Why was the argument between Zelda and this game? They're not even similar.

Both very influential games for their respective genre. Also the two most famous games on their respective system (aside from SM64)

>>714040759 (OP)
No idea. FF7 is obviously a better, more significant game in every way.

>>714040759 (OP)
it was mostly tendies seething that their blonde haired guy with a sword was no longer the coolest blonde haired guy with a sword in video games.

they were the 2 biggest and critically acclaimed video games of the late 90s

>>714040759 (OP)
They‘re both made for faggots and feature a blonde twink as the main character

>>714040759 (OP)
The argument is not about both games. It's PS1 vsN64. Console wars are a thing of the past.

>>714041320
FFVII came out a year prior to OoT, dufus.

>>714040759 (OP)
Came out in 1997, got great reviews, sold a shitload of copies, and were THE game of that year for rival consoles.

>>714040759 (OP)
FF7 was teased for the N64 with a 3D tech demo of FF6. But then some time later Square announced FF7 as a PS1 exclusive and that sent tendies into a violent frenzy. We even got Nintendo's CEO at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, calling everyone who played FF loners and losers. They were so mad.

>>714041692
>It's PS1 vs N64
N64 never really had a chance, if Nintendo hadn’t gone with cartridges, Sony might not have even become a competitor and Final Fantasy VII would’ve been released on the 64

funnily enough I remember Nintendo Power doing a gimmicky piece on what's "in" and what's "out" for that summer and what was "in" was OoT and what was "out" was FFVII in the same row. if I'm remembering correctly about it being summer then it had to have been '99 because OoT wasn't out until November '98. (23rd I think?)

>>714040759 (OP)
>Why was the argument between Zelda and this game?
There was no argument.
It's a literal zoomer invention. Most likely a Snoygger flamewar bait.

I'm old enough to remember when gamefaqs did a yearly "best game/ character/ whatever of all time" bracket of daily polls and it would always come down to FF7/OOT or Cloud/Link

FF7 has unironically aged better than OOT.
OOT is a pain to play
FF7 is very easy to play

>>714041536
With a sword too.

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>>714040759 (OP)
In the late 90s and early-mid 00s, OOT and FF7 were just sort of the go-to answers for "Best Game Ever", at least among people who mainly played on consoles. It probably had a lot to do with them repping the N64 and PS1, respectively, and because they were both epic fantasy adventures. It didn't really occur to kids on gaming forums that it was a little silly to directly compare across totally different genres.

>>714040937
There was nothing influential about OoT.

>>714042010
Do you think a video game company with no competition is an awesome idea?

>>714049557
Absolutely not, fortunately Nintendo made a dumb decision

The Playstation had a lot of equivalents to the N64's biggest games. It may not have had Mario 64, but it had Crash. No Banjo-Kazooie, but it had Spyro. No Mario Kart, but it had Crash Team Racing, etc. But it didn't have an answer to Ocarina of Time. That didn't stop magazines and Sony's marketing from calling a bunch of shit "The Zelda Killer" despite nothing on the Playstation delivering anything close to the same experience. I remember getting really pissed off at magazines pushing Brave Fencer Musashi as one of these "Zelda Killers" because the games have nothing in common and the comparison only hurt Musashi, which I thought deserved better.

>>714040759 (OP)
Millennials played them when they were kids, which means we never hear the end about how they're the greatest games ever made (They're not)