/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6819843
MK64: Bare bones, early game so its understandable. Decent but not very fun to play these days. Broken as all hell. Runs well and looks...not great.
DKR: Adventure focus is neat but does make the game feel dragged out at times, variety in vehicles and powers doesn't do much to elevate the game, track design is very sloppy, runs like shit.
CTR: Flawless performance, great visuals, excellent power ups and weapons, tight drift boosting system that feels satisfying to engage with and unravels a tremendous amount of depth, tracks are all phenomenally designed with tons of secrets, shortcuts, shit tons of replayability that doesn't drag out the experience like in DKR. The king has arrived.

>>6819896
This isn't even debatable. MK64 is a glorified tech demo and CTR is the gold standard. Never played DKR though

>>6819921
DKR is really just OK, you'll get a decent run out of it but it's not really the kind of game I'd ever want to replay. CTR though, I can just throw that on and lose 4 hours before I know it.

>>6819940
I think it boils down to physics. Even if CTR had sprite graphics and worse levels, I'd still enjoy all the drifting and the jumping and the momentum etc. more than anything I would in any other racing game.

Superior to all the above

>>6819921
DKR is amazing. Lots of variety in vehicles, great tracks and characters, challenging and fun objectives, amazing soundtrack and bosses; and it's got motherfucking wizpig. Also plays like a dream and has an interesting boost system. Best kart racer I'd say. Most replayable one with an actual robust single player, which is more than most other kart racers can boast.

>>6819843
Nintendo should have made a mode similar to the collect-a-thon singleplayer of DKR in MK already, that shit was tight.

>>6819843
>>6819896
>in my opinion
your opinion is worthless and discarded.
>>6820150
> collect-a-thon
that shit is for toddlers.

>>6819843
>They took the easy way out with sprite renders when Rare was able to pull off fast-paced kart racing with fully polygonal models effortlessly
Mario Kart 64 came out within 6 months of the console's launch while DKR was a year later

>>6819896
>flawless
doesn't the game's framerate take a huge hit in anything above single player? Lake.I checked it was virtually unplayable in multiplayer, which is bad for a kart racer.

>>6820126

Alright look: when I posted that I had never played MM B&C. Now that I have, I take that post back. It is superior to neither MK64 nor DKR.

Too bad nintendo released the n64 as a poorly engineered piece of shit that required highly optimized programming, compression, and optimization of textures/art assets to have games not all look as blocky and flat-shaded as Mario 64 was.

RARE's raw UK autism was the only reason their games weren't shit, that and taking their time before releasing them.

>>6819843
>Rare was able to pull off fast-paced kart racing
If by fast paced you mean slow and boring then I completely agree

>>6819921
>Never played DKR though
It sucks. MK64 > CTR > DKR

>>6820338
SMK >>>> everything else

mayorio much better

>>6820319
>to have games not all look as blocky and flat-shaded as Mario 64
This is partly why Mario 64 looks so good. If they had simplified the textures further it would look even better now

>>6820346
True, but I was just ranking gen 5

>>6820352
good man. it's the patrician's kart racer.

>>6820338
>MK64
MK64 controls like shit compared to CTR imo. The physics don't feel predictable at all.

>>6820359
They're predictable once you learn them, but the karts in MK64 always feel more treacherous to drive than the karts in CTR, which is one of the reasons that 64 is a more interesting (and better) game

>>6820346
Based

>>6819896
Playing MK64 after growing up on CTR was deflating, Jesus.

>>6819896
CTR is just a whatever-the-fuck game funded by Sony, the same guys who throw their IPs in the trash like last week's baked goods. Mario Kart 64 is a time honored, beloved game with developers who love and continue its legacy to this day

>>6819896
Stop overrating shit, naughty dog shill.

>>6821259
lol

>>6821268
>outdated /vr/ memes
CTR is still the king. Bow down to the king.

>>6821292
Hugo has even more games on 6th gen, you will not escape the friendly troll, Trash Candicot shill.

>>6821293
Poor out of touch /vr/ dredge, you've been replaced. You don't even realize it yet.

>>6821292
It's really not, it's just the one you had as a kid.
I bet you didn't even own a PS multitap, either.

>>6821295
>It's really not
The pleading begins. The bandiKING has no interest.

>>6821292
His game has just as much brand recognition as yours, so maybe you should bow down.

>>6821294
>tries to deflect by talking about the rules
The new rules allow for more Hugo, so it's fine by me, naughty cuck.

>>6821302
>he thinks anyone is talking about the rules
the alzheimers is setting in.

>>6821268
>>6821293
>>6821302
fucking BASED hugo dabbin on furryfags

>>6819896
Is this anon full of it?

I've played Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing. I thought they were fun decent games.

Is Crash Team Racing that good?

>>6821521
I thought the same years ago before trying it on PSP. Actually pretty damn good.

>>6821305
wtf are you still doing here you mentally disabled spastic, your fellow trolls all left by yesterday.

>>6819843
The sprites in MK64 are practically indistinguishable from polygons, I assumed they were polygons for the longest time. Nintendo made the right decision. Also DKR's presentation looks kiddy while MK64's does not. Besides, the actual gameplay is what really matters in the long-term which people on /vr/ should appreciate, and that's a lot better in MK64.

>>6821552
And those sprite were probably pretty damn taxing on the hardware as well. Each character has 64 unique sprite for their vehicle, which gets multiplied by 8 for the amount of characters potentially on screen at once. That's 512 sprites being loaded for each game. Compare that to the PS1 in which they had to scale back the port of Street Fighter Alpha 2 by reducing the amount of sprites used for animations.

>>6821552
>practically indistinguishable from polygons

Seriously? Any 3D N64 game that used sprites prevalently was pretty obvious to me.

>>6819843
Yet people still play MK64 to this day, Probably means something

CTR is Mario Kart for Autists. Imagine bringing out that game to play with normie friends, bahahaha yeah right.

>>6821521
it really really is

>>6822081
Not him, but how obvious it is depends on the CRT and signal. Agree with the anon who said they made the right choice

And mario kart looks better. Infinitely better, with twice as much soul. DKR models aged like everything else and look ugly. Try playing on a crt and not an hdtv retard. I'd take modern sprites over gay models anyday

>>6821521
It's solid on its own, lots of stuff to do and races are just a blast. Then you discover how the drifting works and the physics and the game transcends into greatness.