GoldenEye 007 has been in the news lately thanks to comments from designer Martin Hollis regarding changes proposed by Shigeru Miyamoto, so this latest Teens React video is quite timely.
You know the drill by now - the guys at the React YouTube channel take an old game, locate some willing teens and make them play it, filming the results for our entertainment. The classic N64 shooter doesn't garner the usual sarcastic comments - in fact, some of the participants have played it before - but it does bamboozle a few of the players when it comes to finding a weapon.
As we all know, in GoldenEye 007's multiplayer mode, "On Site Procurement" is the order of the day - you begin with no weapon other than you fists. Finding a suitable firearm is your first goal as soon as the match begins, and it is this element of the game that seemed to throw some of the teens.
It's amusing viewing as ever, with plenty of memorable quotes. Our favourite is "How do I hit this chick?", delivered entirely without irony. Enjoy.
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Golden eye was a shooter before shooter were popular... ha ha, true. It was one of the games that helped shooters become popular. Thant, perfect Dark and then later years, Medal of Honour, and CoD.
Kaelyn actually used some pretty good tactics in the final round (find a good hiding spot and camp) even if she didn't quite realise what she was doing all of the time, lol.
I'm going to have to dig out my old copy and give it another run through
Makes me miss my youth so much. . I'm depressed now.
@ikki5 "console shooter". i and most of my friends had been been playing pc shooters for years at this point, and frankly: until splatoon, i figured console shooters a waste because of their imprecise control schemes
@day Yep, CS:GO feels so much more accurate than COD and even Goldeneye.
This game was dope one of the best games of time. GoldenEye online anyone for the NX lol.
@ikki5 You forgot about Halo! No matter your opinions on the series, it alongside Goldeneye and Call of Duty helped create a standard for future console shooters.
Every time I watch a kids/teens react video the impact is lessened slightly more than the previous. Yeah youre young. Yeah I'm old. Yeah it's weird that you were in kindergarten when I was in high school. You're being quite annoying, I'm just going to go ahead and turn this off...
@ikki5 Her statement was largely true. Before Goldeneye "console" shooters were not very popular compared to PC shooters. And then Halo added to that when it released. Goldeneye did so many things right in a game like having unimportant parts of buildings so it didn't feel like an on-rails shooter. This and Mario Kart 64 where some of my best N64 multiplayer memories as a teen.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT TEENS REACT!!!
@Nico07 GoldenEye did so much more than that - it was the first 'intelligent' FPS game.
Shooting the locks of doors, hacking, hit detection, realistic animation, realistic AI, textures, particle effects, realistic explosions, damage modelling, bullet holes, large and wide variety of outdoor and indoor environments, atmospheric effects, vehicles, escort missions, lock in cover, clean UI, zooming sniper scopes....
GoldenEye's influence cannot be understated.
@nessisonett @day playing them with a Wiimote feels like a perfectly fine replacement for a mouse to me since it's just as precise if not more so since you only have to point, and I play these kinds of games on PC as well as on consoles with no trouble whatsoever.
On the tech side of it, console versions of games like COD are almost always made to react a fraction slower to compensate for the travel of the stick of a joypad, so the relative time of seeing an enemy and being able to shoot them is nearly the same as on PC.
However: in actuality, this slight difference would make it an unfair fight if you could pit console and PC gamers against each other in an online match while playing on their own platforms, so the console gamers would lose.
In before sour statements about Teens React. Oh, wait...
I almost never understand why people could get so annoyed by something like this. It's just some lighthearted entertainment and there are certainly tons upon tons of videos and channels on YouTube that are a hell of a lot more annoying than kids or teens reacting to things they haven't seen before or haven't seen in a long time.
Funny thing is that (coincidence or not) more often than not, the sour reactions are from European members. There are some natives that are equally annoyed, but they are a minority, so that makes me wonder if part of the annoyance is also directed specifically at American kids, or American mentality.
Since moving to Europe, I've experienced a lot of that myself, initially. Sentences in discussions often starting with "You Americans... " but nowadays it's all cool...
@liveswired Very true, I remember walking through rooms and shooting out the lights and watching everything go dark, shooting beakers on tables and having them break and shatter. Everything including tables seemed to have explosives in them so if you shot them enough almost anything else would explode, but thinking back it was probably done for comedic effect. Many of the things done right in Goldeneye are skipped over in modern day shooters like Call of Duty and others.
@Nico07 yeah, so true. I find alot of gamers today like to forget about GoldenEye because it was on N64.
As a long time PC FPS player it annoys me how much people these days like to pretend GE never happened. It is the granddaddy of 'modern' FPS including Half Life. GE'S influences are still seen today and people forget that the cover system popularised by Gears of War was actually first used in GE!
I remember moving from Quake PC to GoldenEye and being completely awe struck from graphics to sound and gameplay, animations of characters which were 700+ frames up from Quakes amazing 3 frames! It was a game with so many secrets that are still being found today.
GoldenEye's influence is now being airbrushed from history by newbies and unfortunately elitist PC fanboy journalists who will not accept a cartridge console game influenced, modernised and popularised the whole genre.
People like us need to keep up the fight for GE'S recognition! How can a game with 200 major technical and computer arts awards worldwide in 1998 be forgotten about???
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