Interesting- I wonder what their distribution contracts were like if they are bothering to pull things.
As for N64 being the last one I will defend nightfire long and hard on the "felt like bond front" and it even had a nice little multiplayer when it came down to it.
Seeing how 007 Legends turned out... yeah, it might be best if James Bonds with another publisher.
Still I'd hope the franchise lives on. There's a lot of potential in the IP. Personally I'd like an Alpha Protocol type game but for Bond instead of Generic Male Spy #1.
Because God forbid someone DARE to like a game because of the nostalgia factor, right? That's such an objectively terrible reason to like a game, right?I don't see why people put the original Goldeneye up on such a pedestal other than "nostalgia". There's been much better FPS games since then and even if you wanted a contemporary, Perfect Dark came out a few years later on the same system and was thoroughly better. Nowadays you can play Perfect Dark's HD port with all the Goldeneye maps and weapons.
Because God forbid someone DARE to like a game because of the nostalgia factor, right? That's such an objectively terrible reason to like a game, right?
But why does it matter? As long as someone genuinely likes a game, does it matter what the reason is?Well I just find too many people prop up an unexciting game because of "nostalgia". I just get sick of the "nostalgia-tinted spectacles" look on everything.
It could also be because of Reddit and how literally 1/2 of r/gaming posts are "LOL LOOK AT THIS NOSTALGIA".
But why does it matter? As long as someone genuinely likes a game, does it matter what the reason is?
I mean, I can understand your stance when it comes to hipsters who never ever played a game back in the day, and praise it because "it's older and nostalgic, therefore better." Id est, if I said that, since I've never played Goldeneye except for 5 minutes on an emulator, then yeah, that would be me just being a hipster. But if someone genuinely enjoyed it back in the day, and still enjoys it largely for all the great memories they have of it (whether they do this consciously or unconsciously), I don't see why it's a bad thing.
And just because you don't find a game exciting doesn't mean it objectively isn't so. That's your opinion, same as other people have an opinion that it's a great game. Good for you, good for them. Leave it at that. I don't understand why that's so hard for you to fathom when it comes to games you don't care about (as evidenced in many other threads).
I can respect, and to an extent, agree with that.I'll admit I'm a bit biased towards the "nostalgia lovers" because of some of the people I have known and seeing a lot of obnoxious Reddit posts related to that, so just keep that in mind during this post.
Generally I just find nostalgia a kinda silly notion. Like it sometimes lets bad games live beyond what they deserve or a lot of people will block out newer advancements or just plain rage at newer advancements. Like some people will see a newer game in a franchise and just go "THIS IS KILLING MY CHILDHOOD" or some bullshit. Or they'll keep bugging people about an older game that wasn't quite good.
A good example for me personally is Glover. I played the game a lot as a kid but the game was shit. My friend played it as well and we both know it was shit. We don't really view it nostalgically, at least not in a good light. A lot of others though would say "I LOVED GLOVER" or "GLOVER WAS MY CHILDHOOD" and then wank on about how we need a Glover sequel or something.
In the case of Goldeneye, it means a lot of people are just plain ignorant to other Bond entries with the whole "NOTHING BEATS GOLDENEYE IT WAS MY CHILDHOOD" point of view. I'd say Nightfire was better, Agent Under Fire was better, even the Goldeneye reboot was better.
I'm just saying nostalgia is just as bad a bias as any other type and, like any other bias, it leads to a lot of ignorance.