Pretty much this.A garbage Zelda game, but it was a garbage year, so yeah, it still wins.
True. There's a strong argument that all three of these games are the "zeitgeist" in their own genres/styles. TP for Nintendo showing they can return to old ground; Oblivion for bringing the "open world" formula to the mainstream audience; Gears for bringing cover mechanics to a mainstream audience.This kind of analysis seems retrospective, I'm not sure how many people believed that Gears of War would shape the face of shooters back in 2006. I'm also aware that a shitton of people were hype for Oblivion. I was also 8 in 2006 and only paid attention to Nintendo stuff soo I really have no idea.
A garbage Zelda game, but it was a garbage year, so yeah, it still wins.
Not with its level design
Was probably Oblivion for me too. Or maybe RB6: Vegas.
btw can't wait for the thread for "Did Pong deserve to be 1972s Game of the Year?"
TP is one of the worst games I've played in my life. Nintendo has never hit rock bottom the way it did in this game. There isn't a single thing I find salvageable even if I was kidnapped by ISIS and the only way I could avoid a bullet in my head was to say something nice about TP in front of a camera. I'd have less qualms admitting Carly Rae Jepsen is the best singer of our generation (because she is) than I have saying Twilight Princess is worth playing.
This is what I remember about TP everytime I think about it.
There isn't a single year it deserved anything, even if TP was made before video games even existed.
FFXII was the best game
this is the best way to put it imo. The whole wolf-link gimmick felt like such a massive step back from all the transformations in Majora's Mask. The Twilight Realm itself, Zant, Midna, and the sound design were phenomenal. But other than that it just felt like a direct response to the sour reception Wind Waker got at its E3 reveal. If Wind Waker had a better reception at reveal there's no way in hell TP would have been made. I can't really make that claim for, well, any other zelda out there.
The objective non contestable quality of the game you mean? Twilight Princess being an okay at best game is not exactly an uncommon sentiment.I understand saying no because you think one of the other games is more deserving.
But "omg hahaha no" seems strange given the quality of the game.
No? In the context of the series maybe, but an ok Zelda is still in the upper echelon of great games in most cases.The objective non contestable quality of the game you mean? Twilight Princess being an okay at best game is not exactly an uncommon sentiment.