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DJ Cat is gonna get mad at me but anything that uses the old N64 controller layout just feels unplayable to me these days! The games themselves? Legendary. And back then I really preferred that controller. But using it now just feels so, so weird. It takes away my enjoyment when I load up Goldeneye.

Z-TARGETING WILL ALWAYS BE THE Z BUTTON! None of this ZL bull****.

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I guess it helps if you never stopped playing the consoles so always kept the "feel" for it.

Like, I've tried the Xbox360 remakes of Perfect Dark and just recently Goldneye and while they are great fun, i had to give up on Perfect Dark about halfway through Secret Agent because i couldnt deal with the controls.
it was like wrestling a bear!

Go to playing Perfect Dark on the N64 and I'm head shotting enemies from the others side of the room on Perfect Agent with no worries.

1.2/Solitaire/Turok controls always.
Auto Aim Off.
Let's go!
See my YouTube channel for examples of how my mate and I are still pretty sharp, although a little rusty.

Did I mention ive never entered a Goldneye Tournament and not won?
maybe a story for another day.


I guess it was hard going back to Unreal Tournament to play...
Because it wasn't high school and we didn't have 15 of our mates in the room, in the same match, having a blast of a time.
it might be the same game but the atmosphere playing either against bots or online just doesn't cut it.

any game with tank tread controls

(old tomb raider, old RE, croc)

The AKI N64 wrestling games are another series that still holds up. Games like WCW/nWo Revenge and WWF No Mercy. I play them occasionally and they're still some of my favorite games.

I was just talking with a friend about one of the only exposures I had to the Sega Genesis I had as a kid, when my Nana picked one up second-hand for us kids to play during visits. It was sold to her with a few games the previous owner had, including a WWF game, of all things. We did not watch the then-named WWF, didn't know any of the wrestlers, and didn't have even the slightest interest in the whole concept of it in real life, but when you're eight years old and it's one of three games you have, you play it. It was wild how much we loved it, when really it was kind of just the digital equivalent of playing with dolls. All we did was **** around and laugh at ourselves making these sweaty shirtless dudes run all over the place, do flying kicks, grab each other, swing around the steel chairs, all that jazz.

Only recently did I look up a video of the game, just trying to remember what its name even was. Hearing the music and sound effects again after all this time tickled my brain like CRAZY... but as a game, it looks terrible. Every character reuses the same basic sprite set, I don't even know what good strategy in this game would even look like, AI seems easy to cheese, no real variety whatsoever. The whole thing looks like it was just cheap licensed schlock the whole time.

Edit: I'm not so sure the embed is working, so here's the link: https://youtu.be/d_Xe1DP18Pg


Maybe not so much a case of "games that didn't age well," as much as it is "games that always sucked, and we were just dumb."