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Ocarina of Time reclaims number one game ranking photo

For a while, Nintendo crown jewel Super Mario Galaxy had become the highest ranked game of all time, beating out The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and breaking a nine year streak for the N64 classic. Well, a new review of Galaxy has come along and, like a fiendish pooper of parties, reduced Galaxy's overall score down by a mere few percent on Game Rankings, just enough to allow Link a leg back up to the top.

Ocarina is now at number one again, but its streak was broken for a short period. Can it last another nine years on top, or will Super Mario Galaxy squeak back into dominance? The two games are essentially neck-and-neck with OoT at 97.6% and Galaxy at 97.3%. All we need is another review to tip the balance back in the spacefaring plumber's favor. 

It's a good day to be Nintendo, at any rate.


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Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 11/22/2007 08:38
the next review will tip it back in zeldas favor. fanboyism is a strong force. noone acually thinks SMG is a better game than OOT
Y0j1mb0's Avatar
Y0j1mb0 at 11/22/2007 08:39
I have a feeling when the new Smash Bros Melee comes out these two titles might be outranked....
Oni's Avatar
Oni at 11/22/2007 08:40
I can't honestly believe somebody would actually review a 9-year-old game just to boot it back to the top of an arbitrary list.

Some people have far too much time on their hands.
TorpedoTed's Avatar
TorpedoTed at 11/22/2007 08:41
Nah Zelda on th e64 was a classic!!
Just out of interest where was FFVII ranked?? that was my fav game ever!!
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 11/22/2007 08:41
The review wasn't of Zelda, it was of Galaxy. I'm going to clarify that in the post.
vishusdelishus's Avatar
vishusdelishus at 11/22/2007 08:46
Get clarifying Jim, you don't want to piss off salivating fanboys who haven't eaten in 3 days to make room for turkey. They're a frothy bunch, and by 'frothy' I mean 'starved, rabid and insane'
Oni's Avatar
Oni at 11/22/2007 08:47
Oooooooh! Ok.
Roflcopter Pilot's Avatar
Roflcopter Pilot at 11/22/2007 08:53
Well, this is just fucking retarded.
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 11/22/2007 08:54
I was reading about this earlier in the day and had the iconic image of Link when he finds an object in a chest!

DA DAA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! You got the GameRankings No.1 Spot!
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 11/22/2007 09:40
OMG who gave SMG a less than perfect review to lower it's score?
iBones's Avatar
iBones at 11/22/2007 09:40
Yeah, that's right. Sit down Mario.
Fading Star's Avatar
Fading Star at 11/22/2007 09:40
Interesting. The fight continues.
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Atlas at 11/22/2007 10:03
I DID INDEED NOTICE THIS! I was going to say something, but then I realized THAT MASS EFFECT HAS DROPPED BELOW HALO 3! It was 0.1% above it, now it is 0.3% below it...
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Tron Knotts at 11/22/2007 10:14
Rainbow, I think Galaxy is a WAY better game than Ocarina.

If I were a reviewer, I'd give Galaxy a 9.8, and Ocarina a 7.5. In short, Ocarine is extremely boring to play at times due to the bland graphics, minutes upon minutes of footwork with little sense of purpose and even less to entert But most of all, OoT really tries to be nothing more that A Link to the Past in 3D, adding little to nothing to the Zelda formula. And no, becoming a "Grown Up", and losing half your weapons doesn't add to the Zelda formula. If anything, it detracts from the game.

I feel like OoT was a rough draft of Zelda in 3D, Majora's Mask was an experiment (and an awesome one at that. A far superior experience to OoT), Wind Waker was a half finished attempt to fix OoT, and Twilight Princess actually did the job right.

I loved TP, but barely liked OoT.

*Flame sheilds on*.
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Angry Irish at 11/22/2007 10:15
I think Roflcopter Pilot said everything that needs to be said.
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StriderS at 11/22/2007 10:18
woah galazy has more reviews then zelda that probably effects something rite
DOOM's Avatar
DOOM at 11/22/2007 10:23
DOOM is the number one game!
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dclark at 11/22/2007 10:37
I don't think its a matter of specifically giving the game a bad score to bring it down. If anyone recalls last year at this time Twilight Princess was number 2. Now its way down on the list at number 33. Its more a matter of the best reviews hitting the site first. This may be due to biased reviewers influenced by the company who want the game reviewed prior to release to build the hype, or by the Fanboys who hardly play the game before voting or reviewing it as 10/10. Either way, give it time. I wouldn't ber surprised if Galaxy dropped even more.

Also note that this list does not accurately measure the "best game of all time" It is more a measure of "the best game since the N64/PSX era. The list defaults at a minimum of 20 reviews required. There is not a single SNES or Genesis or Gameboy or NES game with that many reviews. Not that changing this minimum number to 5 adds 4 new games to the top 10: Super Mario World (SNES), Super Metroid (SNES), Starcraft: Brood War (PC) and Metal Gear Solid (GBC).

It's important to keep in mind that though I really like having access to a list like this, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
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brad drac at 11/22/2007 10:38
As someone who dearly loves OoT, I have to say I think galaxy is a better game. I prefer the zelda format to platformers, but I've simply never played a game as damn near flawless in every respect as ur mr gay.
BFeld13's Avatar
BFeld13 at 11/22/2007 10:41
Oh snap!
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DonWii at 11/22/2007 10:45
Well, I doubt it will go below Metroid. Not sure it can go back up to #1.

Either way, the charts show that Nintendo puts out the highest rated games every generation.
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lowercaseluke at 11/22/2007 11:12
I don't think I've ever seen a list like this that I agree with, although I do enjoy seeing WoW at #99.
Clockwork's Avatar
Clockwork at 11/22/2007 11:32
OH NOE THEY DIDUNT!
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 11/22/2007 11:55
It's not the greatest game though..

Maybe if they re-made it.
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MrFudge at 11/22/2007 12:06
I think DOOM may be a little biased somehow...
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 11/22/2007 12:34
...

They did remake it. It's called Twilight Princess.
DaTgUy's Avatar
DaTgUy at 11/22/2007 12:49
Ocarina of time is still one of my favourites, I am currently playing it again for about the 10th time on my PC...thank god for the 360 wired controller!
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dclark at 11/22/2007 12:53
Agreed DaTgUy!

That wired controller is the best purchase I've made in a long time! I only wish I had a second one instead of those crappy wireless controllers that I got withmy 360.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 11/22/2007 12:56
Not really Wedge, see Ocarina is actually good whereas TP was shit.
Knives's Avatar
Knives at 11/22/2007 12:59
Wasn't it easier to get better scores years ago?
JonDarkwood's Avatar
JonDarkwood at 11/22/2007 13:34
It's not the best game by today's standards. But game reviews should be done based on a game's own merit, not compared to other games. Not all reviewers do that so aggregations of ratings are never a real indication of anything.
webrunner's Avatar
webrunner at 11/22/2007 13:34
At the time when Ocarina came out, scores tended to not be out of 5 as often, and there were more places doing /10 with halves, or even /100 scores. Before, a near perfect game would get 95/100, now it just gets 9/10
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nicolastheadept at 11/22/2007 15:04
@DaTgUy LOL, thats exactly why I got the 360 wired controller just for my PC!
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donkeykong at 11/22/2007 16:11
@tron knotts... really? Twilight Princess? There was nothing ground-breaking about that game. Ocarina might not seem special today but for its time it could be compared to nothing. Furthermore, we were all younger when it came out which makes it inherently better, because the world is just a bit more magical when you're young. That's exactly why super mario bros 3 was the greatest game in the world when it came out, AND NOW, and if it came out now and not then it would be garbage. TP is mediocre for its time and will eventually be forgotten.
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Necros at 11/22/2007 16:28
Well. That was fast.

@ Kyousuke
I call shenanigans. Ocarina was much more important, impactful, and "the best" at the time it came out, but overall, Twilight Princess is the much more polished game, even if it owes much of its structure to its spiritual predecessor.

@ webrunner
Um, most places like IGN still use scores like 9.5, basically keeping the ?/100 scale still in place, which is ridiculous. I'm personally in favor of using single numbers out of 10, but until then, I'm fine with increments of .5 until fanboys can get over the difference between a 9.6 and a 9.7.
winojesus's Avatar
winojesus at 11/22/2007 18:56
ps3 is teh suck! er or something. yaay.
Capn Birdseye's Avatar
Capn Birdseye at 11/22/2007 22:52
The problem with reviews is that they are only relevant at the point of time they were reviewed. Of course a 9 year old game won't be as good as it once was, there have been advances in all areas of games since then.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 11/23/2007 08:37
NOOOOO000!!! HOW WILL I SLEEP AT NIGHT?!?!
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 11/23/2007 16:18
Why is OoT still getting reviews? Oh, that's right, Zelda fanboys.
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