Goldeneye 007 coming to Xbox Live Arcade? (DENIED)

[Jagermeister]

Wow...Xbox Live with golden eye...WOW

[monkeychemist]

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but in this month's issue of EGM they address this as a rumor that most likely won't come true.

sorry

[PDorr3]

Originally Posted by monkeychemist

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but in this month's issue of EGM they address this as a rumor that most likely won't come true.

sorry

Goldeneye confirmed and then canceled....sorry everyone

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/13/xb...also-canceled/

[Oobgarm]

Can't say I'm surprised.

[G-Boobie]

Its probably for the best anyway, guys... Having played this recently, I can tell you it hasn't aged well. At all.

I'm all for nostalgia, but only when the gameplay is still good.

[Rob2600]

Originally Posted by G-Boobie

Its probably for the best anyway, guys... Having played this recently, I can tell you it hasn't aged well.

Sour grapes, G-Boobie?

[spoon]

I'd say they'd be nice with cleaned up graphics and a nice dual joystick control scheme. I wonder if the big N wanted to release these on VC? I also wonder if It would not be a problem with different graphics?

[FAMOUS]

http://www.petitiononline.com/rare007/petition.html
Petition signed!

[Rob2600]

Originally Posted by FAMOUS

http://www.petitiononline.com/rare007/petition.html
Petition signed!

What if Goldeneye 007 is released for the Wii Virtual Console instead? Wouldn't that be equally as cool?

[FAMOUS]

not for the non Wii owners! lol

[jcalder8]

Originally Posted by G-Boobie

Its probably for the best anyway, guys... Having played this recently, I can tell you it hasn't aged well. At all.

I'm all for nostalgia, but only when the gameplay is still good.

I played this with some friends last year and I agree with you but this wouldn't be a direct port it would be updated so I think it would be good if it ever comes out.

[Greg2600]

I never owned the game myself, always mooched. I am a big fan of the 007 games, and despite playing it for 100s of hours in multiplayer, I never played single player hardly at all. Recently, I finally got around to getting Goldeneye myself, and have been playing the single player the last couple days. Its still a heck of a lot of fun. The game is amazingly smooth and easy to play. The EA "The World Is Not Enough" N64 game had much better graphics and missions, not to mention voice actors, but this is still fun.

One issue I've always had with most N64 games is the sharpness of the video. Maybe it's me, I don't know? If I go back to play the 8- or 16-bits and the newer gens, I don't have a problem. But the N64 games it takes me a while to get readjusted to them visually. Usually the Mario or Expansion Pak games look fine. Which is why I was waiting for an N64 emulator for Windows, but they've never ran that well. That would be one thing I would hope the Virtual Console or XBLA (if this went through) is addressing.

Unfortunate news but given the size of the user base on both system's networks, it would have made sense to emulate it on both. A truly stupid business decision from two companies notorious for corporate bully tactics. When Virtual Console was first announced, almost immediately the most frequent game I saw being mentioned was Goldeneye. Everybody wanted to play Goldeneye, and now it seems no one will.

[G-Boobie]

Originally Posted by Rob2600

Sour grapes, G-Boobie?

Yeah, maybe just a little

I thought that Goldeneye HAD come out for Virtual Console? I guess not.

[Jagermeister]

Originally Posted by Rob2600

What if Goldeneye 007 is released for the Wii Virtual Console instead? Wouldn't that be equally as cool?

No just because it won't have Xbox Live and I am a believer that Live really makes a lot of games better.

[Rob2600]

Originally Posted by Greg2600

I never owned the game myself, always mooched. ... Recently, I finally got around to getting Goldeneye myself, and have been playing the single player the last couple days. Its still a heck of a lot of fun. The game is amazingly smooth and easy to play. The EA "The World Is Not Enough" N64 game had much better graphics and missions, not to mention voice actors, but this is still fun.

The World Is not Enough was released in October 2000, over three years after Goldeneye 007, so it should look better! Also, it was developed by Eurocom, which was a pretty good development team on the N64 (Mortal Kombat 4, Cruis'n World, Hydro Thunder, Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, etc.). The framerate is quite good too, even in high-resolution mode.

If you want to see even more impressive graphics, play Turok 2: Seeds of Evil or Perfect Dark, both in high-res mode. The framerates are pretty choppy at times, but the textures and lighting effects were ahead of anything else on consoles at the time.

Originally Posted by Greg2600

One issue I've always had with most N64 games is the sharpness of the video. Maybe it's me, I don't know? If I go back to play the 8- or 16-bits and the newer gens, I don't have a problem. But the N64 games it takes me a while to get readjusted to them visually. Usually the Mario or Expansion Pak games look fine. Which is why I was waiting for an N64 emulator for Windows, but they've never ran that well. That would be one thing I would hope the Virtual Console or XBLA (if this went through) is addressing.

Expansion Pak games look sharper because most of them run in high-res mode. Regarding the Wii Virtual Console, according to reviews I've read, Nintendo 64 games look sharper than they do on the original console because Nintendo upgraded them to progressive scan now. When I eventually buy an HDTV several years from now, I'll get to see what that's like.

[RARusk]

"Delayed indefinitely" =/= "cancelled"

With that said.....

There's no chance that GoldenEye will be released for either the X360 or the Wii. You really think Nintendo will let a game that has acheived legendary status on one of their consoles go to another competitors console? No fucking chance in hell.

And MicroSoft, the new owners of RareWare, will want GoldenEye to themselves and not share it with anyone. So we have your classic Mexican standoff with no resolution in sight.

As for the petition, it is a good gesture but also irrevelant. When it comes to money and ego we have no say regardless of how loud the voice. One could go up to Nintendo with five million signatures but all they would do is just chuck it in the trash and laugh and tell you to get out of their parking lot.

If there is a glimmer of hope in all of this it may come from the owners of the james Bond property. After all, this is a game based on their movie and characters and they will likely have a say in all of this (since they stand to make good money in the reissue). But I still think they won't budge Nintendo (whom I think is the real villian here).

However, despite the bad news, we can still look forward to a reissue of the original "Perfect Dark". I can't wait to play it with a decent frame rate.....

[Nesmaster]

A video of this "remake" has been released:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWls4S_qu8

Seeing that and knowing it may never release makes me want to cry. The video itself almost brings a tear to my eye though (despite the out-of-synch audio and the obvious bugs that are present.)