I freakin loved Halo when it came out. Was easily a 9.5 game back in the days, but recently replayed it in one big session with a co-op friend and honestly the game has quite a few flaws. Thing is, those weren't even considered flaws back in the days or rather minor annoyances. Gameplay-wise it's still as good as it gets, but the level design could be much much better by today's standards. 8/10 would now be my score for this game.

As for Perfect Dark, I never played the N-64 version, but wow I thought the XBLA version sucked. No idea how anyone would consider that a good game back in the days. I guess it used to be impressive but playing it in 2010 for the first time didn't do it for me. My memories aren't fresh enough to give it an exact score, but I guess it would be around 5/10.

Wolfenstein 3D is another of those that was a great game when it came out but is just objectively bad by today's standards. Terrible graphics (well that's a given), pretty much non-existent story, terrible level design, extremely repetitive gameplay etc.
I still regard it for what it is, a classic, but it's still likely that even the most mediocre FPS of 2016 is a much better game.

Reviewers didn't liked it much. This game could have fared well if gamepad utilization was skipped. But this looks like a nostalgic tour for N64 veterans.

I respect your opinion, of course, but I'm on the other side of this debate. I still consider Halo: CE to be the best FPS ever made. Do the graphics look bad compared to modern shooters? Of course. Have recent shooters introduced new mechanics that can't be found in Halo? Definitely. But the music, level design, story, and improvisational gunplay are all amazing. They were amazing in 2001 and they're amazing in 2016.

Same goes for Perfect Dark, or Tomb Raider, or Final Fantasy VII, or any other great game from the 5th gen. If a 5th gen game is bad today it means it was bad back then. It didn't become bad with the passage of time.

People can like the game. There's no big deal with that. But look at the other comments of this thread. There are a lot of people bashing reviewers with bogus reasons like "they gave it a mediocre score because it's not open world." The game is heavily flawed (I blame mismanagement by Nintendo) but rather than address the flaws of the game, they unnecessarily defend the game with b.s. reasons or cop outs.

This is supposed to be nintendos second biggest game of the year. It's clear that starfox zero will underperform in all categories. That's why it annoys me that people dismiss constructive criticism with "this is the fall of gaming journalism"

I'm not a mod or anything, but did you really need to call people out. Sure some other people were being unreasonable, but there's no need to be sarcastic

just my 2 cents to prevent bad feelings   :/

This isn't even close to being true. It isn't even the second biggest Wii U game of the year. If we include the 3DS, it's not even close.

Yea I know. But the reviews aren't giving the game an unreasonably low score. They've all provides fair claims (graphics, controls, length, so on), but a lot of posts (especially on this thread) just dismiss them with cop outs. "Gaming journalism is dead", "gaming journalism only likes open world," "journalists need to git gud."

Some people bash starfox for the craziest reasons, but these reviews all give valid claims. So why are the reviewers getting hated on?

We all know zelda u is the biggest. If starfox isn't the second biggest wii u title this year, what is? Aside from pokken (debatable) I can't think of a single candidate

I think Twilight Princess HD, Pokken and Zelda U are all bigger. Making Star Fox the 4th biggest.

Though arguably, Paper Mario could be bigger depending on how they handle it (as of now it's not looking favorable though).

Zelda U is definitely bigger no doubt. But I hesitate to call an hd remake, a Mario spin off, and a Pokemon spin off bigger than a mainline starfox game (although it depends on whether people treat it as a remake or not).

Regardless though, starfox is one of the biggest wii u games this year. Everyone expected more and Nintendo has shown before that they are capable of making a great game. Sadly, starfox just has too many flaws to meet most people's expectations and that's on Nintendo