alienjesus wrote:Army Men and Castlevania are games I might pick up eventually just out of a love for the system.
They definitely fall into that middle ground territory. They wont make anyone's list of best games for the N64, but after you've already explored the "must plays" for the console, Army Men and Castlevania are toward the top of what's left over before you start scraping the bottom of the barrel. If that makes sense. They're cheap enough, definitely worth picking up.
alienjesus wrote:I want all the Rareware games for the console too, which is mainly why I was curious about Mickey's Speedway. At this point the ones i'm missing are Mickey's Speedway, Killer Instict, Goldeneye and Conker. Conker is one of those pricy ones >_<
Yeah, DK64 was the only Rare platformer I had for the N64 back when. Luckily, I was able to pick up the Banjo's and Conker before prices starting going up. But after getting them, I realized I only needed Mickey's Speedway to complete my Rare N64 collection.
That's not the only reason I got the game though. I was trying to find my forum post when I first discovered the game. I thought Diddy Kong Racing was awesome, so this would be just like that only with Disney characters instead. I was wrong. It's not a terrible game, but it just doesn't stack up to Diddy Kong Racing or Mario Kart 64.
alienjesus wrote:Shadows of the Empire looks very awkward to control to me, so I'm mainly curious if it's worth the learning curve. Sounds l;ike you swear by it though!
Yeah, that's the thing. I know the game has some annoyances. I'm just not sure how much I overlook. To be honest, the game doesn't control too bad once you get use to it. But it feels slippery as hell when you first pick it up. It has some platforming going on, which can be difficult until you get the controls down. Aiming isn't a problem because, while you can manually aim, you can also auto aim. Most of the stages are third person shooting, but there's a number of stages that have you flying around in a ship. They're definitely awesome. The first stage is the Battle of Hoth, where you have to use your toe cables to take down AT-AT's.
But again, if you're a fan of Star Wars then it's a MUST PLAY. If you don't care about Star Wars, I'm really not sure how good the game is if you're being totally objective.
alienjesus wrote:Tony Hawk's is a series I played on my cousins Playstation back in the day, he had THPS2. I picked it up on Dreamcast for Together Retro a few years back and found it almost unplayable. I assumed at the time that the game had just aged really poorly, but maybe it's just the controls on the dreamcast version that gave me problems?
The problem with the DC version is that the D-Pad sucks. Each of the 8 directions on the D-Pad will perform a different trick. The DC D-Pad is just impossible to consistently nail the direction you intend to. I'd always accidentally hit a different direction, which can either cause you to score less points, or possible even cause you to wipe out. It was frustrating as hell. The DC version looks beautiful, but the controls are so much nicer on the N64 and PS1 (all due to the D-Pad) that it ends up making the game more enjoyable. I actually bought a PS to DC controller adapter just so I could play the DC version with a better D-Pad!
I guess the PS1 version ends up being better than the N64 version due to the fact that it has more content. But you're not missing anything important with the N64. Unless the smaller track list and shorter loops will drive you nuts. At least the cart has no loading time compared to the other versions. And, yeah, blue cart!
