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RARE's magnum OPUS. No debate. https://twitter.com/pr0spector88/status/483814625964589056 Perfect Dark was insanely ahead of its time when it released on the N64. Utilizing the memory pak expansion, it had fully voiced dialogue, a loving ton of missions (way more than Goldeneye) alternate fire weapon modes, an insanely deep combat simulator (which could enable you to add up to loving 8 bots to a single game, stacked on top of FOUR local players) Of course, this was laggy as gently caress, but hell, you could do it. This was the era when having reloading animations onscreen was bonkers and every single weapon had a unique reloading animation. quote:Technically, it is one of the most advanced games developed for the Nintendo 64, with an optional high resolution graphics mode, widescreen support, and Dolby Surround Sound. The number and variety of simulant bots was astonishing. The statistics the game kept track of was mind blowing. poo poo like rounds fired per gun, accuracy, kills, melee kills, everything u could ever want and more. It had a loving insanely good Co-op mode and an even cooler and unmatched Counter-Co-op mode where your buddy or you could take control of one of the NPCs in the level and try to stop the main player from finishing it. You had suicide pills to force a respawn if the main character got too far ahead of you. Perfect Dark made Goldeneye look like dogshit. It had a lot of the same kinds of features, like disarming if you shot a guy's hand that was holding a gun. Enemies would run for new guns if they dropped theirs to reclaim some power. It had almost all the best Goldeneye maps, including Facility. You could completely customize your avatar and character, as well as the bot characters and make monsters like Dark Sims who would open doors backwards, with the shortest character's body and a normal sized human head to make them terrifyingly deadly. There were 18 different bot types you can utilize, and some of them were just gimmicky. Meatsims had essentially anti-auto-aim. You could issue commands to the bots if they were on your team. And you could have like, eight teams in a single game. Gimmicky stuff like having simulants who only pursue players that just killed them, bots who only collect weapons and don't kill anyone, bots who only pursue the highest scoring player, etc. The number of weapons was off the hook. Including a submachine gun that you could throw as a stationary turret that kept track of how much ammo it had when you threw it down. Fly-By-Wire rocket launchers let you guide your missiles exactly where you wanted, something I literally haven't seen outside of one of the later batman games with the batarang. N-Bombs were insane and maybe bugged in the sense that the dizzy-damage effect persisted through death. The gametypes were refreshing and just different enough to be really interesting. An early version of Halos Juggernaut, a varied King of the Hill, and Hacker Central which was essentially a kind of central bomb objective game type. RARE never made another game nearly as deep, good and insanely awesome as Perfect Dark 64. Microsoft bought Rare out shortly after the Xbox came out and they languished. You could argue Banjo Kazooie perfected 3D platforming in that generation of games. quote:Ghost in the Shell was a major influence on the character, setting and plot. The name of the in-game company "dataDyne" was inspired by Yoyodyne from The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Another significant influence on the game's locations was the work of author Philip K. Dick. Hollis explained that he and designer David Doak "picked a range of locations we thought would be impressive and architectural, on the model of GoldenEye but sci-fi dystopias... The settings came first; the plot was then constructed by Dave to sew them together". Perfect Dark suffered on the n64 because it literally pushed the system to its absolute limits. You can see this if you load up a decent sized multiplayer map and push maximum bots. The fact that you could even play with bots was ridiculous. It was ahead of its time, and it is still one of my absolute favorite games I ever played. I played a gently caress ton of it when I was in middle school early elementary school with my best friend at the time, and I still have my gamepak with boxing tape over the back and my name written on it to distinguish it from his copy. I understand a lot of the developers that worked on Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 64 moved on to make a couple TimeSplitter games. Those were also very loving excellent, but even with the level editor and map generation, and zombie modes, it couldn't compete with Halo after it released. My absolute favorite memories of Perfect Dark was playing with my buddy on Facility against a Darksim we made we called "little evil", as he had the body of an alien and joanna's head (to make headshots more difficult) and his pursuit was relentless and his aim was perfect. We were hiding out in the back of the Facility map where (in goldeneye, it turned into the labs right after the two split off rooms with the generators) I was hiding and my buddy was coming, with the darksim in fast pursuit, and I opened the slowly sliding door and as I did, he yelled as a crossbow bolt splintered his characters head and killed him. I switched my Super Dragon to grenade launcher mode and unleashed a volley into the corridor and killed the darksim, for now. Skedar tech and the Alien weapons were loving sick. Switching the Callisto to high impact rounds would over penetrate doors and allow you to get insane kill streaks. Beating the final level required a perfect and precise use of the falcon pistol, where I trained my trigger finger to unleash a whole clip into a skedar within a couple seconds to kill it. I will fight anyone who claims that Halo 4's Forerunner guns aren't inspired by Perfect Dark's alien gun tech. gently caress, disguises and other tech in the game was just insanely good, even if it wasn't necessarily ground breaking. When they released the xbox 360 arcade update to it, I never spent 10 dollars faster in my entire life.
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I agree, OP.
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Oct 22, 2016 11:43
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It owns
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Oct 22, 2016 12:12
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The matrix had just come out and the multiplayer map with the elevator, running out double fisting SMgs and unloading on EasySims
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Oct 22, 2016 12:18
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I was always more of a Timesplitters guy OP but I appreciate the effort. You have my 5's.
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Oct 22, 2016 13:57
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Oct 22, 2016 17:17
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Oh yeah the X-ray gun that auto targeted and shot through all the walls in a level. The farsight. Lol
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Oct 22, 2016 17:25
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Proximity pinball was heaps of fun.
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Oct 22, 2016 17:47
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A great game. I bought the HD remaster, and it's great at 1080p and very faithful to the N64 game. What are your thoughts on the HD version, OP?
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Oct 22, 2016 22:52
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It's wicked. Modern controls and way high resolution textures. And the engine can handle bot gently caress fests. But its pretty hard to play on a console that had reach at the time.
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Oct 22, 2016 22:54
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:RARE's magnum OPUS. No debate. 
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Oct 22, 2016 22:55
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:Oh yeah the X-ray gun that auto targeted and shot through all the walls in a level. The farsight. Lol they put it in the game to stop camping lol
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Oct 22, 2016 23:38
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I like that it's an alt fire mode. You can just over penetrate walls in normal mode too I think. I still like the Callisto orb reload animation.
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Oct 23, 2016 22:03
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i love it too. all n-bomb matches ftw
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Oct 26, 2016 02:04
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this was about the coolest thing I'd ever seen when I played Perfect Dark for the first time and heck, I'm not sure anything has ever matched it
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The second coolest thing about this game is that you didnt need the memory expansion to play the multiplayer
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