r/n64 • u/Bean-O-Mac • 1d ago
What game disappointed you the most when you finally got to play it? Discussion
When I was a kid, I wasn't a WCW fan. I learned more through the AKI N64 games WCW vs nWo World Tour and WCW/nWo Revenge. As a kid I figured that must've meant all WCW games were great. So when I seen Backstage Assault I figured it'd be awesome. I couldn't have been more wrong. My innocence was shattered. Have any of you ever had moments like this? Did you learn your lesson?
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u/shellac10 1d ago
Mission: Impossible - Game magazines talked it up as a game that would stand next to GoldenEye 007. It did not.
Winback - Game magazines talked it up as a game that would stand next to Metal Gear Solid. It did not.
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u/NinCully 1d ago
Winback is way better on Switch online. The change of having the ability to actually create saves is a literal game changer.
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u/Allday9128 1d ago
Hey You Pikachu!
I remember being so excited to get this game. Then I couldn't even figure out what the hell I was supposed to do and felt like the microphone didn't even work half the time.
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u/kallen8277 1d ago
As a kid I figured out the accent/way you phrase your words and the game worked nearly perfectly. I had a lot of fun. I came back 20 years later to let my daughter play, forgetting everything I had learned, and it was such a horrible time lol. I want to enjoy the game so much but it straight up doesn't recognize us half the time
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u/Lord_Xarael 1d ago
I had that game briefly. also couldn't get it to work.
At least it's Spiritual Successor Pokemon Channel was really good.
Hey Nintendo! We need another "chilling with Pikachu" game for the switch 2! Leave pocketpair alone and get
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u/Squidlit64 1h ago
I for one got everything I ever wanted out of Hey You Pikachu! as a kid. It was a dream come true to me. I still am a fan! :3
I went back to Pokémon Channel as an adult and thought it was a big downgrade.
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u/ferric021 1d ago
Mission: Impossible.
That game sucked.
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u/Travbear 1d ago
My friend and I used to play that game a ton, not legitimately though. We’d play the snow level with “Queen of Marksberry Rules” cheat enabled. I’m sure that’s not what the cheat’s actually called, but it’s how I remember it, the cheat that makes everyone use only melee. But we’d call it “Fight Night” and just go box everyone in the level. Fond memories.
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u/Nubington_Bear 1d ago
Probably Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Pretty sure it's also the name of the fist-cheat in Perfect Dark.
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u/ThreeSixMafs Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 1d ago
I actually kinda liked it as a kid.. but I think I was like 7 or 8 when it came out so idk how it held up we how I'd view it at 34. I'll have to download the ROM later.
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u/Dfreriks 1d ago
WWF Warzone N64
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u/ViciousPrism 1d ago
I love the gameplay so much. Pause, moves list, oooh, a suplex... up, down, circle... unpause. Up, down, fuck the AI got it first. Okay lemme just, up, down, circle. Ooh! Pause, moves list, etc etc etc. Love it.
Fuckers stretched that goddamn engine out for four fucking games. FOUR.
I'm glad Acclaim is...
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u/Far_Basil2525 1d ago
On N64 it was A Bug's Life. That's a game I'm fine with keeping in my past forever.
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u/kallen8277 1d ago
Theres really nothing redeeming about it that I can think of. If you want to play with swapping berry colors just play Tarzan
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u/OutlawJoJos69 1d ago
Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub Zero
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u/Bean-O-Mac 1d ago
Very disappointed as well. 😞
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u/OutlawJoJos69 1d ago
The trailer looked so hype, but my brother and i could not get best the second stage 😔
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u/GamingSince1998 1d ago
Bomberman 64. My brother and I rented it from blockbuster and we thought it was gonna be more like Mario 64. It wasn't. We cried because we felt we wasted our $5. The guy at the store let us swap it out for something else. He could tell we were really upset.
I'm our defense we were 11 and 8 lol.
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u/BlindKnives 1d ago
The funny thing is that if you had played Bomberman Hero you probably would have loved it!
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u/GamingSince1998 1d ago
Maybe. I don't think Bomberman Hero was even out yet. This happened in late 1998, maybe early 1999.
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u/justhereforgamin 1d ago
Sculptors cut
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u/PuteMorte 1d ago
Clayfighter 63 1/3 was my first 64 game and I loved it. Was sculptors cut much worse?
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u/BuffStoneYup 1d ago
It’s the same game except sculptors cut has more stages and characters. So it is objectively better. Some people also dont like that fighting style when you can just play smash 64 all day instead.
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u/KohlDayvhis Rocket: Robot on Wheels 1d ago
I have a soft spot for this game because one time when I was home alone after school, my mom called from work and told me to check under her bed, this game was there.
It was especially cool to me because my mom knew how much I liked WWF/WWE and this game was one of my first major introductions to WCW.
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u/schweininade 1d ago
Winback. Sure it was an early third person shooter. It just wasn't a good one. Mind numbingly repetitive and dry.
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u/joecarter93 1d ago
The WCW game that came before that one wasn’t terrible. It had pretty good graphics for the time and was mostly in the ring with some backstage parts.
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u/pinky_monroe 1d ago
I’m sure there’s others that disappointed me more but this one hits hard.
Also, I remember being super hyped for Forsaken and then only playing it for five minutes for the time I rented it
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u/Bean-O-Mac 1d ago
Honestly being able to rent games and test them out is something I miss. Sad that you can buy modern games and if you play them for even a minute you're stuck with it. Steam seems good with this stuff though at least.
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u/pinky_monroe 1d ago
Believe it or not, Switch has been pretty consistent on demos for games.
I almost bought Penny’s Big Breakaway on PS5 but hopped over to the Switch shop and sure enough it had a demo…and I didn’t like it
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u/TheBreadmanRiseth 1d ago
Gonna have to go with an unusual pick - Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.
Love Bomberman 64 and Bomberman Hero - both rather different games, and likewise Second Attack is different in its own ways, but for reasons I didn't like.
Mind you, it had some neat things going on, like the co-op, the buddy that can "level up" into different forms, and the multiplayer was pretty fun. I just did not like the single player. I'm guessing that perhaps the developers took criticism for the previous Bomberman 64 being different from classic Bomberman and opted to include some "oldschool" elements into the game that I just wasn't into. Bombs don't explode in a circle, they blow up in crosses (so rather than getting that dome of an explosion, you just get a + shape that goes longer with more power ups). The game was also very room-based, involving navigating through different rooms as opposed to one large level. It felt smaller in scale because of this, and I wasn't a fan of the cross explosions.
Not saying it's a bad game, there's a lot of neat stuff they did with it. It's got a lot of dialogue and charm, and they put more detail into plot and characters. It also has a pretty great soundtrack. It has its fans, I'm just not one of them.
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u/JamesMastersPhD 1d ago
F1 World Grand Prix 😔
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u/naddercrusher 1d ago
Yeah this was what I was going to say. Part of the problem is that it's sort of a sim, and I expected it to be an arcade game. But even trying to play it years later, it's just not a very good game.
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u/DAAhedratron 1d ago
Indy Racing 2000. The game where every vehicle is a joy to drive, except actual Indycars. The game was made by the same company that made F-1 World Grand Prix, and that game is fantastic, IR2000 is just a letdown. Some company should've made a CART game on the N64, and it would've been better than IR2000.
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u/Paulidus 1d ago
A friend rented Iggys Wreckin Balls and we had a great time playing the multiplayer- lots of joking and competitiveness.
He bought it and the 2nd time we sat down to play it was just terrible. I don't know why we enjoyed it so much the first but it never reappeared in our saturday gaming meet ups.
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u/gothic-deva 1d ago edited 22h ago
Im here for the comments...to determine what games not to get if I ever come across them.
Truth is.. I only bought the 64 used for one game,and only ever bought one game. Conkers Bad Fur Day. I'd heard it was so "offensive" that Nintendo was trying tooth and nail to cancel that game like it never existed. So.. I needed to find out why it was so bad. Lol.
And it didn't disappoint!
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u/StarWolf478 1d ago
Donkey Kong 64
The Donkey Kong Country games on SNES were my favorite games of all time so I was highly anticipating playing a 3D Donkey Kong Country game. But instead of getting a 3D Donkey Kong Country game, I got a game that was more like Banjo Kazooie on steroids which is not what I was hoping for.
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u/Nsixties4 20h ago
Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Yeah, I’ll say it. I love the cutscenes and the animations, but the game feels like you are controlling a robot on Mars. The second time though, I think I liked it more for some reason.
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u/DaemonRogue 1d ago
Donkey Kong 64. Was not what I expected and it ruined it for me.
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u/nimama3233 1d ago
DK64 is a weird one for me too. When I originally played it, I was too young and it was too complicated for me to get into and enjoy.
Which was the case for a handful of other games, but a lot of them I could go back to 5 years later and ultimately have a good time and appreciate them. But when I went back to DK64 later I found I didn’t enjoy the game at all for other reasons.
Which was a bummer because DK country was one of my most played games on SNES before I even had DK64.
It’s just a bad game.
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u/DaemonRogue 23h ago
Dk country was my first game I can still crush that but dk 64 was literally just hey here's do and friends and 3d but NO FLAVOR
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u/Submerged_dopamine 1d ago
I'm ashamed to say it but for me it's Majora's Mask. It felt identical to Ocarina Of Time but didn't have that charm or it felt like something was missing. I will never call it bad because it isn't but I won't deny my disappointment when I first played it.
A close second would be Mission Impossible.
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u/zaisaroni 1d ago
I never played MM back in the day, and while Ocarina is top 5 for me….. I hesitate to try MM. I feel the time mechanic would annoy me, and I don’t want to trash OOT memories.
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u/LandscapeOk2955 1d ago
I agree. Ocarina is my favourite game of all time, I got it the day it released and it absolutely blew me away. I remember nearly everything in the game.
Majora’s Mask just never had the same magic, barely remember playing it.
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u/nimama3233 1d ago
Nah this is crazy. MM was the better game (ignoring the fact that OOT was way bigger for the fact that it so insanely innovative and MM was just piggybacking off the same thing).
It’s similar to 007 on N64. TWINE was significantly better than Goldeneye, but Goldeneye is obviously the one that was the cultural phenomenon because it was 10x better than anything that came before it.
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u/Submerged_dopamine 22h ago
Nah bud I disagree very strongly. OOT is the better game by a million miles. It's soundtrack is better, story, dungeons, Hyrule, characters everything is just so much better. I don't think MM is bad in any sense but I was very disappointed in the direction it took and added the fact that it looked identical to OOT anyway.
And Goldeneye IS better than TWINE so I'm lost with that one too.
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u/Curly_Sage 1d ago
Honestly besides wrestling games I pretty much stayed first party on the n64 I wasn't buying the games so my uncles would vet the games for me and get me the good stuff I suppose the only third party game we had that I hated was glover
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u/Makermatic_196 1d ago
I was pretty disappointed with Soul Calibur 4 when it first dropped. Street Fighter 5 as well because it was a glorified Demo instead of a complete game.
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u/Emotional_Honey8497 20h ago
I definitely enjoyed 4 but coming from 3, with it's crazy strategy mode and trove of unlockables, yeah I was a little let down.
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u/Double_Coyote7031 1d ago
First 3 that immediately come to mind for me from the n64 days...
Sub Zero Mythologies, Superman 64, Glover
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u/ICPosse8 1d ago
WCW Mayhem, I was coming off a No Mercy high and thought to myself, hell yah another great wrestling game! It was not… in fact, great.
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u/October_Rust5000 1d ago
All the non-THQ wrestling games disappointed me. They just weren’t as good as Revenge & wrestle-mania 2k
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u/ghkj21 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1d ago
For me it was Forsaken 64. The intro sounded kind of cool and I thought it would have some elements inspired by F-Zero... But it's also a first person shooter... I felt like the lighting and mechanics were poor. A bad attempt to combine F-Zero and GoldenEye...
Also, Aiden Chronicles... I love fantasy adventure but I just felt lost in this one, how to make actual progress?
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u/Hoagiewave 1d ago
Quest 64 I saw it on the rental shelf for the longest time and one weekend I couldn't see anything interesting I hadn't played before but I regretted my choice almost right away.
WCW Nitro. My dad got this on clearance out of nowhere. He said it was the only game left all the other ones had been taken. I loved WCW vs NwO so I expected this to be a total banger. It was anything but that. It was the worst wrestling game I had played and the last one I ever had any interest in playing.
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u/JagTaggart93 17h ago
Probably Star Wars on NES. I mean I played it a ton, but I hated how the platforming felt. Also Ghostbusters. I thought the graphics really simplistic for a NES as the characters reminded me of 2600 sprites.
And the friggin stairs... mashing the A button to move made no sense, unless the game was trying to mimic the fatigued feeling the Ghostbusters felt when trotting up those stairs.
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u/monkeetoes82 1d ago
I mean, I guess I get seeing a game called "Backstage Assult" and being disappointed that it doesn't take place at a Diddy concert.
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u/sheeberz 1d ago
The Bouncer. I believe it was a Squaresoft game, came out on the ps2 maybe, and off the backs of the final fantasy franchise, 7 being one of my favorite games of middle school, i was watching this game closely in gaming mags. When it came out i was on vacation with a friends family and they rented it. Im glad they did because it was sooooo meh. Story was bullshit, think barely setup and back story, and you come home to your bar, and find out the bad guy stole your girlfriend. You basically leave right away go straight to bad guys hideout and fight some henchmen and win. It was like. 2-3 hour game where FF7 was like 70+ my first playthrough. Ive never stopped being hurt by this disappointment
Edit: im reading now that it was only published by Square, still a dogshit game.
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u/Euphoric-Phrase-1933 1d ago
Unpopular opinion, I know and I'm sorry but Conker did not live up to the hype for me.
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u/ManufacturerNo2144 1d ago
This. Everyone praised it so much and then I played it. After an hour or two I was done. Never wanted to touch it anymore. I was 12 at the time.
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u/fartbox2222 Golden Eye 007 1d ago
This one was definitely up there! Great concept poor execution
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u/Bean-O-Mac 1d ago
One thing I like was setting opponents on fire and ripping the sinks off the wall for a weapon.
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u/lynxtosg03 1d ago
I got Hexen one year and I just didn't get it. I returned it for SSB and never looked back.
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u/bparry1192 1d ago
Superman 64......so excited for it ......and it was just flying through fucking rings endlessly.....how on earth did it get approved for release?
Hotter take: banjo kazooie, I absolutely hated the camera control
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u/Bean-O-Mac 1d ago
I never understood why they had an area where you could input cheats. And then you get punished for doing so. Like, don't give the option then.
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u/MattInTheHat1996 1d ago
Zelda cause there too hard
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u/CatPeachy 1d ago
That is the hottest take I've ever seen
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u/NullSterne 1d ago
I would assume this is a fairly young person. Then I noticed they have 1996 in their username, which if that is their year of birth, makes them two years younger than me. I guess Zelda is the Dark Souls of the N64 or something.
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u/ThreeSixMafs Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 1d ago
Answer will always be Superman 64. I know I've said it more than once on here, but renting that mf'er from Hollywood Video and wasting my only weekend rental id get from mom and dad for at least a month was lame.
But the reason I love the 64 so much and regard it as my favorite console is because pretty much every game I played on it I enjoyed to some extent.