This is the reason I am so pissed of Nintendo just gave it up because Microsoft killed it.

Perfect Dark should have been the flagship FPS for each generation of a new Nintendo System. 

GoldenEye was a huge achievement and I love it but Perfect Dark is Perfect Dark. The single-player was a blast with fun levels, great music and super-silly characters. I really liked how you could exit the main menu and walk around in the HQ to access different parts of the game. Sure, it was less efficient but a nice detail nonetheless.

Multiplayer was incredible. It took the already fantastic multiplayer from GoldenEye and somehow made it even better. A real work of art.

Damn. Hard question, but overall I pick Perfect Dark. The world and multiplayer was better.

Extremely hard question that, erm im going to give the nod to Perfect Dark just because Bots and customization.

Played both, love both. Perfect Dark will take the cake. It was up there as one of the games of all time not just game of a generation.

I couldn't care who owned the IP, just as long as it was being done justice.
But I would prefer it to be on powerful hardware as Perfect Dark was a hardware pusher on the N64 and the visuals showed, something Nintendo isn't renowned for anymore.

In-fact I would prefer it to have been Multiplat so it's exposed to more gamers, it's one of those titles you want everyone to be playing.

Perfect Dark Zero which I own on the 360 was actually not bad. Not amazing like the Nintendo 64 release and it had allot of issues, but overall it was solid, but the series just ended at that point when it could have been so much bigger and better.

Now the Remaster on 360 was pretty good and gave us online multiplayer, but even remastered you can see how limiting the visuals were.

I disagree on PDZ being solid as even compared to FPS out at the time it felt sub par and at best average that's why the series came to a halt it was the beginning of the realisation that Rare were past it and couldn't function with out Nintendo holding their hand.

Yer but look at it this way. Microsoft was never going to do much with them and Nintendo gave up great IPs.

If they had those IPs on Gamecube it would have sold better and dare I said the Wii would have been more powerful than it was. 

Them selling changed the course they could take as people who loved those games moved onto Microsoft at the time (myself included).  Then COD exploded and the rest is history lol.

It will be interesting what their next console will be since Iwata would have been a huge influence on the Switch's development. 

I love both, but ultimately I have to pick Goldeneye simply because it ran better; Perfect Dark was a lot like Banjo Tooie and Conker in that while the core game was magnificent, the poor framerate was a bit of a hassle.

When I mean by solid, I mean it is average but still extremely playable.
Some people couldn't get past the accents and such, where-as that didn't actually bother me.

As for RARE specifically... I have enjoyed pretty much every single game release with the exception of the Kinect rubbish, however... It was clear even before the Microsoft purchase that things were changing at the company, regardless of what Nintendo or Microsoft were going/not going to do.

Well. We don't know if Nintendo was going to do much with them either. So we cannot assert otherwise.

Yeah, nah. Speaking in hypotheticals is great and all... But your assertion carry's zero weight.

Disagree. It was Halo and Fable that put the Xbox on the map. Later Gears of War and Call of Duty carried the torch, Rare wasn't really a big driver on that front.

As long as it doesn't have a shit 720P-display/output I'll be happy.