When comparing Homeworld Remastered Collection vs Super Mario 64, the Slant community recommends Homeworld Remastered Collection for most people. In the question“What are the best games you have played?” Homeworld Remastered Collection is ranked 3rd while Super Mario 64 is ranked 8th.
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Pros
Pro Free-roaming, open-world game
Super Mario 64, as a free-roaming, open-world game, was a precursor to later groundbreaking games such as Grand Theft Auto, and has been cited by Peter Molyneux as one of the 5 most groundbreaking games of the last 20 years for this reason
Pro Developed a proper camera and control scheme for 3D games
3D games prior to Mario 64 were somewhat all over the place with their control schemes, and game developers were still struggling to use the third dimension they now had access to. SM64 is a freeform game that makes the most of its 3rd dimension with fantastic control and camera orientation that we take for granted these days, but was highly innovative in its own time.
Cons
Con Abysmal Homeworld 1 Remaster
Homeworld 1's engine was not updated, instead the assets were ported into the Homeworld 2 remastered engine. This introduced a lot of bugs in singleplayer and destroyed Homeworld 1's critical gameplay elements (e.g. physics simulation and formations). The original voice actors were rehired to redo their lines 17 years later and they now sound worse than the first time.
If you want to play Homeworld 1, you are better off avoiding this remaster - it is not the same game at all.