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Forums - Gaming - Super Mario 64 Vs Crash Bandicoot

 

Which was the better Platformer?

Super Mario 64 327 76.76%
 
Crash Bandicoot 99 23.24%
 
Total:426

Super Mario 64.

And It's Not Even Close.

Crash Bandicoot isn't even one of the top 30 greatest games of all time IMO, let alone fit to carry Mario 64's jock strap.



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Goodnightmoon said:
Mr_No said:

I have to agree with you on this. Crash does look better than SM64 (but both are good games), and the 2D Mario games had an charm that the 3D game couldn't replicate.


I strongly disagree, Naughty Dog did a great job with Crash on the psx, it was a nice looking game but I remember when I was a child, I play hell lot of Crash on my PSX and one day I saw a n64 on a shop for the first time in my life and Mario 64 was running, I played for 5 minutes and almost die of excitemente, until that moment I never saw graphics like those, never, it was vastly superior to Crash , they looked more solid, more clear, more complex and way more open and ambitious and it was very obvious in that time that Mario 64 looked better than Crash there was not even a discussion about it. Now people think in how they looked on emulators and on their memories and not how they really looked running on their original consoles, but I do remember the impact of the contrast between playing Crash daily and suddlenly playing Mario 64 for a few minutes when I had not a clue that N64 was more powerfull, and it was quite impressive and obviously superior, Crash was maybe superior on some textures and his design was specially thinked to have extremely poligonal graphics so the model design feel less outdated than some M64 models that struggle to turn some 2D characters in 3D (like Bowser...) but overall, M64 looked better.

Well, I don't have much to say on the matter than this.



I preferred crash. Back then Mario made me dizzy as hell and I just couldn't play it. I played it later on. They both have aged pretty badly though.



AlfredoTurkey said:
Nogamez said:


Dude I didn't mean the entire sonic franchise. I meant a single sonic or crash entry.


Ah, my apologies. I misread what you typed. But comparing SM64's sales to Sonic 2's and Crash's is nearly impossible due to the fact that N64 was in a different generation to Sonic and Crash wasn't bundled with PS1 consoles. I know alot of people on this site think you can compare bundeled games to unbundled games but it really isn't possible because which item made people buy the console? Was it the console? Or was it the game? 

Super Mario 64 wasn't bundled as far as I know. If it was, it wasn't anywhere near launch.