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Nintendo - N64 vs Wii U - View Post

SammyGiireal on 14 November 2019
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siebensus4 said:
curl-6 said:

One of the biggest issues I had with Wii U was that with a small number of exceptions it felt like Nintendo had lost their ambition and weren't trying their hardest.

That certainly wasn't a problem on the N64.

Nintendo had lost their ambition during Wii era. This console was a massive success and they thought Wii U would be fast-selling as well. Within the first year Nintendo realized that this wouldn't be the case and from that point on I have the impression they got their ambition back. 3D World was the first proof – a perfect game with full of love designed and without gameplay bugs. Splatoon, Mario Kart 8 and Mario Maker really showed that they wanted to make good games for this specific console. All games got updates for about a year and got better and better, though they were not rated as high as some N64 titles, which is in case of Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon actually a shame.

Ocarina of Time is by the way the most overrated game in video game history. It uses the Mario 64 engine, has 12,5 fps (PAL) and has an empty overworld compared to A Link to the Past, since they couldn't add more enemies and details because of frame rate issues. Nintendo wanted too much from the hardware which was just not powerful enough for 3D. On the other hand, Yoshi's Story shows how this console should have been used right. SNES games aged good, N64 games aged bad. Wii U games will age good, mainly because of 60 fps.

I stopped reading at that point. That's a terrible statement, when the game is still making top ten lists 21 years after its release. The game was perhaps the most influential piece of software for the entire 3rd person action/adventure genre. It remains the highest rated game Metacritic wise. Its 3DS remake which pretty much plays the same, with a modest coat of paint got rave reviews in 2011.

Your statement is doesn't hold well at all. I will remind you that 1998 was a year that featured incredible games, and had already seen the DC released in Japan, even then Ocarina of Time shattered every expectation. 

I read below that mind bending statement because I was curious as to your rationale for saying it. The N64 brought gaming to 3-D in style, if you wanted SNES games you should have stuck to playing GB color games during the era. By the way Yoshi Story was pretty mundane. The Saturn was a much better machine in terms of 2-D processing capabilities.