Platform: Nintendo 64
Absurdly Specific Genre: Movie Tie-In Game That Doesn't Suck (Maybe the rarest genre out there)
Difficulty: 5
Beaten: No, though I won my fair share of multiplayer matches.
Though the list thus far doesn't look it, it will eventually be dominated by games known for their single player experiences. This is not that game. Though the game does a pretty good job of giving the player a runthrough of the James Bond movie that it shares its name with, it is cherished for being a wholly multiplayer experience. I cannot count the numbe of times that my friends and I packed around a TV and played this game.
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| Usually on a TV with a screen not much bigger than this image |
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| There's no way to beat prox mine spawn campers, though. Screw those guys. |
Other games of note: Perfect Dark was actually set to appear on this list, itself being a near clone of Goldeneye (but with cooler guns!). Then I replayed it - holy chop, Batman! Any explosions or simulants, and the game would slow its framerate to a dead crawl. That, combined with the fact that the single-player campaign wasn't anywhere near as cool as Goldeneye's, and I think I made the proper choice. If I had to say where Perfect Dark would end up, I'd say somewhere just outside the top 50.
Not high enough. Not nearly high enough. Those multi-player parties (we all had them) were too universally awesome to push this game below #20.
ReplyDeleteYou probably have a point. When I made my initial list, I assigned a number (one through twenty) for a basic rating, just as a way of compartmentalizing the many games I was looking through. Based on the merely decent single-player (though that dam dive was super-sweet), and the fact that the gameplay didn't really age particularly well, I gave Goldeneye a 15.
ReplyDeleteIt probably should be higher, just based on the fact that it's SO nostalgic (the brassy death jingle whenever you got killed in multiplayer is etched into my brain for life). If I were to make a "Top 10 Games I Have Loved the Most At Any Time In My Life" list, this would probably be top 5. Then again, Number Munchers would be on that list, too... and it's nowhere near this one.
It probably could be a couple of spots higher, but I stand by my list (at least until 2013).
I hated this game. Not because it sucked, and not because I historically don't like FPSs, but because I have a shitty sense of direction.
ReplyDeleteI could only beat players who hadn't played before. I was always the best gamer of the bunch, but because I can't memorize maps by sight, guys would just find me and kill me without me ever seeing them. So, multiplayer, for me, was a bust.
My first comment went online gaming became a thing was "Now I can beat all those idiots who just looked at my map all the time."
This game doesn't hold up, by the way. The genre rarely does, but wow, I tried to play this lately and it's clunky as hell.
So yeah, I'm obviously somewhere Matt and Kelly on this one.
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