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But my point is it doesn't seem like they were unhappy with the series because they disliked OoT.
Majora's Mask was released towards the end of the N64's lifespan, it only had a sort of cult following, and the reason some fans disliked it was because it was a very different kind of Zelda game, and it was considered a hard game back then.
Wind Waker was disliked because of its art style, it looked cartoony and childish. What people wanted at that time was more of something like OoT. In the year 2000 a zelda tech demo was released that looked similar to OoT.
In 2001 when WW was revealed, there was outrage because it wasn't more similar to OoT. TP, which was finally the game more like OoT, was well recieved.
Fans were unhappy in the years following OoT because they wanted more of what OoT was. But again, I wasn't there, Idk how fans of Zelda kept in touch prior to the internet. But it is just hard for me to imagine the fans all gathering one friday evening to trash on OoT back in 98.
The internet was still around; just that prior to 1999 it was a nerd-business-military thing. And even then, it didn't morph into the all-consuming entity it is now until after Facebook was started. So there was some discussion on the internet back then, but it was nothing like today. Nintendo even had an official chat on their website back in the 1990s, though by today's standards it was laughably primitive. And, yeah, we were arguing about LoZ even back then.
Now, admittedly, I know about the WW cartoony arguments, but they never struck me as entirely legit. Mostly because a lot of the complaints I saw blamed it on the cel shading, which let's face it was obviously not the problem. I might have missed some legitimate comments back then; I was busy with other things.
Also, note what I said about TP being also similar to ALttP. I just can't help but think Nintendo saw that combining ALttP and OoT was the successful route, thus explaining decisions to come after the Wind Waker trilogy was finished.