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curl-6 on 17 May 2026
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firebush03 said:
curl-6 said:

I would agree with almost all of this; I would say though that Tropical Freeze tops DK64 in my view and that I do think BOTW beats Ocarina and Majora, but yeah otherwise it's a clean sweep for the 3D when it comes to Nintendo.

I’ve never played DK64 but yeah, Tropical Freeze sets the bar very high. I’d be shocked if DK64 could top it. (Though TBF Tropical Freeze leaned heavily on previously made assets.)

DK64's not a bad game, but it leans too hard on backtracking and an overload of collectables to be truly great, whereas Tropical Freeze is in my opinion one of the greatest 2D platformers ever made.

Vinther1991 said:

The 5th generation is my favorite generation period. Nowadays 3D games are more or less forced to follow a pre-designed template when it comes to controls, mechanics and even camera perspective. A lot of this standardization developed during the 7th generation, although there certainly still was a lot more experimentation then than now (I can’t imagine things like Gears of War, Crackdown, Infamous, Rock Band, Wii Sports, LittleBigPlanet, Portal and L.A. Noire being launched today as new AAA ips).

But the 5th generation had an almost unlimited amount of creative force, as there was no established consensus on how a 3D game should play. Hence we got stuff like Syphon Filter, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, NiGHTS Into Dreams, Panzer Dragoon, Tekken, Ape Escape, GoldenEye, Spyro, all finding their unique ways.

Yeah I did love the excitement and explosive creativity of Gen 5, where it felt like every few months something new came along that was unlike anything ever made before and revolutionized its genre.

Gaming was more mature by Gen 7 so there was less room for such upheaveal, though we did still get a ton of amazing new IPs.