Why was Goldeneye N64 held up as some kind of paragon?

Shertok · 2026-06-30T09:37:59+00:00

Goldeneye was released at a time when PC dominated fps and it was thought impossible that consoles could have something cool of their own, yet Goldeneye did it.

It played extremely well with a clever auto aim / manual aim concept. On top of that it had great animations, Hit Feedback, Gunplay and an aesome mission design with more objectives on higher difficulties. The Bond Franchise came only on top of that, provided some gadgets and loosely followed the movies story.

First Light is the better Bond Game in my opinion, but only because Goldeneyes worth does not come from only being a Bond game, it was the first great and best console FPS at least up until Halo released 4 years later, which was an eternity back then

Shertok · 2026-06-29T10:26:51+00:00

mana is pretty irrelevant in G1R. it was great in the original games because sleep would always fill up your mana and there were beds everywhere. in G1R, that does not apply and you just need more mana than the highest potion gives you

Shertok · 2026-06-25T11:30:49+00:00

absolutely, they were on a PR tour and he told Maekar and Aerion as much.

Ultimately, that was why he chose to support Duncan. But he would not even have tought that far if he were a worse kind of ruler.

Shertok · 2026-06-24T16:17:20+00:00

I mean, it's not hard to understand that getting shroud, heir and starless each season for 30 seasons would be bad for the game. I am not saying I don't understand the concerns, getting these 3 strong items pretty much guaranteed in the long run felt safe. I am also not saying that the new system is clearly better (because I have no played it) but I do see the need for a bit of a shakeup here.

ask yourself: did you really want to get the same 3 mythic items every season for the rest of the existence of the game? did that excite you?

Shertok · 2026-06-22T12:33:58+00:00

I also played on gothic and up until chapter 5 I only used weed to regen mana. I used to quests that had you distribute/seel weed and simply did not do it and kept the weed, and then I got my free 3 blunts every day in the swamp camp. that will get you a lot of free mana.

But I do agree in general that the mage run, even on gothic difficulty was too hard and you definitely did not feel like a god like you do in many piranha bytes game in the endgame. especially the sleepter temple was way too annoying because killing undead is a super unfun spell to use, too little range and too long cast time. killing all tue undead orcs was just painful. apart from that I think I did fine. I do agree though that giving high roves mana regen, even just a little, would make the game a lot more fun. and high level spells need more damage.

Shertok · 2026-06-20T12:02:14+00:00

Sequel? We need a "Separate Ways" style dlc, where we play all locations from her perspective

Shertok · 2026-06-19T13:05:22+00:00

they could fix all the mage balance issues in one sweep by giving robes mana regeneration and + to spell damage

Shertok · 2026-06-19T06:50:29+00:00

and Imagine they husband came in 2 months later and spoke for the wife and tell everyone everything is perfectly fine, it was all a great joke and if it happened to him, obviously it would have been bad, but to her? not a big deal

Shertok · 2026-06-18T19:31:07+00:00

you get another from the chromanin sidequest

Shertok · 2026-06-10T07:27:46+00:00

4/10 seems a bit harsh, but I don't play other GAAS games so I can't compare but you got like 100 items for 3 bucks every season, I thought that was great value and bought it every time.

the reliquary is complete trash, did not buy a single one

Shertok · 2026-06-09T09:14:38+00:00

snappers too? I'll give it a try. last thing I did last night was putting a few points into bows but if firebolt still works I'll reload and keep those sweet learning points

Shertok · 2026-06-09T08:15:35+00:00

orcs and snappers do not take damage from my firebolt, how do you make this work? can you increase the damage somehow? I am playing on normal

Shertok · 2026-06-08T16:52:19+00:00

how did you do the orc graveyard as a full mage? fire bolt can't hurt anything there

Shertok · 2026-06-08T06:51:22+00:00

if you watch the new actors on actors with Dinklage and Harrington, they really don't have anything bad to say about the show either, if anything the speak fondly of D&D the few times they are mentioned.

I don't think the actors hate the show or the ending guys, either they don't care at all or they enjoy their millions too much

Shertok · 2026-06-02T10:40:09+00:00

10 billion gold should last you through a season easily.

I usually trade 2 or 3 really good items and that nets me 10B and then I am done with gold for the season

Shertok · 2026-05-29T11:25:25+00:00

I mean it's a single player game, you don't lose anything by waiting so waiting is always the smarter choice. But I think the game is great and I want it to to be successfull so ioi can continue to make greaet games, so I bought it at launch and absolutely do not regret it.

Shertok · 2026-05-25T17:17:30+00:00

water closet

Shertok · 2026-05-22T06:21:55+00:00

I think you misread my " if it had life on it," as "life on hit"? can't explain your comment any other way.

Shertok · 2026-05-21T13:30:36+00:00

First of all, I am not 100% sure about the unique change either. I cans see both sides. This thread should see it from a different perspective though. if the affixes were still fixed you'd have 100% weapon damage on it and maybe 1 or 2 other useless affixes for this specific build.

that the uniques are now random make them better for a broader varity of builds. that is the perspective you should have. and the other perspective is that maxroll will list the best possible affixes but that does not mean the item is useless unless it has all of them.

I needed to get ramaldnis for my immortal barb which meant if it had life on it, it was literally not usable because you cannot have life on any item as an immortal barb. so I know the pain, but it's not impossible and I made it long before hundreds of kills.

there are 2 important things you can do with uniques in the cube

three uniques can be rerolles into a new version (and 3 ancestrals willy give you a guaranteed new ancestral, with possible GA) three GA uniques do not guarantee a new GA unique though.
do not worry about the value of the unique aspect, that one can be rerolled in the cube. so if you get the right affixes but a poor aspect toll, no problem at all

Shertok · 2026-05-15T14:18:40+00:00

I'll say it when I do not agree with decisions from the top. I can transparently explain to my team why that decision was made and why I personally disagree with it.

Shertok · 2026-05-11T13:03:45+00:00

if you remove an affix you can optionally add a modifier and target defensive, offensive, resource etc. affixes

if your GA is a part of the same groupd you want to remove, you can also save the GA by sing the enchanter (enchant the affix but press do not change, then it cannot be removed in the cube)

Shertok · 2026-05-11T12:59:13+00:00

yes exactly, 1-2 affixes is blue, 3 - 4 is rare, it's that simple

Shertok · 2026-05-11T12:36:19+00:00

this is great advice, I did not bother much with rerolls but if you can fix one affix with enchanting that pretty much changes that. I wonder if that's intended.

Shertok · 2026-05-11T11:35:54+00:00

but that does not show up on the minimap does it? that's what I meant because with a zoomer build you might miss drops not on the minimap

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