Favorite 5th gen system

[Black Tiger]

Ive never in my life,esp working at a game store come across soemone who was "blown away" by the N64.
Not saying it had all bad titles, I liked Mace Dark Ages,Bio Freaks, Top Gear Overdrive,KI2,SW Rouge Squadron,but honestly never found anything that blew me away,and all the FPS except Doom64 and Quake 2 had horrible framerates that overclocking barely even fixes. I have a N64 here in my room,but its never used. I look at it,then look at any number of other systems Id rather play like my NeoGeo or TG or Genesis that had better quality games,and I play those instead. Ill give the N64 this though,Sin and Punishment looks really nice. My friend has it and I watched him beat it. Its really well done.

I could see someone being blown away by the N64, especially seeing Mario 64 for the first time, if it was their first 32-bit experience and they'd only been playing SNES for the last 5 years.

Nintendo 64 rules. One of the most important systems to ever grace the video game industry. So many groundbreaking titles. 

Again, I know how many people had a lot of fun with N64 and several of its games are considered classics, but other Mario 64, I can't think of any other games that were actually ground breaking.

The N64 Zelda's sent the series on it's interactive movie trajectory to where I'm currently a dozen hours into Twilight Princess when I've only spent maybe a single hour total on actual gameplay.

[Joe Redifer]

Although I really liked Mario 64, Waverace 64, and Pilotwings 64 (was there ever a game on the system without "64" tacked on?  How retarded), the N64 gave me diarrhea with it's awful foggy graphics of low color.  The system still gives me diarrhea to this day, and I play it whenever I need to move my bowels.  The system was designed as a natural laxative with those crappy graphics.  Why does Nintendo hate gamers so much to release a system like that?  The N64 made me stop believing in God as well.

[termis]

The N64 Zelda's sent the series on it's interactive movie trajectory to where I'm currently a dozen hours into Twilight Princess when I've only spent maybe a single hour total on actual gameplay.

There's something that I can definitely say for console RPGs - "They just don't make 'em like they used to."

Quite frankly, I'd much rather spend my time powering up my characters (as boring as they may sound to some) instead of watching an FMV movie for the umpteenth time.

[Michael Helgeson]

The N64 made me stop believing in God as well.

The Atari 800XL did it for me and the Atari ST confirmed it. God must not exist if products like these could be released on the market

[ParanoiaDragon]

Ive never in my life,esp working at a game store come across soemone who was "blown away" by the N64.
Not saying it had all bad titles, I liked Mace Dark Ages,Bio Freaks, Top Gear Overdrive,KI2,SW Rouge Squadron,but honestly never found anything that blew me away,and all the FPS except Doom64 and Quake 2 had horrible framerates that overclocking barely even fixes. I have a N64 here in my room,but its never used. I look at it,then look at any number of other systems Id rather play like my NeoGeo or TG or Genesis that had better quality games,and I play those instead. Ill give the N64 this though,Sin and Punishment looks really nice. My friend has it and I watched him beat it. Its really well done.

I don't know, I can think of a kid or 2 that was blown away by the N64

[Michael Helgeson]

That kid and his sister in the video dont count. I doubt he was excited or blown away after playing WCW this and that,Conkers Bad Frame Rate,Perfect Slow, Winback Copy That, and the countless other shit games for the system.
The majority of system trade ins towards Play Stations and Dreamcast were Nintendo 64 systems and games. Typically any N64s we sold found their way back to us for instore credit a couple of weeks to a month later.

[muse hunter]

Mario 64 was the first proper 3D game, full 3D movement and environments (before anyone says so no tomb raider wasn't), it was the game that revolutionised videogames.  You will have to have a cold cold heart not to feel anything once you saw mario pop up at the intro for the first time, or when you made mario jump around the castle for the first time.

Oh yes, Goldeneye is multiplayer perfection, never beaten, probably never will.  I generally dislike first person shooters, Goldeneye though is the only one i ever liked. 

[Michael Helgeson]

Mario 64 was the first proper 3D game, full 3D movement and environments (before anyone says so no tomb raider wasn't), it was the game that revolutionised videogames.  You will have to have a cold cold heart not to feel anything once you saw mario pop up at the intro for the first time, or when you made mario jump around the castle for the first time.

Oh yes, Goldeneye is multiplayer perfection, never beaten, probably never will.  I generally dislike first person shooters, Goldeneye though is the only one i ever liked. 

I was more impressed with Nights and Crash Bandicoot then watching Mario jump around doing the same ole shit but in 3d.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Actually, yeah, I was in love with Crash, the beautiful graphics, the ol' school gameplay.  Nights, I never played until recently, so I can't really speak about that from the right perspective, because, I think it stinks.  But maybe I wouldn't, if I'd played it back then, I just can't seem to get into it now.  Mario 64 never did anything for me, neither does the DS version.  It's just, boring IMHO.  The N64 did have some good games.  I like Paper Mario, Perfect Dark, Golden Eye, Mischief Makers, & a few others.  Nothing ever blew me away though.  But, Crash, that, believe it or not, blew me away!

[rolins]

If the Amiga CD32 made the poll I don't see why the FM-Towns Marty shouldn't be there.

I mean the Marty was a 32bit system too; it had awesome arcade ports and the biggest library of hentai games for a console. 

[guyjin]

C'mon, I apologized for that already! gimme a break!  :oops:

[Michael Helgeson]

C'mon, I apologized for that already! gimme a break!  :oops:

Around here for such a horrible crime you can never apologize enough.

[Black Tiger]

Mario 64 was the first proper 3D game, full 3D movement and environments (before anyone says so no tomb raider wasn't), it was the game that revolutionised videogames.  You will have to have a cold cold heart not to feel anything once you saw mario pop up at the intro for the first time, or when you made mario jump around the castle for the first time.

Oh yes, Goldeneye is multiplayer perfection, never beaten, probably never will.  I generally dislike first person shooters, Goldeneye though is the only one i ever liked. 

Analog control isn't full 3D movement. The only times in Mario 64 you have full 3D movement is when you're either swimming or flying. And games like Pilot Wings did that years ago.

Now that you mention Tomb Raider though, Mario 64 is basically just a Mario version of that game.

[Keranu]

Now that you mention Tomb Raider though, Mario 64 is basically just a Mario version of that game.

Except Mario doesn't have crusty mustard controls .

[Black Tiger]

Now that you mention Tomb Raider though, Mario 64 is basically just a Mario version of that game.

Except Mario doesn't have crusty mustard controls .

Exactly, Mario 64 gave us some decent control in a straightforward adventurous 3D platformer, with some terrible camera angles. I'll have to read through the Wii instructions again to see if I can fix the damn camera somehow, but right now, its the only thing keeping me from enjoying the VC Mario 64.