RUMOR: Perfect Dark Returning Without Rare

[Nautilus]

Mr Puggsly said:

Nautilus said:

The gameplay was excellent back in the day, much like Goldeneye gameplay was back in the day, but is pretty much bad if you compare to today standard.There are some thing that dont age well, and well, Goldeneye and PD were the pioneers in the FPS genre, at least in the console space.

I agree Goldeneye and PD were pioneers in the genre, but that doesn't mean I think their great games per se. I mean games like Doom, Quake, and Duke 3D did the same. I credit the Rare games and even Turok for trying to make controls feel a little more realistic/weighty and raising the bar on narrative. The Medal of Honor PS1 games also deserve an honorable mention. Not much of this 5th gen content holds up well though.

Anywho, I'm pretty sure the general consensus is those old Rare games didn't age particularly well. They certainly can't just recreate that and expect a hit, which is fine for some genres.

Just to be clear, the part that i dont think it holds that well today is the controls itself.Since then we had many improvements, such as dual analog sticks, better systems for shooting and so on.The rest, though, its as good as it once was.And honestly, I dont think there is one single game done in the last 10 years or so that tried to do a game like PD, in that you have a stage and multiples objectives in it, and being story focused at that(and a shooter game, obviosly).If a talented studio were to try its hands at that, we could be seeing a new masterpiece be born.

 

Just my teo cents of course.