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[Karmic Raze]

I’m really looking forward to this. I played the crap out of Goldeneye 007 on N64 back in the day. I still remember trying it out for the first time at a kiosk at Walmart and I was literally blown away.

 

[daTRUballin]

Not trying to bag on Rare at all. Rare has made some great games in the past and they continue to make great games. I'm a big Sea of Thieves fan and have been digging into Rare's history and back catalog over the last couple of years. I wasn't a Nintendo console owner back in the day, so I don't have much history with Rare's back catalog, other than playing a little Goldeneye and Perfect Dark multiplayer on my roomates N64 back in the day. I also really enjoyed Conker: Live and Reloaded multiplayer back in the day.

The Video Game History Hour podcast did a nice deep dive into Perfect Dark and all the drama surrounding the development of the game. Of course when doing a deep dive into Perfect Dark, it's going to involve Rare, Nintendo, Goldeneye and Free Radical.

I recommend you check out this article that Eurogamer did on Perfect Dark's development a couple of years ago if you haven't already.

https://www.eurogamer.net/perfect-dark-the-oral-history-of-an-n64-classic

It goes into great detail about all the problems that went on and the company culture at Rare during those days. Lots of GE/PD team members are interviewed. Some really fascinating and even funny tidbits in there.