Sonic CD was fucking awesome! The time travel system, the level design, the glorious music!
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Sonic CD was a quality game. It simply isn't good enough to stand up to Red, Blue or Yellow.
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I really wanted to ask this. Is there any other defence for Goldeneye other than the fact that it brought FPS to consoles and that it's multiplayer is great. The single player game sucks balls, in my opinion.
Ten hours?! I think I have logged 40+ on one game. Overall, i'd say I have over 100 hours on my PSP. Love that system.
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I've only really played the Resistance game. I was going to play Peace Walker, but never had the time to dedicate to it. Now that it's coming to consoles, I'll just play it there.
My limited amount of playing the PSP is due to a lack of time, not interest.
I keep meaning to ask this: am I the only one who realizes that Goldeneye's multiplayer was not in fact great. It was irreparably broken for several reasons.
1) Fixed order spawn points.
When you get killed in Goldeneye the point as which you respawn has no random element to it. You materialize at the next point on a rotating list. What this means is that any competent player who kills you is going to know exactly where you will respawn, and since many of these spawn points are quite some distance from a decent weapon what you get is chain kills. Getting fatally shot in the Facility or Stack levels in a one on one game and you have essentially lost.
2) Poor map design.
Sorry, Goldeneye does not have good map design. Quake has good map design. Call of Duty has good map design. 007 Nightfire has good map design (or at least, one good map). What Goldeneye has is a bunch of maps that encourage any competitive player to immediately turtle. Stack does an OK job, but almost every other map encourages players to camp out on top of the body armor or the best weapon (usually both) and simply endlessly defend. That's not fun, and certainly isn't good map design.
3) Horrendous balance
I'll say this for the modern FPS, many of them make efforts to to make different weapons viable. A head to head battle in Goldeneye between competent player will always deteriorate into a contest of "who is carrying the best gun". With an exception make for the "mines" and "power weapons" setting (and with knives and slappers being ignored for being shit) there is always one weapon available that outranks the others in every conceivable way, and the person who spawns closest to that weapon has a massive advantage.
Basically to summarize, if you are a competent gamer, and are playing against competent gamers, then Goldeneye is not a fun game. There is a reason why everybody over the age of sixteen played Quake instead. Goldeneye's multiplayer modes are only salvageable if you are willing to impose a bunch of artificial rules (no turtleing, no killing an unarmed player etc) on everybody. A game where the player have to invent their own honor code just to make it playable (with the exception of Pokemon) is not well designed and doesn't deserve one tenth of the credit it gets from people who only remember it from when they were twelve.
1) Fixed order spawn points.
When you get killed in Goldeneye the point as which you respawn has no random element to it. You materialize at the next point on a rotating list. What this means is that any competent player who kills you is going to know exactly where you will respawn, and since many of these spawn points are quite some distance from a decent weapon what you get is chain kills. Getting fatally shot in the Facility or Stack levels in a one on one game and you have essentially lost.
2) Poor map design.
Sorry, Goldeneye does not have good map design. Quake has good map design. Call of Duty has good map design. 007 Nightfire has good map design (or at least, one good map). What Goldeneye has is a bunch of maps that encourage any competitive player to immediately turtle. Stack does an OK job, but almost every other map encourages players to camp out on top of the body armor or the best weapon (usually both) and simply endlessly defend. That's not fun, and certainly isn't good map design.
3) Horrendous balance
I'll say this for the modern FPS, many of them make efforts to to make different weapons viable. A head to head battle in Goldeneye between competent player will always deteriorate into a contest of "who is carrying the best gun". With an exception make for the "mines" and "power weapons" setting (and with knives and slappers being ignored for being shit) there is always one weapon available that outranks the others in every conceivable way, and the person who spawns closest to that weapon has a massive advantage.
Basically to summarize, if you are a competent gamer, and are playing against competent gamers, then Goldeneye is not a fun game. There is a reason why everybody over the age of sixteen played Quake instead. Goldeneye's multiplayer modes are only salvageable if you are willing to impose a bunch of artificial rules (no turtleing, no killing an unarmed player etc) on everybody. A game where the player have to invent their own honor code just to make it playable (with the exception of Pokemon) is not well designed and doesn't deserve one tenth of the credit it gets from people who only remember it from when they were twelve.
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Mmmm, boobs, which reminds me got to make a reply in the GTA vs DQ VIII thread, hottest character in gaming my ass.
You can strike that one out, because it did no such thing.
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No one wants to help your petty cause if they know what's best for them. 
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Sorry I am not lining down the block to go down on a game that wasn't even the best PS game made, let alone the best RPG. Nostalgia is one hell of a factor for hysteria.
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This is why 4 good human players vs 4 PerfectSims and 4 DarkSims in Perfect Dark blows GD64's multiplayer out of the water
Or, you know, anything on the Combat sim
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All the games I voted for in the Hyrule section won.
And if Lee knows what it is good for him, he will choose Super Mario World in the tie breaker.
And if Lee knows what it is good for him, he will choose Super Mario World in the tie breaker.
Hey, SoM, not to discredit Half Life but you're totally WRONG about Super Mario World.
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