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OhGizmo!: Private: The Games We Played - Perfect Dark (N64)

  • Dor6re · 1 year ago
    This and conker's bad fur day are the only reason I keep my n64. I played so much on thoses games that I feel like I'll loose something really important if I sell it.

    I had my stat build up for over 3 years but the unexpected and unforgetable happened. A kid came over with his parents and erased "BY MISTAKE" everything that was on the cartridge. He never played on my 64 since that day.
    -"Martin, can I play on your nintendo ?"
    -"Ho my nintendo.... I think I sold it"

    Young one have no respect for others fun... I miss my game....
  • charles · 1 year ago
    I remember the solo campaign of Perfect Dark fondly, what with Elvis the wacky alien and all. I was taken aback by your appraisal of the multiplayer however, as I don't recall it being much fun. Perhaps you had to have more than two people, but my brother and I felt that none of the levels were near as good as those in Goldeneye, where we would play proximity mines on Complex all day long.
  • Derrick · 1 year ago
    Perfect Dark and Goldeneye were the forerunners to all the FPS you see today. The problem is that there is so much emphasis on graphics and sound that no game since has compared to the hours of fun that Rare provided. I have played Perfect Dark multiplayer for days worth of hours. I remember not having a chance, at first, against the Dark or even Perfect Sims but after playing for so long the tables were turned. The multiplayer was so customizable, what guns you wanted, how many sims, how hard they were etc. Also at around the time of The Matrix movie, the multiplayer had the option of slow-motion and smart slow-mo which turned everyone into Neo. Having played many online multiplayer games (Halo, Rainbow 6, Call of Duty) I give all the credit of my skill to Perfect Dark. Nowadays every grade school kid can jump into a game, grab the biggest gun and without any skill or finesse, kill everyone on the screen, “owned”. I miss the Dostovei and the Cougar Magnum and the skill involved with using them. I also wish that game designers added a tool such as the Farsight to games to be rid of sniper/campers once and for all.
  • Arthur · 1 year ago
    Derrick, I agree. I base all my skills in Call of Duty off of Perfect Dark. That was, indeed, an amazing game.