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"N64 Vs. Gamecube"

I and many others loved the 64, you all go on about how CD’s were better and it was Nintendo’s mistake and there is not grown up games etc… and what did we do? We smiled we didn’t care what they thought we were playing Zelda, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, No Mercy and Conker whilst you played with Metal gear solid, Final Fantasy and Smackdown and after we compare the games we were laughing.

But what can I say despite out beliefs the N64 sold badly. The expensive games, the lack of FMV style graphics, the childish image (even though Nintendo are not), no CD quality sounds, the lack of advertisement and the lack of 3rd party support made this wonder machine falter. It is now time for change and Nintendo are delivering.

Nintendo have kept what made them so huge in the first place their stunning first and second party games (Well those at E3 claim they are stunning) and with new second party developers in the form of Silicon knights and Retro studios are on board to bring more classic Nintendo material. Nintendo are also keeping with their multiplayer image as well which has served them well in the past.

Expensive ha, Nintendo have most defiantly sorted that out with a £150 console, which beats all it’s rivals and games that retail much lower than carts did early on at about £35-40.

FMV and the CD quality sounds are now capable with the move to a disc format and with games like Too human, Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark 2, Turok Evolution, Conker’s other bad day (probably), the new grown up style Mario and Resident Evil 0 and 4 proves to me that Nintendo’s childish looking era I starting to change.

Advertisement is getting well underway in the form of the Gameboy Advance! It sold tones and those of you who looked will see a Gamecube on the back. If Nintendo can successfully model the Gamecube as an essential to go with the Gameboy Advance then Nintendo’s popularity will rise rapidly.

Now I have been over 3rd party support before and you can see more in the future additions to my developer series of posts but with 12 Acclaim games promised, 3 Namco (including a beat em up), Capcom making a few Nintendo only games, Squaresoft willing to work with Nintendo again, THQ promising tones of games including a wrestling one, Konami hinting at MGS2 on the Gamecube and Silent hill 2 all of which sounds promising and many more I just couldn’t be bothered to list.

Sony fans maybe attacking the yet to be released Gamecube but this time I believe they are worried. The Gamecube is doing what the N64 did well and what the Playstation did well as well. This could be a very promising fight ahead of us.

Here’s to the future

Dringo

I don't believe you can beat me at this argument. I am just saying I don't like Nintendo games and there's nothing you can ever say or do to make me change my mind, end of story.

Dringo, if you can prove to me what you have just said to be true, I am going to wet my pants!

Seriously!

er-no wrote:
> My favorite game ever is still Secret of Mana....

NOW WHERE THE
> HELL IS MEKA, he has my game!

Isn't that on it's way to GBA?

I agree after a while in DK i suddenly felt i was getting bored with my favourite genre...

The Conker came along and i changed my mind and Banjo Tooie rocks cheers SR!

Where would i be without Orteag i eman Vernon to back em up?

Probably still here beating turbonutter at arguments!

persnally i hate 3d platformers now. all of the platformers on the 64 (bar conker) were the same ol game with different characters. they just couldnt change the game enough, maybe they were frightened to change them. i dunno, but i just hope the next gen platformers are a bit more orignal and refreshing. woudnt mind some new charaters either.

My favorite game ever is still Secret of Mana....

NOW WHERE THE HELL IS MEKA, he has my game!

:D

Well, almost every 2D platformer I have ever played I loved. As for 3D, well, I can't really say. Croc and Spyro were good I suppose. Sonic 3D was ace, if a little short. I also tend to approach Quake 3 levels from a platformer kind of view.

Crash was a good platformer. Crash 1 I really liked, after that it lost its charm.

All in all, I do like platformers very much.

Mario: with its all nice attitude is perfect for 3 or above (to about 90)

Banjo: with its offensive bird and references to amggots in corpse 7 or over (to about 90)

Conker: 15+

Nintendo cater for everyone with their paltform genre which is nice.

er-no wrote:
> The Nintendo64 did not fail, it still continues (for some strange
> reason) to sell in America, it has sold more than the DC and as
> Nintendo have made a 72% increase in yearly profits things are
> looking rosy!

Nintendo still have something very special though to help them...


Pokemon and later...

Pikmin

Turbo, i know a lot of people who have playhed banjo for an hour and found it boring. i am one of them. but then i played it for an another hour and got completly locked into the game. It really is amazing, the quiz show just before the end boss is the best part of the game. You have to answer questions about the game to be able to get the boss. its pritty funny.

Banjo is a game that grows on you, but you have to give it a chance. Believe me, you will be happy you did.