Die Another Friday: Episode 001

@heatdrive88: I remember it feeling like a revelation at the time, and thinking why the hell didn't Rare make this as 1.1. Still didn't help me beat Aztec on 00 agent though...

GBE with another killer feature! This was so fun to watch and I feel like the crews chemistry has become so damn good!!!

I'm excited for this. I never played any of the single player, just a little bit of the multiplayer at my friends house. IIRC, multiplayer was basically just a rush to get the golden gun and then kill everybody.

To add to their 'good comedies within the last several years' discussion, "What We Do In The Shadows" is amazing.

I've been wishing for YEARS that you guys would play SHOGO!! Please give it a look!!! I remember that game using the term "mother-loving" on numerous occasions and young me not getting what the hell they were talking about til the very end. I just thought it was a weird translation thing.

Dan's british accent is immaculate.

I contend that this game (and Perfect Dark) are only finishable on 00 Agent if you're a 7-19 year-old who has a lot of free time and only a couple of games to play. It's just sooooo much more irritatingly difficult than the normal difficult. Granted, they can just look up guides if they ever don't understand where to find an objective, but still, some of those later levels and bonus levels are going to be rough to watch Dan play through.

DAN'S ACCENTS IM DYING

Die Another Friday indeed ?

@jazz_katz: Totally. It's really the only way to quickly rack up headshots without the use of the "hold to free-aim" mechanic in all these Rare shooters, which honestly makes the game even easier (admittedly with a little practice) by turning OFF auto-aim (because otherwise you're just homing into an enemy's chest/center-mass).

It's also the only control scheme that lets you aim directly for headshots while still having full movement control of yourself in every analog direction (as opposed to using the default 1.1 controls) where it forces you to stop moving to use "hold to free-aim", meaning you don't have any more mobility.

Doubly so, it's far more effective to aim while "strafe-running", which is highly crucial for increasing your run speed - especially if you want to even come close to beating Facility in under 2:05.

So Vinny is Q with his control of all the gadgets right?

@vinny very good observation about it feeling like a 'light-gun' game. As during development, the original vision for the game was heavily inspired by Virtua Cop and similar on-rails shooters

What are the chances that this is the suit Dan wore to his wedding?

Also, Perfect Dark was basically GoldenEye 2 in terms of improvements. And didn't have Oddjob, which is a plus. You could take Elvis's body and put a human head on it to get the same effect, but fuck you if you did.

Oh man, that intro was GOLDEN!

They actually got him a tux... I am speechless.

EDIT: Never mind. "Tuxedo costume."

That makes sense. :P

Woot! Shout-out for Shogo: Mobile Armor Division!

The only thing I know about Thunderball is that the guys behind the "James Bonding" podcast say it's the worst Bond movie.

Dan cleans up real nice.

Love the intro!

As a life long James Bond fan, the movie discussions were "interesting"

I am kinda surprised that Alex didn't remember the one Bond movie with the late, great, Christopher Lee.

The old James Bonds stuff is fine. It's so easily to call everything or another racist, come on fellas knock it off.

I’m only 3 minutes in, but I just wanted to say that man, Dan is really good at his job. Seriously, he’s funny, quick witted and professional and informative when it’s called for. Don’t know why, but that just struck me all of a sudden during the intro shenanigans.

(the N64 games) Tomorrow Never Dies > Golden Eye

Alex Navarro : " I have seen the Thunderball ... "

All of this. I had all but 100%'d this game, the exceptions being that bullshit 2 minute something time for Facility, along with the target time for Caverns. Though for the latter, I had already unlocked the all weapons cheat from Aztec, so I just didn't have the motivation to go for the specific double RCP90s cheat when it was the longest one at like 9+ minutes if I recall correctly.

I don't recall the 00 Agent difficulty being exceptionally difficult, and even then I rarely played games on harder difficulties. For me the only one that I do remember being frustratingly difficult was Control(?) or whatever was the one where you had to protect Natalaya while she hacked the computer. That said, hearing you mention Train, I did immediately get flashbacks of going for the target time on that one and constantly getting to the part where you have to laser the door in the floor and being super anxious about whether I would get the door off in time or not.

Though more than anything else, I remember one morning before school where I had 20 minutes till I needed to go, so I decided to go for one of the short target times. I ended up going for the 1:20 Archives (?) clear time to get invisibility, not realizing how hard that short time would be. I ended up pulling it off before I had to leave, and more than anything else I remember having to memorize how all the doors opened. 'Cause if a door opened out, you could just continue running through it without losing a step. But if a door opened in, you had to be ready to take a backstep immediately after opening it in order to let the door open fully before moving through it. That was oh so crucial in shaving off those last few seconds to make the target time (along with knowing the exact moment you could shoot Dmitry to get the safe key from him early). Goddammit I loved this game.

After all these years I realise the "secret hatch" in the floor of the Uplink Building is just an auto-shop inspection pit of the truck you were following.

The magic is over.

I'm glad Dan brought up Everything or Nothing apropos of nothing, because he is absolutely correct: it is the best James Bond game and has aged fantastically. I played it back when it came out and loved it, I did a Let's Play of it a few years ago and still loved it; I cannot ever stop singing its praises. The only thing it's missing is a good versus multiplayer mode, but it compensates with a co-op campaign that's almost as long as the standard single-player game itself.

Fucking hell Dan's english accent is amazing.

Dan Ryckert will return in Lay's Unfont Teyreebs.

Oh wow. This is a nice surprise :)

good shit!!! brings me back, nice work

Oh no, actual bearable FOV, what a travesty.
And the reason knockoff Gamecube controllers feel fine is because the authentic ones already feel cheap.
And god, Abby looks miserable for a lot of this. I feel like she needs to watch a dumb, but enjoyable, Bond movie to enjoy this more.

Oh man, N64 blur...it feels like I'm watching trailers from demo discs in the late 90's again.

This seems like a promising series...and sure, bring SHOGO around for a Playdate! The only thing I remember from that right now is the clunky controls.

I'm now rabidly wanting a Brummie Bond. Thanks Dan!

Great first episode, and what an intro.

I'm looking forward to this whole series because to this day, Goldeneye may be the game I've spent the most time playing. As others have said some of those target times for cheats were some absolute hot flaming garbage, but earning the one in Facility is probably one of my most satisfying gaming achievements.

I love the special touch of the tuxedo. I hope he is wearing matching cargo shorts.

Oh boy, I own that Blu-Ray set too. Absolutely worth it. I love all those old bonds and I've watched them multiple times.

My buddy and I would take turns trying to unlock various cheats and the degree to which we had some levels (the cheats that we cared about) memorized is startling because I am totally not the kind of person to bash my head against a thing until perfection is achieved. I'm pretty sure that I got the facility cheat and he got the cheat in the Archives, which were two of the hardest ones, as I remember it.

@glok1132: to be fair, it sounds like you don't remember "that one movie with Christopher Lee" either. :b

(It's 'The Man with the Golden Gun', and Lee played Scaramonga.)

I played a lot of Goldeneye as a kid. But even then I could recognize this game wasn't great. That said though, the Dam music RIPS!

suggestion to dan: treat the combat like a bond movie. just stand (or crouch) aim and shoot. Or camp outside the door and wait for them to line up (you've been pretty good at that)

godspeed!

I just realized that Dan is just a real life Michael Scott

I can tell this is going to be a great series. GoldenEye well known for its rock solid framerate and stunning visuals.

Can always count on GBeast for great intros to their shows. Love it.

I remember playing this on 00 difficulty and having a great time of it, completing all the objectives, and beating the game countless times. how. how did I do that? How did we do that as children?

It turns out kids have a lot of patience and free time, but not very much money to buy new games.