Super Mario Galaxy replaces Ocarina of Time as highest ranked

Great! Not sure if it really is the best game ever made, but it's certainly close!

Just to illuminate Qwerty's comment.

Qwerty is referring to the fact that Italian men make excellent lovers.
I wouldn't know personally, since I'm not gay, but I'm sure qwerty wasn't speaking out of inexperience or on a lack of any real information.

In any case, his comment was most definitely not a drive-by comment.

Nintendo...shuttn' fools up since 1985!

Go Galaxy!

I can't comment about what the future holds, but at the current time Galaxy is my favorite game ever. I am 70 stars in and I have loved nearly every second of it. The only thing that has rained on Mario's parade so far has been the Spring Suit.

From what I have played, it almost certainly deserves it. Regardless of absurd multiplayer option or not, or no online, or whatever, the game is great and a pinnacle in the industry.

Mario Forever

@arrestedeveloper

No joke. My mom almost spit her pie out trying to read Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure out loud.

Also, my Christmas morning is gonna be filled with extremely colorful games. Can't wait.

You know I was thinking, that if everything about the game was very similar but not the same (like let's say you collect pots and pans instead of stars)... and the main character is someone who isn't mario, would it have been rated the same? My vote: it depends on whether charles martinet voices the main character.

A friend and I played the "Co-op" mode for a little while and I have to say, it's a lot of fun. Player 2 gets to act like the hand of god... kinda.

This just goes to show that you don't have to have online play, co-op, a robust multiplayer, or whatever. The game is FUN, and that's what counts. You put all these extras in a game and it can get homoganized and you lose what you set out to do. Which is make a game, I'll say that again, make a game, which should be fun first, the rest second.

Hey hey, we can all contribute here, Kyousuke makes some points.

Honestly though, is it just me or have a lot of these records been breaking recently? I'm the first to say that the past fifteen months or so have blasted the faces and bank accounts of many gamers away with very strong offerings, but still - I really can't say that the actual quality of games is going up more than review inflation is. I think maybe there needs to be a slightly better method of industry review than depending on publications that count advertisements for the games they are lauding as their biggest revenue source. It's hard to find reviews below 70% these days, and the 5-star system which would leave room for explanation has largely fell out of use. Do the gamerankings and metacritic numbers even really mean that much anymore?

That said, SMG is the best Mario I've played since SMB3. No kiddin'.

Have not played it yet, my buddys got a Wii, maybe he has it.

But the game does look fun, but for it to knock OOT off there, thats BS. A lot of work went into Zelda OOT, and plus it was the first of its kind.

I'm 72 stars into Galaxy, and I'm willing to put my gamer-cred on the line and say it's the best game Nintendo has put out since Super Mario Bros. 3

And if anyone catches this... my 360 Red-ringed last night. Any recommendations on what to play while I wait for repairs?

I mean, besides Galaxy... obviously...

eeeh. I dunno about all of this. I guess it is neat to be able to see what games recieved the highest average review scores from the different sources. But I don't think it is really indicator that this game is better than any other game. Even with OoT still being my favorite game ever, I have always that that there were better games than it. I guess it is important to point out the high review scores.

Just to point out as well, the 3 or so hours that I have played of Galaxy are fun so far. But I have found some inherent problems with the controls of the game so that automatically docks the score a bit in my mind. And that at this point i think Super Mario 64 was better.

People can say what they want about Nintendo, but this proves they make games of the utmost quality.

I've found the camera issues in Galaxy to be more troublesome than most of the reviewers, I still found it to be a lot of fun. The level design is the best I've ever seen in a video game to date, period.

"The level design is the best I've ever seen in a video game to date, period."

You must not play that many games.

I prefer Galaxy to Ocarina. The more I play it, the more I'm amazed at the inventive gameplay and level design. It fills me with a sense of wonder, and every moment is FUN. It's refreshing that reviewers are recognizing and appreciating this. It's good to be skeptical of the latest, hyped-up thing, but for Ocarina to be forever enshrined as the pinnacle of gaming, never to be surpassed, strikes me as ridiculous. Mario wins.

Variable Gear

Don't get your panties in a twist because I disagree with a positive Mario comment. Not everyone jacks off to Mario. I've always enjoyed Zelda more. I have a Wii, a 360 and been playing games since intellivision & atari. Im not trying to be bias, I havn't beat the game, but I have played it.

I agree with Riser. I'm hooked on the game and it's definitely one where I will spend the extra time to find all the stars.

Don't try to shit on peoples parade over here. I have the master sword tattoo, so of course I'd be a huge Zelda fanboy, but I am also a graphics whore. I can honestly say I'd rather play Galaxies over that Zelda 64 game anyday.

Zelda : Twilight Princess could be a different story. I guess I'd have to beat them both in order to make a real judgement.

It's always interesting when people talk about Mario being nothing more than a rehashed nintendo property when practically every video game out rehashes the same doom and gloom end of the world where only you can save the world scenario.

Mario never has and never will take itself seriously. It's a childish game that taps into a special part of your psyche. Also remember there are cultural differences between Japan and ourselves. Mario is not perfect but far from a bad game. The level design and imagination of it is amazing. It's on par with Mario 64 which by today's standards would be shunned away.

I have a co-worker who refuses to play Mario because he feels it's too childish. "It's the same game. Give Mario a gun and Rocket Launcher and I'll be all over it." Meanwhile he doesn't see the irony that statement. I'm glad to see Mario be around again and relevant after 20 years! I'm also glad to see a game with Vibrant colors. Gezzz.. Can we lay off the earth tones for a year or 2!?

pedro pedro pedro

Gordon Freeman is in 3 top ten games.
Mario is in 2.

But I guess you can't really count the multipleness of all Gordon's games.

ZOMG! No wayz! Why sin't Final Fantasy VII/Halo 3/WoW/CoD4 up there?!

This list can't be right by any means without it up there in the top FIVE at least.

/sarcasm


Reviews are opinions. Yours could suck, theirs could suck. They are just going by the NUMBERS. They grab reviews and they tally up the numbers. Can you dispute facts? It was given a high rating by a lot of places...get over it!