On a related note, how did anyone ever learn to get good at Goldeneye? I played it for the first time with a mock N64 controller the other day and holy hell, it was scuffed.
There was no standard for how FPS games were played on a controller at the time. Dual sticks weren’t even a thing yet. You learned the controls and it was fine. Nowadays it’s awful with the default scheme, but you can actually get pretty modern controls by choosing the 1.2 Solitaire setting in the options and binding the left stick to the C buttons, the right stick to the analog stick, and rebinding the rest to whatever feels comfortable. This is even possible on the Switch using the controller remapping feature.
I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn’t on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).
Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)
Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.
My buddy still prefers the golden eye control scheme, now called “legacy”. I remember him emailing a developer because they didn’t offer legacy sticks as an option in their game. They had no idea what he was even talking about lol
The fact N64 games are behind a subscription is what really irks me. I wouldn’t mind paying €5 for Harvest Moon 64 - the way you could buy retro games on the wii - but having to pay yearly, for a bunch of games (many of which I might not even be interested in) that you can’t play anymore once you stop paying? Fuck that
I dislike game subscription services on principle, but at least the other guys have new games on their subscription services, not just ancient ones. Nintendo being the first to charge $80 makes it an extra kick in the balls.
Devil’s advocate here, I subscribe to movie services that are much more expensive to watch movies I’ve already seen. If playing these old games is important to me, that doesn’t seem too bad. $80 for Mario kart on the other hand… never.
I have my issues with Nintendo recycling Mario Kart ad nauseam, but Mario Kart was $66 when it launched in 1996, which is like $130 today. The prices haven’t really kept up with inflation. It’s cheaper to buy Mario Kart today than it was back then.
I remember walking in to Toys R Us and seeing N64 on display when it first launched. You could stand in line and wait for your chance to play. I had been too young to really follow or know about the launch, but I thought the 3D graphics looked incredible. Initially I had thought it was some hyped up version of Super Mario RPG because that was the most “3D” looking Mario game that had existed to date.
I love my original GameCube. Still have it hooked up to an old tube TV and there’s a lot of nostalgia around putting the little mini-CD in and booting it up. But it’s so much easier to fire up dolphin.
I got a Steam Deck recently and have been surprised at how well the 6th (GC, PS2, Xbox) and 7th (Wii, PS3, 360) generations can be emulated now compared to a few years ago. I hadn’t messed with emulating systems past 5th gen (N64, PS1, Saturn) for many years. It’s wild to me that I can smoothly emulate Dragon’s Crown, a PS4 game I currently have on my PS5, on the Steam Deck if I want, although I chose the PS3 one for less power needed since they’re pretty much identical. Even given it’s a less demanding 2D game, emulating a PS4 is impressive.
Filmweb, poza tym, że często promują recenzje idiotów i nie da się wejść bez adblocka nie jest złą opcją. Na pewno lepszą od IMDB (Amazon). TMDB wydaje się spoko, ale to dalej komercyjna platforma o ile się orientuję. Możesz mieć oczywiście coś lokalnego, ale wtedy nie ma wygody dostępu z różnych urządzeń, albo wymaga to trochę więcej wysiłku. Jest takiego softu sporo.
You can get a flash cart if you want to play a game you don’t have a cartridge for on your console. Not particularly cheap, but far cheaper than buying them individually.
My mortality in video games waivers all the way from stopping at traffic lights to modding in God Mode to going HAM on every NPC within firing distance. It all depends on how my day has been.
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