What was like to play Super Mario 64 back in 1997? Was it that revolutionary despite earlier 3d games? Was it a strange entry for veteran Mario players due to the new non linear gameplay and the lack of classic power ups such as the fire flower? Was the game's setting really that weird and strange?
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>>12044578all i know is that it's ass in 2025
Figure it out yourself. You dumb faggot..
>>12044578psychopathic thread these need to be banned
>was one of the most famous games of all time actually considered good at the point of time when it was most impressiveMaybe
idk i played it when i was 6 back in 2001
>>12044578Man, I remember it like it was yesterday. When Mario 64 first came out, sure, some people were impressed but most of us real gamers knew Mario 64 was pure 3D slopforming with camera jank and dishonest storytelling. We used those exact words. We all knew that REAL 3D platforming excellence was already created by obscure scotformers that most of the other kids were too normie to even know about. We laughed at all the NintenDorks who didn't even realize their games would be better if they only knew how to play them emulated on a PC. The Trantendo kids who actually thought that game was good when it first came out were the object of scorn and pity.Seriously though I remember thinking from time to time about how different it was in terms of design and having completely different power ups and stuff like that, even if I wouldn't have used that kind of terminology since I was like 13 years old. But it didn't really bother me or anybody I knew since it was very cool and new and tons of fun to play. I assume there were older people who grumbled that it wasn't True Mario just people grumbled about Breath of the Wild abandoning "core Zelda values" or something silly like that. Most people did not give a shit about that stuff and just had fun.
>>12044631first paragraph is true and real second paragraph is fake and gay
>>12044578It was amazing.
>>12044578yes it wasit felt like something big and of very high qualityit was very immersive, maybe the professional looking textures (stone, wood and all) played a role in thatwe didn't know what the hardware or 3d was capable of, it could be anything
>>12044578https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaRzJjDh08othis video will give you an idea
It was good unless you only had a Playstation in which case it was the worst gane ever
>>12044594>>12044589I agree. These threads are fucking stupid.>>12044578Just read a magazine review from 1997. Job done you could even read several.
I remember thinking it was weird that Mario could punch since he had always just jumped on things before
>>12045702Yeah, punching and health meters were odd to see in a Mario game since I always associated those mechanics with beat em ups.
>>12044578>Was it that revolutionary despite earlier 3d games?Yes it was. In terms of revolutionary, for me, the big three were Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and GTA 3.
>>12044578What's with all the leading questions? It's like you want people to justify your belief in all of these ideas instead of just accepting the reality that people did think it was incredible at the time.
I played the shit out of it on my brother's n64 as a kid. I did it so much that my mom got mad and accused me of "not listening to anything she said anymore" and she made my older brother hold me down while she burned my ear with a hot iron. I ended up going to the hospital. At first she told everyone that I accidentally pulled a hot pan off of the stove but her story kept changing and it didn't stop until they finally let us go. I was scared to be caught playing the n64 after that. She told me later that she kept calling for me to bring my dirty laundry in, and that I was obviously ignoring her. But I never heard her voice at all, not until she'd already come in with the iron.
>>12044578Fuck you.
It was amazing. It did lack some of the old Mario touches but normal people didn’t care. It was a totally new style of game. The open 3d world with intuitive, fluid controls hadn’t really been done before. Were hardcore gamers setting down their shmups, fighting games or jrpgs or whatever? Not really, but the graphics, control and fun of messing around in a big sandbox turned heads. Veteran Mario players of course understood that this wasn’t really the same kind of game. I would see them more inclined to play Crash if they wanted to play something 3D at all. The real disappointment for 2d Mario fans was when Yoshi’s Story came out and was a bit lackluster. I heard more complaining then, because it was supposed to be the continuation of Nintendo’s 2d stuff. Nobody thought the game was weird really. I mean, lots of early 3d was weird. Take Jumping Flash (the closest competitor at the time gameplay wise) as an example. It’s at least as weird.I’d say it was revoltionary and that there werent that many similar games at the time.
>>12046803That lady needs to be charged with child abuse
>>12047281How dare you That's somebody's mother!
I remembering borrowing it from a friend and when I returned it I said "wow that's one of the best games ever made"
I'm replaying it via the PC port. It makes things so fucking tight. It's like there's no input buffer or whatever. I'm dropping triple jumps and wall kicks left and right, which I never really did on emulator.
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>>12048746damn, that sucks. well, see you tomorrow.
>>12046803Fucked up
>>12044578I don’t know, didn’t play mario 64 until 2022 when I was 24
>>12044578Felt like trying way too hard to reject Mario roots and force the 3D agenda. The gameply itself is great, the actual contents suck and the game looks like ass.
>>12046803Horrible. I hope you don't talk to her any more at all
In 1997 I was ten years old.I had never seen anything like Mario 64.It blew my tiny mind. I couldn't believe how well it played, the way Mario slid around on his tummy, the little back flip when he got up, the freedom to tackle levels and navigate them in any order I chose, going back to levels with greater skill over the controls.It was truly a magical experience
>>12044578Played it in a store, cool but 2d trees like Doom and jaggies when near the columns in one area. Remember Nintendo mags were saying this was going to be as powerful as a $125k SGI workstation so I expected every game to be 640x480 at a solid frame rate.About a year earlier at a computer show some guy was showing a video of early footage so it was not a big surprise. Graphically as a comparison the first Screamer was out on pc but you needed a monster pc to run it well.
The game was well-designed on a technical level, however I think it was the overall feeling and soul of the game which made it stand out. It's hard to explain what exactly about the levels captured my imagination as a kid, but I would sometimes spend my free time at school drawing the levels. It just felt like a place I wanted to be
>>12044578Compared to shadows of the empire it was mid.
>>12050420based SotE enjoyer
>>12050420I hate that game I could never believe that it has an online fanbase
>>12044578>What was like to play Super Mario 64 back in 1997?A bit shit because you were the sucker with a N6Fail.>>12044584fair
>1999>run around castle confused >feels like being in an abandoned mcdonalds playground >accidentally fall into the water>have no idea how to get out>agonizingly slow swimming>"fuck">take cart out and put Zelda instead
>>12050651i know this feel bro
>>12050651>being in an abandoned mcdonalds playgroundMaybe I'm a freak but that would have exhilarated me as a kid
>>12050675As a kid if you told me I could be completely alone in a McDonald's playplace at night with nothing but the security lights on, I'd be ecstatic. If you told me I would just be at an empty playspace during the day with my parents watching, no other children to play with, and adult NPCs shuffling around outside the door, then it would be depressing.
It's good and the music is great. The knocks are that it came out pretty late to be as revolutionary as they say, 1996, the Saturn had already been knocking out 3d games for a year and a half, virtual fighter 1 was a bigger graphical deal. And shortly after it is completely upstaged by Banjo Kazooie in 1998 So in all yes it is a great game however it isn't even close to top 5 all time
>>12044578It was extremely overwhelming for my 5 year old brain that didn't understand basic physics yet, but I managed to beat king bob omb after a few hours over a few weeks
>>12044578It truly felt like the start of an adventure the first time I played it as a 10 year old in 1997. I spent a lot of spare time with it over the next year maybe two. Back then everyone I knew would be out of the house most of the time so 1 hour max gaming sessions where maybe 15 mins was spent per game. Before this quick gaming sessions with mates seeing how far we could get into one of the Sonic games or Probotector was the norm. The only thing that extended our time playing was if someone was on a roll and making it really far into the game with a room full of kids cheering them on.I can remember getting stuck several times and waiting until I spoke to a friend at school for guidance. This was before I had easy access to the internet and I didn't even think to look for online walkthroughs when I had computer classes... if I recall correctly I spent the time I had with the school computers playing Interstate 76 and playing pokemon through emulators - again quick 45 minute gaming sessions where multiple games were run through.Something that I still remember very clearly was booting up Lylat Wars and playing that before I booted up Mario 64. Starfox on the SNES amazed me as a 7 year old and was a favourite for many years, seeing it rendered on the N64 and actually running at a decent framerate with detailed graphics was a moment that will stick with me as my favourite gaming moment.This Mario 64 along with Ocarina or Time are games I plan on playing though again some day. I can't think of any games since then that I can be bothered putting more time into.
>>12050137Probably because they were so open and relatively directionless. Most of the levels just felt like worlds unto themselves.
>>12044578I got the game and an N64 for Christmas that year.We moved a TV to my room and hooked up the console and I immediately turned into the completely antisocial person that I am today. I stayed in my room for the next 4 hours glued to the controller even though it was Christmas and everyone else was spending time together. The experience was so overwhelming that I lost all sense of self, I was in the Mario world and had tunnel vision about getting to Bowser.I remember I finally got there and kept losing to Bowser, the tail spinning mechanic just felt bad and was frustrating to me. My mom appeared in the doorway and told me it was time to eat and I just started slamming the controller up and down onto the floor and weeping in frustration.I still to this day remember looking over at my mother and the way she was looking at me. The expression on her face was a mixture of surprise, disgust, contempt, and hatred.
>>12051924>I still to this day remember looking over at my mother and the way she was looking at me. The expression on her face was a mixture of surprise, disgust, contempt, and hatred.I forgot to add, the contrast between that look on her face and the joyful music coming out of the TV is burned into my brain. Somewhere at that exact moment, Shigeru Miyamoto was somewhere in Japan.
>>12050698Imagine it mixed with Portal where all everything is just white, and the windows to the outside world were replaced with frosted glass. Would you still think that's awesome?
