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Post by ERON on Apr 22, 2019 7:25:41 GMT -5
Neither. I was a Sega Saturn guy.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Apr 22, 2019 8:09:48 GMT -5
For the sheer social aspect, the N64 had some gems. I remember my mate had a free house for several weeks in the summer and it seemed every night there was at least a dozen people all round, getting drunk and the N64 was the centre of attention witg 4 player GoldenEye going on all through the night. Occasion swapped for Mario kart. Although the ps did have resident evil, final fantasy, silent Hill, mgs, and lots of great one player epics.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Apr 22, 2019 8:21:43 GMT -5
N64. Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye 007, Mario 64, Smash Bros., and the AKI wrestling games. I didn't need anything else.
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Post by Dat Dude on Apr 22, 2019 10:48:05 GMT -5
Neither. I was ride or die for Sega Saturn at the time.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 22, 2019 12:12:36 GMT -5
Man, I forgot how absolutely dreadful the N64's traditional fighting game lineup was. It was like, Mortal Kombat and a special version of Killer Instinct 2 and that was about it. Saturn and Playstation were your only options if you wanted to play any 2D fighting games at all, much less some of the 3D fighting standouts like Tekken, Soul Blade, or Virtua Fighter.
The more eccentric games like the original Smash Bros. helped to soften the blow a bit as did AKI's excellent wrestling games like WCW/nWo Revenge and WWF No Mercy, but the lack of anything like Street Fighter or KOF really hurt.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 22, 2019 12:45:27 GMT -5
Hate the N64 controller. The analog stick broke/wore out quick. And besides 4 or so games there wasn't much I wanted to play on the 64.
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Post by crowley1986 on Apr 22, 2019 13:52:06 GMT -5
PS one but regret not getting a n64, but I was a 10 year old and didn't have money to buy both which I would have done, I really want to play the WCW/WWE games, Mario games and more...if they bring the retro n64 back I hope they put some of the wrestling games on but I don't feel it will
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 22, 2019 15:06:17 GMT -5
Also a controller that wasn't designed by some kind of eldritch being. The N64 controller still feels like one of the most intuitive, natural controllers ever built to me. I picked one up after ten years and was happily back in the swing of things within a minute or two. On the other hand Sony's refusal to make any significant changes to the PlayStation controller is the primary reason I've stayed away from their consoles for the last 20 years. Yeah, I found the n64 controller really intuitive. It looks weird but when it's in your hands you don't really notice it... I don't think people realized L and Z were the same button so you were meant to hold it depending on the game. The Dualshock was fine at the time... but the analog sticks are in a f***ing terrible position and they haven't moved them in over 20 years
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 22, 2019 15:10:42 GMT -5
I feel like the N64 lineup has aged better than the PSX lineup for the most part. Some of those PSX games have not aged well, especially the earlier ones.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 22, 2019 15:11:05 GMT -5
I didn't really like the N64 controller, though Sony's refusal to move the left analog stick to the primary control position instead of the less and less-used D-Pad always felt weird to me. At least the Dual Shock 4 made some slight, but noticeable improvements like changing the shape of the L2 and R2 buttons to be more "trigger" like instead of the weird convex shape they were on the Dual Shock 3. My fingers always slipped off those.
I feel like the N64 lineup has aged better than the PSX lineup for the most part. Some of those PSX games have not aged well, especially the earlier ones. TBH, I don't think either system's games have aged particularly well and playing games on HDTV's makes it all the more obvious. Only real exceptions I'd make are ones that used more sprite work than 3D graphics, which you tend to see more on the Playstation. The cartridge format also really hurt the N64 in that they couldn't come close to the audio quality of the Playstation 1 or the disc-based Saturn games. It also couldn't replicate the full motion video that those systems could, like the WWF AKI wrestling game "entrance videos" being a series of blurry still images with the crudest animation and very poor, muffled audio quality for the theme music.
But for the 3D games, neither the sharp, but very jaggy 3D graphics of the PS1 nor the anti-aliased, but foggy and blurry graphics of the N64 look that hot.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Apr 22, 2019 15:14:13 GMT -5
PS1. It was the most popular thing here, video game wise. 'course, part of it was due to how easy it was to pirate the discs. Like, seriously, the big toy store in the mall openly sold pirated PS1 games, while the N64 was just a tiny corner. The gameboy corner had a bigger presence. And you can haggle a bit to lower the price, since smaller places sold pirated PS1 games for cheaper (and you can haggle for that, too). As a kid, you really didn't think about those things, and it was only sometime after the PS2 era when they started cracking down on the piracy.
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Post by SmashTV on Apr 22, 2019 15:48:52 GMT -5
PlayStation. Tesco were selling them cheap in late 1999 but because I was unemployed I couldn’t afford it. I had promised myself that I’d treat myself to one with my first pay cheque, and one day had an interview for a job I thought I stood had a good chance of getting. Upon arrival, though, the job had already been given to someone else, so I got a PlayStation to cheer myself up. Damnit, I deserved it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 17:11:48 GMT -5
N64. My parents were divorced and my dad got us a PS1 for Christmas 97. It was nice but my mom got me the N64 and I loved it. The wrestling games and Goldeneye put it over the top for me/
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Apr 23, 2019 5:08:34 GMT -5
Man, I forgot how absolutely dreadful the N64's traditional fighting game lineup was. It was like, Mortal Kombat and a special version of Killer Instinct 2 and that was about it. Saturn and Playstation were your only options if you wanted to play any 2D fighting games at all, much less some of the 3D fighting standouts like Tekken, Soul Blade, or Virtua Fighter. The more eccentric games like the original Smash Bros. helped to soften the blow a bit as did AKI's excellent wrestling games like WCW/nWo Revenge and WWF No Mercy, but the lack of anything like Street Fighter or KOF really hurt. As an avid Fighting game fan the sheer lack of decent fighting games on the N64 is my one and only issue with the system. So while others are playing awesome stuff like Street Fighter Alpha 3 or Soul Blade etc ... N64 players have Killer Instinct Gold, Smash 1 and um MK4? There is some top quality rubbish fighting games on N64 though check out War Gods or Dual Heroes if you dare. Having said that here is my top 5 fighting games on the N64, I don't count the wrestling games: 1. Super Smash Bros. - Started the series is a lot of fun and the best of the fighting games on the N64 2. Fighter's Destiny - A unique take on fighting games using a point system, some cool music and is actually kind of deep game mechanics wise. 3. Mace: The Dark Age - Very characterful, great music, has fatalities, some stages damage you and is actually kind of fun despite it being a tiny bit clunky. 4. Kille Instinct Gold - Solid port of the arcade game sequel to KI1 (but where is Riptor and Cinder? Sad times) 5. Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Yeah 4 is 3d but trilogy is better. Even if there are other better ports.
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Post by agent817 on Apr 23, 2019 9:59:04 GMT -5
Because I became a wrestling fan in 1998, I went with a Nintendo 64 and I still have it to this day. Plus, when I got it for Christmas that year, I got Cruis'n World with it, along with an extra controller. I was not really big on racing games up to that point (Still not, but I would play them), but I was able to see how fun that game was and it had a good soundtrack, too.
Later on, I got GoldenEye, which still holds up now, and believe it or not, that game got me into James Bond.
I will also note that it wasn't until later that I started to look at other parts of the N64 library, like Jet Force Gemini and Body Harvest.
As for Playstation, I didn't have one, though I remember wanting one for the Twisted Metal games. However, I went with the PS2 and at that point, it was time to play catch-up with some of the titles that I missed out on for the PS1.
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Post by dav on Apr 23, 2019 10:58:35 GMT -5
The PlayStation and it isn't close. Excellent library of games that surpasses the N64's own and a controller that didn't give me calluses.
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Post by J is Justice on Apr 23, 2019 21:47:52 GMT -5
PS1. I enjoyed my brief time with the N64, but the lack of JRPGs and fighting games kill it for me.
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Post by WR91 on Mar 15, 2020 5:40:50 GMT -5
I had both but preferred Nintendo 64 WAY more than the original PlayStation.
N64 4 life. <3
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Post by Duke Cameron on Mar 15, 2020 7:00:11 GMT -5
N64
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Mar 15, 2020 8:11:39 GMT -5
After the 16-bit era ended, I said that the SNES/SFC had the BEST games, but the Genesis/Mega Drive had way more good/great games.
The PS1/N64 era is a bit harder to do this with. I mean, the PS1 wins, hands down. The N64 barely had any notable RPGs or fighting games. The "must-have" library for N64 games is probably about 45 titles with most of them being first party. The PS1, by contrast, had hundreds of great games from dozens of great publishers. To this day, I'm still finding new PS1 games that I didn't know about.
But the N64 had games like Mario 64, TWO amazing Zelda games, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong, Blast Corps, No Mercy, Mario Party, Conker, Star Fox, and Banjo Kazooie. All games I still go back and play pretty regularly.
They were radically different consoles. It was the first console generation where I felt like I *wanted* both because each had their own can't-miss games. I never felt like I *needed* a Microsoft console, but since the 90's I've kind of gotten used to buying both Nintendo and Sony consoles.
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