I think Tetris is by far the best game ever. However, if I was to guess what other people would say, Super Mario All-stars has to by near the top of the list. Maybe the Final Fantasy Chronicles (Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy IV) is the best game if you only like RPGs. I can also see a case for Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition.

I've never played OoT and have no interest in it. I really enjoyed the 1st Zelda but they keep going down hill from there (I own 7 Zelda games).

I didn't like OoT much.

Best game ever=MGS2.

Edouble24 said: BringBackChrono said: Edouble24 said: Final Fantasy VII is the best game of all time. OoT is a great title and deserves the ranking it has, but I don't consider it the best. Of course average reviews are flawed as the reviews are ranking games based on how good they were for their time. If Oot released today as is, it wouldn't have that score. It also had a lot less people reviewing it back then compared to today. that might not be fair to the game,as the no of biased reviews have really gone up lately with many sites siding with a particular console. plus your suggestion of a time leap makes no sense, as why would a game be released now with 1997 graphics?what you said is easily applicable to your favorite game too,or anyone elses thus far Well games today DO have better graphics. And yes if FFVII released today it wouldn't score as high as it did back in the day. OoT has dated dungeon design, camera controls and combat system compared to today, which is more of what I was getting at. With 3D games, things on the N64 laid down the ground work for what we have today, but what we have today is an obvious improvement over the N64 games in many ways.

And Majora's Mask is still better than Zelda's today in terms of level design and it has a much cooler concept than any other Zelda title.

 

FreeTalkLive said: I've never played OoT and have no interest in it. I really enjoyed the 1st Zelda but they keep going down hill from there (I own 7 Zelda games).

 you might be the first person i know who doesnt feel that "a link to the past" was a massive improvement on the first game.

 

Edouble24 said: Final Fantasy VII is the best game of all time. OoT is a great title and deserves the ranking it has, but I don't consider it the best. Of course average reviews are flawed as the reviews are ranking games based on how good they were for their time. If Oot released today as is, it wouldn't have that score. It also had a lot less people reviewing it back then compared to today.

In my opinion that just makes it that much more impressive that it received that high of a score. If a game has a 100 reviews, 1 or 2 reviews won't make much of a difference on the overall score, whereas a game that has less reviews, say 20, will be heavily affected by 1 or 2 bad reviews.

The Ghost of RubangB said: I'm only gonna do this once, so... here it goes... Link's Awakening >

 Is Link's Awakening DX > Link's Awakening? 

YES

I do love this game.

izaaz101 said: Edouble24 said: Final Fantasy VII is the best game of all time. OoT is a great title and deserves the ranking it has, but I don't consider it the best. Of course average reviews are flawed as the reviews are ranking games based on how good they were for their time. If Oot released today as is, it wouldn't have that score. It also had a lot less people reviewing it back then compared to today. In my opinion that just makes it that much more impressive that it received that high of a score. If a game has a 100 reviews, 1 or 2 reviews won't make much of a difference on the overall score, whereas a game that has less reviews, say 20, will be heavily affected by 1 or 2 bad reviews.

Seems to be much different in reality. Games always start off doing well on Gamerankings. Games have passed OoT with about 40 reviews, then once stupid fansites and idiotic sites like 'Games for Church' gives things like Gears of War a bad score it ruins the overall score. Having less reviews back in the day was a plus because it was limited to official reviewers. Now any moron with a site that gets more than a few hits can get their reviews posted on game averaging sites.

 

It's hard to pin down the best game of all time, because some games and genres age better than others. I'd say Ocarina had the biggest impact in gaming history (please don't mention Pong, it's not the same).

Best games of all time in my opinion are Ocarina of Time, Super Mario World, Baldur's Gate, Starcraft, and ehh.. some others.