lol @ TC's argument. GOTY goes to best game that year not "classic game to be". How on earth can we tell whats gonna be a classic after they just released anyway?
Secondly, who's to say only ninty makes classics. The classics I've played in my own gaming pastime are PE2, FF7,8,10,12, Xenogears, Legend of Dragoon, etc. These are games I still revisit even in the ps3 era thats why I personally think ps1 had the most classics. I haven't replayed SMB since the nes era ended and don't think I ever will. You can't just assume that your sentiments are right and everyone should follow suit.
You haven't played the other GOTY nominations, how do you know they aren't better than NSMBW? Oh I get it....you just assumed that HD games were "no fun" right? I've put 39 days into kz2...more time than I spent playing other games this year combined and more time than my personal classics combined so its my GOTY (I also doubt you've played any of your supposed "classics" that much so its defo more replayable than them). However, I won't be creating any threads complaining about why others don't feel the same way. Perhaps you could benefit from my example.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
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It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler