The fact critics snubbed this from getting a 99 on Metacritic over the framerate is bullshit, Perfect Dark's FPS isn't even bad
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The fact critics snubbed this from getting a 99 on Metacritic over the framerate is bullshit, Perfect Dark's FPS isn't even bad
Yes it is.
When everything in a game is so flawless a minor frame drop isn't a deal breaker
Minor?
>single digits FPS at times
>minor
>in the genre where framerate matters the most
Big N stans are delusional
>in the genre where framerate matters the most
Fighting games are the genre where framerate matters the most.
yet no fighting game in tournament comps ever goes above 60fps while FPS players try to make use of the biggest framerate available their computers can produce
Yeah but it's important to keep a consistent framerate, not a high framerate. It's the genre where a STABLE framerate matters the most.
Too bad PD has neither high nor stable framerate
>minor
>game never goes above 25fps
>sometimes it goes down to 1fps
>sometimes the fps is so low that the game downright skips a full second of frames
you probably don't know because you are old
but young people now demand at least 320fps or you can go frick yourself
>Perfect Dark
>flawless
I agree with you that the framerate issues are overblown but PD has 1001 problems. Still a good game, but it has some straight up lazy stuff going on too. Don't challenge me on that unless you want to hear upsetting things.
I want to hear upsetting things.
Unless you can spin the framerate drop as a positive or intentional game design, the game is not flawless and doesn't deserve a 100.
all right, report in: who coomed to her?
The scene where Joanna wakes up after getting her dress ripped ruined me as a precocious child.
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I grew up to become a full time coom artist. When I think about where it all went wrong, it all goes back to that scene.
You just didn't work out or talk to girls enough.
Why would you want to talk to girls when you've got the Nintendo Ultra 64?
>Perfect Dark's FPS isn't even bad
It's even worse than Goldeneye frame rate wise. PD is also worse playing single player as well.
Realistically speaking, why aren't any of the levels as good or as memorable as the Goldeneye levels?
because all the creativity went on the first game
Most of the goldeneye devs left Rare by then
>Perfect Dark's FPS isn't even bad
lol
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That's a cutscene who cares.
You can't just like, criticize Nintendo. What about my childhood?
>make an arguably irrelavent criticism
>someone remotely pushes back against it
>N-NINTENDO...
(You) will also never pass, no matter what Sony's Twitter X page or your psychologist tells you otherwise.
You're proving his point dude
How? Is every claim ever made true by default?
>GoldenEye 007
>Jet Force Gemini
>Perfect Dark
3 excellent action-shooters.
>Metacritic
Perfect Dark is in my top 5 all time favorite games. However it does have possibly the worst framerates ever, it literally goes in slow motion sometimes.
Does that matter to me? Not at all, I find it part of its charm. But I completely understand why that’s a dealbreaker for many people
>2003
>sleepover at my house with a few friends
>two of the kids are cool, but the one was this homosexual that looked like a teenage john malkovich with a lisp and some eye problem where he couldn't see anything properly without turning his head slightly
>me and my buddy both recently bought Timesplitters 2 and were obsessed with it
>we decide to play some 4 player splitscreen and have a blast
>after an hour, the weird eye kid gets jealous because his family is poor and he always has the last gen console
>says TS2 is okay, but that he has "an even better game" and brought his N64 and controllers
>begrudgingly let him set it up
>takes 5 minutes just to get the game started because of the moronic menus
>finally play the game
>looks like ass
>he set a bunch of shit weapons like the knives and cyclones, probably because he thought they looked the coolest and would help the game seem less gay in comparison to TS2
>hate the controls because i'm already used to PC shooters and dual analog and this homosexual never bothered explaining how to change the default setup which is aids
>every character looks like Dolph Lundgren or Furio from the Sopranos wearing a latex body suit
>game is running at 5fps
>after about 10 minutes, everybody tells him we're bored and want to go back to TS2
>gets angry and shuts off the console and says "Perfect Dark is better" again, in his gay little lisp voice
>play TS2 for another 4 hours until my dad finally comes down to the basement half asleep and tells us to shut the frick up with his penis hanging out
Perfect Dark sucks.
Yea as much as I love perfect dark I have to admit the multi-player is inferior to times plitters 2 or XIII but obviously those came later
>2024
>larping on Ganker in my mom's house
>2024
>homosexual eye kid is on /vr/ still seething because he never bought timesplitters 2
>2024
>still larping in my mom's house on Ganker
>you didn't have a sleepover in 2003, you're larping!!!
uhh alright
>you didn't have a sleepover in 2003, you're larping!!!
Tru
sorry you had no friends
Ganker is my friend 🙂
that explains a lot
>I was flossing in the mirror in 2020 so that means I had friends!
dude i'm 36 years old. the fact you think that having a fricking sleepover in 2003 is some kind of unbelievable feat is very sad
Legends say he's still playing that copy of perfect dark to this very day, and has a framed print out of the timesplitters 2 cover art that he gently touches every night before bed
Why did you invite him if he was a gay
i knew him from boyscouts, we were all in the same troop, and he was the best friend of one of the other kids who came. i actually kind of enjoyed hanging out with him when he would just come over by himself, but any time we were with the other guys he would morph into the world's biggest gay. i said his family was poor but honestly i don't even know if they actually were, they had a big house and like 5 acres but they were all filthy, everything they owned was old as shit and they were practically hoarders so i didn't know what to think. this kid had a major chip on his shoulder because of his gigachad older brother who was 6'6" and got a basketball scholarship while he ended up rotting away in town. i felt bad for him but he brought a lot of misery on himself. maybe if he had mowed lawns and bought TS2 instead of playing old N64 games, his life would've been different.
My gun!
Get her!
epic references, fellow perfect dark fans. we were there. upvoted.
You are a flawed device, and we need you no longer.
You b***h!
Decades have passed and the PC port has solved this issue and more, so I'm happy.
You shouldn't have come here, girl!
It's mind-boggling how RARE has this reputation of being hardware geniuses, and yet...
SOULdenEye
>RARE has this reputation of being hardware geniuses
Never seen anyone say this. Rare has a reputation of making good games with charm to them, especially for a western studio when western games had no charm and were mostly bad.
>especially for a western studio when western games had no charm and were mostly bad.
This is the number 1 most tired, rehashed and outright false statement propagated on here. You weebs are insufferable at times
True, but the game is still fun according to its intended design. I thought Goldeneye was a step back from Turok back in the day, but it's just more of a different kind of FPS rather a distinctly worse one (since both kinds are fun).
YOU make a full 3D FPS game on the N64 if you're so smart.
There are several of them and they don't run at single digits FPS as soon as a few models appeal on screen. Even Ocarina which is often clowned for its framerate, feature stable 20 FPS in a huge ass world (for its time).
Ambitious FPS games do run like garbage. Turok 2 is on par with Perfect Dark in scale, and it runs at about the same abysmal FPS.
This is the only FPS on the 64 that didn't run like ass(unless you count Pokémon snap)
The first turok also runs smooth, same for doom and quake.
The N64 games are usually more ambitious in scope, and in the case of TWINE it looks and runs better on the N64.
the N64 its the only console that people brings the frame rate, but the other consoles with fully 3D rendered shooters with smaller levels and much less enemies on screen had bad frame rate either
Yeah, it's very unfair. The best looking 3d ps1 games can run like ass but no one ever brings that up because it doesn't match the narrative. So they'll often compare fully 3d N64 games to 2d games or 3d games that heavily rely on limited draw distance or many 2d elements.
When you compare fair things like Doom, Duke3d, Quake, you get a majorly different impression but that doesn't serve console warring posters very well.
I'm not sure what framerate Final Fantasy 9 runs at, but I'm going to use that example as I think it is the best looking 3d game on the platform. It sure looks like it is running at like 10 frames a second.
Chrono Cross is also another of the best looking games and in combat where everything is in 3d, it runs between 10-20 frames a second, occasionally dipping into single digits when spells are cast. But no one ever makes fun of the game for having terrible framerates when people point out how good it looks.
Vagrant Story looks better than FF9 and runs at a steady 30fps
You are nuts, the models in FF9 are way more detailed and higher poly than VS, which is very low poly and pixelated.
FF IX has four characters on screen plus enemies; the battles are not isometric either; and they present a much higher variety of textures and animations.
The Vagrant Story There's framerate dips during literally every single attack.
The game in general is just slow as hell. Everything takes forever, and everything is tedious. It's a bunch of menu-sifting for everything. When you're not sifting through menus to switch your weapon, you're sifting through menus to use a spell or an item.
Don't get me wrong, I finished both of them, and they are among the best games on PS1, but they had poor performance, which is a fact.
Here is another example: even with all the downgrade and cut content, the extra CD space meant nothing to help this game on PS1. Maybe that is why making a seamless game with interconnected levels on PS1 was so hard.
>The Vagrant Story There's framerate dips during literally every single attack.
Literally have no idea what people are talking about when they say this. Spells yes, because they have load time and are non-interactive. Attacks, no. Did you play on real hardware?
FFIX is all menus and 2D backdrops and never gives you a full 3D environment to move around in. The interaction is on the level of a NES game. It's only notable in how everything in the battles is constantly animating.
>Perfect Dark's FPS isn't even bad
I have it loaded in my actual N64 right now, it is in fact that bad. I'd still pump my seed deep inside of Joanna though
It had good missions structure and a nice campaign story. Good amount of side content and multiplayer. Too bad the controls and aiming and everything else was shit. Which comes with the territory of being an N64 native game.
Imagine thinking that a game going from 99 to 98 metascore is a snub and a grave injustice. The mental illness has no end.
Imagine having FPS complaints during the time when 16-20 was perfectly fine, it should be abysmal
>implying it's 2024