Is It Me, or Does the Nintendo 64 SUCK?!

So basically you stopped playing FPS games 16 years ago.
Seems legit.

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Originally Posted by Olls

So basically you stopped playing FPS games 16 years ago.
Seems legit.

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Pretty much. I mostly stick to Platformers and RPGs these days.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Can you play this game with a first-person view?

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Ooops. It's been awhile since I've played it. I could have sworn that I had played some parts in first person. Maybe it was a sniping mode?

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

Now answer me this: can you watch seasons 4-6 (the highlights of the series, as far as most people are concerned) and then go back to Season 1 and say it's still better?

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Wow, I'm surprised that there's anybody who's a fan of the Simpsons who can even think like this, season 5 and onwards of the Simpsons are really, really bad, as in painful to watch levels of bad, season 4 was a mixed bag, some great episodes, some utter, utter crap ones (the episode where they ran around town hitting snakes for no reason was a particular low point)

The Simpsons found its feet, and fleshed out its characters during the 2nd and 3rd series I grant you, but after that it just dumbed down and aimed towards appealing to the lowest common denominator, it moved from social satire to being a mixture of farce, and lazy non-sequiturs, each of the characters became characature's of themselves, in trying to constantly one-up themselve Homer went from being a bit thick, to being what can only be considered mentally disabled.

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Originally Posted by Olls

K, what other split-screen FPS have you played since?

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My friend plays Modern Warfare 3 with his son, using the split screen. They play the Spec Ops and survival missions together.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

I played the shit out of this game with my friends back in the day. You know, back when single-console multiscreen multiplayer was something of a novelty (particularly with four players and especially with the FPS). Thing is, it's not a novelty anymore. The FPS genre and multiplayer in general has evolved considerably since then. Framerates have improved, along with character models, textures, ad nauseum. Also, the definining characteristics of Goldeneye's single-player campaign that made it so much more than a mindless Doom romp have now become somewhat commonplace. So, in essence, you can now have games that provide all of Goldeneye's strengths with none of its weaknesses.

Goldeneye can still be fun, particularly if you have some nostalgia attached to it. But it's a hard game to go back to if you're used to the improvements that have been made since then. Hell, you might as well play TimeSplitters 2 on the system of your choice. It's the same game by the same developer, minus James Bond.

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I rented the game way back then. I played through it for a couple of days and took it back. It just wasn't that fun. I'd pretty much given up on First Person Shooters, until I played Halo on the PC. I liked the game so much, that I would later buy an Xbox to play it.

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Originally Posted by Cucollins12

Yeah we are in a sega forum so its obvious that everybody loves sega.. but besides sega of course that we play other consoles... but theres one that I think sucks.. the N64 why? NO rpgs, CRAPPY fighting games.. besides it was full of FPS yeah maybe it has the "greatest video game of all time" (ocarina of time.. its a great game but I think that its a sin to call it the greatest video game of all time)

what are your thoughts about this console?

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I'm of the opinion that it has some of the ugliest looking games of all time.

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Originally Posted by eddiespruce

If anything, I would consider Goldeneye to be the "FPS to end all FPS's", as every FPS made since then was junk. One thing I also hate more about current generation FPS games is the "One shot and you're dead" thing. I don't care if that's supposed to be realistic, it's not fun. I miss the days when we had energy bars, and had to shoot the hell out of each other before we died.

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LOL if you actually think the incredibly basic maps and gimped controls of Goldeneye is the FPS to end all FPS then you must of played very little games, or actually ones that we're any good.

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Originally Posted by Thenewguy

Wow, I'm surprised that there's anybody who's a fan of the Simpsons who can even think like this, season 5 and onwards of the Simpsons are really, really bad, as in painful to watch levels of bad, season 4 was a mixed bag, some great episodes, some utter, utter crap ones (the episode where they ran around town hitting snakes for no reason was a particular low point)

The Simpsons found its feet, and fleshed out its characters during the 2nd and 3rd series I grant you, but after that it just dumbed down and aimed towards appealing to the lowest common denominator, it moved from social satire to being a mixture of farce, and lazy non-sequiturs, each of the characters became characature's of themselves, in trying to constantly one-up themselve Homer went from being a bit thick, to being what can only be considered mentally disabled.

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I think Simpsons starts to suck to the point of being unwatchable past about Season 9, the further seasons have some half-decent episodes dotted around terrible ones but is far less consistent, the best season imo is Season 3.

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Originally Posted by Olls

K, what other split-screen FPS have you played since?

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Off the top of my head, Perfect Dark, Red Faction, Red Faction II, TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2, Unreal Tournament. While I'm not saying any of these are bad, they're actually really fun, GoldenEye has a "classic" feel to it that I just don't get from modern games. Again, that doesn't mean I can't switch it up and play some other split-screen FPS's.

In my opinion you all are horrible people and the world would be a better place without you.

Give the N64 a break, if it sucked as much as you all say, we would have never had a Gamecube which led to the Wii.

Plus it's got an okay library of games, there just very out-dated to the human eye but still enjoyable to play.

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Originally Posted by Thenewguy

Wow, I'm surprised that there's anybody who's a fan of the Simpsons who can even think like this, season 5 and onwards of the Simpsons are really, really bad, as in painful to watch levels of bad, season 4 was a mixed bag, some great episodes, some utter, utter crap ones (the episode where they ran around town hitting snakes for no reason was a particular low point)

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You just like to argue with every point anyone makes, huh?

I'll concede that I haven't discussed this with every Simpsons fan out there, but popular opinion is that the series peaked around Season 4 or 5. Season 6 was still pretty great, and it starts to get at little fuzzy after that. I think I watched every episode of Season 8 without laughing once, and after that I stopped buying the DVDs.

But if you think Season 5 is "really, really bad, as in painful to watch levels of bad," then... well, that's your opinion. But you're in the minority. Not me.

Let's hear from another Simpsons fan:

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Originally Posted by Gogogadget

I think Simpsons starts to suck to the point of being unwatchable past about Season 9, the further seasons have some half-decent episodes dotted around terrible ones but is far less consistent, the best season imo is Season 3.

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All the games people tell me I should like on the N64, or the ones I used to enjoy, feel like an absolute chore now. It wasn't just a console of its time, I think a lot of peoples nostalgia toward that system is down to them being a certain age at its release, young children or teens, with there parents disposable income and lots of after school time to burn. Older vet's from that period probably had a lot more disdain for the N64 because of that. There so much complaint about modern titles this gen with tutorials and cutscenes, but the N64 had some of its own terrible gimmicks, like arbitrary lengthening of a title by removing special abilities or skills in platform titles. I don't need my hand held through a game, just give me the skills I'll need and I'll work it out from there.

I have some really fond memories of the N64, playing Mario Tennis and Smash Brothers with friends, and the trademark collect-athons like Mario 64 and Banjo, but its like an old flame you had in your life, you still have a lot of affection for them, but you know that you can never really go back because your so different now and you know you'd never get on again.


As for the Gamecube I wish I could be more positive toward it, but by then I'd long grew tired of Ninty updates, it was dissapointment after disappointment, Nintendo really rested on there IP laurels that gen, its no strange fact the best title on the system was a Sega collaboration, F-Zero GX, that really felt like it pushed the series into overdrive, Metroid Prime was pretty sweet as well. But I just can't be arsed with long adventures anymore, and when I do finish something, its just life on repeat going through them a second time. I sold my GC two years after purchase, and its the only console I've never regretted selling.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

But if you think Season 5 is "really, really bad, as in painful to watch levels of bad," then... well, that's your opinion. But you're in the minority. Not me.

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Dude, Bart got a pet elephant in season 5, a pet elephant!

I thought the Simpsons was great up to and including season 8. "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" was a great episode.

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Originally Posted by Thenewguy

Dude, Bart got a pet elephant in season 5, a pet elephant!

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And that was one of my favorite episodes.

Wait... you don't watch The Simpsons for the realism, do you?