Originally Posted by
Endus
I swear, people judging it poorly are doing so from the perspective of games today, not games at that time.
Ocarina of Time was completely groundbreaking and paved the way for pretty much the entire concept of 3rd person action-adventure games. If you went back and played it today, it might not be as impressive, but that's because you've internalized so many innovations as just standard stuff.
It's like the film Citizen Kane. Absolutely blew the socks off cinematographers in a way that new concepts it invented have become so overused that they're cliche tropes, now, because everyone wanted to copy off that film, because it was so crazy good.
Watch it today? It's kind a slow and the camera work doesn't stand out, because you're watching it from a vantage point where every innovation has been Film 101 standard tropes for 80 years. You almost certainly don't remember a film era that wasn't directly and immensely shaped by Citizen Kane. So those things no longer stand out, unless you were there to experience it the first time, or do the historical research to realize exactly how innovative it really was.