Game Debate #1: Goldeneye

[DefaultGen | 5,481]

33 minutes ago, noiseredux said:

But sub-question - I've never been able to clarify if the Wii game is an actual remake of the single player from the original game, or if it was just like one level remade, or what?

The Wii version is like a COD game with cut scenes, scripted events, regen health, and QTEs. The story isn't even the same. I'm sure it's fine if you want to play one of those on Wii, it's just nothing like Goldeneye 007.

[Silent Hill | 276]

Top 3 games of all-time for me. 

The best movie to game adaptation, phenomenal soundtrack, great level design with objectives and set the bar for home console FPS and local multiplayer. 

Will always be regarded as a classic.

[Hammerfestus | 3,907]

Phenomenal game. To this day, on the rare occasion I have people over, we still bust out some multiplayer goldeneye.  I was always a fan of proximity mines in the facility.  I love the chaos of people randomly getting blown up left and right.  The single player is more meh for me which kept it from a 10/10.  

[mbd39 | 2,034]

I went with 6. I was never a big fan, but I never tried the multiplayer.

 

[Nesmaster | 402]

10 in 97. More like a 4/10 experience by today's standards.

[OptOut | 8,892]

Yeah, for me Goldeneye has ALWAYS been about the single player. Multiplayer was great, don't get me wrong, but I spent probably HUNDREDS of hours as a kid sneaking round the levels, making up my own little missions to do, creeping around following guards to see their entire route, fucking around with the cheats, just going on an all out rampage with invincibility and infinite ammo and just tearing the enemies and environmental objects to shreds...

The amount of fun you could have in that game, even without following the actual missions if you didn't want to, exploring the levels like they were real places, watching guards swatting flies or scratching their arse, then planting a remote mine under their ass and watching them fly through the air!

Nowerdays, I often replay the game, and it remains a fun challenge on the 00 agent setting and unlocking some of the cheats is up there with top gaming challenges. I wouldn't say it's my favourite game of all time, but if I only had one, this MIGHT be it.

 

And yeah, if you can't handle playing with C buttons and a stick, go cry some more, lol!

 

Edited June 13, 2020 by OptOut

[jonebone | 1,307]

7 hours ago, Nesmaster said:

10 in 97. More like a 4/10 experience by today's standards.

My fave game of all time and unstoppable. But I pretty much agree with this. Maybe not a 4 today but closer to 6, just the genre has come too far in terms of controls, AI, options, graphics, etc. Its was and is a great game but nothing I'd want to play other than for a nostalgia kick.

Edited June 13, 2020 by jonebone

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

I went with a 6/10. I had a friend that owned it and the multiplayer mode was fun, but it's not really my type of game.

[Nesmaster | 402]

2 hours ago, jonebone said:

My fave game of all time and unstoppable. But I pretty much agree with this. Maybe not a 4 today but closer to 6, just the genre has come too far in terms of controls, AI, options, graphics, etc. Its was and is a great game but nothing I'd want to play other than for a nostalgia kick.

The thing is, I'd have been all over that XBLA port that never was simply for modern controls, a visual bump and 60 FPS. The N64 one is just not good any more by today's standards. The World is Not Enough is more fun today.

I agree with more like a 6 though, but I'm echoing how 4/10 is written here as "Meh".

[docile tapeworm | 4,206]

me and my friemds lost our shit over this game.

[Dr. Morbis | 2,096]

Awesome game.  This game was so far ahead of it's time that it has a widescreen option and twin stick mode.  Anyone who complains about the controls obviously doesn't know this game well enough to know that you can play this game with two analog sticks (one controller in each hand); and there are multiple options for how you can set up the two stick mode.  Brilliant game that took pretty much everything to another level at the time and is still a blast to play today.

[The Count | 540]

10/10. I still to this day attempt to unlock some of the more challenging cheats.

[JamesRobot | 5,843]

Killer.  Everyone should play it in the context of 1997.  Nothing quite like 4 player split screen death matches on a 19" tube tv in a smoke filled apartment pounding beers with your best buds.  Best game on the 64 hands down.  Proximity mines ftw!

Edited June 13, 2020 by JamesRobot

[guitarzombie | 929]

Fuck proximity mines you cheating prick!

My friend would only want to play Proxy on Complex because he memorized all the spawn locations

[zeppelin03 | 314]

I see a lot of love for the multiplayer but once Perfect Dark came out I didn't see a need for Goldeneye's take.  It's all about the single player now.

[TDIRunner | 2,790]

It was a 9 when it was new and it's a 9 today.  

I feel bad for younger people who only know modern FPS controls.  I can understand why they would have a hard time controlling the game, but that doesn't make it a bad game or take anything away from what the game is.  I see no reason to rate it any lower now than when it was new.  

[JamesRobot | 5,843]

2 hours ago, guitarzombie said:

Fuck proximity mines you cheating prick!

My friend would only want to play Proxy on Complex because he memorized all the spawn locations

I'd grab the mines and then lay em down right where I picked em up.  Ain't nobody grabbing my proximity mines!

[Reed Rothchild | 9,616]

Anyone who can guess the week 2 game can pick the week 3 game (within reason)

[guitarzombie | 929]

4 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:

I'd grab the mines and then lay em down right where I picked em up.  Ain't nobody grabbing my proximity mines!

I was a big fan of Remote Mines.  I love picking up the body armor, putting a mine in its place and when someone goes for the armor... heheheh.  Or just flat out destroying the body armor.

[Tanooki | 4,957]

Yeah probably unpopular, but I put a 7, no reason to hide it.

 

I do really like the game, but even back in the day I felt if you could pull the Bond license off it and look at it for what it it was, it wasn't as flawless and so amazing as it was made out to.  The license really pushed it into that 9-10 center of respect.  I feel it's a good 7 7.5 level game, there are flaws, it's not all that smooth, rough edges I guess perhaps.  I think it was kind of a learning game for them anyway as Perfect Dark eclipsed it in every way.

[themisfit138 | 523]

Easy 10! By far my most played N64 games. Friends and I even had Goldeneye tournaments. Using all the weird match settings too. Slappers only was great using Odd Job or Jaws. 

[RH | 4,999]

On 6/13/2020 at 9:54 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

Anyone who can guess the week 2 game can pick the week 3 game (within reason)

Well with 4 bajillion games to choose from, I guess I'm going to have to go with Paint a Dinosaur!

[Reed Rothchild | 9,616]

Color a Dinosaur, and no

[mbd39 | 2,034]

On 6/13/2020 at 8:54 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

Anyone who can guess the week 2 game can pick the week 3 game (within reason)

Chrono Trigger

 

[Jeevan | 9,006]

didnt realize this was a thing......just gave it a 10, hope my vote counts