Video games overall must not be very good if OoT is the standard.
You got balls saying that here
No, it's the dead honest truth.
OoT has 1 thing, and only 1 thing going for it, and thats nostalgia.
Along with that, I think it's IGNorant to make OoT the standard for comparison, as there have been many many games that are better and more memorable then OoT in the past 20 years.
Not really. The reason they compare it to OoT is because it was ground-breaking for it's time. Sure, there have been several other better games, hundreds of them. But, in their opinions, none were quite as phenomenal as OoT was. And many would agree with them. You don't have to
I honestly don't care. I'll ignore this game like I did all the other GTAs.
That was my original impression, too. But I just can't ignore a perfect 10 O_o
o.0 how was it ground breaking? It's basically mario 64 with an inventory system, no jump, and NPC interaction o.0... The only thing in it that even makes it close to ground breaking is the 3d, and that had been done in the past
it just rehashes old elements from older games and tries to pass them off as new with the 3dness...
Their only basis for comparison is the nostalgia :p OoT would not be so popular if it hadn't been for the exact time it was released. Even at that, if you remove the Zelda element and put any other character in there you want (Crash Bandicoot! or !@#$% Boogerman, I dont care) the game wouldn't have been half as popular. Its popularity is from an lttp fanboy croud that desired having their favorite character in 3d :s...
Dont get me wrong, I love OoT. But by no means is it groundbreaking.
Actually, I will give it this- The forest temple hallways that twist. That was groundbreaking
If GTA4 has those types of hallways, then the comparison is 100% justified
because those things rocked