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Rare: Perfect Dark "sister title", Velvet Dark, planned for Nintendo 64

daTRUballin

Member
Like Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero went through development hell across at least four radically different platforms. I don't think anything could have saved it from mediocrity.

Staying on one platform (the Gamecube) could've saved it from mediocrity. I wonder how the Gamecube version was like? Was it any better than the final version?
 
^ PDZ infected in 2015 will be awesome to play , 10 years later with a healthy community :D I'm ready


Whoa D:
Shame it got cancelled , after perfect dark released I was obsessed with the world and characters

:(
 
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Im fucking loving that trenchcoat. Gives it a lot of class to the character design.
 

nkarafo

Member
Oh they definitely did an amazing job with what they had to work with, I just still thought it controlled way too poorly to be any fun. Again this is just my personal experience, I have friends that loved it.
Did you try all control schemes? I didn't like the default controls either so i was using the "solitaire" scheme which was similar to Turok and was holding the controller using the D Pad to move and the analog to look around, much like a Keayboard + Mouse. This way it was pretty great actually, almost like todays shooters.

Btw, you can even setup a real dual analog scheme exactly like a modern shooter using either two N64 controllers on the console or use an emulator and a modern dual analog controller. Its like RARE knew what the future standard for FPS controls would be but there wasn't a dual analog controller for the N64 to use them. Imagine if there was, Goldeneye would have been the game to set the standard way before Halo (or whatever) since the controller scheme was right there in the options.
 

AYF 001

Member
That sounds incredible. PD is one of my favorite games of all time, and to think they're could've been more... Unfortunately, as quite a few people already pointed out, that the N64 was already at the end of its life cycle so even if MS didn't buy them it still would've had to transition. Not to mention how the control scheme would've held up if they kept their original layout, only to compete with Halo only a few months later? It might be considered an overlooked gem, but ultimately PD1 released at the best possible time it could, and anything else after would've been downhill.
 

Coreda

Member
A true Perfect Dark sequel with multiplayer that never made it. Damn you powers that be.

GoldenEye and Perfect Dark were my multiplayer cocaine. Most prefer the former, but the latter is definitely my favourite. So much content, and a huge technical accomplishment on the N64 (even if it often pushed things too far). Getting a second Perfect Dark on the N64 would have been too good to be true.

The weapons were the fun as hell, and the UI spot on for switching between them, among other nice design choices. The variety and number of gameplay options hooked me right in. I miss transforming laptop gun sentries and dropping weapons as proximity mines when the ammo runs out. Bring back the creativity in FPSes.
 

Easy_D

never left the stone age
Why was this not a thing on the Gamecube? Could've been a killer launch title. Love the design on the protag, trenchcoats aren't utilized enough in videogames.
 
Was planned. Damn. I was hoping that hell had frozen over and a new Rare game was coming to the N64. Everything is a disappointment now.
 

Kazer

Member
Wow, I never knew about this. Too bad they didn't end up making it. My friends played the crap out of PD back in the day.
 
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