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 007: License to Fail - 007 Legends LP Developed by Eurocom and Published by Activision, 007 Legends was released in 2012 on all platforms (PC, XBOX 360, PS3 and Wii U), the game revolves around several of James Bond's most famous exploits. In all, the game explores 5 different movies (With a 6th added via DLC): Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, License To Kill, Die Another Day and Moonraker (Skyfall is the DLC movie). The Skyfall DLC is no longer accessible because Activision lost the license to sell James Bond games and thus, anyone who didn't get the content (like me) is no longer able to download it. The developers took liberties in the retelling of these stories, some more noticeable than others, as well as modernizing the stories to include more recent technologies or developments. I heavily recommend watching the movie versions of each segment that we will come across. The game received mixed reviews and has settled at 16% and 26% rankings on gamerankings and metacritic, respectively. While it certainly isn't the worst game I've ever played, it doesn't deserve being compared to games like Big Rigs or Ride to Hell. The game was reviewed so poorly that Activision lost the license and it was eventually pulled from Amazon and Steam catalogs and as such is very hard to get a copy for the PC, whereas console copies are easier to come by. But enough with criticism and text, join Chaos Argate and I on our failure adventure! Mission 01: Goldfinger - Auric Enterprises  Auric Goldfinger  Oddjob   Pussy Galore 
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Updates --------------- Mission 02: Goldfinger - Fort Knox  Mission 03: Alpine Valley  Mission 04: Blofeld's Lair  Mission 05: Refinery Part 01  Mission 6: Refinery Part 02  Mission 7: Mountain Roads  Mission 08: Ice Hotel  Mission 9: Ice Lake and Graves' Cargo Plane  Mission 10: Space Port Part 1  Mission 11: Space Port Part Deux  Mission 12: Space Station  Mission 13: Skyfall DLC  Concept Art, Production and Gadget shots and other unlockables --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Goldfinger  On Her Majesty's Secret Service  License to Kill  Die Another Day  Moonraker  Gifs, Fan Art -----------------  Dance of Death by Kangra 
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Oct 10, 2014 20:43
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Sef! posted:Also, holy poo poo, you really can't get the Skyfall DLC anymore? That's amazing. Because without it, the game has no structured ending. I find it would've been really hard to pick between Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger but, no matter what you pick, it would have some major issues. Personally, I'd really like the see a Dr. No game. I never played From Russian With Love, maybe I'll get it someday... As for Fort Knox and later levels, I don't mind the Call of Duty-ness that much. It's disappointing that they never tried to make anything look unique like the HUD elements. And one (or both) of us is going to get a console version to see if we can get the DLC. Cyra posted:I'm definitely curious enough to follow along, as well as see why the game was so maligned. 
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Oct 10, 2014 21:36
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chitoryu12 posted:I think it's less the "CODification" and more the outright taking specific details from the series. Like the general CODification would be the arcadey fast-paced gameplay with regenerating health, the linear environments packed with enemies, the predominate use of iron sights for accurate aiming, and the limited ability to customize guns in single and multiplayer. What I find more interesting is how you can point out very specific things that are either emulating or outright copying parts of it. It's like they just took the engine and assets and made a lovely licensed FPS from it. Like if someone had made a James Bond total conversion mod for Call of Duty 4, but really badly. This. anilEhilated posted:Now, I know gently caress all about James Bond but CoD-ification is something that'd probably happen if the movies were shot today too. It's a sign of the age. I actually like this game after having played it to completion and the CoD-ified portions of it aren't that big a deal. I think my main gripe is that it lacks any sort of style or unique look that differentiates it from the CoD games. I also appreciate the different things they tried but I wish the execution was better.
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Oct 10, 2014 22:02
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anilEhilated posted:Actually watching the video, it's kinda funny that literally the first name you see when you start the game is "Albert R. Broccoli". Screw 007, there's a superhero name. Hey, respect the man! He helped give us James Bond since Dr. No.
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Oct 10, 2014 22:14
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VolticSurge posted:As someone whose only Bond films are the Dainel Craig ones, Goldfinger , Live and Let Die, and Everyone shits on Die Another Day but Tomorrow Never Dies was worse 
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Oct 10, 2014 22:33
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Die Another Day (my folks had baaad tastes when I was a lad), I'm flying into this blind. Is that bad?
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Cyra posted:there's no way this is true Both are 57% on Rotten Tomatoes. Tomorrow Never Dies had Dr. Kaufman Die Another Day had Mr. Kil Sef! posted:Tomorrow Never Dies is the Batman & Robin of James Bond movies. And it doesn't even have the benefit of Arnold Schwarzenegger acting like a lunatic. I probably wouldn't go that far myself, but compared to other Brosnan movies TND is probably my least favorite.
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Oct 10, 2014 22:52
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Kadorhal posted:As for blowing their budget on getting Judi Dench and Daniel Craig - Bond is actually a sound-alike in this game Yeah, I found that out not too long ago. What surprises me is that they have a sound alike, yet had Daniel Craig voice himself in the other recent James Bond games. 
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Oct 10, 2014 23:57
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Crane Fist posted:The best Bond movie is Goldeneye and I am outta hereeeeeeeeee As if that's even up for debate  Goldeneye is and will always be the best Bond movie. Aces High posted:I haven't seen this movie in a very long time but I swear he used the destruction of the DMZ as a way to flex the might of Icarus seeing as one of the next exchanges between the villain and the Korean general was "the US will send nuclear warheads" "Icarus will swat them like flies out of the sky They actually use Icarus to shoot down ballistic missiles en-route to blow up the satellite. They never try to shoot more than 1 missile, and from opposite directions.
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Oct 11, 2014 03:28
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" so I'm preeeeeetty sure they would've used the death ray for more than just blowing up mines
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Mission 02: Goldfinger - Fort Knox The Evolution of Felix Leiter  Jack Lord One of the best portrayals of Felix Leiter came in the first movie he was featured in, Dr. No. I've never read any of the books, but Wikipedia is quick to point out that Leiter was never part of the original story which makes his inclusion special and even though he doesn't do much in the movie, he still manages to stand out and definitely looks the part for a CIA version of Bond.  Cec Linder  Cec Linder played the version of Felix Leiter in Goldfinger and looks nothing like Jack Lord. Apparently, Jack Lord demanded more screen time and a higher pay which is why he didn't reprise his role. To me, Linder always looked out of place as Felix but I think that of about half the actors who played that character  .Rik Van Nutter  For Thunderball, Felix Leiter was played by Rik Van Nutter. Felix plays a bigger part than previous iterations, directly helping to find the stolen nukes alongside James Bond. He looks the part, except for maybe being 10 years too old. Norman Burton  Felix Leiter was played by Norman Burton in the movie Diamonds are Forever. Burton doesn't look the part at all and his character never seemed to be competent. That and, you know, it's Diamonds are Forever. David Hedison  David Hedison was the first person to play Felix Leiter twice, although not consecutively. He first starred in Live and Let Die and returned for License to Kill. Moore and Hedison were friends, which helped him get the part as they could better work off of eachother. All in all, Hedison's a pretty good Felix Leiter. John Terry  The most forgettable Felix Leiter was played by John Terry in a very brief appearance. I don't have anything to say about this Leiter. Jeffrey Wright  One of the best Leiters, in my opinion, and definitely a great showing in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Now excuse me while I go watch Casino Royale for the umpteenth time.
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Oct 12, 2014 15:14
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Canopus250 posted:Video is set to private. My bad, thought I changed it. Fixed now.
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Oct 12, 2014 15:41
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Overflight posted:So you're setting these plots in the Craig continuity and modern times and yet you make Leiter a white guy again. Real classy, Eurocom. I would've loved to have seen either Jack Lord or Jeffrey Wright's likeness. Demetri Goritsas (Felix in this game) is cool and all but I guess I would've preferred an established Leiter, especially since we don't see him too often. 007 Legends is very inconsistent on who's likeness they get and who's they don't. The next video will be a good example of who they managed to get.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:36
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anilEhilated posted:The most baffling 007 gadget of them all. I don't think I've ever seen that in a game. Would it be my duty to call it out as essential tool for anyone looking to perform black ops? Silenced shotguns in James Bond are dumb simply because why the hell would James Bond ever used a shotgun silently?
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Oct 12, 2014 19:18
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Pennfalath posted:I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but in the Goldfinger novel, Goldfinger lets Bond live after the laser scene because he needs a secretary to help him with the administration of dealing with the mobsters and preparing the Fort Knox attack. Every time I read this all I can think is "007: Middle Management"
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Oct 12, 2014 19:37
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chitoryu12 posted:The Oddjob fight is almost identical to the movie fight in every manner (minus Bond throwing gold bars at him and watching Oddjob smile as they just bounce off harmlessly), as is the struggle with Goldfinger on the plane. The biggest difference in that sequence of events is the bomb defusing; in that one (spoilering because Jobbo said he didn't want to spoil it) Bond doesn't have a loving clue how to defuse a nuclear bomb and Leiter just casually walks up and flips the off switch. Actually, Leiter doesn't defuse the bomb, its some random shmuck
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Oct 13, 2014 00:50
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chitoryu12 posted:The ejector seat sequence in the game was actually pretty cleverly constructed, as it bears a great resemblance to the 1960s film version updated for modern technology: Bond is captured while breaking into Goldfinger's factory and forced to drive himself to his death at gunpoint, ejects the unwanted passenger, and then gets attacked while trying to drive away (in the film it's just a bunch of mooks and I think a trick involving spotlights) which results in him crashing and being captured for real. In the movie Goldfinger, Bond tries to escape by car from Auric's facility grounds but is blocked by a granny at the gate with an MP-40. Bond refuses to add vehicular manslaughter to his bucket list and chooses to instead drive back to the main buildings. While trying to escape Oddjob and co, Bond is TRICKED BY HIS OWN LIGHTS IN A MIRROR THAT WOULD NOT WORK. That series of events is incredibly dumb and I really hate that James Bond was somehow tricked by his own car lights, which totally wouldn't work that way. The reason in the game is exactly the same as the movie. Bond bluffs about knowledge of Operation Grand Slam and Goldfinger believes him. I don't even know why I have spoiler tags. Reader, have you watched Goldfinger before? If not, go watch it, its fun.
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CzarChasm posted:So in the Fort Knox basement when you get ambushed by punchy thug, I recall seeing him briefly before you round the corner to QTE land. Could you have lobbed a grenade first and taken him out, or does he have plot armor? Plot armour, sadly enough. Also, the game loads him in once you hop over the cabinet and not say, as you go down to that floor. Although, now that I think about it, I wonder if you could somehow edit the code to allow you to kill him before you're supposed to. I can just imagine either the game crashing to the desktop or making you box an invisible person or a corpse .
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Oct 15, 2014 20:48
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pengun101 posted:I played this game and it was terrible, and i will say that License To Kill levels are honest to god the worst video game levels i have ever played. the only funnish levels were the Moonraker ones and even those were broken. I'll get to both those levels in time, and you are correct for both. gently caress the factory mission and that lovely rear end level right after it . As for the fights, I'm surprised they didn't have quick-time events that had more to do with the environment you're in since they seem to be deliberately placed in specific locations. Most James Bond fistfights aren't just straight up fights but involve the scenery or a gadget/tool, but that obviously depends on which Bond you look at. You could have QTEs where you have to mash 1 or 2 buttons to stop an attacker from killing you while you deliver a counter-blow right after or maybe pressing buttons to throw scenery objects/items (Maybe some folders in the Fort Knox fight?) or more. And it's not like the mashing ones need to be hard, because gently caress having to do THOSE kinds of QTE multiple times just to pass some arbitrary checkpoint. In a sentence, the melee fights forced upon the player in 007 Legends would be much better if they changed literally anything about them instead of forcing you to follow the simplest of QTEs for over a minute which eliminates all tension the developers tried to invoke.
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chitoryu12 posted:See, I love Goldeneye a lot more because it feels like they were bringing Bond into the modern action age. The Dalton and later Moore films retained baggage dating back to the 1960s, and as much as I love the entire series I can't escape the fact that they spent the 80s feeling like a "sexist, misogynistic dinosaur." Goldeneye took long enough to be made that the Cold War ended, and they made it without any of the baggage that kept the films in the same style for over twenty years. The cinematography, acting, action sequences, everything is completely different. But unlike the Craig films, which went too far with the changes, everything still feels like Bond. This is especially true for The Living Daylights with Dalton. He gets a few dumb one liners that seem out of place and the plot/characters seem way too caricaturized. In License To Kill, Dalton plays a much more brooding and serious Bond and, along with the plot, really brings out a fresh Bond you didn't see with Moore. Hedrigall posted:Hey, what's with all the hate for Tomorrow Never Dies on the first page? That movie is amazing. It has an excellent villain plot: a Murdoch-like media mogul who uses a stealth-boat and GPS hacking(?) to trick China and the UK into starting a war, so he can sell a poo poo ton of newspapers. And he's played by Jonathan Pryce! gently caress I love that movie. Better than Goldeneye, in my opinion. I never seem to enjoy TND as much as DAD or Goldeneye for some reason. TWINE sort of shifts position depending on the tide.  I don't think I hate any JB movies now that I think about it, I just enjoy some much less than others. Diamonds are Forever and For Your Eyes Only are two of the worst movies in the franchise if you ask me.
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Oct 16, 2014 16:12
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm surprised that you didn't like For Your Eyes Only. I actually found it the strongest Moore film and decidedly the least silly. Also probably the least racist... Two words: Bibi Dahl. I love Live and Let Die but gently caress Sheriff Pepper. And I really want to like Man with the Golden Gun but it's ruined by Pepper coming back AND THE loving SLIDE WHISTLE.
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That's actually kind of cool. And seriously, how do you gently caress the most awesome car stunt ever with a slide whistle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCIbhLUUA0
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Concept Art, Production and Gadget shots and background information 007 Legends tries to dish out information about the Bond series in bite-sized portions, and forcing you to replay levels, by collecting items strewn about the levels and by completing secondary objectives and/or trials. In general, the items relating to people will have some connection to them. For instance, Auric Goldfinger's golden revolver or a model of the plane he uses at the end of Goldfinger (the movie), but there are also other items just lying around: Cellphones, dossiers, wallets and usb drives. Generally speaking, the dossiers and USB sticks will contain info regarding the different criminal organisations you're fighting and the cellphones and wallets fill out the different bios you can look at. The info is nice if you know literally nothing about the different characters, wish to refresh your memory or look for little tidbits that the movies may have glossed over or omitted. The game also has trials that are sometimes neat, sometimes total crap. Completing them and generally collecting things unlocks concept art, production shots from the movies or photos of the different gadgets used by Bond, in their respective movies. I've kept them all in their original sizes save a small few in case anyone wants them. I would say it's pretty cool to have unlockable content but you can't unlock anything for your gameplay and, as far as I know, there's cheat codes but they don't do much aside from unlocking some weapons or characters for multiplayer. Forgotten are the days of Paintball mode and DK mode.  Also, Eurocom, was there nothing you could do about the text over the art assets you try to show off? Or even an export function or something? No wonder you guys went under. Goldfinger Auric Enterprises      Concept Art           Production Shots      Gadgets and Props      Wow I'm a little late on putting these up, sorry guys!   
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Oct 16, 2014 21:51
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RIP Richard Kiel
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Oct 16, 2014 23:44
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chitoryu12 posted:As in which one had a shark? Live and Let Die had the famous "slow dip into the shark tank" sequence, and For Your Eyes Only had a shark appear during deep sea diving if I remember. How could you forget THUNDERBALL! With Tom Jones, no less! Also, License to Kill has sharks.
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Oct 17, 2014 00:59
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chitoryu12 posted:I also have no clue how I forgot Leiter getting his leg chomped. I am ashamed. The penalty for your crimes is to watch the entire collection on Blu-Ray with a sweet surround sound system.
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Oct 17, 2014 01:14
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chitoryu12 posted:But I've already watched it all on Blu-Ray! Then how did you forget!
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Oct 17, 2014 01:16
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Junior Jr. posted:Also, I personally never liked the BMW 750iL, I thought there were way better cars than that. I just re-watched TND and seriously, that car looks like it dates from the 70s. And I'm not sure if I find it weirder that Jaws speaks or that he finds himself a "pipi longstockings" girlfriend.
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Oct 17, 2014 04:21
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Junior Jr. posted:
Honestly, Richard Kiel's voice is pretty cool, I just never understood why he speaks at the end of the movie in a VERY pointless scene with a throwaway line. James Bond Jr. never happened. (I've never bothered watching it) I'm more questioning why the man who wants "The perfect human specimen" would pick goldilocks. Jaws was a henchman/bodyguard so he gets a by, blondie does not.
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Oct 17, 2014 04:57
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He was the best actor in Eegah! I'm not even being ironic. (WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!)
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Oct 17, 2014 06:45
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Junior Jr. posted:I'm just saying it didn't suit his character. It suits him a lot more than what Eurocom does to him. He deserved better...
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Oct 17, 2014 16:06
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Expecting the developers to have actually done anything right was one of the biggest mistakes I made when I started playing this game.
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Oct 18, 2014 04:11
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Even though I can't record off my PS3, I really want to know how the Skyfall portion ties things together. But considering all the hub-bub about 007 Legends, I feel like my wrapped copy belongs in a museum. Chaos, get a copy for your wii so I can guilt you into recording stuff for me! 
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Oct 20, 2014 21:12
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Junior Jr. posted:Well speaking as someone who has already played 007 Legends, I can tell you the Skyfall mission is really not worth it...but here goes. Hahahahahahaha, gently caress Eurocom and Activision.
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Oct 21, 2014 01:07
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pengun101 posted:Also where are the hell are North Koreans in the die another day levels. You see them right after Graves' "demonstration"
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Oct 21, 2014 06:00
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Mission 03: Alpine Valley Countess Teresa, played by Diana Rigg, was the love interest of James Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". In the movie, Teresa and Bond cross paths several times which ultimately leads James to meeting with her father Marc-Ange Draco, played by Gabriele Ferzetti. In the film, Bond requires Draco's help to get close to his nemesis, Blofeld  , and in return Bond must marry Teresa to quell her rebellious nature.While Lazenby isn't my favorite Bond, I really like OHMSS and I think the supporting cast really helps the movie. As for the characters in the game, Teresa looks almost exactly like Diana Rigg but isn't voice by her. I guess she's too busy playing... Lady Olenna Tyrell?! Holy poo poo, that's awesome! This level, however, is not.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Are they going to put Daniel Craig in that crazy outfit? Ruffles haven't made it back into fashion yet. Last post on the previous page posted:Mission 03: Alpine Valley Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Junior Jr. posted:One thing that honestly pissed me off is whenever there's a Bond game, there always had to be the Golden Gun. I think the "issue" with the Golden Gun was that it has a great backstory to it. It's the gun that kills in one shot, except that (I guess?) people tend to forget that it was Scaramanga who made that gun so deadly. So he only needed one shot, but how do you translate that into a video game weapon? Obviously you make it a one shot, one kill weapon and give it its own game mode in Goldeneye. It becomes super popular and well-known, so of course other developers try to cash in on previous successes. I honestly don't have a problem with the Golden Gun, I just wish they wouldn't try to convince be that the Golden Gun was anything but a single shot, ergonomic nightmare assembled from a vintage golden cigarette holder.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:20
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FoolyCharged posted:Well, that and he had a cooler car than bond. I mean, it was so retarded just think of all the dorks that burst a blood vessel frothing at the mouth over it. Every time i see JW Pepper, i need all my willpower to stop me from snapping the disc in two. Scaramangas car is cool.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:49
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Junior Jr. posted:As cool as Scaramanga's car was, it boggles my mind how on earth can that plane frame even support that car's weight, and how much more when Scaramanga, Nick Nack, and Goodnight are added to that. To be fair, nick nack and goodnight combined weighed less than scaramanga. And he probably used it all the time with that other girl i cant remember.
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I went to my gun range to shoot some of my old milsurp with a buddy and he had a Sony Xperia. I couldn't help laughing when I saw it.
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