So for today’s article I wrote, its a retrospective on GoldenEye 007. Specifically with a bent towards the odd legal mix it caught itself up in with so many different entities being rights holders.

I covered how it was made (a team of nine, most of which had never developed games before!), how it was received (to say ‘well’ is an understatement), how it didn’t fit in with what was typical on the Nintendo 64 at the time, and more besides.

Its not a hard-hitting piece, but it you wanna jump back in time and enjoy some nostalgia for the N64 or for GoldenEye, then you might enjoy my retrospective on it:

https://gardinerbryant.com/goldeneye-007-the-accidental-masterpiece-trapped-in-licensing-limbo/

  • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Any consolation, ShadPS4 can run BB at 4K / 60fps right now, if you want it?

    👀

    Need a bit of a beast of a PC, but can confirm you can play it all the way through, not too many issues.

    What level of “beast” are we talking about? I only need 1440p, personally.

    • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 day ago

      It doesn’t take too much of a graphics card to push a ten-year old game about, but you need quite a CPU to handle the emulation. I’ve just upgraded from a Ryzen 7 / 2700X (which struggled a bit, kept 30 fps though) to a Ryzen 9 / 5900XT, which does it quite well. Ironically, the RAM crisis seems to have made CPU upgrades a bit more affordable, since not so many people are buying either.

      Higher resolutions need a fair amount of RAM, but we’re talking “a fair amount of RAM compared to a PS4” - if you’ve a few gigabytes of system and graphics card RAM, that should be plenty.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        Did my upgrade two years ago, didn’t get “top of the line” equipment because monetary constraints. I’ve got a 5600X, 32GB RAM and a GeForce 3060 with 12GB VRAM, so that shouldn’t be too bad?

        • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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          23 hours ago

          Should probably run it quite well. BB was ‘designed for 30 fps’ and you’ll get more than that. Certainly run it better than it does on PS4, anyway.