Koh -Vs- Ocarina of Time

[Koh]

i was simply saying that the game can't be held to next gen standards -- it cant have billions of side quests, items, enemies, an extensive database... it just can't because it's too old, things like that could not have been done back then without compromising the rest of the game.

It's not being held to that extreme. And even if it was, later games on the same console show that the hardware was plenty capable of such things. If you take a look at Majora's Mask, for example, it totally has better everything in regards to engine, graphics, NPCs and stuff like that. It needed an expansion pack, but it was still on the N64, which shows it could have been done. It's another reason why I compared the original Legend of Zelda on the NES to Crystalis, also on the NES, to show that the hardware was perfectly capable of adding more detail to the world to make it actually interesting, and not a barren desert.