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The game always had that overly heavy auto aiming. This was before halo and the innovations it brought to fps controls on console so the heavy auto aiming was needed to make it playable. You get used to it but basically unless you are snipping you really shouldn't be aiming down the sights.
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It's kind of the general consensus. There's a few gorgeous looking games but the vast majority of those came from Nintendo. They kept their games cartoon style which suited the N64's architecture and also aimed for 30-60 stable FPS. Compare that to the technically impressive Rare games that look horrendous now. Even then I find the two zelda games on the system really look old as well.
The N64 was way more powerful than the PS1 but it had a major issue with a severe lack of texture memory. It meant textures could not be bigger than 4Kb which meant you had a lot of very low resolution textures stretched and blurred which looks awful.
There's some great looking games on the system, Sin and Punishment for me is for me is technically incredible and still holds up, but the majority really have aged worse than a lot of PS1 games. There's just a smudgy dirty look to a lot of the games. Compare Crash Bandicoot to say Banjo Kazooie, Banjo is a much more technically advanced games but it doesn't look great whereas Crash might be a mediocre game but it looks so much cleaner and better. On the other hand Mario 64 I feel still looks great, it uses the N64 architecture well to give an almost CGI rendered quality to the visuals.
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I think aiming with the stick is fine it's just that until halo introduced subtle aiming and tracking aiming in any fps game was frustrating as hell on console and goldeneye suffers from that.
I don't get the hate for the n64 controller. People loved it when the n64 was around and slowly there's a revisionist history that it was an awful controller from people that grew up with dual analogue. I mean it's not the best for fps and tps but for the vast majority of n64 games it was perfect and comfortable. The biggest issue was the joysticks would wear out very quickly so you would need to buy a new pad every year nearly.
It actually isnt cartridge space, it's the texture memory that limited the texture resolution. Textures couldn't be more than 32x32 pixels. N64 carts were plenty big and could fit most games on them, they just had to cut back on video and voice.
N64 games look an awful lot better when run on a crt. I'm running n64 games on RetroArch with a gorgeous crt filter and they look a lot better. When you play them on a flat panel or an emulator upscaled they look horrendous.
I think a lot of the issues with how old games look is because they aren't running on a crt.
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Well speaking of bad n64 controls that is a game with terrible controls. They are hard to learn on a N64 controller but do work once you get it. They are just impossible to translate to a modern controller. The rare replay collection had to totally change them to make it playable.
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Honestly a good PC emulator with a crt filter is a great alternative. It's what I use. I have some screenshots of my filters in the screenshots thread. Really makes games look a lot more authentic and allows the art to shine. I always play old games in 4:3.
As for trying to play N64 games on a modern controller, I with you there. It's why I bought a retrobit tribute 64 which is a PC USB clone of the hori n64 pad (which has a joystick like a GameCube one). It's not totally authentic but it makes a lot of games like mischief makers and sin and punishment playable as they rely on having a N64 controller.
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When you take into account that crash came out after Mario 64 it's pretty damning how simplistic that game and series is. It's kind of no wonder the game got poor reviews on release, and kind of rightfully so. The first game even without comparisons to Mario 64 is a very mediocre platformer.
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