We will never see such a huge jump from the graphics of the Snes to the N64 again. The anticipation I had at the time wanting to play Mario 64 was insane. I won't forget.
Seeing Mario 64 in 97 first quickly at a store and then listening to dire dire docks in Jolly Roger Bay at a friend's house was very powerful. Hard to forget indeed.
Yes, to me, it was mind blowing and I didn't even like video games at the time. It was the first time I wanted to actually play a video game because it felt like you were really in the world.
I've seen a greater jump from the SNES to the PS1 and from the N64 to the Dreamcast, also from the PS2 to the 360 and the Atari 2600 to the NES, and...
You are extremely mistaken if you think Mario 64's accomplishment was simply getting Mario successfully into 3d. What Mario 64 really accomplish at the time was that it taught EVERYONE how to control and move in a 3d environment, it made it intuitive for the first time ever, and that my friend is not overrated at all.
As far as platformers go, yes indeed Mario 64 Doom (technically quake but meh) Gran Turismo MechWarrior There are the actual pioneers. GTA3 would be the late hero. But yeah, from a games development standpoint these are the most important, and much of their code is still felt today
I would say Tomb Raider was equally as seminal as Mario 64 in that regard. Doom, although very important for FPS, was psuedo-3D. All in all it was, in actuality, a 2D game. The 3D is essentially an illusion, much similar to SNES Mode 7, and your character can't even look up or down, or move along a Y-axis or Z-axis. Plus, Wolfenstein preceded it. Quake, I'll give you. Duke Nukem 3D was another preceding interim step to true 3D. Gran Turismo is a racing sim... while it was good, and made strides in that regard as far as graphics, details, and options, its fundamental gameplay isn't all that different from Pole Position when you get down to it. MechWarrior... can't really speak on that one. Have heard of it, but never played it. However, from what I've seen of it, it doesn't look anymore 3D than plenty of other PC games that preceded it, like Rescue On Fractalus! or something like that. GTAIII was certainly seminal.
PS1 had 3 of my biggest gateway drugs. I had played Genesis and SNES, but I was pretty casual. I played whatever had a cool box. Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil, & Twisted Metal 2 changed me forever as a person. I was looking for every game in those 3 genres, and it took up a huge chunk of my late teens and early twenties.
Games on the N64 that aren’t commonly talked about that people should play are Duke Nukem 64 Duke Nukem zero hour Operation Winback Resident Evil 2 Indiana jones the the infernal machine forsaken shadow man 007 The World is not enough Quake Quake 2 Tom Clancy rainbow six Nightmare Creatures and Hexen
I had a Sega Saturn and PS1. They both were provided great experiences as a kid. I had always wanted a N64 as a kid. SM64 blew me away. It wasn't until 2008 as an adult that my Mom got me it for Christmas. Lol, love it.
I grew up with N64 and didn't play too much Playstation. What I remember about the Playstation though was *not* liking the controller oddly. The lack of an analog stick early on made that system seem dated, and by the time the analog stick variant came out I had gotten used to the N64 layout. Now I'm a keyboard and mouse gamer and I actually never got used to the modern two analog stick format as strange as that might sound to some. I also remember the load times of CD-based consoles. In some ways, the N64 was old-fashioned for using cartridges. In other ways, I think CD-roms were a remarkably temporary media format. A couple generations later, we still used DVDs, but the games were fully installed on hard disks, rather than played from CD. The N64 felt much snappier than the PS1 and I distinctly remember waiting for levels to load or being prompted to change to Disk 2. N64 also made up for limited storage on cartridges by having save batteries instead of memory cards. Graphics-wise, I remember being impressed by the pre-rendered video on PS1's larger storage medium. But it felt like window dressing. In the vast majority of titles the graphical inconsistency between FMVs and gameplay was jarring. I remember feeling that the N64, despite its limitations, was much more visually consistent. While limited in number, the 3D platformers on N64 largely controlled better than most on the PS1. Compare Tomb Raider's camera controls to the various Nintendo/Rare iterations of the Mario 64 format, for example. Our household had an N64 and a PC with a Voodoo 2 card shortly afterwards, so there wasn't much the Playstation could do that those two systems couldn't. The Nintendo was for couch multiplayer and A-grade single player 3D platformers. The PC was for strategy games, simulators, RTS and RPGs. Of course in retrospect I see why the PS1 won out this console generation, but for me, the N64 was the last console I extensively played before becoming a PC gamer.
I had a ps1 and a n64. I never liked the textures on the ps1, they were always so pixelated and when you turn the camera they would often rotate or move from the geometry. I prefer the blury textures of the n64. that and the loading times. Since I was not a huge fan of RPGs, a disk 20 times the size of a cartridge didn't matter to me.
You should try Sin and Punishment for the N64 made by Treasure. It’s a rail shooter like Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon. It also has an awesome sequel on the Wii with the best controls.
I was the opposite, I had the N64 and played PS1 at friends houses. When I eventually got a PS2 I was able to play the PS1 games by myself. I got hooked on legend of dragoon.
I have always thought the ps2 was the coolest for being backwards compatible, I had a very similar experience! Also, I just played, beat and enjoyed Legend of Dragoon this year (and last, I’m slow at games lol)
The Console Wars didn't really seem to exist much when I was a teenager with the PSX and N64. We started out with the Saturn as my brother had one and all of my friends or people I knew had a PlayStation. My closet friend and I wanted a PSX. I was a big SEGA fan but he introduced me to the PlayStation and I knew several other people that had a PlayStation but not many had a Nintendo 64. But, I also never saw the Saturn and the PlayStation as competing really, I liked them both. My buddy eventually got a 64 instead of a PSX because the guy at the store told his mom the N64 was graphically better and the cartridges would hold up better than CDs so, knowing she had destructive kids, she got the N64 instead, that was the basis for her decision. So, I remember seeing the N64 for the first time and there was some scorn because we were talking about getting PlayStation consoles, not Nintendo so I think I had some upset over that, and we'd bust his chops after I got a PlayStation but, at the end of the day, I was a fortunate kid that got to see all the perspectives and gaming experiences. I got to see the glory of the Saturn, which was so underrated and a lot of its best games, the PlayStation that I had and got to experience with other friends, and that one friend that had an N64. There was some busting of the chops here and there but the console wars heated up for us once Microsoft entered the ring, that's where it got really bad. I got an Xbox (my friend told me Microsoft was the devil, and I never played Halo on my Xbox, I didn't want it for Halo), my buddy got a GameCube, and the rest of my friends had PS2's so, once again, I was lucky in that regard, because I got to see it all. But come PS3 vs 360, that was the worst time, I couldve lost friends over that. My buddy that swore Microsoft was the devil got an Xbox 360 and I started with a 360 hot off of my love of the original Xbox and it's SEGA support, and I got really into Gears of War, until I saw the PlayStation 3 spent $500 on that beast but got a second SIXAXIS controller I traded for a game back when Walmart didn't ask questions and I got four or five free Bluray movies with it so, a free game and five Blurays for $500! Really good deal meant I paid less than an Xbox 360 in the end and LOVED that thing! My buddy got the HDDVD player for the 360 so he didn't feel he was missing out on HD Video and bought stuff from the download service to try and compensate for it but, too late. Yeah, that's when it got nasty, up until then, there wasn't much of an argument. I'd played on NES consoles friends had an had a lot of fun, we had an Atari 2600 until we got our SEGA Genesis and then I got to be the kid with the most powerful console for a little while. I didn't know many that had a Super Nintendo and those that did had a SEGA Genesis and had way more games for their Genesis than SNES so, this particular era wasn't too bad Console War wise but, yeah, the PS3 vs 360 was far more brutal. The Sony vs Microsoft thing I think is the most damaging to gaming, friendships are lost over it and Xbox and PlayStation aren't doing much to change that, they almost encourage it while Nintendo just hangs out quietly in the background, I honestly how no idea how Nintendo is still going today. Youd think they'd be really nervous by the Activision acquisition by Xbox but Nintendo hasn't said a thing other than "Oh, we get Call of Duty for 10 years? Okay." They don't seem to feel threatened by it so, who knows, they won't talk much. Sorry, this is really long but, it was a good era for me where I really got to see all of the aspects of gaming and from then on, I've always been fortunate enough to have all the consoles. PC is harder because you fall behind really quick and it's really expensive to catch up. These days, you'd think PC would have hit photo realism by now, because you have PC exclusives still, but PC has that freedom, no holds barred, but they're slacking off and won't do it so, in a way, yeah, consoles maybe are holding them back and PC ports have shown to be really bad, yeah.... So this was a good time. PS3 vs 360 era? Not good at all
Nice, no worries on the long comment. I enjoy them because they generally mean someone has a real experience to share or valuable input to share. Saturn competed with PSX, but it wasn't much of a competition by 1996. It is funny, my buddy and I were just talking about this. I literally knew nobody else except me with a SNES growing up. Everyone else has a Genesis, which seems impossible since both consoles sold about equally as well. I never really saw a Saturn either (except maybe at one friend's house), but as huge RPG nerds, we definitely read about the amazing Saturn RPGs that barely anyone played but made the Saturn seem so unique. Now I can see Saturn was much more than a handful of amazing RPGs, but I was a kid during this gen, so no disposable income and limited information.
12:03 im officially dumb, i only knew whatever was going on with games when i was 17, before i didnt had anyone to talk to about it, nor internet, nor magazines , never even saw any games ad too. i bought gta 4 thinking it could run on my ps2 haha, it was a gta sa mod, and it never work anyway.
15:52 Nintendo's gimmick with the N64 is the "three-positions" layout, where you had to hold the controller in one three different ways according to the game: FPS games favored left position, 2D games or games that relied heavily on the +Control Pad favored home position and most games favored right position, especially for those 3D platformers and racing games. Not many players understood the "position" system of the N64 pad, but some 3rd party controller makers like Hori and Retro Fighters simplified the N64 experience and made it easier for gamers to get into the console.
Was there ever a game that implemented the left position? Twin stick wasn't a thing at the time. I can't remember a single game using the D-pad. Shame really; Zelda could've mapped shit like potions to there (might've risked cluttering the UI though; maybe with small indicators).
@@SicketMog GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Turok series and a mini game in Pokémon Stadium all used the left position, and the former three have controller options that map moving and sliding to the +Control Pad and C buttons while mapping looking and turning to the Control Stick.
@@SicketMog There is also the Japan-only Tsumi to Batsu, where the game can be played in left or right position depending if you are right handed or not.
@@NewGabeOrder I have all of those games... Maybe the left position doesn't mean what I think it means (left hand on the far left grip and right hand on middle grip I thought it meant)? I have tsumi to batsu as well actually, being a collector and all, but still haven't played it. Heard good things though. I'm ambidextrous so that could be interesting to try with both controller schemes then.
Me and my other brother were too young to own our console, but my older brother chose the Saturn and that was the best choice at the time, it was in 1996 and its the first console we've truly experienced the arcade at home, without compromises, in our lives and neighborhood, arcades were still huge, basically up to 1999. It was the first console we also played Tomb Raider and Resident Evil, not to mention lots of RPGs, which we basically didn't play up to that point and many, many exclusives, sports games and more. When it was clear that only the PS1 was the console to own in late 1998, my brother bought one. It was pretty cool as well, but our first exposure from the 2D 16-bit era to 3D and many new genres and arcade perfect ports were totally satiated by the Saturn and the PS1 felt like the other console to own to get the new games and sequels the Saturn wasn't going to receive. We didn't notice at the time, but since you're mostly a SNES kid, choosing the PS1 over the N64 was the right move, as the PS1 truly feels what the N64 should have been, basically all third parties, Squaresoft, Capcom, Konami and more started bringing what made the SNES what it was to the PS and even the Saturn to some extent. A few friends had the N64 and I got the chance to try Mario 64 and Goldeneye in multiplayer, it was all cool, but like I said, once you were already exposed to one of the three consoles, provided you had enough games, the competitors wouldn't feel like you're truly missing out. I'll say that Nintendo only managed to keep up because they insisted in their dead horse, contrary to what Sega did, dropping the Saturn so early, Nintendo knew they were going to lose by a mile, but, since they supported their cartridge console up to 2001 or so, releasing some recognizable games here and there, people supported it and it became the second as far as sales go.
I hear that it's a fantastic game. Honestly, if I could make this video again, I'd give the 64 a bit more love, even if PS1 was the better console overall.
I remember mulling over which system I wanted for a long time before I finally settled on PS1. I eventually traded it to a school friend for a 64 but I eventually ended up with both and put in tons of time on both consoles. I don’t think one is really superior to the other. They both have a lot to offer.
6:11 Not at all. The Dual Analog controller came out a few days before Star Fox 64 and the Rumble Pak. Japanese models of the Dual Analog controller had vibration function built in, and some games like Tobal 2 (which launched with the Dual Analog controller) utilized that.
Hello there buddy. As a youngster growing up with the Megadrive/Snes and then moving on the the next generation (PS1 but my friends had N64's) I really appreciated this video. It was great hearing a different perspective from a similar background. My first experience with an RPG was a Japanese version of FF7 and I gave up because I couldnt read any of it. I was put off RPG's all the way up to seeing my friend playing FFX in the early days of the PS2. From there over the years I have revisited all FF games and numerous other classic RPG's like Chrono Cross/Chrono Trigger, the Star Ocean games and then I found Dark Cloud on the demo disc supplied with the PS2. Now Dark Cliod and Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle are now 2 of my favourite RPG's of all time. If you havent played those I would highly recommend Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2 (alternately named in different regions). I know they are PS2 but from hearing all you had to say, I know you will love those games.
I really like your content. Born in 89 so feel you man Here is a fun tip. Play Snatcher on Sega CD (anyway you can) and Policenaughts on PS1 or Saturn (any way you can). Amazing experiences.
Thanks man, I was born in 88. I REALLY want to try both of those games. More mainstream, but I will be so so so happy when a Metal Gear Solid remake finally happens.
Born in 2000, played snatched round 2017 and that was a blast. Beautiful port and great soundtrack. I never got the chance to truly go though Polienaut but I got it on hand. Played part of it and enjoyed the Lethal weapon Sci fi vibe. Very glad it got translated.
Great video dude. You deserve a bigger audience. What a time to be alive and just getting into gaming back then. That friend of yours that introduced you to Shining Force 2 was definitely on to something. The PS1 is one of my favorite consoles ever made. The RPG catalogue is maybe the best in history. And it all started with FF8 from that Domin- Wait. Dominoes Pizza demo? I remember a Pizza Hut demo that sounds very much like that Dominoes demo you mentioned. 😎
Thanks, John! It might have been Pizza Hut haha. I remember Dominos for some reason, but it could very well have been Pizza Hut. I totally forgot Rinoah was a playable character in that demo. Pretty funny.
Brother, this is the first time I’ve run into your channel so if you’ve covered it then my question is moot. I see you love the PS1 and RPG’s as much as I do and you seem to be old like me lol if you were early teen’s during PS1 era. Long winded way to ask but have you played any games in the Legend of Heroes series like Trails of Cold Steel or any of those? I LOVE all those PS1 RPG’s and my favorite is Xenogears. If you haven’t checked out Legend of Heroes series you should because I think you’d love it. Cool video and I look forward to seeing more of your videos
Hey, glad to hear it! PS1 was a special generation to grow up with for sure. I know of Trail of Cold Series, but I have not played that yet. I am far more familiar with Nihon Falcom's Ys series, and I wrote a couple reviews for them years back. They are super cool. Never heard of Legend of Heroes. It sounds like it gets a high recommend from you?
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 Trails of Cold Steel is an arc in the Legend of Heroes series. The first part is the Trails in the Sky trilogy. Second arc is Trails from zero and Trails of Azure which were never localized until recently. Zero is already out and Azure is coming out in March. After those is then Trails of Cold Steel 1 through 4. The latest game which is coming out in July and it’s the game after Cold Steel 4 is called Trails into Reverie. The next arc and next two games have already been released in Japan. I know that’s a lot lol but it is very worth it especially if you like games with great stories. If you ever have the chance you should check it out. I highly recommend it and I’m sure anyone who has played em will agree. I love Y’s so I’ll look for your videos. I hope to see a video one day of your thoughts on the Legend of Heroes series. Sorry for the essay lol
@@RomanJr316 No worries. Love the conversations I have on here with folks. The series has been on my radar for years. Is it one of those cases where I would need to start with the first game or can I hope around?
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 I started with Cold Steel 1 and 2. Unfortunately I had to wait for Cold Steel 3 and 4 to be released but I think that was actually a good thing because Cold Steel 3 and 4 are even better if you had played the previous games first. If you can and don’t mind the old graphics I recommend starting at the beginning with Trails in the Sky. I don’t have a PC so I had to struggle to play the other games on the PSP and Vita. However, I assume you have a PC lol so you can play them all on steam starting with Trails in the Sky, followed by Zero and Azure, and finally Cold Steel. You can start with the first game of any arc but by recommendation is start at the beginning. You’ll appreciate everything that way. Falcon is good with foreshadowing and linking all their narratives.
Wave race 64 was so satisfying when you got good at it. N64 was great but when I played my friends PlayStation, I knew it was falling behind and I was missing out huge.
I grew up with PS1 and never had the priviledge to try out N64 up close so I hold a huge nostalgia meter towars the PS1, though I got the PS1 much later in generation, closer to the launch of PS2, but I used to go to my friend's house a lot to play PS1 games. Before I got my hands on the console, I was gaming on my SNES mostly. I appreciate the impact N64 had, but I don't have any nostalgic moments to share about it outside some gaming pamphlet with some N64 screenshots I remember looking at or maybe through emulation. PS1 had a wider library that caught my interest more. Games like Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil, Tekken 3, Star Ocean 2 and whatnot represent most of my childhood era and PS1 was the catalyst that got me into JRPG's during my teenhood.
I got the Nintendo 64 console when it just came out. The 30 september 1996 I think, because I was at school and during lunch hour, I contacted my mother to tell me that she managed to find the console. To then tell my friend and he came to my house in the evening. I had the Super Mario 64 game and we rented the Pilotwings game from a video game rental store. My older brother was already a PC gamer with his own PC and was impressed by the console's graphics. It made him want to buy a good 3D video card 😂
Not Suikoden and Vandal Hearts 2 though. But yeah, I was a JRPG nerd outside of a few games like Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and Dino Crisis 2.
I remember trading my PS1 to a friend of mine for his N64 so he can play Final Fantasy 7 and I could play Zelda Ocarina of Time. It wasn’t for keeps but unfortunately I couldn’t just lend him FF7 and I borrow Zelda so we had to swap systems for a while too. It’s a cool memory and how I was able to experience the N64
I liked both equally. Pros and cons to owning both. I owned both and the last generation where I never got locked on 1 console. If you wanted great multiplayer N64 was great. Adult themed games, PS1. And if I remember correctly you could sometimes save game progress on the N64 cartridge.
I feel like the ps1 was the true successor to the super nintendo because of the 3rd party support. No Street Fighter, 2d megaman, SOTN and lack of rpgs really turned me off about the N64
I had experienced growing up with the Sony PlayStation 1 but I did get a Nintendo 64 years later. i think both the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation 1 delivers unique experiences and fun overall. Cool video. ^_^
I had a PlayStation 1 in my brother had an N64 he would always talk so much crap about the PlayStation one because he was secretly jealous of it and then the next couple years he winded up buying games on it instead of his Nintendo 64
Late commenter here, but I just have to commend you for contextualizing Spyro as the 5th generation console equivalent of Sonic. I think it really does make more sense to say Spyro was that instead of Crash Bandicoot, looking back on it. Crash being a silent protagonist, even if his games may PLAY a bit more like Sonic games than Spyro, kinda seals the deal. If you want your mascot to sell on attitude I think having a voice is really just the natural course of evolution, voice acting is a clear way to deliver 'tude. Mario could get away with just being grunts and stuff because it's not really IMPORTANT to Mario's selling points that he spouts lines- him running around in colorful worlds is the important part. But if you want to the cool kids-crowd... atitude has to come with a voice.
I know you're not trying to list every game for the systems but Bomberman 64 and Gauntlet Legends 64 (the best version of the game) were excellent party games, and Bomberman 64's story mode held up just fine on its own. N64 didn't have anywhere near as many games, and they certainly weren't as vast as ps1 games could be, but it had some really great standouts. I think Goldeneye and Perfect Dark hold up very well to this day, the remake for PD on the 360 was fantastic and just recently PD64 was decompiled so I'll definitely be playing some of that if they release a working pc version like they've done for a couple other N64 games.
' 86 child , so around n64 launched I was 10 😂 Had a Supernes in 90s then late 90s, N64 and Playstation.. 2001 got a new PS2 .. 64 & PS, Dreamcast we're free hand me downs.. back then I'm sure our older cousins move on to next gen and give fav cousins there old systems.
Also, PlayStation had a lot of SEGA employees that went to PlayStation and Steve Race knew the market because he was at SEGA so PlayStation was SEGA for a good while, the difference was Japan left them alone while SEGA Japan was always at odds with SEGA America and that was SEGAs undoing and success. We learned that Steve Race never liked the idea of Japan running the show from so far off and the only reason he left Reebok to go to SEGA was because SEGAs CEO gave Kalinski his word it would be hands off, that Nakiyana recognized the skill and had the respect otherwise we'd see a different PlayStation today as SEGA and Sony would likely still be working together, so that played a big part in PlayStation's success in winning over developers, SEGA of Japan was too stubborn where Kutaragi CLEARLY wasn't as much of a tyrant and Steve Race knew how to deal with the rest because SEGA taught him how to do that. Scott Rodhe was a tester for SEGA and went to PlayStation at one point and to this day is one of PlayStation's key Executives that Sony's in house developers praise alongside Yoshida because they know he knows games, he's a gamer, he's SEGAs Al Nilsen but Steve Race, I think, played a key element in that. I think around the SEGA Saturn time, Kalinski was growing tired of SEGAs crap, though, and he is open about the idea he's surprised Sony asked Steve Race to run PlayStation, I think Kalinski thought Sony would ask him first and he probably wouldve accepted but, they didn't, Steve Race was asked instead
I had an NES then SNES then N64. That was my path. I trusted Nintendo because back then they were the "go to" company. Of course my friend had a Sega Genesis and I got to play it and later my friends got a PS1 so even if I didn't have the console, I could still experience it. I did like the N64 because the graphics were just amazing, however looking back, I would prefer the PS1 controller over the N64 controller any day. But you have to understand that were consoles and games of their times. Many genres that we know today, were not even established back then. And while some games aged very well (Chrono Trigger) other games not so much. But thanks to flash carts and such, anyone who is competent enough can sill make new games for the systems. I'm a console gamer rather than a PC gamer specifically because I like the high compatibility that consoles provide. I like the idea of just putting in a cartridge or disk and playing a game. Back in the 1990's PC gaming was difficult. Time and time again, I would buy a game then try to install it only to find out the game wouldn't run because the machine wasn't powerful enough.
Still have both these wonderful consoles. I occasionally play the classics til this day. These consoles litterally had some of the best games ever made. My top 100 list of games consists of at least 20 PS1 games and 12 N64 Games.
@@michaelschilling8662 Nice! The creativity in the 5th gen is unmatched imo. The birth of 3D gave developers a lot of space to play with and wasn't corporitized and standardized yet. I'd venture to say 10-20 PS1 games would be in my top 100 games and 5-10 N64 games would be as well, if I ever made such a list.
Goldeneye is not just a multiplayer game, imo better than any game ever on ps1. It's story mode matches the movie and is really really good.. Plus the wrestling games on N64 boosted it a lot, even if you don't like wrestling those games were better than any fighting games on ps1 even Teken..
You have some interesting takes here....I got my Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation on 9/9/95. I tried to get my Saturn earlier but they were all sold out. Unlike the Saturn or Playstation, I chose to wait for the N64. I flat wasn't interested in it especially after Nintendo went with the cartridge format (big mistake). I got my N64 roughly 6 months after it released for basically its FPS games, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Zelda but I digress... You said that Nintendo won part of the generation (multi-player) and that's just not correct. There is no aspect of the 5th generation that Nintendo won. Sony flat dominated both Nintendo and Sega. There lead was so large that if you combine Nintendo and Sega's total 5th generation sales together...they still lose by an insurmountable amount. The reason for this was the games. In no time in gaming's history had we witnessed the amount of quality games coming out for one console...it was unheard of. Oh and there were tons of Conker's Bad Fur Day adverts everywhere. Every EGM and GamePro had at least one advert or someone talking about it in their mail room. The game shocked gamers and challenged conventional wisdom. However, Nintendo had plenty of mature rated games on the N64.
Conkers is easily or of the best platformers ever! I was so shocked that Nintendo released a game that pushed the envelope like it did. The writing was great and hilarious. I have so many great memories from conkers. Even the multiplayer was great my friends and me would play multiplayer for hours it was so fun. It was a great game to have a blast I your teen years. I was 16ish and couldn't stop playing it.
Love all these systems for different reasons. Which one is better will always depend on personal opinion and preference. However in terms of genres, it can be said N64 easily has the best 3d Platformers, Action Adventures, FPS and Sport. PS1 takes Racing, RPG, Story, Horror, Sci Fi, the 'cool factor', Saturn takes 2D platformers and ties with PS1 in Fighting.
Also, Id add Im not really all that impressed with the N64 visually. Honestly, I prefer the SNES to the N64, SNES sprites look better and the color palette seems superior. N64 looks drab and muddy looking. The PSX, Breath of Fire III looks amazing! But Resident Evil 2, Tomb Raider, Syphon Filter, bleh.... And the texture shifting and polygon warping were really bad. In that regard, while the Saturn had issues with transparency effects, you'd think they have fixed going from Genesis to Saturn, while that was a challenge, Saturn games overall, I think looked better, purely because you didn't get that texture shifting or polygon warping, that's like the Xbox 360s screen tearing issue. The PS3 got a lot of flac for its frame dips because Sony opted to split the V-RAM and system RAM, which was a mistake and they should've done what Xbox 360 did and had unified RAM, but the screen tearing bothered me more than frame dips did, just like Saturn's transparency effects (or lack thereof) didn't bother me as much as texture shifting. So, I think Super Nintendo looked better than N64. GameCube on the other hand? Beautiful graphics!
yep, I was there too, incredible times.. everyone was trying something.. good or bad, the N64 looked superior at first, and I was very happy with it, but really the war Sega vs Nintendo war on the early 90s to was very different than Nintendo vs Sony late 90s, Nintendo had reached peak high with the Snes classics, and games for everyone, but lost ground incredibly fast because they stuck to cartridge, while the PS1 could just put more types of games, more new developers, and if the games were big no problem, just add more on the CD, and who cares if is not enough, then add 2 , 3 , 4 CDs!!more movies, more CGI.. bad and good, ... the N64 on the other hand was trailing... really waiting for something good to come out, was irritatingly slow... lack of RPG and perhaps more mature content. Sony was Daring, and Nintendo just wanted to play safe, too much. You needed both, but if I had to choose one to tag alone with me, would be the PS.
Suikoden 1 is better than Suikoden II, esp the soundtrack, I just downloaded duckstation emulator and finally get to play some of the best games I missed - WIld Arms 2, Vagrant Story, Vandal Hearts 1 and 2, Legend of Legaia, Breath of fire III and IV, Legend of Dragoon
I love the N64 and is my 2nd favourite Nintendo console and is super underrated And I have fond memories of Super Mario 64, which revolutionised 3D platformers and the controller was made for the game and I adore it and Goldeneye is also a trailblazer for console FPS and it was the best for multiplayer games with wrestling with the WCW and WWF which you couldn’t play anywhere else. I had both but sold my PlayStation and kept my N64 and rode out that generation.
Nice! I've played a lot of N64 in the last year, and while PS1 did kick its butt in sales, I agree that the N64 is amazing and revolutionized gaming in many ways, namely in creating many of the templates for future 3D games. I have wanted to make a better version of this video to give a more balanced perspective.
As far as the test of time is concerned, N64 definitely holds up a lot better than PS1 does. Fully 3D PS1 games do not hold up well at all. Croc Legend of the Gobos is still a fun game, but it does not hold a candle to the Rare platformers. F-Zero X plays just as good today as it did when it came out in 1998. Metal Gear Solid 1, Syphon Filter, and Medal of Honor do not play that well. Spyro is still a cool game, but N64 titles beat it out by a long shot. PS1 holds the crown for RPGs no doubt, but people also forget that those magic spells and game over screens take forever. I recently replayed through the original Final Fantasy 7 and did not use summons whatsoever. Those looked cool, but they take forever. The PS1 games that hold up the most are the ones in 2D. Mega Man X4, Wild Arms, Legend of Mana, and to a degree Crash Bandicoot. Yes the graphics were in 3D, but the camera and character movement were on a 2D plane. Tekken 3 still holds up as well. Then again, that title is objectively the best game on the PS1. The first two titles are very difficult to go back to. The N64 is more closely aligned to how games are built today. This is why the console still holds up more so than the original PS1. Tank controls went out of style in 2002.
I appreciate the review of both consoles and games but can't help to feel like you played many many ps1 games and only like 5 n64 games. Seems like the review is b(i)ased on on your very limited knowledge on what the n64 had to offer. The best selling n64 titles might have had couch co op modes, yes, but it had a great catalogue for the single player, even mature, experience.
This is a fair critique. I actually grabbed another N64 last year and plan to make a redemption video for it. I do prefer the PS1, and even Saturn to 64, but the 64 is still an amazing console. What mature games exist for the 64? Only Resident Evil 2 and Conker's Bad Fur Day come to mind.
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 I'm happy you're already working through conkers. Sucks that Nintendo's family friendly image killed any push it deserved. Other cult classics that aren't as popular are shadow man and body harvest (created by the ppl that would eventually make GTA) it was one of the first, get into any/many vehicles game. But instead of committing crime, you're fighting aliens throughout humanities history. Time travel + aliens + GTA! As far as RPG goes, not sure if it qualifies but mystical ninja. It has giant robots and Japanese songs and multiple playable characters also hybrid heaven is a maybe RPG? Ogre battle 64 is one of the few RPGs but never got into it. Mace was a dark and violent fighting game, maybe worth a try. Looking fwd to new eyes on old classics.
@@OliveOcelot thanks for the recommendation. Body Harvest does seem interesting - and I am realizing that Midway made SO many games for the N64. So far I've had a blast returning to Diddy Kong Racing, finally getting to play through Mario 64 the right way, F-Zero X, Kirby Crystal Shards, and Mischief Makers (another hidden gem), though like most Treasure games, there are things I love about it, and things that frustrate me. Ogre Battle 64 is on my list, but that is an expensive little cart. With my RPG backlog, it's gonna be a while before I get around to that one unless I find a sweet deal.
I chose the Saturn early in the 5th generation (pre 64) after having played it at a friend's house and will never regret that decision (I thank child me. Got a complete PAL collection and sizeable NTSC/Japan collection nowadays and had I been a few years late would not have been able to afford it most likely). Got a N64 later on (and a PS1/2 MUCH later) but man... Despite being in PAL territory and not getting imports at the time the Saturn was and still holds special to me. PS1 the weakest of the generation imho (at least in PAL territory; would've likely rated it higher had I had unlimited funds as a kid due to the sheer volume of games) yet most friends had it (it wins with regards to English language RPGs though I guess as that's the normie genre). Due to the multiplayer evenings with friends and Mario Kart/Goldeneye idk how to rate the other two. The Saturn honestly feels more special partly because fewer people played it, and partly because the single player- and arcade games were right up my alley coming off a famiclone without memory, but the 64 memories are more tied to playing with groups of friends. Guess your winner all depends on what genres you like. Good times all around. Edit: another thing that may edge the Saturn for me is the controllers. Sega, possibly due to the arcade experience, were the kings of ergonomics. The model 2 2D-controller = best 2D-controller of all time. The 3D one... Big and bulky for my small hands at the time but still much better than the awkwardness of the N64 (shame about the limited support). PS1 controllers suck; D-pad is useless. Saddens me to see what Sega are doing today and all of those trademarks wasting away. Hope the controllers aren't overlooked in the future though. Wish those chinese companies making emulator handhelds just copied their D-pads. Not into RPGs but if I have an ergonomic handheld with a good D-pad, despite not being a fan of the genre, I might finally look into some PS1-RPGs.
How did you never own Goldeneye if you had a N64? Goldeneye, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Smash Bros. are games that every N64 owner had. I mean, I didn’t like Smash Bros., only played it at friends houses, yet I went out and bought it because I knew it was important.....
I did not have a 64 during its lifespan. My best friend and brother did. I mostly played what they had, and mostly multiplayer. I have an N64 now, but I played all the one player stuff after the fact..
@@AJ72281 I do. I played a LOT of it with friends and family. Just because I didn't get to the one-player stuff until after the fact does not exempt me from having nostalgia for it. Countless hours of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Diddy Kong Racing, Smash Bros, Mario Kart and so on played. Plus, I still dabbled in stuff like Mario 64 and Ocarina of time on my best friends console.
@@AJ72281 I may actually need to make a dedicated 64 video of some sort in the future. I recently reacquired one, and it's still a total blast to play for the most part. Finally getting to games like Banjo Kazooie and Kirby and the Crystal Shards that I never touched as a kid. I think at the time, the PS1 certainly had more mass appeal and more genre options, but the 64 undoubtedly had the better 3D experience, and the first person shooters and platformers were some of the best of all time - plus party games or course. Perfect Dark is next on my list of 64 games to buy.
it's funny when people review old games and always talk about how it looks, the gameplay is what should be spoke about! Saying wave race 64 still looks good haha.. dude it still plays amazing, better than most racers now, only the most shallow people look at graphics and say that's what makes the game great! also the reason the industry spits out constant crap with no new gameplay elements at all! but it looks nice, that's worth £80 to over £100
Eh? The gameplay is great. I don't think my point was that it is some shiny game with no gameplay merit. I think I was just expressing a little surprise about how well the graphics hold up. I 100% agree on gameplay being the #1 factor in a good game. Yeah, graphics are shallow I suppose, but aesthetics are certainly not. Panzer Dragoon is a good example of a game that does not hold up graphically, but has amazing aesthetics. Anyway, not sure how this was your big takeaway from the video.
Wow you never even finished Mario 64 and think it's overrated 😂 in other words, you don't really like it so you're saying that everyone else that actually finished the game and like it are wrong. Wrong choice of words there
So, the N64 is crap because you are an RPG Lover? That's very fanboy of you, as we can see how you undermined every accomplishment the N64 did (and the PS1, for that matter) just on the basis that it has no rpgs
I like the N64 just fine, and I actually recently just acquired another one. I think the sales alone speak to how much more popular the PS1 was overall, but the 64 still had better 3D graphics, amazing 3D platformers, and first-person shooters, and it was the ultimate couch co-op console.
We will never see such a huge jump from the graphics of the Snes to the N64 again. The anticipation I had at the time wanting to play Mario 64 was insane. I won't forget.
Seeing Mario 64 in 97 first quickly at a store and then listening to dire dire docks in Jolly Roger Bay at a friend's house was very powerful. Hard to forget indeed.
Same.
Yes, to me, it was mind blowing and I didn't even like video games at the time. It was the first time I wanted to actually play a video game because it felt like you were really in the world.
I felt exactly the same the same looking the magazines for Mario 64 was insane
I've seen a greater jump from the SNES to the PS1 and from the N64 to the Dreamcast, also from the PS2 to the 360 and the Atari 2600 to the NES, and...
You are extremely mistaken if you think Mario 64's accomplishment was simply getting Mario successfully into 3d. What Mario 64 really accomplish at the time was that it taught EVERYONE how to control and move in a 3d environment, it made it intuitive for the first time ever, and that my friend is not overrated at all.
100%
As far as platformers go, yes indeed
Mario 64
Doom (technically quake but meh)
Gran Turismo
MechWarrior
There are the actual pioneers. GTA3 would be the late hero. But yeah, from a games development standpoint these are the most important, and much of their code is still felt today
? Dont get it
I would say Tomb Raider was equally as seminal as Mario 64 in that regard.
Doom, although very important for FPS, was psuedo-3D. All in all it was, in actuality, a 2D game. The 3D is essentially an illusion, much similar to SNES Mode 7, and your character can't even look up or down, or move along a Y-axis or Z-axis. Plus, Wolfenstein preceded it. Quake, I'll give you. Duke Nukem 3D was another preceding interim step to true 3D.
Gran Turismo is a racing sim... while it was good, and made strides in that regard as far as graphics, details, and options, its fundamental gameplay isn't all that different from Pole Position when you get down to it.
MechWarrior... can't really speak on that one. Have heard of it, but never played it. However, from what I've seen of it, it doesn't look anymore 3D than plenty of other PC games that preceded it, like Rescue On Fractalus! or something like that.
GTAIII was certainly seminal.
@@AgentMorgan2010 Tomb Raider was no where near Mario 64's level. Awful graphics and Lara controlled like a wet fart.
In the third world, absolutely no one had a n64.
Its media were too expensive.
Cd was a revolution
The 90s was the greatest leap in graphics i think we will ever see. In 1990 it was Genesis and NES by 99 we were on the Dreamcast. Thats a insane leap
Truth!
The ps1 dual anolog controller is the greatest controller of all time. A design still used today.
I do really love that controller. Just so comfy, familiar, and ergonomic.
@radicaldreamersteve5743 some would argue that the Xbox and Nintendo sticks are more ergonomic but I find them wonky and asymmetrical.
PS1 had 3 of my biggest gateway drugs. I had played Genesis and SNES, but I was pretty casual. I played whatever had a cool box. Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil, & Twisted Metal 2 changed me forever as a person. I was looking for every game in those 3 genres, and it took up a huge chunk of my late teens and early twenties.
Same
Games on the N64 that aren’t commonly talked about that people should play are
Duke Nukem 64
Duke Nukem zero hour
Operation Winback
Resident Evil 2
Indiana jones the the infernal machine
forsaken
shadow man
007 The World is not enough
Quake
Quake 2
Tom Clancy rainbow six
Nightmare Creatures and Hexen
I think RE2 is pretty widely discussed, but it's a nice list otherwise!
I had a Sega Saturn and PS1. They both were provided great experiences as a kid. I had always wanted a N64 as a kid. SM64 blew me away.
It wasn't until 2008 as an adult that my Mom got me it for Christmas. Lol, love it.
I grew up with N64 and didn't play too much Playstation. What I remember about the Playstation though was *not* liking the controller oddly. The lack of an analog stick early on made that system seem dated, and by the time the analog stick variant came out I had gotten used to the N64 layout. Now I'm a keyboard and mouse gamer and I actually never got used to the modern two analog stick format as strange as that might sound to some.
I also remember the load times of CD-based consoles. In some ways, the N64 was old-fashioned for using cartridges. In other ways, I think CD-roms were a remarkably temporary media format. A couple generations later, we still used DVDs, but the games were fully installed on hard disks, rather than played from CD. The N64 felt much snappier than the PS1 and I distinctly remember waiting for levels to load or being prompted to change to Disk 2. N64 also made up for limited storage on cartridges by having save batteries instead of memory cards.
Graphics-wise, I remember being impressed by the pre-rendered video on PS1's larger storage medium. But it felt like window dressing. In the vast majority of titles the graphical inconsistency between FMVs and gameplay was jarring. I remember feeling that the N64, despite its limitations, was much more visually consistent.
While limited in number, the 3D platformers on N64 largely controlled better than most on the PS1. Compare Tomb Raider's camera controls to the various Nintendo/Rare iterations of the Mario 64 format, for example.
Our household had an N64 and a PC with a Voodoo 2 card shortly afterwards, so there wasn't much the Playstation could do that those two systems couldn't. The Nintendo was for couch multiplayer and A-grade single player 3D platformers. The PC was for strategy games, simulators, RTS and RPGs. Of course in retrospect I see why the PS1 won out this console generation, but for me, the N64 was the last console I extensively played before becoming a PC gamer.
I had a ps1 and a n64. I never liked the textures on the ps1, they were always so pixelated and when you turn the camera they would often rotate or move from the geometry. I prefer the blury textures of the n64. that and the loading times. Since I was not a huge fan of RPGs, a disk 20 times the size of a cartridge didn't matter to me.
100% agreed on load times, and I do agree 3D games generally looked better on 64.
You should try Sin and Punishment for the N64 made by Treasure. It’s a rail shooter like Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon. It also has an awesome sequel on the Wii with the best controls.
I was the opposite, I had the N64 and played PS1 at friends houses. When I eventually got a PS2 I was able to play the PS1 games by myself. I got hooked on legend of dragoon.
LOD was a cool game. I played it, but never beat it.
I have always thought the ps2 was the coolest for being backwards compatible, I had a very similar experience!
Also, I just played, beat and enjoyed Legend of Dragoon this year (and last, I’m slow at games lol)
I had fond memories playing Lunar, Lunar 2, Star Ocean: The Second Story
Awesome video! the Kirby game is one of my favorites 😆
Thanks! Kirby is pretty fantastic. That game in the video is Kirby Superstar, probably the best in the series imo.
The Console Wars didn't really seem to exist much when I was a teenager with the PSX and N64. We started out with the Saturn as my brother had one and all of my friends or people I knew had a PlayStation. My closet friend and I wanted a PSX. I was a big SEGA fan but he introduced me to the PlayStation and I knew several other people that had a PlayStation but not many had a Nintendo 64. But, I also never saw the Saturn and the PlayStation as competing really, I liked them both. My buddy eventually got a 64 instead of a PSX because the guy at the store told his mom the N64 was graphically better and the cartridges would hold up better than CDs so, knowing she had destructive kids, she got the N64 instead, that was the basis for her decision. So, I remember seeing the N64 for the first time and there was some scorn because we were talking about getting PlayStation consoles, not Nintendo so I think I had some upset over that, and we'd bust his chops after I got a PlayStation but, at the end of the day, I was a fortunate kid that got to see all the perspectives and gaming experiences. I got to see the glory of the Saturn, which was so underrated and a lot of its best games, the PlayStation that I had and got to experience with other friends, and that one friend that had an N64. There was some busting of the chops here and there but the console wars heated up for us once Microsoft entered the ring, that's where it got really bad. I got an Xbox (my friend told me Microsoft was the devil, and I never played Halo on my Xbox, I didn't want it for Halo), my buddy got a GameCube, and the rest of my friends had PS2's so, once again, I was lucky in that regard, because I got to see it all. But come PS3 vs 360, that was the worst time, I couldve lost friends over that. My buddy that swore Microsoft was the devil got an Xbox 360 and I started with a 360 hot off of my love of the original Xbox and it's SEGA support, and I got really into Gears of War, until I saw the PlayStation 3 spent $500 on that beast but got a second SIXAXIS controller I traded for a game back when Walmart didn't ask questions and I got four or five free Bluray movies with it so, a free game and five Blurays for $500! Really good deal meant I paid less than an Xbox 360 in the end and LOVED that thing! My buddy got the HDDVD player for the 360 so he didn't feel he was missing out on HD Video and bought stuff from the download service to try and compensate for it but, too late. Yeah, that's when it got nasty, up until then, there wasn't much of an argument. I'd played on NES consoles friends had an had a lot of fun, we had an Atari 2600 until we got our SEGA Genesis and then I got to be the kid with the most powerful console for a little while. I didn't know many that had a Super Nintendo and those that did had a SEGA Genesis and had way more games for their Genesis than SNES so, this particular era wasn't too bad Console War wise but, yeah, the PS3 vs 360 was far more brutal. The Sony vs Microsoft thing I think is the most damaging to gaming, friendships are lost over it and Xbox and PlayStation aren't doing much to change that, they almost encourage it while Nintendo just hangs out quietly in the background, I honestly how no idea how Nintendo is still going today. Youd think they'd be really nervous by the Activision acquisition by Xbox but Nintendo hasn't said a thing other than "Oh, we get Call of Duty for 10 years? Okay." They don't seem to feel threatened by it so, who knows, they won't talk much.
Sorry, this is really long but, it was a good era for me where I really got to see all of the aspects of gaming and from then on, I've always been fortunate enough to have all the consoles. PC is harder because you fall behind really quick and it's really expensive to catch up. These days, you'd think PC would have hit photo realism by now, because you have PC exclusives still, but PC has that freedom, no holds barred, but they're slacking off and won't do it so, in a way, yeah, consoles maybe are holding them back and PC ports have shown to be really bad, yeah.... So this was a good time. PS3 vs 360 era? Not good at all
Nice, no worries on the long comment. I enjoy them because they generally mean someone has a real experience to share or valuable input to share.
Saturn competed with PSX, but it wasn't much of a competition by 1996. It is funny, my buddy and I were just talking about this. I literally knew nobody else except me with a SNES growing up. Everyone else has a Genesis, which seems impossible since both consoles sold about equally as well. I never really saw a Saturn either (except maybe at one friend's house), but as huge RPG nerds, we definitely read about the amazing Saturn RPGs that barely anyone played but made the Saturn seem so unique. Now I can see Saturn was much more than a handful of amazing RPGs, but I was a kid during this gen, so no disposable income and limited information.
PS1 is the GOAT of the 90s The N64 was a good sidekick to it though
12:03 im officially dumb, i only knew whatever was going on with games when i was 17, before i didnt had anyone to talk to about it, nor internet, nor magazines , never even saw any games ad too. i bought gta 4 thinking it could run on my ps2 haha, it was a gta sa mod, and it never work anyway.
ps1 was phenomenal.. the "game" i played the most was the mtv music generator.. i made beats everyday after school for like 4 hours
Never even heard of this one.
15:52 Nintendo's gimmick with the N64 is the "three-positions" layout, where you had to hold the controller in one three different ways according to the game: FPS games favored left position, 2D games or games that relied heavily on the +Control Pad favored home position and most games favored right position, especially for those 3D platformers and racing games. Not many players understood the "position" system of the N64 pad, but some 3rd party controller makers like Hori and Retro Fighters simplified the N64 experience and made it easier for gamers to get into the console.
Was there ever a game that implemented the left position? Twin stick wasn't a thing at the time.
I can't remember a single game using the D-pad. Shame really; Zelda could've mapped shit like potions to there (might've risked cluttering the UI though; maybe with small indicators).
@@SicketMog GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Turok series and a mini game in Pokémon Stadium all used the left position, and the former three have controller options that map moving and sliding to the +Control Pad and C buttons while mapping looking and turning to the Control Stick.
@@SicketMog There is also the Japan-only Tsumi to Batsu, where the game can be played in left or right position depending if you are right handed or not.
@@NewGabeOrder I have all of those games... Maybe the left position doesn't mean what I think it means (left hand on the far left grip and right hand on middle grip I thought it meant)?
I have tsumi to batsu as well actually, being a collector and all, but still haven't played it. Heard good things though. I'm ambidextrous so that could be interesting to try with both controller schemes then.
@@SicketMog You're right.
Me and my other brother were too young to own our console, but my older brother chose the Saturn and that was the best choice at the time, it was in 1996 and its the first console we've truly experienced the arcade at home, without compromises, in our lives and neighborhood, arcades were still huge, basically up to 1999. It was the first console we also played Tomb Raider and Resident Evil, not to mention lots of RPGs, which we basically didn't play up to that point and many, many exclusives, sports games and more. When it was clear that only the PS1 was the console to own in late 1998, my brother bought one. It was pretty cool as well, but our first exposure from the 2D 16-bit era to 3D and many new genres and arcade perfect ports were totally satiated by the Saturn and the PS1 felt like the other console to own to get the new games and sequels the Saturn wasn't going to receive.
We didn't notice at the time, but since you're mostly a SNES kid, choosing the PS1 over the N64 was the right move, as the PS1 truly feels what the N64 should have been, basically all third parties, Squaresoft, Capcom, Konami and more started bringing what made the SNES what it was to the PS and even the Saturn to some extent.
A few friends had the N64 and I got the chance to try Mario 64 and Goldeneye in multiplayer, it was all cool, but like I said, once you were already exposed to one of the three consoles, provided you had enough games, the competitors wouldn't feel like you're truly missing out. I'll say that Nintendo only managed to keep up because they insisted in their dead horse, contrary to what Sega did, dropping the Saturn so early, Nintendo knew they were going to lose by a mile, but, since they supported their cartridge console up to 2001 or so, releasing some recognizable games here and there, people supported it and it became the second as far as sales go.
as someone that had both when they were new i definitely like n64 more overall.
Fair enough! The N64 is definitely a lot of fun, and it's a console I've been reevaluating in the last six months since I decided to buy another one.
Space Station Silicon Valley was a really cool and unique single player game on n64. It got ported to PS a few years later
I hear that it's a fantastic game. Honestly, if I could make this video again, I'd give the 64 a bit more love, even if PS1 was the better console overall.
I remember mulling over which system I wanted for a long time before I finally settled on PS1. I eventually traded it to a school friend for a 64 but I eventually ended up with both and put in tons of time on both consoles. I don’t think one is really superior to the other. They both have a lot to offer.
Totally agreed. I've been playing a bunch of 64 lately and seeing a lot of the magic I missed.
6:11 Not at all. The Dual Analog controller came out a few days before Star Fox 64 and the Rumble Pak. Japanese models of the Dual Analog controller had vibration function built in, and some games like Tobal 2 (which launched with the Dual Analog controller) utilized that.
The ps1 dual anolog controller is the greatest of all time. A design still used today isn't that crazy?
How did it take me this long to find your channel?? I’ve been binge watching every single one of your videos since. Thanks for the great content! 👍
Wow, thanks for the positive vibes. Glad you've enjoyed the content. Cheers!
Ill second that opinion great videos@radicaldreamersteve5743
Great video. Definitely enjoyable to walk down memory lane with you. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
7:00 While I had tried FF6 before FF7-8, the great 3D visuals made the story and combat much more impactful to me.
Not one mention of the aki wrestling games? Smh.
Hello there buddy.
As a youngster growing up with the Megadrive/Snes and then moving on the the next generation (PS1 but my friends had N64's) I really appreciated this video.
It was great hearing a different perspective from a similar background. My first experience with an RPG was a Japanese version of FF7 and I gave up because I couldnt read any of it.
I was put off RPG's all the way up to seeing my friend playing FFX in the early days of the PS2. From there over the years I have revisited all FF games and numerous other classic RPG's like Chrono Cross/Chrono Trigger, the Star Ocean games and then I found Dark Cloud on the demo disc supplied with the PS2. Now Dark Cliod and Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle are now 2 of my favourite RPG's of all time. If you havent played those I would highly recommend Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2 (alternately named in different regions). I know they are PS2 but from hearing all you had to say, I know you will love those games.
I really like your content. Born in 89 so feel you man
Here is a fun tip. Play Snatcher on Sega CD (anyway you can) and Policenaughts on PS1 or Saturn (any way you can). Amazing experiences.
Thanks man, I was born in 88. I REALLY want to try both of those games. More mainstream, but I will be so so so happy when a Metal Gear Solid remake finally happens.
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 It shall be a time of much rejoicing
Born in 2000, played snatched round 2017 and that was a blast. Beautiful port and great soundtrack.
I never got the chance to truly go though Polienaut but I got it on hand. Played part of it and enjoyed the Lethal weapon Sci fi vibe. Very glad it got translated.
@@ohgodwhy9853 oddly enough I also played it first around that time (2018). One of the best experiences I’ve had.
My uncle let our family borrow his PS1, Crash Bandicoot and Grand Turismo will always stay close to my heart
Great video dude. You deserve a bigger audience.
What a time to be alive and just getting into gaming back then. That friend of yours that introduced you to Shining Force 2 was definitely on to something.
The PS1 is one of my favorite consoles ever made. The RPG catalogue is maybe the best in history. And it all started with FF8 from that Domin-
Wait. Dominoes Pizza demo? I remember a Pizza Hut demo that sounds very much like that Dominoes demo you mentioned. 😎
Thanks, John! It might have been Pizza Hut haha. I remember Dominos for some reason, but it could very well have been Pizza Hut. I totally forgot Rinoah was a playable character in that demo. Pretty funny.
Whats an Auger Battle?
Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3 make the PS1 worth it.
I wish I liked that series more. I find the linear tunnel design less exciting than Spyro of N64 platformers.
So that’s why you’re Radical Dreamer. I kinda figured.
haha, I always loved that name, despite not playing Chrono Cross in ages and being a bigger Trigger fan.
Brother, this is the first time I’ve run into your channel so if you’ve covered it then my question is moot. I see you love the PS1 and RPG’s as much as I do and you seem to be old like me lol if you were early teen’s during PS1 era. Long winded way to ask but have you played any games in the Legend of Heroes series like Trails of Cold Steel or any of those? I LOVE all those PS1 RPG’s and my favorite is Xenogears. If you haven’t checked out Legend of Heroes series you should because I think you’d love it. Cool video and I look forward to seeing more of your videos
Hey, glad to hear it! PS1 was a special generation to grow up with for sure. I know of Trail of Cold Series, but I have not played that yet. I am far more familiar with Nihon Falcom's Ys series, and I wrote a couple reviews for them years back. They are super cool. Never heard of Legend of Heroes. It sounds like it gets a high recommend from you?
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 Trails of Cold Steel is an arc in the Legend of Heroes series. The first part is the Trails in the Sky trilogy. Second arc is Trails from zero and Trails of Azure which were never localized until recently. Zero is already out and Azure is coming out in March. After those is then Trails of Cold Steel 1 through 4. The latest game which is coming out in July and it’s the game after Cold Steel 4 is called Trails into Reverie. The next arc and next two games have already been released in Japan. I know that’s a lot lol but it is very worth it especially if you like games with great stories. If you ever have the chance you should check it out. I highly recommend it and I’m sure anyone who has played em will agree. I love Y’s so I’ll look for your videos. I hope to see a video one day of your thoughts on the Legend of Heroes series. Sorry for the essay lol
@@RomanJr316 No worries. Love the conversations I have on here with folks.
The series has been on my radar for years. Is it one of those cases where I would need to start with the first game or can I hope around?
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 I started with Cold Steel 1 and 2. Unfortunately I had to wait for Cold Steel 3 and 4 to be released but I think that was actually a good thing because Cold Steel 3 and 4 are even better if you had played the previous games first. If you can and don’t mind the old graphics I recommend starting at the beginning with Trails in the Sky. I don’t have a PC so I had to struggle to play the other games on the PSP and Vita. However, I assume you have a PC lol so you can play them all on steam starting with Trails in the Sky, followed by Zero and Azure, and finally Cold Steel. You can start with the first game of any arc but by recommendation is start at the beginning. You’ll appreciate everything that way. Falcon is good with foreshadowing and linking all their narratives.
great video love it
Wave race 64 was so satisfying when you got good at it. N64 was great but when I played my friends PlayStation, I knew it was falling behind and I was missing out huge.
I grew up with PS1 and never had the priviledge to try out N64 up close so I hold a huge nostalgia meter towars the PS1, though I got the PS1 much later in generation, closer to the launch of PS2, but I used to go to my friend's house a lot to play PS1 games. Before I got my hands on the console, I was gaming on my SNES mostly. I appreciate the impact N64 had, but I don't have any nostalgic moments to share about it outside some gaming pamphlet with some N64 screenshots I remember looking at or maybe through emulation.
PS1 had a wider library that caught my interest more. Games like Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil, Tekken 3, Star Ocean 2 and whatnot represent most of my childhood era and PS1 was the catalyst that got me into JRPG's during my teenhood.
Grandia 1 opening music😍
I got the Nintendo 64 console when it just came out. The 30 september 1996 I think, because I was at school and during lunch hour, I contacted my mother to tell me that she managed to find the console. To then tell my friend and he came to my house in the evening. I had the Super Mario 64 game and we rented the Pilotwings game from a video game rental store. My older brother was already a PC gamer with his own PC and was impressed by the console's graphics. It made him want to buy a good 3D video card 😂
I am still blown away by how good Mario 64 looks for the time. The textures might be simplistic, but they hold up quite well.
if you think mario 64 is overrated, youre either not an 80s kid, or you were a pc gamer during the early 90s and already had experience with 3D games
Funny because your favorite PlayStation games were also available in the Saturn in Japan (Lunar, vandal hearts, castlevania, megaman x4, etc)
Not Suikoden and Vandal Hearts 2 though. But yeah, I was a JRPG nerd outside of a few games like Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and Dino Crisis 2.
I remember trading my PS1 to a friend of mine for his N64 so he can play Final Fantasy 7 and I could play Zelda Ocarina of Time. It wasn’t for keeps but unfortunately I couldn’t just lend him FF7 and I borrow Zelda so we had to swap systems for a while too. It’s a cool memory and how I was able to experience the N64
Bro, this is the triplejump intro lol
I liked both equally. Pros and cons to owning both. I owned both and the last generation where I never got locked on 1 console. If you wanted great multiplayer N64 was great. Adult themed games, PS1. And if I remember correctly you could sometimes save game progress on the N64 cartridge.
I feel like the ps1 was the true successor to the super nintendo because of the 3rd party support. No Street Fighter, 2d megaman, SOTN and lack of rpgs really turned me off about the N64
I had experienced growing up with the Sony PlayStation 1 but I did get a Nintendo 64 years later. i think both the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation 1 delivers unique experiences and fun overall. Cool video. ^_^
I had a PlayStation 1 in my brother had an N64 he would always talk so much crap about the PlayStation one because he was secretly jealous of it and then the next couple years he winded up buying games on it instead of his Nintendo 64
Late commenter here, but I just have to commend you for contextualizing Spyro as the 5th generation console equivalent of Sonic. I think it really does make more sense to say Spyro was that instead of Crash Bandicoot, looking back on it. Crash being a silent protagonist, even if his games may PLAY a bit more like Sonic games than Spyro, kinda seals the deal. If you want your mascot to sell on attitude I think having a voice is really just the natural course of evolution, voice acting is a clear way to deliver 'tude. Mario could get away with just being grunts and stuff because it's not really IMPORTANT to Mario's selling points that he spouts lines- him running around in colorful worlds is the important part. But if you want to the cool kids-crowd... atitude has to come with a voice.
I know you're not trying to list every game for the systems but Bomberman 64 and Gauntlet Legends 64 (the best version of the game) were excellent party games, and Bomberman 64's story mode held up just fine on its own. N64 didn't have anywhere near as many games, and they certainly weren't as vast as ps1 games could be, but it had some really great standouts. I think Goldeneye and Perfect Dark hold up very well to this day, the remake for PD on the 360 was fantastic and just recently PD64 was decompiled so I'll definitely be playing some of that if they release a working pc version like they've done for a couple other N64 games.
' 86 child , so around n64 launched I was 10 😂
Had a Supernes in 90s then late 90s, N64 and Playstation.. 2001 got a new PS2 .. 64 & PS, Dreamcast we're free hand me downs.. back then I'm sure our older cousins move on to next gen and give fav cousins there old systems.
I still have a great workout n64 controller, it's called taking care of your stuff lol no one but me has ever used it I had spares for friends
Nintendo was go-to for platformers and the sandbox games like Mario 64, Zelda, Banjo Kazooie, PS1 was main for RPGs.
Also, PlayStation had a lot of SEGA employees that went to PlayStation and Steve Race knew the market because he was at SEGA so PlayStation was SEGA for a good while, the difference was Japan left them alone while SEGA Japan was always at odds with SEGA America and that was SEGAs undoing and success. We learned that Steve Race never liked the idea of Japan running the show from so far off and the only reason he left Reebok to go to SEGA was because SEGAs CEO gave Kalinski his word it would be hands off, that Nakiyana recognized the skill and had the respect otherwise we'd see a different PlayStation today as SEGA and Sony would likely still be working together, so that played a big part in PlayStation's success in winning over developers, SEGA of Japan was too stubborn where Kutaragi CLEARLY wasn't as much of a tyrant and Steve Race knew how to deal with the rest because SEGA taught him how to do that. Scott Rodhe was a tester for SEGA and went to PlayStation at one point and to this day is one of PlayStation's key Executives that Sony's in house developers praise alongside Yoshida because they know he knows games, he's a gamer, he's SEGAs Al Nilsen but Steve Race, I think, played a key element in that. I think around the SEGA Saturn time, Kalinski was growing tired of SEGAs crap, though, and he is open about the idea he's surprised Sony asked Steve Race to run PlayStation, I think Kalinski thought Sony would ask him first and he probably wouldve accepted but, they didn't, Steve Race was asked instead
I don't know why, but Wave Race 64 still looks and plays beautifully!
@@scottvincent184 I agree on this. It is crazy how well they handled the water physics in 1996.
U only feel safe excluding the Saturn bcuz u think Segata sanshiro cant find u
Ha, my plot unraveled!
I had an NES then SNES then N64. That was my path. I trusted Nintendo because back then they were the "go to" company.
Of course my friend had a Sega Genesis and I got to play it and later my friends got a PS1 so even if I didn't have the console, I could still experience it.
I did like the N64 because the graphics were just amazing, however looking back, I would prefer the PS1 controller over the N64 controller any day.
But you have to understand that were consoles and games of their times. Many genres that we know today, were not even established back then. And while some games aged very well (Chrono Trigger) other games not so much.
But thanks to flash carts and such, anyone who is competent enough can sill make new games for the systems. I'm a console gamer rather than a PC gamer specifically because I like the high compatibility that consoles provide.
I like the idea of just putting in a cartridge or disk and playing a game. Back in the 1990's PC gaming was difficult. Time and time again, I would buy a game then try to install it only to find out the game wouldn't run because the machine wasn't powerful enough.
Still have both these wonderful consoles. I occasionally play the classics til this day. These consoles litterally had some of the best games ever made. My top 100 list of games consists of at least 20 PS1 games and 12 N64 Games.
@@michaelschilling8662 Nice! The creativity in the 5th gen is unmatched imo. The birth of 3D gave developers a lot of space to play with and wasn't corporitized and standardized yet. I'd venture to say 10-20 PS1 games would be in my top 100 games and 5-10 N64 games would be as well, if I ever made such a list.
Goldeneye is not just a multiplayer game, imo better than any game ever on ps1. It's story mode matches the movie and is really really good.. Plus the wrestling games on N64 boosted it a lot, even if you don't like wrestling those games were better than any fighting games on ps1 even Teken..
You have some interesting takes here....I got my Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation on 9/9/95. I tried to get my Saturn earlier but they were all sold out. Unlike the Saturn or Playstation, I chose to wait for the N64. I flat wasn't interested in it especially after Nintendo went with the cartridge format (big mistake). I got my N64 roughly 6 months after it released for basically its FPS games, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Zelda but I digress...
You said that Nintendo won part of the generation (multi-player) and that's just not correct. There is no aspect of the 5th generation that Nintendo won. Sony flat dominated both Nintendo and Sega. There lead was so large that if you combine Nintendo and Sega's total 5th generation sales together...they still lose by an insurmountable amount. The reason for this was the games. In no time in gaming's history had we witnessed the amount of quality games coming out for one console...it was unheard of. Oh and there were tons of Conker's Bad Fur Day adverts everywhere. Every EGM and GamePro had at least one advert or someone talking about it in their mail room. The game shocked gamers and challenged conventional wisdom. However, Nintendo had plenty of mature rated games on the N64.
Most games that I was into at the time were on PS1. The games for both consoles were better on PS1 too.
I never had a ps1 did have ps2 thin model. It was not very good had like 4 or 3 ps2 games. But I love the N64 so much back in the day
Conkers is easily or of the best platformers ever! I was so shocked that Nintendo released a game that pushed the envelope like it did. The writing was great and hilarious. I have so many great memories from conkers. Even the multiplayer was great my friends and me would play multiplayer for hours it was so fun. It was a great game to have a blast I your teen years. I was 16ish and couldn't stop playing it.
N64 blew my mind. I didn't care for ps1. I thought it was too slow
N64 was strong with:
Platformers
First Person Shooters
Racing Games
Multiplayer games.
Every other genre is unfortunately not so common.
Yeah, it was huge for racing. That can't be left out.
They were also strong with pro wrestling games (World Tour, Revenge, Wrestlemania 2000, and No Mercy). Can't leave those out.
Love all these systems for different reasons. Which one is better will always depend on personal opinion and preference. However in terms of genres, it can be said N64 easily has the best 3d Platformers, Action Adventures, FPS and Sport. PS1 takes Racing, RPG, Story, Horror, Sci Fi, the 'cool factor', Saturn takes 2D platformers and ties with PS1 in Fighting.
PS1 if you have a brain
N64 if you have friends
Also, Id add Im not really all that impressed with the N64 visually. Honestly, I prefer the SNES to the N64, SNES sprites look better and the color palette seems superior. N64 looks drab and muddy looking. The PSX, Breath of Fire III looks amazing! But Resident Evil 2, Tomb Raider, Syphon Filter, bleh.... And the texture shifting and polygon warping were really bad. In that regard, while the Saturn had issues with transparency effects, you'd think they have fixed going from Genesis to Saturn, while that was a challenge, Saturn games overall, I think looked better, purely because you didn't get that texture shifting or polygon warping, that's like the Xbox 360s screen tearing issue. The PS3 got a lot of flac for its frame dips because Sony opted to split the V-RAM and system RAM, which was a mistake and they should've done what Xbox 360 did and had unified RAM, but the screen tearing bothered me more than frame dips did, just like Saturn's transparency effects (or lack thereof) didn't bother me as much as texture shifting. So, I think Super Nintendo looked better than N64. GameCube on the other hand? Beautiful graphics!
N64 did rumble before PlayStation. PS1 didn't get it until Sony released the Dualshock.
Thanks for the update on that!
yep, I was there too, incredible times.. everyone was trying something.. good or bad, the N64 looked superior at first, and I was very happy with it, but really the war Sega vs Nintendo war on the early 90s to was very different than Nintendo vs Sony late 90s, Nintendo had reached peak high with the Snes classics, and games for everyone, but lost ground incredibly fast because they stuck to cartridge, while the PS1 could just put more types of games, more new developers, and if the games were big no problem, just add more on the CD, and who cares if is not enough, then add 2 , 3 , 4 CDs!!more movies, more CGI.. bad and good, ... the N64 on the other hand was trailing... really waiting for something good to come out, was irritatingly slow... lack of RPG and perhaps more mature content. Sony was Daring, and Nintendo just wanted to play safe, too much. You needed both, but if I had to choose one to tag alone with me, would be the PS.
Suikoden 1 is better than Suikoden II, esp the soundtrack,
I just downloaded duckstation emulator and finally get to play some of the best games I missed - WIld Arms 2, Vagrant Story, Vandal Hearts 1 and 2, Legend of Legaia, Breath of fire III and IV, Legend of Dragoon
I love the N64 and is my 2nd favourite Nintendo console and is super underrated
And I have fond memories of Super Mario 64, which revolutionised 3D platformers and the controller was made for the game and I adore it and Goldeneye is also a trailblazer for console FPS and it was the best for multiplayer games with wrestling with the WCW and WWF which you couldn’t play anywhere else. I had both but sold my PlayStation and kept my N64 and rode out that generation.
Nice! I've played a lot of N64 in the last year, and while PS1 did kick its butt in sales, I agree that the N64 is amazing and revolutionized gaming in many ways, namely in creating many of the templates for future 3D games.
I have wanted to make a better version of this video to give a more balanced perspective.
As far as the test of time is concerned, N64 definitely holds up a lot better than PS1 does. Fully 3D PS1 games do not hold up well at all. Croc Legend of the Gobos is still a fun game, but it does not hold a candle to the Rare platformers. F-Zero X plays just as good today as it did when it came out in 1998. Metal Gear Solid 1, Syphon Filter, and Medal of Honor do not play that well. Spyro is still a cool game, but N64 titles beat it out by a long shot. PS1 holds the crown for RPGs no doubt, but people also forget that those magic spells and game over screens take forever. I recently replayed through the original Final Fantasy 7 and did not use summons whatsoever. Those looked cool, but they take forever. The PS1 games that hold up the most are the ones in 2D. Mega Man X4, Wild Arms, Legend of Mana, and to a degree Crash Bandicoot. Yes the graphics were in 3D, but the camera and character movement were on a 2D plane. Tekken 3 still holds up as well. Then again, that title is objectively the best game on the PS1. The first two titles are very difficult to go back to.
The N64 is more closely aligned to how games are built today. This is why the console still holds up more so than the original PS1. Tank controls went out of style in 2002.
There are only about 10 must have games on the n64. The PS1 had a much better library of games.
I would argue a bit more than that for the 64, but I do agree the PS1 had a much bigger, more colorful library.
I appreciate the review of both consoles and games but can't help to feel like you played many many ps1 games and only like 5 n64 games. Seems like the review is b(i)ased on on your very limited knowledge on what the n64 had to offer. The best selling n64 titles might have had couch co op modes, yes, but it had a great catalogue for the single player, even mature, experience.
This is a fair critique. I actually grabbed another N64 last year and plan to make a redemption video for it. I do prefer the PS1, and even Saturn to 64, but the 64 is still an amazing console.
What mature games exist for the 64? Only Resident Evil 2 and Conker's Bad Fur Day come to mind.
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 I'm happy you're already working through conkers. Sucks that Nintendo's family friendly image killed any push it deserved. Other cult classics that aren't as popular are shadow man and body harvest (created by the ppl that would eventually make GTA) it was one of the first, get into any/many vehicles game. But instead of committing crime, you're fighting aliens throughout humanities history. Time travel + aliens + GTA!
As far as RPG goes, not sure if it qualifies but mystical ninja. It has giant robots and Japanese songs and multiple playable characters also hybrid heaven is a maybe RPG? Ogre battle 64 is one of the few RPGs but never got into it.
Mace was a dark and violent fighting game, maybe worth a try.
Looking fwd to new eyes on old classics.
@@OliveOcelot thanks for the recommendation. Body Harvest does seem interesting - and I am realizing that Midway made SO many games for the N64.
So far I've had a blast returning to Diddy Kong Racing, finally getting to play through Mario 64 the right way, F-Zero X, Kirby Crystal Shards, and Mischief Makers (another hidden gem), though like most Treasure games, there are things I love about it, and things that frustrate me.
Ogre Battle 64 is on my list, but that is an expensive little cart. With my RPG backlog, it's gonna be a while before I get around to that one unless I find a sweet deal.
I chose the Saturn early in the 5th generation (pre 64) after having played it at a friend's house and will never regret that decision (I thank child me. Got a complete PAL collection and sizeable NTSC/Japan collection nowadays and had I been a few years late would not have been able to afford it most likely). Got a N64 later on (and a PS1/2 MUCH later) but man... Despite being in PAL territory and not getting imports at the time the Saturn was and still holds special to me.
PS1 the weakest of the generation imho (at least in PAL territory; would've likely rated it higher had I had unlimited funds as a kid due to the sheer volume of games) yet most friends had it (it wins with regards to English language RPGs though I guess as that's the normie genre). Due to the multiplayer evenings with friends and Mario Kart/Goldeneye idk how to rate the other two. The Saturn honestly feels more special partly because fewer people played it, and partly because the single player- and arcade games were right up my alley coming off a famiclone without memory, but the 64 memories are more tied to playing with groups of friends. Guess your winner all depends on what genres you like. Good times all around.
Edit: another thing that may edge the Saturn for me is the controllers. Sega, possibly due to the arcade experience, were the kings of ergonomics. The model 2 2D-controller = best 2D-controller of all time. The 3D one... Big and bulky for my small hands at the time but still much better than the awkwardness of the N64 (shame about the limited support). PS1 controllers suck; D-pad is useless. Saddens me to see what Sega are doing today and all of those trademarks wasting away. Hope the controllers aren't overlooked in the future though. Wish those chinese companies making emulator handhelds just copied their D-pads. Not into RPGs but if I have an ergonomic handheld with a good D-pad, despite not being a fan of the genre, I might finally look into some PS1-RPGs.
How did you never own Goldeneye if you had a N64? Goldeneye, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Smash Bros. are games that every N64 owner had. I mean, I didn’t like Smash Bros., only played it at friends houses, yet I went out and bought it because I knew it was important.....
I did not have a 64 during its lifespan. My best friend and brother did. I mostly played what they had, and mostly multiplayer. I have an N64 now, but I played all the one player stuff after the fact..
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 But you even stated that you had nostalgia for the N64......
@@AJ72281 I do. I played a LOT of it with friends and family. Just because I didn't get to the one-player stuff until after the fact does not exempt me from having nostalgia for it. Countless hours of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Diddy Kong Racing, Smash Bros, Mario Kart and so on played. Plus, I still dabbled in stuff like Mario 64 and Ocarina of time on my best friends console.
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@@AJ72281 I may actually need to make a dedicated 64 video of some sort in the future. I recently reacquired one, and it's still a total blast to play for the most part. Finally getting to games like Banjo Kazooie and Kirby and the Crystal Shards that I never touched as a kid. I think at the time, the PS1 certainly had more mass appeal and more genre options, but the 64 undoubtedly had the better 3D experience, and the first person shooters and platformers were some of the best of all time - plus party games or course.
Perfect Dark is next on my list of 64 games to buy.
RPGs are boring
Love the Grandia soundtrack:)))
it's funny when people review old games and always talk about how it looks, the gameplay is what should be spoke about!
Saying wave race 64 still looks good haha..
dude it still plays amazing, better than most racers now, only the most shallow people look at graphics and say that's what makes the game great!
also the reason the industry spits out constant crap with no new gameplay elements at all!
but it looks nice, that's worth £80 to over £100
Eh? The gameplay is great. I don't think my point was that it is some shiny game with no gameplay merit. I think I was just expressing a little surprise about how well the graphics hold up.
I 100% agree on gameplay being the #1 factor in a good game. Yeah, graphics are shallow I suppose, but aesthetics are certainly not. Panzer Dragoon is a good example of a game that does not hold up graphically, but has amazing aesthetics. Anyway, not sure how this was your big takeaway from the video.
Wow you never even finished Mario 64 and think it's overrated 😂 in other words, you don't really like it so you're saying that everyone else that actually finished the game and like it are wrong. Wrong choice of words there
There really wasn't a war between these. N64 flopped and ps1 came out of nowhere ready to take over.
Nah m64 was overrated now oot that game had heat and soul with beautiful environments.
@@your_name_here_1 I do love Zelda OoT. I hope to make an N64 follow up video to this soon since I got a lot of backlash.
@@radicaldreamersteve5743 no hate here we all like what we like and that's all there is to it right.
So, the N64 is crap because you are an RPG Lover? That's very fanboy of you, as we can see how you undermined every accomplishment the N64 did (and the PS1, for that matter) just on the basis that it has no rpgs
I like the N64 just fine, and I actually recently just acquired another one. I think the sales alone speak to how much more popular the PS1 was overall, but the 64 still had better 3D graphics, amazing 3D platformers, and first-person shooters, and it was the ultimate couch co-op console.
Imagine calling Mario 64 overrated, stopped watching right there LOL.
I know right! Mario 64 influenced so many games