/vr/ - Retro Games

What about everthing? Mario 64, it's world and inhabitants + music make such a mysterious game to explore, pretty much like 3 and one. Their predecessors alongside SMworld are too soft. Like walk in the park soft.

the fog you can only see once per save file

>>7296089
>predecessors

Holly stupid shit, I mean successors.

>>7296396
>predecessors

Holly stupid shit, I mean successors.

Zoomers and their "this one game is sooo spooky" crap..

>>7296540
I thought this was to due with programming problems once the ship surfaces?

>>7296396
It's indeed the quintessential negativeauraenergyformer

>>7296558
I'm 30 and this game scared the shit out of me as a kid. No other N64 game caused this. Not sure what it is exactly but there's clearly something about it that unsettles people.

What scared me most is something I never see anyone mention. In DDD there's this large black hole underwater. I would always angle the camera away from it because it terrified me. To this day I have a legit fear of dark water and it started here.

>I'm 30 and this game scared the shit out of me as a kid. No other N64 game caused this. Not sure what it is exactly but there's clearly something about it that unsettles people.
>What scared me most is something I never see anyone mention. In DDD there's this large black hole underwater. I would always angle the camera away from it because it terrified me. To this day I have a legit fear of dark water and it started here.

>>7296869
great work anon

>>7296785
Glad I'm not the only one who disliked that area. And fuck Unagi.

>>7296869
*takes a huge shit in your mouth*

The racist Italian stereotype you're forced to take control of

That one underground/ruins level you accessed by going behind the castle. You know, the one with the green goombas and the gross ass green water.

>>7296089
Interesting: BLJs
Creepy: U N A G I

I have never understood what was so scary about Super Mario 64. I remember back in the day being only unsettled by the eel and the ghost piano. The atmosphere of the game is pretty happy.

Yes, the game had some of the "early CGI" weirdness in it, but the amazement and the joy of playing those 3D open stages around 1996/1997 was just too much to discard any other negative feelings.

>>7296089
>>7296396
Do zoomers really get scared of fucking Mario 64?

>>7296785
>I'm 30

>>7297278
Some of them probably grew up reading autistic creepypastas about old games (which came out before they were born and to which they likely had zero personal exposure to) as legitimate scary stories, so it isn't too surprising. I guess blame autistic millenials for creating the creepypasta culture that impacted impressionable zoomer tweens.

>>7296785
I had the same fear. The fact that the hole sucked you out if you swam too close to it was even worse.

>>7296578
That’s most likely it, like pretty much all of those ‚mysterious‘ stories, just some programming mistakes autists spinn into myths

>>7297384
Still, i really like the feeling that jolly roger bay has with that overcast sky and foggy lake. I'd love some kind of wallpaper or screensaver of the foggy bay seen from the beach. Kind of like those weird youtube vids of SNES backgrounds with nice music from that japanese guy.

>>7296785
I'm legitimately more comfortable skydiving irl than playing video games deep underwater in murky visibility

>>7297362
>... the hole sucked you...

>>7296578
idk why it happens. im just happy it does

same thing happens to bowser's sub. it wont show again if you try the 1st star on dire docks

you are now aware there is a hidden room and these are 2 different windows

>>7297639
I hate it when faggots make images like this and act like it’s DEEP LORE. They probably just planned for something to be there at some point and it was cut.

>>7297680
yeah they look way too deep into this shit

>>7297680
>enter interesting mario64 thread
>somebody posts something interesting
>retards like you chimp out for no reason

>>7296785

a composite signal causes this murkiness. You can really see it in Mario's face next to his lives. RGB modding, or Ultra 64 modding your console lose this affect. Ofc, that's not how we played it when we were kids, and I do have a soft spot for the N64's creepy/murky aesthetic.

>>7297680
it's why I prefer browsing /vr/. /v/ is full of zoomers making shit up *sips monster*

>>7297718
the problem is that 90% of the "interesting" stuff people post about mario 64 reads like a bad creepypasta.

like i seriously expect someone to talk about how a demonic mario plushie came out of their TV or how in bob-omb battlefield a single frame of a hyperrealistic mangled corpse of luigi flashes on the screen every time a bob-omb blows up.

>>7297680
Or just as likely they never planned anything special at all and at some point decided that the crest thing looked bland so they replaced it with the stained glass, and the apparent space between the windows is just them being sloppy with the continuity of the external/internal geometry of the castle, either due to oversight or just focusing more on what looked good for each specific location and less on what made for good continuity.

>>7297540
>>7296785

>tfw you enter the hole

>>7297384
>feelings of condescension for other people having fun that you don't understand
Yeah, they're the autists...

funfact: you can kill koopa the quick, hes even afraid of you and tried to run away

>>7298779
I always thought he was saying "Hello! Hello!" when you talked to him. Fucking adorable.

>>7297639
>ODD SYMBOL/HOLE
It's a fucking clock, anon.
I played SM64 on my older brother's n64 when it came out and I was like 7 years old and it never felt scary. Maybe a bit lonely and interesting but not scary.

>>7296089

>>7299992
I didn't look at the filename and just clicked like a retard

>>7296785
>No other N64 game caused this. Not sure what it is exactly but there's clearly something about it that unsettles people

It's simple, it's the lack of plot, context, and atmpsphere.

Mario is effectively a mute protagonist, alone in a world that is mysterious/hostile. The dissapearing Toads only add to the sense of isolation. Compare to Zelda or Banjo Kazooie, games with more involved stories and constant plot reminders. And more characters to interact with.

Everything in SM64 feels disjointed, least of all from how you enter worlds. Also it was Nintendo's first major game for the N64. There is something experimental about it

>>7300176
How was this any different then mario 1-4? Everyone besides mario is hostile. I was actually alive and playing when it first came out and everyone thought it was a bright and colourful fun mario game. All these explanations about why its creepy is zoomer larping. Literally nobody felt this way.

>>7300289
Maybe thats the point, ape. I played this on an emulator as a child. Now it feels eerie. Another anon summised it perfectly IMO; the lack of a plot/pretty much anything to reinforce your goal leads to a feeling of ambiguous spookiness. The halls are silent.

The real question is wtf is up with WDW? I know it's a meme but look at most other levels, it's grassy plains. Fair enough. A snowy mountain? Fair enough. A floating fortress? Yeah not as strong but stil I get what it IS.

What the fuck is WDW even supposed to be? There is no IRL counterpart, it's just a box filled with blocks and cylinders, with a drowned city attached through a pipeline. What the fudge is this trying to be?

>>7300289
I grew up with N64 and Super Mario 64 was the first game for a console I ever played. So obviously I'm not "creepy Zoomer LARPing"

Super Mario 64's atmosphere is not identical to the first 3 games and World. Playing it more recently as an adult I geniunely find it to have a mysterious presence and atmopshere. I do not think it's scary or creepy nor did I say as much. Boo's Haunted Castle is actually one of the more comic stages. It's the underwater stages and Wet-Dry World that have the desolate ambience and feelings I'm talking about. Clearly people's feelings on the game come from somewhere because it's simply not identical in tone to earlier Mario games. As mentioned by many previously in thd thread, being 3D and the first 3D Mario game at that gives it unique qualities. No previous Mario game had the effect with the music, environments and world building it did, and no game since feels quite the same. You can listen to any number of music tracks from the game to immediately confirm as much.

>>7300319
mario has the ability to set the water level of earth here

Its literally just the music. The weird panflute and synthesized instruments give an eerie ethereal feeling compared to the more classical compositions from the previous games. Put SMW athletic theme over any SM64 map and youd get the old mario feeling again.

Imagine if the N64 had a bootup sound, it would have been the ultimate zoomer pee your pants console.

>bootup
>AAAAAAAAAH I PEED MY PANTS SO SCARY
>puts Mario64 in
>AAAAAAAAH SUCH A NEGATIVE CREEPY AURA, JUST LIKE THE SCARY STORIES THEY TELL ON THE PLAYGROUND!

Its no wonder that generation grew up to become trannies.

>>7300690
i cant tell if this is supposed to be serious or not

>>7301042
all those are in the game . youd know if you actually played the game.
the only questionable thing is the unconfirmed brain diagram

>>7301164
The questions about the commercial are dumb tho. The BG was probably changed in development, with the commercial using an old build. Or they refused to air the copyrighted image and put in a replacement. Further, it's trivial to get to Wet Dry World with only 37 stars. You only need 31 - 30 to open the basement Bowser door and 1 more to get the Docks warp out of the way. That gets you the upper key and WDW is out in the open once you're upstairs.

>>7297258
>I have never understood what was so scary about Super Mario 64. I remember back in the day being only unsettled by the eel and the ghost piano. The atmosphere of the game is pretty happy.
It's because people on the internet like taking stuff that's generally pretty void of unsettling things and trying to twist it into something creepy/unsettling, or add something that is. Because, you know, wouldn't it be more interesting if this completely harmless game actually had creepy, scary stuff going on in the background? All my quirky indie games do it, it's so cool!

>>7301524
I agree with the general sentiment but Mario 64 is genuinely creepy, I thought so long before it was "hip" to do so

>>7301606
>but Mario 64 is genuinely creepy

Only if you're a huge pussy who's lived a super safe sheltered life.

>>7301606
I'd only consider it mildly unsettling and that's because the low-poly nature of the game makes it appear a bit empty or lonely, and there's some weird textures or enemies because of the early CGI look. Wouldn't consider it creepy because most of the weird stuff like the secret passages or the ghost house miniature are more like the typical odd but happy childhood fantasies.

>>7296089
muh heckin reddit negative auraino again?

>>7296089
>Most interesting/creepy part of the game for you?
That it's the ancient past of Zelda Ocarina of Time. In Oot rabbits are ancient extinct and possibly mythical creatures; also remember that dinosaurs are still very much alive in Mario's time.

>>7300690
retarded but the "windows" are the same as here >>7297639 which is interesting

Mario's drowning sound is surprisingly unsettling, you can tell it must've gotten some complaints or something since in the remake it's replaced by his generic hit sound.

The only gaming related thing that has really unsettled me.

oh boy another reddit-tier creepypasta thread. Please go to /x/.

>>7298032
>032▶
>File: Spoiler Image (2.56 MB, 712x400)
NO! STOP!

>>7296089
>interesting
nothing

>creepy
the fans

>>7300289
>How was this any different then mario 1-4?
For me SMB1 (and 2USA) is the actual surreal negative energy nightmare world. I'd try to say it's the brown tones, barren ground, odd details like perfectly visible clouds against a black sky and so on, but the truth is it's probably just because I played it when I was 7.

>>7296785
There are a lot of parts in SM64 that used to creep me out. Shit, Wet Dry World is still a bit eerie to me.

what was the punishemnt for not being quiet?

>>7304741

Ask around on the playground, I'm sure there was this one kid who swore a big boo would appear with bloody eyes who sang the mario tune backwards while a ghostly Luigi walked around like a zombie moaning MARIOOOOOOOO.

There you go, another shitty negative aura creepypasta for the zoomers here, hope it makes you all feel warm and cozy.

>>7304741
>>7305042
nothing scary happens. if you run around that floor too long, one of the toads just tells you to stop making noise please.

>>7305075

Fucking Toads, their princess is kidnapped and they complain about the noise in the halls.

>>7304741
of all the supposedly creepy things in sm64 I don't get this one, that floor more than any other seems like an art gallery and keeping quiet in places like that is a pretty standard thing

>>7297981
>>7297680
Bro hat image is extremely inoffensive and is just presenting an innocent and not all that uncommon fan theory. Get over yourself

>>7305323
>fan
You misspelled zoom

>>7305312
>keeping quiet in places like that is a pretty standard thing
the difference here is that the castle has been takend over by bowser and everyone is gone and trapped in the walls. so its empty and abandoned. I guess that part went over your head

>>7305398
What does that have to do with anything?

>>7305326
You're just obnoxious, not cool anon.

>>7305398
I don't get your point, in the context of the game world I would assume the sign was up before bowser took over. Even if that isn't the case it still seems in line with his personality to want the few remaining characters in the castle to be quiet.