[QUOTE="Pro-Gear-Spec"][QUOTE="AvatarMan96"]
OoT is an outstanding game and definitely holds up to this day, but I really cant see why people still think its "teh best!". Had either MM, WW, TP, or SS been the first 3d Zelda to launch in place of OoT, people would have loved them the same, if not more. (even assuming that any of the above would have been limited to N64 graphics).
I understand the magical feeling that OoT brought to the table. It was jaw dropping amazing at the time, but imo has been well surpassed.
Take SMB3 and NSMBW for example. Both outstanding games and both very enjoyable today, but people still have a hard on for SMB3 and claim it to be the best 2d platformer of all time, while NSMBW is considered just another good game. The flaw here is that if NSMBW(with NES graphics) would have launched along side SMB3 it would have been considered a much better game.
I think too many people get caught up in the impact of a game rather than objectively viewing the games for how they measure up in the present. Thats not to say older games cant be just as good, or even better than games today.
Oh well, I'm just glad most people got over FFVII and starting thinking about the game objectively. I'm just waiting for the same to happen with OoT.
Wiimotefan
There was no jaw dropping involved.Uh, yes, yes there was. Maybe YOU weren't particularly impressed, but the game wowed millions of gamers and all the critics at the time. There was nothing else like it before. For most gamers it was an unbelievable jump. That is why the game is still given so much unwarranted worship and put up on a pedestal today. That is why it is still the highest scoring game of all time to this day.
Feel free to live in some wacky fantasy world, but whether or not you impressed by the game at the time has absolutely no bearing on the way the game was received as a whole.
I could say the same thing for MGS4 and and GTAIV but I bet that doesn't count though. let's be honest, wowed millions of gamers? You mean the small amount that actually played the game? You eman the fact that the series sells lees and less every single time that one game is rereleased even fans of the game don't rebuy it? Critics? I don't know whether they were paid off or any other excuse but there was nothing amzaing about the game to the levels you were implying. it did nothing impressive that didn't stop it from being shoved off rather quickly. Now now, before your fanboy instincts attack me, because they will, realize something: 1. Not many people played the game 2. Not that many people who did was interested in the game 3. Reasons 2 and 3 question these critics. 4. A lot of these critics don't bring up the game much anymore but GS and IGn have for many times. 5. The Zelda fanbase is split in many diffren pieces and flavors. 6. Quite a few LTTP fans did not like the game 7. It barely helped the N64, but I know it barely if at all moved any consoles. Notice I have not talked about the actual game. Just pointed that out. I am saying it's not impressive and it never was and that' the truth despite what oter peoples opinion you think are better than yours say. However, I never actually talked about the game. So hold that fanboy in you for now. 
Log in to comment