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Goldeneye Remastered Coming soon to Xbox / Game Pass - Incl. Achievements, 4K Resolution etc
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March Climber
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Alright master of negotiations, what would your counter offer have been?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Phew, no online achievements. Hate those.
Eddie-Griffin
Banned
Depends on if you were a console or PC gamer in or before 1997.
You will get too very different takes, or three if you gamed on a Saturn.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
DaGwaphics
Member
I'm taking it you've never tried to play a game over a remote connection using NetPlay.
Unless Nintendo's solution is better than most, anything outside the local network isn't going to run the way we are now used to.
nkarafo
Member
This is where i disagree. You seem to hold modern FPS games at a higher standard. IMO though, older FPS games were generally better. Especially in level design where Goldeneye shines with some of it's maps (though there are a few stinkers).
Goldeneye also has a few other things that aged very well. The music is still great and it's nice for newer players who grew up with muted, modern FPS games where stock music from movies only plays during "action" because "cinematic".
The collision detection/precision of the shots is second to none. You can shoot through tiny corners and gaps as long as the center of your sight is 1 pixel away from a surface. Most other games would have your shot stuck at the nearest polygon if you did that but not Goldeneye. That's why the game can easily tell the exact spot you hit an enemy. PD expanded on that by being able to shoot the enemies' own weapons off their hands (can you do that in any modern FPS you know of?).
I also like the way you can lock the camera in place and only move the weapon and cross hair. I love this because the weapon doesn't feel like it's glued on the camera, like 100% of other FPS games.
The 3 different difficulties don't only make the enemies tougher and more lethal, it also adds more missions in the maps so you have to explore more. And i also like the non-linear way you can tackle some of these missions.
And this is why i always find the "nostalgia glasses" argument condescending. Because it's a non-argument. You don't really explain what's wrong with the game and why newer games are, apparently, always and automatically better no matter what. All you say is everyone who still likes it must be delusional.
Honestly, the 3 major issues i hear about this game are: 1) Graphics, 2) Frame Rate, 3) Controls.
Number 3 is false though. Most people never bothered to use any other scheme except the default. But Goldeneye can be controlled almost like a modern dual stick FPS, even on the original controller (1.2 solitaire, hold from left side). It even has a real dual analog mode if you hold a controller on each hand, which works better than it sounds.
Number 1 and 2 are legitimate issues but a remaster can always fix those. You can already fix number 2 with emulation anyway.
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01011001
Banned
I'm taking it you've never tried to play a game over a remote connection using NetPlay.
from what I've tried while playing around with the trial of NSO and from what I've seen online it's worse than netplay on Retroarch. at least once you go beyond 2 players
It’s a remaster so I assume no.
01011001
Banned
with how old the code is it might as well be remade honestly, who knows if they still had the source code on hand.
and they said faithfully recreated for Xbox One/SX, so I could definitely see them just carefully reverse engineering the game. similarly to how Square Enix had to reverse engineer Kingdom Hearts due to the missing source code
SegaSnatcher
Member
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I would buy a Series S/X just for this.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That's what they say on the announcement article at least.
- A timeless stealth shooter faithfully recreated for new consoles.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
What was that quote from that Microsoft dude? ‘We want more people to be able to play, not less’ or something like that?
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
I agree as it's dated in so many ways.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Ive always been a PC gamer as main platform, which is also why I believe I didn't find goldeneye special
Chukhopops
Member
It’s one of those « you had to be there » games, for me it’s part of the Holy Trinity of couch multiplayer games I played for actual years with my friends back in the days.
The game also has a solid SP especially if you try to do all the speedrun challenges. I’m sure it will look horrible for people who will try it today but for me it was one of the two absolute peak eras of gaming (the other being WoW vanilla).
Eddie-Griffin
Banned
Not if you were already gaming on PC. that was a console thing, mostly N64, and mostly in the US and UK.
yeah that's generally the opinion of those who were primarily in the PC ecosystem and not really touching consoles much if at all. Still for the time it was a good game even though it was lacking in some areas, and it was one of the best N64 games at the time, almost overtaking Mario and brought more older teens and adults to the N64, in the US and UK at least.
qwertz12345
Banned
Couldn't think of anywhere else where I could post this... And not sure if it's been mentioned already... But this (month old) article on the making of Goldeneye is pretty cool.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2...4-n64-goldeneye-007-rare-james-bond-making-of
Written by someone who's one of the very best in the business.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2...4-n64-goldeneye-007-rare-james-bond-making-of
Written by someone who's one of the very best in the business.
Tarin02543
Member
Will the Switch version be the series S/X version but downgraded to 720p or will it be emulated with the NSO emulator?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Switch is the N64 emulated version
Little Chicken
Member
This should've been a proper remake from the ground up launched on Xbox and Switch with online feature parity. Nintendo are really shit sometimes.
6502
Member
Wow. One guy got circa 0.00006% of 0.16cents per cart as his bonus. A fraction of what he would earn if paid the legal minimum wage for the overtime.... No wonder people left.
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