Rare N64 Appreciation Thread

[enjoievan]

This is a thread dedicated to RARE Ltd.'s phenomenal catalogue of N64 games.

Here's a list of Rare's N64 titles:
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Blast Corps
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Diddy Kong Racing
Donkey Kong 64
GoldenEye 007
Jet Force Gemini
Killer Instinct Gold
Mickey's Speedway USA
Perfect Dark

All of these games were INCREDIBLE!

Banjo-Kazooie is my all-time favorite game. It will always have a special place in my game history from my childhood.

Please vote on the poll and post why you chose that game.

[Drake]

I've played:

Banjo-Kazooie - Great, well-balanced, long, fun. Awesome. Beats SM64. 10/10. My pick.

Banjo-Tooie - Adds way too much and as a result becomes extremely boring. Big mess-up here. 6/10.

Conker's Bad Fur Day - Good, some interesting ideas, but clunky control and some incredibly annoying/difficult parts. 8/10.

Diddy Kong Racing - Great, best racer on the N64 I've played. Multiple vehicles, great tracks and awesome adventure mode ftw. 9/10.

Donkey Kong 64 - Oh dear. Take Banjo-Tooie, replace the characters with DK characters and add EVEN MORE and you get this. Sorry, but I got every single thing the first time I played it, and now every time I try to play it again I can't even get past the tutorial barrels at the start before getting bored. 4/10.

GoldenEye 007 - My favourite FPS of all time. Extremely addictive, great multi, you'll want to beat every mission on every difficulty in single player and unlock all cheats (I did). 10/10.

Perfect Dark - Good, but the main game is relatively boring compared to GoldenEye IMO. Multi's great just like GE. 8/10.

Haven't played these:

Blast Corps
Jet Force Gemini
Killer Instinct Gold
Mickey's Speedway USA

[enjoievan]

B-K>SM64

Banjo had great, original Characters.
So what if people say it ripped off SM64, it improved on it tenfold!

It's a pity you haven't played JFG.
It's great, download a rom.

[Tull]

007 all the way!

[SegaFan]

Banjo-Kazooie: Best 3D platformer of all time 10/10

Banjo-Tooie: Never played

Blast Corps: Never played

Conker's Bad Fur Day: Excelent graphics and sound for N64, but quite frustrating gameplay. 8/10

Diddy Kong Racing: Never played

Donkey Kong 64: Impressive size game, lots of variety. 9/10

GoldenEye 007: Good gameplay, great atmosphere. 9/10

Jet Force Gemini: Haven't played it recently so con't really compare but I enjoyed it at the time

Killer Instinct Gold: Never played

Mickey's Speedway USA: Never played

Perfect Dark: More of the same of Goldeneye 007, not my type of game though so I didn't have much time for it after playing Goldeneye. 7/10

[Mendez]

I went for the brilliant Donkey Kong 64. Though Banjo Kazooie is awesome too!

[Angelic Lapras King]

Banjo Kazooie- Absolutly brillent.

Banjo Tooie- Never played. Care to make this possible without me resulting to ebay Ninty?

Blast Coros- Never played

Conker's Bad Fur Day- Not the best game, but an awesome take on the platformer gene. XD

Diddy Kong Racing- Very good, if a bit childish at times

Donkey Kong 64- Very good. Never did get all those Bananas ><

Goldeneye- What can I say that hasnt been said?

Jet Force Gemini- An absolute gem. SEQUAL PLEASE!

Killer Instinct Gold- Never played

Mickey's Speedway USA- Never played

Perfect Dark- Very good

[couggod]

Jet Force Gemini was great, it was what all of the other Starship Troopers games should have been. The only game on the list I didn't get a chance to play was Conker's Bad fur day. oh well

[Pit 42]

It's an all-out travesty that Banjo-Kazooie and Goldeneye are tied at present. Goldeneye 007 was THE greatest game for the N64. It's just too bad we'll never see any of these games on the VC except maybe DK64.

[crops55]

Oh man, look at all the people who have never played Blast Corps. Its a shame we won't be seeing it cause I can guarantee everyone here would enjoy it immensely. There were so many great original ideas that came to life with this game. Sigh....