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

[theRepublic]

Number Two

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Nintendo 64 (1998)
Nintendo
Action-Adventure

Many call this the greatest game of all time.  Clearly, I don't disagree by much.

Nintendo seemed to take everything they learned from making Super Mario 64 and applied it to making this game.  And then one-upped themselves.  The addition of Z-targeting pretty much defined how third person games should operate, and many still do to this day.  It doesn't really happen anymore, but years ago I would see references to Z-targeting on consoles that didn't even have a Z button.  That simple addition made combat a thing of beauty.  Suddenly, Link is in the ready position, he strafs, he dodges, he does all kinds of amazing attacks.

Then there is the world.  A big, beautiful, 3D Hyrule to explore.  Just about everything you could want in a translation from the 2D games.  I probably spent an hour or more just exploring Kokiri Forest before making it to the Deku Tree.  Jumping, climbing, cutting grass, finding rubies...

The game is epic in scope.  The first time you step out on Hyrule Field?  Amazing.  The first time you become Adult Link and step out of the Temple of Time?  Holy shit.  The world is a disaster, and you need to go fix that shit, like, now.  The first time you get Epona, jump out of Lon Lon Ranch, and ride across Hyrule Field?  Glorious.

The bosses in this game are epic too.  From Queen Gohma to Volvagia to Ganon, this game does not disappoint.

Damn this game is good.  I need to play it again.