Poll of the Day > A Link To The Past Will Win This Poll!

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It is the best Zelda game of ALL TIME!
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I voted BotW even though I love that, OoT, MM, WW, and TP about equally.
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I voted LttP because it's my favorite and because it's the best.
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I'm surprised OoT isn't winning, although it's still early. It's not like ALttP wasn't eligible for all those contests where OoT did well, so I don't know why putting them directly against each other would make a difference.

DorkLink posted...

I'm surprised OoT isn't winning, although it's still early. It's not like ALttP wasn't eligible for all those contests where OoT did well, so I don't know why putting them directly against each other would make a difference.

Because there are other choices as well, for starters. Plus how often LttP and OoT go head to head in contests?
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The CD-i was not a console?
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Zeus posted...

I voted LttP because it's my favorite and because it's the best.

I chose TP.

Zeus posted...

DorkLink posted...

I'm surprised OoT isn't winning, although it's still early. It's not like ALttP wasn't eligible for all those contests where OoT did well, so I don't know why putting them directly against each other would make a difference.

Because there are other choices as well, for starters. Plus how often LttP and OoT go head to head in contests?

A few times and lttp is clearly less popular.

I think having every post OoT console zelda splits the votes.
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Stormtr8per posted...

I chose TP.

You should reconsider how you're living your life.
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The Best Zelda Game of All Time is actually Link's Awakening

It is the perfect combination of old and new and the chip tunes are so def. It's basically a really polished Zelda

I don't know if I care about 3d Link so much that I'd give up 2d Link. Really the best time was when they worked with Capcom together on these games. I think the next Zelda could be dope but it will likely take place in the demon world next time.
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OoT

Yuri_LowelI posted...

I think having every post OoT console zelda splits the votes.

I guess this makes sense. Some people just prefer 2D Zelda, and ALttP is the clear top of the mountain there (at least for console Zeldas), so it's easy for it to get a lot of votes. OoT would still dominate a poll that was strictly 3D Zeldas, seeing as it's dominating them now even with ALttP probably leeching votes from it.

RoboXgp89 posted...

The Best Zelda Game of All Time is actually Link's Awakening

It is the perfect combination of old and new and the chip tunes are so def. It's basically a really polished Zelda

I don't know if I care about 3d Link so much that I'd give up 2d Link. Really the best time was when they worked with Capcom together on these games. I think the next Zelda could be dope but it will likely take place in the demon world next time.

First off, Awakening sucks. Second, the poll is about home console titles anyway. Third, and most importantly, Awakening sucks. It might have felt acceptable right after LoZ or Adventure, but after LttP. It was an ugly downgrade with immersion-breaking cameos from other Nintendo franchises and an unsatisfying it's all just a dream! cliche ending.
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Huh, i didn't realise people actually did hate Skyward Sword that much. I always thought people were just hysterically trolling. Oh well I still think it's the best.

It won't, but it should.

Expect Ocarina of Time to surge ahead tomorrow.


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Majora's Mask for life (with OoT as the runner up).
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Everybody knows Link to the Past is best Zelda.
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Link to the past is the pineapple of the serie.

Link to the Past vs Witcher 3
Link to the past wins
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drwize posted...

It is the best Zelda game of ALL TIME!

Link Between Worlds is better, but otherwise, I'd agree.
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LttP is up there among the greats (Trigger & VI).
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LttP is my favorite in the series.

Sadly.

Adventures of Link gets my vote. I love that game.

Link to the Past was my favourite... until Breath of the Wild came out.
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When's this meme that the "classic games are always the best" going to die?

Look, ALttP, OoT and all that is great but the depth, attention to detail and what you an actually do in BotW fully surpasses both in every way. In terms of entertainment value and what it's been able to achieve. It's the combination of everything the Zedla team has learned to make the series grow and become better . BotW is a show case and celebration of what games can now achieve some 30 years later.

A Link to the Past is my favorite. OoT is the most overrated.

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

drwize posted...

It is the best Zelda game of ALL TIME!

Link Between Worlds is better, but otherwise, I'd agree.

Well that is just a upgraded Lttp anyways.
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enfam0us posted...

When's this meme that the "classic games are always the best" going to die?

Look, ALttP, OoT and all that is great but the depth, attention to detail and what you an actually do in BotW fully surpasses both in every way. In terms of entertainment value and what it's been able to achieve. It's the combination of everything the Zedla team has learned to make the series grow and become better . BotW is a show case and celebration of what games can now achieve some 30 years later.

It's not a meme. BotW is a beautiful, great game. It is also such an abrupt change from the more recent Zelda formula that it's no wonder it's not as well liked as previous 3D entries.

Look, like it or not, OoT came out nearly 20 years ago and it set the tone for the more recent formula. Most Zelda fans who have enjoyed the 3D titles have done so based on a formula that OoT provided. BotW attempts to bring Zelda back to it's roots, to a game 30 years old. I personally enjoy it. It's not remotely hard to see why so many people claim that BotW is a great game, but not a Zelda game. If you didn't get into Zelda before the past 20 years, then BotW IS a change from the formula of what makes a Zelda game a Zelda game for that person.

Also ultimately what is and isn't the best is just someone's opinion. We can all live just fine without forcing others to take our opinion.

Zelda fans when talking about 1998 as the best year in gaming: "Oot is one of the best games of all time. It changed so much and was so revolutionary."

Zelda fans when talking about the best game in the series: "Oot is overrated"

wildstrike1516 posted...

1998 as the best year in gaming:

I really hope 1998 won because of the help from Pokemon and Metal Gear Solid.

Those 3 games alone make it hard pressed for any year ever to surpass it. Honestly though if we're looking at ground breaking achievements in the game industry 1998, 2001 and 2004 should have taken the cake.

It was pretty disgruntling to see 1994 beat out 2004. In that case, for that battle, quantity outweighed quality. Because you could argue that 94 had the best individual games. But the sheer mount of great games that dropped in 2004 is enough to say that it was better. The ideas and concepts that were used in games in 94 aren't in place now days. Games that dropped in 04 are still going strong and a lot of ideas that were used are still in place now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4SLjLen7-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQ8Mqyf8sw

These are obviously the best Zelda games.
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I chose Breath of the Wild because I'm not stuck in the past.

kivos posted...

wildstrike1516 posted...

1998 as the best year in gaming:

I really hope 1998 won because of the help from Pokemon and Metal Gear Solid.

Those 3 games alone make it hard pressed for any year ever to surpass it. Honestly though if we're looking at ground breaking achievements in the game industry 1998, 2001 and 2004 should have taken the cake.

It was pretty disgruntling to see 1994 beat out 2004. In that case, for that battle, quantity outweighed quality. Because you could argue that 94 had the best individual games. But the sheer mount of great games that dropped in 2004 is enough to say that it was better. The ideas and concepts that were used in games in 94 aren't in place now days. Games that dropped in 04 are still going strong and a lot of ideas that were used are still in place now.

Finally a level headed thinker. 2004 is probably the most important year that reflects gaming today in the modern age.

I can't believe Link to the Past is winning. I love it.
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Who are all these people posting here? For a second I wasn't sure if this was still PotD

DorkLink posted...

Who are all these people posting here? For a second I wasn't sure if this was still PotD

LOL. This is my first time visiting this neighborhood. Good property value.
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enfam0us posted...

When's this meme that the "classic games are always the best" going to die?

Look, ALttP, OoT and all that is great but the depth, attention to detail and what you an actually do in BotW fully surpasses both in every way. In terms of entertainment value and what it's been able to achieve. It's the combination of everything the Zedla team has learned to make the series grow and become better . BotW is a show case and celebration of what games can now achieve some 30 years later.

LttP is a great-looking game which has withstood the test of time. BotW hasn't even faced the next game to come out yet, let alone the test of decades. BotW is the game of the minute, OoT is the game of the hour, but LttP is the game of ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!

thatguy181 posted...

Look, like it or not, OoT came out nearly 20 years ago and it set the tone for the more recent formula. Most Zelda fans who have enjoyed the 3D titles have done so based on a formula that OoT provided. BotW attempts to bring Zelda back to it's roots, to a game 30 years old. I personally enjoy it. It's not remotely hard to see why so many people claim that BotW is a great game, but not a Zelda game. If you didn't get into Zelda before the past 20 years, then BotW IS a change from the formula of what makes a Zelda game a Zelda game for that person.

And OoT took heavily from the concepts that LttP introduced into the game, so much so that it was being called a 3D remake of LttP at the time (which didn't make sense but, you know, exaggerations). It created a lot of the standards, including the Master Sword and the hookshot.
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Zeus posted...

LttP is a great-looking game which has withstood the test of time. BotW hasn't even faced the next game to come out yet, let alone the test of decades. BotW is the game of the minute, OoT is the game of the hour, but LttP is the game of ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!

You're not even making a logical case here, other than showing you're biased. BotW has the acclaim to match both already, it's selling the Switch and can potentially become the best selling Zelda of all time.

No one looks at a LttP for inspiration anymore and OoT has ran its course as well. Now again, before you start ranting, I believe both to be some of the greatest games of all time, yes, but as with everything, time is starting to take its toll.

If we're looking at current games being made that other devs are tying to match or best, that would be Rockstar games. I currently believe though with what Nintendo has made here with BotW, they can seriously turn heads, have a true game that both inspires, and raises the competition in the industry yet again.

I didn't expect this to be winning, I thought OoT would nail it.

Good stuff Lttp is my fave game ever :)
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BotW is a great game but it's not what some people were really expecting out of a Zelda game. I hear people say "Finally a sequel that's what the series was meant to be!" but that's something they're basing off one 30 year old game. It worked in the first game but I feel like it was almost by accident, as the game was simple enough to get away with it. By that I mean, for example, doing dungeons out of order isn't really impressive because they have a lack of item-based puzzles - I'd rather have more puzzles if it meant the dungeon order is more rigid. To me, the formula they had been using since around ALttP/OoT is what Zelda is really about, not the first game. I never see people saying that 2D Mario should go back to strictly left-to-right, one-screen tall levels because it's what the first game did. Game series are meant to evolve and change over time, but for some reason a large amount of Zelda fans have resisted this idea.

To its credit, in many ways BotW does a great job of evolving but also going back to the original game. They strike happy medium with the shrines/divine beasts since the puzzles are a bit more involved but can still be done in any order. But it also deviates from even the original game in ways that disappoint me a bit, like not having true dungeons or items. The divine beasts were all too similar-looking and devoid of enemies. The flow of the main objectives didn't really instill the same sense of accomplishment as in past games, even the original, because as much as you could explore off the bat in the original, they didn't make exploring the vast majority of the game. You get these "main" objectives but they're presented like "you can do these, but you don't have to, though you probably should", which doesn't really instill a strong sense of importance to them with the player.

And BotW came out less than three months ago, so I find it hard to give it a judgment of being the best yet. Some of you are saying "It's time to move on from these old games", but are you actually tired of them because they're old, or because you played them too many times? It's not very fair to say that but then say that someone should acknowledge this game they've probably only played through one time (if they've even finished it yet) as the best. I know that when I play BotW for the second time it's obviously not going to be as exciting, and I feel like that would give me a more solid idea of my true opinion of it.

enfam0us posted...

No one looks at a LttP for inspiration anymore and OoT has ran its course as well.

He says, ignoring the fact that Link Between Worlds isn't even five years old yet and was clearly and obviously inspired from everything ALttP (not to mention it being the third-to-latest new Zelda out, as the order is BotW, Triforce Heroes, and LBW). Also, you're ignoring the fact that the majority of remixes for the soundtrack used in each proceeding Zelda game are inspired directly from the title A Link to the Past (even Breath of the Wild is guilty of this at times as Ganon's Theme from ALttP plays during the scene atop the first tower, the Hyrule Castle theme from ALttP, among other old remixed tracks, in Hyrule Castle in BotW).

BotW bucked a lot of conventions of the series, but make no mistake that A Link to the Past set a lot of those trends and is the inspiration that Ocarina of Time and most other 3D Zeldas took on after it- to say otherwise when the last major release before BotW (talking main series games here, not spin offs or remakes) was a direct sequel to A Link to the Past, and you have a really silly thing to say unless you just can't remember anything from before 2015.
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BotW is far and away my favorite Zelda game and close to one of my favorite games of all time. Before that though, I always had a tough time deciding between ALttP and MM for my favorite.

I don't understand why people use "old" as a pejorative when describing video games. I understand some people can't engage a video game unless it is 1080p, 60-120 FPS, blah blah blah, but that is more of a limitation of the user rather than the technology. There are text based games that make some modern Triple AAA titles look like the work of amateurs.

That said, I judge my final assessment of a game of if I enjoyed it or not and if I enjoyed it more than other games I have played. BOTW shows Zelda in a modern sense with the trending open-world genre;however, I felt less satisfied playing BOTW than playing LTTP.

Granted, some of it is my distaste for open world games. Lots of space to roam isn't necessarily a good thing if the content is not there. GTA V had an amazing downtown section on the map then there was everything else which was.....bah. I liked the missions I did in BOTW and some of the dungeons were sick. I like the "thesis" of BOTW in that it is a survival game and it takes into account the environment and resource management. I get BOTW. I really do.

That said, the lack of enemy diversity (how many Moblins can one kill), the constant riding around everywhere, even with fast travel, became a chore, the lack of NPCs and Towns considering how much space the game has, the lack of music (a HUGE thing for me since Nintendo has some of the best OST ever, certainly the best in modern gaming save Skyrim), weapon durability (I get it but it is still tedious as hell).

BOTW is Nintendo's first open world title for Zelda and it shows. That is not to say they don't do it better than anybody else but this is not open world Zelda perfected. This is open world Zelda functional.

LTTP had two previous entries and over a 8 years of 8 bit programming knowledge to rely on in its creation. The SNES was 8 bit gaming perfected with a 16bit presentation. A LTTP was the final result of all that wisdom Nintendo gained over the years in developing for that medium and hence it's execution, in my humble opinion, is flawless.

BOTW/Ocarina of Time, were forays into new territory. Granted, OOT had the power of Mario 64 behind it but as time goes on flaws are apparent. That is not to say the game doesn't stand head over heals above 99% of what came before or after it but it is obvious some of the mechanics are dated. I simply can't find error with a LTTP given the context of the medium it is in. It did everything right and hence it is my favorite Zelda game and one of my favorite video games of all time.

All because it is "old" does not mean it is less than.
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enfam0us posted...

You're not even making a logical case here, other than showing you're biased. BotW has the acclaim to match both already, it's selling the Switch and can potentially become the best selling Zelda of all time.

By that logic even a shit game in a series can be better than the better game in a series due to sales.
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Revelation34 posted...

enfam0us posted...

You're not even making a logical case here, other than showing you're biased. BotW has the acclaim to match both already, it's selling the Switch and can potentially become the best selling Zelda of all time.

By that logic even a shit game in the series can be better than the better game in a series due to sales.

This, I like how he says someone else's logic is flawed then goes to bring up sales which are heavily influenced by the quality of the series before the game was released.
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enfam0us posted...

Zeus posted...

LttP is a great-looking game which has withstood the test of time. BotW hasn't even faced the next game to come out yet, let alone the test of decades. BotW is the game of the minute, OoT is the game of the hour, but LttP is the game of ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!

You're not even making a logical case here, other than showing you're biased. BotW has the acclaim to match both already, it's selling the Switch and can potentially become the best selling Zelda of all time.

Except I'm making a supremely logical argument but your bias has blinded you. Getting awards TODAY does not mean standing the test of time. BotW could be completely outshone by the very next game. By contrast, LttP has lasted all of this time and, as time went on, we saw how greatly LttP inspired the rest of the franchise. The concept of a master sword, which it introduced, is even in BotW.

Also, given that the world's population is increasing, it would be a bad sign if it *didn't* sell more although, with all of LttP's ports, it's possible that LttP still have more copies sold in the long run.

enfam0us posted...

No one looks at a LttP for inspiration anymore and OoT has ran its course as well. Now again, before you start ranting, I believe both to be some of the greatest games of all time, yes, but as with everything, time is starting to take its toll.

And yet BotW is still using staples introduced by LttP. Not to mention we just had LBW a few years ago.

enfam0us posted...

If we're looking at current games being made that other devs are tying to match or best, that would be Rockstar games. I currently believe though with what Nintendo has made here with BotW, they can seriously turn heads, have a true game that both inspires, and raises the competition in the industry yet again.

lol...? Among other hilarity, Rockstar's zenith was years ago and it's hardly the force it once was. People are ditching their core games in favor of stuff like Saints Row which come closer to capturing the fun of the GTA series.

Granted, that's assuming you meant Rockstar. You could have meant Rocksteady, which has innovated more recently.



XImperialDragon posted...

He says, ignoring the fact that Link Between Worlds isn't even five years old yet and was clearly and obviously inspired from everything ALttP (not to mention it being the third-to-latest new Zelda out, as the order is BotW, Triforce Heroes, and LBW). Also, you're ignoring the fact that the majority of remixes for the soundtrack used in each proceeding Zelda game are inspired directly from the title A Link to the Past (even Breath of the Wild is guilty of this at times as Ganon's Theme from ALttP plays during the scene atop the first tower, the Hyrule Castle theme from ALttP, among other old remixed tracks, in Hyrule Castle in BotW).

Yes, and even Triforce Heroes comes to us from Four Sword Adventures which originates from the GBA port of LttP.
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Zeus posted...

People are ditching their core games in favor of stuff like Saints Row which come closer to capturing the fun of the GTA series.

GTA V is one of the best selling games of all-time