Goldeneye 007

Ah my bad I thought it was after. Must have been thinking of sequel.

Yeah I think that's to compensate for the lack of mouse/keyboard and only having one stick.

My overriding memory of GoldenEye is playing the level on a boat while listening to Foo Fighters' There Is Nothing Left to Lose

Don't no friends shame me

There's quite strong auto-aiming, likely because you only had the one stick so couldn't properly target enemies, but I think you can more or less turn everything off on the Xbox and play it like a conventional shooter.

You could always hold one of the bumpers to aim manually, which was the 1997 equivalent of aiming down sights I suppose.

In a world without Dual Analog sticks the control system was a pretty good attempt to make an FPS work on console.

4 player splitscreen was a blast, but I actually think the SP campaign was really good too.

It was much closer to the story driven linear FPS campaigns that came later, inspired laregly by it and half-life, than to things that came before like doom/quake.

It was also a lot about using cover and the environment, and sniping enemies behind cover, things that didn't really exist in most FPS of the time. Plus the realistic environment, realistic (for the time) enemies, etc.. Needing / Being able to shoot the padlock off the gate was pretty cool at the time.

I mean, it basically set the stage for Halo's combat model of recharging shields and needing to use cover/crouch etc.. plus swapping in and out weapons, which all became mainstays of console shooters because they were the only way to deal with the limitations of the controller.
Plus it being pretty darn cinematic.

I don't think there is anybody left at Rare that worked on Goldeneye? Perhaps one or two of them. The rest of the gang are working on a new TimeSplitters though. And I don't mean that fan project that has been in development for a billion years.

Who made that Royal rumble game? Or maybe it was a mode in one of those games. I remember if a CPU performed a move that ended with a pin, you were stuck in that pin permanently

Fired up the Switch to have a blast on this but you have to have the online membership plus expansion? Really? I'd happily pay a tenner for the game alone but not £30 odd quid.

Am I missing something or does Nintendo really want to bend me over?

Saying I barely turn the bloody thing on these days they can fuck right off at that price.

Fine if you already have the service but its steep for something I'd probably play for a couple of hours before the rose tinted glasses wore off.

Shame they haven't done a standalone option, but nintendo gonna nintendo I guess.

The rights are fucked. It's pretty nearly abandonware at this point.

A few of us on the switch thread got together and do the family offer. Think if you have 5-8? Of you it works out as a tenner for the year give or take. That's one way of doing it if enough of you are thinking about it.

I'm not sure on the cross region. You just get a email invite from whoever sets it up. Be worth you sticking something in the switch stuff thread. There was enough people for two family subs and may be others that want to do the same.

I have to say since I got it I hardly use it, N64 games are rough, I have a pi for all my emulation stuff. So don't think I would do it again unless they added gamecube or if I got another family sub again.

It's been handy for me, as my Sis is thinking getting it for my niece and nephew under the assumption that voice chat was included. I'll let her know it isn't. I reckon it'll get primarily used for Minecraft, Roblox, Fall Guys & Gang Beasts.

Is there any way to do multiplayer though?