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Antifar
12/22/18 9:57:10 AM
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Well?
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12/22/18 9:57:44 AM
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zelda?
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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 9:58:45 AM
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Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.
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Thompson
12/22/18 10:00:24 AM
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GTA?
Duke Nukem?
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Romulox28
12/22/18 10:01:34 AM
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Mario & Zelda are the obvious ones

I'll also say metroid and grand theft auto
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DarkChozoGhost
12/22/18 10:02:39 AM
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I'm going to go with Metroid, but the fact they took so long and skipped an entire console generation definitely helped
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codey
12/22/18 10:03:43 AM
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GTA. I played the 2D ones, and those things were nearly unplayable at any sort of speed. They may be "classic" games, but it's on the merits of the series's future.

Flash forward a couple of years and GTA3 comes out, and it's a generation defining game.
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Zelda_Aran
12/22/18 10:04:23 AM
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Metal Gear : Metal Gear Solid

They had a ton of ambitious ideas in MG2 that saw their true potential in MGS.
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FursonaNonGrata
12/22/18 10:04:29 AM
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Gex
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Thompson
12/22/18 10:04:44 AM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
I'm going to go with Metroid, but the fact they took so long and skipped an entire console generation definitely helped

That reminds me, Fallout also skipped a generation when it went from 2D to 3D.
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ViewtifulGrave
12/22/18 10:55:05 AM
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SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???
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VerisimiIitude
12/22/18 10:57:46 AM
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SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

Skyward Sword and arguably Twilight Princess?
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PokemonExpert44
12/22/18 10:58:59 AM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

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Mareen
12/22/18 10:59:25 AM
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GTA.

The 2D ones are mediocre as shit and probably would've died if the jump to 3D hadn't happen.
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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 11:30:22 AM
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PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

Skyward Sword
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker (love or hate)
Majora's Mask (love or hate

vs

Ocarina of Time
Breath of the Wild (also love or hate but more people love it)

Not very consistent overall, whereas virtually all of the mainline 3D Marios received near universal praise.
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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 11:31:56 AM
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Also GTA was technically always 3D, or at least 2.5D. Definitely not pure 2D like the other games mentioned ITT though.
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PlsGodDontBanMe
12/22/18 11:37:23 AM
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SpiralDrift posted...
PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

Skyward Sword
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker (love or hate)
Majora's Mask (love or hate

vs

Ocarina of Time
Breath of the Wild (also love or hate but more people love it)

Not very consistent overall, whereas virtually all of the mainline 3D Marios received near universal praise.


Lmao if you actually hate Majoras Mask and WW, you just have shitty taste in games.

Hell, MM is better than OoT is.
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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 11:38:48 AM
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PlsGodDontBanMe posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

Skyward Sword
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker (love or hate)
Majora's Mask (love or hate

vs

Ocarina of Time
Breath of the Wild (also love or hate but more people love it)

Not very consistent overall, whereas virtually all of the mainline 3D Marios received near universal praise.


Lmao if you actually hate Majoras Mask and WW, you just have shitty taste in games.

Hell, MM is better than OoT is.

Wind Waker is actually one of my favorites but I'm not gonna pretend it's not divisive, and Majora's Mask is even more so.
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Smashingpmkns
12/22/18 11:41:59 AM
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SpiralDrift posted...
PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

Skyward Sword
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker (love or hate)
Majora's Mask (love or hate

vs

Ocarina of Time
Breath of the Wild (also love or hate but more people love it)

Not very consistent overall, whereas virtually all of the mainline 3D Marios received near universal praise.


Mario 3D Land, 3D World, Sunshine, are all considered generally bad games.
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catboy0_0
12/22/18 11:42:56 AM
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tbh I don't think any 2D series made the transition well. In most 2D gone 3D games like Mario and Zelda, it's often more efficient and easy to just run past enemies
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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 11:43:04 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

Skyward Sword
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker (love or hate)
Majora's Mask (love or hate

vs

Ocarina of Time
Breath of the Wild (also love or hate but more people love it)

Not very consistent overall, whereas virtually all of the mainline 3D Marios received near universal praise.


Mario 3D Land, 3D World, Sunshine, are all considered generally bad games.

Not really. 3D Land and 3D World got great ratings and were well-received by most fans. Sunshine I'll give you, though I liked it.
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catboy0_0
12/22/18 11:43:55 AM
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SpiralDrift posted...
Not really. 3D Land and 3D World got great ratings and were well-received by most fans.

I beat 3D world, and while I did like it somewhat, it was a horribly mediocre experience
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clearaflagrantj
12/22/18 11:44:15 AM
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Mario. Not even a question. It defined 3D gaming
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GameGodOfAll
12/22/18 11:45:38 AM
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Sonic
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BuckVanHammer
12/22/18 11:48:36 AM
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GTA 3 was pretty impressive.
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catboy0_0
12/22/18 11:49:48 AM
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BuckVanHammer posted...
GTA 3 was pretty impressive.

definitely one of the greatest 2D > 3D upgrade, but tbf the 2D games weren't that great at the time
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GameGodOfAll
12/22/18 11:56:43 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

Skyward Sword
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker (love or hate)
Majora's Mask (love or hate

vs

Ocarina of Time
Breath of the Wild (also love or hate but more people love it)

Not very consistent overall, whereas virtually all of the mainline 3D Marios received near universal praise.


Mario 3D Land, 3D World, Sunshine, are all considered generally bad games.

This is one of the most incorrect things I've ever seen posted on CE. Congrats man.
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PiOverlord
12/22/18 11:57:47 AM
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Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Ic3Bullet
12/22/18 12:01:44 PM
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Metroid. Most of the gameplay mechanics from Super Metroid were still present in Prime, so the transition from 2D to 3D was smooth as butter.

Even Mario games had to change functionally to be fun in 3D. Thats why I think Metroid made a better transition.
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Zodd3224
12/22/18 12:38:38 PM
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I'll tell you what did NOT make a good transition from 2D to 3D...

Women
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Albel-Nox
12/22/18 12:39:34 PM
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Final Fantasy
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ZombiePelican
12/22/18 12:40:16 PM
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Mario. To this day Super Mario 64 is a masterpiece that will never be replicated
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PiOverlord
12/22/18 12:42:43 PM
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Zodd3224 posted...
I'll tell you what did NOT make a good transition from 2D to 3D...

Women

Amen brother.
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Albel-Nox
12/22/18 12:43:27 PM
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PiOverlord posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
I'll tell you what did NOT make a good transition from 2D to 3D...

Women

Amen brother.

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Freddie_Mercury
12/22/18 12:48:02 PM
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PokemonExpert44 posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

3D Zelda had more bad than good.

???

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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 12:49:24 PM
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I've already answered. At least half of the 3D Zelda series is divisive at best.
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codey
12/22/18 1:41:36 PM
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SpiralDrift posted...
I've already answered. At least half of the 3D Zelda series is divisive at best.


Even if that's the case (I haven't played enough 3D Zelda's to say one way or the other), that just means the follow ups weren't as successful. The actual transition to 3D gaming was wildly successful, and even though OoT has aged poorly it's still regarded as one of the greatest games ever.

Edit: I just thought of MGS after I hit post, that definitely deserves to be in the conversation.
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SpiralDrift
12/22/18 1:52:19 PM
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codey posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
I've already answered. At least half of the 3D Zelda series is divisive at best.


Even if that's the case (I haven't played enough 3D Zelda's to say one way or the other), that just means the follow ups weren't as successful. The actual transition to 3D gaming was wildly successful, and even though OoT has aged poorly it's still regarded as one of the greatest games ever.

Edit: I just thought of MGS after I hit post, that definitely deserves to be in the conversation.

If that's what we're basing this on then it's probably still Mario. I see way more people saying OoT has aged poorly. They both have camera issues but OoT has more issues in general than SM64 that make it harder to go back to.

I agree about Metal Gear, though. MG2 to MGS was a really fluid transition.
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Balrog0
12/22/18 1:55:44 PM
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I actually really liked dk64
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codey
12/22/18 1:58:13 PM
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SpiralDrift posted...
codey posted...
SpiralDrift posted...
I've already answered. At least half of the 3D Zelda series is divisive at best.


Even if that's the case (I haven't played enough 3D Zelda's to say one way or the other), that just means the follow ups weren't as successful. The actual transition to 3D gaming was wildly successful, and even though OoT has aged poorly it's still regarded as one of the greatest games ever.

Edit: I just thought of MGS after I hit post, that definitely deserves to be in the conversation.

If that's what we're basing this on then it's probably still Mario. I see way more people saying OoT has aged poorly. They both have camera issues but OoT has more issues in general than SM64 that make it harder to go back to.

I agree about Metal Gear, though. MG2 to MGS was a really fluid transition.


It's just how I'm basing it, given how I'm interpreting "transition." It's been 20+ years since we transitioned to 3D and so many of these series are still around that's too much room for missteps later on. If I just look at the transition games themselves it makes the conversation easier to have without muddying it down with crap like Skyward Sword that came out or *shudders* Metal Gear Survive that came out 2 decades later.
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catboy0_0
12/22/18 2:13:32 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
I actually really liked dk64

sad!
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Antifar
12/22/18 2:43:59 PM
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codey posted...
It's just how I'm basing it, given how I'm interpreting "transition." It's been 20+ years since we transitioned to 3D and so many of these series are still around that's too much room for missteps later on. If I just look at the transition games themselves it makes the conversation easier to have without muddying it down with crap like Skyward Sword that came out or *shudders* Metal Gear Survive that came out 2 decades later.

This is kinda how I intended the question, fwiw
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Geiki Ganger
12/22/18 2:55:54 PM
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Super Mario 64 was revolutionary in every sense of the word.
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PiOverlord
12/22/18 2:57:11 PM
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My first video game was Super Mario 64. That game defined my life, for better or worse, I don't exactly know.
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Killmonger
12/22/18 2:58:48 PM
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Can the original Doom consider to be 2d? If so, that.
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catboy0_0
12/22/18 3:29:21 PM
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Killmonger posted...
Can the original Doom consider to be 2d?

no
Killmonger posted...
If so, that.

HELL no
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Syntheticon
12/23/18 6:44:00 PM
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SpiralDrift posted...
Mario

Thompson posted...
GTA?
Duke Nukem?

Favorite posted...
zelda?

These were all the ones that came to mind first, Mario would be the best followed by Duke Nukem imho-the game changed style dramatically, the others were more evolutionsof their current style
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gunplagirl
12/23/18 7:04:53 PM
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Fire Emblem

Path of Radiance really was amazing
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NameMeWhatever
12/23/18 7:05:29 PM
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Mega Man X.
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