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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

In addition, I'm not sure why people are sneering the N64 library, considering it produced some of the best games ever made, nostalgia glasses or not (and a the time, Mario 64, Golden-Eye, etc. WERE considered the pinnacle of gaming).

I've never had a real problem with the games as-such, but I've always hated the controller with a passion. the thing was an abomination, and I've been wary of Nintendo consoles ever since. I grew up on the NES and the SNES, but if anything, the N64 controller single-handedly forced me into Sony's camp from that point ever after.

Ideally, i should forget that a controller for any system is in my hands very early into my time with a console. at no point with an N64 controller was I ever not aware that I was holding it. ignoring Nintendo's reliance on gimmickry ever since, the N64 is always the product i can point to and say that is where Nintendo lost me on consoles.

the handhelds were a different story, but even then I gave up on the 3DS when the N3DS created a split between haves and have-nots when Xenoblade Chronicles came out. I wasn't buying a whole new handheld mid-generation just because Nintendo got greedy, and even with the 3DS I turned off the 3D about 10 minutes after i got the thing and never looked back.

on the one hand, i want to give Nintendo credit for trying new things, but after 20 years of what i consider grave missteps, I have to question if they market test this shit first, or if they're just shoving it down our throats as if they tell me what i want rather than the other way around.
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