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It was never my thing, but it is a masterpiece like Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 or Hitchcock films.

It was the first real 3d world game and went to innovate in so many things that we take for granted today.

In an open world the number of possibilities and combinations grow enormously. They had to solve so many problems for the first time.

Games like Crash Bandicoot are much more constrained and simple.

Other companies(SEGA) tried to create their own and failed.

Today it is trivial to make such a world with the great tools that we have, but Mario 64 was the first to prove what was possible, it was inspiration for younger developers.

The Naughty Dog guys actually believed that such a game was impossible to make until they saw it.