@Jjones
Yeah it was a ton of people's favorites, but I wasn't around when it was a revolution. I played it after the fact and the only word I can use to describe it is boring. Boring environments, boring story, boring dungeons, it's a slog. Majora's Mask came out a year later and was infinitely better imo.
Then again, I'm the dweeb who likes SS so my opinion probably doesn't count. However, I always see people cry about the sky being empty and uninspired in SS, but no one seems to care about the wasteland that is Hyrule field in OoT