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Hawkeye on 07 June 2008
Andrex said:
Super Mario Galaxy by far. Tied for my favorite game.

Mario 64 did not wow me at all.

 Did you play mario 64 in retrospect, or when it first came out? I absoulty loved that game, but then again I was 6 and had trouble telling the differnce between games and reality lol



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Falcon095 on 07 June 2008

SM64, it's the only mario game that i have beaten 100% i loved galaxy but i didn't didn't get the 241 star.. actually i didn't even get 120..



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donathos on 08 June 2008

Galaxy by a country mile (however long that is).

While I appreciated 64, it never quite pulled me in the same way that SMG did -- I would put World, 3 and, frankly, the original above 64, but Galaxy is at the top of the list.



Guovssohas on 08 June 2008

SM-64, no doubt. It's the best game of all time IMO. It was just so jaw-droppingly good. For me, i don't think sm64 can be beaten ever.

SMG was great also. The biggest drawback IMO is the fact that unlike sm64, you have only ONE star per episode. = less exploration & wondering how to get that star.



vaio on 08 June 2008

Can´t decide Galaxy in so many ways but Mario 64 in just as many other ways.



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ksv on 08 June 2008

Super Mario Bros 3!



Final-Fan on 08 June 2008
Sky Render said:
Galaxy, hands down. I'm honestly not sure how anybody can rate Super Mario 64 as better than it, to be honest. Nostalgia must be remarkably powerful for them to do so...
I thought that people were supposed to vote which one was better "for its time"...

SM64 was a shining beacon to the whole industry:  "This is how you make a 3D platformer!"  It was a gold standard games had to measure against for I don't know how many years.  Galaxy isn't going to be that kind of game, if only because not much seems to be following in its footsteps.

But as a game -- well, the two games are really remarkably different.  I have to admit that the castle is more fun to explore than the space station.  But some of the stuff in Galaxy is just mindblowing, and I think it has more variety (though I haven't played SM64 in a long time).  SM64 gives you more freedom in getting different stars, which I like and wished I could do more in Galaxy.  Different things that each does better than the other (considering their respective ages) are pulling me in both directions.

I'm going to say Galaxy, partly because I want the vote to be more even.

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EL_PATRAS on 08 June 2008

seeing mario in 3D for the first time, is only something that OoT could top. The magic of the whole new 3D concept which changed gaming, is really what makes 64 better than Galaxy, seeing as galaxy didnt innovate as much as it did truly perfect the platforming genre. Mario 64, but only for that reason.