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Aside from everything else going on in this thread, which I will continue to enjoy, I want to take a second and retract what I said about you.What's funny is that post is a completely sheltered point of view…and you're calling me the douche…lol.
Not looking for sympathy (unlike Smokehouse usually does), but my dad died from cancer when I was 15 and I had been working ever since. Landscaping, winter clean-ups, baby-sitting (yeah), college-pro painters, college library, college cafeteria, internships, account temps. Also, did a year at one college. Hated it. Dropped out. Worked full-time for a year before going back to a different school. All before age 20.
So yeah, maybe in your world only mom and dad could buy you stuff - that's cool, not gonna judge you or your parents because you know (or at least now you should), it's foolish to jump to rash conclusions and judge people…but whatever.
I'm guessing you are not a math major. 295 shit games out of 300 total is 98.333%, doofus.Less is more.
The PS1 has what, 1500 games for it? 90% of those are utter shit. What great variety right? N64 may have a bit under 300 games, but at least it's not nearly piled high with as much crap.
And even by your comically exaggerated estimation of the PSX library, 90% crap out of 1,500 games still leaves you 150 good games. Not even the most delusional, drooling, brain-dead N64 die-hard would ever for one instant try to pretend there were anywhere close to 150 halfway decent N64 games.
There's a big difference between too much variety, and NO variety.You know what happens when people download entire ROM sets and put them on flash carts? 99% of the ROMs go unplayed. Unlimited variety is a shitty thing, all it does is cause indecisiveness. It's the netflix effect, where you usually spend your time flipping through menus, then you go do something else because there's nothing to watch/play.
Imagine Netflix with entire genres missing. No drama movies. No horror. No comedies. Except maybe a couple poorly-made straight-to-cable tv movies by hacky directors and no-name studios you never heard of. Imagine that the only category this Netflix put any effort into whatsoever was the little children's category. That's N64. No decent shooters, no decent racers, no decent fighters, etc., etc., etc.
I love that the new tactic for the N64 fan is to try to convince people that having a choice of games is actually a bad thing. You guys are like the scientologists of the video game world.
And for kids who only had N64, the games HAD to stay fresh for months at a time. Whether they were actually ever fresh or not. Like chewing on a single piece of beef jerky for 3 days straight because you wandered off the wilderness trail and the rangers haven't found you yet.If it's only 10 games, then that's fine. Great games can stay fresh for months at a time.
We're not voting for best sales. That's not a poll; that's an internet search, you boob.To your point, here is a fact: The NES sold more than the SNES. That's quantifiable. Yet you voted the SNES as the best. That goes against your logic. Or did you mean something quantifiable that supports your subjective opinion?
I said the question is subjective to a point, but you have to be able to rationalize it beyond having warm memories of your shitty, deprived childhood. If you're calling something the best, you should have a reason, whether that's best library of games, highest quality of games, best accomplished what it set out to do, it's game-changing positive effect on the rest of the industry, SOMETHING. N64 has none of those things. You can't even pretend it does. But who knows? You can pretend Mario Kart 64 isn't the biggest turd of the series, so maybe your delusion knows no bounds.
As I have said before, you could at least construct an argument for pretty much ANY other Nintendo console. NES, SNES, GameCube, Wii, WiiU. Any one of those consoles, you could at least present a case. Not for the N64 debacle. Because there is no basis for a case, in a case of a console without games.