re: best 90's video game

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Ocarina of Time

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or Super Mario 64

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Ocarina of Time. Hands down. Complete innovator of its era.

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Hard to use that premise, while not saying Chronotrigger. Pretty much everything we take for granted in RPG's was created by Chonotrigger

Quake 1 online CTF...

Spent hours and hours on it

For ppl saying OoT was the best of the 90s have you even played Majora's Mask?

Majora's Mask > OoT

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Majora's Mask > OoT

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Agree even though like I previously stated; I felt OoT held more replay value.

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Great game, but a bit quirky imo

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How so?

It was darker in a sense.. but quirky?

Ocarina's entire concept of using time was derived directly from Chronotrigger.

Chronotrigger will always be the greatest RPG ever made. I loved Ocarina, though, just not a top-5 game for me.

Think about the revolutionary games of that era:

Command and Conquer
Total Annihilation
The Sims
Master of Magic
Ultima Online
Everquest
Diablo
Quake
Wolfenstein
Descent
MDK
Chronotrigger
FF 7
Goldeneye
Bill Walsh College Football
Advent of the Madden Franchise
Super Mario 3
Fallout
Fallout 2
Resident Evil
Motherfricking Starcraft
Baldur's Gate

I mean those are all genre-defining or genre-creating games.

Ocarina did rescue the Zelda Franchise, and was a great game. If I were to list my 5 best games of the 90's:

Chronotrigger
Starcraft
WC4
X-Com
Fallout 2

groundbreaking list

Ocarina outsold them all, but sales are a poor metric of quality. I mean One Direction outsells Neon Trees and Lumineers combined.

But Ocarina is no One Direction. If it were a boy band, it would be Boys 2 Men. A great group, but could not exist had the Temptations not already done their thing.

Damn this post got weird. I'm just gonna stop now.

FFVII, FFIX, LoZ: OOT, Megaman x, SuperMario World, Link to the past, Killer Instincts, Clay Fighter, Mario RPG, FFIII (One with Terra and Mech suits at the beginning) Legend agaia(?), Kirby all starts (Dont lie, you played this game) Gex: enter the gecko.

there are more but I will add in when I think of them.

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Think about the revolutionary games of that era:
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I mean those are all genre-defining or genre-creating games.

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I can't really argue with that assessment, but there's a difference between being the best game of a decade and the most revolutionary game of a decade.

OoT and SM64 both took their franchises into uncharted territory and blew both experiences out of the water.

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Ocarina did rescue the Zelda Franchise

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