mZuzek said:
You're absolutely entitled to your taste, but I didn't mean to say the GC games are better. They've aged better, and that's a little different. Ocarina of Time was an unprecedented revolutionary masterpiece in its time. Nowadays, it's still an amazing game, but that's about it. Wind Waker was a great game in its time, and it still is just about as good as back then. Star Fox 64 was a great game in its time, and it's not gotten much worse since then, it's aged pretty well for N64 standards. Adventures and Assault haven't aged at all, though: they were mediocre in their time, and are mediocre now. Mario 64 to Sunshine is the same situation as Ocarina of Time to Wind Waker, though I don't know if I'd call Sunshine a great game. Basically I meant to say that GameCube games can be judged by today's standards very similarly to how you'd judge them 15 years ago, unlike N64 games which are a lot worse than they originally were if you don't put yourself in that 90's mindset. Regardless of how great the likes of Ocarina of Time were, it is jarring going back nowadays and playing games at 20fps and having to endure that mind-numbingly slow text scroll speed, along with a few more things that have aged awkwardly. Wind Waker might not be as great, but there isn't much about it that makes you go "wow, this game is old". |
Ah I get it. So basically it’s like if it were shown in a graph, the line for quality of N64 games went down steeper over time than the line for quality of GC games.
Could be true.
