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Second Banana of Time
For over a decade The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has held the title of the highest ranked videogame of all time, as evidenced by its top ranking on gameranking.com. Suddenly, its days of glory are over.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 received glowing reviews when it first arrived. For a while it ranked second, just below Ocarina of Time. Then as more reviews poured it, it tied with the Zelda title. Now, as of this writing, the average from the reviews ranks it less than a tenth of a percent higher than the beloved Zelda game.
More after the jump.
If only Link had a floating blue dino...
This, however, is based on the disparity of the quantity of reviews. Super Mario Galaxy 2 has amassed 44 published professional reviews and counting. And surely by the time it levels out, it will be pushing 80 reviews (the original Super Mario Galaxy received 77 published reviews). Ocarina of Time, in comparison, received a paltry 25 reviews.
This seems to showcase the evolution in the videogame media’s growing presence. More than half of the game review publications did not exist at the time of Ocarina’s release, so the few bad rankings would then have a more detrimental affect on its overall ranking than would that same number have on a modern game.
Of course, a tenth of a percent is negligible, really. Whether it’s ranked first or second place, Ocarina of Time remains one of the best videogames ever created, and will so remain for all time.
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I visited GameRankings recently, and it looks like OOT is back on top!
[...] its score is actually tied with Super Mario Galaxy 2 at 97.48%. Ever since we posted about Super Mario Galaxy 2 dethroning Ocarina of Time, so to speak, the two games’ scores have been fluctuating day to [...]
[...] its score is actually tied with Super Mario Galaxy 2 at 97.48%. Ever since we posted about Super Mario Galaxy 2 dethroning Ocarina of Time, so to speak, the two games’ scores have been fluctuating day to [...]
It's an honor to be beaten by such a solid Nintendo game. OoT does not hold up to 3D gaming standards of today. It's a very very good game, and worty of any honor it has ever recieved, but it's not a game that could be released today and recieve the scores that it did back in '96 when it came out, even if it had a graphics update. To hear that it's scores held up for 14 years is astounding…
Wow, i love how all the OoT fanboys cant grow up and realize that there are better games out there. Anytime a website says a game is better than OoT, all the fanboys flip their shit and flood the comments. Ocarina of time was an alright game, it doesnt deserve the praise it has gotten.
lots of oot fanboys here
So glad that Mario beat oot. That game is waaaay overrated. Yes, I have beaten oot and it was good, but is not the best game of all time. But it still beats that halo and gears of war crap
Actually for me, ocarina of time will be the best game ever, because of course 10 years ago there wasn't the same technology that we have now, so 10 years ago, wouldn't possible to create something like super mario galaxy 2.
Personally: it's stupid to comparer, ocarina of time (1998) with mario galaxy (2010)
I could understand this if Mario Galaxy 2 was the first game to come out for a new and innovative console, but it didn’t. Galaxy is just another Mario game on a console we have gotten used to by now. If it had come out on some holographic virtual reality kind of thing AND it was one of the first for that console, then I might accept these reviews. People were too hyped up when Galaxy 2 came out and wanted it to be amazing, so their brains registered the game as though it was what they wanted it to be.
MARIO TAKES OVER ONCE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!! Skyward Sword WILL NOT be released until December unfortunately thanks to MARIO!!!!! Now Ocarina Of Time is DOWN even LOWER than BEFORE!!!!! Poor Zelda being "Taken Over by…M..MARIO!!!!!!!!!" (Cry,Cry!)
I'm annoyed because zelda OOT seems SO WIMPY!!!Everyone says how AMAZING it is though. When will it get better?!!(If it WILL get better) Does it get better AFTER the Water Temple when I ge the third stone?!!
Give it a rest! Its obvious that more people like galaxy 2 better! Itoo, love oot, but face the facts that the day has come when oot is topped!
OoT may be one extremely amazing game, and the Zelda Series be one of the best selling, but Mario is revolutionary. Now, look at the top 3 best games of all time. Number one is Super Mario Galaxy 2, of course. Second is Zelda: Ocarina of Time and third is… again Super Mario Galaxy. Give me ONE time when a prequel and a sequel were both hailed in the Greatest-Games-Of-All-Time-List, that too in the top 3.
What I'm trying to say is that even though OoT sorted how gaming should be like, Galaxy 2 is just as challenging, and it was LONGER than OoT, had an equal replay value and had A LOT MORE extras than OoT. And no game can be "The Best" forever, can it?
And more to this, Mario franchise is a lot better than Zelda's. I mean, think of it. Without Mario, we'd miss Mario Kart, Mario Sluggers, Paper Mario, Mario Party, etc. Without Zelda, we'd miss… Link's Archery Training.
Basically, Super Mario Galaxy 2 > The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by a mere margin.