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What are your favorite Nintendo 64 games? (lemmus.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hot take: Perfect Dark took everything that was great from GoldenEye, expanded on the formula, and is a much better game overall.

StarFox 64 is always gonna be an all-time favourite of mine. The gameplay is so simple yet very rewarding. Very arcade-like game loop, in a good way.

Diddy Kong Racing is one of the first games I discovered the… joys (?) of completionism as a kid.

I played Wave Race a ton with my father, he loved that game. Mario Golf as well.

Mario 64 is insanely good in retrospect, but I both didn’t understand much of English back then, and also sucked at the mechanics too much as a kid to really enjoy it. Similar situation with Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie. I somehow managed to play through Donkey Kong 64 using walkthrough guides I printed out chapter by chapter. The multiplayer was nice although laggy as hell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Spot on with Perfect Dark. It's one fault imo is that it was trying to do almost too much for the 64. Even as an expansion pak game, the graphics that the 64 was capable of could just not render the necessary detail for a lot of stuff to be easy to see/recognize.