Rate the Game: Week 135

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What up, y'all! It's another beautiful day. Specifically, another beautiful Tuesday! And other than taco night, this is the one thing we can all look forward to on this day. It's Rate the Game: Week 135! Last week, Gex emerged from the depths of forgotten video game history to try to stake a claim on our leaderboard. How'd he do? Was he ultimately destined to be cast into the quagmire of mediocrity? How about it, leaderboard?

Rate the Game Results

1. Super Mario World (4.81)
2. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (4.8)
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (4.8)
4. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)
5. Mass Effect (4.75)
6. Goldeneye 007 (4.72)
7. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)
8. Silent Hill 2 (4.66)
9. Super Mario Bros. 2 (4.5)
10. Portal (4.5)
11. Red Dead Redemption (4.5)
12. Chrono Trigger (4.5)
13. Final Fantasy 3 (4.5)
14. Silent Hill 3 (4.5)
15. Mega Man 2 (4.44)
16. Donkey Kong Country (4.44)
17. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (4.44)
18. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)
19. God of War (4.4)
20. Mega Man X (4.36)
21. Metal Gear Solid (4.33)
22. BioShock (4.33)
23. Perfect Dark (4.3)
24. Shadow of the Colossus (4.28)
25. The Last of Us (4.28)
26. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)
27. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)
28. Resident Evil 2 (4.14)
29. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)
30. Super Mario 64 (4.07)
31. Grand Theft Auto 3 (4.06)
32. The Legend of Zelda (4.06)
33. NBA Jam (4.05)
34. Super Mario Kart (4.0)
35. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (4.0)
36. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (4.0)
37. Super Smash Bros. (4.0)
38. Super Metroid (4.0)
39. The Simpsons (4.0)
40. Resident Evil 4 (4.0)
41. EarthBound (4.0)
42. Fallout 3 (4.0)
43. Mirror's Edge (4.0)
44. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (4.0)
45. Donkey Kong Country 2 (4.0)
46. Banjo-Kazooie (4.0)
47. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)
48. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (3.92)
49. Mega Man (3.89)
50. Castlevania (3.86)
51. Contra (3.86)
52. Devil May Cry (3.86)
53. Half-Life 2 (3.85)
54. Half-Life (3.83)
55. Final Fantasy 8 (3.83)
56. Infamous (3.83)
57. SimCity 2000 (3.8)
58. Final Fight (3.8)
59. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)
60. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)
61. Double Dragon (3.75)
62. Max Payne (3.75)
63. Tetris (3.69)
64. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)
65. Alan Wake (3.66)
66. Diablo (3.66)
67. Xenoblade Chronicles (3.66)
68. F.E.A.R. (3.66)
69. Mortal Kombat (3.65)
70. Doom (3.625)
71. StarFox (3.61)
72. X-Men (3.6)
73. Resident Evil (3.58)
74. Kirby's Adventure (3.57)
75. Daytona USA (3.5)
76. Ninja Gaiden (3.5)
77. Burnout Paradise (3.5)
78. Thief: The Dark Project (3.5)
79. Dark Souls (3.5)
80. Shinobi (3.5)
81. Dead Space (3.4)
82. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)
83. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)
84. Crash Bandicoot (3.33)
85. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (3.33)
86. Wolfenstein 3D (3.33)
87. Dead Island (3.33)
88. Left 4 Dead (3.33)
89. Nights Into Dreams (3.33)
90. Condemned: Criminal Origins (3.33)
91. Gauntlet Legends (3.28)
92. Gears of War (3.27)
93. Borderlands (3.22)
94. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (3.22)
95. Duke Nukem 3D (3.2)
96. Darkstalkers (3.2)
97. Quake (3.2)
98. SoulCalibur (3.16)
99. Pac-Man (3.125)
100. Killer Instinct (3.11)
101. Virtua Fighter (3.09)
102. Rock Band (3.09)
103. Earthworm Jim (3.0)
104. Metroid (3.0)
105. Time Crisis (3.0)
106. Tekken (3.0)
107. Halo 2 (3.0)
108. Gex (3.0)
109. Destiny (3.0)
110. The Secret of Monkey Island (3.0)
111. Sonic Adventure (3.0)
112. Shenmue (3.0)
113. Guitar Hero (2.875)
114. Ecco the Dolphin (2.85)
115. Streets of Rage (2.84)
116. Altered Beast (2.8)
117. Bayonetta (2.75)
118. ToeJam & Earl (2.75)
119. Assassin's Creed (2.71)
120. Gauntlet (2.71)
121. Dead Rising (2.71)
122. Bionic Commando (2.66)
123. Saints Row (2.66)
124. The Sims (2.6)
125. Killer Instinct 2 (2.6)
126. Silent Hill (2.6)
127. Tomb Raider (2.55)
128. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)
129. Twisted Metal (2.42) 130. Crackdown (2.42)
131. Golden Axe (2.33)
132. Gran Turismo (2.3)
133. The Secret of Mana (2.2)
134. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)


Gex manages to split the difference and ultimately comes out relatively OK with a 3.0. For a while, I was thinking I was going to have to cast him onto the Honorable Mentions list.

So with Gex out of the way, we continue on to new and maybe even better heights. What does the bowl have cooking for us this time around? Can anything hope to reach elite status? Show us the goods....




God, damn it, why does this sometimes come out vertical? Fuck it, we got what we need. This week, we're going back to a long-standing Nintendo franchise as it's the follow up to one of the biggest Nintendo 64 titles in its library. It's the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The other two Legend of Zelda games have a pretty good history here on Rate the Game. Hell, Ocarina of Time was number 1 for a good amount of time and still remains in the top ten. But how does this one compare? Will it supersede its predecessor? How about it, you all. Do that thing we all do and let's rate this mofo. Until next week!