Is there a console, that many people like, that you don't feel anything at all about? For me it's definitely the N64. I'm interested in retro consoles and have and want multiple, but the N64 looks so unappealing for some reason. The 3D looks like shit, the controller looks like shit, there don't seem to be any good 2D games. From the games, that I have seen for it, I never wanted to play any. That's why in my lifetime I don't plan on ever getting one. Should I reconsider it?
Sega Master System. Its library sucks for someone who has access to Mega Drive games.
>>12502078Saturn
ps2
>>12502078what is even the purpose of this retarded fucking bait post"I hate thing, change my mind,"No, do your own fucking research and decide for yourself, you disingenuous asshole, and stop shitting up the board
>>12502094Agree and I don't even like the n64
>>12502094>what is even the purpose of this retarded fucking bait postsee>>12502078>Is there a console, that many people like, that you don't feel anything at all about?
>>12502103Why do you even post about something you don't like? Don't be such an obsessed bitch
>>12502078>don't seem to be any good 2D gamesHmm it does though.
Any 5th gen 3d console looks and plays like ass. PS2 was the first good 3d console. Same with NES that looks like unplayable shit
>>12502132Video games got too homogenized and niggerized on 6th gen
>>12502078The GameCube, or as I like to call it the GAYCube. Silly little lunchbox thing with no games worth caring about. Even the direct sequels to beloved N64 titles were massive downgrades (Wave Race, Mario Sunshine, F-Zero, 1080, Wind Waker, etc).
>>12502078I don't care for the N64, if you didn't grow up with it, it won't say anything to you behind a handful of games -- Mario 64, OoT, F-Zero X -- the rest are nostalgiaslop such as GoldenEye, impossible to enjoy if you didn't grow up with it. Also I feel the PS2 is heavily overrated, but its library is so big that there's always something to play outside of a handful of titles to enjoy.
>>12502078I think the Saturn is ass. I'm playing panzer dragoon saga and the graphics are just awful. it's like the console can't render 3d properly. I tried TRE and RE and the PS1 versions are so superior. even N64 does RE2 really well with great optimisation. if you play anything 3d on a saturn it looks and runs like shit, add the fact I hate shmups and arcade games and to me, the saturn is easily in my top 5 worst consoles. and I have nostalgia for it too, I like the way it looks but I'm being objective.
>>12502078I have an n64 and there's really no reason to play it. The 3D is all the worst elements of early 3D in one and the games have been so highly iterated on in the following generations I don't really see much you can get out of it by playing newer games that are inspired by it.
>>12502147>beloved N64 titlesyou mean all 5 of them?
>>12502078saturn. but if we're including handhelds, game gear is the only piece of hardware i ever bought that was just a total waste.
>>12502078The PS1, it insists upon itself.
>>12502147I thought Wave Rave: Blue Storm was better. Smash Bros obviously, too.>>12502728I like the ps1 more with each passing day.
>>12502094>what is even the purpose of this retarded fucking bait postits a blog post, all these threads where there are 20 paragraphs sharing their opinion then asking "hey put your opinion in the comments ill read it!" is just an excuse to blog because the OP has no outlet for their observations.
>>12502078Yes you should reconsider, the N64 has some amazing games and honestly the graphics can look really nice as long as you play it on a CRT. It will look a lot shittier if it's just plugged into a modern TV.
OP grew up without friends playing FF7 in his bedroom.
>>12502078the genesis, I dont get the hype. Ive tried many games and the only ones I thought were great was sonic, PSIV and rocket knight.
>>12502890I did this and I still love the 64 too because I actually enjoy and play videogames instead of basing 30 year old console wars as the theme of my personality.
>>12502078Of course you should reconsider, even if some games didn't age well or have primitive graphics in comparison you can't ignore that the N64 pioneered some of the most inovative games of its time.
>>12502952had to double-take when I saw Shadows of the Empire, lolit was cool for the time, and got me to read tbe book, but it aged far, far worse than anything else in that pic
>>12502786i havent played it since probably right around when it came out (it was just once at a birthday party), but i remember really enjoying it at the time. i dont remember the draw distance being this shitty. its crazy what we accepted as kids with no standards.
>>12502952>mario party 2 and 3>NOT mario party 1was it really that bad?
>>12503232The hand memes are not exaggerating
I don’t care for the NES. I can’t tell you the last time I played an NES game. It isn’t because they’re too old or low tech, I play plenty of older games just fine.
>>12502078The N64 never really clicked with me but I adore the GameCube.
>>12502952The N64 library loses some of its luster when you’re playing it nowadays since so many of its most popular games leaned heavily on the multiplayer party game aspect.
>>12503250I remember my little brother playing with the windup Shy Guy so much that he really did make his palm bleed, but it was also using one of those God awful Super Pad controllers, with had sharp-edged thumbpads
>>12502078Genesis, it has to be biggest nostalgiafag console to ever exist. I experienced everything before the fifth gen through emulation because I'm not a 90's baby and I was fucking dumbfounded how can anyone think this crap can compete with the Super Nintendo, which has groundbreaking classic after classic while the whole Genesis library failed to impress me at all.Experienced both in emulators Zsnes and Kaga Fusion respectively, maybe 90's babies that had to deal with only having 1 console and 5 games see things differently but as someone who grow up with both of them and both of their libraries fully available Snes wins so fucking hard it's not funny and the thought of a rivalry sounds so ridiculous. >>12502081This too but let's be honest no one gives a fuck about the master system.
>>12503307The fifth gen was primarily experienced by 80s babies. 90s babies would’ve been too young when the SNES/Genesis were current.
>>12502078The problem with the N64 games is how generic and shallow its games are.The simple abscense of a loading screen said a lot about what to expect from the game.When starting a PS1 game, you can clearly feel the degree of craftsmanship invested in its production. Can't say the same for the N64.I remember trying Gran Turismo for the first time and, wow... what a leap in technology and depth in video games. There's nothing like that on the N64... on the contrary, the N64 felt just like the SNES, but with 3D games.
>>12503379It'd be impossible to have a game with as much content as Gran Turismo on the N64 unless it shipped on 10 cartridges and cost $500.
>>12503379gt1 is really bad compared to gt4 tho. no point playing ps1 now days
>>12503413World Driver Championship is pretty similar. Not saying it's better. I don't fight console wars. GT2 was pretty hard to beat in that era if you wanted a more realistic console racer. I do prefer what arcade racing games the N64 has, though.
>>12503441>World Driver Championship is pretty similarLiterally nobody except the most ardent tendie has ever said those words. It's a bad game with awful driving physics, and any similarities to Gran Turismo are purely superficial. Even then it's lacking in many of the superficial things that made GT special, like the awesome licensed soundtrack. Can't have that on the N64 so you get generic butt rock MIDI music instead. Beyond that it only has 32 cars versus GT1's 178 or GT2's 618, and 10 tracks versus GT1's 11 or GT2's 27.You can play it cool and act like you don't care, but bringing up garbage like that and calling it comparable reveals more than you want it to.
>awesome licensed soundtrack>car collecting
>>12503503I thought it was pretty obvious that I didn't think it was the equal of Gran Turismo 2, hence saying the latter was hard to beat. You very much have an axe to grind if you think saying it's similar implied anything about the inherent quality of either game.
>>12503379Lots of 64 games feel very generic. Text based license screens, super low rez logos and simplified menus and music. They don't impress.
>>12503571>license screens wut?
>>12502078The only thing I like about the PS1 are the JRPGs. It's inferior to the other consoles in all other genres. The NES also for the most part has some really ugly games (yes even for the time) and a good chunk of them are Mario Party minigame tier. I also don't like the Xbox but it's probably just because western games are inferior on average.>>125020818-bit systems just suck in general but I think the Master System is a bit underrated. Even though the NES had higher peaks with SMB3, Castlevania, Megaman, Zelda and Punch-Out, the average SMS game was miles ahead of the average NES in all aspects.
>>12503519Racing in the same hatchback that their dad owned whilst nodding their head to Dragula was how the cool kids spent their gaming time in the 90s, rather than playing Smash Bros and shoving Mario figurines up their ass like you and the rest of the autismos.
>>12504309if your dad owned a hatchback, you probably weren't a cool kid, lmao
>>12503307The point of the Genesis was ports of critically acclaimed arcade games and sports games for normalfags at a cheaper price. Both of which are irrelevant for someone visiting the console's library nowadays since you can just emulate the superior arcade version at home and you'll just skip the sports games because that's normalfag crap. The only things the Genesis still has are the Sonic games (which are inferior to Mario games), Phantasy Star (made irrelevant with the large JRPG catalog of the SNES), a few random platformers (not as good as the ones in the SNES) and a better home console port of Mortal Kombat (again irrelevant since you can just emulate the arcade version nowadays)
>>12504312oof
>>12504316Sonic and Mario may both be platformers, but aren't really comparableJRPGs, fair enough, you obviously have a much larger selection on SNES; although for me personally, I prefer Phantasy Star and Shining Force over many SNES exclusives (but even then, there are more quality SNES JRPGs than Genesis ones)arcade ports being redundant when MAME exists: yeah, although there are a couple where I prefer the Genesis port, but they're the exceptions to the ruleI still believe the Genesis generally had a better action lineup, even if we exclude ports
>>12504312>the tendie mind literally can't imagine a family owning more than one carPoint conclusively proven.
>>12504381wtf are you even fucking talking about, lmaoif you did own multiple cars, a hatchback would be redundanteveryone around here basically had a truck and a sedan/van/wagon depending on how big the family washatchbacks were a largely Europoor phenomenon back in the '80s and '90sso unless your father was was a stay at home dad, you were more than likely a one-car Britbong family
Well actually i think most console are rated fineMegadrive and Dreamcast are the best Sega consolesPS1 and PS2 are the best PlayStation consolesSNES is the best Nintendo consoleN64 and GameCube are a downgrade from the SNES but still great consoles360 is better than PS3Wii and Wii u are trash I agree with all those popular opinionThe NES may be a little underrated now tough
>>12504303>and a good chunk of them are Mario Party minigame tieri mean it was a bleeding 8-bit system with games as small as 24kb in size
>>12503307The Genesis was definitely better at Western licensed sloppa platformers while SNES versions of those generally don't move me much.
Stop liking Nintendo
While not a "console" the Amiga never lived up to its legend once you actually play its games.
Saturn cause I’m not a fucking weeb
>>12502132I definitely prefer the NES library to the SNES as it's not as homogenized.
>>125020785th gen systems. I prefer the 4th and 6th gen look. Early 3d to me was mostly ugly.
>>12503307>I experienced everything before the fifth gen through emulation because I'm not a 90's baby and I was fucking dumbfounded how can anyone think this crap can compete with the Super Nintendo, which has groundbreaking classic after classic while the whole Genesis library failed to impress me at all.eh...if you only played on emulation you'll never really get a "feel" for the console
>>12502078I'm convinced that both the PS1 and PS2 in reality have only a slightly above average amount of great games. And they're propped up as these god tier hundreds of masterpieces deep libraries but in reality that's an army of 6-7/10 games standing behind Tekken, Final Fantasy, Spyro, Crash, KH, etc
>>12504346Well to the nerds in here like us yeah they play differently but on a more superficial look they're both platformers that are mascots for a console so comparison is inevitable.I also prefer Phantasy Star and Shining Force over FF/DQ/CT and FE respectively but still even if they prefer the main SEGA ones any JRPG guy will feel more at home on the SNES.I think the Genesis having a better action lineup is a bit debatable and depends on what do we count as an 'action' game. Is it just beat em ups, hack n slash, shooters? Then maybe, but if we throw Metroidvanias, action platformers in the mix then it gets a bit messier.>>12504679I get it but I feel like the popularity of the NES is undeserved especially in America where the Master System that outclasses the NES in graphics and game size / content was launched just a year after. Imagine Castlevania, Megaman on Master System.
>>12504803>>12499112As I said in here, I've played NES and the DOS PC Archon on hardware but the C64 port only on emulation so I don't feel obliged to comment on it.
Anything before the SNES
>>12504303>8-bit systems just suck in general butYou must be 18 to use this website.
I was never taken with the Intellivision, Sega consoles other than the Mega Drive, N64, or Xbox.
>>12505510I mean, ultimately, this sort of debate is pretty much just nothing more than armchair musings, anywayI was a Genesis kid who got an SNES (Jr.) at the end of its retail run, but even so, I never really saw it as an us vs them sort of thingI will say that having both owned and emulated the Genesis heavily, I'm at a point where I've pretty much beaten everything that I'm interested in by now, but the SNES still has quite a few games I've never tried, especially when it comes to JP exclusivesI feel sorta like a phony Genesis fan at times as I don't play it nearly as often as I used to, but that's probably to be expected as you age, I suppose
>>12503307snes was good if you liked rpgs, genesis was good if you liked action or sports games. both had platformers. they literally both just have pros and cons. console warring is fucking stupid.
>>12505510>Imagine Castlevania, Megaman on Master System.The music would’ve been butchered to hell.
Anything 3rd and 4th generation. They feel like consoles for flash games. Growing up with flash games probably ruined any mystique those systems could have had on me.
>>12502078N64 because it has no gaems but what it set out to do was just simply novel but not it a good way. It had big world 3D games and was like a proto-Xbox with local multiplayer FPS games but there is little reason to play those anymore, they have actually been obsoleted IMO. Meanwhile the PS1 has countless timeless classics and the Saturn has a few plus phenomenal arcade ports and great 2D sprite based games. What does the N64 really offer today besides Mario and Zelda? The console really feels like it was more multiplayer Nintendo kiddie games. They may have been ahead of their time then and still hold up well but there is no variety, you can get anything on the PS1 and it just feels so much more soulful most of the time too.
>>12505510>Imagine Castlevania, Megaman on Master System.Yeah, sure, like the Master System's Ninja Gaiden is so much superior compared to the NES games. Master System is kinda impressive but the games are just ass.
>>12506565I feel the other way around: because I grew up with 3rd and 4th gen, which I consider the golden age of home video games, I could never enjoy more modern 2D games (like modern indies) because they all have that flash/mobile stentch that actual retro 2D didn't
>>12502078Have you ever played an n64 anon?
>>12506776Most people here habe emulated N64 on a modern HD monitor and on keyboard for controls
>>12502081fuck yeah honestly I am absolutely repulsed by the Master System and NES. I grew up with the NES and the sprite flicker, abrasive sounds, limited colour palette,everything, always felt so unappealing to me. I even like the Atari 2600 more and I got that years later. I loved my Genesis and tried the Master System but found it equally unappealing.I do like the PC Engine though.
>>12504303>8-bit systems just suck in generalfiltered
>>12502728The 3DO insists upon itself. PlayStation is legit.
>>12502078>The 3D looks like shit, the controller looks like shitWTF, dude?!
>>12506785>I grew up with the NES and the sprite flicker, abrasive sounds, limited colour palette,everything, always felt so unappealing to me.>colourNice try, Australia -kun, but the ZX Spectrum is all that and more.
>>12507201Oi, me speccy lives rent free in your mind!
>>12504303>8-bit systems just suck in generalYou must be 18 to use this website.
>>12503503World Driver Championship looks and runs better than GT2.
>>12503379>the N64 felt just like the SNES, but with 3D games.>no loading screens>no superficial shit that isn't gameplay Sounds like a pretty good system.
>>12502078I think anyone who says anything bad about NES, SMS, Genesis, SNES and TG 16 is just wrong, the good games have not really aged and they each have at least 100 really good games. They are just doing system wars to defend their childhood console.>>12502090Me too, it was good at the time but there are better ways to play those games now. The textures and video output are horrible. Its not as much like older systems which needed a crt for the graphics to look good.>>12506785I used to hate 2600 but now I even like those weird pong clones and sub 2600 hardware like Odysee, its interesting what they tried to do with so little.
>>12502152>the rest are nostalgiaslop such as GoldenEyeGoldenEye is better than Resident Evil 4
>>12508249the licensed games have obviously aged worse because so many are based on 80s-90s properties nobody cares about anymore and often they weren't very good to begin with
>>12508268Those games aren’t comparable to each other.
>>12502078All Nintendo consoles past SNES.
>>12508285They're both shooters focused more on aiming and carefully setting up shots as opposed to running around and yeeting shit.
>>12508293That’s a pretty tenuous at best connection.
>>12508293that doesn't describe Goldeneye well at all, lmaoin casual SP play, sure, you're often setting up for shots at stationary targets and leaning around corners (something you can't even do in the hackjob Xbox port), but if you're trying to unlock cheats, speedrunning, or playing multiplayer, you're hauling ass constantly. You will always run diagonally like some crab/human hybrid once you discover the superiority of the Solitaire layout. This also applies to Perfect Dark, as well.
>>12502094Zoomers are mentally ill narcissists who also have extremely low self esteem and need to be told they're right.
>>12508268GoldenAss is speedtranny gameonly fags doing speedrunnings still play that obsolete slopmeanwhile RE4 is a timeless kino millions of people replay it every few years
>>12508507>timelessyep
>>12504303I will say that PSX is the weakest system in the gen for action games. N64 had much higher highs with Mario 64 and Banjo for 3D Platformers, Goldeneye and Turok for FPS, and Ocarina for action-adventure which outshine all their genre equivalents on the Playstation and make them look mechanically dated by comparison, and in the 2D action department the Saturn has much more hardcore sidescrollers, more shmups, stronger fighting games, and 2D multiplats on both overall tended to play much better on Saturn.The PSX is nice for comfy genres like JRPGs or experimental oddball games but if i wanted to play a more challenging and traditional videogame i'd be much more drawn to the other two.
>>12508616>I will say that PSX is the weakest system in the gen for action games
