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GoldenEye 007 is now 20 years old

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Cranster

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The introduction of splitscreen gaming for many was released on August 25th 1997.

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This was the first console FPS game I ever played when I was 9 years old, it's hard to believe it's been this long. I spent countless hours with friends playing this game splitscreen and taking turns playing and messing around in singleplayer missions with cheats enabled. Hopefully soon we get the remastered port for Xbox and the Switch that Rare was forced to shelf 10 years ago when it was planned for the Xbox Live Arcade.
 
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dcb2821

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Me, my brother, and some friends put in so many hours on this game on split screen. We always played Complex with "one hit kill" turned on
 
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Icedburden

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Don't know why it irritates me (not this thread) when I see people make anniversary threads for really stupid reasons. 'It's been 11 years since GTA 3'... ok?
Small issue but it doesn't make any sense.
On topic: never played this game, the slowdown (what I used to call 20 fps) killed all interest in this.
 
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Cranster

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Sillution

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The good old memories of having friends back then all coming over and playing. Definitely the most played N64 game I owned.
 
sleepnaught

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One of the greatest games ever made, period. So many memories of MP with friends. Licensed to Kill with proximity mines and automatics on Facility, so much fun. My best friend and I would hold up in the bathrooms and hold them off with mines and magnum them through the doors. Between that and Perfect Dark, I don't think I'll ever enjoy gaming as much as I did with friends/family on those two.
 
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Mahonay

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Some of my fondest gaming moments I have are the sleepovers with my friends playing 4-player splitscreen GoldenEye until the sun came up. Being an 11 year old during the N64/PS1 era was pretty great.

I'm still good at the game after all these years. A few years ago at PAX East I played some GoldenEye with some friends and other random people in the classic console room. I absolutely decimated everyone. I had to just start letting people kill me because no one else was having fun.
 
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Community Forum

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Was just starting college when this came out. So many fond memories. Best times I've EVER had with any multiplayer game to this day were with buddies and this game. Nowdays I wonder if anything will ever top that experience, probably not, because it came out right at the perfect time when I actually had real-life gaming friends.
 
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D.Lo

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Fuck you father time.

Literally the best multiplayer times I have ever experienced. I was playing a lot of Counter Strike around then too, but college Goldeneye multiplayer was peak fun, never matched again. PD was a bit of a mess IMO, cool features but too many options and bad framerate so everyone lost interest more quickly. Even Halo lan parties which had some of the same feeling couldn't match it, it's just not as accessible or silly fun, stuff like slappers, golden gun mode...

The only game since that was comparable in local multi fun was New Super Mario Wii, for different, much more murderous reasons.

Icedburden said:
Don't know why it irritates me (not this thread) when I see people make anniversary threads for really stupid reasons. 'It's been 11 years since GTA 3'... ok?
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Totally agree.
 
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Mahonay

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sleepnaught said:
One of the greatest games ever made, period. So many memories of MP with friends. Licensed to Kill with proximity mines and automatics on Facility, so much fun. My best friend and I would hold up in the bathrooms and hold them off with mines and magnum them through the doors. Between that and Perfect Dark, I don't think I'll ever enjoy gaming as much as I did with friends/family on those two.
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YES
 
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catpurrcat

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The Switch could surely run this if the 360 XBLA can. No reason for either party to hold back. Time to release it on BOTH the Switch and XB1/360.
 
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KneehighPark

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Just dug out all my retro games and moved em into my apartment, including my N64, Goldeneye, and 5 controllers. Last missing component is an XRGB-mini/Framemeister and I can finally replay this classic gem.
 
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ironmang

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Had a lot of fun with it back then but it's aged horribly even compared to some games only a year or two later. I could still easily play UT, Q3A, R6, and obviously Halo but Goldeneye is unplayable for me now.
 
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Nekketsu Kõha

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Skipped so much school that year to play this. Every available minute we would all get together and play multiplayer, still love those mines. Also managed to beat every challenge and unlock every secret cheat in the game with a friend working together. As I bought the N64 for this game after playing it at demo kiosks as I'm sure many others did it will always be remembered as a true system seller. Didnt even care to play Mario 64.
 
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fin

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I remember this was the first game with "objectives". They even added extra ones to the higher difficulties. Before Goldeneye, it was nothing but finding keys for doors. Such a great time to be gaming.
 
daTRUballin

daTRUballin

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I was actually going to make this thread tomorrow if nobody else had made it. Guess I don't need to now. :p

Great game though. Very influential and revolutionized console first person shooters. It's hard to believe it's 20 years old. I still occasionally play it from time to time. I might play through the single player campaign tomorrow (or tonight) in celebration of the game's anniversary lol.
 
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NeoZeedeater

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fin said:
I remember this was the first game with "objectives". They even added extra ones to the higher difficulties. Before Goldeneye, it was nothing but finding keys for doors. Such a great time to be gaming.
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Nah, PC first-person games like System Shock and Terminator: Future Shock had objectives.

Goldeneye was never "best FPS ever!" but it was cool at the time. I would like to see a remake with improved controls and frame rate like Perfect Dark got.
 
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MrSaturn99

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DK Mode was pretty funny.

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20 years and I still cannot unsee it.
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Still remember my brother coming home with the game and noticing that immediately on the box.

I still cannot believe that passed QA (or whoever checks game boxarts, haha), let alone that people can't see it. It's right there!
 
Porcile

Porcile

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Speedrunning for this game is really interesting. Highly recommend watching Ryan "Goose" White's Goldeneye Speedlore series on Youtube.
 
Porcile

Porcile

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The game is attracting new audiences through speedrunning twenty years later, and it has a hardcore following of really dedicated players. Recently these players discovered a new time saving technique in Aztec for example. I think if you play the game as was intended its going to feel dated but playing the game with a high level skill is completely different. It wouldn't attract such an audience if it was complete shit.
 
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