I think this game is objectively good. I think from SNES forward there are actual good games and everything before that is really only good with rose-tinted glasses. Someone who grew up with early Atari might say it's good, but objectively there isn't a single Atari game worth playing for more than five minutes.
Overall, it has not aged well. The movement system is probably the only thing that isn't jank. It's by no means bad or unplayable, but it's at the bottom of pretty much all 3D Marios other than maybe Sunshine because that one is ultra YMMV.
I was amazed by how well it held up. I'd actually recommend it to younger gamers for reasons other than my own nostalgia, and I certainly wouldn't say that about most of the games from my childhood. Pokémon Gen 1 really isn't worth playing unless maybe you're playing a fan game. DK64 is unforgivably tedious. Bomberman 64'd make anyone born after 1995 have an aneurysm. The Sonic Adventure games are irredeemably flawed when they're not outright laughable. And the Shenmue games are crimes against software. But Mario 64 actually managed to live up to its ambitions, and I'm only more appreciative of its achievements with time.
Admittedly, the camera fricking blows. But it's at least reasonably functional, which was really the best you could hope for before the seventh generation of consoles.
listen, champ, I know you're at that age when you're going through a lot of changes. your hormones are raging, you've started to develop bodily changes, and you can't stop thinking about dicks, but,,, where was I going with this? ah, right. listen, it's okay to act out from time to time, just know that your father loves you. ok? I'm finally glad you're realizing that youtube is mostly a garbage compendium of user generated garbage. it has to be this way, it's the rules of nature, you understand. thanks you so much for to playing my game.
>considered by some to be the best game of all time
You're thinking of Ocarina of Time. SM64 always had a good reputation, but I don't think anyone ever considered it the best game ever.
best games of all time was the criteria goalpost anon
system shock 2 had a design in 1999 that was replicated wholesale but dumbed down in 2007 two console generations later that blew the minds of console gamers. It just didn't land in Billy Millennial's '99 christmas gifts. It gets mentioned in this stuff absolutely never.
zoomers cant enjoy it because they only watch lets plays of it. the point of the game is mostly the physics which isn't something you can "feel" second hand
All the people making iceberg memes and talking about "Mario if he real" are zoomers. SM64 is a zoomer game at this point, they've coopted it like they did Minecraft.
>All the people making iceberg memes and talking about "Mario if he real" are zoomers
Millenials actually. Mario64 came and went before zoomers were born.
>No, no one above the age of 25 gives a shit about le icebergs or spamming "Mario if he real XD"
Yes we do. 30+ is the largest gaming demographic. If a gaming meme sticks its because millenials made it and approve of it.
Let me guess, you think "when le imposter is sus" is also a millennial meme.
Millennial gaming memes are stuff like "the cake is a lie" and "arrow to the knee". All the iceberg shit was made by zoomzooms.
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>Let me guess, you think "when le imposter is sus" is also a millennial meme.
Among Us is a zoomer game that came out for zoomers >Millennial gaming memes are stuff like "the cake is a lie" and "arrow to the knee".
Those are normie memes moron >All the iceberg shit was made by zoomzooms.
Millenials actually
No, It would be ridiculous to think that adults that act and post exactly like modern social media addicted kids exist
Mario 64 isn't modern social media.
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>Among Us is a zoomer game
Among Us is a Gen Alpha game. I'm gonna be honest, you sound like you're a 20-something year old who doesn't know he's a zoomer.
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I was born in the 80s
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Well if you're in your 30s and you're doing that "mario if he real" shit then I'm sorry to say but you're a manchild.
2 years ago
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Oh no how will ever recover from this ad hominem
pro tip: the largest demographic on Ganker and Ganker in general is also 30+
2 years ago
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That wasn't an ad hominem, that was an insult. There's a difference.
2 years ago
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No there isn't
2 years ago
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Yes there is. An ad hominem would be me saying "your argument is wrong because you're a manchild". I just called you a manchild.
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And I accept your concession
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and you lurk vidya in Ganker. You can't shit on anybody.
Donkey Kong 64 is good
Pokemon Gen 2 is good
Fallout New Vegas is not some groundbreaking amazing game that deserves to be top 5 in anyones list
Youtubers do not have one single clue what they are going on about and every viewer eats it up like glue and starts parroting it
I have never played Mario 64, and I was a Playstation kid. Every time I played N64 was to play multiplayer games at friends houses, Mario 64 never ever came up
Should I play it?
Ive never actually been that interested in it, but I feel like im supposed to have played it.
i'd 100% recommend it to anyone that enjoys platformers, so if you like them then definitely.
maybe i'm just biased since i grew up playing it in the 90s and have nostalgia for it, but there's so much the game gets right that it's hard not to sing its praises. it has a great difficulty progression, a hub world so you can tackle levels at your own pace and vary the order if you want to change it up, cool secret levels, a great sense of exploration and discovery when you try to piece together where to go to get certain stars, and super simple but smooth controls that feel great to use that allow for skill expression the better you get at using them. honestly it's one of the most fun single player games i've ever played.
but don't play a game just because you feel like you have to play it. life's too short to waste time checking games of a checklist, just play games that look fun to you. sm64 ticks all the right boxes for me, but maybe it's different for you.
This game is great because it captured the actual mario soul and turned it into the 3D realm. Most homosexuals can't grasp the miracle of a game that have to live up to the fricking Mario brand and not only accomplishes it, but it spawns a new era of 3d platformers with, arguably, the same level of impact the original 2d Mario had for the gaming industry.
For an example on the opposite direction, look at Metal Slug 3D. It fricking sucks and now Metal Slug is doomed to be 2D for all eternity. Mario did the impossible by being an actual good game.
>it’s good because it’s fun with a lot to do and see!!
>It’s good because le sonic tuber said so!!
Both of those games are fun.
I love that as time passes even more people get to experience how great the N64 was thanks to word of mouth
🙂
>he thinks they actually play the game
Oh you poor moron.
You don't need to play golf to know Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time
I love this game. What youtube man said it was good?
All of them, ever single fricking game reviewer said so
I think this game is objectively good. I think from SNES forward there are actual good games and everything before that is really only good with rose-tinted glasses. Someone who grew up with early Atari might say it's good, but objectively there isn't a single Atari game worth playing for more than five minutes.
There are good nes games like Kirby's Adventure
They were good at the time but made obsolete with the consoles that came afterwords. There are plenty of great games on the nes.
I think you're mistaken but not by a whole lot.
Good games started around the NES mappers.
People have fun playing Flash games more arcane than some NES games, so this isnt a very good take
it's good because I have fun playing it
That's not Banjo-Kazooie.
Overall, it has not aged well. The movement system is probably the only thing that isn't jank. It's by no means bad or unplayable, but it's at the bottom of pretty much all 3D Marios other than maybe Sunshine because that one is ultra YMMV.
I replayed it last year. Even got all the stars.
I was amazed by how well it held up. I'd actually recommend it to younger gamers for reasons other than my own nostalgia, and I certainly wouldn't say that about most of the games from my childhood. Pokémon Gen 1 really isn't worth playing unless maybe you're playing a fan game. DK64 is unforgivably tedious. Bomberman 64'd make anyone born after 1995 have an aneurysm. The Sonic Adventure games are irredeemably flawed when they're not outright laughable. And the Shenmue games are crimes against software. But Mario 64 actually managed to live up to its ambitions, and I'm only more appreciative of its achievements with time.
Admittedly, the camera fricking blows. But it's at least reasonably functional, which was really the best you could hope for before the seventh generation of consoles.
Yes.
I played this shit before YouTube even existed homosexual
>It's good because I played it and liked it.
Zoomers do realize Youtube didn't exist in the 90s right?
Zoomers love Super Mario 64, which is why you get all these cringy memes about le liminal spaces and parallel universes.
No, zoomers hate SM64.
The guy in that pic is a millennial. Zoomers love SM64.
that guy is a complete fricking moron
and a Black person
Nah he's smarter than most of Ganker
I'm not going to give you views, Black person
Zoomers can't even hold a N64 controller properly
Yeah, kids born in the 2000s are pure cancer. The late 90s was the last good time to be born.
You spelled 80s wrong
No.
Zoomer
That's not an insult
Yes it is
Yeah, and?
i was playing this game while you were a sperm going up your dads anus OP
It's good because I said so
Why does Youtube make so many videos about N64 games? The PS1 was the superior Gen 5 console.
Because Nintendo is Japanese Disney. People will be analyzing and studying Nintendo games for decades on end, just like Disney fans.
Because Nintendo kept being relevant while Sony has to port it's games to steam to pay the bills.
>zoomers are under the impression that most people get their opinions from youtubers
pathetic
*millennials
FTFY
If Super Mario 64 is so bad where's the 2 hour YouTube review of the game saying so?
listen, champ, I know you're at that age when you're going through a lot of changes. your hormones are raging, you've started to develop bodily changes, and you can't stop thinking about dicks, but,,, where was I going with this? ah, right. listen, it's okay to act out from time to time, just know that your father loves you. ok? I'm finally glad you're realizing that youtube is mostly a garbage compendium of user generated garbage. it has to be this way, it's the rules of nature, you understand. thanks you so much for to playing my game.
Black person it's been considered by some to be the best game of all time before YouTube ever existed. Zoomie, there was a time before 2010 you know.
>considered by some to be the best game of all time
You're thinking of Ocarina of Time. SM64 always had a good reputation, but I don't think anyone ever considered it the best game ever.
>Ocarina or SM64 even being in the conversation
exterminate nintentard millennial game journalists
What 90s games should millennial journalists have been writing about instead?
best games of all time was the criteria goalpost anon
system shock 2 had a design in 1999 that was replicated wholesale but dumbed down in 2007 two console generations later that blew the minds of console gamers. It just didn't land in Billy Millennial's '99 christmas gifts. It gets mentioned in this stuff absolutely never.
Goldeneye was better
Another moronic millennial meme, even Turok was vastly better
Its alright but really not that great compared to other games like mario galaxy or sonic adventure
>or sonic adventure
Sonicgays are really delusional, aren't they?
zoomers cant enjoy it because they only watch lets plays of it. the point of the game is mostly the physics which isn't something you can "feel" second hand
All the people making iceberg memes and talking about "Mario if he real" are zoomers. SM64 is a zoomer game at this point, they've coopted it like they did Minecraft.
>All the people making iceberg memes and talking about "Mario if he real" are zoomers
Millenials actually. Mario64 came and went before zoomers were born.
No, no one above the age of 25 gives a shit about le icebergs or spamming "Mario if he real XD". That's firmly zoomer territory.
>No, no one above the age of 25 gives a shit about le icebergs or spamming "Mario if he real XD"
Yes we do. 30+ is the largest gaming demographic. If a gaming meme sticks its because millenials made it and approve of it.
Let me guess, you think "when le imposter is sus" is also a millennial meme.
Millennial gaming memes are stuff like "the cake is a lie" and "arrow to the knee". All the iceberg shit was made by zoomzooms.
>Let me guess, you think "when le imposter is sus" is also a millennial meme.
Among Us is a zoomer game that came out for zoomers
>Millennial gaming memes are stuff like "the cake is a lie" and "arrow to the knee".
Those are normie memes moron
>All the iceberg shit was made by zoomzooms.
Millenials actually
Mario 64 isn't modern social media.
>Among Us is a zoomer game
Among Us is a Gen Alpha game. I'm gonna be honest, you sound like you're a 20-something year old who doesn't know he's a zoomer.
I was born in the 80s
Well if you're in your 30s and you're doing that "mario if he real" shit then I'm sorry to say but you're a manchild.
Oh no how will ever recover from this ad hominem
pro tip: the largest demographic on Ganker and Ganker in general is also 30+
That wasn't an ad hominem, that was an insult. There's a difference.
No there isn't
Yes there is. An ad hominem would be me saying "your argument is wrong because you're a manchild". I just called you a manchild.
And I accept your concession
and you lurk vidya in Ganker. You can't shit on anybody.
No, It would be ridiculous to think that adults that act and post exactly like modern social media addicted kids exist
the game is so good that its fun despite its shitty levels
What's up with all these people shitting on RE4 as of lately?, there's a lot of meme moments and quotes they praise like Rising and DMC
i like it because I thought it was fun when it came out.
No, it's good because I dusted it off a bit ago and it's still fricking fun.
Play on original hardware.
You're a few years off the mark anon, now it's
>it has poorly dated game mechanics because youtube man said so
>it’s good because le Ganker said so!!
Some at Ganker were around videogames long before they became world wide mainstream, even before internet received it's first mass
Donkey Kong 64 is good
Pokemon Gen 2 is good
Fallout New Vegas is not some groundbreaking amazing game that deserves to be top 5 in anyones list
Youtubers do not have one single clue what they are going on about and every viewer eats it up like glue and starts parroting it
what's your favorite level bros?
cool, cool mountain for me
Unironically the clock and rainbow level
Snow Mountain and the big, small island.
I know quite a lot about this game, but i have never played it before. Thanks youtube.
I have never played Mario 64, and I was a Playstation kid. Every time I played N64 was to play multiplayer games at friends houses, Mario 64 never ever came up
Should I play it?
Ive never actually been that interested in it, but I feel like im supposed to have played it.
i'd 100% recommend it to anyone that enjoys platformers, so if you like them then definitely.
maybe i'm just biased since i grew up playing it in the 90s and have nostalgia for it, but there's so much the game gets right that it's hard not to sing its praises. it has a great difficulty progression, a hub world so you can tackle levels at your own pace and vary the order if you want to change it up, cool secret levels, a great sense of exploration and discovery when you try to piece together where to go to get certain stars, and super simple but smooth controls that feel great to use that allow for skill expression the better you get at using them. honestly it's one of the most fun single player games i've ever played.
but don't play a game just because you feel like you have to play it. life's too short to waste time checking games of a checklist, just play games that look fun to you. sm64 ticks all the right boxes for me, but maybe it's different for you.
This game is great because it captured the actual mario soul and turned it into the 3D realm. Most homosexuals can't grasp the miracle of a game that have to live up to the fricking Mario brand and not only accomplishes it, but it spawns a new era of 3d platformers with, arguably, the same level of impact the original 2d Mario had for the gaming industry.
For an example on the opposite direction, look at Metal Slug 3D. It fricking sucks and now Metal Slug is doomed to be 2D for all eternity. Mario did the impossible by being an actual good game.
The only reason people bought Mario 64 was because it became a youtube meme.