Favorite N64 game?

Surprised this thread doesn't exist already. Oh well.

There's so many to list, so you'll have to forgive me if your favorite lands in the "Other" category. I'll list the ones I know many people like, and put "Other" to be safe.
My favorite is Paper Mario. The music is phenomenal in that game, the partners all have unique abilities and moves, like Sushi's squirt or Kooper's Fire Shell. The boss fights are epic and have great music to back them up. There's fun sidequests like collecting all the badges, super blocks and star pieces.
Enough about me. What's your favorite?

Edit: Wow, I knew I forgot one. Sorry, Super Mario 64, you're going in the Other option.

I noticed you said favorite game and not games (plural), yet I sense people will ignore that and post multiple games anyways. -_-


There are a handful of great 64 games which I adore, but the one that stands on the very top of the pile is:



For me, Super Mario 64 is what gaming is all about. I still enjoy the ♥♥♥♥ out of it to this day!

Oh yeah, and shame on you for not including Super Mario 64 in the poll, but jumping over it for Mario Party and Mario Kart. :/

All of the above spare MK 64, its just not that good.
But If I had to pick OoT and MM. I refuse the pick.

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Originally Posted by TheGhostOfMandrag

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BROTHEEEERRRRRRRRSSS!

AAAAAHHH! Another one I forgot! So sorry! haha

That's a hard one... My favorite games growing up were
Ocarina of Time

Donkey Kong 64

Paper Mario

Super Smash Bros

Mario Party 2

Super Mario 64

Mario Kart 64 (which sadly has not aged well at all...)

Diddy Kong Racing

Pokemon Stadium

Pokemon Snap

Spider-Man (Still the best Spider-Man game that has ever been released)

Goldeneye

The World Is Not Enough

Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon

Megaman 64

Banjo Kazooie hands down gets my vote.

Originally Posted by Grooston

Spider-Man (Still the best Spider-Man game that has ever been released)

Better on Playstation. It had actual cutscenes instead of voice-acted slideshows.

Originally Posted by TheGhostOfMandrag

Better on Playstation. It had actual cutscenes instead of voice-acted slideshows.

I agree 100%, but I had a N64 growing up and didn't play the PS1 version till years later. The N64 version though was still an amazing game.

Majora's Mask is my favorite, because I loved everything it had to offer.

Other great games:

Diddy Kong Racing - The characters and racing is better than Mario Kart 64.

Mario Kart 64 - The stages and items are better than Diddy Kong Racing.

Super Mario 64 - Great game, but hasn't really aged that well compared to the DS remake.

Banjo Kazooie - Great game, but really cruddy swimming controls and Clanker's freaking Cavern.

Pokemon Snap - Great on-rails photography simulator that gets too much hate.

Mario Tennis - Excellent tennis game.

Kirby 64 - Great Kirby game.

Ocarina of Time - Great for its time, but I feel every console Zelda game after it is better.

Favorite non-Zelda N64 games are:

1.) Doom 64
2.) Goldeneye 007
3.) Conker's Bad Fur Day

Originally Posted by Me

I noticed you said favorite game and not games (plural), yet I sense people will ignore that and post multiple games anyways. -_-

Eeyup.

Originally Posted by TheGhostOfMandrag

Better on Playstation. It had actual cutscenes instead of voice-acted slideshows.

Voice acting on the PS1 is nothing to brag about.

Other than Diddy Kong Racing, you've listed all of my favorite N64 games. How am I supposed to choose?

I went with Ocarina of Time. Definitely the systems best game.

Paper Mario. I enjoyed that game so much back in the day.

Originally Posted by silver arrow

Other than Diddy Kong Racing, you've listed all of my favorite N64 games. How am I supposed to choose?

Just pick the one that you would most like to play right now. Or on a desert island. I don't know, just pick one!

Originally Posted by Zecora

Voice acting on the PS1 is nothing to brag about.

They both had voice acting. N64 one just cut replaced the visual component of cutscenes with slideshows. So you got a series of still panels that were still voice acted and, if memory serves, the N64 version even kept the sound effects. Literally the only difference is slides vs video.

Originally Posted by Grooston

Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon

Woot! Go Goemon! But I've never played this game. I played Goemon's Great Adventure, which is a great side-scroller. Konami should put up Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon on the Wii Virtual Console.

Anyways, my favorite N64 game is OoT. I loved that game to death. It got me hooked onto Zelda, and I bought a Gamecube instead of a PS2 just so I could play the next Zelda game, TWW. It's a great game, and I don't think I need to explain why.

Mario Party (1) a huge part of my childhood, providing sibling bonding and such. However, Paper Mario was an even bigger part, and the entire game was amazing to me both then and now. The locations are creative, the music is awesome, the story's cute, and the partners are fun.

Originally Posted by TheGhostOfMandrag

They both had voice acting. N64 one just cut replaced the visual component of cutscenes with slideshows. So you got a series of still panels that were still voice acted and, if memory serves, the N64 version even kept the sound effects. Literally the only difference is slides vs video.

I fail to see how using slides makes it worse than the PS1 version.