Zerostatic
CAGiversary!
I never owned an N64 until today. Earlier this morning I became the proud owner of a Nintendo 64 along with about 10 games or so. The first thing I did when I got my n64 was hook it up to my 52 inch 1080p LCD in the living room. Big mistake! The games looked so bad that I was actually depressed thinking that I flushed money down the drain. The main reason I bought this system was to use it as my dedicated party machine that I would bring over to parties or get-togethers. The reason for this logic was that the system and it's games were both sturdy, there were no load times, and also the system had a reputation for being that system back in the day with several key multi-player greats (Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Brothers, etc.). Well what good was it going to be if the games are so damn blurry that it was a challenge to play them.
Then I hooked it up to my 27 inch sdtv in my study/game room. The difference was huge! I felt a lot better at this point.
Anyways, here are some early impressions on some games that I got:
FPS's have aged horribly! I have Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Doom 64, Duke Nukem 64, and Quake. At first, when I was playing Goldeneye, I really thought that the game had aged beyond the point of no return. However I made myself get through the first level and It was starting to grow on me. I briefly tried the multi-player and it looked like it could be fun. Overall though, it looks like fully 3D FPS's took a pretty big hit. Duke Nukem 64 and Doom 64 on the other hand seemed to have aged a bit better thanks to their sprite-based characters. Duke Nukem in particular was fun. It didn't feel like an N64 game though, it almost felt like a Super Nintendo game on steroids which I think is a good thing since the SNES has aged better then the N64.
Ridge Racer 64 and Wipeout 64 were both ok but disappointed me a bit. Ridge Racer 64 for it's horrible physics and Wipeout 64 for it's horrendous pop-up. Overall, I can't see myself spending too much time with either title and I might throw them back up on Ebay if they don't start to grow on me.
1080 Snowboarding seems to have held up pretty well. Snowboarding games have not come that far since 1080 (as opposed to today's FPS's which completely blow the N64's FPS's out the water).
Banjo-Kazooie looks like it'll be fun. The game's cartoony art style and abundant use of color have helped hide the rough around the edges look that many 3d games from this generation have.
Finally, I played the N64 version of one of my favorite games of all time . . . Resident Evil 2. I got really into it too, I played it for a couple of hours and even skipped out on a bunch of stuff I had to do today because I got so into it. Thanks to the pre-rendered background the game is still somewhat impressive though the polygonal models as expected don't look too hot.
That's it for now. My next purchases for my N64 is going to be to get the classic Nintendo titles (both Zelda games, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, etc.) as well as some good 2d games as are what will have aged the best (i.e. Mischief Makers, The New Tetris, Worms Armageddon Ogre Battle 64, Bust-A-Move 99, etc.)
Then I hooked it up to my 27 inch sdtv in my study/game room. The difference was huge! I felt a lot better at this point.
Anyways, here are some early impressions on some games that I got:
FPS's have aged horribly! I have Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Doom 64, Duke Nukem 64, and Quake. At first, when I was playing Goldeneye, I really thought that the game had aged beyond the point of no return. However I made myself get through the first level and It was starting to grow on me. I briefly tried the multi-player and it looked like it could be fun. Overall though, it looks like fully 3D FPS's took a pretty big hit. Duke Nukem 64 and Doom 64 on the other hand seemed to have aged a bit better thanks to their sprite-based characters. Duke Nukem in particular was fun. It didn't feel like an N64 game though, it almost felt like a Super Nintendo game on steroids which I think is a good thing since the SNES has aged better then the N64.
Ridge Racer 64 and Wipeout 64 were both ok but disappointed me a bit. Ridge Racer 64 for it's horrible physics and Wipeout 64 for it's horrendous pop-up. Overall, I can't see myself spending too much time with either title and I might throw them back up on Ebay if they don't start to grow on me.
1080 Snowboarding seems to have held up pretty well. Snowboarding games have not come that far since 1080 (as opposed to today's FPS's which completely blow the N64's FPS's out the water).
Banjo-Kazooie looks like it'll be fun. The game's cartoony art style and abundant use of color have helped hide the rough around the edges look that many 3d games from this generation have.
Finally, I played the N64 version of one of my favorite games of all time . . . Resident Evil 2. I got really into it too, I played it for a couple of hours and even skipped out on a bunch of stuff I had to do today because I got so into it. Thanks to the pre-rendered background the game is still somewhat impressive though the polygonal models as expected don't look too hot.
That's it for now. My next purchases for my N64 is going to be to get the classic Nintendo titles (both Zelda games, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, etc.) as well as some good 2d games as are what will have aged the best (i.e. Mischief Makers, The New Tetris, Worms Armageddon Ogre Battle 64, Bust-A-Move 99, etc.)
anyone who says that GoldenEye aged badly. 
