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Wii U 32 28.83%
 
N64 79 71.17%
 
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SammyGiireal said:
bigtakilla said:

Okay, your top 50 games are your top 50 games. I'd have a few (to include Bayo 2, Mario 3d World, XCX which would be my #1 game of all time, Windwaker HD, and even the poorly received Fatal Frame V, BOTW wouldn't make it because I haven't played it). As far as N64 games go, it would be Paper Mario, OOT and Mario 64, and those would only make the top 50 based on how I felt about the games at the time, I can't throw them in now and enjoy them in nearly the same capacity, but I honestly I do think top 50s should be based on how they effected us on release, so they would make it. 

Most people won't and don't have XCX in their top 100 games list. I guarantee OoT will be in the top 10 every time. You have a personal preference for the WiiU which is understandable, but for a vast majority of people and critics the N64 was and will always be the better system. It's games were also better (much better) at the time of their release. 

Breath Of The Wild will be though, ahead of OoT.



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bigtakilla said:
SammyGiireal said:

Most people won't and don't have XCX in their top 100 games list. I guarantee OoT will be in the top 10 every time. You have a personal preference for the WiiU which is understandable, but for a vast majority of people and critics the N64 was and will always be the better system. It's games were also better (much better) at the time of their release. 

Breath Of The Wild will be though, ahead of OoT.

It isn't ahead of it now, 21 one years after the fact. OoT remains the highest rated game. Most people would have played the game on Switch anyways.



Doctor_MG said:
bigtakilla said:

I do remember people trashing the N64s graphics. There was Wave Race, Mario 64, and even OOT, but there's no doubt where the game industry decided it wanted to go (at least until technology improved).

Also, it's hard to argue that N64 games are the worst aged games of all time.

I don't know who was trashing the N64's graphics when it's graphics were much better than the competition at the time. You can guess which picture is from the PS1 and which is from the N64. Also, I wouldn't say the N64 has poorly aged games. Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time are still incredibly fun to play. In fact, the majority of it's first and second party library is. With the biggest exceptions being Goldeneye and Perfect Dark due to their incredibly awkward control schemes.

True, but people were more talking about game with pre rendered backgrounds and cut scenes. So, even I can agree with you games that were made with full 3D poly to full 3D poly, yeah the N64 would win, But if we look at other aspects of gaming, like pre rendered backgrounds, music, cutscenes, and just how big developers could make games it really is no comparison. CD's were the future and gaming in general went that direction. Now I think tech has caught up enough where it leans the other way crazy enough to say, but in all honesty, streaming would be more efficient and produce better results than any physical medium.

And let's be honest, spite animation has aged better than either of those.



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SammyGiireal said:
bigtakilla said:

Breath Of The Wild will be though, ahead of OoT.

It isn't ahead of it now, 21 one years after the fact. OoT remains the highest rated game. Most people would have played the game on Switch anyways.

I prefer OoT, and who cares it is a Wii U game.



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bigtakilla said:
SammyGiireal said:

It isn't ahead of it now, 21 one years after the fact. OoT remains the highest rated game. Most people would have played the game on Switch anyways.

I prefer OoT, and who cares it is a Wii U game.

Most who played both at their respective launches will prefer OoT. It was, in 1998 a much better, much more ground breaking experience than BotW was in 2017. That's how you rank games historically. 

It is a Wii U game but it is the only Wii U game that actually stacks up against OoT, SM64, MM, and GE in a historical sense.



N64, no contest.

It was a bigger strategic disaster for Nintendo, because back then Nintendo had more to lose. But gaming-wise, it brought so much more lasting innovaton. OoT and SM64 are more important to gaming than anything on the Wii U, even BoW.



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SammyGiireal said:
bigtakilla said:

I prefer OoT, and who cares it is a Wii U game.

Most who played both at their respective launches will prefer OoT. It was, in 1998 a much better, much more ground breaking experience than BotW was in 2017. That's how you rank games historically. 

It is a Wii U game but it is the only Wii U game that actually stacks up against OoT, SM64, MM, and GE in a historical sense.

 I agree here completely *edit* about the OoT stuff. I think historically Splatoon, XCX, and Bayo 2 will be very relevant. 



WiiU lacked a true system seller than most Nintendo systems had. It had some great games, but no real megaton to speak of. It did get Breath of the Wild, but at that point attention had shifted to the other device the game launched on.

N64 on the other hand had Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Banjo, Jet Force Gemini, Mario 64, kicked off Smash, and Mario Party was a massive hit out of the gate.  Not to mention while it lacked in 3rd party support, it did get quite a bit in the way of quality 3rd party exclusives.

N64 wins this easily in my book.



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StarCraft and Resident Evil 2 were no doubt two of the biggest games of that generation. We don't talk about those releases on the N64 because the definitive versions of those games were on other hardware. Those two games are largely forgotten, and even if they're remembered, they hold no weight in the conversation because their releases are seen as mostly irrelevant. Most people played those games on other hardware.

To put things into perspective: between the PSX and N64, 5.52 million copies of RE2 sold. 0.56M of 5.52M were on N66. Similarly speaking, 1.61M of 16.15M of Breath of the Wild sales are on the Wii U. This means that already, the N64 version of RE2 holds a more significant share percentage than BotW on Wii U.

Breath of the Wild was a killer app on Switch, not the Wii U. Breath of the Wild on Switch is one of the biggest releases of the generation, not the Wii U port.

Ocarina of Time was a killer app on N64, not as big as Breath of the Wild on Switch, but a killer app none-the-less.

In short: Ocarina of Time was a monumental release on N64. Breath of the Wild's release on Switch was also monumental, but its release on Wii U was not. When people talk about the 22-28M that it will inevitably sell on Switch, the articles are going to be about that version of the game; the Wii U version will be a bullet point at best.

Since people brought up the quality of the games: personally speaking, Breath of the Wild is what I thought Zelda 64 was going to be. Not saying I didn't love the crap out of Ocarina of Time, but it was a bit of a sobering experience; Breath of the Wild was more of an ecstatic one.



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