The reason for me to play Breath of the Wild was my nostalgia for Ocarina of Time. It's just impossible to explain to people what wondrous fantasy it was when it came out in the 90's. An open-world game, 3D, on console, with a joystick, with glorious music? I know you zoomers can read and understand those words, but you genuinely can't understand the feeling.

The world didn't have the internet, or games, really. TV had like a few channels. You wouldn't be able to ever choose what you wanted to watch unless you had a video, and those weren't too plentiful. If you ever liked a TV-show, then the timeslot of that TV-show made you go watch it at a certain time, or at the least go through telling your mom how to program the VCR for it and hope it gets recorded. Games were mostly just 2D.

And then you load into OOT menu on N64 a year later, and start the story with the FPV camera flying around. It was amazing.