Your Top 50 Games: 2013 Discussion Thread (The Final Day!)

[theRepublic]

F0X said:

theRepublic said:

Mr Khan said:
3. Super Mario 64 (5 last year)

First Impression 10/10: This was the game that got me into gaming, and if it weren't for the impression the game made on me, with its colorful, imaginative worlds, varied challenges, catchy music, and sheer playability, I likely wouldn't be typing this right now (god knows what i would have gotten into instead...).

Replay 10/10: 120 stars to keep you going after the final Bowser fight, with the motive of seeing Yoshi, but beyond that, many stars present a good challenge that you can enjoy pursuing them again and again.

Technical 9/10: Famous Nintendo polish slips a little here, causing the original game to age somewhat poorly, but the goodness of the game outweighs it on the whole: great music, good and varied level design such that the game never bored you.

I am not sure how much you can blame Nintendo on your technical score.  Early 3D games have aged pretty poorly, so that gen as a whole now looks worse than both the gen after it and the gen before it.  That and it was Nintendo's first foray into 3D, so I would give them some slack.

It is too bad about the visuals, because it is a damn good game.

Perhaps SM64's handful of notable glitches are worth noting. That's not a product of aging.

I guess that is true.  I don't remember running into any myself when I played it on the N64 or DS, but I just looked and damn the internet found a lot!