They are great games, and I had a lot of fun with the multiplayer, but I completely disagree.

The single player has no objectives to anything.  It is just kill everything on your way to Point A and the same for Point B, C, etc.  There is virtually no stealth element to the games either.  Nothing to break up the gameplay.  It is basically the same all the way through the game.

The muliplayer is very good, but in my opinion, it is missing all those crazy options that made Goldeneye and Perfect Dark so much fun in the first place.  I can only take so much team deathmatch.

I posted this over at NeoGAF when asked a similar question:

The thing that Goldeneye had, looking back, was the fact that, at the time, was a revolutionary FPS title on a console. Up to that point, we had utter trash for FPS titles - a few crappy doom ports, Quake, ect.

But Goldeneye was a totally different ball game - It had a ton of stuff no other console FPS had at the time, and had good graphics too.

Above all else, the multiplayer was fantastically revolutionary at the time - At my house, I'd get 2 friends & my brother, and we'd play for hours on end. It was the funnest multiplayer experience I ever had - the dawn of an entirely new gaming experience for so many people.

It was basically the Guitar Hero of the 90's - a casual, social revolution in gaming.

Of course, looking back, the concepts in Goldeneye are so dated, it's not funny. The format is archaic, and we look back with nostalgia not because Goldeneye is the best game made, but because it was the best game made at that time.

The closest FPS I've seen that ignites a similar passion in gamers is Halo.

personally, i liked the movie and xenia!
and of course, proximity mines !!

that and a well-put together game
well balanced missions/campaigns, multiplayer capability, great cast of characters and silly unlockable cheats

daymm, i just got hooked

plus the timing was really perfect:
switch to SNES to N64 - 3D engine for consoles and RARE being an awesome developer at the time

this is for me, anywayz...

@mrstickball

well put.
i wuz tryna say sumtin' similar

heheh.. obviously i couldn't say it better

What he said. I'm not a fan of FPS mostly because of this issue, but Goldeneye and Perfect Dark "revolutionized" that, and I love them.

Why many games don't have that magic? Maybe because that was the first time (I think) a FPS was made in that way, even the multiplayer was new. After that it was not the same feeling, only a copy.

We can see that even on Perfect Dark, which is a game in all ways superior to Goldeneye, but for many people it wasn't maybe because it Goldeneye plus and nothing completely new.

Damn this is thread is giving a craving for some Goldeneye multiplayer. I'd also like to say that anyone who picked Oddjob is a coward!

You are bad and you should feel bad.

I wish I had played it back then, but I never had N64 or any friends that had Goldeneye.

I played it for the first time this year and it was virtually unplayable. I literally couldn't play it, it was that bad compared to now.

There have been great bond games like Nightfire and Everything or Nothing, but i guess they just weren't as good as Goldeneye

Nightfire is a pretty good game, but something feels "wrong" to me. I'm not sure what.

I never played Everything or Nothing.

That was my most favorite games on the n64, i played that for hours each day.