That's part of my point though. So many people put OoT up on a huge pedestal and I think half of the people don't really know why. They are falling into the hype of it. It really does seem to be that most believe it wouldn't have held up as a 16-bit title, and that it's high praise is due to...
This doesn't really relate to the question posed at the beginning of the thread. I wasn't debating that there was anything wrong with OoT, but rather was wondering it would have been as successful as a SNES ALttP sequel. I just wondered if the reason why it was so revered was due to it being...
Would OoT have been as revered as it was if it were just a 2-D 16-bit sequel to ALttP on the SNES? I know a lot of people follow OoT almost with it's own fandom than that of Zleda as a whole, but I wonder if it's mainly because of what it did for 3-D gaming as opposed to the overall content...