My dick is small. Prove me wrong.You're wrong.
It's the game that killed any interest I ever had in the Mario franchise. And by extension, to some extent, Nintendo as a whole.How old were you when it came out?
The shift to 3D left me completely cold - both Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 were terrible to me (both looking and playing like shit) compared to the SNES games in those franchises. Added to the fact that I hated Ocarina of Time for similar reasons, and the fact that Final Fantasy jumped to the PS1 as a franchise, it's why I basically shifted from Nintendo to Sony and never looked back.
Since then, Nintendo's kept going in directions that are either completely disinteresting to me or are outright annoying, while my fickle taste tends to wobble back and forth between Playstation and Xbox these days. It didn't help that almost every game I ever wanted to play or that interested me either wasn't on the current-gen Nintendo console at all, or if it was it was also available on the others as well. So I've never felt the need to own one ever again.
There are very few games I can point to and say "THIS is why I don't own Nintendo consoles anymore", but Mario 64 is definitely one of them (Ocarina's probably another, and Shadowgate 64 probably falls in that list as well). It forms a pretty clear dividing line in my brain for the moment when I stopped caring about Nintendo.
How old were you when it came out?
wwinterj25 posted... Prove me wrong.
It's the game that killed any interest I ever had in the Mario franchise. And by extension, to some extent, Nintendo as a whole.
Mario 64 needs a proper remake. The DS game added some great content but the controls were ass. Whomp's Fortress in Galaxy 2 was a lot of fun and I would love to see the whole game in that style
I was 19 when it hit North America.I was gonna make 'old' jokes, but you're self-aware XD. Fair.
It would have been right around the same time I bought my PS1 (I remember mostly playing my SNES in freshman year of college, but I pre-ordered FFVII for release day on 7/7/97 about a year later, so I got my PS1 somewhere between those two points).
I freely acknowledge my distaste for M64 might have been because I was too "old" to buy into it (the same reason I tend to think why I dislike/am apathetic towards Pokemon, while most people who were kids in the late 90s are still obsessed with it).
It might also have been because I was already gravitating away from platformers in general (I don't really play/enjoy them at all today, and even back then it's hard to think of any platformers on the PS1/PS2/etc that I was into, other than maybe the original Tomb Raider). Most of my early PS1 games were RPGs (Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Xenogears, Lunar, Legend of Dragoon, Granstream Saga, Kartia) or racing games (Destruction Derby, Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer). Or games that fell somewhere on the point-and-click adventure/survival horror spectrum (Broken Sword, Myst/Riven, Resident Evil, Parasite Eve). Or when playing with friends, mainly fighting games (Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Tekken, SoulEdge).
Even once I started moving into full-on shooters, I never really saw GoldenEye as something worth caring about, because I was coming from the Wolfenstein/Doom style of shooter and then segued right into Halo, so I kind of skipped over anything that made GoldenEye memorable (and most of my friends were in the same Wolfenstein/Doom/Halo trajectory I was).
It's the game that killed any interest I ever had in the Mario franchise. And by extension, to some extent, Nintendo as a whole.
My dick is small. Prove me wrong.
Unless you were playing the remake, even the first few minutes of Mario 64 would prove you wrong.
I will try Sunshine next. Never played it.I love it, but if you don't like the controls in Mario 64...Sunshine is arguably worse.