Teamliquid's Favorite Video Game - Page 33

On December 29 2012 17:00 sc4k wrote:
I think people who missed OoT by being too young when it was first released are bound to say WC3. They never experienced the magic of OoT because they were too young and then, when they played it it was essentially 'old news' and an 'old game'. And because it wasn't multiplayer and therefore perpetuated by a 'scene', there was no encouragement to see the virtues of it. That's the only explanation I can give for Deus Ex not being as popular as it should be. It is a *better* game than the competition but it doesn't get the props because people see it as an 'old game'.

I think people who were the right age for OoT and also for WC3 are the best barometers of the contest. People who experienced the magic of both games and were around at the right time to be absorbed by them. I spent many hours perfecting my orc strategies, plowing through the WC3 campaign. I even preferred WC to starcraft at the time. But now I see the error of my ways. I was introduced to AoE II AoC after having gone through WC3 for a few years and realised that AoE was a better game and much deeper. Then I strangely took the route of getting into AoE3 before getting into BW again and realising how much better it was than WC3. Of course, what strikes me here is that this trip never happened with OoT. It always was a great game and nothing ever came that was better than it in its genre. The villain is timeless, the music is timeless, the characters are great, the length of the story is great, the hidden quests are great, the sidequests like going fishing are great, the horse riding was revolutionary and great, shooting your bow was great, playing your ocarina was boss. Not to mention it was one of the most revolutionary steps in graphics ever made in gaming. It was Crysis on crack when compared to its 1998 competition. Pure devotion to visual excellence.

I think it's possible to say that OoT had an incredible effect on 3d games and pushed the bar up. I believe, conversely, that games like WC3 pushed the bar down. RTS gaming was better and still is better in the days when it was AoE 2, BW, Red Alert, Total Annihilation. It doesn't help that I also think DotA is a terrible betrayal of the RTS genre, giving people an easy way out of the challenge of RTS games (which is the most fun element for me...) and that WoW is the endtimes of gaming, and therefore, for my money, WC3 goes down in my estimation when rated for the games which it spawned.

By the way just to add, I'm not trying to condescend anyone who was the 'right age' to enjoy both games properly and prefers WC3, there are plenty of reasons to prefer WC3, just none that move me in any way.

On December 19 2012 03:02 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Why are half these polls and brackets terrible? Sorry A lot of them seem really arbitrary. Did you just randomly come up with these?

Best adventure game... no Zelda games or Super Mario 64?

No party games? Best sports game includes Kirby?

Best RTS doesn't have SC1 or SC2? Bomberman is a Classic (look at the others)?

I've found a million more problems. I don't really like this

On December 31 2012 18:42 GhostKorean wrote:
I think you missed out on A Link to the Past

Everyone's favorite Zelda game is either that or Oot, whichever they played first lol