to change though. Crazy to see Wind Waker with so many votes. Crying no votes for Twilight Princess, its one of the best too.

LTTP > MM > OOT > WW > ALBW > SS > TP > LoZ >>>>>> LoZ2

Last one I played was Ocarina, enjoyed it a lot, but I think my favorite is a Link to the past. Could be a little because of nostalgia, I don't know.....I'm just a huge fan of that game, at the time it was simply amazing.

1. Link to the past
2. Ocarina of time
3. Windwaker
4. Majora's Mask
5. Twilight Princess
6. Skyward sword

Twilight Princess could be higher than Majora but **** wolfie.

Majora's Mask followed by ALTTP. Wind Waker is last.

I absolutely love the WW TP OOT and MM remakes. After the remakes I might even go TP first and WW second... even though they would have been way lower before.

Those remakes, man. They were so spot on. I've never seen anything like them. People say they were pricey. Sure. You know what? It was WORTH IT.

It's hard to choose which one is the best. I'd go with OoT since it changed the action-adventure genre forever.

Bayonetta 2... With link costume

Links Awakening

Ocorina of time

Link to the past

Windwaker

Minish cap

Link between worlds

Majoras mask

Although to be fair apart from top 3 the others can be in any order really

1. LttP
2. Wind Waker
3. Ocarina of Time
4. Link Between Worlds
5. Link's Awakening
6. Minish Cap
7. Seasons/Ages
8. Majoras Mask
9. Twilight Princess
10. Zelda
11. Skyward Sword
12. Zelda II

Or something like this. It has been years since I've played some of them.

Majora's Mask.

Oot.

The only game that had everything in it.

1) Insanely good visuals

2) next generation gameplay

3) really good music

4) loads of content and replay value.

It introduced a lot, from controls to day and night cicles to horse riding in a 3d world like that was just amazing. Minigames like the fishing game that where better then most full games out there. Also kid + grown up link which made it feel like the game had everything. ( you felt like playing multiple games in one game )

In other words it was excellent.

About the other zelda's:

- Never bothered with 2D zelda's they looked bad to me.

- MM just felt like a wrong turn for a zelda in my view. I liked the timeless design it had in OOT. I was always roaming around doing not much, but just on my pace try to find out where to go and what to do on my own pace.

MM gave you a massive clock with time on it and the world will be destroyed if you didn't do your stuff in x amount of time. Then it resets etc. Turned it off never played it further. Felt like they totally missed the point of zelda OOT.

Windwalker looked like hot trash when it came out, it holds up because of its overly cartoony style now. But even when it came out people didn't bother with it in my neighborhood. Looked like a kid game at that time. I still never played it and never will because it looks overly cartoony.

that other gamecube one, looked bad already from day one, didn't even bother getting it.

Wii one skyward sword, also looked visually like hot garbage to me. Did not even bother with it for one second.

At this point other games already took over my zelda needs that did move forwards with time.

Breath of the wild looks interesting, i most likely will get it when cemu supports it so i can mod the hell out of it and push propper visuals forwards. But even then not sure if i'm still bothered with zelda to be honest.

What nintendo needs to do is, pick up hints from other developers. Make a next gen looking zelda that looks insanely good, with good music, next generation gameplay that moves 1 step further then the rest again, with loads of interesting content. In a massive good looking world.

Currently it feels like nintendo has been behind the market for a good couple of years with there games. It all looks extreme lazy to me.

Mario oddessey is the first game really that gives me the fibes about nintendo finally returning towards the n64 age of game making. If the market will be happy with it probably not. But atleast i will be.

What he said: A Link Between Worlds. Since that's not on the list, yeah, A Link to the Past. Maybe tomorrow I'll say Twilight Princess, but today it's A Link to the Past.

@charizard1605: I love a Link to the Past. Anytime a new player to the series asks what game to start with I recommend that beauty.

@Gatygun: Good news, you might be insane. Worrying about the latest games is now the least of your worries.

OoT is literally one of the two most overrated games of all time. And possibly my second least favorite Zelda. MM beats it in all respects. And Wind waker is great. And the 2D ones are even better than the 3D ones.

Twilight Princess (Gamecube) still has yet to be beat. I'm hoping Breath of the Wild is able to but it will be a while before I can play it; will buy with the NS this Christmas at the earliest.

Side note, has there been any mention of motion controls in the Switch version of BotW? (I truly hope not)

Too hard a question. I always cycle between every 3d Zelda game as my favorite besides Wind Waker (that game is fucking shit). And I have nostalgic love for Links awakening and Oracle of Seasons but overall I like the 3d games a lot better than the 2d.

Top3:

1. Link to the Past

2. Majora's Mask

3. Skyward Sword

Honestly I believe it's Ocarina of Time, and while A Link to the Past is an amazing game, I feel that more people will say it's a better game because it's trendy to do so, it's like saying Final Fantasy 7 is one of the greatest games of all time as if it makes a person cultured and old school for having played it or even saying it...

I find it to be disingenuous.

What has this got to do with system wars?

This is the only active board on this website, so, it has to do with keeping it alive.

A Link to the Past.

Well, you missed out. A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons, Minish Cap, and A Link Between Worlds are the best feet forwards this series has put.

While I don't necessarily agree with this, I can respect this opinion as a valid one to hold on the game.

Well, you were wrong, and you're missing out on one of the best games in the series because it... 'looks cartoony'?

Twilight Princess looked bad from day one how?

So basically exactly what they seem to be doing with Breath of the Wild?

No motion controls in any version of BotW. There might be optional gyroscopic aiming, but you can turn it off/ignore it and use regular dual analog controls instead.

While your general point of hipsterism isn't necessarily a wrong one - a lot of people do do that - A Link to the Past getting all these votes isn't particularly surprising. The game frequently comes in at the top of any Best of SNES lists, and arguably no other console has as many all time great games as the SNES does. LttP is essentially the pinnacle of 2D game design, and it has held up far better over the years than Ocarina of Time- I love that game, it is amazing, I have massive respect for it, but it suffers from early 3D game jank, and its best level design doesn't approach the labyrinthine complexity that LttP exhibited (or even its own successors, at least Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword).

In FF's case, the game you wanted to name was FF6 on the SNES- FF7 is Final Fantasy's equivalent of Ocarina of Time.

@charizard1605: Thank God. I was truly worried after TP and Skyward Sword on Wii.

They gave up on motion controls after Skyward Sword. No Zelda since has had motion controls outside of optional gyroscorpic aiming.

I don't find Wind Waker as flawless a game as A Link to the Past, but it's still my favourite.

@charizard1605: ... O_o

BotW is the first since Skyward Sword.

Link to the Past.

(Though personally my favorite is Link's Awakening, and I think Link Between Worlds is better than LttP.)

Nah, they put out two games on 3DS, as well as four remakes (Ocarina, Majora, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess) since.

@charizard1605: It's the first new main game on their consoles (not talking 3DS).

Sure, but even there, they remade Wind Waker and Twilight Princess- that they didn't even keep the motion controls in the remake of Twilight Princess should show us right away that they are done with them.

@charizard1605: Definitely a good thing. I'm hoping they port Twilight Princess to the NS and package it with the wolf link Amiibo.

where's Minish cap.you know the original one where you don't fight Ganon

Yeah, all good Wii U games should be put on the Switch

@charizard1605: Agreed

So just like:

• Link's Awakening
• Oracle of Ages
• Oracle of Seasons
• Majora's Mask
• Skyward Sword
• Phantom Hourglass
• Spirit Tracks

then?

Gotta go with the OG

The answer is whichever one people grew up playing

A Link to the Past closely followed by Twilight Princess.

Where is Wand of Gamelon? This list is flawed

OoT followed by Wind Waker.

I've only played the handheld versions thus far. Once I beat pokemon sun I'll try out my copy of OoT 3D.

I'd vote for Link's Awakening if it was available. First video game I beat start to finish without a guide while collecting everything. It was quite the experience being able to skip dungeons on accident and just playing around with it, truely a fun game.