jeremy1456
Junior Member
Super Mario 64 is the main one that comes to mind, as well as the Resident Evil games.
Your picks?
Your picks?
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3D Games That Hold Up From the 32/64-bit era?
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jeremy1456
Junior Member
It holds up better than any PS1 fighter for sure,
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
DK64 aged alright, I think.
Star Fox 64
Edit: That may be from the 3DS version. idk though lol
Here,
top looks like 64 running through an emulator (definitely not 3DS), though the virtual console of Star Fox 64 looks basically the same.
Hell, most N64 VC games hold up extremely well. The bump up to 480p helps.
TDLink
Member
I disagree. The OP mentions nothing about framerate. Even though they run at sub-30, when you're playing the games it isn't too noticeable. The games themselves still contain incredibly great design and are fun to play. They also don't look like garbage. Thus, they hold up.
DK64 aged alright, I think.
Great graphics, especially for the time and hardware, but I hated the gameplay even when it was new. Conker is a much better game in every way IMO.
anywho, continuing:
Stairouais
Member
Omega Boost - Wip3out - Ridge Racer Type 4
jeremy1456
Junior Member
The framerates are kind of implied. That's most what needs to hold up.
I'm sorry but I'm gonna call nostalgia goggles on that one.
Nintendojitsu
Banned
Waverace 64
Great graphics, especially for the time and hardware, but I hated the gameplay even when it was new. Conker is a much better game in every way IMO.
anywho, continuing:
Maybe if you had posted the Arcade version... the Saturn port of Sega Rally runs like complete ass.
this got a terrific saturn port, too. It runs at 25 FPS instead of 30, though.
The saturn version is terrific.
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Xpike
Unconfirmed Member
Crash Bandicoot 1-3, Metal Gear Solid, Rayman 2, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy 7/8, the 2 Zeldas, Star Fox 64, F-Zero X, Kirby 64, Super Smash Bros 64...the list is not that small.
Begaria
Member
This is completely bias considering it's my favorite console RPG of all time but: Vagrant Story!
Googled images don't really do the game justice. It looks so much better in motion. The character art, the animation, the monster art, and all the little details make it truly awesome. I will admit some of the environment art does look fairly dated by today's standards.
Googled images don't really do the game justice. It looks so much better in motion. The character art, the animation, the monster art, and all the little details make it truly awesome. I will admit some of the environment art does look fairly dated by today's standards.
Kageshinzo
Member
I just finished OoT for the first time last year. It was great and the graphics didn't bother me (aside from the nightmare fuel fairy).
It is not nostalgia goggles.
As for the topic:
Einhander.
TDLink
Member
I'm sorry, no. For a 64 bit game this looks great:
While I agree, that's not what Majora's Mask looked like on the N64.
PhineBuyM3
Member
I just finished OoT for the first time last year. It was great and the graphics didn't bother me (aside from the nightmare fuel fairy).
It is not nostalgia goggles.
As for the topic:
Einhander.
Glad I read all the replies first, I was gonna post an Einhander screen as well.
TeddyShardik
Banned
Pretty small selection for me there. A lot of games from that time had really bad frame rates and since the PAL versions ran at even lower fps than their NTSC counterparts because of 50Hz TVs I can't say I'm looking back very fondly when it comes to technical aspects.
Still love to play Star Fox 64(or Lylat Wars
) and Wave Race 64.
Still love to play Star Fox 64(or Lylat Wars
) and Wave Race 64.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
The first time I played this game I thought it looked like vomit.
Several hours later I learned it plays like it looks. Don't get me wrong; the engine is fairly smooth but the gameplay is best compared to how the game looks like in still frames. Vomit.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Banjo Kazooie (N64)
Banjo Tooie (N64)
Banjo Tooie (N64)
Needs to be seen in motion to be understood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P0KFEhiFbE
Gorgeous water effects, the best of the 32-bit era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P0KFEhiFbE
Gorgeous water effects, the best of the 32-bit era
hell yeah
soxinthebox
Member
Mario Tennis (N64) still plays great today.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Tobal 2 still looks quite nice. 60fps with damn sharp looking gourad shaded polygons. Still plays as good as it ever did. Especially all the interesting grapples you can do.
I just did the exact same thing. That game still looks incredible, even at that resolution.
It's a great port. Moves nice and smoothly.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I capped a video of VF2's intro to use as a sample for the Saturn's RGB output. Might as well link it here.
The horizontal resolution isn't exactly correct due to a quirk with my capture card. And since the game runs in 480i, I used a deinterlace filter when capturing, which might be cheating a little bit, but it's difficult to convey how 480i would look as intended on a CRT anyway.
Glass Rebel
Member
The first Sin & Punishment still holds up really well, probably because it's made by treasure and because it was one of if not the last N64 game.
MaverickHunterAsh
Member
Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Legends 2, Donkey Kong 64, Goemon 64, etc., etc.... quite a few, actually.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
What.
I love that game, but it was always ugly. Bunch of triangles mashed together and then ran over with a blur tool a million times.
I think the framerate is really solid, though. Not sure what it was exactly but it doesn't drop much unless you flip on turbo mode.
Tidus_Great
Banned
FF7
FF8
FF9
MGS
Vagrant Story
Soul Reaver
Xenogears
all still classics
FF8
FF9
MGS
Vagrant Story
Soul Reaver
Xenogears
all still classics
JB-the-Hunter
Member
Paper Mario
And yes, pretty sure it's rendered in 3D.
And yes, pretty sure it's rendered in 3D.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Team Buddies looks pretty good even to this day. The flat shaded graphics aged well:
zero shift
Banned
If you mean 3D 3D, as in not with an overhead or sidescrolling view? Pretty much any big N64 games and most first person shooters. I will admit though that there were a lot less 3D games during that era than most think. Most 3D games were just overhead or had fixed views with 3D graphics.
In fact outside of platformers, Zelda, racing games, first person shooters, and Tomb Raider, I struggle to think of games of that era that weren't.
In fact outside of platformers, Zelda, racing games, first person shooters, and Tomb Raider, I struggle to think of games of that era that weren't.
I suppose, but those graphics sure as hell aren't flat shaded.Team Buddies looks pretty good even to this day. The flat shaded graphics aged well:
