Why 3-D games don't make any sense to me.

I never finished Flashback, but I've always had a desire to do so.  I also had a lot of interest in Fade to Black, but by all accounts (including yours, DP) it's not the awesome-sauce that was Flashback.  And along those lines, I've always kinda liked Blackthorne as well.

In that case, you might like Bermuda Syndrome.

The only depth problems I have in 3D games occur when they won't let you change the camera position. In Mario 64, you could pretty much pick any angle by rotating the camera.  When there was an iffy jump, you could essentially make it 2D as far as your controls and perspective.  CV64 didn't really do that. In fact, I don't know what the real difference was between camera modes.  I think you selected between normal, movie, and something else.  None of them really did much.  Bizarre.  And the washed out colors of the characters was just

The worst case in my book was Metroid Prime (and I assume the sequels).  Jumping itself isn't an issue but "precision" jumping in an FPS is usually a failure, and Metroid Prime was a prime culprit.  Hell, I think it might have been worse than Hexen (N64). 

Maybe I was just weird, but I was pretty good at the jumping in Metroid Prime.  Of course, I also played Dark Forces to completion, and if I remember right, there was some tricky platforming in that, too.  Been a while, though...

Yep, Dark Forces... my first foray into 3D jumping too, way back in '94.  I remember I would look down at where my feet were supposed to be, and use that view to judge when to jump off the edge of a ledge.  Worked rather well actually.  Man that was a hell of a game... I remember drinking Mountain Dew, listening to The Downward Spiral and shooting the shit out of some Stormtroopers.  I should go back and play it, but I think the nostalgia might be shattered given all the years that have passed since then.  I still have my original CD version of it though, sitting on my shelf with the rest of my PC stuff.

Easy or not, platforming in Metroid Prime was so unsatisfying. Half of the fun of metroid for me had always been flipping around, high jumping, speed boosting, and over all looking like a total badass. There were a few cool aspects of being behind the visor. I liked that they at least included a visit, but I was really bored not being able to see samus.