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    The toughest question.. one of has to go which one do you pick and why?



    So by removing them I mean that all traces of the entire franchise are gone and no more games will ever be made.

    Posted by Smashpro11

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    38 Comments

    2. theskadudeguy on

      Honestly. Mario. It’s the only one I didn’t play growing up.

      Pokemon grew up with me and feels like my best friend

      And Zelda is always doing something different

      I guess I just don’t care for platformers either

    4. AnimeRoss on

      Pokémon, I think of the three it’s the least willing to innovate and move forward ,all the games are kind of just the same, and often lags behind the other two in many aspects. Where as mario and Zelda are constantly growing and changing and utilize the capabilities of the Nintendo consoles better.

    5. pangolin1038 on

      Zelda. Mario revolutionized gaming as we know it and Pokemon is just beautiful.

    7. Joshawott27 on

      As much as it pains me, *The Legend of Zelda*.

      *Super Mario* is the premiere Nintendo brand and a huge part of gaming history.

      *Pokémon* is a global phenomenon, and has been a huge part of my life for close to 27 years.

      The *Zelda* games are incredible, but when I weigh up the cultural impact of the different franchises… even talking into account *Zelda*’s own (notably *Ocarina of Time* and *Breath of the Wild*), the other two are just ahead.

    10. DocWhovian1 on

      Preferrably none of them but if I HAD to choose Zelda, I think Mario and Pokemon are just too iconic.

    11. Luck88 on

      I grew up with Pokémon first. Easily the one to let go as an adult. love the old games dearly but new Mario and Zelda games will blow Pokémon out of the water for the next 20 years.

    12. JustinAndFeena on

      Probably Pokemon even though I like Pokemon more than Mario just cause the Pokemon fandom is just unbearable.

    13. UpperHand7127 on

      TBH Pokemon past Gen 4 is just a bunch of crap – the Mario and Zelda franchises are consistently getting epic mainlines

    17. DemiBandana96 on

      If this was just related to the games, the answer is Pokémon, but you said no traces of the Franchise whatsoever. It’s Zelda.

      I’m just not much of a fan of what Zelda does other than their own games (spinoffs like Warriors isn’t for me). Mario has so many incredible spin off titles that I would assume they would also be erased (Luigi’s Mansion, DK, Captain Toad, not to mention all the amazing Mario RPGs). We also have the theme park and Movies.

      Pokémon has the TCG and Anime which I could never give up. I also think Pokémon’s older titles hold up best of the 3 franchises in terms of endless replay-ability.

      GameFreak has proven the least of the 3 in recent years, but I just love Pokémon IP far more than the other two.

    18. Raelhorn_Stonebeard on

      Pokemon, hands down.

      Caveat with saying it’s the franchise I’m the least interested in (haven’t played a game past Red/Blue/Yellow/Stadium for more than 10 mins), but it’s a series with a very tired and repetitive gimmick.

      The main reason it persists is because it’s a low-effort cash cow franchise.

    19. Dark_Doctrine69 on

      Easy. Pokemon. I played the first games (Blue, Gold) and enjoyed them when i was in my teens but I grew up and I cannot imagine anyone enjoying these games. It doesn’t help that the graphics sucks. But the gameplay is incredibly boring.

    20. kiteinpowerlines on

      Mario. I am not really a platformer guy, I’d honestly be way more upset about losing Mario kart/sports titles.

    21. Velvet_Pretty on

      Mario and I have no hesitation. I have no interest in the entire series and spinoffs

    23. PHayesxx on

      Zelda, as great as the BOTW graphics were for the original Switch, as a casual gamer who came back to it after a few weeks, I just couldn’t remember or be arsed with what was going on.

    26. VengeanceKnight on

      Pokémon.

      You can pry the masterpieces that are *Odyssey* and *Breath of the Wild* from my cold dead hands.

    28. Comfortable-Hand6396 on

      Pokemon. I love some of the pokemon games, but none of them has had the impact on me like Zelda and Mario. If I could only have botw and galaxy 1 id be happy, but those series as a whole have barely any bad games

    29. Error-7-0-7- on

      Pokémon. Not even a difficult choice.

      While Mario got Odyssey and Zelda got Tears of the Kingdom/BOTW, Pokémon got….Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet.

    31. Nintendo-Player_1297 on

      Pokémon, because of how bad the games were since gen 8. Winds and Waves looks promising, but I’m still skeptical.

    32. M-Wizzy42069 on

      I grew up with all of these franchises but Mario taught me how to play video games and Pokemon has most of my memories and is my favorite ip sooooo….

      Bye bye Zeldy

    33. Josephalopod on

      Pokopia is the first Pokemon game I’ve planned to get in like 27 years, so I’d pick it and not lose any sleep over it.

    35. ZachariasDemodica on

      Eliminating all past and modern traces of any of these would arguably destroy the gaming world as we know it. They helped form genres and give the industry its momentum. Even if other devs “would have come up with the same thing” to take their place, that isn’t what happened, so making it a matter of purging them from human knowledge instead of changing the past to “alter the timeline” means that it would leave a big, gaping social and informational hole.

    38. cookiesNcreme89 on

      I want to say Zelda, but Pokemon just seems greedy and lackluster post Blk/White era.