Re:An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
by firdak on Saturday August 25, 2018 @10:16AM
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> The thing Goldeneye really brought was massive popularity.
Exactly. I always thought Goldeneye was inferior to contemporary PC shooters, but for many who didn't have a powerful PC at the time, Goldeneye was their first FPS and they probably feel the same way about it as I do about the original Doom.
Re:An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
by crtasm on Saturday August 25, 2018 @10:32AM
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Indeed, I wasn't impressed with the game but that's partly being unused to the controller and mainly being previously spoiled by multiplayer Doom when a friend brought his laptop over and 4 player on my college LAN.
Re:An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
by culot on Saturday August 25, 2018 @01:15PM
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> for many who didn't have a powerful PC at the time,
In the late '90s I think most people did not have a PC at all. They were only just becoming affordable as the millennium hit. Surely console systems were more prevalent.
(More copies of Goldeneye sold in 1998 than Quake sales for 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 combined...almost 2x.)
It also became a benchmark for console shooters, good multiplayer or get out.