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'GoldenEye: Source' Updated: A Classic, Free Multiplayer Game (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:
GoldenEye: Source received its first update in more than three years this week. It's free to download and it features 25 recreated maps, 10 different multiplayer modes, and redesigned versions of the original game's 28 weapons. It was created using Valve's Source engine, the same set of tools used to create Counter Strike and Half-Life games. So it's a massive step up in both visuals and performance for one of the more drastically dated gaming masterpieces of the last 20 years...
GoldenEye 007, the beloved N64 first-person shooter, has been recreated in high-definition glory by a team of dedicated fans over the course of 10 years...the attention to detail and the amount of effort that went into GoldenEye: Source make it one of the most polished HD remakes of a N64 classic.
With 8 million copies sold, Wikipedia calls it the third best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all-time (although this version doesn't recreate its single-player campaigns). Anyone have fond memories of playing Goldeneye 007?
GoldenEye 007, the beloved N64 first-person shooter, has been recreated in high-definition glory by a team of dedicated fans over the course of 10 years...the attention to detail and the amount of effort that went into GoldenEye: Source make it one of the most polished HD remakes of a N64 classic.
With 8 million copies sold, Wikipedia calls it the third best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all-time (although this version doesn't recreate its single-player campaigns). Anyone have fond memories of playing Goldeneye 007?
I installed it this morning and was very disappointed. On my GTX 970 the game was terribly jerky. I could see through doors. Guns had a lot of glitches, including double shots, firing from the left, and not reloading. Knives simply did not work. It's a shame that after so many years the project is so poor.
Most broken character ever.
I had a friend who always played as Odd Job and I never minded, because his short stature just made headshots easier. Less far too move the cursor.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Viceroy: Is it... legal?
Sith Lord: I will make it legal.
same.
Not to mention you can't read the comments by default you have to move the sliders or you only get the "messages they want you to read" at Slashdot.
Assholes.
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amimojo is sooo triggered right now you guys
Definitely this site is FBI.
Strange. It was always GeoTrust now it is Let's Encrypt. They have a broader scope. I also have noticed other connections to different CA authorities on Slashdot lately like symcd.com
This site is trashed now. GoldenEye from Nintendo? SeriouslY?
the game being shit, as were most games for the N64. It was all downhill after Mario64. I guess it (along with the terrible Zelda games) had wide appeal among pre-teens and those still wearing Underoos who hadn't yet played a 3D multiplayer game on the PC, but for everyone else the 4 player quad-screen, thumb stick aiming, blurry textures, and sluggish frame rate were a complete joke.
i'am not installing Steam, this Goldeneye is just bait.
Whenever I had a friend play Odd Job, I went as Jaws. Yeah I was a bigger target, but half the shots were in to my legs, so things balanced out.
The name is a little bit misleading (Golden Eye: Source), while the game is 'free as in beer' there is no source whatsoever and it is not libre at all. It also only runs on windows, with a comment in the FAQ saying that they want to port it to a SDK supporting osx/linux but 'they don't have enough resources' to do so.
When we played no one was allowed to play as oddjob. Just like in college when me and the roommates would play tiger woods golf on my 360 no one was allowed to play as tiger. Evens things out.
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Proximity mines in the bathroom and booby trapping the vents (for anyone who spawned up there) was always fun.
Come one GoldenEye sucked, sure it was maybe the best console shooter out there but the experience was awful compared to shooters on the PC at that time. The game play was slow, the movement ponderous.
Anyone who had played a BUILD engine game on PC would have found GoldenEye virtually unplayable.
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Not meaning to troll, but i tried to play Goldeneye back in its day and again recently, and i can't just understand why it is so revered. It is because it was one of the first decent FPS for consoles?
My main peeve is that it always felt so slow. Remember, this came out the same year that Quake II was released.
Coincidentally my girlfriend's nickname is Odd Job for that very reason. She can blow me while she's standing up.
It's certainly "odd", hence the nickname I gave her.
Thanks, I'm actually honoured to be well known and popular enough on Slashdot to get my own personal trolls.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
It turns out that the only thing fully made use of the power of the GPU in the N64 was the spinning N at the start of the games. The main CPU loaded up the GPU with some data and then went to sleep for a few seconds while the GPU did all the work. The 3d libraries did make some use of the chip but most of the work was all done in the MIPS CPU.
I wonder if the GPU wasn't used as result of programmers not having any idea how to use it or if using it would make games impossible to move to other platforms.
Odd jobs can't outrun proximity mines.
Wow, you guys are a bunch of little kids.
Nobody can outrun remote mines if you know the quick-detonation trick. Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! You get the timing right very quickly after the first couple of deaths, and then you're an unstoppable explosion-throwing machine. To the point that most of my friends would rather play Power Weapons against me. Even though I always remember which doors/windows/surfaces the bullets go through and which ones they don't... and even though I actively track everyone's position by watching their screens. Simultaneously.
I don't particularly care if you're Oddjob or not. I know every weapon and armor spawn and timing with every combination of weapons. I know every blind corner and every defensible camping spot. I use control scheme 1.3. I will kill you repeatedly until you curse my name. Wear brown pants, especially if we face off in the Library.
Yes because GoldenEye Source is run by FBI, it's malware designed to steal private keys
Nobody can outrun remote mines if you know the quick-detonation trick. Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! You get the timing right very quickly after the first couple of deaths, and then you're an unstoppable explosion-throwing machine. To the point that most of my friends would rather play Power Weapons against me. Even though I always remember which doors/windows/surfaces the bullets go through and which ones they don't... and even though I actively track everyone's position by watching their screens. Simultaneously.
I don't particularly care if you're Oddjob or not. I know every weapon and armor spawn and timing with every combination of weapons. I know every blind corner and every defensible camping spot. I use control scheme 1.3. I will kill you repeatedly until you curse my name. Wear brown pants, especially if we face off in the Library.
I read this in Vizzini's voice. But have you developed an immunity to iocane powder?
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