GoldenEye - out now on Switch & Xbox

[scottcr]

5 minutes ago, Haribokart said:

 

Put it in 16:9 you madman!

 

More importantly, what are you cooking for dinner Scott?

chicken gyoza - noms.

 

EDIT! OMG I only ever played GE on a 32” 4:3 telly! I had no idea!!!!

[Darren]

That photo really should have been taken in a toilet cubicle.

 

11 minutes ago, SozzlyJoe said:

I used to be an 'invert' but then my brain started to want to invert x too and I had to take drastic measures before the contagion spread too far.

 

I used to invert both (camera controls, seems most natural to me) until i really wanted to play a game that only allowed invert y, so I forced myself to get used to that and have used it ever since, even though it doesn’t really make any sense at all to invert one and not the other. But I can’t get on with non-inverted y at all despite multiple tries.

[Fry Crayola]

19 minutes ago, Darren said:

even though it doesn’t really make any sense at all to invert one and not the other

 

Please don't ever fly a plane.

 

Actually, thinking about it, that's roll not yaw.

 

Anyway, I find the whole invert/non-invert to be like a person's handedness. It is what it is and all this talk about learning and unlearning should be left in the past. 

[Popo]

I am pleased to report that each individual can choose to invert or be a pervert, as suits their taste, in multiplayer. Phew!

[Fierce Poodle]

16 minutes ago, Popo said:

I am pleased to report that each individual can choose to not invert or be a pervert, as suits their taste, in multiplayer. Phew!

FTFY

[teddymeow]

1 hour ago, tonic_water said:

 

Yeah, but who the hell is Dr Rakhmanov?  And what did he do with Dr Doak?

 

He was interviewed on BBC 5 Live earlier, if that helps?

[scottcr]

This is so good… still maintain that the best way to play is with auto aim on and forget about looking up and down.

 

really satisfying when they all get stuck in a doorway and you mow them all down - or clear out a corridor just by moving side to side 

 

It’s how Dr Doak would’ve wanted it

[Tomdominer]

I'm pretty sure the original team used 1.2 Solitaire and auto aim off.

[Fierce Poodle]

What is the default controller setup on Xbox?

[Kryptonian]

17 minutes ago, scottcr said:

still maintain that the best way to play is with auto aim on and forget about looking up and down.

 

Does that use a lot of ammo? On the N64 I was very much a one headshot kinda player, it's not so easy on these versions

[Kryptonian]

2 minutes ago, Fierce Poodle said:

What is the default controller setup on Xbox?

 

3.1 Diamond

[Hitcher]

4 hours ago, Marlowe said:

Real shame the Xbox 360 remaster won't ever see an official release.

Booted it up today to compare them both and while the X360 version is the best looking it lacks the refined controls of the new version.

[Nick R]

On Xbox, I've played through all of Agent so far - I'm going to save Secret and 00A for the next couple of days.

 

Controls and movement:

 

- On analogue stick, the 45 degree running angle you need in order to speed-strafe seems much harder/more finicky to hit than it was on the 360 version of Perfect Dark (which was already less than ideal). This would pretty much cause the whole game to be a write-off for speedrunning, except...

 

- Fortunately, unlike PD XBLA, you can choose to have movement on the D-pad, so you can still reliably hit that diagonal running angle! Hallelujah!

- This might just be a misperception by me, but the game seems to do an odd thing where your running speed increases slightly if you run directly forward for a few seconds. (Although I did a quick test on Dam Agent, and it doesn't hit as high a top speed as the one you get via 45 degree speed-strafing.) The XBLA version of Perfect Dark did that too, but to a much more blatant and significant extent than the new GE. AFAIK neither original N64 game did this, but now the fact that the re-releases of both PD and GE have done it has made me question that memory? Perhaps they always did it, and I never noticed because the speed change was disguised by their framerate issues, and because I ran diagonally more often than I ran directly forwards?

 

- You can now move while aiming (like in TimeSplitters), which does remove some of the risk/reward factor of the original game's manual aiming. But it seems that you can't peek out from/snap back behind corners any more. The absence of that action might be an issue on Enemy Rockets and Licence to Kill (007 difficulty) runs!

 

- Changing the sniper rifle zoom level is done by holding aim, then moving forwards or backwards. If you do this when Aim Lock (the option that fixes the manual aiming reticule to the centre of the screen) is ON, you also move forwards or backwards along with the zoom change. However, if Aim Lock is OFF, you won't move forwards or backwards (but you can still move sideways).

 

- Unfortunately you can't configure a "true" replication of the original N64 1.2 Solitaire control scheme, because you can't set up the XYAB face buttons to act as WASD movement. I wanted to try that, out of curiosity to see how it felt on an Xbox pad!

 

- In the original, you could quickly detonate remote mines with A+B together. In the new game it's done with whatever is set to ACTION and whatever is set to CYCLE WEAPON+. So with the default 3.1 Diamond control scheme, that means either A+Y or A+RB. The built-in 1.1 Honey and 1.2 Solitaire control schemes are set up so that X="Reload&Action", and A=Weapon+, so that you can still detonate them with X+A, which is pretty much the same motion as on N64.

 

- If you go into the 4.1 custom controls, it seems a bit inconsistent about whether you can get the single-button "Reload&Action" option to appear as a mappable option. (It seems to depend on which built-in control scheme you're using as a base for your edits.) This is how I've got mine set up:

 

 

 

Oh look, they kept Nintendo in the end credits:

 

 

 

 

I don't have a lot to say about the game itself except:

 

IT'S STILL GOLDENEYE

 

[Goldenballs]

Trying to play this on the switch, fucking hell I end up running around like a knob firing into the sky. I've tried changing some control settings but just can't get to grips with it. Shame, because I was really looking forward to this. 

[Fierce Poodle]

4 hours ago, Sumire said:

omg, one of the guards you see is young Boris Johnson

Yeah. Makes it extra satisfying when you shoot his fat face off.

[Kryptonian]

2 minutes ago, Goldenballs said:

Trying to play this on the switch, fucking hell I end up running around like a knob firing into the sky. I've tried changing some control settings but just can't get to grips with it. Shame, because I was really looking forward to this. 

 

You need to remap the controls in system settings (you can make a profile just for this game!) and it will be fine, otherwise they are as useful as wheels on a tomato

[Fierce Poodle]

4 minutes ago, Goldenballs said:

Trying to play this on the switch, fucking hell I end up running around like a knob firing into the sky. I've tried changing some control settings but just can't get to grips with it. Shame, because I was really looking forward to this. 

Check out some of the videos posted a little earlier in this thread.

[Goldenballs]

Ah OK I've followed the instructions in that video and created a Goldeneye controller profile. I assume when I've finished playing I go back to controller and reset each joy con? 

[Kryptonian]

1 minute ago, Goldenballs said:

Ah OK I've followed the instructions in that video and created a Goldeneye controller profile. I assume when I've finished playing I go back to controller and reset each joy con? 

 

Yeah!

[Goldenballs]

Cheers gents that's much better. Why tf didn't they create this as an option in the settings!

[Popo]

And completed on Agent. Christ! It’s like the last 25 years never happened. 

[the_debaser]

I forgot how much I hated Natalya. She’s a bullet magnet on 00. 

[Protocol Penguin]

6 hours ago, Popo said:

Try this? You basically need to switch to the Turok control style, but swap the analogue sticks around in the system settings I think, so left stick functions as right and vice-versa. 

Thanks. To be honest, looking at the video, this seems a bit fiddly, and will need resetting back to normal configuration to play other games. Most likely I'll wait for it to be patched(!). Which is admittedly unlikely.

 

(FWIW, I literally have never played a Switch game with JoyCons undocked more than once – I tried it on launch day upon setting up my original Switch, found them too awkward for me to use, and immediately bought a Pro Controller. When my Switch is in handheld mode, I only play non-action, non-response-based games like Pokemon and Animal Crossing, where using fiddly JoyCons won't be an issue.)

[Skull Commander]

I was apprehensive about destroying good memories of playing this on the N64 around 25 years ago, but as soon as the game started all that apprehension disappeared. The guns still feel great to use and I'd forgotten how much the music "slaps" (to use the youngster's parlance). The objectives still feel fresh in the levels, and the game world still feels believable.

 

Between this and HiFi Rush, I've had a blissful evening of gaming. 

[Kryptonian]

16 minutes ago, Protocol Penguin said:

To be honest, looking at the video, this seems a bit fiddly, and will need resetting back to normal configuration to play other games.

 

It's incredibly simple, I was skeptical at first but it's easy, as is switching back.

 

I'm tempted to make more profiles for other games now  

[Majora]

Sorry but I just can't play this anymore. If I'm honest Goldeneye was never one of my favourites on the N64 but I booted it up on Gamepass for a bit of nostalgia and...I got that but it quickly wore off and I was bored with how empty the levels are and how crap everything looks. It looks and feels every inch a game that's over 2 decades old now.

 

I got a bit of a nostalgia hit and enjoyed the music which is still banging. But after a couple of levels I really am done. Happy so many people are still able to enjoy it though.

[bplus]

Someone mentioned a few pages back that they can play this on steamdeck via game pass. Does that mean I can play this on my pc some how?

[footle]

19 minutes ago, Majora said:

Sorry but I just can't play this anymore. If I'm honest Goldeneye was never one of my favourites on the N64 but I booted it up on Gamepass for a bit of nostalgia and...I got that but it quickly wore off and I was bored with how empty the levels are and how crap everything looks. It looks and feels every inch a game that's over 2 decades old now.

 

I got a bit of a nostalgia hit and enjoyed the music which is still banging. But after a couple of levels I really am done. Happy so many people are still able to enjoy it though.

 
oh come on: there is a bad guy, who is two pixels tall on a 4k screen, who is shooting you from across the map and who you couldn’t predict was there without foreknowledge.

 

what isn’t there to love?!

[Singho]

Can you play this on Xbox Game Pass PC or do i need to lug out the Xbox for it?

 

Ta!

[joffocakes]

Ah damn, this is still excellent.