Kusai and some other of our friends can tell you I am a sucker for originality. It's one of the issues I've been having with alot of games that have come out lately is being that they are doing the same thing over and over again.
I merely don't want you getting a drive to do this project and going into it knowing that you have to match upto what Zeth left behind. Going into your own project and spinning it round OOT puts you first off away from Zeth cause you're not standing in his mold.
And honestly I view OOT as the superior game to do it for not because I happen to like OOT more then MM or whatever. It's because OOT is the more open ended of the game. MM you were pretty much rushed to do everything within a timespan of three days. OOT you could take as long as you wanted.
So yeah go do it for OOT. I may not log in much(If at all) but I do skim the forum and keep a eye on things.