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Ocarina of Time Pushed to #2

For over a decade The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has held the title of the highest ranked videogame of all time, as evidenced by its top ranking on gameranking.com. Suddenly, its days of glory are over.

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FiftyFourPointTwo5078d ago (Edited 5078d ago )

and will climb back again to #1 due to OoT 3DS.

ico925078d ago

i couldnt care leass TBH Ocarina of Time is factualy the best game ever made

Montrealien5078d ago (Edited 5078d ago )

I am not sayin it is a bad game, it is among the best games ever, with that said, I think that there is no 1 game to rule them all, that is almost impossible, its like saying the best sone, the best movies, the best band...its all subjective.

Immortal Kaim5078d ago

Exactly as Montrealien explained.

We shouldn't forget the game hasn't been released in Australia yet, we can actually have some pretty harsh critics over here, expect the ranking to drop soon.

thor5078d ago

The only reason it is #1 is because not that many reviews were written/added to metacritic, giving it a higher chance of attaining that score. If 100 reviews were written, a few of them would have been 9s rather than just 1 (I think that's the case on meta) and it probably would have received a lower score.

The reason it is #1 in consumers' eyes is because it is a fantastic game; it may well be the most entertaining experience certain people have had - but nostalgia plays a big part. Topping "best game lists" as well as metacritic plays a big part. The psycological inflation of old games' quality relative to modern games plays a big part.

Darkfocus5078d ago

because there's different genres and different kind of games it's impossible to say that the best of one genre is the best of all games and even in one genre there's games that surpass each other in certain ways but each has points in their favor so theirs not even a best of a genre really.

ChickeyCantor5078d ago (Edited 5078d ago )

i couldnt care leass TBH Link to the past is factualy the best game ever made

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Marceles5078d ago

Totally agree Sidar, LttP is my favorite Zelda and pretty much my favorite game of all time besides Super Metroid, but between OoT and SMG2 I'd take OoT.

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Raz5078d ago (Edited 5078d ago )

I wish more games were this good. Too many developers are making knock-offs of great IPs instead of looking into what made them great in the first place.

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TheSadTruth5078d ago

inb4 Uncharted 2 is declared the greatest game of all time over both those games, by the unbiased N4G crowd

fatstarr5078d ago

hopefully they don't screw up in fact, I would like the 3ds to be a separate entity there are many Nintendo haters in the review world that would love to down it to the avg AAA game rating.

Im glad Nintendo dominates best reviewed games lol.

AAACE55078d ago

I can't believe someone said it's just a rehash, when they are probably one of the same people hoping for an updated FFVII!

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seij5555078d ago

SMG2 doesn't deserve its praise in the slightest, its fucking way overrated. OoT is still the greatest.

mt5078d ago

i bought this game this week i have been playing it . it is so fun but it is just overrated.

dizzleK5078d ago

aren't there also about 1000 more reviews listed for smg2 than OoT?

the whole concept of "highest ranked game" is flawed due purely to the law of averages.

Optical_Matrix5078d ago

This. Half the places we get reviews from now didn't even exist back whe Ocarina was released. This can't be fair surely :/

Cernunnos5078d ago

Some of the greatest games out there are love/hate games, which will bring the average down. Ratings like these will always be flawed.

MikeTyson5078d ago

Mario Galaxy is a complete joke.

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20 Best Super Mario Games of All Time

Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.

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Barlos63d ago (Edited 63d ago )

My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.

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The Most Iconic Game Weapons Ever

BLG writes, "There are many fantastic and iconic weapons in game history, but some are significantly more memorable than others. When we think of iconic game weapons, these are the top 20 that come to mind."

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phoenixwing97d ago

You forgot one and it's a doozy. The weapon is kindness in undertale. :) defeats countless enemies.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the anti-Breath of the Wild

Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."

LG_Fox_Brazil143d ago

Ocarina of Time changed my life forever, such a masterpiece

Zeldafan64142d ago

Hard to believe it's 25 years old already.

Cacabunga142d ago

The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..

FinalFantasyFanatic142d ago

I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.

Vits142d ago

I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.

gold_drake142d ago

but still considered the best of the seties.

i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.

franwex142d ago (Edited 142d ago )

25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.

Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.

babadivad142d ago (Edited 142d ago )

It isn't...