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7/9/2025, 7:55:48 AM
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Goldeneye wasn't out of place in the golden age of shooters
>all your guns at once rather than a two weapon limit and whatever they decide you're allowed to have at that point in time, so if you want to save the best guns to go apeshit at the end of a level you're free to do so
>survivability dependent on health and armor meters rather than blundering through firefights and hiding until your health regenerates
But it also innovated with anatomy-specific shooting, intelligent for its era AI, stealth elements, a sniper rifle with a zooming scope, allied NPC companions and neutral NPCs, objectives that weren't just murder everything and push switches/find keys, elaborate setpieces, and much like Duke Nukem 3D,, its environments actually felt like real places rather than abstractions a la Doom or Quake. Perfect Dark elaborated on these innovations even further with stuff like all its famous alt-fire modes on its weaponry.
It feels like it would've been a natural progression from the manic freewheeling that first person shooters played like in the 90s; a kind of parallel FPS evolution that included Half-Life 1/2 and RTCW, with an emphasis on classic mechanics but contemporary settings and hitscan weaponry. This basically sat stagnant as a shooter design philosophy until Wolfenstein The New Order helped kickstart the FPS renaissance in 2014 and later FEAR-inspired shooters like Selaco or Trepang came from smaller developers.
Goldeneye wasn't out of place in the golden age of shooters
>all your guns at once rather than a two weapon limit and whatever they decide you're allowed to have at that point in time, so if you want to save the best guns to go apeshit at the end of a level you're free to do so
>survivability dependent on health and armor meters rather than blundering through firefights and hiding until your health regenerates
But it also innovated with anatomy-specific shooting, intelligent for its era AI, stealth elements, a sniper rifle with a zooming scope, allied NPC companions and neutral NPCs, objectives that weren't just murder everything and push switches/find keys, elaborate setpieces, and much like Duke Nukem 3D,, its environments actually felt like real places rather than abstractions a la Doom or Quake. Perfect Dark elaborated on these innovations even further with stuff like all its famous alt-fire modes on its weaponry.
It feels like it would've been a natural progression from the manic freewheeling that first person shooters played like in the 90s; a kind of parallel FPS evolution that included Half-Life 1/2 and RTCW, with an emphasis on classic mechanics but contemporary settings and hitscan weaponry. This basically sat stagnant as a shooter design philosophy until Wolfenstein The New Order helped kickstart the FPS renaissance in 2014 and later FEAR-inspired shooters like Selaco or Trepang came from smaller developers.
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