Has the n64 aged well enough to play today?

[mas]

I was just curoius if anyone feels like the n64 has aged well to play today. I know for me if I have been playing the wii or the ps3, it would take a day or two to get used to the graphics again. I know the ps1 has not aged well at all or the saturn. The nes for the most part looks good on my hdtv and well, the snes and genesis that's an easy yes for me. The 16 bit looks great. I just was curious that's all. Thanks

[dsheinem]

um, you do know this is a retro gaming forum, right? What do you think people are going to say?

[noiseredux]

how has PS1 not aged well?

[bryan_65]

um, you do know this is a retro gaming forum, right? What do you think people are going to say?

Played some Golden Eye, Mortal Kombat 4 and some Rush just a week ago still loving it. Every October I always prefer the N64 Resident Evil 2 also.

[paulkhanti]

The PS1 and the Saturn? I think those have aged beautifully. I'm not gonna go off and start listing all the graphically amazing games for these two systems, but they definitely have aged well.

[Erik_Twice]

I think that they have aged very poorly graphically, yes. While 8 and 16 bit graphics look great, polygons do not. It depends on the game, of course.

Now, worth playing is incredibly subjective, everyone values their time differently.

[mas]

I just want to say for me that I do not offend anyone but imo I tried to play games like tomb raider and need for speed and resident evil on the playstation hooked up to my flat screen and it hurt's my eyes. The 2d and alot of the 2d type rpg's have aged well like xenogears and the castlevania series but I tried to play some ps1 games like the original tekken and ridge racer and twisted metal 2 and for me it is very hard for me to play these games. Maybe like the n64 I have have to take a week or so to get used to the graphics. And for dsheinem, yeah your right I didn't think on this one. sorry about that.

[Xeogred]

Even if it's one of my favorite JRPG's I honestly think Xenogears is pretty damn ugly, lol. Especially in comparison to something like Breath of Fire IV, that also has the pseudo 3D / 2D sprites and look to it, but it's like 50x smoother.

Other than that I don't mind going back to games from this era at all. I love replaying the old RE's on the actual PSX over the other versions, that extra dirty look just gives it a lot of charm to me.

[o.pwuaioc]

Great-looking games on the N64:

Mario Kart 64
Diddy Kong Racing
Ogre Battle 64

[Redifer]

32-bit era polygon graphics have not aged well in general. They are about as appealing as Atari 2600 graphics. 8 and 16-bit games are much more appealing to look at. Now some games during this era actually do well with their polygons, so there are exceptions (and plenty of them), but I feel that the norm is that they have not aged well. I feel the N64 was, for the most part, even uglier due to all of the fog and EXTREME blurriness. Again, there were a couple exceptions.