I don’t see many posts here about the N64 and it doesn’t look like there is an N64 community on lemmy.world It’s the console I have the most nostalgia for and I have over 130 games in my collection. I’m currently playing a ROM hack called SM64: Beyond the Cursed Mirror. It has some pretty challenging platforming but it is fun.
I feel like it’s just overpowered by Playstation and maybe even X-box, I sure remember drooling over all the Nintendo exclusive releases back then, having grown up with NES and SNES games. I’ve been playing Ocarina of Time (my first 3D Zelda, after a lifetime of playing 2D) for the first time this past year (I’m slow and I fucking hate the water temple) and I just absolutely love it. Can’t wait to get into Majora’s Mask, Banjo Kazooie and others I missed out on as a kid. Super Mario 64 didn’t entirely convince me some years ago, but after I’m done with Zelda I might give it a try.
Edit: to say I’m surprised how well Ocarina of Time has aged despite the blocky polygon graphics. Once you get immersed in it, it actually plays very well in my opinion, but then again I’m honestly more used to older games than new and I still constantly play OG Silent Hill and games from that era.
Xbox was a later generation, so definitely overpowered.
PlayStation, N64, and Saturn were generation 5.
PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast, and Xbox we’re generation 6.
Yeah I wasn’t really talking about tech specs, well aware of that, but thanks. Sorry maybe I worded it awkward, I was wasted last night. Point was that by the advent of Playstation and X-Box Sega and Nintendo kind of faded into the background a lot. I mean if people (rightfully) feel like N64 didn’t get much attention, GameCube and Dreamcast got even less. The past and the present affect the future. I’m just glad we still have Nintendo and Zelda and Metroid and such even if I’m quite a long time of savings away from playing the newer games.