Ocarina of Time is a mid tier Zelda game that only ranks as high as it does due to nostalgia. Both MM and TP are better...and ALttP is on another level.
Big flaw is OoT is a completely 3D game that was the first to do what it was doing. BotW is Elder Scrolls Zelda with one of the worse Weapon durability systems I've ever used in a game. Should have went the Dark Cloud 1 route if they wanted breaking weapons and make repairing items scarce.
Nothing actually innovative about BotW, Everything it does was done before. OoT was a first in many respects
You gotta be joking 😂 So oot scored so high in 98 due to Nostalgia?
Oot sat a new standard for 3d adventure games and revolutionized the genre.. Same thing Mario64 or. Tomb Raider 1 did.
Oot added so many new things, and 3d added an insane depth to the game, which link2thepast didn't have. I think link 2 the past is still my favorite ever due to nostalgia, but zelda 64 is a true monster back in the day.
OoT was great and innovative for its time, thats why it scores a 98. Thats does not mean it is better than every game in the world today. Half of the Zelda games out there are better.
@Teflon02
BotW was innovative in a way that combined a lot of open world aspects in a way that had never been done before. That is why you have other gamea trying to copy it now. I have played a lot of open world games, and none had the magic that BotW has. Iy truly deserves the score it got.
It does have room for improvement. My biggest thing would be that as a Zelda game, I would like to see the return of traditional dungeons. Here is to hoping with BotW2!
I think even skyward sword was better. At least it's dungeons were unique and involved more depth. Zelda botw is a bunch of mini small tiny bites of puzzling (puzzle solving gameplay) that are barely anything compared to the past games.
Wind Waker was amazing! Definitely casting my vote for Link to The Past as the best though... I just couldn't get into Breath of The Wild unfortunately.
Botw was good. Would have liked even a little more of the series tropes. Side questing felt empty. The rewards were just shrine locations or crafting items. Both very useful to be sure. But still, it would have been nice to get some unique tools... hell, even just an empty bottle. Something.
I agree actually. I'm still trying to finish the game because I can never get enough motivation to keep playing. The only upside was that Nintendo games stay high in value so when I do decide to sell it I'll get some money back.
The 4 dungeons were so monotone in color/textures and even in the gameplay. They don't even come close to OoT dungeons. And the whole world felt so empty.
I dunno, there was so much to explore. I'll never forget the first time in BOTW I crested a hill and saw this massive labyrinth just floating out in the water. I logged so many hours and there was always something new hiding around a different corner. If you look at the N64 game when you are out in Hyrule Field, tell me the game doesn't feel empty at times too. Not to mention the map on BOTW is about 100x bigger.
Clicks. Make a controversial topic in a tribal and binary way to make it seem that there is only one option that is clearly superior than the other one.
I'll stick with Twilight Princess I love Breath of the Wild and Ocarina but I still prefer Ocarina more over Breath of the Wild Gannon was just to easy to beat. Exploring was fun in Breath of the Wild but I kind of found it repetitive in some areas.
I started out really digging botw, I guess cause I hadn't played a zelda game since wind waker on gamecube and that was a long time ago though oot was a real turning point for me with games, such gorgeous classic, ah the feels, anyway as I was saying botw gave me a sense of that zelda and Nintendo charm that only they can and there were some beautiful moments but it did start to grind, the world just felt too empty and repetitive a lot of the time, I started to lose interest and never finished it eventually trading it and my switch in towards PS5, I still kind of regret not finishing it first though, maybe when the next switch comes around I'll dive back in. Man I hope they decide to put some power in the next one, it would be great to be able to play Nintendo games with a bit of oomph.
On any day of the week. Best Zelda game ever. Even then second place goes to A link to the past. My two most beaten Zelda games ever because they are that damn good.
Majora's Mask (Story, and how the game can go in any direction within the 3 day limit). Link's Awakening (First successful Zelda game without Gannon AND the princess. Also some Nintendo cameos added an interesting touch). Oracle of Seasons/Ages (Play both games for the entire story, or one/other and still get the full experience).
See how easy it is to explain without a full article? Oh and I had to stop reading about halfway due to the grammatical errors which made some sentences hard to read/understand.
On "temporal context", yes, Ocarina of Time is Better Than Breath of the Wild, and there is no deabte about this.
Ocarina of Time was such achievement at the time, on absolutely all fronts the game was a revolution! It didn't age well, but still something that marked a generation.
Breath of the Wild is a great game? sure, it's a amazing game, but nothing close to the revolution that was "ocarina of time". BoTW is not a revolutionary game in graphics, storytelling, mechanics or gameplay. It is certainly a game that performed many things masterfully and evolved some ideas in ways that "almost seemed new", that said... no, nothing at the level of OoT
The game for what it was when it released was revolutionary. Being the first 3D Zelda we were treated to an epic game played in a new way. That being said, early 3D games age poorly and obviously there were tons of technical limitations at the time. It's got a better story, and traditional dungeons. But BOTW is far grander and more ambitious in scope.
I mean it kind of depends on what you’re looking for in your game. The world as a whole in breath of the wild just blows OOT out of the water, but OOT has much better puzzles and dungeons.
The only Zelda game I played was Wind Waker and even that is better than BOTW. It have way more charm and personality than BOTW. BOTW only have open world and weapons that break to fast. BOTW was only 4 years old yet many people forgot about if it wasn't for youtubers and blogs kept bringing them up whereas OOT and WW were much older and still much more memorable.
OoT is better hands down. That game took hundreds of years of culture and digitized it on screen so very beautifully. Link actually has a masculine physique in that game unlike every other Zelda game. Going into the underground well as a kid and having to finish it as an adult. The musical score. The build up of anticipation every time the player opens a major chest. How hard players had to work for the powers like charged power spin and din's fire. The game has red blood, and describes the cool temp blue fire to be unnatural thereby suggesting to the player it's some kind of technology!
I think any Zelda game is honestly (except CDI I guess lol). With the same dev team and the same budget, it is just impossible to make a giant world feel alive. OoT does this much better by packing all the content in the much smaller overworld instead of stretching the same amount of content throughout a big overworld and adding some filler here and there. This just adds unnecessary traveling which is the number 1 reason I don't like giant open world games. Aside from that, I prefer the art style, the music, the characters, the story, the weapons I actually get to keep forever and so much more. It's no contest for me.
Breath of the wild is a very good Zelda game but unfortunately lacks the storytelling along with an unbelievable soundtrack compared to Ocarina of Time; much better presentation compared to breath of the wild
I love both games, but I still prefer traditional Zelda games and I would probably pick OoT over BotW even though I really enjoyed BotW, that and BotW had some significant downsides like all the "shrines" being the same (I could not tell one apart from another, in my memories it all blends together).
No doubt about that!
So many great dungeons, and an incredibly rich game
As are most Zelda games IMO.
And The Wind Waker is better than both of them in my opinion.
Botw was good. Would have liked even a little more of the series tropes. Side questing felt empty. The rewards were just shrine locations or crafting items. Both very useful to be sure. But still, it would have been nice to get some unique tools... hell, even just an empty bottle. Something.