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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8:36 AM on 11.22.2007
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Some people have far too much time on their hands.
Just out of interest where was FFVII ranked?? that was my fav game ever!!
DA DAA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! You got the GameRankings No.1 Spot!
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*.
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.
Either way, the charts show that Nintendo puts out the highest rated games every generation.
Maybe if they re-made it.
They did remake it. It's called Twilight Princess.
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
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.