/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2178832]

Best N64 Third Party thread. (That means no Rareware.)

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[Anonymous No.2178841]

>>2178840
I fucking hate Star Wars but this game was cool as hell.

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>>2178840
>>2178841

[Anonymous No.2178854]

Remember to only post GOOD 3rd party games. Mission Impossible, for example, might be really awesome in places, but it's overall not a quality game.

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[Anonymous No.2178857]

Rakuga Kids was never released in America, which is likely one reason it rarely gets mentioned when 2D N64 games are brought up. Quite a fun little fighting game.

[Anonymous No.2178859]

Fan translation - http://www.seiyuu.info/wpj2/

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[Anonymous No.2178863]

There are several Top Gear games for N64, and they're all quality. Tragically overlooked, despite having a lot of work put into their driving physics and such.

[Anonymous No.2178865]

I hate wrestling, but even I have to admit this game is legendary.

[Anonymous No.2178870]

Worms on the N64. What more could you want?

[Anonymous No.2178871]

Last Legion UX.

[Anonymous No.2178872]

Ported by Looking Glass, of all people. Interesting how Looking Glass are primarily remember for their PC games when they did quite a bit of work on consoles.

[Anonymous No.2178878]

>no Goemon within the first 5 replies

I'm disappointed /vr/

[Anonymous No.2178879]

>>2178843

Nigga, that's by Nintendo EAD.

[Anonymous No.2178880]

>>2178870
It not to be so god damn expensive.
I used to rent it all the time with my brother

[Anonymous No.2178885]

>>2178880
Just get the definitive version on PC.

[Anonymous No.2178894]

>>2178879
My apologies.

[Anonymous No.2178902]

I know it's a cliche by now, but Infernal Machine is a genuinely good N64 game. Not perfect, but it fills the Tomb Raider void.

[Anonymous No.2178905]

>>2178843
>>2178879
Twisted Edge had the misfortune to be released after 1080, and it was forever deemed "that snowboarding game that's not as good as 1080". But taken on its own merits, it's a decent game. Boss Game Studio had a pretty consistent track record when it came to their N64 titles.

[Anonymous No.2178909]

The N64 has a shitload of quality racing games. Stunt Racer 64 by Boss is one of the most underrated.

[Anonymous No.2178910]

N64 games released after 2000 had this tendency to slide into oblivion regardless of how good they were. It must have been depressing for 3rd party developers to see their blood, sweat, and tears get ignored like that.

[Anonymous No.2178914]

>>2178910
Duck Dodgers was from the developer of Pilot Wings and Beetle Adventure Racing! They were fairly hit and miss as a developer (Aero Fighters Assault is terrible) but they made some gems.

They had a realistic N64 flight sim called Harrier 2001 in development, but it was cancelled.

[Anonymous No.2178915]

>>2178914
wait wasnt aerofighters a japanese spinoff from the arcades

[Anonymous No.2178917]

AFAIK, Excitebike 64 is considered a third party game because it was developed by a third party developer and published by Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.2178921]

>>2178915
Aero Fighters was the Japanese arcade shmup series. Aero Fighters Assault was a flight sim spinoff game by and it is soul-crushingly terrible. It was also the last game in the overall series.

[Anonymous No.2178926]

Shame Bangai-O was never released outside of Japan for the N64, since the Dreamcast remake, while awesome, has some differences that make the N64 one worth playing too.

[Anonymous No.2178927]

>>2178878
Great Adventure is totally the best out of the three Goemon games in the N64, IMO.

[Anonymous No.2178929]

>>2178836
damn good game.
>>2178879
ugh snowboard kids was tops
>>2178917
excitebike 64 was fun ash shit

good stuff. wow

[Anonymous No.2178931]

>>2178917

Third party is when the publisher is not Nintendo. Rareware would also be and outside studio, but their games are considered 1st party because they were published by Nintendo (except for Conker, which was THQ).

Not sure about games like Mischief Makers, it was published by Enix originally, and the IP belongs to Enix, but Nintendo published it in the west. I guess it's still third party though, since nintendo didn't really interfere in the development or production at all and just acted as a publisher. But for Excitebike, I'm sure Nintendo produced it, apart from publishing.

[Anonymous No.2178932]

One of the best wrestling games of all time, and it was Japan-only.

[Anonymous No.2178934]

>>2178931
Does Square Enix still own it or do the rights belong to Treasure now?

[Anonymous No.2178937]

>>2178926
in the dreamcast you charge up your missiles by pressing a button as you graze an attack, the closer you are to getting hit the larger your counter missiles are
in the n64 you charge by holding down the z button until a counter goes up

[Anonymous No.2178938]

>>2178927

They're different, all three of them. MNsG is my favorite overall, to me, it's the definitive Goemon game, like the only 3D Goemon done right.
GGA is 10/10 too, but it's more like the traditional Goemon sidescroller games with updated 2.5D graphics. Co-op is godly.
The 3rd one was a Mario Party-like game, I never tried it.

I'd comment on the music but all Goemon games have 10/10 OSTs. For the record, my favorite Goemon track is on GGA (Majin Castle)

[Anonymous No.2178939]

>>2178931
>But for Excitebike, I'm sure Nintendo produced it, apart from publishing.
I think you're right. There are some Nintendo people in the credits.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/n64/excitebike-64/credits

[Anonymous No.2178941]

>>2178931
>>2178939
Just deleted EB post, for what it's worth. The rule that being published by Nintendo means not 3rd party is probably globally applicable.

[Anonymous No.2178943]

This one was way underrated. It's a pretty cool fighting game with lots of customizable items.

[Anonymous No.2178946]

>>2178937

It has a couple of subtle differences. Like on N64 the only way to get powerups is by making combos and accessing the old lady store. N64 feels more difficult overall, but the swift controls make up for it.

[Anonymous No.2178947]

>>2178932
I've heard very good things about that game. Impressively, the game is from 1997.

[Anonymous No.2178948]

Obligatory.

[Anonymous No.2178949]

This was 3D Bomberman done right.

[Anonymous No.2178952]

>>2178949
I believe Bomberman is 1st party. It's a bit foggy, though, because Nintendo didn't actually own Hudson Soft in any meaningful sense.

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>>2178947
It's totally worth importing, fighting system's great, the roster is absolutely huge and it has some popular non-japanese wrestlers too.

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>>2178952
Nah, Hudson has always been a third party. Ditto for Konami.

[Anonymous No.2178964]

>tfw no translation patch for Mario Party waifu simulator

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>>2178949
I wish they had made a 3D platforming game using the mechanics in Hero, but in a hub based world where you navigate through different stages and progressively move through the hub world to new stages.
In other words, like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, and many other 3D platformers.

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>>2178832
You basically named it right there.

[Anonymous No.2179161]

>>2178952
>I believe Bomberman is 1st party.
Implying

[Anonymous No.2179168]

>>2179161
This one had pretty good bosses.

[Anonymous No.2179169]

>>2178905
It's not even not as good as 1080, it's just a later game. I love the music and the lack of annoying Crazy Taxi-esque noises.

[Anonymous No.2179176]

No one?

[Anonymous No.2179182]

>>2179176
Considering that the PC version is better in every way and was very well known it's no surprise that this port died on release.

[Anonymous No.2179212]

>>2179182

That doesn't mean SC64 wasn't fun though. Sure, the game play was a fuckload slower than the PC version, but I have many fond memories of me and my friends playing multiplayer into the wee hours of the morning. Good times.

[Anonymous No.2179228]

>>2179182
I had both. PC and the N64 port.
I liked the N64 port for what it was. I had a shared computer at the time ( parents and sister ) so being able to play StarCraft while not on the computer, and in the comfort of my room, was fucking awesome at the time.
Also being able to play 2 players, playin' co-op vs computers was pretty cool too. I had a pretty big tv so it worked out well. Doing the campaign all over again on the N64 was like a new challenge. Something fans of StarCraft can appreciate.
I also liked the port of WarCraft 2 on the PSX. Well, Tides of Darkness part anyway. Beyond the Dark Portal requires much quicker reactions and more micro, it's much harder and more fast paced than Tides of Darkness and is REALLY fucking hard on the PSX.

[Anonymous No.2179234]

>>2179228
>>2179212
Fucking plebs who never experienced lan parties in the glorious Starcraft 2 age.

[Anonymous No.2179236]

>>2179234
>implying I don't play StarCraft 2
>implying I wasn't addicted to battle.net since Diablo 1 / StarCraft & Broodwar
>implying I didn't lan party with my friends
Nigga who the fuck you think you're calling a pleb?
Also
>StarCraft 2
>Retro
No.

[Anonymous No.2179238]

>>2179236
>implying I meant Starcraft 2 and not Starcraft
>implying you did lan parties with the computer you, your sister and your parents shared

[NESfag No.2179270]

>>2178914
>Beetle Adventure Racing

that's a great game

[Anonymous No.2179283]

>>2179238
You said Starcraft 2.

[deleted No.2179295]

Cut it out, if you want to talk about starcraft go to /vr/

[Anonymous No.2179297]

Cut it out, if you want to talk about Starcraft go to /vg/ or make a SC1 thread or post on the PC gaming thread.

[Anonymous No.2179316]

>>2179297
Enjoy the detours in life, mate.

[Anonymous No.2179457]

Dezaemon 3D!

[Anonymous No.2179464]

>>2178838
I played the hell out of this, but then again I played the hell out of Mace: The Dark Age. Those were grim times. If it were on PS it probably would have dropped into the abyss and disappeared, but beggars can't be choosers.

[Anonymous No.2179465]

>>2178857
Mindblown
i completely forgot about this game, i used to rent it all the time
Thanks man

[Anonymous No.2179535]

>>2178941
Was it really worth deleting

[Anonymous No.2179539]

>>2179535
It wasn't relevant to the thread, he was just being considerate.

[Anonymous No.2179604]

>>2178880
>so god damn expensive
>tfw i checked it out on ebay for the first time

What the fuck?

>mfw my copy has a broken chip in it but still plays/saves data

[Anonymous No.2180505]

Tony Hawk 1-3 were on N64. TH2 hit the sweet spot when it came to quality. TH3 was a shoddy remake of the 6th gen game for 5th gen hardware.

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>>2178863
The first one was basically Railroad: the Game

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>>2180529
DIdn't know this came out on the N64, thought it was a dreamcast exclusive..

[Anonymous No.2180562]

>>2180559
It also had a really shitty PS1 port

[Anonymous No.2180567]

>>2180552
Top Gear Hyper Bike was awesome, unlike this guy's driving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxNG4M8Zhmw

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[Anonymous No.2181434]

>>2178832 have
>>2178835 have as well as the sequel
>>2178838 going to get
>>2178840 have
>>2178857 going to get (thanks Game Grumps)
>>2178862 have
>>2178865 had ever since it was released (so many hours spent with my caws)
>>2178878 had since release (awesome birthday present)
>>2178879 have
>>2178909 interested in
>>2178927 of course I have this as well
>>2178934 have
>>2178943 going to get
>>2178948 recently got for $8
>>2178949 have
>>2178960 going to get
>>2180515 have

So I've got a list of games I'm going to get to fill out my collection but I'm not 100% on what I've chosen. I'll be watching this thread.

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>>2178872
>Conquer The World in Full 3-D

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>>2181434
Nobody cares what your situation is. This isn't the BST thread.

[Anonymous No.2183680]

>>2178854

> Mission Impossible

I fucking love the soundtrack of that game...

[Anonymous No.2183684]

>>2179234

> plebs
> starcraft 2

[Anonymous No.2183690]

That fucking music tho..

> captcha: inpli

[Anonymous No.2183867]

>>2181434
Shut up and post more Yae.

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>>2183867

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>>2178960
Did this game share any staff with Metal Gear Solid? The aesthetics are similar in some aspects.

[Anonymous No.2185851]

>>2185838

it shares some people who worked on the MSX Metal Gear games and Snatcher. No Kojima though.

[Anonymous No.2186114]

>>2178934

IIRC it's Co-Owned by Treasure and Squeenix. The game also got some Nintendo funding for Treasure being part of the "Dream Team" developer/publisher program they had on the N64 so that's probably why they never touched it again. Too many stakeholders.

>>2178948

I'm amazed Midway put so much effort into that port. 60FPS and done by the original arcade team. Also using Factor 5 and Lucasarts compression tech.

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>>2183680
>> Mission Impossible
>I fucking love the soundtrack of that game...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJZi_xlGMCk

The Embassy music is god-tier. Shame the game's overall difficulty is spikier than a spiky thing.

[Anonymous No.2187140]

You schmucks every play Shadow Man?
It's a great Voodoo horror-themed 3D Metroidvania-platformer.
It was on N64, but you can get the PC version on GOG.

[Anonymous No.2187159]

>>2187140
Very good game, but has a fair bit of padding.

[Anonymous No.2187173]

>>2187140
sadly the N64 version was by far the worst of all tho

[Anonymous No.2187186]

>>2187173
>sadly the N64 version was by far the worst of all tho
No because the shockingly terrible PS1 port exists.

[Anonymous No.2187187]

>>2187173
You do know a PS1 version exists right?

[Anonymous No.2187210]

>>2187186

The PC version was fairly awful as well with massive spec bloat and not much gamepad compatibility which meant the Z-Targeting was shit and the game didn't play well at all on PC. I remember a bunch of UK PC magazines reviewing it completely shitting on the port due to the spec bloat but saying "It's not actually a bad game but the N64 version is the version you should be playing if you want to play it". But then that was the state of PC gaming at the time.

It was another "Dream Team" game that Nintendo part funded and the lead platform was N64. Nintendo also gave the Acclaim team some of their tech secrets (Being part of that also meant Nintendo didn't treat you like total fucking garbage as a 3rd party dev for once) and it really was just tooled as a N64 game. Acclaim was bleeding so hard they used the option they had on exclusives like South Park and Shadowman to port to PS1 and Dreamcast to try make extra dough however (DC didn't get any of the Turok engine games like Rage Wars, Turok 3, Armorines or South Park due to the engine being broken as shit that only really worked on N64 and didn't play nice with the Dreamcast).

[Anonymous No.2187212]

>>2187210
those issues are all irrevelant now, though
we're not in '99 anymore (sadly)