"Why I Dislike The N64", or "What is the Deal With the N64?"

[slinkyturd]

I wear demerits with pride.


I've actually never played either of those.

[ClodBuster]

Eew, Clayfighters.

I play PS1 mostly for 2D shooties,

[lukester]

Meh, I never grew up during the 90's, but I still love my N64.

Killer Instinct Gold is the only good fighter though.

[Medic_wheat]

Meh, I never grew up during the 90's, but I still love my N64.

Killer Instinct Gold is the only good fighter though.

I always felt that if they reported the original KI game on the N64 as originally planed it would have been a bigger sucess then KI Gold

[MrFlutterPie]

Eew, Clayfighters.

I enjoy Clayfighters a lot (I recognise I am one of the few people on the planet who does lol).  I actually bought Sculptors Cut for the sole purpose to PLAY because I like 63 1/3 so much lol.  Too bad SC sucks.  Best to stick with the normal 63 1/3.

[lukester]

It is a dated system but like Citizen Kane I believe context needs to be considered. At its time Sony was shitting out a hundred terrible games for every one good one on their Playstation. I thought at the time that the N64 was the exact opposite of that equation. It was rare to come up with a bad title on that console. I think, all things considered, It would be easy to consider N64 to be in the top 10 consoles all time and possibly in my top 5. Here's my list of games I can still enjoy:

Army Men Sarg's Heroes
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tootie
Battletanx: Global Assault
Clayfighters 63 1/3
Gauntlet Legends
Gex
Goldeneye
Indiana Jones Infernal Machine
Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Mario Party 1-3
Mortal Kombat 4 (disasterously underrated)
NFL Blitz (all three of them)
Perfect Dark
Rampage
Resident Evil 2
Star Fox 64
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire
Super Smash Bros.
Tony Hawk (1, 2, or 3 but not all of them. They are all the same game really, and I only have the patience for about one game's worth of time.)
Turok (all 4 of them. Yes, even Rage Wars)
WCW World Tour and Revenge
World is not Enough 64
Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask

Seconded!!!

Thirded!

But I still can't take Army Men as a good series seriously.

[slinkyturd]

Army Men takes patience to play. I got sucked into it.

[BlueBMW]

I forgot how fun Battletanx was.... Need to pull that one out again!

[slinkyturd]

I forgot how fun Battletanx was.... Need to pull that one out again!

Hell yeah. Both on N64 are good but the second is vastly better.

[BigusSchmuck]

Gotta admit, I too love the N64.  Super Mario 64 blew me out the water at the time.  I still play it to this day, my 64 that is.  It sits there looking pretty with an EverDrive stuck in it. 

I still have your cursed N64 Bernie. It still smells of cat pee but luckily functions as it should just as long as I keep it away from my other systems.

[lukester]

Still looking at your list, I see you have Rampage.

There were two of them on the N64, and I played one of the arcade versions. Pretty fun, might like to buy it.

Personal Opinion: All Midway games were better on N64 than PS1.

[slinkyturd]

It's fun for a couple of stages and more so with multiple players but even back then it wasn't a game to beat. it gets to mundane after a few stages as nothing really changes...but any day I can destroy major US cities is a good day.

[Ninja16608]

No matter how you slice it the best thing about the N64 is the controller layout...... I still think it's one of the best controllers I have held. As far as everything else, meh. Anyone got a hack for N64 controller to TG16 :-) (I'm going to hell, I know)

[ClodBuster]

You deffo will.

By the way, as discussed in the other N64 thread, there's a way to repair junk controllers into a state where the stick works better than new. Zero lag, perfect deadzone and 100% range*. But it needed to buy parts from two different sources and combine them with basic soldering skills.

*well apart from GoldenEye, where the game used strange out-of-range/negative readings of the original stick for allowing a slightly broader range of viewport motion in the crosshair targeting mode. Depending on opinion, this can count as hair splitting or not, since the gameplay doesn't get broken at all, and other games work flawlessly.

[graffias79]

I like some games on the N64.  I really enjoyed Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time (but I still hate Majora's Mask) Paper Mario, F-Zero X, and I played so very much Mario Kart 64 multi player.

The problem with the N64, Saturn, PS1, Jaguar, and even the 32X in some cases is that early 3D/polygons are not pretty.  Just like early 2D graphics on generation 2 consoles haven't held up to the test of time graphically.  They were more utilitarian, like a set up game board or maze path.  It wasn't until at least the 3rd generation 8-bit era where games started to become pleasant looking.  This is analogous to generation 6 consoles which were powerful enough to take the 3D concept and make it so much better with more polygons, colors, and textures.  Instead of people looking like they are made out of origami, they started having features resembling human.

2D games on the 5th gen consoles can really look amazing though.

There are, of course exceptions to every rule.  And this is my own opinion.