Nintendo 64 - Official Topic

[Christopher]

Rare making a trinity of good games

[Seven]

Rare making a trinity of good games

Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie & Goldeneye are good.

[Parksey]

Don't worry Seven - it's apparently the in thing to begrudge Rare their status as one of the N64's top developers.

Blast Corp, B-K, GoldenEe, JFG, Banjo-Tooie, Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Dy and DKR were all excellent titles and stood out in the N64's game library.

I really liked DK64 but can see why people hate it, and never got around to buying Mickey's Speedway (it's something I've always thought about nabbing from eBay).

A lot of these games may be flawed now, but they are largely flaws that blighted a lot of the early N64/3D games, which people have exaggerated with hindsight.

Saying these games were terrible in 1998-odd, is just silly though.

EDIT - Heck, Viva Pinata, Trouble in Paradise and Nuts and Bolts are all great too.

[Christopher]

I prefer Rare's 360 games to their N64 output

[Oxx]

Banjo and Goldeneye were great. The others weren't as hot, but still better than pretty much everything else for the console.

Even Nintendo took their foot off the pedal post-Ocarina.

[The People's ElboReformat]

Rare's N64 games:

Perfect Dark - Great
GoldenEye 007 - Great
Diddy Kong Racing - Really Good
Banjo-Kazooie - Alright
Donkey Kong 64 - Not bad
Jet Force Gemini - OK
Banjo-Tooie - Meh
Killer Instinct Gold - Pretty rubbish

Blast Corps - Never played
Mickey's Speedway USA - Never played
Conker's Bad Fur Day - Never played

[Psychic]

I prefer Rare's 360 games to their N64 output

You poor thing.

[Mafro]

Rare making a trinity of good games

o/

[Turok]

Rare's still miles ahead of Sega though.

[Christopher]

Rare making a trinity of good games

o/

\o

And Turok, I have yet to see a game from Rare that compares with Valkyria Chronicles, Skies of Arcadia, Daytona USA, SEGA Rally, Virtua Fighter(entire series), Super Monkey Ball, Phantasy Star Online, Samba Di Amigo, House of The Dead(bar 3), Shining Force(entire series), 2D Sonic The Hedgehog, Streets of Rage 2&3, NiGHTS into Dreams, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Burning Rangers, OutRun 2 etc

[Drumstick]

I prefer Rare's 360 games to their N64 output

Good grief.

Here's my take on Elbo's Rare list:

Perfect Dark - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
GoldenEye 007 - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
Diddy Kong Racing - Brilliant
Banjo-Kazooie - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
Donkey Kong 64 - Brilliant
Banjo-Tooie - Brilliant


Killer Instinct Gold - Barely played
Jet Force Gemini - Barely played
Mickey's Speedway USA - Barely played
Conker's Bad Fur Day - Barely played
Blast Corps - Never played

[Corazon de Leon]

I prefer Rare's 360 games to their N64 output

Good grief.

Here's my take on Elbo's Rare list:

Perfect Dark - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
GoldenEye 007 - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
Diddy Kong Racing - Brilliant
Banjo-Kazooie - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
Donkey Kong 64 - Brilliant
Banjo-Tooie - Brilliant
Killer Instinct Gold - Great
Jet Force Gemini - Brilliant
Mickey's Speedway USA - Not played
Conker's Bad Fur Day - Not played
Blast Corps - Never played

[The People's ElboReformat]

\o

And Turok, I have yet to see a game from Rare that compares with Valkyria Chronicles, Skies of Arcadia, Daytona USA, SEGA Rally, Virtua Fighter(entire series), Super Monkey Ball, Phantasy Star Online, Samba Di Amigo, House of The Dead(bar 3), Shining Force(entire series), 2D Sonic The Hedgehog, Streets of Rage 2&3, NiGHTS into Dreams, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Burning Rangers, OutRun 2 etc

Perfect Dark is miles better than every game you've just listed there.

Killer Instinct Gold - Great

lol describe well

[Turok]

What Goat said: Banjo for your adventure needs, DKR for your racing needs, PD for your shooting needs. You don't need to memorize all those games with Rare, all that precious brain space can be used to memorize the locations of silver coins in DKR and the bits of cheese in PD.

[Cardinal Chunder]

I prefer Rare's 360 games to their N64 output

Good grief.

Here's my take on Elbo's Rare list:

Perfect Dark - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
GoldenEye 007 - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
Diddy Kong Racing - Brilliant
Banjo-Kazooie - strawberry floatin' 'mazing
Banjo-Tooie - Brilliant

Yup, agree with everything there.

Killer Instinct Gold - Barely played
Jet Force Gemini - Barely played
Mickey's Speedway USA - Barely played
Conker's Bad Fur Day - Barely played
Blast Corps - Never played

Conker's BFD and Blast Corps are both 'mazing.

Donkey Kong 64 - Brilliant

wut

[Drumstick]

I like DK64 far more than around roughly 98% of people. The main complaint people seem to have is it being a so called "collectathon", and whilst there is a fair bit to find in the game, that side of things never bothered me. I got it for Christmas shortly after its release and I was a very happy lad.

[Turok]

I like DK64 far more than around roughly 98% of people. The main complaint people seem to have is it being a so called "collectathon", and whilst there is a fair bit to find in the game, that side of things never bothered me. I got it for Christmas shortly after its release and I was a very happy lad.

o/

The atmosphere in... in ... you know, that level with the two super-deep bays and the pirate ships was something special.

[Mafro]

Here's my take, in smiley form:

Perfect Dark -
GoldenEye 007 -
Diddy Kong Racing -
Banjo-Kazooie -
Donkey Kong 64 -
Banjo-Tooie -
Killer Instinct Gold -
Jet Force Gemini -
Mickey's Speedway USA -
Conker's Bad Fur Day -
Blast Corps -

[Super Dragon 64]

My two rupees:

Perfect Dark - Amazing
GoldenEye 007 - Still amazing, but PD edges it with the huge customisation options
Diddy Kong Racing - Hardly played
Banjo-Kazooie - Hardly played (but enjoyed what I did play of it)
Donkey Kong 64 - Ditto BK
Banjo-Tooie - Never played
Killer Instinct Gold - Never played
Jet Force Gemini - Loved it but never got to complete it because I gave up on the Tribal hunt
Mickey's Speedway USA - Never played
Conker's Bad Fur Day - Amazing
Blast Corps - Barely played

[SEP]

Diddy Kong Racing - Hardly played
Banjo-Kazooie - Hardly played (but enjoyed what I did play of it)
Donkey Kong 64 - Ditto BK
Banjo-Tooie - Never played
Blast Corps - Barely played

You need to remedy these. Project64 is your friend.