Thread 12079291

This is game is uncontrollable on original hardware.
The frames skip so badly, the lag is so inconsistent with how bad it is, and all the enemies are always rolling and hopping around erratically. It's unplayable on Perfect Agent.

if it's unplayable how come millions beat it

>>12079295
Agent and Secret Agent give you a ton of health and shields while not requiring the most time-consuming and finicky missions to be completed. It's nothing like 00 Agent in Goldeneye, as you that game runs much better and the enemies aren't all acrobats while you have to aim at 5 fps.

Perfect Agent is unplayable on N64.

>>12079291 (OP)
Maybe you are just bad at the game

>>12079291 (OP)
you sound bald lol

>>12079291 (OP)
Skill issue

that's part of the reason the Perfect Dark speedrunning community is so small compared to Goldeneye. the top runners are forced to use pause buffering in order to aim at enemies and quickly kill them, which makes the videos of the runs nearly unwatchable depending on how much they pause buffer.

>>12079330
>>12079331
Feathers ruffled?

I don't like any of these rare games on n64

Good thing there is a PC de-compile

https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

>>12079291 (OP)
>the enemies are always rolling and hopping around erratically
It isn't erratic, you dumb zoomzoom, it's based on the location you're aiming.

Extremely low quality thread. OP is a fag.

OP here, really disappointed in how lacking all of these responses are.
Not even a single argument to refute. You're all just upset I correctly called the game out.

You can't aim or move properly at an unstable 10 FPS with an N64 controller.
You didn't beat the game if you played it on anything but original hardware with a real N64 controller, you beat your own hacked version to give yourself perfect controls and performance.

>>12079308
Sounds like a skill issue

>>12079451
>You can't aim or move properly at an unstable 10 FPS with an N64 controller
Holy skill issue

>>12079404
Strange post...
Obviously they only dodge when you aim at them, but they ALWAYS dodge the MOMENT your crosshair is on them for longer than a frame.
By the time you press Z to react to your crosshair being over an enemy, the game lag and the low fps have already caused your shot to fire AFTER the enemy has moved slightly away just to ruin your initial shot.

Not a problem with a keyboard and mouse......... but of course that's cheating and not playing the real game.

>>12079291 (OP)
i watched my friend beat it when we were kids, yes you had to die 100 times but that's just how we liked it

>>12079291 (OP)
Skill issue seeing as people beat the game just fine back in the day.

>>12079291 (OP)
did you buy the booster thingie? You were supposed to buy the booster thingie.

Either way, skill issue and OP is a faggot.

>>12079451
>You can't aim
no you can't aim

>>12079291 (OP)
>>12079451

>>12079451
Why are /vr/ trolls so fucking bad? It's like you can tell this guy was probably a nightmare in his teens but now he's just going through the motions, overplaying his hand and shit. The whole board is like this. It's kinda sad honestly

>>12079921
I don't know. I haven't browsed this shithole regularly for many years and it's actually disgusting how paper thin these kids are. It's as if none of them realise they only get the small attention that they do because everyone is collectively asking themselves in disbelief "is this person really getting enjoyment out of posting this bottom barrel shit?". Just a sad reflection of themselves.

>>12079291 (OP)
You probably arent that stupid but I gotta ask.
You do have the N64 expansion pack right?

>>12079342
It's not rare.


>>12079291 (OP)
It's unplayable without the expansion pack, and a lot of them are broken these days.

Didn't they recompile the code with modern compilers and it improves performance by like.... I dunno 10%? On real hardware? Worth checking out... If you have a flashcard of course.

>>12080097
You can't play single player without the expansion Pak. Only multiplayer.

>>12079291 (OP)
The gameplay is more about memorising enemy placements so that whenever you enter a room you can quickly take them out with headshots. It's not run and gun. If you start taking hits and get caught under pressure, you'll usually die quickly, so you have to avoid those situations completely. If you don't want to memorise, then just be sure know where your cover is at all times and be ready to run back to it if needed.

>>12080126
If you remove the lens flares and their effects, the performance jumps about 5-8 frames. You can remove some with a Gameshark but then you nust force it into hi-res which ruins the intention of making the game run better.

>>12079295
Like goldeneye most got a few levels in and stopped progressing. Every copy of goldeneye I see in the wild stops at Statue because the game is no longer a shooting gallery where you occasionally throw an item on a terminal.

>>12079291 (OP)
I beat all missions in Perfect Agent when I was 11, no problem. Sounds like you need to get good. Alternatively, play the PC port.

How come all the posters claiming to have no such problems have yet to offer a single point of advice besides >>12080207 ?

Here are some actual tips from someone who actually beat the game on N64 on PA:
>memorize where to go for the objectives and where troublesome guards will be
>move about slowly and run away whenever multiple enemies start attacking you
>try using "Wide" video mode but without the 16:9 aspect ratio to make the framerate far more stable
>never turn on "Hi-Res"
>use control style 1.2
>experiment playing without lock-on as you'll soon notice that your headshots keep automatically being aimed downwards at the weapons they hold

Sounds like a personal problem

>>12079295
Because OP is a zoomie

>>12080207
>cover
Yes, this exactly. It comes down to 99% of people playing FPS games incorrectly.
They prioritize aiming and shooting at enemies as soon as they see them, end up getting engaged by multiple enemies and having a bad time, running out of magazine, etc.

Instead they should be prioritizing cover and utilizing that cover to expose themselves to a minimal number of enemies at a time that they can handle.

So being good at FPS games is really more about movement (utilizing cover and using movement, not aim, to do most of the work of getting your crosshair on or close to the enemy). Then the last remaining bit is the aim and shoot part.

>>12081304
Predictive programming?

>>12081018
Blame Call of Duty style health regen

>>12079291 (OP)
yet the og version was the only one where the harder difficulties were doable.

>>12079365
Once the netplay branch is stable I'm never playing anything else.

>>12080476
I imagine it has something to do with letting players choose how to play, but to be fair OP decided he can't be bothered to play games that are too old for him. Such is life

>>12079291 (OP)
I agree, the game runs at a outright criminal framerate. Even at the time it was bad.

That being said, it is beatable on the higher difficulties, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Try the PC port instead. I did it because I had nothing better to do but I probably would've played the PC decomp if it had been an option.

Don't get me wrong, it's a really cool game and at the time it was outstanding. But it did run like ass, much like most rare games on the console. Plus in my experience the slowdown actually helped you a bit since game logic slowed down with slowdown.

Either way, if you feel like playing the original is not that fun, give the PC port a go instead, sure it's not the 1:1 experience but a lot of what made perfect dark painful was because of limitations of the n64 and rares programming ability.

Their platformers have aged much better desu.

>>12079291 (OP)
Just play the decomp on PC

>>12079451
you get a massive fps jump if you disable hi-res

>>12079331
hello, Graslu00

>>12080115
Not rare? THEN WHAT IS THIS?

>>12081018
More people should play stalker since it will teach you these skills

>>12083127
Or maybe /vr/ has now become a zoomer board and those that even bothered to play this game did so on emulators or through the official remaster, not on real hardware like OP.

>>12079291 (OP)
If you’re not good at video games you’re probably a failure at all other aspects of life. You should unironically kys.

>>12084547
>>12081489
Yeah, and to be fair it's something that took me a long time of playing FPS to really get too, so it's not super intuitive right away.

But once you do start playing that way, and getting better with planning movement/cover, it becomes a lot more fun and there's a much cooler flow to the gameplay compared to just standing there and blasting at shit

>>12080319
this is true, i remember me and my friends trying to progress further in the game, i think the furthest we ever got was the train level.

>>12085269
Train gets pretty hard because it is very cover based. You can only have one enemy that sees you at a time in the first two or so cars and really snipe them out. I did my first 00 Agent run of Goldeneye this year. I did a little bit of a Perfect Agent run in Perfect Dark and got to the airport. They really upped the difficulty between games.

>>12081304
This man has always looked Chinese to me and not black. Obama is Indonesian but he don't look like this.

>>12079291 (OP)
Perfect Dark was the first console shooter I got to play against bots in so I'll always like it. My friend and I shotgunning a team of simulants was fun. Podbot on CS 1.5 was probably my favorite retro bot game though.

>>12080319
>Statue
Yeah, that level sucks but the next level, Archive, is one of the best in the game.

>>12085598
The cheat for Archives is the hardest in the whole game imo. basically requires luck, enemies moving out of the way and not lighting you up, and (of course) Natalya behaving and not getting scared that you shot someone.

BRITISH SLAG SIM 3000

>>12085652
That's probably true. But it's also fun to run around like Chow Yun Fat with two pistols killing the infinite spawning russ-niggers.

>>12086250
filtered mate

>>12085457
They went through the trouble to implement a dozen different bot behaviors, pitting them against each other was fun by itself.

>>12079291 (OP)
Crazy how players defend this just because it's on nintendo.
blurry, muddy, constant performance issues, sometimes you can't even know what is on the screen because everything is so blurred.

OP's right, this game is ass. The enemies literally cheat, and the control sucks ass. It's laggy or something.

>>12079291 (OP)
80 percent of the conversation about N64 is about people complaining about visuals or performance.

Works on my machine

>>12079291 (OP)
Source?

verifying that players cannot aim for shit on PA on original hardware. auto-aim is nearly non-existent except to ruin your shots. the fps is far too erratic and low to hope to headshot any running enemy.

i can headshot people with my mouse at a perfect 60 fps or higher too but if your experience playing Perfect Dark is like >>12093126 then you legitimately did not play the same game as the rest of us

>>12093896
>if your experience playing Perfect Dark is like >>12093126 then you legitimately did not play the same game as the rest of us

Can confirm, I played the better game.

>>12079291 (OP)
Was there a difference between PAL & NTSC? Because as a britbong I remember this game was not fun to play at all because of lag, slow down and frame skipping. The 64 expansion pack didn't make any difference as far as I remember

>>12094625
>The 64 expansion pack didn't make any difference as far as I remember
You can't even play the single player campaign without the expansion pack.

>>12094845
Really? Been a long time. Can't imagine how they thought it was okay to release. I just remember some shit about aliens and the game being so slow it was unplayable. I know kid me was majorly disappointed after hearing it was supposed to be the next Goldeneye.

>>12079291 (OP)
I remember a bunch of slowdown, not a lot of frame-skipping, idk.
But yeah a lot of games ran really badly on old consoles but people didn't really know how to articulate that "wow this game is running at 16 fps and giving me a headache".
The aim-reading at higher difficulties is also kind of annoying.

>>12095102
>I can't adapt because I fail to be human

>>12081304
>I asSSHuUme that you have some??

Thank you for bumping my dead thread once again!

Just a reminder: I'm still right about how Perfect Agent is nearly unplayable due to the poor performance combined with the enemy movement issues AND I'm right that anyone who played on emu or on the decomp did not beat the game.
No amount of spamming "skill issue" makes me incorrect.

>OP SUCKS ON DICKS!
>OP SUCKS ON DICKS!
>OP SUCKS ON DICKS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpb9vTVcvJ4

>>12095023
Framerate existed as a concept since the 1920's.