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

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CrashDestroyer on 04 December 2010

I think it beat the N64 when Super Mario Galaxy came out.

Now to beat the SNES and NES....

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huaxiong90 on 04 December 2010

Now, if only they'd make a good Metroid game, bring back old, missing franchises, and make spiritual successors to Rareware's games (apart from DKC, that's been taken care of), then it'll surpass it as a console overall. IMO, anyways. SMG >>> SM64.

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Beuli2 on 04 December 2010

It already has as Nintendo 64 never had a decent platformer.

Above: still the best game of the year.

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No way, though I love Wii, N64 is and will probably remain my all-time favourite console.

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Cheebee on 04 December 2010

Oops, double post, nevermind this one.

Well, since it's here already and I can't delete, why not brighten up this thread with a screenshot of one of the N64's most charming games:

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KungKras on 04 December 2010

Beuli2 said:

It already has as Nintendo 64 never had a decent platformer.

Blasphemy! Platformers doesn't have to be 2D to be decent.

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KungKras on 04 December 2010

Immortal said:

KungKras said:

I love how some comments before NSMBWii was announced say that platformers aren't that popular anymore, and then comes the game that totally smashes that perception ^^

Wii really has brought back one of my favourite genres to to relevance :D

If only Sega had made "Sonic the Hedgehog Returns" rather than Sonic 4, :P. Sonic could have been brought back from the dead!

Agreed.

I still like Sonic 4 more then Sonic Colours though. It's a step in the right direction, and Metal Sonic in part 2 will be sweet.

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Immortal on 04 December 2010

KungKras said:

Immortal said:

KungKras said:

I love how some comments before NSMBWii was announced say that platformers aren't that popular anymore, and then comes the game that totally smashes that perception ^^

Wii really has brought back one of my favourite genres to to relevance :D

If only Sega had made "Sonic the Hedgehog Returns" rather than Sonic 4, :P. Sonic could have been brought back from the dead!

Agreed.

I still like Sonic 4 more then Sonic Colours though. It's a step in the right direction, and Metal Sonic in part 2 will be sweet.

Haven't tried either of them yet actually. Might end up getting Episode 2 before Episode 1. Hopefully I'll be able to play as Tails or Sonic and Tails again, it made Sonic 3 and Knuckles much more fun, :D.

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craighopkins said:

Cheebee said:
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. :)

This ^^

I dont really think MS and rare go together... Rare and Nintendo seemed to work better together.

The problem isn't MS and Rare's chemistry , the problem is Rare.

They haven't put out much and their games have been mediocre.

Their N64 stuff is extremely over rated in my opinion, but they were cutting edge for the time.

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