To me Link is Mario's red haired stepchild that's never invited to any family outings.
Jaysonguy
Huh? Mario might be the mascot of Nintendo, but Zelda is crown jewel of all their franchises. Have you heard of Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time? They are two of the greatest games of all time.
To me Link is Mario's red haired stepchild that's never invited to any family outings.
Rocky32189
Huh? Mario might be the mascot of Nintendo, but Zelda is crown jewel of all their franchises. Have you heard of Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time? They are two of the greatest games of all time.
Mario, but thats only because I never got into Zelda in the past. Although I just bought Orcina of Time on the Vc and think its great. Man is it hard though.
Zelda for me by a landslide. While i did enjoy playing co op on SMB3 with my brother all those years ago, Zelda always had a special place in my heart since we first rented A Link To The Past like 12 years ago. Hell when i was younger i even had a Link costume and i also have some T Shirts of TP and The 4 Swords Adventure. Mario was great and is the epitome of games, but LoZ had a bigger impact on me.
I like both...but I think that I rather go with Mario.He's still my 3rd fav char,tho.Fav char is Snake and 2nd is Sonic (he's cool,even if some of the games kinda sucked).
Also,I Super Mario is kinda more fast paced than Zelda (Super Mario doesn't have puzzles...atleast not hard ones :P)
Mario his games have had a much bigger impact on the industry and revolutionazed with most of his games. Super Mario Bros,Super Mario 64,Super Mario Galaxy.
Zelda's more challenging and appeals to the hardcore gamer. Plus, I think I beat Ocarina of Time about 13 or 14 times... i know that Hyrule map bettter than the map of my own city.
Mario for me. when comparing Twighlight Princess with Galaxy, Galaxy actually moved the series forward while Zelda has seemed content to rehash the same general formula with little innovation in gameplay since Ocarana of Time.
The only advantage Zelda has over Mario is that it is more critically acclaimed. Mario sells better. Zelda sells around 3-5 million on average, with OoT being at 7 million, Mario games usually get 7 million easily (exception was Sunshine at like five million but that was mostly due to the system's poor sales). But SMG will probably get ten million easily and NSMB is at like 16 million. Actually, the only title of the Zelda series that has any commerical important to Nintendo was Wind Waker, as it helped with the GCN's poor sales. Otherwise Nintendo could have gotten by fine without the Zelda series. I know you want to deny it, but believe me, they didn't really need the series. I know you fanboys want to dney it, but. Mario Party DS has almost beaten Twilight Princess in sales, so that should say something about how importat the Zelda series is to Nintendo from a commercial standpoint.
It's definitely pretty close, but I'm going to have to go with Zelda on this one. I mean, has there ever really been a difficult Mario game? I was able to beat all of the Mario games when they first came out on the NES, when I was really young. They were definitely enjoyable, but the difficulty wasn't there. Ihad both Zelda 1 and 2 on the NES and it took me forever to beat 1 then and I never was able to find my way through the last castle on Zelda 2 until it came out on the Zelda collection that came with the gamecube, when I was alot older. The main thing that Mario has going for him, was when I first got my N64 and popped in Mario 64. I haven't had a gaming experience quite like that one since, but ultimately it has to go to Zelda.
The only advantage Zelda has over Mario is that it is more critically acclaimed. Mario sells better. Zelda sells around 3-5 million on average, with OoT being at 7 million, Mario games usually get 7 million easily (exception was Sunshine at like five million but that was mostly due to the system's poor sales). But SMG will probably get ten million easily and NSMB is at like 16 million. Actually, the only title of the Zelda series that has any commerical important to Nintendo was Wind Waker, as it helped with the GCN's poor sales. Otherwise Nintendo could have gotten by fine without the Zelda series. I know you want to deny it, but believe me, they didn't really need the series. I know you fanboys want to dney it, but. Mario Party DS has almost beaten Twilight Princess in sales, so that should say something about how importat the Zelda series is to Nintendo from a commercial standpoint.
Super Mario by a longshot.
ZoraPrime
So basically your saying that the only thing Mario has over is Zelda is better sales.
So Mario games sell better, but Zelda games are better. That's basically what you just said. And it's true.
Zelda has sword fights and dungeons and side quests (the extra 60 stars really don't count), and a MUCH more interesting story
Zelda is more cinematic by nature and I love that. I love the epic feel you get when playing the game especially on something like the jousting match on the bridge. Oh god when I did that I had a nerdgasm it was just so freaking cool. Plus boss fights in Zelda are waaaaay cooler.
Zelda. They're both great, obviously...but I like games with atmosphere, Zelda has tons and Mario has very little. Plus OoT is one of my all time favs.
Although I do think it's about time to take Zelda in a bit of a new direction. It's getting a little stale.
Mario, no contest. Zelda can be fun at first, but Mario games are always fun to play. I never come back to a Zelda game after I beat it. Mario games never get old.
A decade ago, OoT the released and revolutionized the genre completely and quickly became the most critically acclaimed game of all time and is still the highest rated game of all time. What games surpassed Zelda a decade ago or anytime between then and now?
Both to me. Every time the official mario or zelda games come out they are always great and with the ones that came out this year and last year they raised the bar for both series and gaming as a whole.
A decade ago, OoT the released and revolutionized the genre completely and quickly became the most critically acclaimed game of all time and is still the highest rated game of all time. What games surpassed Zelda a decade ago or anytime between then and now?
Exactly my point.
That was the last time Zelda was the king of it all in that genre, now it gets beat all the time by adventure games that follow the same sorts of themes.
Mario is still the king of his genre. Mario has always been the king of his genre.
A decade ago, OoT the released and revolutionized the genre completely and quickly became the most critically acclaimed game of all time and is still the highest rated game of all time. What games surpassed Zelda a decade ago or anytime between then and now?
Exactly my point.
That was the last time Zelda was the king of it all in that genre, now it gets beat all the time by adventure games that follow the same sorts of themes.
Mario is still the king of his genre. Mario has always been the king of his genre.
You never answered my question. What same-genre games have surpassed Zelda?
You never answered my question. What same-genre games have surpassed Zelda?
Rocky32189
If we go with the whole medieval layout there's games like Elder Scrolls and Fable. When you think of the gaming landscape with those games they come to mind.
If you just want to go straight action adventure then there's a slew.
Mario on the other hand has had his fair share of contenders (most notably Sony with the Jak series and Ratchet and Clank) and still comes out on top. He's the defining character of the platforming genre and still rules the roost. Even now with his game being on "inferior hardware" to some.
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