N64 games that aged well

[Anonymous No.5190761]

Kirby 64 has held up pretty well graphically. I'm suprised that they were able to get Kirby looking like a perfect circle and the cutscenes are very well animated.

[Anonymous No.5190972]

>>5190761
May have been the last good Kirby game. I never played the Wii Kirby though

[Anonymous No.5190978]

The two best N64 Games :

>Starfox 64
and
>Super Smash Bros.

[Anonymous No.5191007]

>>5190972
Wii Kirby is actually really well made. I say that as a huge fan of Superstar and Kirby 64.

Smash bros has aged well, DKC is decent but might be hard on the eyes.

Bomberman Hero has a lot of slowdown/low frame rate but after you play it for ten minutes you get adjusted and it looks fine.

Paper Mario is probably the best looking game on the system and still holds up against TTYD and some modern games.


What do you guys think are the worst looking games on the N64?

[Anonymous No.5191928]

>>5191007
most 3d fps look like complete dogshit, or run like complete dogshit, or both, such as turok, armorines, diakatana, quake 1, quake 2 etc.
i think superman 64 looks like shit especially char model and animations
paperboy 64 looks fucking terrible
one could argue that f-zero X looks bad but honestly i don't mind the low-poly models and empty-ish backgrounds because the art style / direction looks fine and it was intentionally scaled back in graphics so it would run at 60fps constant (and it fucking does, and it's worth it )
body harvest look awful...shitty blur
the worst thing about n64 is that the games that have the "Best graphics" run the worst, like perfect dark, goldeneye, majora's mask, etc.
earthworm jim 3d looks a lot worse than the first 2 games
razer freestyle scooter maybe
blues brothers 2000
bubsy 3d :^)
carmageddon 64

personally i'd say castlevania 64 looked bad but i guess not too bad for the time?
most unplayable for me is diakatana it runs at 12 frames per second yes TWELVE

[Anonymous No.5191931]

>>5190761
All of them. Games don't age.

[Anonymous No.5191960]

>>5191928
>most 3d fps look like complete dogshit, or run like complete dogshit, or both, such as turok, armorines, diakatana, quake 1, quake 2 etc.
Turok 1 looks good other than the fog and runs smooth.
Quake 2 looks good on N64 (particularly with the Expansion Pak) except for the un-interpolated animations and is reasonably smooth.

>the worst thing about n64 is that the games that have the "Best graphics" run the worst, like perfect dark, goldeneye, majora's mask, etc.
Play World Driver Championship

[Anonymous No.5192063]

>>5191931
While this is true, that doesn't mean they weren't shit to begin with. What most people think when they say "age" is how the game is shit compared to today's standards. As in, how much better it would be if it were made today.
3D games age poorly visually because you can't scale them to higher resolutions without introducing blur (unless you use custom shaders), and because they looked bad before. Some 3D games don't really have issues here and look "fine" anyways. 2D games don't have this issue. For example, SMB looks good.
Mechanically, controls, menus, UI, saves/lives and general experience. These are most important and have greatly improved over time. For example, Crash 1 had a terrible save system, Rayman 1 had a terrible continue system.

tldr an aged game didn't age, it was bad to begin with except you didn't have anything better.

[Anonymous No.5192076]

Mario golf
Mario 64
Starfox 64
Shiren 2
Smash Bros.
Ocarina
Majora
the first 5 levels of Banjo

This is an exhaustive list of all things worth playing on the N64

[Anonymous No.5192784]

The best game on the system of course :^)

[Anonymous No.5193484]

mischief makers - one of the few games that you can play and not think that it is being held back by n64 hardware but it has pretty weird controls - back in the day I considered it ok and its still what I think it is

[Anonymous No.5194805]

>>5192784
Yo bro you posted the wrong picture.

[Anonymous No.5196718]

>>5194805
>not the sequel
Lad...

[Anonymous No.5196740]

>>5190761
MORE LIKE THE CRYSTAL SHARTS AMIRITE

[Anonymous No.5196769]

>>5193484
Mischief Makers is an amazing game. Does it emulate well at all? I tried some years ago and it emulated terribly. What a classic though, I wish more games were like it.

[Anonymous No.5196772]

>>5192784
This is the only legitimately good RPG in the entire N64 library unless you really want to call Hybrid Heaven good. I have no idea why they didn't use the Tactics Ogre name though.

[Anonymous No.5196857]

>>5190972
All Kirby games have been good so far dumbass.

[Anonymous No.5196863]

>>5196772
>This is the only legitimately good RPG in the entire N64 library
What about Pooper Mario?

>I have no idea why they didn't use the Tactics Ogre name though.
TO games have different gameplay than Ogre Battle, also TO was a spin-off to OB.