is this game actually a niice experience in 2024 or is it outdated? how did it age? I want to play it just for the knowledge.
is this game actually a niice experience in 2024 or is it outdated? how did it age?
is this game actually a niice experience in 2024 or is it outdated? how did it age? I want to play it just for the knowledge.
World design feels simple by our standards but mario feels amazing to control to this day. There's a reason it's in a league of its own as far as gen 6 collectathons go.
FPBP, don't let appearances deceive you. It's fun to play.
its a perfect game. play the pc port with QOL features if you want. super mario 64 plus
Holds up better than Sunshine, despite being older
Nah I find 64 downright awful.
The camera sucks mega shits.
64+ hacked is better, I like playing as other characters.
Games don't age. If you're going into it with a mindset that they do you may as well not play it.
This is false, all media ages. There is a reason nobody gives a shit about opera anymore
Oh really? So you'd be satisfied playing magnavox odyssey games for the rest of your life then?
>I want to play something
>Now what
The world is doomed. There is no hope for the future.
The biggest obstacle for new players will probably be the camera, otherwise it's a solid game.
Maybe download an emulator and find out
The controls don't hold up as well, specially if you played the recent Mario games, but if you can get used to it, it's a very fun game. Since i as a kid i go back to it at least once a year even if to play a few stages. It's a very comfy game.
>the controls
A is jump
B is punch
Z is crouch
Control Stick to move
this isn't hard to grasp
That's not what he meant moron. He's not talking about button mapping, he's talking about the control the player has over the main character.
He wasn't even talking about that, he meant the fricking C-pad camera controls
It is literally unplayable bruh you need at least 20 mods no cap
the PC port is god tier vidya, it feels like my idealized thoughts of what the future of the internet would be back in 2000.
a 3D sandbox where you shoot the shit with people while trying out challenges in real time gameplay.
>join random lobby
>almost guaranteed to be populated by mexican children playing on their phones
skill issue
I can't help it if I NOOTICED something
Is Gen Alpha playing Mario 64? Figured they'd all be obsessed with Roblox or Fortnite
>Play any online game with randoms
You should know better.
Here come the normalgay shitters.from various other social media sites explaining that ACKshually the game sucks because something something I couldn't figure out the controls
stop trying to force your shit OC
>I want to play it
Then do.
Try it vanilla. Mario 64 can get a bit cryptic at times but it's not a difficult game, especially if you've played a Mario game before. Later levels can get a little exhausting but the opening levels leave a phenomenal first impression. Try going in blind if you can, too- don't spoil all the best secrets for yourself.
mario 64 is a fricking great game and people who say otherwise are wrong and are probably just galaxygays
>sunshinegay attempting to punch up
I found it pretty tedious personally. I love the controls and the camera is pretty good most of the time but sometimes it pisses me off. The levels are just really boring. I dropped it at dire dire docks
I played the Switch rerelease a year or two ago and it was still really fun. Some levels are a lot better than others.
If you take the time to master the controls and momentum and jumping and such the movement is probably the most fun in the whole series. Same goes for Sunshine but, both can have shoddy level design at points.
>Same goes for Sunshine
bahahaha
You telling me the controls aren't tight for that game too? I could understand any other complaints for the game
the controls and movement are hot garbage. Mario has zero acceleration, so you see people playing it and they have to light tap the joystick a couple times to get to an edge of a platform for a collectible and ensure they don't barrel off into an abyss and lose a life.
frick Sunshine, it's a dogshit game.
Fair enough having momentum in 64 is definitely better. I still had a lot of fun with Sunshine you can pull off more varied maneuvers than in Galaxy.
instead of a jetpack they should have included one of those gimmick challenges once, where you have to sneak. then they would have afforded decent movement mechanics into the game.
SM64 had piranha plants that would fall asleep, so we inadvertently got good controls. lol
That would've solved the problem of tight maneuvering on small platforms at least. Which is obviously a big part of a platform game
level design is a bit middling
there's some weird jank (look up pretty much any video from pannenkoek, though his most recent one about invisible walls is probably the most relevant to a casual player)
the camera is serviceable but obviously limited by the N64 controller only having one analog stick
however, it has the smoothest god damn movement of ANY 3d platformer ever, plus a billion rom hacks of varying difficulty to make full use of that movement
it's worth playing if you can get around the camera controls. But if that's what filters you, then consider sleeping on railroad tracks.
>how did it age?
Poorly in terms of controls. Mario slips and slides way too much when you try to move him.
The game itself is fine however it's more a tech demo for the new (at the time) analogue controller than a proper game - because there's only like 4 or 5 little demo levels and they just make you play them 45 times each with very slightly different objectives.
it's held back by the camera (jumping towards the camera) and mediocre wall jump mechanics (unforgiving, no buffering)
also sliding off platforms when you didn't land a jump all that well is one of the most frustrating parts (screen shakes, landing animation keeps looping as you move forward and you fall off)
>me whenever i hear birds chirping outside on a sunny day
"Wow this is just like mario 64's castle courtyard"
i think the level design is boring. im not a fan of the wide open collectathon levels even if thats what people seem to like the most. my favorite levels are the ones with weird test-room style designs with random platforms, like lethal lava land and wet dry world.
While it controls better than most 3D platformers and I'll give it kudos for not doing the lazy mid-air jump meme but the actual game around it is rather lacking.
Enemy types are more often than not too passive, not used creatively enough to be engaging, and/or don't compliment the platforming.
A lot of stars are redundant and only exist to meet that 120 quota. The caps feels like an afterthought. Bosses are terrible, even for Mario standards. Bowser is especially disappointing.
The lives system is poorly implemented to the point where it might as well not even exist, although most Mario games are also guilty of this.
Games don't age zoom zoom
My rotting PS1 discs beg to differ.
Medium game is stored on =/= software that composes the game.
My .zip files will never rot, and can be freely copied to more hardware at any time.
>My .zip files will never rot
>he does not know
>he genuinely does not have the awareness
h-haha
Works on my machine.
Don't listen to the casuals in this thread, the controls are some of the best in any video game. The only real flaw is the camera (it's generally pretty good at giving a decent view on its own, but it's a total b***h when it isn't, and often just refuses to move manually).
The graphics are dated even by N64 standards where there are a lot of obvious stock assets thrown around that give it a much more abstract vibe than Zelda or Banjo for instance.
The music is great even though there aren't that many different tracks.
>only real flaw
>it's just one of many
the levels are incredibly sparse (boring) and the camera is still just as dogshit as when it came out
The game was good for it's time but it's kinda boring especially if you're aiming to get all stars. Sunshine mogs the frick out of it and so do every 3d mario that came after it
The camera is there to make sure you know that you are indeed being inducted
The controls and camera are not even close to as bad as morons say. It's a genuinely perfect game