SubDeity posted...
I was kinda upset when I saw A Link to the Past at #1 even though I consider it to be a god-tier game.
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I just FELT that way! I think I'll feel that way from now on whenever something Legend of Zelda gets first place in anything.
As I said, when I last played through A Link to the Past, I just forgot about the franchise's "future" success and just viewed the game as a large 16-bit adventure that I feel would be just as critically acclaimed if it came out today. Most people who consider LttP to be "that" good, however, are huge fans of the franchise, something which I'm really not (however, I have a feeling Skyward Sword could change that). The only other Zelda game I'm a big fan of is The Wind Waker (oh, I like TP, MM, and OoT a lot too, but those aren't games I'm going to defend to the death unless someone says that they're trash).
Arguably it's the same with Super Metroid (I'm more a fan of the game because it's epic as heck than I am a fan for "it's Metroid!"), but since the Metroid franchise is not as successful I don't feel that disdain at all and I feel that it's a "guilty pleasure" of mine. Right now the only VG franchise I'm a particularly big fan of is Mario, although I am expecting Final Fantasy and Metal Gear to join at some point (plus to me the Zelda series has a lot of potential - Skyward Sword looks like it could be contender for best game in the franchise so long as the controls aren't royally messed up, and even then the next "serious" Zelda title has the potential to be an all-time favorite of mine since I slightly prefer MM to OoT and slightly prefer TP to MM, and the only reason I don't regard TP to be an all-time favorite of mine is because it doesn't feel "phenomenal" enough - but that's it, to me the Zelda series is one with a lot of promise that needs to prove itself one more time).
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