Completion Thread 2012: Hai! Dekimashita!

Mario 64 was the first 3d game of it's type that didn't control like a pile of shit. I actually didn't care for it back in the day, but I started to appreciate it more when I played the Wii VC version.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

platforming was done to death by then. There isn't anything remarkably special about thinking "well, 3D games seem to be the new thing now. Lets do platforming in 3D with that IP we have that is almost always about platforming"

Did you guys flip out over virtua fighter too? Virtua racing?

I could see someone being impressed with something like Virtual-On as it was pretty early and there weren't many if any fighters that looked or played like it.

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A game like Mario 64 wasn't possible on a 2D-based system, so whether or not platforming existed as a concept before it is irrelevant. And no 3D-based platformer game played quite as well.

And yea I did flip out over a lot of early 3D games, like Virtua Fighter and StarFox. They were all impressive in their own ways. Mario 64 was on another level.

I'll admit, I was a PC MASTER RACE guy back then so Mario 64, the flagship title for Nintendo's first console since the awesome SNES (which I played before I had a PC at all), didn't even exist to me (that's how little consoles meant). But when I saw it I thought it looked nice but the environments didn't lend themselves well to pure platforming. It was just...eh. As if you had to make your own fun. GTA does this but it learned from all those earlier games, and even then I don't think it's as great as a "fun" game as a lot of people.

But I dislike 3D platformers ;p Only the worst racing and FPS cameras (if you can call them that) are worse than the best 3D platforming cameras.

I don't know, maybe its cause I had a saturn at launch and two PCs in the house. I just wasn't "HOLY FUCK" when I saw it. It was fun, but nothing to shit yourself over.

I also was a sega kid and never fell in love with mario like some of you, so that probably plays a part too.

"oh look, its a 3D version of that franchise I don't care about"

You were amazed by a voice sample. Rampant fronting going on in here.

There was no game on Saturn or PC game that played like Mario 64.

I mean, I spent as much time firing rockets down a hallway to see the lighting effects in Quake as much as anyone. Shit was awesome. But Mario 64's open world and freeform structure was even more impressive.

Maybe he has REALLY STRONG nostalgia for Alpha Waves.

Or maybe he just is a simple Mississippian who has lead a simple Mississippi life and has a simple Mississippi brain.

No, his argument seems to be that there were tons of games already doing the same thing on other systems so it wasn't a big deal. Problem is that's just not true. Yes, 3D games existed before Mario 64 (obviously), but there were lots of opportunities to be impressed with 3D as the technology ramped up.

Thief is so angry these days.