Now we're getting somewhere! B)
My favorite Zelda games would have to be (I can never name a sinle favorite for anything) the original, "A Link to the Past", "Ocarina of Time", and "Twilight Princess".
Why? Well, I love the original because...well, we wouldn't the rest of the series without it. Ocarina of Time, because...its the first Zelda 3D game allowing you maximum freedom and explains how everything in the series came to be, with the story,itself, bordering on epic in proportions. Twilight Princess, a welcome return to form after a whole line of nothing but disappointments after the "Oracles" dualogy.
Just about everything released on the series from 2000 to 2004 were just plain pathetic, mainly due to overly easy games, featuring less than impressive villains. Its like Nintendo forgot the dynamics of story-telling. Rule #1: In any story, the side of good needs strong opposition to get it going. Vaati and the tragic hero version of Ganon we see in "The Wind Waker" just don't cut it. Now, Ganon in the first five games, and in "Twilight Princess"...now that's evil!