Robotron 64 is really entertaining too. Very clever 3d-ish design. Hard as heck later on too i bought it a number of years back but couldn’t get to the end.
That's not the way I'd describe it. I would say the developers made "interesting choices". The 3D does not work for this game. The moving camera gets too low when you get to the south end and corners of the level, making collisions hard to gauge... or it cuts off action because it gets too close or too much on one side of the map, making peripheral action hard to keep an eye on. Something very much needed in a Robotron game. The controls are atrocious for Robotron on that Fisher Price toy they call a controller. And what's up with the character design? The game is just ugly and unplayable IMO.
Yeah the 64 had some great titles.
Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Mario & Kart 64, Zelda & DK all pretty amazing games.
Sadly there was allot of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to!
The biggest prob with it was the nastily engineered joystick though!!
Unfortunately Perfect Dark and Goldeneye do not hold up anymore. The clunky controls were fine for back then, when we didn't know better, but now it's just frustrating and slow. Graphics-wise it's very hard to look at any FPS type game on the N64 with those low poly models, lack of aliasing, and very blurry textures.
Honestly I think there are maybe 5 games on the N64 I would say are alright games to play now...but does these 5 warrant a Mini Classic version? That's in comparison to the NES or SNES library where you have orders of magnitude more games that are still relevant or still hold it's charm.
If you are comparing them to modern standards thats a whole different kettle of fish!
IMO anything between the 32bit and modern standard looks terrible by todays view.
But that is because by the time you got to the 32bit consoles they were pretty much the pinnacle of 2D gaming and the start of 3Dish.
Then along came the PSX and the 64 and everything went 3D! Was amazing at the time but looked poor at best and now well they look downright awful!
PS2 era was considerably better but still a little rough.
Its only really last gen where games started to look tidy again IMO.
So yeah if you compare them to a modern FPS they are terrible!
But if you look at them with perspective of the time they were pretty ground breaking especially Perfect Dark.
Fully aim-able cross hairs, Hit detection, multiplayer etc.
They really started to bridge the gap between console and PC at that point.