Is Ocarina of Time still the greatest game of all time??

[Arius Dion]

bardicverse said:

Arius Dion said:

bardicverse said:
I feel that OOT is by far the greatest game I've ever played, and as someone who's beaten over 785 console games (who's counting - btw, doesn't include PC games), I use it as the benchmark to rate a game's greatness. There are games that come pretty close to OOT.

That being said MGS4 is not anywhere nearly as good a game. I thought the graphics were great, and I especially loved the chameleon camo techniques, but the story was, dare I say, hollow. Maybe not hollow but drawn out. The extremely long cutscenes ruined the experience for me.

There are games that could be argued against OOT, but MGS4 is a far cry away.

Agreed 100%. A game that comes close to OoT for me would me Super Metroid, total classic. But I'm with you, I've never experienced the type of awe in any game since OoT. I think one of the reasons I was inintially let down by Twilight Princess was because I was hoping it would recapture that magical feeling I felt the first time playing OoT. If there was ever a game that nailed the crucial elements of a game it is this one. I feel sorry for people who have only recently played this game.

I know what you mean by that magical element. One thing happened to me when playing OOT that I never had with another game before or since - I felt bad that I beat the game/that it was over. It was a story I was so wrapped up in that for a short while, I felt like I broke up with the love of my life. Yes, that's a very nerdy thing to happen, but at the same time, very accurate. For a while I was afraid to beat another game, because that feeling sucked.

I wasn't let down by Twilight Princess nearly as much as I was by Wind Waker. It was a return to the style (art and gameplay) that reminded me of OOT. I feel TP was a true successor to OOT, but not with the epicness of OOT.

As a developer, there are certain games that just amaze me, from a development standpoint. The original Metroid Prime was one of them, and Twilight Princess did also. Just a lot of creativity in the direction. Another that amazes me is Bully, absolutely clever.

I didn't mention WW for a reason lol. Good game but better than Oot? laughable, and TP was a superior game to WW (I really wasn't feeling the art style). But again you are on point; to me TP is OoT perfected from a gameplay standpoint whereas OoT was revolutionary. Funny after beating OoT the first time I felt; complete, but definitely a sort of melancholy as well because it was like damn, I have just been blown away and will probably not feel this way for a looong time and I was right.

Metroid Prime..is a masterpiece on so many levels. I may be in the minority but I enjoyed Prime 3 more as that is one of my favorite games this gen so far. But that feeling of seeing Samus in 3-d for the first time..man. Here's hoping Other M is something special.

@Kepto: LoL, I feel the same way, and I also think the first MGS is the best of the 4, (it goes MGS 1,3,4,2)