Mario Golf is out now

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NFSHS is pretty good. Oh, did I mention that it has a (still operational) online service run by EA? I didn't play it online a lot, but its fun there...

Online was also one of Pod's greatest strengths. How many other racing games had a functional online service in late 1997 that you can feasibly play on a modem?

Didn't think so...

Unfortunately, about a year ago Ubisoft killed the Pod online gameservice. Which stinks, but almost no one used it anyway...

Oh well, at least Pod still has splitscreen/modem/network/IP.

The DC POD game had pretty smooth online play.

I'm just not comfterble with saying it radically changed the genre to the degree you say...

That's because you know very little about this topic.

I know when I played OoT for the first time it was so different from LA that it almost felt like a different series... it has critical differences, such as the dramatic difference in the overworld -- LA had a large, challenging overworld you spent a lot of time in, wandering around and fighting badguys and doing quests. In OoT, you spend some time in the overworld but not that much and its much more open and there are very few enemies. I love it that way too, but its quite different...

OoT was a near-perfect leap from 2D to 3D. It kept the trademark 2D Zelda gameplay but changed some things to fit three dimensions (like the fighting system). But overall OoT is very similar to the 2D Zeldas.