This image is a fantasy.
No one had four grey controllers.
Show me some red, green and "translucent" purple.
Also one of the control sticks should be broken.
That's pretty spot on for my experience. I only had 3: 1 gray, 1 red, and 1 translucent purple off brand.
(edit: the red one was the one with a drifty joystick, but for some reason it was my favorite)
We were grey, yellow, and offbrand black that had a semi-functional turbo mode and the joystick would reverse if you pushed too hard on it.
A 4th was always supplied by the rare potential 4th player
On a related note, they can now refurbish your N64 conrollers with mini GameCube joysticks and they're fucking SICK.
That's not four grey controllers.
That's one grey controller and three grey d-pads.
edit: That word shouldn't have been plural.
That actually explains how Goro kept kicking my ass.
I've had twelve controllers and my original translucent purple one from when I bought it new is still the best one.
Oddjob is banned. No exceptions.
Oddjob actually wasn't that bad once you realized he was at perfect headshot height when you crouched. I wrecked a lot of kids who thought Oddjob was a secret weapon.
Based on a study that shows most people remember the world as at its best when they were 12, I would guess OP is 38-40 Y/O.
Is it an unpopular opinion to say, that Perfect Dark had the better campaign and multiplayer?
No. Perfect Dark was fucking excellent. And you could still play Temple and "Felicity"
Perfect Dark was better but GoldenEye was more influential.
I'm definitely team Perfect Dark but I understand why GoldenEye was more significant in the zeitgeist and features more predominantly in memes.
I can't comment on the campaign, but as basically an upgraded sequel with 3 extra years of development, that makes sense.
I didn't play Perfect Dark (multiplayer) until about a year after it came out. My immediate reaction was, "How can this exist? It's a direct ripoff of GoldenEye!" Only to discover that, "Yeah, it's made by the same people."
Takes deep breath
GoldenEye is bad and has always been bad.
Ducks for cover
Look, I get that there is a generation in anglo territories where the N64 sold ok that discovered multiplayer games with this thing, but it's a slideshow with barely functional single stick controls. Quakeworld was a thing over here.
Ducks for cover
Hey, no fair. You know how hard it is for us to aim down.
<Waits patiently for emergence from ducking>
<Delivers audible Oddjob slap 👋>
Amazing how the nostalgia goggles can make us think we were having fun with friends or something?
Oh, I don't question the fun with friends. I had fun with friends with plenty of crappy old games.
I'm saying the pretense that it was one of the best games ever made and a seminal FPS and that it holds up and it was a great thing one would want to replay any of the times it's been re-released makes zero sense, decoupled from the memories.
Throws proximity mine in general direction.
I'm partially with you on this. I was so confused by people being in love with Goldeneye as I had been playing FPS games multiplayer for many years at that point, Quakeword and its many mods were light years better. That being said, it was highly novel for console-only gamers and the game itself was fun enough once you got over the horrid controller.
Yeah, and I think that's nuance that slowly got eroded. Even at the time I remember the consensus about GoldenEye being "it's a good FPS... for a console". I'm not sure I would rather play it over Alien Trilogy or whatever the competition was in 1996, but that was the argument.
But then the "for a console in 1997" part started getting dropped off after console FPSs stopped being this weird, mismatched exceptional thing and became mainstream and now people don't remember that playing a FPS with a controller was a thing nobody did because it sucked. The N64 took a first stab at making that semi-functional that wouldn't really come together until Halo CE.
Also, SNES > N64.
If that's what you had then it was really fun.
I will agree that it is complete dogshit now though.
Playing shooters using a joystick to aim is actual torture.
You'd rather use the four C Buttons to aim? Controllers don't exactly have a lot of options. Sure, the most accurate option is "trackball," but those were only on high end arcade cabinets and PCs at the time. Couldn't get any of them for under $300 USD. And lightguns woyld have needed more inputs on them than they had at the time, not to mention the N64 never had a lightgun peripheral for it to my knowledge.
Timesplitters 2 also.
Time Splitters Future Perfect also
Hard to beat sniper only death matches on Siberian dam
Gauntlet Legends.
Look at Richie Rich over here with their 4 official controllers, not one Mad Catz or "Game Controller" branded controller!
I don't see any extended ram pack in there... gonna get some slowdown when the explosions start flying
I've got the ram pack in my original one.. I'm down to three good controllers though, I should resolve that sooner rather than later.
I'd go with wipeout on PS1 but we can agree to disagree.
And I instantly now have that one song in my head with the vocals that sound like "heyyeyeyo!"
...pilotwings 64 and a quiet night home alone...
Stacks - Capture The Flag - Power Shotgons
I played Revenge, that was a fun one too. World Tour was my favorite as there was a generic wrestler who was my secret weapon and could not be defeated.
