Runa216 said:
what about super mario 64? Couldn't that be seen as the first game of the modern era? |
I think this was the other big reason for why I wasn't as impressed with OOT. Mario 64 absolutly blew my mind as a kid and really opened my eyes to the potential games have for creating interactive worlds. So when Ocarina came around and everyone was praising it for its coherant world and such, my reaction was basically. "Well of course it has all that, after Mario 64 why wouldn't it?"
I mean it definatly improved on and evolved from the Mario 64 formula. But I always thought it was more of an obvious evolutionary step as oppossed to the way that Mario 64 left me completly stunned. I don't think I'll ever see another game that'll have that same effect on me. (God of War 3 is the only other game to give me that "How in the hell have they pulled this off" feeling to the same extent, but it lacked the "This completly changes my view of games" feeling).
