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I often find myself considering making an online Perfect Dark or GoldenEye 007. Yes, from Nintendo 64.
So far these have been nothing more than passing thoughts, although serious ones.
I am not making promises for the future or in any way committing to such a project at this time, but I have been considering it strongly enough to make this post for opinions.
My fascination is more with Perfect Dark than with GoldenEye 007, but I know a lot of people like to stick to the original and still enjoy GoldenEye 007 more.
My question is, would an online Perfect Dark for PC (with full controller support on top of keyboard/mouse conversion) be fairly popular, or at least pretty enjoyable by a lot of people?
Or would more people like to see GoldenEye 007 online?
Or, finally, some kind of mixture, with all items/maps/characters from both games and the ability to interchange them, or to use only objects/rules from one game or the other?
What I will do if I make it:
I would consider:
I would not:
Although I still make no promises, the main thing holding me back from starting this type of project is that I don’t really know what the rest of the world likes.
Of course, my projects are for my own entertainment, but if no one else is playing, I can’t really get much entertainment from it.
I hear people saying one rocks, the other rocks, or they both rock, but I see no dominant king.
My guess is that people would want to see both games, but with as much work as it is, hopefully I can avoid doing that by finding out if one is clearly favored over the other.
Also note that I do not care one way or the other about legal issues.
Whatever happens happens.
L. Spiro
I often find myself considering making an online Perfect Dark or GoldenEye 007. Yes, from Nintendo 64.
So far these have been nothing more than passing thoughts, although serious ones.
I am not making promises for the future or in any way committing to such a project at this time, but I have been considering it strongly enough to make this post for opinions.
My fascination is more with Perfect Dark than with GoldenEye 007, but I know a lot of people like to stick to the original and still enjoy GoldenEye 007 more.
My question is, would an online Perfect Dark for PC (with full controller support on top of keyboard/mouse conversion) be fairly popular, or at least pretty enjoyable by a lot of people?
Or would more people like to see GoldenEye 007 online?
Or, finally, some kind of mixture, with all items/maps/characters from both games and the ability to interchange them, or to use only objects/rules from one game or the other?
What I will do if I make it:
- Maps, objects, characters, textures, and sounds will be extracted from the ROM files and used as-is, with no “upgrading” of any kind. The maps will still be low-polygon and have the exact look and feel of the original, but with higher resolution. I feel this is important for keeping that nostalgic feel from long ago, and it decreases production time.
- Make my own engine. The engine will be roughly tailored towards these games for an improvement in speed.
- Match the physics/game mechanics as closely as possible. I plan to use a disassembler on the ROM and view the code for player movement/basic physics which should allow me to replicate the physics almost exactly, if not exactly.
- Include all guns from either or both games, matching their behavioral characteristics as closely as possible. This includes even the FarSight-XR20 and Laptop guns, however there would be the option to choose which weapons are used, as in Perfect Dark.
- Use the single-player maps in the online mode.
I would consider:
- Adding mapping capabilities to allow players to add custom maps.
- Adding scripting capabilities. This would imply modding capabilities.
- Coding bots. I can not guarantee I would add bots at all, and if I did they would not have exactly the same AI routines as in Perfect Dark, but I consider it.
I would not:
- Enhance the graphics/sounds in any way that requires modifying the original content. This is not because I care about copyrights (as I obviously don’t) but because I feel that modifying the original content simple takes away from the feel of the original.
- Add jetpacks. I know, but sorry.
- Add single-player to either remake. I would include the single-player maps in the online mode, but there would be no single-player mode.
- Add slow motion. It won’t work online.
Although I still make no promises, the main thing holding me back from starting this type of project is that I don’t really know what the rest of the world likes.
Of course, my projects are for my own entertainment, but if no one else is playing, I can’t really get much entertainment from it.
I hear people saying one rocks, the other rocks, or they both rock, but I see no dominant king.
My guess is that people would want to see both games, but with as much work as it is, hopefully I can avoid doing that by finding out if one is clearly favored over the other.
Also note that I do not care one way or the other about legal issues.
Whatever happens happens.
L. Spiro
