• ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Goldeneye 007, N64.

    The hype! The praise! The lack of mouse control!!

    8 million kids using a twiddly joystick, and thinking it was good.

    It’s an awful FPS experience.

    * The facade of cool was actually a frog-mouthed monster.

    23222

    And if this was your childhood fave, I’m jk.

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      5 hours ago

      I remember playing it at a friend’s house and thinking “quake is better”, but the four player local play on one game and TV was an overwhelming factor.

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      9 hours ago

      By FPS standards it’s not great, if you take it more as a “first person action game” ala Metroid Prime, its appeal makes sense. To me it’s mainly impressive that they recreated so many parts of the movie and retold the story so well. But yeah people love it for the multiplayer which only impressed kids who didn’t have PCs at the time.

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      11 hours ago

      And if this was your childhood fave, I’m jk.

      Oh no, you are not getting off that easily!! I am still raging impotently at my phone with a frothing mouth!