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Gaming - PS3 vs N64 - View Post

ZechsMerquise on 21 October 2010
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Antabus said:
ZechsMerquise said:
hikaruchan said:
ZechsMerquise said:

Clearly anyone saying PS3 wan't actually around in the N64 days! The N64 was revolutionary, the PS3 is evolutionary. There are several N64 games which not only rewrote the rules on gaming and defined whole new genres, but are still just as playable today as they were back then.

The PS3 may have some good games, but none of them have done for gaming what the likes of Mario 64, Zelda OOT and Goldeneye have.

That is just an insult to everybody who preferred the Games on SONY PlayStation back then I myself was on of them I loved the NES and the SNES but the N64 for me was a let down. no JRPGs to speak of no MGS no Policenauts  and so on. 

The fact that people are excited to have Zelda:OOT re-released on the 3DS speaks volumes.

What's more this thread has nothing to do with PS1, it's about N64 vs PS3, of which the N64 line up clearly did more for gaming than the PS3 line up.

And I guess FF7 hd remake would not get people excited? I also don't understand what did the N64 do what PC's and PS1 did not do back then?

Of course a Final Fantasy 7 remake would get people excited. But FFVII held more people due to it's story and characters than it did due to it's gameplay.

The impact of games like Mario 64, Zelda and Goldeneye were down to the major leap forward the gameplay took. The N64 successfully took console gaming into the 3rd dimension and brought about changes that have laid the foundations for games since then.

Nearly every 3D platform game is compared to Mario 64, which says an awful lot considering it was released well over a decade ago. It's camera system and gameplay still stand up today. The same is true of Zelda on the N64. These games had a massive impact and saw analogue control become an industry standard.

But as I said, this isn't about the PS1, it's about the PS3. The PS3 has seen gaming evolve, the games have better graphics, bigger environments and have more going on onscreen, but that's an evolution of last generation. The N64 was revolutionary, it took beloved franchises into the 3rd dimension and did it in such a way that those titles are still the bench marks for today's games.