First of all, this is a Neo Geo forum. We like to get what we pay for and expect our shit to be top notch. I am sure a lot of us were like this before the Neo Geo. Hell, I know Merc, Smokehouse and others are this way. We took our games seriously, go balls deep, no fucking around, playing bullshit is for suckas.
When I got the N64, it did not have the same feel of "Quality" that the NES, SNES or the PS1 had, when it came to the games. I was expecting mind blowing games not just pretty good titles overall especially in COMPARISON to the SNES games and as well as the PS1 games that were coming out.
Sure Mario 64 and Zelda OoT are some excellent games and they tend to actually look better graphically than many other N64 games as well. Golden Eye and Perfect Dark are some fun games to run through, but the multiplayer was ass if you have more than 2 players. Jesus fucking Christ 4 players was just terrible on those games.
To Neo_Moe It seems like you didn't own a PS1 when it came out nor played much games then and even now. So you don't know what you missed out on. This is just going by what I have seen in most, not all of your posts as I haven't read all. So I am listing this:
N64 vs. PS1 - Do I really have to show this?!?!
Castlevania 64 x2 < Symphony of the Night and Chronicles
Megaman 64 < MM X4-6, MM 8, MM Legends 1 (identical) and 2
Street Fighter Alpha series - none < Alpha 1-3, even SF movie and collections
SNK - nothing < Inferior to Neo Geo but better than 16 bit ports and none at all
Star Soldier - only shooter I could find US < Einhander, Sexy Parodus, Layer section series, etc...
Ogre Battle 64 < Final Fantasy Tactics, Ogre Tactics, Front Mission 3, Vandal Hearts etc...
Zelda OoT - OK won this one > Alundra, and this is my favorite next to Brave Fencer Musashi and Legacy of Kain 1
Winback < Metal Gear Solid, winback better combat but story, characters etc.. no contest to MGS
Resident Evil 2 = Resident Evil 2, but no RE 1 and 3 for N64, bummer.
Star Fox 64 < Ace Combat 2 and even Warhawk dare I say.
Final Fantasy - none < FF 7, it isn't overrated BTW, you know damn well when that game came out it was fucking awesome and epic as hell to play. Also, FF 8 and FF 9 were nice to have even though not my favorites.
Some other greats on the PS1 US: Tekken 3, Soul Edge, Dino Crisis 2, Ultimate Doom, Elemental Gearbolt, Arc the Lad 1 and 2, Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Lunar 1 and 2, Breath of Fire 4, Suikoden 1 and 2, and Star Ocean Second Story. There are so many others and tons of import games as well.
The system just comes up short with game series other than Nintendo made ones that have been coming out for years mostly. Hell, they didn't even make a Metroid game which is surprising.