Dave

I agree with your statement as I said the same thing in my post. If you were born after 1985 you are banned from releasing a list like this because, all due respect, you have no clue what you're talking about.

I see a lot of bias in this list and it's impossible not to have it based on your generation etc. It's always hilarious to me to see younger guys determine this order when they literally weren't old enough to play the games in their time LOL. Allow my old ass to enlighten you all as I played every one of them when they came out;

---> #1: Link to the Past (SNES) remains the best Zelda today. It's not even debatable for purists (must've been born in the 70s or early 80s). Way ahead of its time more than any other on this list. If you're under 38, there is just no way you'll ever see this or rate it this way, but it dominated what was maybe the greatest all time console.

---> #2: Ocarina (N64) completely took over the lives of every kid at the time. Between it and Goldeneye it dominated an entire year or two of gaming across all systems.

---> #3 is the very first Zelda ever (NES). Defined an entire genre and was a masterpiece at the time.

---> #4 is the Gameboy's Link's Awakening. Again, this another one you'd only understand if you were playing it at 13 years old when the Game Boy was the best system on the market. At the time, no game could touch Link's Awakening.

---> TOTK and BOTW were exactly as you wrote, Ubisoft open world games. Awful. Breakable weapons?! Are you kidding me. Forcing me to craft. Ugh. These games were made for low attention Minecraft kids and it's exactly why they sold millions of copies. For an adult gamer with 40+ yrs gaming, these two games were B tier at best.

True Top Zelda Games List:

1. Link to the Past (SNES)

2. Ocarina of Time (N64)

3. Legend of Zelda (NES)

4. Link's Awakening (Gameboy)

Maybe loot more high end gear. It's a huge adrenaline rush trying not to get robbed/killed while trying to extract with an item you see once every 25 game sessions.

I play free loadout until my stash is completely full then I use my best gear. It still sucks losing a high end weapon.

It can't be cheaty since everyone can do it lol. The third person is a huge part of the game and makes it more accessible to all gamers, if this was 1st person the full time gamers/streamers would dominate play, casual gamers couldn't compete and just wouldn't bother playing.

If you haven't noticed casual gamers have completely checked out of COD, Battlefield, Apex etc permanently. It's literally why this game has so much popularity right now.

This same reviewer will rave about a 10/10 Zelda game that's exactly the same thing with destructible weapons you are literally working to get materials to craft new ones, nonstop. All games feel like work in one mechanic or another.

I've played this game before and after updates, can give kudos to the devs for fixing the bugs...however, I could never get more than 4-5 hrs in without uninstalling. It's just not a fun game whatsoever. I tried so hard to like it since it's the last game I pre ordered (and ever will). Just search elsewhere, I promise you'll be disappointed with this game.

Disclaimer: I am 40 and an avid gamer. If you're 20 or so you may like it. It feels very geared toward kids.

Agree with all of these things, and the game just wasn't fun. That's the biggest thing. Games need to be fun, we play them for fun. I felt like it was work to do each mission. It needed more RPG elements. I'm also a mature adult gamer who has almost 40 yrs exp gaming, the game feels like it was made for maybe new gamers, female gamers or younger kids. If you don't make a game for the masses you aren't going to get sales. Simple as that. The game was an amazing lesson learned for me though. It was the last game I would ever buy pre sale.

This game was dreadful. I actually reinstalled it on three separate occasions after updates to see if it was better and to try to force myself to like it. Never worked.

Also nobody commenting even read the article. It's not about 'unjustified hate' for the game. No one cares that you liked it. It had awful sales, period. End of article. Good games sell well. You can't argue it wasnt a bad game, because its been proven, aka, it didn't sell. Bad games don't sell well. Fact.

They need to find a way to make the game fun for the masses again. COD has young gamers basically wearing diapers and logging 45 hrs per week in the game. If you play 2 hrs a week how much fun will the avg gamer have in multiplayer vs these gamers? I can tell you even before the official stats, 50% will never return.

I'm enjoying the game as an outsider to mechwarrior (since the Super Nintendo version). I will agree with the others though, the changing of equipment is like Hieroglyphics to me with no aid whatsoever lol, which I thought was hilarious..I immediately bought a Gauss rifle because I mean, it's a Gauss Rifle, but couldn't equip it anywhere? Then I learned there was a whole entire other area for buying "Omnipods" which I believe is a full section of a mech you can buy?---Im really not sure because they never explain any of it to you lol. It seems very clunky and amateur, everything outside of the action. My only other complaint is I don't feel big? I wanna feel like a giant powerful mech but I just feel like a Call of Duty hero running and jumping around shooting my guns. Maybe it's impossible to relay that feeling on to screen but I feel like that is important for a Mech-riding game, and they didn't achieve that.