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Watching your arms float around disjointedly as you run is the best part, or taking 25 sniper shots to kill a guard. I went from playing MW3 one morning to Gold

Watching your arms float around disjointedly as you run is the best part, or taking 25 sniper shots to kill a guard. I went from playing MW3 one morning to Goldeneye in the afternoon and it was mindblowing.

TillE 15y ago
I spent plenty of time playing GoldenEye; it was a good game. But the hyperbole surrounding it on the internet is unbelievable. It was released in August 1997. Even if you only care about the first-person shooter genre, Duke Nukem 3D had already been out for over a year, and it was a much more sophisticated game.
- bradleyland 15y ago
  Sophistication wasn't what made GoldenEye great. I think the four person multi-player and control accessibility are what made GoldenEye such a big hit. There was something very fluid and "easy" about the controls in GoldenEye. Many of my friends that never played FPS made the jump for that game, and we spent countless hours swearing like sailors as we killed each other in the archives.
  - justinhj 15y ago
    I liked it for the fun single player level design mostly. The game engine also paid a lot of attention to details othe fps did not. Different reactions based on where the bullet hits an enemy. Security cameras. Alarms. Stealth sections.
    - rikthevik 15y ago
      I really enjoyed the music and atmosphere. It really made you feel like you were in a James Bond movie. I also enjoyed all the shout-outs to the old movies too - stuff like the Moonraker level.
  - jetti 15y ago
    I agree, it was the multi-player which made it the great game it was. I remember my buddies and I made up a game in the Complex map where one person would take what we dubbed "the house" which was an area you could go up and had a vantage point of several areas while the other person had to try and take the "house". It was a good time.
  - gravitronic 15y ago
    Definitely agree that it was the multiplayer that made it a hit. I had a friend who memorized the respawn pattern for some of the levels in goldeneye. He also memorized paths quick enough from spot to spot to be at the right spot every time you respawned. He'd only have to kill you once. After that, you'd respawn and meet a bullet in the back of your head, respawn, bullet in the head, respawn, bullet in the head, until endgame.
    - timjahn 15y ago
      I didn't memorize the respawn pattern but I knew where all of the respawn spots were, so I'd throw a proximity mine on each one. My friends would be so pissed, they'd respawn and die over and over and over.... ;)
    - earbitscom 15y ago
      My friends and I hung a golf club with cardboard hanging from it across the TV so that you couldn't see past your half of the screen in team mode. Suddenly, recognizing the sounds of particular doors became a valued skill.
  - Aaronontheweb 15y ago
    It was all about trolling your friends with remote trigger mines and proximity mines. Getting access to the tank on the single player level in the arctic air base was precious too.
    - bradleyland 15y ago
      ...and the rage that accompanies being hoist by one's own petard.
  - mweibel 15y ago
    Simply great game and the remake of it on the Wii is not half as good as the original. I remember that I nearly knew every map by heart :) (But I didn't manage to remember the respawn points.. crazy ;))
- trafficlight 15y ago
  I had already been playing Quake for a year by then and Goldeneye was an extremely slow game in comparison. I've never really been impressed with any console FPS since then (actually I really like the first Gears of War).

TillE 15y ago

I spent plenty of time playing GoldenEye; it was a good game. But the hyperbole surrounding it on the internet is unbelievable. It was released in August 1997. Even if you only care about the first-person shooter genre, Duke Nukem 3D had already been out for over a year, and it was a much more sophisticated game.

bradleyland 15y ago
Sophistication wasn't what made GoldenEye great. I think the four person multi-player and control accessibility are what made GoldenEye such a big hit. There was something very fluid and "easy" about the controls in GoldenEye. Many of my friends that never played FPS made the jump for that game, and we spent countless hours swearing like sailors as we killed each other in the archives.
- justinhj 15y ago
  I liked it for the fun single player level design mostly. The game engine also paid a lot of attention to details othe fps did not. Different reactions based on where the bullet hits an enemy. Security cameras. Alarms. Stealth sections.
  - rikthevik 15y ago
    I really enjoyed the music and atmosphere. It really made you feel like you were in a James Bond movie. I also enjoyed all the shout-outs to the old movies too - stuff like the Moonraker level.
- jetti 15y ago
  I agree, it was the multi-player which made it the great game it was. I remember my buddies and I made up a game in the Complex map where one person would take what we dubbed "the house" which was an area you could go up and had a vantage point of several areas while the other person had to try and take the "house". It was a good time.
- gravitronic 15y ago
  Definitely agree that it was the multiplayer that made it a hit. I had a friend who memorized the respawn pattern for some of the levels in goldeneye. He also memorized paths quick enough from spot to spot to be at the right spot every time you respawned. He'd only have to kill you once. After that, you'd respawn and meet a bullet in the back of your head, respawn, bullet in the head, respawn, bullet in the head, until endgame.
  - timjahn 15y ago
    I didn't memorize the respawn pattern but I knew where all of the respawn spots were, so I'd throw a proximity mine on each one. My friends would be so pissed, they'd respawn and die over and over and over.... ;)
  - earbitscom 15y ago
    My friends and I hung a golf club with cardboard hanging from it across the TV so that you couldn't see past your half of the screen in team mode. Suddenly, recognizing the sounds of particular doors became a valued skill.
- Aaronontheweb 15y ago
  It was all about trolling your friends with remote trigger mines and proximity mines. Getting access to the tank on the single player level in the arctic air base was precious too.
  - bradleyland 15y ago
    ...and the rage that accompanies being hoist by one's own petard.
- mweibel 15y ago
  Simply great game and the remake of it on the Wii is not half as good as the original. I remember that I nearly knew every map by heart :) (But I didn't manage to remember the respawn points.. crazy ;))
trafficlight 15y ago
I had already been playing Quake for a year by then and Goldeneye was an extremely slow game in comparison. I've never really been impressed with any console FPS since then (actually I really like the first Gears of War).