Saturn had much better third party support, so if you can deal without having Mario related games, I find it superior. Plus, this was a period when Sonic Team was still relevant and releasing fun and interesting games (See: Burning Rangers). I am sure that many will be quick to disagree, but that's how I see it.
Die Hard: Arcade (Dynamite Deka) might just be the greatest co-op experience ever created.
While I love both, go for the Saturn. Either use the swap trick OR a mod chip (which is sold many places, including the Racketboy store). All you'd need then is a shitload of CD-Rs and a way of DLing and burning images (aside from torrent sites, try EmuParadise or SegaSaturn V-Force). They're smaller than most PSX images.
And this way, you can still play all of the uber-rare games out there.
Whereas with the N64, to play ROMs, you'd have to make (or buy?) a flash cart.
but I just was watching some old Saturn commercials on youtube and I think I know why the Saturn failed. These commercials freak the hell out of me. From the creepy voice over to the crazy head at the end, I don't know what they were thinking. Seriously that voice over is straight from a horror movie. For some reason I don't remember these when they were actually being shown. I think that was the age I was more interested in trying to chase girls than videogames though, I missed the entire Saturn/64/PSX war.
Still interesting that Sega was still going strong against the competition in their ads just like back with the Nintendont stuff.
I had a PC during the N64 era so N64's popular shooters like Perfect Dark and Golden Eye never appealed to me. I also didn't like the N64's wonky controller.
It may be my preference in games that also slants my view here as I liked 2D fighters like Street Fighter Zero2 and 3D fighters like Virtua Fighter2 and Fighting Vipers at the time. I also loved the (albiet limited) library of RPGs on the Saturn.
*looks at poll results* Alrighty then. Nintendo 64 it is! *buys*
I'm kind of a platformer whore, but I still love shumps, fighters, beautiful RPG's and action/adventure 2D games. I've been wanting an N64 for a while now, but the Saturn still looks oh so delectable. It was a tough decision, but coming from what you all have said, I've sided with Nintendo for this one.
Systems: SNES, PS1, GBA SP, Gamecube, DS Lite, Wii, PS3 (Fully Backwards Compatible), Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, a Sega CD, and a Sega Saturn.
newt42 wrote:*looks at poll results* Alrighty then. Nintendo 64 it is! *buys*
I'm kind of a platformer whore, but I still love shumps, fighters, beautiful RPG's and action/adventure 2D games. I've been wanting an N64 for a while now, but the Saturn still looks oh so delectable. It was a tough decision, but coming from what you all have said, I've sided with Nintendo for this one.
newt42 wrote:*looks at poll results* Alrighty then. Nintendo 64 it is! *buys*
I'm kind of a platformer whore, but I still love shumps, fighters, beautiful RPG's and action/adventure 2D games. I've been wanting an N64 for a while now, but the Saturn still looks oh so delectable. It was a tough decision, but coming from what you all have said, I've sided with Nintendo for this one.
fyi-buy this game.
Easily on mah list of games to buy.
Systems: SNES, PS1, GBA SP, Gamecube, DS Lite, Wii, PS3 (Fully Backwards Compatible), Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, a Sega CD, and a Sega Saturn.
