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Some missing Links.

Link has jumped from one generation to the next while reinventing his style for saving princess Zelda with every iteration. Unfortunately, the most recent games have been much less groundbreaking than the golden age from the original through Ocarina of Time. Whereas the player had become accustomed to at least a few new mechanics and drastically different artistic styles between each installment, recently players have been fed mostly regurgitated ideas. Even so, the new technological capabilities of Nintendo’s 3DS and Wii U should provide plenty of new places to take the franchise.

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GameFAQs contest ends in surprise victory

Over the past ten years (2000-2009 to be clear), thousands upon thousands of games have been released. Some great, some terrible, most somewhere in between. Many new systems have launched, old systems have faded, sales records have been broken, and more and more people have gotten into gaming. As difficult as it could be to choose just one game out of the thousands released across over a dozen systems, GameFAQs hosted a user vote-off contest to do just that. Despite the fact that the Nintendo 64 sold a quarter of its rival, it's home to the game that users voted Game of the Decade: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

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