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TopicC/D The Nintendo 64 is still the greatest console ever made.
TyVulpine
07/26/23 12:34:03 AM
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PraetorXyn posted...
Which ones are you considering impactful?

The 3D platformers were largely just transitions of 2D platformers to 3D, and as far as I can remember they all had terrible camera controls and other issues. None have aged as well as their 2D predecessors.

GoldenEye and Perfect Dark were basically just poor attempts to make first person shooters available on a console. Comparing GoldenEye to Quake, which released a year earlier, and Quake 2, which released a few months later, the differences are pretty stark. Comparing Perfect Dark to Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament, which released the previous year, the differences are far more stark.

OoT was basically a transition of A Link to the Past to 3D, and Majoras Mask was a riff on that. Both are objectively worse than ALttP if you take off the nostalgia goggles and actually critically evaluate them, and neither has aged anywhere near as well as ALttP. This is a pretty good video on the subject.
https://youtu.be/XOC3vixnj_0

I didnt play Stadium, but my understanding is that it was a transition to 3D of a comsole Pokmon coliseum fighter. It took them until the Switch to do another home console Pokmon as far as Im aware, as I dont play that series (I played Pokmon Snap I borrowed from a friend, but I consider Pokmon Babbies First Shin Megami Tensei, as the Megaten games came long before Pokmon and use cool demons instead if baby monsters).

Mario Kart 64 was basically a transition of Super Mario Kart to 3D, and Diddy Kong Racing was an admittedly excellent riff on that. But Kurt racers besides Mario Kart pretty much died, somId hardly call them impactful.

Making the transition to 3D was inevitable and hardly something worth crediting the 64 for. The bottom line is Nintendo shot themselves in the dick when they decided to stick with 32 MB cartridges to control and nickel and dime developers, despite SquareSoft begging them not to. The 64 literally only had 388 games if you combine all versions of all games for all regions. They pretty much destroyed their third party support with a single boneheaded decision, and they deserve to be ridiculed for it.
Damn....where to start with this?
GE and Perfect Dark revolutionized FPSers, especially multiplayer modes, that games like Halo were modeled off of.
OoT and MM aren't "nostalgia goggles" games. They are both awesome in their own way and paved the way for future Zelda games.
I can't tell if your post was supposed to be satire or genuine, but either way, it's a bad take. It seems to be of the "they're old games, therefore they all suck!" opinion.

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