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Forums - Nintendo - Will the Wii ever match the 64 in terms of awesome platformers?

thanny on 11 November 2008

^^

The quality of platforming on the 64 still keeps me coming back, almost all of my favourite games of all time come from the 64...

The 64 had Mario 64, Zelda OOT, Zelda MM, as well as Banjo Kazooie 1 & 2 and Donkey Kong 64.

Will the Wii ever have that many awesome platformers to brag of? i certainly hope so...

 



 

 

 

 

 

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Kulle on 11 November 2008

I don't think so. Plaformers were much more popular back then so there won't propably be that much of them.



bdbdbd on 11 November 2008

I don't think the two Zeldas qualify as platformers.

In number of platformers "to brag about", Wii propably will beat N64, but it's not going to beat SNES.



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thanny on 11 November 2008
bdbdbd said:
I don't think the two Zeldas qualify as platformers.

In number of platformers "to brag about", Wii propably will beat N64, but it's not going to beat SNES.

unfortunately for me i only ever got a very small sample of platformers on the SNES (I never owned, played at a neighbours). I played DKC and Lion King and that was about it

 



 

 

 

 

 

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vonboy on 11 November 2008

well, there will probably be some good low-budget platformers released on wiiware. i don't know about full-blown disk games though.



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z101 on 11 November 2008

The Wii has already Mario Galaxy, de Blob, Wario Land and Lost Winds. The Story-Modus from SSBB is mainly a plattformer. Next comes Mushroom Men, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Dark Knight.



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megaman79 on 11 November 2008

its going to look empty with Rare missing of course but considering what's coming soon along with De Blob, etc there is plenty of quality



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HappySqurriel on 11 November 2008

The N64 really did have quite a few excellent platformers (Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie 1&2, Conker's Bad fur Day, and Donkey Kong 64) ... I wouldn't be surprised if the Wii had more platormers that were "better" than these games but I don't expect the Wii to have nearly as many platformers which have the impact of these games.



coasterlove on 11 November 2008

I think it can. The Wii has only been around for not quite two years and has some great platformers for it. I think as time goes on and the installed base keeps growing, more games will be made. Now if it can match the quality of the SNES whick I think has one of the best libraries of games for any system.



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Cheebee on 11 November 2008

Well no, I think. Rare's gone, and platformers aren't a popular genre of gaming anymore. I also don't think Zelda games qualify as platformers, but that's another discussion entirely.
And like HappySqurriel said, no platforming game that comes out now is ever gonna have the impact the N64 classics had. Still, Wii already has some excellent platformers. :)



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