Koh -Vs- Ocarina of Time

[alexmach1]

when a game came out actually does matter.
you should rate a game as it was, not by what it couldn't be.

No, because good games, just like good movies, will be good despite their limitations. Anything which is not good, regardless of the reasons, is not good.

yes, because good games at the time were the best they could do at the time. nowadays we can do so much more and expecting more from old games is unreasonable. movies could use illusions and special effects as much as they want, but because of dynamic cameras in video games you can't just lay a sheet over the camera and BS a special effect, it has to happen in real time and render in real time; movies could look as good as they want because each frame could have any amount of work done to them and the movie would still run at a set speed; games had to limit their resources because they can't render each individual frame; it had to be done right then immediately. saying that something that isn't good now does not mean it wasn't good at one point in time.