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Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
May 28 2012 20:47 GMT
#41
Golden Sun... <3

still very disappointed in the DS sequel
:)
Failsafe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1298 Posts
May 28 2012 23:41 GMT
#42
Pretty good, however, you are mistaken in your premise. While Mario Kart 64 provided the greatest 2-player experience in the 64-bit gaming world (arguably even better than anything PS2 had to offer), it was far out-classed in competitive play by the greatest fighting game of all time.

Obviously you already know what that is.

Mario Kart 64 was a beautiful game, not because of its intense competitive element, but rather cooperative mode (which may have held some competitive possibilities, and yet the true spirit of the competition was not the competitive element but rather the will and cunning to absolutely dominate the elastic AI opponents at the highest levels of competition, including backwards).

You and your friend should team up, creating an elaborate system of calculating income -- perhaps counting coins like minecraft and constructing an elaborate Sim City 5 fantasy world to make a true account of your MK 64 success. Each coin earned is tallied, quite carefully, and placed in the Sim City 5 bank account, and then, with the funds accrued from this timeless legend, your city is constructed. Thus, your Mario Kart victories earn you great esteem among the Sims, and not only the Sims, but the other players whose Sim Cities lack the intricacy afforded by your Gold Coinage. Each city block, every curving road will contain the memory of an epic battle. You and your teammate soaring through the intense Mario Kart obstacles, each race the prizes mounting, and margin of victory growing; and each of these glorious victorious accounted in truly magnificent fashion in the hallmark of civilization: a Sim City.

However, that is not the only prize to be won. Jason Lee and I are forming a company (undisclosed information) and we our first move will be to purchase a plethora of N64 Consoles and modded N64 games (with original fully functional controllers). Our goal is to create the best games possible, and to do so, there is only one place to turn. Super Smash Bros. (N64-edition) updated with the crucial patches that would balance the Ness Telekenetic toss, and perhaps upping Luigi's rate of motion while possibly downplaying the absurd power of his upper-cut to those who have the quick reflexes. Essentially, 'easy-button' is removed from the game.

With the new-and-improved Smash, we will create a cadre of super warriors. Truly magnificent fighters trained by the best, in the harshest and most competitive environment imaginable. Their knowledge and ability in the videogaming world will be unsurpassed. Then there's some other stuff involving BW that we can't talk about right now.

However, you should join us in our epic quest to conquer the video gaming world. With the powers borne of our Smash 64 prowess, and the innate talent of our selected hires, we will be able to create the greatest and best video games ever known to the world of men (and woman). It will be a truly glorious day when our first game is released along with our patented E-Sports Arena. The face of the globe will be forever changed. It is a noble goal. As they say, if u build it, they will be there.
MrBitter: Phoenixes... They're like flying hellions. Always cost efficient.
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
May 28 2012 23:47 GMT
#43
On May 29 2012 08:41 Failsafe wrote:
--snip--

The crazy thing is that I'm just autistic enough to give that scenario a shot... though I'm not sure anyone else would be so inclined.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
imCookies
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States82 Posts
May 29 2012 09:22 GMT
#44
This nostalga, man i feel old now, TT
i think its time for me is to dust off the N64
Milk n Cookies, the snack of pros.
TheRealNanMan
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1471 Posts
May 29 2012 14:37 GMT
#45
Ah the good old days of N64! When I went to college I made sure to take my old N64 and spent many sober and drunken hours rolling my quad mates in mario kart, Super Smash, and Golden Eye!

I also have to say Crash Team Racing was awesome! I've been playing Crash since the days of ps1 I even have a couple old games loaded on my Ps3
Sc2 Caster | Host of Sc2 Up & Coming | The Godfather of Team LXG | Sc2 Historian | Youtube.com/NanMan | Twitch.tv/TheRealNanMan | Twitter.com/TheRealNanMan |
Helios.Star
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States548 Posts
May 29 2012 22:57 GMT
#46
I feel like I need to play Goldeneye now. My clearest memories of that game are the day my friend first got it and came over to my house right after. We were playing FF7 and Goldeneye at the same time on two different tvs, then switched to Goldeneye and played until we fell with the game still on. Then that summer we were playing multiplayer in his basement when his brother and his brothers friend came down talking trash about how they could smash us 2v2. By the time it was over we were beating them so bad they were having a pretty heated argument about which one of them sucked more.
EienShinwa
Profile Joined May 2010
United States655 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-30 05:05:13
May 30 2012 05:03 GMT
#47
My FUCKING GOD. The times I spent playing on the N64 with friends and family were absolutely priceless. I would give anything to relive those experiences again. The nostalgia is simply overwhelming just thinking about it. The times playing Pokemon Stadium with my cousins trying to figure out the best combo of Pokemon, the times spent playing Mario Kart with my dad and siblings,the times spent with friends trying to get all the stars in Mario 64, the times spent trying to beat all the characters on Super Smash Bros. on very hard on all the maps and beat all the challenges...... I miss my childhood ;_;
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
A3iL3r0n
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States2196 Posts
May 30 2012 05:36 GMT
#48
2nd place is broken in this game.
My psychiatrist says I have deep-seated Ragneuroses :(
Funnytoss
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Taiwan1471 Posts
May 30 2012 05:58 GMT
#49
MK64 was the first game my brother and I got for our N64. I remember our parents would only let us buy one game for it (to go with the console that first time), so we had to make sure it was worth it. We wanted a game that had multiplayer, since passing around the controller can get old.

(That said, we developed a system for Star Fox 64, where we would play the levels we were best at, and we almost always took the same route. I'd do Corneria, but we'd go to Meteo because you can rack up more points there than you could if you went to Sector Y. He'd complete Meteo, going into the Warp Zone, and then I'd do Katina - BLATANT ID4 RIPOFF HELL YEAH - but instead of going to Solar, we'd go to Sector X, again because of the potential for more points. We'd skip the warp zone because the points really weren't worth it, and go to Macbeth. He was somehow always better at getting points in Area 6, and then I'd finish with Venom 2. Good times, good times.)

So the game had to be multiplayer, and had to have excellent replay value - with 16 maps, coop mode, and 4 battle maps, MK64 was the best choice. We always fought over who would get to use Yoshi, and I almost always got to use him because I was P1 and Yoshi was right below Mario, and he'd use Peach. According to the stats, Wario is supposedly better, but I just never liked the way he handled.

Maybe it's nostalgia, but I felt the N64 was really a much better system than it was given credit for. Sure, cartridges over disks probably was a bad idea, but the games on it were excellent. We couldn't afford that many games, but we got excellent replay value of the few we got, to the point where I can easily name them - Aerofighters Assault, Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey, Olympic Hockey, MK64, Star Fox 64, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. The system made me a Nintendo fanboy for life, who ironically has never completed Super Mario 64.

And remember all that N64 gear?

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Get N or get out.
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Baobab
Profile Joined October 2010
Korea (South)153 Posts
May 30 2012 07:26 GMT
#50
Nice blog, really brought me down memory lane. N64 was the bomb! Also, you write very well.
한국어 배우고 있어요 ... 너무 어려우니까 도와주세요 ㅋㅋㅋ
DreamChaser
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1649 Posts
May 30 2012 14:20 GMT
#51
I just came in to say Fuck Rainbow Road that is the only map i can never finish i just fall off the edges left and right
Plays against every MU with nexus first.
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
May 30 2012 14:32 GMT
#52
On May 30 2012 23:20 DreamChaser wrote:
I just came in to say Fuck Rainbow Road that is the only map i can never finish i just fall off the edges left and right

When I play with my friends, we always pick Rainbow Road (Mario Kart Wii) for the last stage just so that we can HUEHUEHUE each other.
[TLMS] REBOOT
IMLyte
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada714 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-30 21:33:37
May 30 2012 21:32 GMT
#53
I grew up breathing the dust the settled on my Mario Kart cartridge, I used to be soo much better than my siblings and cousins i used to do crazy handicaps like play with the controller backward etc. This brings back soo many memories thx for the blog.

edit: Yoshi was the greatest character ever.
I'ma show you how great I am ~ Muhammed Ali
Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
May 31 2012 19:35 GMT
#54
This is still my favorite game, and it is still so playable.
I can only play starcraft when I am shit canned. IPXZERG is a god.
howLiN
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Portugal1676 Posts
May 31 2012 21:36 GMT
#55
On May 27 2012 12:20 Archas wrote:
(except for Golden Sun, but that’s a tale for another time)


Oh man, please tell that tale another time. I too sinked a lot of hours into Golden Sun and I'd love to revisit that game through someone's experiences.
Complete
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1864 Posts
May 31 2012 22:02 GMT
#56
Ordered the first Golden Sun, should be here next week. Hope it's fun :D
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