jezhumphrey75
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just play goldeneye source its amazing.No PC release? Oh well, I'll continue to play the leaked, cancelled XBLA remaster via emulator.
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Goldeneye Remastered Coming soon to Xbox / Game Pass - Incl. Achievements, 4K Resolution etc
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GnomeChimpsky
Member
That makes no sense whatsoever. Man what a bizarre release this is...
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
If that's the case, why would MS settle for terms where the Xbox version doesn't even have online multiplayer? At that point I would tell Nintendo to go kick rocks. Unless MS thinks by doing this, they can sweeten their way into getting GamePass on Switch or Nintendo as some Azure client in the future, and they don't want to burn that bridge.
But then the fact this is coming at all would say that Nintendo had a need to bring it about and if they were responsible for the 360 version's cancellation, couldn't they have just...allowed that version to be used in this instance? If it needed more development, just throw the resources at it. And again why no online multiplayer for the Xbox version?
Still feels quite half-assed honestly.
It's a bare minimum in-between solution, IMO. If Nintendo were the reason the 360 version was canned, why couldn't they just not ease up and let that version release again in this case? Is it because extra work would've been needed to get it running natively on the Switch, and a Switch version was a requirement?
There's still not much a way to me why online multiplayer isn't supported with the Xbox versions, either.
01011001
Banned
or you just play the sensible settings that use the dpad for movement... which is functionally almost identical to modern dual analog controls
Dee Dah Dave
Member
So basically it’s Nintendo not letting us have nice things.
Screw those guys
Screw those guys
nkarafo
Member
Jesus....Eh, sort of the "better version". It's the N64 game, but in a heavily hacked emulation shell with widescreen hacks. (They couldn't for example fix the font display since those are 2D elements.) And no online, even though that would have to be that weird me-host-you-tethered online play mode that emulators use.
It is not the nice remastered edition that Microsoft was originally planning for Xbox 360.
N64 left, 360 version right
You can already emulate the game on PJ64 at 60fps/widescreen and use a 360 controller for dual analog (the original game did support TRUE dual analog controls).
This is just a convenience package so you won't have to do it yourself?
You can do that too, yes. That's how i originally played the game.
Oh boy, another one....
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Hari Seldon
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In 97 I was playing Duke 3D with custom modded maps against my friends using a modem, no split screen nonsense (split screen on 1997 TVs was TERRIBLE lol). But you are right in that I was thinking of Half Life when I posted this, but that was 98 not 97. Half Life was a generational leap easily, especially in multiplayer.
01011001
Banned
Eh, sort of the "better version". It's the N64 game, but in a heavily hacked emulation shell with widescreen hacks. (They couldn't for example fix the font display since those are 2D elements.) And no online, even though that would have to be that weird me-host-you-tethered online play mode that emulators use.
It is not the nice remastered edition that Microsoft was originally planning for Xbox 360.
N64 left, 360 version right
theory time:
what if that 360 port will come out either at a later date or simultaneously but isn't included in Rare Replay and is announced later because of a marketing agreement with Nintendo...
maybe Nintendo didn't want to look like they get the shitty N64 version so Microsoft agreed to also release a direct port of the N64 version first and then launch the enhanced version later
BackBackPunch
Member
No, those are shitty, too
Trust me, I had many, many hours logged into Goldeneye on my N64. It's not going to stop me from saying it's a shit game, though.
nkarafo
Member
Half-Life was great in some respects but terrible in some others.
After playing Goldeneye, some regressions where obvious to me. I remember feeling disappointed how this new, "next generation", state of the art, PC FPS doesn't even have Goldeneye's system where you can shoot the enemies on different parts of the body for different results and damage. No headshots, no cool wound animations, etc.
Nobody is stopping you.
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CamHostage
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theory time:
what if that 360 port will come out either at a later date or simultaneously but isn't included in Rare Replay and is announced later because of a marketing agreement with Nintendo...
maybe Nintendo didn't want to look like they get the shitty N64 version so Microsoft agreed to also release a direct port of the N64 version first and then launch the enhanced version later
Theory extra time:
What if that 360 port is the new Xbox version, but because of whatever deal Nintendo made, Microsoft had to remove the option to turn on the Xbox 360 textures/audio (that version also never had online multiplayer, so no difference there) and so it's that same 360 game in play but with only N64 graphics to look at...
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0neAnd0nly
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This is cool, but no online play for Xbox is a serious nut punch.
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Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I can't wait to hear the xbox fanboy narratives about how Halo Infinite doesn't need split screen co-op and Goldeneye only needs split screen co-op. haha
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
It’ll be on PC too.
Gamezone
Gold Member
No PC release at all, at this time. Only available on Xbox.
That's very unlike Microsoft to ignore a new release on PC.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I think it's because this is being released as a part of the already-out Rare Replay package, which does not have a PC release.
If that comes to PC, this will too.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Finally get to see what all the fucking fuss was about…
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
This is part of Rare Replay? Damn, I actually have that digitally - but no Xbox to play it on lol.
Hopefully the bring Rare Replay to PC.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Why would people want this to be remade? Do you realize how stupid the very idea is? This is a licensed game from 1997, carrying one of the most valuable licenses in the world. The movie in 25 years old and not on anyone's mind in the slightest. Might as well ask to remake the movie while you're there, the chances and the incentives to do that are pretty much the same.
The point of the Goldeneye game is that it's a classic from many people's childhood, and a groundbreaking game for its time.
People clamored for a rerelease... well, here it is.
Anxious to see everyone's reaction to the game today. I sucked big time at Goldeneye in the short time I spent on it. I may give it another chance.
The point of the Goldeneye game is that it's a classic from many people's childhood, and a groundbreaking game for its time.
People clamored for a rerelease... well, here it is.
Anxious to see everyone's reaction to the game today. I sucked big time at Goldeneye in the short time I spent on it. I may give it another chance.
March Climber
Member
If you've played Perfect Dark Remastered on Xbox you should have a general idea of what to expect.
RAIDEN1
Member
Who knew that this would be the first James Bond game, in years, (to be able to play on current consoles..) and that the last great Bond game was in 2011.....will the next one coming up be better than Bloodstone (which I must admit I have never played..but heard good things about it..)
March Climber
Member
The level design and mission design of Goldeneye is one of the best of any first person game aside from something like the original Doom and Doom 2. The aiming system however, won't be for everyone. Doom aged better because of that one difference.
93xfan
Banned
Nintendo doesn’t care about selling a game. They want you to feel you have to subscribe to their shitty expensive pack for $50 a year.
{insert code here}
Member
Fuh. They starting to make it difficult to keep ignoring PC Gamepass.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Yeah not very excited for this at all. I loved Goldeneye when it came out for the N64, but I think the only thing it has going for it is nostalgia.
93xfan
Banned
Fuck Nintendo. Bunch of assholes that charge $60 for a straight 720p Pikmin port.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
They obviously care to some extent, tho I get what you mean since this is coming as part of of their emulator online pack or whatever it's called.
Alo seems like Nintendo are to blame that Xbox isn't getting the superior 360 remake version; almost guarantee Nintendo would've required a port to Switch or no dice. So Xbox gamers are basically being held ransom and Microsoft is just totally cool about it.
If Nintendo's actually cock-blocking the 360 version from being released and therein also preventing the Xbox version of this remaster from having online multiplayer (couldn't MS just use online MP code from the Perfect Dark game and put it in their version of this remaster, if legally allowed?), then they absolutely deserve to be called out for being blatantly anti-consumer.
Like, that would be an open-and-shut case, but some people out here are more about BS optics than actually being honest I suppose
It's funny that Sony is made out to be an anti-consumer boogeyman by certain folks, yet Nintendo has a longer history of being outright anti-competitive at times (draconian NES/Famicom 3P licensing practices, anti-trust lawsuit they lost in the US, super-high MSRP prices for 1P games several years later, people who had Wii U 1P games having to re-buy every single one for the Switch if they wanted to play them again, no upgrade paths, etc.) and never get called out for it, especially on places like ResetERA.
Guess it's because of "muh childhood feelz" and nostalgia glasses or stuff like that.
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DaGwaphics
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If Nintendo's actually cock-blocking the 360 version from being released and therein also preventing the Xbox version of this remaster from having online multiplayer (couldn't MS just use online MP code from the Perfect Dark game and put it in their version of this remaster, if legally allowed?), then they absolutely deserve to be called out for being blatantly anti-consumer.
Like, that would be an open-and-shut case, but some people out here are more about BS optics than actually being honest I suppose
It's Nintendo's game, the fact they came to an agreement to allow it on Xbox at all is something. I'm sure this was something MS was trying to get done at the time the 360 version was made but couldn't (otherwise why were they making it at all). That's progress at least.
Basically everyone I've ever heard talk about gaming gives Nintendo a hard time about their pricing policies and the BS about purchases being linked to a console vs. a user account. Nintendo fans do ultimately acquiesce, but the complaining is still there. Case in point the hubbub about the "limited" release of that Mario collection and so on.
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ComputerBlue
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Hell fucking no, the original soundtrack to perfect as is, to orchestrate it would kill its charm and ruin half the songs since they’re very synth and electronic heavy.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Don’t overthink it bud.
I bought my Switch Oled brand new a few months after launch for £244 and bought Splatoon 3 digitally today for £35.
They’re currently much more price conscious than Sony right now, in the UK at least, so right now they get brownie points from me. When they start being cuntos again I’ll shift more time/money to Xbox or PS (whichever is less cunty at the time).
And right now Sony are acting in an anti consumer way, so right now that’s the sentiment.
Shits_McGiggles
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I like how Xbox was willing to do quite a bit for Nintendo, but Nintendo just gives them a bag of stale crumbs that Xbox can’t even do anything with.
onnextflix5
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Lol What a cock up by ms, they should have told Nintendo to fuck off.
Heimdall_Xtreme
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Achievement unlocked. shoot Natalya or Xenia in the butt.
Put a like, if you ever got to do it. xD
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nkarafo
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Or the uncompressed music that was originally made, like the one you posted.
SenkiDala
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ThatOneGrunt
Member
Never been good? My friends and played this game constantly. I replayed the campaign over and over again trying to be beat it as fast as I can. The amount of hours playing Bunker with just proxy mines.... It may not hold up to newer generations but to say that it was NEVER good? that's BS.
I mean it’s subjective. I was a little late to the party having never been into Nintendo, so I played it for the first time a couple of years after it’s release, and was initially excited given magizines had raved about it so much (also first time playing an n64), and I thought it was dated and fairly clunky then, and despised the n64 controller. Don’t get me wrong it was an ok game, but I’d had more fun and played more impressive games at the time.
Given this isn’t a ground up remake but little more than a 60fps up-res it will I expect hold up very poorly by many gamers modern standards, except for those wearing exceptionally strong nostalgia lenses.
I’m not really sure who it’s being made for, those with such nostalgia for it will be my age, which is 40. I’m very lucky in that my wife doesn’t mind me playing a ton of games, helped by us not having kids. But very few of my friends my age are in that position, where gaming is a rarity for the vast majority of them. I’d argue this is even more niche and will feel even more dated than the new shemnue.
I guess it can’t have been much work tho I suppose. Aside from a lot of painful hours back and forth with lawyers sorting out the rights.
onnextflix5
Member
Lol no it’s not, both Nintendo and Microsoft have equal rights to the game, both need each other’s blessings to release the game, ms got the short hand of the stick, because they are dumb and clueless.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Switch online will still be splitscreen, so screenwatching lives on lol
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I can hear the music and silenced pistol shots as I type this. Bring it on.
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