Ocarina of Time — Best Game Ever?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best game yet made, according to a list compiled by readers and writers of the lauded British gaming magazine Edge. Their list of the hundred best games ever is top-heavy with Nintendo titles, a full five out of the top ten being released to a Nintendo platform. Obviously, this sort of thing can get contentious, and CNet's Crave blog spoke up quickly with a contrary opinion. "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is truly a masterpiece that should be thought of as one of the greatest games ever created. But to call it the greatest game of all time is a serious misstatement. Unlike Super Mario Bros., Ocarina of Time was released in an era where video games were booming and sales were on the rise. Simply put, everyone was playing video games, and the game was the best of its time. But no other game in history--Ocarina of Time included--was able to save an entire industry from almost guaranteed destruction the way Super Mario Bros. did, and it is for this reason that we should all give ol' Mario and Luigi credit where it's due." Let's hear it, then. What game deserves to top a list of the 100 best games ever made?

BLAZEMONGER!!!

[Shadow Wrought]

By far the best game ever was Blazemonger. THousands of levels, nerve shattering graphics, nothing has even come close to matching its intensity.

Starcraft

[Magneon]

Obviously...

DNF!!

[binarybum]

Duke Nukem Forever will most certainly be the best game of all time

  This is so friggin' obvious that even though the game is not yet complete, it should still easily have made #1. I demand a recount!

It's obvious!

[Carnildo]

Best games of all time? E.T. and Custer's Revenge, of course!

Billy Madison says:

[TheDarkener]

Kid: Mortal Kombat, on Sega Genesis, is the best video game ever.

Billy Madison: I disagree, it's a very good game, but i think Donkey Kong is the best game ever.

Kid: Donkey Kong sucks.

Billy Madison: You know something? YOU SUCK!

Re:Best of All Time is...

[casualsax3]

Here's what's going to happen to your post: You're going to get modded flaimbait or troll, and some people will respond and tell you that you're too young and you've never played Final Fantasy VI, then they'll mention the subpar translation and the rushed third disc... Then someone will mod you funny just because, and then someone overrated just because you've got points... But then a few people will come along and remember how they felt playing VII for the first time, when they first visited the Golden Saucer and found minigames as deep and fun as other *complete* PS1 games, the chill they got when they were under the sea in the submarine - stopping dead in your tracks as you saw Emerald Weapon lurking in the distance for the first time, and the epic theme you were treated to just sitting on the world map marveling at the most fantastic soundtrack Uematsu has ever written - and you'll be modded up.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT HORSECOCK!

[Anonymous Coward]

nt

Re:I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT HORSECOCK!

[MrHanky]

Mod parent up. Very insightful propagation of horsecock meme.

I much prefer the Macarena of Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

I much prefer the Macarena of Time.

Re:this deserves a poll

[Anonymous Coward]

Nethack, because it used punctuation.

Re:Counter-Strike

[gerbalblaste]

A game populated (seemingly) exclusively by teenage boys with unbearably high pitched voices who use more profanity and racial epithets than a clan rally? best game ever? Clearly.

Re:I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT HORSECOCK!

[falsified]

Great, so I spend two consecutive days at work actually doing work and I miss some sort of horsecock Slashdot inside joke? My timing blows horsecock.

Dai-friggin-Katana!

[monopole]

John Romero made you his beyoch!! and you just don't want to admit it!

wolfenstein enemy territory - the clear winner

[hxnwix]

Freed from the constraint of costing money, this game obviously floats to the top.

I'm not talking about Hindenburg-esque floating, either. I'm talking panzerfausts flying straight up until they explode at the edge of the universe. I'm talking cosmic panzerfaustage tearing space & time a new asshole. I'm talking about the best fucking shit you've ever turded out your bunghole after eating spicy food and then some. A veritable big bang of gaming ferocity and artillery raining down upon gibbing newbies.

Re:Counter-Strike

[IdolizingStewie]

Two!

Best game I can't get past the first stage!

[Bob of Dole]

I've played most of the other zeldas, and I've bought Link to the Past at least four times. I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I was playing Twilight Princess within 3 hours of its release...

But I can't get past the first area in Ocarina of Time. I've tried, many times. I've seen the game played through (My brother loves it + Speedruns), so I know how good it is and how great a game it is, but I cannot get over the framerate in the first scene.

I don't know how Nintendo dropped the ball on this one. A little slowdown is acceptable during a large boss battle where there's hundreds of explosions and enemies going every which way, but in THE FIRST ZONE? A zone with, let's count them, ZERO enemies? (One if you use the starfox cheat, but that's it)
It just tells me it's only going to get worse from there.

But all this "Best Game Ever!" publicity is great, really. Maybe it'll inspire Nintendo to remake the game, on the Wii...

Re:Best of All Time is...

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean you play a female character, right sir?

Re:DNF!!

[llamaxing]

can we please skip Florida's votes on this one?

Re:Counter-Strike

[Goaway]

We know you're fat, but you still don't count as an entire million of people.

Re:Counter-Strike

[Kam Solusar]

Walk up to 100 random people on the street, and ask them if they've heard of a video game, called Counterstrike.

I really advise slashdot users not to do this. I wouldn't take long until the cops arrive to investigate the calls about this pale, strange person talking about killer games...

Re:Best of All Time is...

[CrazyJim1]

Sorry. I'm completely incompatible with you. I play Angband. We come from different worlds.

Re:Half-life

[arth1]

Mea Culpa. You're absolutely more pretentious than me! :-)

Re:Congratulations

[falsified]

I did? I thought I was just clueless about an existing lame Slashdot inside joke. Now I'm clueless about my own lame Slashdot joke? Dammit.

Re:Counter-Strike

[maxume]

That's a lot of voices in your head.

Re:Congratulations

[azav]

Well, you know what that means don't you?

3. PROFIT!

In Soviet Russia, horsecock profits you!

Re:Counter-Strike

[Anonymous Coward]

> Everyone knows who Mario is, even your grandma.

Which one? they are the Mario Brothers, you know... Mario Mario and Luigi Mario!

DNF

[GodGell]

Am I the only one who finds it funny that Duke Nukem Forever is abbreviated to 'DNF', which in racing terms means 'Did Not Finish'?

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Re:Counter-Strike

[MadMidnightBomber]

Er, three sire.