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[Soopaweirdo]

Actually, no, he's terrible.

For those of you who have already heard of "Gaming in the Clinton Years", I pity you. If not, here's the story:

During the 90's, a man named George Wood narrated video game reviews as segments for a show called "Flight of Fantasy". His reviews are so God awful, I'm warning you now. However, the constellation for bad opinions and spoilers is a lot of laughs.

Here is his Goldeneye 64 review. Now, remember that he says that nobody buys games just for Multiplayer...alright, then. Thanks for not alienating Team Fortress 2, Buddy.

[Wreck]

Man, I don't even know where to begin on that awful review...

Changing the default controls to handle more like Turok?
That control scheme, in my opinion, was crap. I recently bought the first two Turok games, and only managed to play through the first two missions in each. No matter how long I play them for, I never feel comfortable with the controls. They just don't compute for me.

GoldenEye hardly redefines the FPS genre?
Well, it may not have redefined the genre exactly, but it did build upon it. Rather than getting from point A to point B, while killing everything in sight, collecting keys a long the way, and finding secrets, there were many other objectives and innocent people to worry about. Downloading information, photographing objects, protecting key cast members, disabling security equipment, etc.

Beating the game is impossible on the higher difficulty levels?
Obviously the missions are harder when playing on Secret or 00 Agent modes, but they are far from being impossible. That's just the excuse of a terrible gamer who gives up before giving it their all.

Frankly, they don't care about the multiplayer stuff...
And unfortunately for them, they missed out on one of the better features of the game. It's probably one the best multiplayer games released in the nineties, and quickly become the measuring stick to which all future FPS titles were to be compared.

Nobody buys games just for multiplayer...
How times change.

Overuse of the word "Stupid"...
Was he describing parts of the game, or parts of his review?
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[radorn]

heh, not the first time this review appears in these forums. The guy is certainly an idiot. The name of the program says it all: "gaming in the clinton years"? wtf do politics have to do with this at all.

as for turok controls. The main problem in turok was that the stick was treated as absolute in that game. In GE 1.2 control style it's buffered instead, which makes it a lot better. You should try to use it, Wreck. I always used 1.1 style before, but recently I forced myself to get used to 1.2 and I must admit that it's an improvement.
Only thing I miss is not being able to walk slowly, but to be honest I don't feel the need anymore now, and having fine control of the aiming without entering aim mode is certainly an advantage.
I guess I should try one of the 2.x control styles, but I absolutelly hate dual analogs.

Finally, why post this on "inetainment" forum when it's about a GE review? Wouldn't the GE game forum be more appropriate?

[Soopaweirdo]

radorn wrote:

The name of the program says it all: "gaming in the clinton years"? wtf do politics have to do with this at all.

Most of the games that he reviewed were made during the years when Clinton was President. It's probably the only thing that the reviwers had at the top of their head. Hell, it was the Nineties, so even "Radical Reviews" would have sufficed. Besides, it's alliteration, so that's a little more clever.

radorn wrote:

Finally, why post this on "inetainment" forum when it's about a GE review? Wouldn't the GE game forum be more appropriate?

I was contemplating that, but it's not necessarily the game itself, and I find it entertaining to laugh at, I would have figured that this would have been a more appropriate place to place this.

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[EternallyAries]

Lol i remember seeing this review a very long time ago and it was so bad that i cud not watch it all lol.
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[Wreck]

Radorn: I believe I've used 1.2 on a few levels to try and quicken my speedrun attempts. I'm pretty sure it's what I had set for my fastest Streets attempt on Agent, and possibly also for Depot. I should give it another go, but there's something about 1.1 that feels just right.

Also, I moved this into the GoldenEye 007 forum.
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[acceptable67]

That is the worst review that I've ever heard.

Anyone want to hit him in the face with a frying pan? :/
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Perfect Dark Forever.

[EternallyAries]

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That is the worst review that I've ever heard. Anyone want to hit him in the face with a frying pan? :/

I do lol.
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[Soopaweirdo]

I should show you guys his Tomb Raider 3 review...it's one of the most ridiculous things that you will ever see.

[Jedi QuestMaster]

Wreck wrote:

Radorn: I believe I've used 1.2 on a few levels to try and quicken my speedrun attempts. I'm pretty sure it's what I had set for my fastest Streets attempt on Agent, and possibly also for Depot. I should give it another go, but there's something about 1.1 that feels just right. Also, I moved this into the GoldenEye 007 forum.

I never realized you could do that! :shock

I need to go back & see what I can do with Depot on agent. That's one of the best - run like hell levels to see how fast you can make it.

[Wreck]

(off-topic: there is also a "Cruise Control" ability people use, where they hold up on the analog stick while inserting the controller into the console. it makes the up direction held down by default, which always means that you are moving. well, I think that is the right method.)
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[Soopaweirdo]

Wreck wrote:

(off-topic: there is also a "Cruise Control" ability people use, where they hold up on the analog stick while inserting the controller into the console. it makes the up direction held down by default, which always means that you are moving. well, I think that is the right method.)

In GoldenEye or Turok? Because if it's in GoldenEye, then I'm rather intrigued, now.

[radorn]

@Soopaweirdo
all analog sticks that I know of have this "feature".
the position the stick is when the controller initializes becomes the centerpoint. If that position is not the actual centerpoint of the stick, when you let the stick return to the center, the controller will register movement as that position is differnt than what it thinks is the centerpoint.

In turok, which uses the stick as absolute head position, this would make your aiming be off. In GE control style 1.1, it would generate movement.

[NapalmNero]

Wreck wrote:

Changing the default controls to handle more like Turok? That control scheme, in my opinion, was crap. I recently bought the first two Turok games, and only managed to play through the first two missions in each. No matter how long I play them for, I never feel comfortable with the controls. They just don't compute for me.

Really? For me it was the exact opposite. Probably because I played Turok before I played GoldenEye
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[EternallyAries]

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(off-topic: there is also a "Cruise Control" ability people use, where they hold up on the analog stick while inserting the controller into the console. it makes the up direction held down by default, which always means that you are moving. well, I think that is the right method.)

You can do it in the midle of the game to here how.

First get in to a level to test this out.

Then click L and R at the same time Dont let go.

Now hold up on the controller. Still dont let go of L and R.

Now wile doing all that at one time click start on the buttem and bam it will do the Cruise Control.
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