/vr/ - Retro Games

Nah. It's probably the best 007 game though

is Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

>starfox64
>castlevania SOTN
>megaman legends
>bomberman64
Best multi-player game maybe

>>10253628
back in the day people didn't realize how JANK Rare's 3D games were

>>10253704
Man I didn't realize those all came out in 1997. What a great year for gaming

>>10253628
>runs like shit
>plays like shit
nah

>>10253715
MML isn't on this pic since it released in NA/EU in 98. wish I didn't do that when I made it but whatever

my top 5 from 1997
1. symphony of the night
2. goldeneye
3. wcw/nwo world tour
4. tekken 3
5. dodonpachi

>>10253628
Everyone talks about how dated this game is so I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it is when I played it for the first time recently. Literally one of the greatest games ever made

>>10253708
Yes we did. I loved hiding in a vent with a machine gun zooming into the wall and firing away to bring everyone elses frame rate to a snails pace.

>>10253723
For me it's Blood, Carmageddon and Shadow Warrior

>>10254786
>Everyone talks about how dated this game is so I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it is when I played it for the first time recently. Literally one of the greatest games ever made
Glad to hear it, what do you love about it? For me, it's the multiplicity of pathways and the options the player has for carrying objectives out in a different sequential order.

N64 generally had the best games

1997 was amzing really underrated with great games.

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>>10253686

Ultima Online came out that year.

>>10253628
It's good, but this is better

For me it's Dungeon Keeper

>>10253628

This was good, but not better than this.

Other honourable mentions:
Age of Empires
Diablo
Fallout
Carmageddon
MDK
Final Fantasy VII
Curse of Monkey Island
Star Fox 64/Lylat Wars for us Bri'ish
Gran Turismo

What a year for gaming. So many amazing franchises launched or given rocket fuel.

>>10253756
>3. wcw/nwo world tour
You’re a man of taste, I can tell. And honestly, I can see it as a top game of ‘97. There were objectively better titles, but I don’t think I kept going back to any of them (except 007) as much as wcw/nwo. Four players on that was too much fun.

>>10253628
It's not even the best N64 game from 1997

>>10255842
Not him but I feel this way too. Yes, it runs like shit on the original hardware, but the game itself is really fun with the objective-based missions. There is more challenge and freedom in Goldeneye than in 90% of fps games released over the past decade.

>>10253704
>>10253723
>>10255914
>>10256153
Holy FUCK we have to go back.

>>10253628
It won multiple awards, including GotY '97
If only that framerate were slightly higher.. but emulation solves that these days so no biggie.

>>10256191
exactly man, there are objectively better games but this is one I kept going back to, seriously addictive multiplayer. aki figured out how to do a wrestling engine right and it's surprising that it hasnt been copied.

*is released before both Mega Man Legends and Ocarina of Time*
It's not personal.

>>10258023
The Konami games released on N64 were really quite good, also on a technical level with smooth framerates and drawdistance.
I just wished more developers had that priority back then
(yes Rare, I'm looking at you. why the fuck do you need to process 4k or more triangles per frame when you can get away with half those numbers)

>>10256542
I think abandoning that wrestling engine/control scheme was the worst thing they ever did to wrestling games. I remember playing wwe day of reckoning, which I believe was one of the first to use a different control scheme—the difference was noticeable and not good. People here sperg out all the time about the n64 controller, but it was perfect for that AKI wrestling setup. I still have custom characters for Wrestlemania 2k saved on Controller Paks.