I thought I was the only one that felt that way. Everybody always talks about how Madden is so great but yet there is no mentions of how 2K was the superior title that year.
I feel like I should finally jump in on this debate... though I think Franchise3 gets my intent pretty well here. I completely agree with rezdawg that a lot of a old games just don't stand up today, with very few exceptions. 1. On the Punch-Out front, for example... there isn't really a whole lot of reason to play the old version when you could play the new version. It's essentially the same thing with better graphics. 2. Much like the example of, why would you play the original Street Fighter 2 when you can play the new HD Remix version? The new version even kept the original hitboxes and keyframes. There's really no reason to play the old one besides nostalgia. 3. Getting away from games with current-gen remakes, another example is Goldeneye. I LOVED Goldeneye, and played the hell out of it like everyone else. If anyone made an all-time greatest list that instead asked what the greatest games ever were but taking into account the time period in which they were released, Goldeneye's gotta be top 10. It was ahead of its time and was a best-seller for AGES. But it just doesn't stand up now... even with nostalgia. Playing that game right now is torture, because we're used to all the modern shooters which are just that much better in basically way. But then to Rokkit's points... there really are some very old games that still hold up today. 1. Super Mario Brothers 3 is a great example. Superbly-well executed side-scroller, and while someone might argue for the superiority of Mario 64 until they're blue in the face, no one game that I can see has firmly supplanted SMB3 in every way. But hey... doubtless that's the idea of "New Super Mario Brothers," which will be released in a couple weeks. 2. X-Com: The UFO defense is decades old and still hasn't been duplicated. X-Com might actually be my favorite game of all-time, in fact. 3. I was sorely tempted to include the Genesis game Powerball on my list. There's nothing like it today. 4. Maybe the best example of all are the Mega Man games. Those were so good they even made another new one with old-school graphics just a couple years ago (Mega Man 9). Really, in the end, with this thread I just wanted people to separate nostalgia from modern-day excellence, while still including those rare, old gems like X-Com that people could pick up for the first time and love today. This is because my purpose for this thread, frankly, was to give myself and everyone else a list of great games that they can play today... and nostalgia-based "greatness" doesn't work if you're playing something for the first time. That's really all that rule was about.
