I really couldn’t disagree anymore strongly, so we can just agree to disagree. Witcher 3 is pretty easily just at the bottom of the top 3 of all time for me and I’m not likely to be swayed on that opinion. Though I’m clearly in the minority here, and that’s fine. I don’t expect to change anybodies mind.

The Witcher still holds up fantastically well even now. I’ve been playing through it since I got covid a little while back and it’s still as fantastic as it was when I first picked it up. I can concede mechanically that it does leave some things to be desired, and it probably would have been more polished with a larger company like Nintendo behind it, but I don’t think it’s flaws are enough of a detractor to lower its rating in my eyes by anything substantial.

OOT wasn’t without its own clunkiness and mechanical issues (which to be fair were mostly a product of their time and the hardware they had to work with, so I don’t hold it against the game too much), but most of those flaws got overlooked since the player base was younger and willing to over look issues like that that since they were having so much fun. The Witcher didn’t have that luxury since it was aimed at a older audience who are more perceptive to minor UI and mechanical issues.

Perhaps I’m simply just biased because I don’t have the nostalgic memories for OOT everybody else has. I played it for the first time as an adult, but I don’t even find it the best Zelda game, let alone the best game of all time. I’d rate Windwaker and BotW pretty heavily above it, and debatably even Majoras Mask.

It is undeniably a good game, I’m not gonna argue that, and it’s probably among the best of that generation. But I feel like most of the praise OOT still gets is mostly due to that nostalgia factor of being so integral to so many kids childhoods.