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Romanes Eunt Domus
(05-08-2012, 07:57 AM)
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smells clean, brushes teeth. Also combs hair regularly.
(05-08-2012, 08:00 AM)
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Rush has a 7th track?
Mother of god, mind blown Edit: Are they fucking serious?
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(05-08-2012, 08:01 AM)
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#56
I've got about a dozen N64 games now and I think only 4 of them were actually purchased during the lifetime of the console. Nice to see Hybrid Heaven getting some notice though. I loved that game. |
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(05-08-2012, 08:04 AM)
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When I read the thread title I knew there was gonna be a post along the lines of:
"OH I didn't even know there were 145 games AT ALL on the N64 lol!" its guaranteed with an impressive super OP like this haha. I have 226 N64 games myself lol, and no I'm not gonna review them. :P Most of them are PAL/NTSC. Only have 5 or 6 JPN games. Obviously living in a PAL country the bulk of them started as that but towards the end of the generation I got access to a credit card and importing NTSC games from America then oh boy all bets were off lol. At least even back then I had decided to only want boxed copies, it would be even more of a pain to replace them all now. There was even a Aus/NZ exclusive copy of Beetle Adventure Racing released here with different cars called HSV Adventure Racing which I thought was pretty cool..... the region exclusive part not the car part, the original was the only one I played to be honest. Loved the N64 as a system during its lifetime and then turned it into a love of collecting after. My 64DD is one of my most prized possessions! But its the fond gaming memories of the time that really get me giddy when I think about the system. Its the last system where my whole immediate family was still all under one roof, combine that with school friends and you get truly wonderful single player AND glorious multiplayer memories. <3
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(05-08-2012, 08:05 AM)
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And yeah Conker isn't a platformer, but more so a mixed bag of awesome. |
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(05-08-2012, 08:06 AM)
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As I say though, it IS just a stripped-down version of Alcatraz, a track that of course features in Rush 2, so it's not exclusive to the game, but it is a cool bonus, and it was pretty awesome that they managed to squeeze it in. :) As for why the code is so complex, they wanted to make as sure as possible that no one would guess the code -- Alcatraz was supposed to be exclusive to the also brand new Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition arcade game, they didn't want people being able to play it at home from day one... Another example of N64 games with cool hidden extras protected by codes are Rogue Squadron and Battle for Naboo. RS has the Naboo Fighter in it, only accessible via a somewhat complex code, and BfN has that hidden developer commentary mode I mention, that also is only unlockable via a cheatcode I believe.
Rayman 2 is my second place 3d platformer (I got the game for PC instead of N64, and have gotten the Dreamcast version more recently, but still not the N64 version), but I'd consider Rocket for third, perhaps... it is a very good game. |
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(05-08-2012, 08:07 AM)
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It's quite arcadey, but it's hard to deny that it is about bowling at its core. The progression is fairly interesting and its kitschy aesthetic are endearing. It can be quite slow at times, but the lanes can get pretty over the top in terms of their structure and the powerups mostly keep things interesting.
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Romanes Eunt Domus
(05-08-2012, 08:08 AM)
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The implication I wanted to make is that collectathon platformers are less about momentum and more about exploration. CBFD has neither of those in huge spades, as it's more of a potpourri of different genres glued together by the comedy vignettes.
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(05-08-2012, 08:23 AM)
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I remember lucking out on Top Gear Rally. Early console life purchase, had no idea what it was just a random racer, thought it probably sucks but meh I want another racing game....... wow this is actually really good! :D
Now I read there was a PC port ages after called Boss Rally, man my PC only owning friend at the time would have loved that, he would always play Top Gear Rally on my N64. Actually when I think about it, my N64 life was probably full of those 'luck' games. Especially early on. Mystical Ninja would be another, oh how bout this one ok lets get it................ OMG SO GOOD. |
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My Contribution
(05-08-2012, 08:23 AM)
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no one does walls of text quite like A Black Falcon™
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(05-08-2012, 08:27 AM)
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Wow, great thread man. So many memories. I also had a ton of N64 games, and like someone else mentioned in the thread earlier, Beetle Adventure Racing was fucking awesome.
I remember Christmas morning opening my present and it was a gold zelda OOT package. ah man, sooooo hype. my mom had bought it for me on launch day but kept it till christmas <3 |
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(05-08-2012, 08:27 AM)
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(05-08-2012, 08:31 AM)
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I'd also would like to point out to those interested in this game, that the PC version is far less buggy than the N64 cart (which in addition to bugs is known to crash on occasion). I dont want to say there are no bugs, but I dont recall anything that impeded my playthough of it on the PC. The sound and music are also more impressive on the PC EDIT- noticed in your Tonic Trouble review you said the game was about a robot trying to fix his ship. Having replayed it earlier today, I can safely say its about an alien janitor trying to collect parts for a catapult so he can fight an evil viking warlord =P
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(05-08-2012, 08:32 AM)
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But there are some major N64 games that I don't have, such as lots of the sports games, most of the other wrestling games (those were pretty popular, at the time...), Goldeneye (though as I said I have played it), any of the Mortal Kombat games, KI Gold, etc.
I don't think I own any golf games for any consoles, unless you count minigolf (because that I do enjoy), and even there I only have a couple... I've never actually played a Mario Golf game, but I find golf games so uninteresting most of the time that I've never cared to try... ... Actually, I do have one TG16 golf game. I only have it because it came with a batch of games I was buying for some other stuff, though, I've only played it for seconds.
Because yeah, Goemon's Great Adventure is an amazing game, and certainly one of the 5th generation's best 2.5d platformers.
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(05-08-2012, 08:41 AM)
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Hah... that's one I've tried to convince myself to buy various times over the years, just so I can say my opinion on the game (I've never played it), but I haven't quite yet... I know, I should sometime, so that I can see if I hate it as much as everyone else does. I have no idea which way I'd go on the game, sometimes I do dislike unpopular games, other times I like them (like, say, Carmageddon 64).
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(05-08-2012, 08:43 AM)
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It just amazes me reading over your list how I know like, EVERY game on it lol.
I imagine if you posted a similar list for PSX I just wouldn't have the same feelings (good or bad) for as many of them. I did have a Saturn and PSX as well but the N64 was without a doubt my MAIN system. Whether it was just personal experience playing my collection or just reading magazines or later the Internet at the time, it seems I followed N64 releases a lot more hardcore than the others. |
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(05-08-2012, 08:52 AM)
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That's take quite a while to do, though... I like writing the text for these things, but finding pictures is a pain. And with so many games, that'd take a long time. It'd make the posts MUCH longer, too... I can understand why people would want to see some screenshots, though. It is something I've considered (at least, adding screenshots for some games, if not all), but I haven't done it so far, obviously.
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Yeah, there's one I'll need to get sometime.
Of course with the sheer volume of releases on the Playstation, it's much harder to have that kind of knowledge of the library -- the system has thousands of releases worldwide -- but still, the N64 certainly has enough that most people don't know most of them. Of course, for most Westerners, the most unknown N64 games are the Japan-only titles. The Playstation and Saturn have much better known Japanese libraries than the N64 does, overall... of course I don't have any of those imports yet, but there definitely are some I'd like to own, and not just Sin & Punishment and Bangaioh. Because Perfect Dark is a better game. |
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(05-08-2012, 08:59 AM)
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Nintendo hire this man for something. Dat dedication.
N64 is my favorite system of all time if only for nostalgia reasons. I had SNES, PS1 etc. but N64 was my childhood console. I wished so bad I could get some of that feeling back with Wii but it didn't happen =( |
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(05-08-2012, 08:59 AM)
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No Harvest Moon 64? You missed the best of the series.. but you had Jet Force Gemini on there, so I'll stick around.
Next week on 1up.com - "Nintendo 64 Retrospective Throwback - We do mini reviews on 150 games!"
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![]() (05-08-2012, 09:18 AM)
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Just to share a memory:
I bought an imported launch Japanese N64 (£400), Super Mario 64 (£115), Pilotwings 64 (£120) and Waverace 64 (£125), only to realise that my TV wouldn't accept the NTSC signal properly and everything was black&white! No problem though, if I sent it away to a specialist, a simple conversion chip-thing could sort it out. However, Mario, Waverace and Pilotwings were so above and beyond anything that I'd ever experienced before, that there was no way in hell I would give up the 64 for an entire week, the waiting would have been unbearable. So there I was, out of pocket by the sum £760, playing Mario on a 14" TV, in black&white for an entire month (before sending it away)... and I couldn't have been happier.
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Oh and Excitebike 64 <3 |
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(05-08-2012, 09:26 AM)
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As I say in the review, I also I love that it's a racing game first -- stunts are only a minimal element of this, and while I like stuff like the SSX series, I've always had a lot more fun in race mode in SSX games than in the stunt modes. Big Mountain has four racers in each race, too, more than you'll find in some other 5th gen snowboarding games. And while it does have only four courses, that's one more than the other three games from the developer have, and the three different races on each track really are quite different; sure, the freestyle, slalom, and giant slalom races on each mountain are on the same course, but the very different gate layouts on the two gate races make it feel quite different. And of course you have three other people on the course in all races (I'm looking at you, Steep Slope Sliders on the Saturn, why are there no other people to race against, ever, in the whole game?). As for the audio, it's pretty average stuff, but I do like the announcer; he's nice and optimistic. IGN's review compared it to Coolboarders, but honestly, I don't know why. I admit that I only have Coolboarders 2, and Rippin' Riders for Dreamcast (which is by that same developer and was called Coolboarders in Japan), but I pretty much hate Rippin Riders (seriously, one of the worst snowboarding games I own...), and Coolboarders 2 is only a little bit better, I think, though I admit I haven't played it as much... still, I don't see the connection. It's its own thing. The Japanese title of Snow Speeder really is a good name for this game -- it's fast! See this video. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYQ2tnZqok (Oh, in the description the person says they don't know what stamina does. Well, you lose stamina by falling down, and when it runs out, you'll fall down much more easily from then on in the race, unless you snowplow a lot. So try to keep it up by not falling.) ... Yeah, do any other 5th gen snowboarding games match that speed?
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(05-08-2012, 09:33 AM)
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Great Op(s)! This thread reminds me to buy a N64 again - with Bomberman 64.
Its sad that Hudson never tried the 3D Platformer formula again and never will again. I had fun with game as a kid, even if I never managed to play through the whole game. The art-style was good and the customizable multiplayer characters where even better. I have no idea why its not on the VC though. It is different enough from the other Bomberman games there to sell. |
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(05-08-2012, 09:41 AM)
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Cool topic, read a few of them.
Some weird stuff though, Kirby 64 - why do you care if there's no infinite hovering? Playing Kirby like that would be ultra boring. But I agree this game is not that good. Mischief Makers - I don't like this game much (played it a couple years ago and gave up halfway), but to say it has no variety is objectively wrong. Like every level plays different to the last. And Yoshi Story sucks. Why? The only way the game makes sense is if you're going for the melons. But many are tied to incredibly difficult mini-games (you have to restart the level if you fail) or hidden in really obscure places. Add to that the incredibly slippery and imprecise controls (why no d-pad support?) and the game can turns into frustration-land quickly. I played it trying to get as much melons as possible, but rarely did I manage to get all. Would have gone mad if I kept replaying until I achieved ithat. As for sidescrollers, yes, Goemon is the best by far and an excellent game. Sadly it doesn't have much competition. Kirby 64 is just ok, Mischief Makers I couldn't like, and Yoshi Story is the worst Nintendo-developed game I've ever played. Back then I didn't care much, since I was more into 3D games; nowadays I much prefer 2D games. Which is actually why the N64 is my favorite console, it has to do with the period I played it since objectively it's lacking in many respects. |
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(05-08-2012, 09:48 AM)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoZBnkdvOU
N64 console review. Just seems like it fits in this topic. |