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The N64 was during a very fractured era of gaming. Most people went the NES->-SNES->N64 route and for them the N64 was revolutionary but I still distinctly remember showing my console owning friends some of the poo poo that was going down on PC that they had no idea about that blew their loving minds. TIE Fighter, Quake 1's Team Fortress online with broadband, Total Annihilation or Warcraft 2 over LAN, etc.
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I guess I play tested Tetrisphere , for the then 'Ultra 64', on one of the Silicon Graphics Indy developer machines at H2O, before it was released and got my rear end kicked by one of the senior developers. Fun fact, all the music for Tetrisphere was written with Fasttracker on a Windows PC.
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nvidiagouge posted:The N64 was during a very fractured era of gaming. Most people went the NES->-SNES->N64 route and for them the N64 was revolutionary but I still distinctly remember showing my console owning friends some of the poo poo that was going down on PC that they had no idea about that blew their loving minds. TIE Fighter, Quake 1's Team Fortress online with broadband, Total Annihilation or Warcraft 2 over LAN, etc. this is really the thing. PC gaming was kind of inaccessable because of how expensive a PC was at the time compared to a console. I remember asking my parents for a Voodoo 2 graphics card and they just didn't understand at all what this thing was or why I wanted this 300 dollar piece of computer equipment when out computer was already very expensive and did thing just fine. For a lot of people, Goldeneye was their first 3D fps. But I had some friends who weren't rich, their dads were just huge nerds with ham radios and poo poo like that, and they had good computers with good games and that's where I learned about PC gaming. I remember watching my friends dad playing Ultima online and was like "no loving way" at the whole thing.
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N64 wrestling games may have been the peak of that genre in relation to availability and utilization of technology, though.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:this is really the thing. PC gaming was kind of inaccessable because of how expensive a PC was at the time compared to a console. I remember asking my parents for a Voodoo 2 graphics card and they just didn't understand at all what this thing was or why I wanted this 300 dollar piece of computer equipment when out computer was already very expensive and did thing just fine. For a lot of people, Goldeneye was their first 3D fps. But I had some friends who weren't rich, their dads were just huge nerds with ham radios and poo poo like that, and they had good computers with good games and that's where I learned about PC gaming. I remember watching my friends dad playing Ultima online and was like "no loving way" at the whole thing. Something that added to this is the fact that the media surrounding gaming was also very fractured. Nintendo had their own magazine and kept the clamps on info and cheats and guides to monetize that part of it. PC gaming had it's own magazines too, and there wasn't much overlap between the two to bring folks in from one camp to another.
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nvidiagouge posted:N64 wrestling games may have been the peak of that genre in relation to availability and utilization of technology, though. no the peak of wrestling was several years later on GBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDopuddh3Gg
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Oct 3, 2021 02:36
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The only good thing to come from wrestling games is hair physics. Dead rear end.
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wrestling games are trying to capture a real life medium which will always make them kind of suck. video games can go further beyond. this is the true pinnacle of wrestling that is possible in video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4asIGghe0Y
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Oct 3, 2021 02:48
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Oh look a bunch of dumb morons not saying the Dreamcast controller is the best. Ignorance of the truth is no excuse. This might be better time will tell. https://twitter.com/RetroBitGaming/status/1442141942528151553
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Oct 3, 2021 03:01
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:this is really the thing. PC gaming was kind of inaccessable because of how expensive a PC was at the time compared to a console. I remember asking my parents for a Voodoo 2 graphics card and they just didn't understand at all what this thing was or why I wanted this 300 dollar piece of computer equipment when out computer was already very expensive and did thing just fine. For a lot of people, Goldeneye was their first 3D fps. But I had some friends who weren't rich, their dads were just huge nerds with ham radios and poo poo like that, and they had good computers with good games and that's where I learned about PC gaming. I remember watching my friends dad playing Ultima online and was like "no loving way" at the whole thing. at the time a game console was a very different thing from a PC too on the hardware level, built from very different parts w/ a much narrower set of goals, and devloping for consoles was very platform-specific and hacky. the xbox was the first one where they just said gently caress it, let's just stick a lovely PC in there and then it'll be easy to make games for both platforms. with mixed results
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Duck and Cover posted:Oh look a bunch of dumb morons not saying the Dreamcast controller is the best. Ignorance of the truth is no excuse. This might be better time will tell. https://twitter.com/RetroBitGaming/status/1442141942528151553 Chao Adventure was the original bitcoin
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yeah sharp edge grips, only one stick, and needing the cord to come out the bottom of the controller so they could charge you 60 bucks for a vmu were truly great choices
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Anyone who says a pre-360/ds4 gamepad is the best ever is probably a pedophile
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Oct 3, 2021 03:09
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got a real wild take for everyone: the N64 was actually cool and good
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Sally posted:got a real wild take for everyone: the N64 was actually cool and good really? name one good game released on it
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poverty goat posted:at the time a game console was a very different thing from a PC too on the hardware level, built from very different parts w/ a much narrower set of goals, and devloping for consoles was very platform-specific and hacky. the xbox was the first one where they just said gently caress it, let's just stick a lovely PC in there and then it'll be easy to make games for both platforms. with mixed results this is also a really good point. The real reason we had a good PC with a Pentium in it was so my dad could do AutoCAD poo poo at home for work. It just so happened you could also play games on it.
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Oct 3, 2021 03:16
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jokes posted:really? name one good game released on it GoldenEye 
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Oct 3, 2021 03:25
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The GameCube was good but the Wii, Ds, Wii u, 3ds, switch all suck and the rumor if Microsoft buying Nintendo a few years ago should've been true
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What part of the world observes opposite day in early October?
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syntaxfunction posted:GoldenEye Weird way to spell blast corps
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I'm not wild about Nintendo but Microsoft kills every company they buy.
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jokes posted:really? name one good game released on it Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:i want a fully developed version of Yakuza's nightclub manager minigame  I would be disappointed when I would be forced to switch characters and couldn't play it.
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Oct 3, 2021 04:46
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jokes posted:really? name one good game released on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LgGNBtFG8
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hey what's the good new wolfenstein game that people usually cite? I don't mean new like in the last 3 years, I mean like post-original because there's a sale at GOG right now and I wanna make sure I get the right one
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the machinegames series is the good one, but presumably you mean Wolfenstein 2009 which is unavailable on any store due to licensing disputes, you have to pirate it
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Sally posted:Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Specifically the battle of Hoth which I played far more than the rest of the game. And what - the cinematic camera mode that made you look like a badass when you already knew the level layout.
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Cracker King posted:Specifically the battle of Hoth which I played far more than the rest of the game. obviously the best part is the final space battle scene with the tiefighter code entered
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I don't know if it holds up, but in my memory mischief makers was tight, fresh, slick, fun, and different. Because they had an idea and a plan, and they weren't too scared to release a game in the now completely passe! irrelevant! finished! 2D space. Yeah N64 sucked. I was sure it was going to be so much better than the SNES, like the SNES was so much better than the NES!
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Oct 3, 2021 05:44
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*unpins grenade, tosses* Going back and playing old games is dumb because you're chasing a dragon that flew away after your childhood/teenage years and all you're going to find are the bones and guts the dragon chewed on and left behind.
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Mescal posted:I don't know if it holds up, but in my memory mischief makers was tight, fresh, slick, fun, and different. Because they had an idea and a plan, and they weren't too scared to release a game in the now completely passe! irrelevant! finished! 2D space. Shake shake. Which reminds me rumble is a dumb gimmick. I think I tried it on Starfox 64 and never used it again.
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chainchompz posted:*unpins grenade, tosses* This is true for every game except Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.
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chainchompz posted:*unpins grenade, tosses* Corollary: truly good games are timeless and therefore are never old
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i play old things i used to like and discover i like it as an adult too. happens all the time. so either the games are good or you're trying to tell me i'm some kind of loving idiot with the brain of a 9 year old.
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Rutibex posted:obviously the best part is the final space battle scene with the tiefighter code entered I would spend HOURS trying to damage the star destroyer in the final mission. Turns out it having a life bar is only there to mock you.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:i want a fully developed version of Yakuza's nightclub manager minigame Would be really nice if those kinda management/tycoon games actually were polished releases nowadays and not relegated entirely to freemium shovelware and random indie games At best you get shiny but janky big releases like Cities: Skylines that require mods to be properly interesting but no one can agree on which of the ten zillion mods you should be using, also they break a lot
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Oct 3, 2021 06:29
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I maintain that Skylines is basically only held in high esteem because SimCity 2013 sucked.
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QuarkJets posted:Corollary: truly good games are timeless and therefore are never old I can get down with this. Civ2 for life.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Would be really nice if those kinda management/tycoon games actually were polished releases nowadays and not relegated entirely to freemium shovelware and random indie games Parkitect was amazing and works well standalone.
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Excitebike 64 holds up.
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