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contestgamer on 09 September 2016
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Goodnightmoon said:
contestgamer said:

Not necessarily. Although it's true they have a much bigger volume of great games on the SNES, they did create the GOAT game in OoT in 3D. I think they started going downhill after 1998 with the release of Oot and Pokemon marking the last great hurrah for them.

In my opinion that's total bullshit.

Metroid Prime, Wind Waker and Mario Galaxy are widely considered as some of the very best games ever coinceived and they come before OoT. They have all aged way better than OoT too. 

And appart from that they have made TONS of great games after N64 (Xenoblade Chronicles, Paper Mario TYD, F-Zero GX, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Tropical Freeze, Smash Bros Melee, Mario Kart 8 and a pretty long etc are all among the best games of their genres) and some extremelly succesful new franchises (one pretty recent, splatoon), it sounds like you haven't touched a Nintendo console in 25 years.

I'm not sure why you're singling me out, the vast majority of people in this thread are voting 90's and its not because none of us have played N games since then. I've played MP, WW and MG and frankly none come close to touching OOT. Did you play OoT when it released? If you didnt you cant really make a judgement on this. WW stripped down the difficulty substantially, had half the dungeons and none of the impact oot did. MG and MG2 are both exceptional and I'd agree that they go up against most great N releases in history but thats about it. TF does not have the difficulty of DKC 2 or 3 and reuses most of its iconic music while losing the iconic villains. MK8 is great but the original MK blew minds the way no new MK can ever hope to do. 

It's not fair tp put up games like SSB against SSBM and so on. It's not about direct comparison, it's about the fact that Nintendo's major releases in the 90s blew minds. they imprinted themselves in to peoples memories in ways that new Nintendo releases can never hope to do, because they do not define the industry the way seminal releases like Oot or Mario World or the original MK did. I can play MK8 and enjoy it - in fact I would much rather play MK8 than the original MK today. But MK8 cant hold a candle to the impact the original had on me as a game that created a genre out of thin air.