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"Nintendo 64"

Here a question.

How long do people think the N64 has left to live?

With games like Perfect Dark, Zelda: The Continuing Sage, Turok 3, A Resident Evil game, Top Gear Rally 2, and a bunch of other wicked games this year. How long will the N64 live for? Specially with the PS2 and Dolphin on the horizon how much longer can the N64 last?

Cooky

El stupido? He's more like that, than the X-Box. Here's a Sony zealot in a nintendo forum ha ha.
Perfect Dark's a Goldeneye rip off with the same levels, did Goldenye have a AREA 51 level and a datadyne level, it only had 2 multiplayer levels from Goldeneye.
Just because sony can't bring out any decent games like Zelda, PD, Goldeneye, Mario and others. They only have those Final Fantasy sequels. Don't take me wrong it looks good, but it's the same old love stories and boring, long powering up everytime.

I got Turok Rage Wars as a free gift for joining Special Reserve and having played it to the finish i can tell you it's well worth the £30 it was originally released for let alone £8 or even FREE. It's not better than Perfect Dark but there's no reason why you can't buy both!

If you're over 15 years old and haven't already bought this game then there's no better time.
The single player won't last too long but invite some friends over to have brilliant multiplayer fun!

Smash Brothers was good fun. It's also different to the likes of Teken - you have to rely on skill, speed and and quick thinking rather than remembering moves and combos.
A nintendo Teken game wouldn't go amis though.
Perhaps Namco will treat us on the GameCube...

In a way Rockclimber is right... just because the gamecube is faster than the PS2 it doesn't make it better.

What he doesn't seem to realise that the fact that Sony themselves can't make games, any half decent PS2 games WILL appear on the gamecube as well (resident evil, metal gear solid, final fantasy,... THE LOT) AND there will be a host of games from Nintendo and Rare (and if we're lucky - the Sonic Team) that Sony can only dream of.

By the way, I saw a bigger difference between Goldeneye and Perfect Dark than Crash 1, 2 and 3, Resident Evil 1,2,and Nemesis let alone the endless Fifa clones released every 6 months. Need I say more?

Another PSX vs N64 slug out...

I've played MGS and it's great, cinematic but it doesn't have the qualities that made Goldeneye so brilliant.

MGS has lots of it's own qualities like tactics and stealth but mostly relied on it's cinematic cut sequences to keep things interestic (and suceeded too).
Goldeneye didn't need cut sequences to make it good. It didn't need the story line. Thats the quality that the topic is all about.

Goldeneye has a special charm (a charm that Perfect Dark unfortunately lacked) which gives it, like many Nintendo/Rare games, a certain quality that Playstation games lack.

I am aware of that, but you have to admit that you spend alot more time enjoying the good ol' PC than you do on consoles. Or I have at least. I am still for Nintendo, but I have many more games with my computer than I do for consoles. I'm just saying that computers are better than consoles, but Gamecube is still great.

And it's spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-L-L-Y.

You're right, bjlangley. I just don't mind that many sequels. But I don't agree with M. Talk about biased. For a start, Mario 64 is a completely different game from MGS, so you can't say either are better, and I'm not just saying this as I'm a PS fan, 'cos Goldeneye's an excellent game, I feel that MGS is a better game. It's a matter of opinion I suppose. I don't see what's wrong with advertising your product, and the PSX doesn't "suck" or whatever, and neither does the N64. GT is a good game, but can get VERY VERY repetitive.
So overall, I feel you were being a little biased.
Thanks for reading, Ant.

You are very right, ther have been quite a lot of moans among the gaming sites saying that the Gmaecube does not offer all the things that the PS2 or the xbox offer such as built-in DVD drive to play movies.
To that my answer is simply that the Gamecube is only susposed to be a games machine, not a entertainment ststem as Sony calls the PS2, or a mini-PC like the xbox.
Also about on the games' side, Nintendo completely dominantes the first party industry. When games like Mario 64 and Mario Party cane out They all got the highest ranking and remained in the top-ten for weeks.
As for lack of third-party support gamecube has already got more developers than they had for the N64, which shows that the tird-prty are showing interset.

Pokemon seems to be a cool game at the moment for the n64. The problem is, that pokemon is for children. There is nothing for older gamers. 15 year olds don't want to go around taking pictures of pokemon in pokemon snap do they! We want decent games like perfect dark for example. That is a good game. Get rid of pokemon!

Zero

Although Ant listed many multiplayer games, and shooting games for the Playstation, most of his list was sequels of other games on his list. How many sequels are there on the N64? Not quite so many....
(No offence Ant, I know you don't want to be insulted)