Well its been 30 years since Zelda first began and left quite the legacy of games. So to celebrate what's your favorite Zelda game?

In my opinion all the Top down 2D games are all good equally imo. But when it comes to the 3D games its like this:

Twilight Princess > Ocarina of Time = Majora's Mask > Skyward Sword > Wind Waker.

Twilight Princess is so far the most epic feeling one, and it especially shows with the game's dungeons, the most biggest and sprawling designed places yet in 3D Zelda not even Skyward Sword manage to topple them.

And I just like the structure and slower pace of the game because then you grow to appreciate every moment.

Personally, I'll keep this to the 3D games and I rank them more like:
Wind Waker> Twilight Princess=>Ocarina of Time (whichever one)> Skyward Sword (a really, really good game that I cannot get in to) >Majora's Mask

That which makes Majora's Mask unique also makes it incredibly un-fun and just a pain more than anything. Wind Waker is my first and holds a special place in addition to just being the best to me. Twilight Princess and OoT trade off which is better or equal. Skyward Sword is a really good game but no matter how I try I just can't keep myself invested long enough.
Edit: (And, real quick on the 2D games) A Link to the Past sometimes tops Wind Waker and Four Swords Adventure is also excellent, but I couldn't place it among the other games.

Can I choose Devil May Cry instead?

:Dante kicks Link in the face and then uses Ebony & Ivory to fill him full of holes:

Majora's Mask.

For a long time I was torn between OoT and ALttP, but Majora's Mask was just... something else.
In fact, it broke Zelda to me. It is my favourite franchise but I can't seem to get into it anymore because of the somewhat formulaic approach, granted, Majora's Mask still pretty much a Zelda game, it just has that "thing" with the quests and the atmosphere that makes it so far apart from what the other games have done.

The best one was whichever one it was that I played for so long and enjoyed and lost track of time and grew a beard and woke in a strange country where the people made me king and I was their benefactor because I knew things they did not like eclipses and I was wed and had a son and he grew strong and powerful even as I grew weak but in his heart was a blackness that I saw not and it was just sunrise when his men came for me and carried me against my will to this dungeon where my face is hidden behind this mask whose lock has rusted shut from my tears...

I used to like MM better than OoT. Not sure about that now. Either way, I think WW has overtaken them in my opinion as the best game. I haven't played them all, however. A lot of the later 2D ones I haven't played.

Zelda 2 is my favorite. If you go back to this game after playing a 3D Zelda, you will be amazed at how much progress you can make in a short time. I also like ALttP, especially when using glitches to play the game out of order (I play the GBA version).

Majora's Mask is my favorite 3D Zelda, but then again, the only other one I've played is OoT (and part of the OoT Master Quest), and that game was ruined by stealth sequences. They're bad enough to make me not want to replay that game. (In MM, the first one is trivial (especially at night), and the second one can be trivialized with a certain item.)

Easily Majora, though it's tied in my mind with Link's Awakening. I have fond memories of running around setting cats and chickens on fire with the magic rod, being electrocuted to death by the shopkeeper for stealing the shovel, and getting hopelessly stuck using the screen warp glitch. Ah, the life and times of THIEF. Good times.

I played through the original Wind Waker again in December and was surprised by how badly it's held up. So many fetch quests and tedious wind direction changes and charts. Shudder.

Majora's Mask > Link's Awakening > Ocarina of Time > A Link to the Past > Wind Waker > Oracle of X > A Link Between Worlds > Skyward Sword > LoZ > Minish Cap > Zelda II > Twilight Princess > Phantom Hourglass

I skipped the multiplayer ones because they're kind of a different thing for me and also Spirit Tracks because I've not played it. Hey, how did you get hold of my childhood? Give it back!

Ahem... yeah, I nearly put Link's Awakening at the top but I felt like I might be over-favouring it due to nostalgia. I should replay it, it's probably been over 5 years since I've touched it.

Link to the Past in a photo finish against Ocarina of Time.

I absolutely love the handheld titles! I'm particularly fond of Link's Awakening, but the Oracle series were good too.

Link to the past. Never got on with the 3d variety.

Link to the Past is head and shoulders above the rest, but after that I would say Twilight Princess and Ocarina tie for second, then Majora's Mask, Skyward Sword and Wind Waker.

I'd place the first DS Zelda probably before Skyward sword too as that was a pretty good game (Phantom Hourglass wasn't it?).

Both "A Link to the Past" and "Ocarina of Time" are the pinnacle of the series for me. Closely followed by Link's Awakening on the original Gameboy.

majora's mask and ocarina of time

cant say i care for any of the others in the series