Nuvendil said:
I disagree as an N64/SNES kid :P . I thought it was very good. I think that nostalgia and hipster culture elevate the N64 higher than it deserves. Not cause it's bad, it isn't. But whenever I hear people say that Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Golden Eye, and other games in that vein "haven't aged a day," it really bothers me. I'm playing the 3DS version of OoT and it has clearly, badly aged. If Nintendo launched a new Zelda with characters written like OoT and the ammount of vast, empty space with absolutely nothing in it they would be drawn and quartered. Cause the characters are as engaging as cardboard boxes with silly faces and Hyrule Field, while an impressive achievement on the system, is a desolate void. Shoot, people wanted to hang Nintendo over the Sky in Skyward Sword and yet Hyrule Field in OoT is better? And don't get me started on the camera control in these games. Just saying, so much of the hype over N64 I don't get. I loved mine, but I think a lot of the praise it gets *now* is unwarranted. |
The reason N64 is far above Gamecube is because unlike Gamecube, some of it's games changed the entire industry. Mario 64 was more revolutionary than all of Gamecubes games put together.
And when you think about it, NES and SNES were in the same boat. Up until Gamecube, us gamers expected games from Nintendo that weren't just good, but industry shaping. The Gamecube just didn't provide that sort of thing.
