Absolutely Goldeneye.

Gonna have to go with Golden Eye. Brings back memories of staying up late with bandmates after practice bitching about Oddjob.

Phew, this new comment pagination almost ruined last week's debate. At first I just thought there weren't many votes and was ready to post the incomplete results. Good thing I double checked.

For this week, I'm definitely torn. But honestly, not for long. Sure, I spent just as many summer hours playing GoldenEye 64 with friends in their basement as I did playing SSB 64 in their basement. I played both games more in one summer than I spent all year on homework, these games were huge parts of my childhood.

But last year I went back and played both of them for the first time in many years, and it was obvious which one stood the test of time, and which one didn't. While 007 was groundbreaking in that it brought the FPS genre to more mainstream non-PC markets, it still doesn't change the fact that it doesn't play well to this day. Framerates drop, graphics are laughibly blocky, and it's just not as fun (on any gameplay mode) as current FPS games.

However, when picking up SSB 64, the graphics aren't bad enough to take away from gameplay, the multiplayer aspect remains to be more fast and vicious and stratgic than basement-roaming blind bullet-spraying. Not to mention that I STILL honestly like SSB 64 better than Melee and Brawl. The controls feel tight, not over smoothed, and Hammer will always trump Proximity Mines in my heart!

VOTE: Super Smash Bros. 64 by far.

Phew, this new comment pagination almost ruined last week's debate. At first I just thought there weren't many votes and was ready to post the incomplete results. Good thing I double checked.

For this week, I'm definitely torn. But honestly, not for long. Sure, I spent just as many summer hours playing GoldenEye 64 with friends in their basement as I did playing SSB 64 in their basement. I played both games more in one summer than I spent all year on homework, these games were huge parts of my childhood.

But last year I went back and played both of them for the first time in many years, and it was obvious which one stood the test of time, and which one didn't. While 007 was groundbreaking in that it brought the FPS genre to more mainstream non-PC markets, it still doesn't change the fact that it doesn't play well to this day. Framerates drop, graphics are laughibly blocky, and it's just not as fun (on any gameplay mode) as current FPS games.

However, when picking up SSB 64, the graphics aren't bad enough to take away from gameplay, the multiplayer aspect remains to be more fast and vicious and stratgic than basement-roaming blind bullet-spraying. Not to mention that I STILL honestly like SSB 64 better than Melee and Brawl. The controls feel tight, not over smoothed, and Hammer will always trump Proximity Mines in my heart!

VOTE: Super Smash Bros. 64 by far.

Played both so much... I can't even decide. Ok fuck, I guess I was better at Smash Bros. so we'll go with that. Agree with tsunami, I loved Perfect Dark x10.

Goldeneye!

Even though I've been really negative towards the Wii version of Brawl, it still takes the cake in this argument.

For one, Brawl is sill playable and Goldeneye isn't. It was a lot more fun in a party environment over Goldeneye.

My vote goes for Smash Bros.

Now, I know Smash Bros. is not going to win. That is obvious. However, all things considered, I do think it is a superior game in a lot of ways.

I'm not saying Goldeneye was a bad game. Far from it. The single player campaign was pretty solid, it was graphically sound, followed the plot of the movie pretty well, and had great multi-player modes. I do honestly beleive that the game is retro tinted to an almost obscene degree by gamers of the era, however. Most gamers will froth with white-hot nerd rage at the sheer mention that something in this game was flawed. They will practically toss each other off at mention of a possible release on the Virtual Console or the XBLA, and most probably refresh the page for the fan-based port of the game into the Source engine on an hourly basis.

Honestly, while good, it just didn't hold my attention the same way that Smash Bros. did (right up until Brawl, anyway, but that's a discussion for another time). I've had many, many, many sleepless nights playing that game with friends over a greasy pizza and more than a few bottles of alcohol, and more than a few laughs. It's a better constructed game in my eyes, and a better game for bringing friends together overall.

Feel free to flame at will.

Goldeneye. No question.

The most influential game of my college years.
Pistols only, no radar, one hit kill was THE standard for proving your skills. It got to the point where some people were learning how to play the game with 2 controllers to take advantage of two analog sticks.

Also, I still haven't beaten Trevelyn yet on the hardest difficulty.

very hard choice, both great games and they are both are the best on their own category. i will have to pick goldeneye since it was the first great multiplayer FPS. Smash is awesome too but the later versions of it are better.

goldeneye ftw!!!

Smash!

Smash Bros.
I just played it yesterday! I got owned.

I vote Smash Bros 64.

Goldeneye was fun, but I put way much more time into smash. Call me crazy, but smash 64 is still my favorite out of the series. Plus, you didn't have a split screen to hinder the sight of 4 simultaneous players.

For me, personally, as much as I love SSB

Goldeneye wins in a landslide

Goldeneye...


Simply because of License To Kill + Pistols + Complex

Ick, this sucks, I loved them both.
@Fronz, I did the same thing, but always had paintball on, just cause it was pretty.
As much as I love both games I think I have to give it to Smash Bros. there's just something magical about the first time you got to hit another Nintendo character with a baseball bat.

Goldeneye for me, no question. I never really got into Smash Brothers

For me, it was Goldeneye. Hands down. My friends and I back in the old neighborhood clocked countless hours on both, but the competition and heartfelt joy in victory or anguish in defeat was always so much more prevalent in our beloved FPS.

Besides, I was never beaten in anything except perhaps proximity mines :P Hated the things. SO cheap. Hahaha, good times, tho.

I actually just brought my old Dreamcast, N64, and old Gameboy gear out of storage to my apartment and Goldeneye was the first thing I had to pop in the N64 once it was set up. Protip: don't play on an HDTV after having done the same with an emulator. The visual quality is actually saddening, haha.

Smash Bros....

Ah, its so hard to really choose, as I had immense amount of fun at countless sleepovers with both games, but in the end, Smash Bros takes the cake.

I have to go with GoldenEye. While both games were insanely fun, I simply have too many fond memories with Bond: Rocket launchers across the big open room in the Temple, my friend using Proximity Mines to barricade himself in rooms in the Bunker... Ah, the good old days.

Both of these powerhouses of the N64 were heavily favored amongst my friends and I when we were jonesing for hot multiplayer action. While Goldeneye definitely had some holy shit moments during the campaign and multiplayer led to some epic matches that are still talked about to this day, my vote is for Super Smash Bros. This game was the game we played most often and for the longest. We'd literally spend entire days playing this game.

Smash Bros, definitely. Goldeneye just didn't age well.

I agree with these guys - which game can you pick up today and STILL play for hours and have a blast with?

smash64 is that game.

I'm going with Goldeneye, mainly because of how many more hours of my youth were wasted on that in comparison to Smash Bros. I don't think either of them hold up that well by todays standards but Goldeneye did a helluva lot to progress console FPS as we know it.