Remember I started a favorite games list months ago?
Finally, here is part two. This time it's my N64 favorites! N64 will always remain my favorite „old“ platform, together with the Gameboy. It was much too hard to choose only 5 games, but oh well...
Conker's Bad Fur Day
This is hands down the funniest game I've ever played. Where else can you beat a singing pile of poo with toilet paper or use your piss at a tool? I love the huge amount of scatological humor in CBDF. Ok, I love EVERYTHING about that game! Poo, boobies and gore at it's best while keeping a decent storyline. Also, the multiplayer was really, REALLY awesome. Lots of different and innovative modes, for example Raptor. Raptor gives you the choice of being a dinosaur or an Uga Buga, a caveman. When on the dinosaur's side, you have to feed your baby with an Uga Buga, and when on the Uga Buga's side, you can fry the raptor's egg in a pan xD and that's just one example, I swear it's one of the best multiplayers I know. You see, I've got my reasons to make this my favorite N64 game! Besides, it helped me learn english when I was 11 ;D
Now listen to the sound of Rock Solid , the primeval disco!
Banjo Kazooie
Now this goes head to head with CBFD. Coming from the same game developer, Rare, it also features a lot of great humor - there are loads of pervert subliminal messages! For example the B.O.B machine with it's Blow and SUck buttons... or the girl carrying melons in the ending, the list could go on forever. This in combination with a great gameplay, a colorful level design and the poetic Gruntilda being my favorite antagonist EVER got BK in my Top 5 of N64 games.
One of my favorite BK songs is the music from Rusty Bucket Bay .
Zelda - Majora's Mask
My favorite Zelda game! Surprised it's not Ocarina of Time? Well, there's a reason to that - firstly, I had Majora's Mask BEFORE OoT. Yes, it took my brother and me a long time to save money for an N64 when we were little, and besides we weren't allowed to have one for a long time.. so we had to catch up on some games later. MM was the first very Zelda game I really played, which means it has a little nostalgia bonus here. But that's by far not the only reason I love it so much! I don't even know where to start. Let's summarize the story first: You are in the land Termina, the moon is about to fall to the earth, and you have 3 ingame days to prevent it. During that time you'll be able to transform into a Deku, Goron and Zora, which means you can roll around in your Goron-body and swim like a dolphin! This is pretty awesome imo, and probably one of the coolest features for me. Besides that there are countless masks to collect. Every mask has it's own sidestory and can give you funny abilities or even change your appearance. In order to get all of them, you'll have to travel between time. It's great how YOU decide which fate the people in Termina will meet. The more time you take, the closer the moon comes to the earth - and the background music will definitely get you in an apocalyptic mood. All in all, Zelda MM is a super atmospheric and thrilling game that noone should've missed.
Like all of Koji Kondo's OSTs, this one is beautiful as well - pls listen to The Song of Healing !
Pokemon Snap
I couldn't decide between Snap and Stadium. While Pokemon Stadium was the original reason we saved up for a N64, Pokemon Snap offered me a new gameplay that I never experienced before. So in the end I chose Snap, especially since I think this is a terribly underrated game!
The game sounds simple...ok, it IS simple: you drive through different levels with your Zero-One mobil and take snapshots of Pokemon, but this wasn't as easy as it sounds. Prof. Oak rates your photos based on perspective, size and amount of Pokemon on the photo and a few other aspects. Also there are a few things you need to do to see every Pokemon in the game. For example, you have to throw an apple to Charmeleon so that he falls into a volcano (haha). He'll return as Charizard then. Another sweet feature is the album where you could save your favorite photos with captions. I always made flat-humored photostories out of this and laughed about them for hours. There's no need to tell a joke if you don't even laugh about it yourself right?
Anyway, my bottom line: I really liked the concept of the game, and the fact that I'm the biggest Pokemon fan made it even better for me.
Relax while listening to the beach music ;D
Perfect Dark
Rare again. You can see they were one of the biggest reasons I adore the N64. I also wanted to put Jet Force Gemini and DK64 here, but in the end PD won... I already have 2 Jump'n'Runs in this list. Very sad for JFG though...even if it's a shooter, its nothing like Perfect Dark, so that this list seems incomplete;_;
What most appealed to me was the multiplayer. My brother and me played it all the time. The most special mode was the Counter-Operative mode: one player took the usual role of Joanna in the story, while the other player is one of the enemies that originally were CPUs. Ah, but there was so much more you just have to love...
My favorite weapon has always been the slayer, it was so cool to control the rocket yourself. And you could build your multiplayer character by putting together different bodies and heads of characters in the game. Btw, the graphics were impressive for N64 - not that PD needed to hide behind that though :)
If you haven't played that game, you NEED to catch up on it!
Both the slow and fast version of Airbase Espionage have always been my fav tracks in the game.
Finally, here is part two. This time it's my N64 favorites! N64 will always remain my favorite „old“ platform, together with the Gameboy. It was much too hard to choose only 5 games, but oh well...
Conker's Bad Fur Day
This is hands down the funniest game I've ever played. Where else can you beat a singing pile of poo with toilet paper or use your piss at a tool? I love the huge amount of scatological humor in CBDF. Ok, I love EVERYTHING about that game! Poo, boobies and gore at it's best while keeping a decent storyline. Also, the multiplayer was really, REALLY awesome. Lots of different and innovative modes, for example Raptor. Raptor gives you the choice of being a dinosaur or an Uga Buga, a caveman. When on the dinosaur's side, you have to feed your baby with an Uga Buga, and when on the Uga Buga's side, you can fry the raptor's egg in a pan xD and that's just one example, I swear it's one of the best multiplayers I know. You see, I've got my reasons to make this my favorite N64 game! Besides, it helped me learn english when I was 11 ;D
Now listen to the sound of Rock Solid , the primeval disco!
Banjo Kazooie
Now this goes head to head with CBFD. Coming from the same game developer, Rare, it also features a lot of great humor - there are loads of pervert subliminal messages! For example the B.O.B machine with it's Blow and SUck buttons... or the girl carrying melons in the ending, the list could go on forever. This in combination with a great gameplay, a colorful level design and the poetic Gruntilda being my favorite antagonist EVER got BK in my Top 5 of N64 games.
One of my favorite BK songs is the music from Rusty Bucket Bay .
Zelda - Majora's Mask
My favorite Zelda game! Surprised it's not Ocarina of Time? Well, there's a reason to that - firstly, I had Majora's Mask BEFORE OoT. Yes, it took my brother and me a long time to save money for an N64 when we were little, and besides we weren't allowed to have one for a long time.. so we had to catch up on some games later. MM was the first very Zelda game I really played, which means it has a little nostalgia bonus here. But that's by far not the only reason I love it so much! I don't even know where to start. Let's summarize the story first: You are in the land Termina, the moon is about to fall to the earth, and you have 3 ingame days to prevent it. During that time you'll be able to transform into a Deku, Goron and Zora, which means you can roll around in your Goron-body and swim like a dolphin! This is pretty awesome imo, and probably one of the coolest features for me. Besides that there are countless masks to collect. Every mask has it's own sidestory and can give you funny abilities or even change your appearance. In order to get all of them, you'll have to travel between time. It's great how YOU decide which fate the people in Termina will meet. The more time you take, the closer the moon comes to the earth - and the background music will definitely get you in an apocalyptic mood. All in all, Zelda MM is a super atmospheric and thrilling game that noone should've missed.
Like all of Koji Kondo's OSTs, this one is beautiful as well - pls listen to The Song of Healing !
Pokemon Snap
I couldn't decide between Snap and Stadium. While Pokemon Stadium was the original reason we saved up for a N64, Pokemon Snap offered me a new gameplay that I never experienced before. So in the end I chose Snap, especially since I think this is a terribly underrated game!
The game sounds simple...ok, it IS simple: you drive through different levels with your Zero-One mobil and take snapshots of Pokemon, but this wasn't as easy as it sounds. Prof. Oak rates your photos based on perspective, size and amount of Pokemon on the photo and a few other aspects. Also there are a few things you need to do to see every Pokemon in the game. For example, you have to throw an apple to Charmeleon so that he falls into a volcano (haha). He'll return as Charizard then. Another sweet feature is the album where you could save your favorite photos with captions. I always made flat-humored photostories out of this and laughed about them for hours. There's no need to tell a joke if you don't even laugh about it yourself right?
Anyway, my bottom line: I really liked the concept of the game, and the fact that I'm the biggest Pokemon fan made it even better for me.
Relax while listening to the beach music ;D
Perfect Dark
Rare again. You can see they were one of the biggest reasons I adore the N64. I also wanted to put Jet Force Gemini and DK64 here, but in the end PD won... I already have 2 Jump'n'Runs in this list. Very sad for JFG though...even if it's a shooter, its nothing like Perfect Dark, so that this list seems incomplete;_;
What most appealed to me was the multiplayer. My brother and me played it all the time. The most special mode was the Counter-Operative mode: one player took the usual role of Joanna in the story, while the other player is one of the enemies that originally were CPUs. Ah, but there was so much more you just have to love...
My favorite weapon has always been the slayer, it was so cool to control the rocket yourself. And you could build your multiplayer character by putting together different bodies and heads of characters in the game. Btw, the graphics were impressive for N64 - not that PD needed to hide behind that though :)
If you haven't played that game, you NEED to catch up on it!
Both the slow and fast version of Airbase Espionage have always been my fav tracks in the game.
