Remembering: Goldeneye 007

[Manji]

i no longer have a nintendo 64 system and i only have one n64 cartridge now(ocarina of time), but i do remember the greatness of Goldeneye during its reign as the best first-person shooter ever for a home console.

never before did a game demand me to perfect it like Goldeneye did. although, multiplayer is where i earned my stars, stripes and scars. i can recall playing Goldeneye with two or more people for about a year, almost everyday.

i had memorized the stages to where i could play looking straight down and know where i was. this helped so nobody could look at my screen in multiplayer and cheat.

ahh.. memories... i was the grandmaster at Goldeneye. believe it.

[marcus]

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I sit sometimes and think to myself what made Goldeneye so great. Graphically, the game wasn't as good as Turok but it was 10x more engaging. The enemy AI was a stinker but it was fun running and around killing everyone. The gadgets weren't all that spectacular and yet I replayed the train mission 20 times just to use the laser watch over and over again.

I still can't put my finger on why Goldeneye was so great. I had a blast playing multiplayer whenever my friends came over (we always played laser or paintball matches) but the game just doesn't feel so great now that I think about it even when I played it nearly 10 years ago. It's kind of a strange feeling...

But yea, Goldeneye rocked. I can't remember why, but it was awesome and stole 3 years of my life unlocking everything and replaying it 1,000 times.

[Manji]

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amen.

[Armored]

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There's this bar I go to that has it on big screen to play, lol. Awesome or what?

[Crimson Knight]

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That game was the bomb. Almost everything in it was done so right. It's too bad we can't get a successor now thanks to EA. ;_;

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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I wish I was interested in FPSs back then. Didn't get a chance to play it. Well, except as a Wal-Mart demo, but that didn't last long enough for me to get a feel for it.

If the game had been released after Banjo-Tooie (my interest in FPSs spawned from that game's FPS minigames), I might've went and got it.

[Vonwert]

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I must have played it a thousand times. I remember going through the single player levels multiple times just killing the enemies for fun.

[ChaosKnightXD]

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Golden Eye is one of my favorite games for the N64. I remember playing it on multiplayer for hours it was so much fun. I hardly ever touched single player though.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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My buddy had it and every time I went over there we'd have 4 player free for alls. Damn prox-mines would always get me.

I always played as Oddjob.

[Manji]

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my character was the siberian special forces guy.

[Crimson Knight]

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I was the biker. Nothing like a secret agent wearing a bike helmet.

[marcus]

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My buddy had it and every time I went over there we'd have 4 player free for alls. Damn prox-mines would always get me.

I always played as Oddjob.

Oddjob vs. Jaws = Greatest multiplayer fight ever (or most one-sided fight). You can hardly hit oddjob and he has free shots to your knees.

[Chrono]

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I never understood why they made Odd Job a midget...did the developers get him confused with Nick Knack from "The Man with the Golden Gun"?

Yeah, Goldeneye is one of my favorite games. It had one of the best single player experiences and the multiplayer is second to none other than Perfect Dark.

I hope Perfect Dark Zero retains the Goldeneye feel, but that's what I have the Time Splitters games for.

[Manji]

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...and the n64 controller seemed perfectly designed for Goldeneye. although the joystick would easily wear out..

[Manyak]

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The best thing to do is spend hours piling remote mines on walls and trying to shoot your buddies without setting the entire map into a firey death-pit.

Man, that was fun, I still have it.