edgecrusher said:

ASK_Story said:

edgecrusher said:

I think a Goldeneye remake could be every bit the classic the original was. Just not a Goldeneye remake made by Eurocom, working with likely not even half the budget of a Halo/ Call of Duty/ Crysis title.

I think it will be a GOOD game though.

Do you think Activision provided them with some money for this?

Never mind, I keep seeing Kotick's evil grin, so probably not!

I think they'll try to ride the popularity of the name, and the nostalgia factor, with a budget and a development length not even half of what any other major shooter gets. Its just the nature of 3rd-party Wii support.

I'd love to be wrong though.

EA tried it when they were "Activision" -- I'm playing the game right now.  In EA's version they really did provide nothing but a very polished version of the N64 game and got pelted for it (where they should have received praise).  I believe the same will happen with this Activision version.

aspro said:

edgecrusher said:

ASK_Story said:

edgecrusher said:

I think a Goldeneye remake could be every bit the classic the original was. Just not a Goldeneye remake made by Eurocom, working with likely not even half the budget of a Halo/ Call of Duty/ Crysis title.

I think it will be a GOOD game though.

Do you think Activision provided them with some money for this?

Never mind, I keep seeing Kotick's evil grin, so probably not!

I think they'll try to ride the popularity of the name, and the nostalgia factor, with a budget and a development length not even half of what any other major shooter gets. Its just the nature of 3rd-party Wii support.

I'd love to be wrong though.

EA tried it when they were "Activision" -- I'm playing the game right now.  In EA's version they really did provide nothing but a very polished version of the N64 game and got pelted for it (where they should have received praise).  I believe the same will happen with this Activision version.

I remember Gerstmann (who I've always hated) just totally trashing Rogue Agent like it was the worst shooter ever made. I doubt it was as bad as he said.

I'll be happy if its as good as Perfect Dark Zero, which many people don't like...and don't get me wrong, its not even close to being as good as the original, but I think its a very enjoyable game with some great ideas. So I think this game can do the same. One area where I know Goldeneye will be better than Zero, though, is art direction. Zero's art was horrible, outside of some great environments.

edgecrusher said:

I remember Gerstmann (who I've always hated) just totally trashing Rogue Agent like it was the worst shooter ever made. I doubt it was as bad as he said.

I'll be happy if its as good as Perfect Dark Zero, which many people don't like...and don't get me wrong, its not even close to being as good as the original, but I think its a very enjoyable game with some great ideas. One area where I know Goldeneye will be better than Zero, though, is art direction. Zero's art was horrible, outside of some great environments.

Totally agree with you 100% on Zero's art direction.

They have a hot looking model dressing up as Joanna Dark in the ads but she looks like a Esurance cartoon character in the game!

What the hell?

Especially since the first game was realistic like a futuristic female James Bond.

It was just a weird design decision. I think that killed the game in many ways.

ASK_Story said:

edgecrusher said:

I remember Gerstmann (who I've always hated) just totally trashing Rogue Agent like it was the worst shooter ever made. I doubt it was as bad as he said.

I'll be happy if its as good as Perfect Dark Zero, which many people don't like...and don't get me wrong, its not even close to being as good as the original, but I think its a very enjoyable game with some great ideas. One area where I know Goldeneye will be better than Zero, though, is art direction. Zero's art was horrible, outside of some great environments.

Totally agree with you 100% on Zero's art direction.

They have a hot looking model dressing up as Joanna Dark in the ads but she looks like a Esurance cartoon character in the game!

What the hell?

Especially since the first game was realistic like a futuristic female James Bond.

It was just a weird design decision. I think that killed the game in many ways.

LOL....exactly.

Even the box art, they make it look like its going to be ultra-realistic looking, then the actual in-game art, especially the characters, have a really cheesy, Timesplitter's-esque exaggerated cartoon style look to them. I think that turned off not only many fans of the original, but many Xbox owners, period.

The hilarious thing is, Joanna's model in Perfect Dark Arcade looks more like Zero's Box art than Zero's Joanna model does!!!

They turned her into a fuckin' Spice Girl! Luckily, the game is 1st-person and you don't have to see this nonsense much...probably the only reason I can enjoy its gameplay, which has some good depth to it. The other characters are just as bad too.

It was apparent from the start of the game on Gamecube, though, that Rare had no clue what to do graphically. Remember, it was going to be cel-shaded on Gamecube?

That would have also been a disaster. Like its a Disney feel-good game suddenly...

ASK_Story said:

I don't remember the cel-shaded thing. But that would've been pretty bad.

^^^Up there.

edgecrusher said:

That would have also been a disaster. Like its a Disney feel-good game suddenly...

Like I said, the Esurance girl!

Maybe they were trying to make a family oriented first-person shooter!

Ravenprose said:

You two are crazy. PDZ cell-shaded would have been awesome! Awesome, I say!

This is what you'd like!

She's hot!