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Thanks man! This game is still a lot of fun to play. Though outside of playing it on my N64 for this video, the last few times that I've played it I've done it on the 1964 emulator to get some sweet mouse and keyboard support. Please don't forget to unsubscribe on your way out lol
@@bencahill2647 Lol sorry. it's just a reference to something we were talking about on Twitter. I lost like ten subs within an hour or so of publishing the video.
Perfect Dark was such a deep game. So much to do in one FPS on the N64. Truly an amazing game. Great video too with some impressive renders and animations too.
There was an INSANE amount of content, not to mention a really cool sci-fi themed campaign. The alien reveal blew me away when I played it the first time.
@@DegreelessnessMode Someone told me Perfect Dark was terrible and nothing more than a failed tech demo. That alone proved to me this dude was mentally deficient and probably didn't even know how to wipe his own arse
Perfect Dark was such a freakin awesome sweet ass game. Still remember lugging my huge 23 inch tv outside with my N64 to the communal gazebo on my street and playing with all my friends. The 4 player split screen WITH bots meant we could play a coop deathmatch against the AI. I remember we used to set 1 of the bots to really hard so everytime someone saw the yellow bot they'd run scared.
Lmao.. awesome. Me too bro. I dug it back out, my 12yr old and I have been playing it. He likes it as well and fascinated with the technology of the time
My favorite game of all time. It truly was a masterpiece. It was packed with so much content! And the multiplayer was even better than Goldeneye's with SO much customizability. I agree, the 2010 XBLA remaster is the ideal way to play it in the modern age. I once started a petition to develop Perfect Dark for PC but it never got anywhere lol would love to see a modern studio like Nightdive port it to the PC!
100% agree with this. There is the Xenia emulator, but getting K&M controls working properly for it seems to be a bit of a nightmare. Nightdive could absolutely do the game justice, though.
@@FloopDeMoop what that's dope they need to just remake it PD64 like how they did Resident evil 2 that new trailer scared me because Joanna has RED hair again 😭 I take that as a bad omen RE:zero
Cool thing that playing it with 1964 GE/PD edition works so well! Allows you to play in 60fps with modern resolutions, and to top it, it plays with mouse like a charm!
The one thing it could have genuinely benefited from though is further optimization, texture stitching, occlusion culling, etc. Framerates were often pretty rough.
I was genuinely blown away by this game back in 2000. It looked so good for the time and had so much content that I played it for literally years, and I still do once in a while. And I totally agree with your closing thoughts on why it couldn't surpass Goldeneye sales-wise. Goldeneye was just a pioneer title for consoles, and even though Perfect Dark did everything better than Goldeneye IMO it just couldn't make history like its predecessor did.
Multiple reasons, 007 was already a household name. Lots of kids parents at that time were already familiar with 007, so if the kid didn't want it, his dad or older brother probably did, and as a result, almost every person you knew with an N64 had Goldeneye, or had played it heavily at friends and family's homes. And let's face it, most boys growing up want to be James Bond, not Joanna Dark, and to this day I still prefer playing as a male character. It takes me out of the game to see female hands in a first person game, however in Perfect Dark it's not an issue since they don't look particularly girly, that said, this was pre-internet era, so kids are going to be looking at the box art and judging off of that. Finally, the movie itself served as advertisement for GE, but Perfect Dark didn't get advertised on TV that I recall and if you stack Turok 2, Goldeneye 64, and Perfect Dark side by side on a shelf at a rental store and gave them a choice, most boys will choose the game with a male character.
I think the reason that Perfect Dark didn't do so well compared to Goldeneye, is that Goldeneye had a number of years to build its reputation as a must have title, and its popularity eventually had a viral effect where if you had a N64 but didn't have Goldeneye, you'd still know someone who did. Perfect Dark came out in 2000 so it really only had one Christmas to be a must have title for- a Christmas season where the PS2 would launch. As a result, Perfect Dark didn't have the time to gather the kind of momentum that Goldeneye had steadily built up over the N64s life.
This is my favourite N64 game. I recently completed it again and it's still so much fun ! Single player campaign is a blast, the multiplayer is super fun and there is so much content and challenges to explore. Thanks for the video
I played Golden Eye until Perfect Dark came out. I was lucky to already have an expansion pack, and Perfect Dark was by far better. It didn't deserve to be in the shadow of Golden Eye. I do still have my N64 with 100+ games and working controllers. Definitely a treasure of mine still to this day.
The most underrated aspect of both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark is the fantastic soundtracks. The music is a timeless element that, unlike other technical aspects of the game, still holds up just as well today, as the day it was released.
No worries, Bob. Not like I'm going to get tired of reading nice things about my videos lol. Seriously though, these kind of comments make all the hard work with it. Thank you!
I honestly believe that the best voice for Joanna was the developer that they just happened to have in the office rather than the professional, American-accented actor they got for Perfect Dark Zero.
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Ok, you had me cackling like a madman at you hanging out in the dam guard tower. Perfect Dark was the first game I 100% as a kid and is most likely responsible for me being as much as a gamer as I am, tons of memories. I good chunk of those memories were begging my parents for the x-pack to play all of it, the game was quite the expensive buy during that time. Years later my buddies an I would still pull the old girl out, load up a lobby of meat sims and just go all in with fists only. Thanks for this man, always good to have a nostalgia trip.
Seeing a new documentary video from you is always such a rare treat (pun only intended if it's amusing)! I relate to the freedom given to the dev team being a double edged sword. I'm an illustrator for a living and can tell you first-hand that even though clients often _think_ they're being nice by telling me I can do whatever I want in certain aspects of a job, they really aren't. I've always VASTLY preferred being told exactly what a client wants, all the way down to providing reference if they have it. It makes the job easier for me, which makes it faster, which makes it less expensive for the client to get _exactly_ what they want. It's a win-win situation all around. Freedom can be nice sometimes, yes, but creative brains can go in a million different directions without guidelines to fence them in a little bit. My clients have often been surprised when I tell them that no, you're not being annoying or overly controlling by sending me a novela sized description of what you want with reference photos attached for, say, clothing, facial features you like, certain objects that are important, etc (I've done a lot of work for writers who want visuals of their characters or specific scenes). So yeah, as soon as you described all the freedom the Perfect Dark team had? I winced a little bit before you even said it could be a double edged sword.😄
I loved Perfect Dark when it came out but the fact that GoldenEye was such a huge hit, I'm sure the license holders involved wanted bigger a cut, and that had something to do with passing on the squeal and building a proprietary IP game.
Love the video man. Those hi-res cut scenes from Goldeneye are awesome. I was 16 when Perfect Dark released and my friends and I thought it was the greatest game ever made lol. Thanks for the video man.
What a trip down memory lane! Perfect Dark was by far my favourite FPS on N64. I still remember that I was able to unlock all of the cheats by beating the campaign levels within certain timeframes. And the multiplayer was great too. Dark Sim was no joke...
I was feeling depressed today bro your videos literally put a smile on my face at least for 10 minutes and that is better than none trust me thank you brother and keep it up
Glad you're enjoying them, Tim. Here's hoping you start feeling better sooner than later. I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. It means a lot
Never had an N64, but was able to play this game on Xbox One recently and I love it. I remember playing GoldenEye with roommates who had the game and love the hell out of that so this game was so much better.
very fond memories of playing through this with my cousins when it came out. such a great game that still holds up pretty decently today, although it's certainly aged a lot in terms of graphics and framerate.
Oh hell yeah! I don't have the time to watch this right now, but your videos are always a highlight of my day and I'm so excited to have this on my watch later list.
I still have this masterpiece. They managed to squeeze every ounce of performance that the game lags like crazy sometimes. N Bombs and remote mines and Laptop guns setup on the walls and maxing out on bots would make it lag in multiplayer. I havent touched the missions in years. I still have to complete the rest of the difficulty. Nintendo should have bought Rare they were great.
Absolutely love your videos! The old commercials and videos of games from my childhood is such a dopamine hit. Your animations are slick and impressive. Your content is very addictive and engaging and I look forward to your videos!
Absolutely fantastic work - your documentary making skills are great and have only gotten better and better as time has gone on! The storytelling, research, editing, b-roll, animation, narration all on point! I do wonder, what software do you use for the 3D animations? It produces some pretty realistic looking results
Thanks so much. I mostly use Cinema 4D with redshift as my renderer. I do sometimes use Blender for random stuff here and there but I only used Cinema 4D in this video with the exception of the animation of James Bond running across the screen during the intro. For whatever reason I just couldn't quite get the animation to work the way I wanted it to in cinema 4D but was able to do it in Blender. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and the kind words. I really appreciate it.
This is my favorite game of all time. The campaign was amazing, but the multiplayer was so far ahead of its time. Especially for its use of the bots/sims. And the variety of the weapons and their own secondary specialities (Farsight shooting through walls, Laptop gun being thrown on a wall and acting as sentry turret, SuperDragon as a grenade launcher, Slayer using player-guided rockets, Callisto charge-up). I want to buy a Nintendo 64 just for this game.
Yo, I grew up playing this game, it’ll always remain one of my favorite games of all time. And while I do like Golden Eye as well, Perfect Dark has always been better and more enjoyable IMO. There’s so much more to do in PD, especially when I don’t rlly have anyone to play it with nowadays if I wanna do a game of multiplayer. I can just boot up some sims and have a death match!
Perfect Dark was my absolute favourite game, still is one of my all-time favourites. I didn't care people thought it was a bite off GoldenEye, it was unique in many ways, the gameplay, story, graphics were so immersive and dynamic. I just remember being infuriated by the final boss I think I had to do the level over 20+ times before I beat it 🤣
Blown away with your green screen editing bits here, man! Great work on recapping the making of one of my favorite games of all time, and THE best FPS (IMO) that STILL has more features and modes than most modern FPS!
Thanks Dongles! I had planned on doing a lot more full body green screen stuff in the levels and filmed a bunch of footage for it but unfortunately the 3D models from PD were very difficult to work with in modern 3D editing programs. Even the few levels I used here I had to basically remodel a third of the level. The The GoldenEye level models were far easier to use when I made that video. Thanks again for watching and taking the time to comment, I really do appreciate it.
Love this follow-up to your Goldeneye video. Your hard work really shines through with all the deep research, 3d graphics, and magazine scans. Another banger.
Dude... the CGI keeps getting better and better each video! I honestly thought that box on the shelf was real until it moved. Good job man! Also, I assume you render all of your CGI scenes on your CD-I since it has all that gratuitous horsepower.
Thanks! Though to be honest, I didn't get to do as much CG stuff in this one as I wanted to thanks to a few technical issues that came up. So actually I felt like the CG was a little tame in this episode, but the stuff that I did I think came out reasonably well, all things considered. And of course it's all rendered on the console of tomorrow, the CD-i. Always nice to see someone that can appreciate the incomparable and endless power of the Philips CD-i. 😌
When I was 18, I had my first apartment. I sat in it playing this game all day. I had fun beating all the missions, but for some reason my idea of fun was trying to beat three other Perfect agents on the bot mode. I played til I had my character to Rank 2, but for some reason I think I could never reach Rank 1. And of course I had only the Mayan music on. Awesome game. Thanks for making this video.
@@MidoseitoAkage James Bond has an entire movie series.. also F the hype I never follow crowds if i know something is great i dont wait for "hype" PDark is incredible
Ah perfect dark, the only boxed N64 game I still own. Good news for everyone reading this is you can still get a boxed copy for $50 unlike a lot of other games these days. Amazing job at the video, strange that I see this pushed by creators more then the algorithm because that almost never happens.
You did an absolutely awesome job with this video, bro! The making of this game is so fascinating. I had no idea! I remember its release like it was yesterday. Getting together to play Perfect Dark was the last time all my high school buddies and I got together after graduation. It was a huge deal, because we were already massive Goldeneye fans.
Again, miss your videos man. I daily search to see if you dropped something new the way I do AVGN, Gaming Historian, Game Sack and Sega Lord. Hope you're healing up!
Congrats on the sponsorship! Glad to see this channel gaining popularity. It's well deserved. It's the only channel I've ever bothered to set notifications.
Again, another high quality documentary too good for TH-cam. I'm still waiting for a PC release for the Perfect Dark remaster. Microsoft needs to release it. It's amazing that to this day I have to hold onto my 360 for multiple games.
I just hope they put Rare Replay on PC because the only way you can play the 2010 remaster of Perfect Dark on PC is through Xenia or XCloud (requires Game Pass Ultimate)
Wow its a miracle that this game did well in the end considering all the odds that happened during production. I mean theres a lot examples of great but long developed products which end up as box office flops. Dope video as always!
Perfect Dark is one classic shooter that aged well, more so than its predecessor GoldenEye 007. I play both to this day, but I agree 100% it surpassed in every way...except for the music. Great old masterpiece, and I beaten it 100%.
I never really liked Goldeneye, I thought it was severely overrated. Perfect Dark was a masterpiece though. Much better story, graphics, options, and overall gameplay. Tons of extras to play around with, vastly improved multiplayer. I think releasing late in the N64 lifecycle was a big reason for lower sales, 007 got most of its sales 1-2 years after release. Releasing later in a lifecycle is always a risk.
Actually a BRILLIANT detail that's missing from the video and what a lot of us missed as well is the option of using TWO N64 controllers to simulate two guns that your character was holding. Grabbing the controllers by the center hold you had two joysticks for movement, two triggers and man, it was fun to shoot selectively with the two rumble packs installed!
Apparantly, the Bond license holders are also incredibly restrictive with what a developer can and can't do with the property now, even silly things like they're not allowed to have Jaws in the game anymore. One of the reasons no one's wanted to touch the IP for years. So, the new IO game in development will be interesting to see.
Excellent video. Perfect Dark is a phenomenal shooter. I can't begin to pathom how the PD team crammed so much content, spectacular visuals and animation, combined with high quality music, sound effects and speech onto a tiny 256mb cartridge! Also it's impressive how playable it was despite the low framerate. With the more in depth knowledge now about N64 architecture, it would be interesting if the kinds of insane optimisations and enhancements made with the SM64 engine from Kaze would be possible on the PD engine. I remember an interview in the early 2000's, Julian Eggebrecht (Factor 5) stated if the Rare team threw out the GE engine, built a new engine from scratch using the knowledge they gained instead of tacking things onto the GE engine, Perfect Dark could've pushed 30fps @640x480 with more detail. Considering what F5 were pushing with Battle for Naboo and Indiana Jones - he may have a point.
Now we're out of COVID lockdown. My time for TH-cam videos is limited but I can always make time for your videos buddy. Much love from the uk. The content is always top drawer and it's always enjoyable watching the progression in quality of the editing etc. Keep it up.
The game that made me enjoy FPS. Actually, was the only FPS I've put effort to finish and unlock everything. Such a masterpiece. Everything, from the gameplay to the amazing ambient was perfect!
Great video, thanks for the trip down memory lane. It really is a shame that Perfect Dark came out so late in the N64's lifespan. I remember most of my friends already had their eyes set on the PS2 or Gamecube and paid little attention to whatever was still coming out on N64. Perfect Dark took what Goldeneye did well and made it even better.
One of my favorite FPS of all time! The Xbox arcade version was Soooo good and fixed my main issue with the frame rate. It's so incredible to think of how much they packed into the N64 with Perfect Dark. Very well done vid!
The production value, the cohesive coverage! Amazing video! And I totally agree with you about the Xbox Remaster being the best version; everything it does from the improved models, textures, resolution and framerate would've done the Rare of 2000 proud, making it feel like the definitive version of what they always wanted to launch back then.
He's right about the revolutionary aspect of Goldeneye. As 13 year olds in 1997 it changed our lives on the spot. The novelty hadn't worn off by 2000 so we didn't even notice Perfect Dark. I picked it up from a used book store several years ago and really want to hook up the 64 back up after this :)
Perfect Dark is my favorite N64 game. I played it a lot back then and I've also played it a lot as an adult. Always on the original N64. I haven't played it in years now sadly since I have my old consoles in my storage unit. Maybe when I have more free time I'll consider getting my old consoles out from my storage unit to play them. This is the first time I've seen your channel and it's awesome! You guys didn't have to do the extra work with those visual effects but you went ahead and did so and they look amazing!
You continue to produce pure excellence my friend, and your standard of professionalism is second to none. The use of simulants in PD's multiplayer was absolutely groundbreaking at the time and raised the bar yet again in the PvP FPS genre that its predecessor gave birth to. A truly remarkable game from top to bottom. Thank you for another deep and informative retrospective of one of Gaming's all-time greats!
Thanks apex. This video is kind of bombing in terms of views but I can't even be too upset about that when I read comments like yours. Thanks a lot, I really, really, appreciate it. 🙏
While I didn't have the opportunity to play this as a kid I did pick it up used sometime around 2012 and thoroughly enjoyed it! I remember watching the whole intro up to the start screen and I knew that it was going to be a good game. Anyways, great job on the video! I love the stories behind these older games, keep up the great work!
Great video! I think one big reason Perfect Dark didn't sell well that you neglected to mention is James Bond is a known series and Perfect Dark was a new IP.
It came out at a time when the Dreamcast already existed with better performing games and the PS2 was just around the corner. It was one of the last hurrahs of a vastly outmatched machine.
I feel that Perfect Dark was more revolutionary than Goldeneye. SO many of the aspects of Perfect Dark a staple of modern 1st person games. I bought it day one and it's still my favorite game of all time.
Yahel, my man, the amount of effort, production value and research you put into these videos is 2nd to none. PD is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time, and I agree that the 2010 remaster is the best way to relive it. It's a crime against humanity that you don't have more subs. Thank you for all your effort. Plus, you just seem like a cool dude.
Thanks Ben.n hopefully the subs will come one day. In the meantime all I can do is make the best videos I can... and then complain about TH-cam on Twitter lol. Thanks for the kind words and watching, I appreciate it!
What kind of skullduggery is TH-cam doing to me for this to not show up on my notifications! This is exactly the reason why I ALWAYS make it a point to check back in with my favorite content creators.
Loved this documentary. You've seriously become, in my opinion, one of the best channels for gaming docs on all of TH-cam, right up there with Summoning Salt.
Finally catching up on some TH-cam stuff I missed the past few months. I never played much Goldeneye back when I was younger but I played a ton of Perfect Dark multiplayer. It’s pretty crazy that the core dev group left during development and even crazier that it’s name was created by a simple word combining program. Really great info, really great editing! Thoroughly enjoyed this man!
I grew up with Perfect Dark from playing on my dads n64, and never knew that you needed that expansion. The multiplayer in itself was great, time to look into playing the actual full game
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A lot of the gameplay footage in this episode is from Granslu00’s channel. I highly recommend subscribing to him. He frequently uploads some incredible Perfect Dark and GoldenEye play throughs including custom levels, hacks, etc.
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On a side note, I should make a video about what a nightmare this one was to make. Every technical problem that could've gone wrong, went wrong lol.
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the game was amazing, so was this video my man.
Thanks man! This game is still a lot of fun to play. Though outside of playing it on my N64 for this video, the last few times that I've played it I've done it on the 1964 emulator to get some sweet mouse and keyboard support. Please don't forget to unsubscribe on your way out lol
@@WrestlingWithGaming the unsubscribe comment went woosh, over my head. It's some high level humor or a glitch in the matrix...
@@WrestlingWithGaming Unsub?, Mistakes were made?
Lol sorry. it's just a reference to something we were talking about on Twitter. I lost like ten subs within an hour or so of publishing the video.
@@bencahill2647 Lol sorry. it's just a reference to something we were talking about on Twitter. I lost like ten subs within an hour or so of publishing the video.
Perfect Dark was such a deep game. So much to do in one FPS on the N64. Truly an amazing game. Great video too with some impressive renders and animations too.
Thanks so much!
There was an INSANE amount of content, not to mention a really cool sci-fi themed campaign. The alien reveal blew me away when I played it the first time.
@@DegreelessnessMode Someone told me Perfect Dark was terrible and nothing more than a failed tech demo. That alone proved to me this dude was mentally deficient and probably didn't even know how to wipe his own arse
Perfect Dark was such a freakin awesome sweet ass game. Still remember lugging my huge 23 inch tv outside with my N64 to the communal gazebo on my street and playing with all my friends. The 4 player split screen WITH bots meant we could play a coop deathmatch against the AI. I remember we used to set 1 of the bots to really hard so everytime someone saw the yellow bot they'd run scared.
did the same thing, like all Meats and one hardcore Bot lol
Lmao.. awesome. Me too bro. I dug it back out, my 12yr old and I have been playing it. He likes it as well and fascinated with the technology of the time
My favorite game of all time. It truly was a masterpiece. It was packed with so much content! And the multiplayer was even better than Goldeneye's with SO much customizability. I agree, the 2010 XBLA remaster is the ideal way to play it in the modern age. I once started a petition to develop Perfect Dark for PC but it never got anywhere lol would love to see a modern studio like Nightdive port it to the PC!
100% agree with this. There is the Xenia emulator, but getting K&M controls working properly for it seems to be a bit of a nightmare. Nightdive could absolutely do the game justice, though.
Imagine the Chicago stage in the unreal engine 😳
@@FullMetalDiety I remade Chicago and Villa in FarCry 5's Arcade (XB1). Honestly didn't do them justice, but they still play well!
@@FloopDeMoop what that's dope they need to just remake it PD64 like how they did Resident evil 2 that new trailer scared me because Joanna has RED hair again 😭 I take that as a bad omen RE:zero
Cool thing that playing it with 1964 GE/PD edition works so well! Allows you to play in 60fps with modern resolutions, and to top it, it plays with mouse like a charm!
Perfect Dark is a triumph of perfectionism. The game had everything. I wish I could shake hands one day with one of their developers.
The one thing it could have genuinely benefited from though is further optimization, texture stitching, occlusion culling, etc. Framerates were often pretty rough.
Everything but a playable framerate 😬
perfect perfectionism = dark a stellar comment form you.
I was genuinely blown away by this game back in 2000. It looked so good for the time and had so much content that I played it for literally years, and I still do once in a while.
And I totally agree with your closing thoughts on why it couldn't surpass Goldeneye sales-wise. Goldeneye was just a pioneer title for consoles, and even though Perfect Dark did everything better than Goldeneye IMO it just couldn't make history like its predecessor did.
I think another issue was that it was rated m
Multiple reasons, 007 was already a household name. Lots of kids parents at that time were already familiar with 007, so if the kid didn't want it, his dad or older brother probably did, and as a result, almost every person you knew with an N64 had Goldeneye, or had played it heavily at friends and family's homes. And let's face it, most boys growing up want to be James Bond, not Joanna Dark, and to this day I still prefer playing as a male character. It takes me out of the game to see female hands in a first person game, however in Perfect Dark it's not an issue since they don't look particularly girly, that said, this was pre-internet era, so kids are going to be looking at the box art and judging off of that. Finally, the movie itself served as advertisement for GE, but Perfect Dark didn't get advertised on TV that I recall and if you stack Turok 2, Goldeneye 64, and Perfect Dark side by side on a shelf at a rental store and gave them a choice, most boys will choose the game with a male character.
I think the reason that Perfect Dark didn't do so well compared to Goldeneye, is that Goldeneye had a number of years to build its reputation as a must have title, and its popularity eventually had a viral effect where if you had a N64 but didn't have Goldeneye, you'd still know someone who did.
Perfect Dark came out in 2000 so it really only had one Christmas to be a must have title for- a Christmas season where the PS2 would launch.
As a result, Perfect Dark didn't have the time to gather the kind of momentum that Goldeneye had steadily built up over the N64s life.
As a kid who understood golden eye, I found myself immediately confused in Perfect Dark. My friends were all confused what to do as well.
this game was a masterpiece, ahead of his time
Agreed!
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I play through perfect dark every year. Its really amazing.
I always thought Perfect Dark was better than Goldeneye, but I think I gave TImesplitters 2 the biggest portion of my soul in my teen years.
I’ve only heard a handful of people mention Time Splitters 2. Future Perfect pretty much overshadowed it. Holy hell were those gold challenges hard
This is my favourite N64 game. I recently completed it again and it's still so much fun ! Single player campaign is a blast, the multiplayer is super fun and there is so much content and challenges to explore. Thanks for the video
I played Golden Eye until Perfect Dark came out. I was lucky to already have an expansion pack, and Perfect Dark was by far better. It didn't deserve to be in the shadow of Golden Eye. I do still have my N64 with 100+ games and working controllers. Definitely a treasure of mine still to this day.
Played with the Turok Control Scheme on original hardware, it's one of the best first person shooting games I've played. Goldeneye on steroids.
I loved the secondary weapon thingies, laptop gun was my fave.
The most underrated aspect of both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark is the fantastic soundtracks. The music is a timeless element that, unlike other technical aspects of the game, still holds up just as well today, as the day it was released.
Agreed. Even the music that played in the shooting range training room was awesome. lol
Another great video! I knew Rare always kept voices in house, but I never realized who did the voice for Joanna Dark.
Thanks BVD!
Dudes videos are so well put together and has a lot of my favorite topics covered. Thanks wwg, sorry to spam the comments so much.
No worries, Bob. Not like I'm going to get tired of reading nice things about my videos lol. Seriously though, these kind of comments make all the hard work with it. Thank you!
I honestly believe that the best voice for Joanna was the developer that they just happened to have in the office rather than the professional, American-accented actor they got for Perfect Dark Zero.
lets not forget the awesome in house voice actors for bad fur day ... o wait thats only 2 people lol
Ill be honest. Before switching to Magic Spoon, I often strained my mussels while moving my CD-i. After the switch, I can now lift and move two CD-i units at once! Wild right!?
It's as empowering as it is delicious!
Ok, you had me cackling like a madman at you hanging out in the dam guard tower. Perfect Dark was the first game I 100% as a kid and is most likely responsible for me being as much as a gamer as I am, tons of memories. I good chunk of those memories were begging my parents for the x-pack to play all of it, the game was quite the expensive buy during that time. Years later my buddies an I would still pull the old girl out, load up a lobby of meat sims and just go all in with fists only. Thanks for this man, always good to have a nostalgia trip.
I'm just waiting on Cassandra to helicopter in the taco bell I ordered lol
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Seeing a new documentary video from you is always such a rare treat (pun only intended if it's amusing)!
I relate to the freedom given to the dev team being a double edged sword. I'm an illustrator for a living and can tell you first-hand that even though clients often _think_ they're being nice by telling me I can do whatever I want in certain aspects of a job, they really aren't. I've always VASTLY preferred being told exactly what a client wants, all the way down to providing reference if they have it. It makes the job easier for me, which makes it faster, which makes it less expensive for the client to get _exactly_ what they want. It's a win-win situation all around.
Freedom can be nice sometimes, yes, but creative brains can go in a million different directions without guidelines to fence them in a little bit. My clients have often been surprised when I tell them that no, you're not being annoying or overly controlling by sending me a novela sized description of what you want with reference photos attached for, say, clothing, facial features you like, certain objects that are important, etc (I've done a lot of work for writers who want visuals of their characters or specific scenes).
So yeah, as soon as you described all the freedom the Perfect Dark team had? I winced a little bit before you even said it could be a double edged sword.😄
I loved Perfect Dark when it came out but the fact that GoldenEye was such a huge hit, I'm sure the license holders involved wanted bigger a cut, and that had something to do with passing on the squeal and building a proprietary IP game.
one of my favs from the n64
My fav N64 game of all times. So good to see it getting the treatment it deserves!
Love the video man. Those hi-res cut scenes from Goldeneye are awesome. I was 16 when Perfect Dark released and my friends and I thought it was the greatest game ever made lol. Thanks for the video man.
This was crafted with love. Those transitions and putting yourself into the game’s scenes were a chef’s kiss. Perfect Dark was ahead of it’s time.
Thanks 😊
What a trip down memory lane! Perfect Dark was by far my favourite FPS on N64. I still remember that I was able to unlock all of the cheats by beating the campaign levels within certain timeframes. And the multiplayer was great too. Dark Sim was no joke...
Awesome video! I honestly never played Perfect Dark until 2009. I was blown away by the amount of effort and detail Rare put into that game.
I was feeling depressed today bro your videos literally put a smile on my face at least for 10 minutes and that is better than none trust me thank you brother and keep it up
Glad you're enjoying them, Tim. Here's hoping you start feeling better sooner than later. I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. It means a lot
Never had an N64, but was able to play this game on Xbox One recently and I love it. I remember playing GoldenEye with roommates who had the game and love the hell out of that so this game was so much better.
very fond memories of playing through this with my cousins when it came out. such a great game that still holds up pretty decently today, although it's certainly aged a lot in terms of graphics and framerate.
Same my two cousins and I played sooooo much multiplayer. I remembered we all grabbed the "laptop gun" and put AI on max. It was fun.
My favourite video-game. I played it so much as a child and will always have fond memories of it. Great videos also. ^^
Oh hell yeah! I don't have the time to watch this right now, but your videos are always a highlight of my day and I'm so excited to have this on my watch later list.
Thanks man! You're way too kind and this comment made my day. I feel the same way your videos.
I still have this masterpiece.
They managed to squeeze every ounce of performance that the game lags like crazy sometimes. N Bombs and remote mines and Laptop guns setup on the walls and maxing out on bots would make it lag in multiplayer.
I havent touched the missions in years. I still have to complete the rest of the difficulty.
Nintendo should have bought Rare they were great.
Absolutely love your videos! The old commercials and videos of games from my childhood is such a dopamine hit. Your animations are slick and impressive. Your content is very addictive and engaging and I look forward to your videos!
Thanks!
You have easily the best historic gaming videos. I'll definitely be supporting your channel.
Thank you!
Great video! I was obsessed with GoldenEye and even more obsessed with Perfect Dark. Was great to hear the backstory. Very well done!
The soundtrack suited every scenario & the essence of always being sneaky is what made it one of my favorite n64 games as a kid
Absolutely fantastic work - your documentary making skills are great and have only gotten better and better as time has gone on! The storytelling, research, editing, b-roll, animation, narration all on point!
I do wonder, what software do you use for the 3D animations? It produces some pretty realistic looking results
Thanks so much. I mostly use Cinema 4D with redshift as my renderer. I do sometimes use Blender for random stuff here and there but I only used Cinema 4D in this video with the exception of the animation of James Bond running across the screen during the intro. For whatever reason I just couldn't quite get the animation to work the way I wanted it to in cinema 4D but was able to do it in Blender. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and the kind words. I really appreciate it.
Man rare was so ambitious and always breaking new grounds back than. I believe they also develop conker's bad fur day too
I couldn't click on this video fast enough! Thanks Yahel. Keep up the great work 👍
thanks Mad Action, good to see ya!
Still one of the best FPS games of all time. I revisit it just about every year and still have a blast playing each time!
So many hours were spent playing this masterpiece…thanksgiving for reminding me how great my childhood was…great video thank u good sir
Thanks! Glad you liked it
This is my favorite game of all time. The campaign was amazing, but the multiplayer was so far ahead of its time. Especially for its use of the bots/sims. And the variety of the weapons and their own secondary specialities (Farsight shooting through walls, Laptop gun being thrown on a wall and acting as sentry turret, SuperDragon as a grenade launcher, Slayer using player-guided rockets, Callisto charge-up). I want to buy a Nintendo 64 just for this game.
Yo, I grew up playing this game, it’ll always remain one of my favorite games of all time. And while I do like Golden Eye as well, Perfect Dark has always been better and more enjoyable IMO. There’s so much more to do in PD, especially when I don’t rlly have anyone to play it with nowadays if I wanna do a game of multiplayer. I can just boot up some sims and have a death match!
Perfect Dark was my absolute favourite game, still is one of my all-time favourites. I didn't care people thought it was a bite off GoldenEye, it was unique in many ways, the gameplay, story, graphics were so immersive and dynamic. I just remember being infuriated by the final boss I think I had to do the level over 20+ times before I beat it 🤣
Blown away with your green screen editing bits here, man! Great work on recapping the making of one of my favorite games of all time, and THE best FPS (IMO) that STILL has more features and modes than most modern FPS!
Thanks Dongles! I had planned on doing a lot more full body green screen stuff in the levels and filmed a bunch of footage for it but unfortunately the 3D models from PD were very difficult to work with in modern 3D editing programs. Even the few levels I used here I had to basically remodel a third of the level. The The GoldenEye level models were far easier to use when I made that video. Thanks again for watching and taking the time to comment, I really do appreciate it.
@@WrestlingWithGaming Right on, man. Your stuff is super inspiring. Thanks for bringing things next level!
Love this follow-up to your Goldeneye video. Your hard work really shines through with all the deep research, 3d graphics, and magazine scans. Another banger.
Thanks Brian! I appreciate the kind words.
Jheeez imagine the bonuses they got from Golden Eye if the PD ones were so big!
Love the effects and format your videos! Loved both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark growing up. Still some of my most cherished games to this day!
Thanks!
Dude... the CGI keeps getting better and better each video! I honestly thought that box on the shelf was real until it moved. Good job man!
Also, I assume you render all of your CGI scenes on your CD-I since it has all that gratuitous horsepower.
Thanks! Though to be honest, I didn't get to do as much CG stuff in this one as I wanted to thanks to a few technical issues that came up. So actually I felt like the CG was a little tame in this episode, but the stuff that I did I think came out reasonably well, all things considered.
And of course it's all rendered on the console of tomorrow, the CD-i. Always nice to see someone that can appreciate the incomparable and endless power of the Philips CD-i. 😌
@@WrestlingWithGaming There might not have been as much but what was there was excellent!
When I was 18, I had my first apartment. I sat in it playing this game all day. I had fun beating all the missions, but for some reason my idea of fun was trying to beat three other Perfect agents on the bot mode. I played til I had my character to Rank 2, but for some reason I think I could never reach Rank 1. And of course I had only the Mayan music on. Awesome game. Thanks for making this video.
I love this game. Played both back in the day and Perfect Dark surpasses Golden Eye in most aspects IMO
The 30 challenges, weapon design with the alt decisions for them, turn ur dragon into a proxy grenade LOL
But the sell tell the difference. Perfect Dark didn't reach hype than GE64 get the most of.
@@MidoseitoAkage James Bond has an entire movie series.. also F the hype I never follow crowds if i know something is great i dont wait for "hype" PDark is incredible
Ah perfect dark, the only boxed N64 game I still own. Good news for everyone reading this is you can still get a boxed copy for $50 unlike a lot of other games these days.
Amazing job at the video, strange that I see this pushed by creators more then the algorithm because that almost never happens.
Man, I loved Perfect Dark so much when it came out. Great video! :-D
Thanks!
You did an absolutely awesome job with this video, bro! The making of this game is so fascinating. I had no idea! I remember its release like it was yesterday. Getting together to play Perfect Dark was the last time all my high school buddies and I got together after graduation. It was a huge deal, because we were already massive Goldeneye fans.
That opener was epic!
thanks!
Again, miss your videos man. I daily search to see if you dropped something new the way I do AVGN, Gaming Historian, Game Sack and Sega Lord. Hope you're healing up!
Congrats on the sponsorship! Glad to see this channel gaining popularity. It's well deserved. It's the only channel I've ever bothered to set notifications.
Thanks Jay 😁
Is it just me or does perfect darks cover image look more like a wolf face than a human, lol
Oh man, now that you say that I can't unsee it lol
@@WrestlingWithGaming ive always seen it like that, before I saw gameplay I thought it was a hunting game
PD had some of the best customization options and modes, it really felt like they had thought of everything we could have wanted in it and did it.
Again, another high quality documentary too good for TH-cam.
I'm still waiting for a PC release for the Perfect Dark remaster. Microsoft needs to release it. It's amazing that to this day I have to hold onto my 360 for multiple games.
Thanks! Yeah, I'm hoping that they do something like that to coincide with the Perfect Dark reboot. It's a longshot though
I just hope they put Rare Replay on PC because the only way you can play the 2010 remaster of Perfect Dark on PC is through Xenia or XCloud (requires Game Pass Ultimate)
Wow its a miracle that this game did well in the end considering all the odds that happened during production. I mean theres a lot examples of great but long developed products which end up as box office flops.
Dope video as always!
OH YAHEL YA! Dude this is is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stry! Thanks man 🙂
Also, fuck yeah! For a buff dude, I think the magic spoon sponsorship works perfectly!
Perfect Dark is one classic shooter that aged well, more so than its predecessor GoldenEye 007. I play both to this day, but I agree 100% it surpassed in every way...except for the music. Great old masterpiece, and I beaten it 100%.
Wow it has been 1yr since he made a video
I never really liked Goldeneye, I thought it was severely overrated. Perfect Dark was a masterpiece though. Much better story, graphics, options, and overall gameplay. Tons of extras to play around with, vastly improved multiplayer. I think releasing late in the N64 lifecycle was a big reason for lower sales, 007 got most of its sales 1-2 years after release. Releasing later in a lifecycle is always a risk.
My favourite game of all time. And your editing/production values are seriously impressive!
Thanks! Glad you liked the video!
This one was also great! My siblings and I spent untold hours playing PD & GE, thanks for the shot of nostalgia!
I still will always hold goldeneye a little closer to my heart.
that's fair bro. its a great game
Perfect Dark HD was the only reason I bought an Xbox 360. It was the only game I owned for 360 and when I was done playing it I sold the console lol
POV: It's 2023.
Actually a BRILLIANT detail that's missing from the video and what a lot of us missed as well is the option of using TWO N64 controllers to simulate two guns that your character was holding. Grabbing the controllers by the center hold you had two joysticks for movement, two triggers and man, it was fun to shoot selectively with the two rumble packs installed!
Apparantly, the Bond license holders are also incredibly restrictive with what a developer can and can't do with the property now, even silly things like they're not allowed to have Jaws in the game anymore. One of the reasons no one's wanted to touch the IP for years. So, the new IO game in development will be interesting to see.
Yeah, the Bond people have always been a bit overprotective, imo.
This comment sort of aged poorly since Goldeneye got re-released on Xbox One/Series X and the Switch, with Jaws intact too.
Excellent video. Perfect Dark is a phenomenal shooter. I can't begin to pathom how the PD team crammed so much content, spectacular visuals and animation, combined with high quality music, sound effects and speech onto a tiny 256mb cartridge! Also it's impressive how playable it was despite the low framerate. With the more in depth knowledge now about N64 architecture, it would be interesting if the kinds of insane optimisations and enhancements made with the SM64 engine from Kaze would be possible on the PD engine.
I remember an interview in the early 2000's, Julian Eggebrecht (Factor 5) stated if the Rare team threw out the GE engine, built a new engine from scratch using the knowledge they gained instead of tacking things onto the GE engine, Perfect Dark could've pushed 30fps @640x480 with more detail. Considering what F5 were pushing with Battle for Naboo and Indiana Jones - he may have a point.
I would of loved to have seen that game! Also, PD was on a 30mb cart which is even more mind-blowing!
Now we're out of COVID lockdown. My time for TH-cam videos is limited but I can always make time for your videos buddy. Much love from the uk.
The content is always top drawer and it's always enjoyable watching the progression in quality of the editing etc.
Keep it up.
Thanks so much for the kind words, I really appreciate it. Hope you have a great weekend!
Masterpiece of a game! Thanks so much for putting this video together, so many fond memories looking at the game visuals
The game that made me enjoy FPS. Actually, was the only FPS I've put effort to finish and unlock everything. Such a masterpiece. Everything, from the gameplay to the amazing ambient was perfect!
Great video, thanks for the trip down memory lane. It really is a shame that Perfect Dark came out so late in the N64's lifespan. I remember most of my friends already had their eyes set on the PS2 or Gamecube and paid little attention to whatever was still coming out on N64. Perfect Dark took what Goldeneye did well and made it even better.
One of my favorite FPS of all time! The Xbox arcade version was Soooo good and fixed my main issue with the frame rate. It's so incredible to think of how much they packed into the N64 with Perfect Dark.
Very well done vid!
Thanks! Totally agree with you about the Xbox live arcade version. It's killer
It’s awesome however i love the n64 controller
I've been looking so much for a video like this. Full of technical details and proper information from the devs.
You just earned a new Subscriber.
Thanks!
The production value, the cohesive coverage! Amazing video! And I totally agree with you about the Xbox Remaster being the best version; everything it does from the improved models, textures, resolution and framerate would've done the Rare of 2000 proud, making it feel like the definitive version of what they always wanted to launch back then.
Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it
He's right about the revolutionary aspect of Goldeneye. As 13 year olds in 1997 it changed our lives on the spot. The novelty hadn't worn off by 2000 so we didn't even notice Perfect Dark. I picked it up from a used book store several years ago and really want to hook up the 64 back up after this :)
Perfect Dark is my favorite N64 game. I played it a lot back then and I've also played it a lot as an adult. Always on the original N64. I haven't played it in years now sadly since I have my old consoles in my storage unit. Maybe when I have more free time I'll consider getting my old consoles out from my storage unit to play them.
This is the first time I've seen your channel and it's awesome! You guys didn't have to do the extra work with those visual effects but you went ahead and did so and they look amazing!
You continue to produce pure excellence my friend, and your standard of professionalism is second to none. The use of simulants in PD's multiplayer was absolutely groundbreaking at the time and raised the bar yet again in the PvP FPS genre that its predecessor gave birth to. A truly remarkable game from top to bottom. Thank you for another deep and informative retrospective of one of Gaming's all-time greats!
Thanks apex. This video is kind of bombing in terms of views but I can't even be too upset about that when I read comments like yours. Thanks a lot, I really, really, appreciate it. 🙏
While I didn't have the opportunity to play this as a kid I did pick it up used sometime around 2012 and thoroughly enjoyed it! I remember watching the whole intro up to the start screen and I knew that it was going to be a good game. Anyways, great job on the video! I love the stories behind these older games, keep up the great work!
Great video! I think one big reason Perfect Dark didn't sell well that you neglected to mention is James Bond is a known series and Perfect Dark was a new IP.
It came out at a time when the Dreamcast already existed with better performing games and the PS2 was just around the corner. It was one of the last hurrahs of a vastly outmatched machine.
I feel that Perfect Dark was more revolutionary than Goldeneye. SO many of the aspects of Perfect Dark a staple of modern 1st person games. I bought it day one and it's still my favorite game of all time.
Yahel, my man, the amount of effort, production value and research you put into these videos is 2nd to none. PD is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time, and I agree that the 2010 remaster is the best way to relive it.
It's a crime against humanity that you don't have more subs. Thank you for all your effort. Plus, you just seem like a cool dude.
Thanks Ben.n hopefully the subs will come one day. In the meantime all I can do is make the best videos I can... and then complain about TH-cam on Twitter lol. Thanks for the kind words and watching, I appreciate it!
Bro, great editing. I know people don't usually appreciate the hours that go in behind the scene.
Thanks, much appreciated!
The production value of your videos is so high! Thank you for your hard work! I did not have a N64 back in the day and this is exciting for me!
Thanks! I try to make these standout from typical TH-cam retrogaming videos as much as I can, so I really appreciate that.
What kind of skullduggery is TH-cam doing to me for this to not show up on my notifications! This is exactly the reason why I ALWAYS make it a point to check back in with my favorite content creators.
Thanks for checking back!
@@WrestlingWithGaming Always homie! ♥️
Rareware passing up on tomorrow never dies was the first mistake that led to their downfall :(
Hey! that red bar decreasing during the ad is perfect! i can see exactly how far to skip :)
I remember buying this game back in 99 for $60. I thought it was overpriced but I enjoyed the game. It was ahead of its time.
Loved this documentary. You've seriously become, in my opinion, one of the best channels for gaming docs on all of TH-cam, right up there with Summoning Salt.
They're making another Perfect Dark game, supposed to launch this year I believe
I love these CGI inserts you put into the video! Like the opening dam flyover that comes to you in the tower. Very cool
Loved both games, but it was clear that Perfect Dark was the perfect GoldenEye upgrade.
Finally catching up on some TH-cam stuff I missed the past few months. I never played much Goldeneye back when I was younger but I played a ton of Perfect Dark multiplayer. It’s pretty crazy that the core dev group left during development and even crazier that it’s name was created by a simple word combining program. Really great info, really great editing! Thoroughly enjoyed this man!
Thanks!
Hey bud, just remembered I haven't seen your channel in a minute and was sad to see you haven't had a new video in a year. I hope you're doing well.
Hey there. I'm good! And I'll be back soon with new videos. Working on 3 scripts at the moment
I grew up with Perfect Dark from playing on my dads n64, and never knew that you needed that expansion. The multiplayer in itself was great, time to look into playing the actual full game
Dude idk why you stopped making videos but you need to make more like this 👍