Goldeneye 007 - What Happened?

[@deathsyth8888]

Its amazing Goldeneye was released years after the movie came out instead of being rushed to cash in on the movie or just plain cancelled outright.

[@SmokerBear]

I feel like the odds of that happening again today is pretty much non existent.

[@streeterville773]

Or made/produced/licensed/whatev by LJN

[@bobafett4265]

Yeah as mentioned in the video, the 007 license holders were desperate cause Goldeneye and such was a last ditch effort to not have failure blow up in their faces and it didn't fail, both sides of it, the game and film.

[@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00]

Yes, Goldeneye N64 is an excellent example of what you get when you give the developers enough time and space to create a video game.

[@ChimeraMK]

@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 Shame that can't be said for Anthem. Four years and they barely figured out what kind of game they were making.

[@harmonicky3313]

I really enjoy these What Happun videos on good games with bad developments.

[@Ozymandias42]

It is nice to have one of these end with something other than "And then the publisher who cocked everything up fired everybody and redirected their paychecks to the monthly cocaine budget"

[@bobafett4265]

Yeah like Doom 2016, as I call it Doom 4, which was in development since ID Software wrapped up Doom 3 and it's expansion, so back around the 2000's and it took them till 2016 to get it right and released. An example of Development Hell that was covered here on the channel.

[@pokepress]

Pokémon Red/Green anyone?

[@t850terminator]

Which is alot of good video games. Honestly games where development turned out fine and everything went exactly as planned seem rare.

[@russellbrown6888]

@@pokepress How about Halo 2? One of the greatest examples of over-ambition and one of the most infamous crunches of all time, yet it still somehow turned out great (if a bit buggy)

[@hypethekomodo6495]

I'm just picturing Bond and Natalya going around in a jungle, throwing barrels and jumping on Kremlings. We were that close.

[@streeterville773]

Goldeneye DK mode

[@KingGhidorah5464]

With Sean Bean as King K. Rool at the end.

[@Toast_Points]

The fact that it used to be an on-rails shooter explains so much of the enemy behavior.

[@deadpool3982]

@Jabroni Destroyer Timesplitters was Goldeneye done right

[@PPN462]

@Jabroni Destroyer For anyone who was playing any FPS on PC at the time, Golden Eye was already obsolete and overrated. If you only had a console, it is fun especially the split-screen and there weren't many FPS on consoles like that, but Time Splitters and Halo a few years later made Golden Eye look like an unfinished prototype as far as console FPS goes.

[@Wallychans]

@Jabroni Destroyer Did you somehow forget the internet was shit back then and people didn’t have it? If you actually wanted to play with friends, which is what most kids with a social life like to do, goldeneye was the only way for most... One system: one tv, one console, and four controllers opposed to how many monitors and PCs? I don’t think I even remember the game for the game itself, I remember it for the dumb fun times I had with my other 12-14 year old friends playing it and eating junk food. It lead to good fun.

[@PPN462]

​​@Wallychans LAN parties and Internet cafés were a thing at the time for someone who wanted to play multiplayer FPS and had no connection at home. I still went there despite having Internet and being fully able to play those games at home at the time funnily enough for the human interaction parts, so I am not sure why you felt the need to berate people with the "kids with a social life" remarks. Also Internet was "shit" by today's standards, but that does not mean that you couldn't perfectly play games at the time. Doom, Hexen, Quake, Unreal, Half-life etc were working fine despite being fast and latency-dependent games. @Jabroni Destroyer I didn't mind as much since I found them fun regardless but it definitely hurt my eyes, even as a kid to play N64 games at my friends' place haha. Slowdown and blurry pictures were very noticeable when you were used to higher resolution and framerate with 3dfx.

[@Wallychans]

@@PPN462 You do realize not everybody lives in big cities? I understand it was better gaming, I’m saying not everybody had that outlet. Im agreeing with everything you are saying, but saying not everybody had that opportunity...people aren’t that dumb, they didn’t chose a lesser experience, it was simply the best choice they had, 007was popular for a reason. “Just go to the local Internet cafe” Some of you people live in a bubble...

[@GenerationWest]

This game was REALLY lucky it came out as it did, because holy hell, you can't make a movie tie-in at that level, and that late today, and for awhile, a James Bond game. No wonder MGM went into dire straits, if they treat their flagship franchise like this, it explains RoboCop and other franchises they own.

[@dakotakoerner2284]

"Half of everything is luck, James."

[@AlexRN]

Goldeneye came out so late that it came to market a mere 3 months before the next movie. That would never happen today!

[@kainhighwind2]

I want PS2-era EA back and making movie tie-in games. Two Towers, Return of the King, Revenge of the Sith, LotR The Third Age... Imagine them making Avengers.

[@BigEOT3]

A Wha Happun on Metro Goldwyn Mayer would be like 7 parts especially when Ted Turner buys the old MGM library in the 80s then sells it to the Warner Bros in the 90s

[@Saturn185]

@@kainhighwind2 they were already showing signs of what they were becoming

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

It’s hard to think that one of the most influential fps shooters almost never existed due to behind the scenes problems.

[@fromvault801]

Spiderman Turn off the Dark would be the perfect non gaming topic for Matt

[@stefanfilipovits21]

I’d watch the hell outta that

[@inteligentidiot7233]

Come on Matt, make it happen. At the very least, you'll laugh your ass off doing the research.

[@PainfullyCasual]

Is this the theater play one? Id love matt to cover that

[@MrGirmillionair]

I actually saw it on Broadway when I went to NYC for the first time in my life. I got drunk. Spiderman swung up to the balcony where I was sitting (cheap tixs I bought off somone in the streets) and got a high five from him as he ran past me in the aisle. But at one point in the show they did stop cause Spiderman was stuck upside down in the middle of the stage. I felt bad for the actor lol. Took about 15 mins to get him down and continue the show. But it did have amazing effects!

[@DoodleThis]

Oh Christ yes!!!

[@belinskiparadox7687]

So, as usual, big corporations not understanding their fanbase makes everything worse for their fans.

[@arnox4554]

Ultimately though, I'm just gonna say it. Although it would have been pretty nice to get that remaster for historical and nostalgia purposes, Perfect Dark (and the remake of it as well on Rare Replay) was so fucking good that it pretty much doesn't matter that Goldeneye didn't get rereleased along with it. GE was pretty much the beta for PD.

[@vDomMusic]

@@arnox4554 In some ways you are right, I still feel like Goldeneye is a better game, albeit slightly.

[@winlover37]

@@arnox4554 This is a hot take. Coming from a guy who loves both.

[@corvusdiabolos]

Sony was also the distributor for the James Bond films from 2006 to 2015; crucial dates for the 360 remake and its inclusion in Rare Replay. Rumors stated Microsoft also had to negotiate with Sony. Allegedly all parties at the table were asking for a cut of the sales with Nintendo and Sony asking for the remake to release on their consoles. Rumors circulated at one point stating Microsoft had agreed to pay a fee to EON, MGM, and Sony with the remake only releasing on the 360 and Nintendo selling the N64 version on the Virtual Console. One party backed out and it looks like it was EON. Since then, Phil Spencer has said every time they consider releasing the remake they either can't obtain all the necessary licenses, or they can't reach a financial agreement with the involved parties. Maybe they can pull a "Too Human" and reach an agreement to release it for free.

[@penismightier9278]

Maybe they DID release it for free and just didn't worry about the agreement part.

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

Remember that small period of the 90's where everybody made a teenage or kid version of our favourite heroes? No? Great!

[@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00]

Muppet Babies, Flintstone Kids, that one cartoon with Roseanne Barr as a kid...

[@ThoroughlyBaked]

@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 Don't forget Tom and Jerry Kids. To be fair, I actually liked that show as a kid.

[@Noblecheesehead]

I remember A Pup Named Scooby Doo

[@springsaber]

The best thing form tare was batman beyond

[@ORLY911]

@@ThoroughlyBaked The thing about T&J Kids was it was just Tom and Jerry with no real differences lol

[@dark_side_cookies]

“They left us alone and we made a great game.” That pretty much sums up the gaming industry. Those greedy, profit driven managers and C-level execs only think about the short term. “Just rush it! We’ll fix the bugs later. It will sell just fine.” *game bombs* “Whu happun?! Clearly it was those bloody pirates! Definitely NOT our heavily monetized and unfinished game!” I’m convinced MBA instruction of the past 30 years just pulls a bait and switch on the last day of class. “So, let’s sum up. Steady growth, invest in your company, listen to your underlings.... HA! Gotcha! All that matters is that sweet, short term profit.”

[@paulgibbon5991]

Money makes possible and then ruins everything.

[@N0m0regam3rs]

Another good one. Mad that EON are so overprotective. Also, would really like to see a The Predator 2018 Wha Happun

[@motherurck7542]

@@alwaysangry2232 with how the next bond movie is looking, ut seems they are going to.

[@abadenoughdude300]

It's what these copyright holders do. They just have the IP for the sake of having it and they'll sue everyone that even mentions it becase "MINE!!!1!1!". Who cares that there's money to be made from the IP, they'd rather it die out than anyone do anything with it. Seriously, the current copyright law needs to fuck right off.

[@TheVideoViper]

With how many cheats there were in the game, im surprised they didnt develop the rumble reload mechanic anyways and include it as a cheat, i can see it being called "professional reloads" or some such nonsense

[@ballsrgrossnugly]

Likely Nintendo saw that mechanic, read the spec sheet that said that rumble pack jack was rated to be good for maybe 2000 CAREFUL inserts and removals, pictured teenagers all over the world absolutely destroying their controllers within 2 weeks of buying the game by yanking out the rumble pack and shoving it back in at light speed and with no regard for the delicate electronics that are exposed at the connection point, all while in a blind panic and being fired upon, hundreds of times per playthrough, and said a blanket "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK NO"

[@weareoutbreak89]

@@ballsrgrossnugly but you have to give the guy ho had the idea some credits, since the n64-controler was weirdly shaped like a gun (with the z-button to be the trigger), and the rumblepack being a magazine that can be used to "reload" the gun? i think thats an awesome idea. :)

[@rickpgriffin]

@@weareoutbreak89 it was a great idea, but the controller was definitely not built for it. The expansion release button on the slot was pretty flimsy as it was. I can't imagine it being put through its paces like the actual face buttons. Not to mention it had connector pins like a cartridge slot that could be damaged if the device is jammed in crooked. It'd be a fun feature but it could only last a few days tops!

[@weareoutbreak89]

@@rickpgriffin yeah, i totaly agree with you on that part. It would have been a great joke if it had worked out as intended, but yeah, the N64 Controler wasnt really reliable. Why may you ask? because over the course of several Years, 3 or 4 analog-sticks lost their flexibility and couldnt be used anymore (sorry, i dont know how to describe what i mean). also, if i remember correctly, i once had the case where a "Z"-Button broke, right in the middle of a Bossfight with King K-rule from Donkey Kong 64... by god, i loved the Controler for its weird design and that you could use it in many different ways.... but i definately had no luck with my versions of it. :((((

[@HiDefHDMusic]

@@weareoutbreak89 the n64 has a little “bowl” underneath the joystick that gets deeper over time due to friction, eventually the stick can no longer travel as far and becomes loose and unresponsive. It’s not too hard to fix if you’re handy.

[@codykodak]

The EA and Activision introduction was perfect 😂

[@chemergency]

Goldeneye was truly lightning in a bottle. Everything ultimately just kind of came together in the perfect time and place, don't think we'll ever see that happen again with a licensed game.

[@XradicalD]

I just find amazing how the development of Goldeneye ACTUALLY ended up with a good game, following the unusual development: new staff working in new hardware, development the game environments first then building the gameplay on top of it, movie tie-in game, movie tie-in game a year after the original film, late developed multiplayer mode, new-ish motion capture technology done with really short cables (I believe they were just a couple of feet away from the computer), among many things.

[@Wexter0083]

The devs had direct access to Nintendo so that probably helped with the hardware part... but the rest was pure Rareware magic! They could do no wrong and were always ambitious to produce something legen... wait for it because it's awesome... dary! Legendary! Now that we have more info on Dinosaur Planet I hope Matt covers that sometime soon with a redo-episode!

[@Sonichero151]

The thing I like the most admirable part of the development was where the producers went above and beyond to step in between the executives and the devs shielding the devs from any greif the executives were gonna give

[@snailthelostcow63]

Yeah, in almost every episode of wha happun, all of those are recipes for disaster

[@handlessuck589]

Goldeneye isn't good.

[@OriginalBongoliath]

@@handlessuck589 Better than what you like.

[@AlexRN]

Blocking the Goldeneye remaster from release has to be the denial to the easiest money EON has ever made in their life. The return on investments on this project could be huge, especially if they release it on Switch too. But it sounds like EON just doesn't give a shit and videogames are disposable toys to be made money on quickly and then forget about them.

[@penismightier9278]

There was a major feud between EON and another company during the late 70s or early 80s I think it was. This is why there were two Bonds at the same time.

[@AlexRN]

@@penismightier9278 I know that but I fail to see how that feud has anything to do with this unreleased remaster.

[@X2011racer]

EON simply disliked the games because they felt that they focused too much on violence as shooters and not enough on anything else that helps define 007 such as espionage, stealth, etc.

[@M1GarandMan3005]

@@penismightier9278 Was the company Danjaq?

[@k4miko921]

thanks for reminding me of the immense disappointment i had when i rented rogue agent, i literally swore of 007 entirely, including movies and books (only read from russia before this but still). im an adult now and realize that it was crazy, but as a kid you just kinda think "everything 007 is made by the same people"

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

All those other 007 games and the only thing comparable to Goldeneye wasn't even a 007 game.

[@MrJohnlennon007]

The 007 Books are really good if I’d suggest giving more a read. ;)

[@penismightier9278]

You think that's bad? I pre-ordered Rogue Agent. I think they put out a demo or had gameplay footage that I saw days before it got released that was the determining factor in me deciding to cancel the pre-order.

[@JakeRanney]

Thank you for using that face as the thumbnail. I always make references to that online and no one understands.

[@Graslu00]

Great video! Really enjoyed watching it all through. Very well explained.

[@slothlife4788]

Great episode. It's so weird that Eon is so stingy. That remake is a license (to kill) to print money! Maybe we'll get some news to celebrate sixty years of Bond next year.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

Come on IO interactive...

[@andhieyusuf7008]

Eon is boomer big time

[@abadenoughdude300]

"But I don't want to make money. I only want everyone else to not make money." - every copyright hog ever.

[@SamWeltzin]

Man, I'm so tired of people who lack vision being the ones to own everything.

[@SamWeltzin]

@@WickedKnightAlbel Oh, I'm fully aware. Tying art to profit makes it very difficult to do art.

[@theghostofjeffgoldblumdail9613]

The Goldeneye team must've had to become 007 experts while developing the game

[@PSIRockOmega]

You know you're 92 videos into the What Happened playlist when Matt brings up two reoccurring publishes and you can immediately guess who they are.

[@jjones1032]

"Wha Happen is one of my favorite shows on KZbin." -Commander Shepard.

[@proxymoron3091]

Bond should have been in Melee, Imagine him just shooting Mario in the face.

[@gerbert992]

for his neutral special he wields a gun.

[@us3l3ssknowl3dg3]

His neutral b is chop 👋

[@chrisbj5251]

at least the Proximity Mine's did

[@MrZer093]

The base rule that Sakurai put for Smash inclusion is that they originate from video games as it’s meant to be a love letter to the industry as a whole (when it used to be a love letter to Nintendo as a whole). Goku probably would have made it in otherwise especially as Dragonball is among the top 10 best selling game series of all time. No joke.

[@bluecaptainIT]

@@MrZer093 Sakurai: All right, there's space for everyone, come in! Nintendo: SIKE! *fills slots with Fire Emblem characters* Sakurai: YAAAAMEROOOOOOOOO

[@gamersquarters6497]

So crazy going back and remembering all the music and even the dialogue in the boxes.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

IKR? The music is REALLY taking me back

[@MasterKnightDH]

(At EON Offices...) Boris Grishenko: Better luck...next time....SLUG-HEADS! (hits "Enter") BAM! DONE! _I AM INVINCIBLE!_

[@JonOsterman5459]

My favourite FPS of all time. So many hours sunk into multiplayer...

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Same! Who was ur favorite playable character?

[@dakotakoerner2284]

GoldenEye remains one of my favorite games of the 5th console generation. I always played Alec Trevelyan in multiplayer.

[@nathanielessex1649]

Should have had the Eon logo on the "Let's get him fellas" guy at the end.

[@lunaitc]

And Nintendo on the big guy

[@wolfhawk1999]

"No Oddjob" was a HARD rule when I was a kid

[@ShinerCCC]

I took a liking for Moonraker Elite but it turns out she's the second shortest character in the game. Unintentional BM ftw

[@max-d8105]

@xg223 it wasn't just his height. He was pretty fast too.

[@KathrynBurke713]

Oh gosh, I have so many memories of this game. I don't think I really made much progress on the main campaign that was in game, but my siblings and I spent HOURS playing the multiplayer. Capture the flag and paintball were what we played together the most. It was a great game.

[@DrBeauHightower]

Kids will never understand the excitement and fun

[@MattMcMuscles]

Life was perfect in 1997.

[@LaurianeG.]

@@MattMcMuscles was it tho??? things always seems rosy as a child...

[@Laaks]

Fun fact: Because of the (at the time) realistic depiction of being shot, this game was banned in Germany

[@rubz1390]

Which makes it even more hilarious as we've learned how those reactions were made now.

[@joewalsh1159]

Your videos are consistently entertaining, funny and informative. Just want to say you’re doing a great job.

[@akaimizu1]

Ahh. The memories. I remember one of the funniest times I had with friends, was doing Proximity mine matches. Constantly hearing that famous Bond jingle everytime someone died every few or so seconds. Usually with a stream of cascading explosions rocking the N64 hardware, and everybody laughing when it happened. Everybody learned, first hand, the theory of volumetric explosions (especially around and in vents) and the domino effect of one mine explosion setting off other mines. (Or even nastier, stair bombs. Because they were hardest to detect, and they certainly won’t help you jump higher like in Quake.) It was like a First Person “Spy Vs. Spy” comic experience.

[@rutabaga_rutabaga]

I know I've suggested a few things in the past, but I have another idea for a future Wha Happun: Yo-kai Watch A series that was set to be the next Pokemon killer but barely got off the ground in the West and slowly died in its home country.

[@maximillianlylat1589]

And barely resembles what it once was. Which is a damn same because i adored the second game

[@theLikou1]

Well, Level-5 released like 12 games a year and took almost 4 years to release the games in the west. But yeah, an episode about the franchise in general would be good.

[@MrZer093]

It’s still a thing hut it sure as hell ain’t close to a Pokémon killer anymore. It’ll probably keep chugging along for years, at least in Japan. They say they’re localizing the fourth game but that was over a year ago... It would be interesting to see how it went from Level-5’s flagship franchise that actually beat Pokémon in sales (back in gen 6) to where it is today. And the consensus does see, to be what was stated here. Namely that they flooded the market with crap until parents eventually just started to refuse their children’s demands for a new toy because they had just bought them like, 10 that were barely played with before the new ones came out.

[@imjust_a]

I don't think it's dead in its home country. The series just had a release in 2019, and they even re-ran the cross-over event with FFXIV in 2020. With those in mind, it seems like Level-5 is still very on-board with continuing the franchise -- albeit locally rather than world-wide.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

I wonder why Rare seemed so obsessed with risking damaging N64’s, with this game they tried to make you wear out the Rumble Pack slot by having you remove it constantly but also they had the whole stop-N-swap thing that would’ve shorted out cartridge memory and probably deleted a bunch of save files.

[@SwooshJush83]

Never expected an episode on this legendary gem

[@SeanPierceJohnson]

Hot damn...what a story. Anyone else remember "Agent Under Fire"? Played that on the OG XBox and feel like that was a solid EA Bond title.

[@LordHapa]

I replayed Agent Under Fire a few years ago. The single player is kind of whatever but the multiplayer is super fun when you turn on low gravity and give everyone a grappling hook

[@sheik124]

Nightfire was good fun in Multiplayer as well. The level design was pretty good and some of the weapons like the weird RC car were unique. Was a while before COD added something similar as a kill streak.

[@RivalryofWarlords]

Waited the whole video for an Odd Job comment. Was not disappointed.

[@zanmaru139]

Sad to think the only thing standing between us and a proper Goldeneye remaster is what I'm going to stereotypically assume to be a bunch of out-of-touch old british men over at EON.

[@JamesBond-ke2qh]

What is so good about goldeneye 007 is the music, the fun silly sound effects in it and the people reacting at getting shot. So memorable, you dont see this anymore, it really made the game fun.

[@TheCartoonGamer8000]

Blast Corps being more popular than a Goldeneye game... man, I kinda want to see that.

[@evanhanley6437]

Being the massive James Bond fan that I am, I absolutely LOVED this Wha Happun? I think that this is the greatest Wha Happun you have ever done Matt. The massive amounts of research, attention to detail and game footage, the analysis of the old Bond games from EA and Activision, the fantastic Rare soundtracks and seeing the GoldenEye Remake in action is the embodiment of perfection and nostalgia. Very highly looking forward to seeing the Wha Happun on GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

[@EverydayIndividual]

Fun fact: multiplayer mode was originally denied by the lead in development. The developers went against it and added the mode to the game anyways as it was the final touches before the games official release. For the Nintendo 64 version to be more specific

[@pseudonym9599]

I always loved it when people played Oddjob: slower movement speed, more head real estate, and his head is right were everyone else's chest was, which was coincidentally where auto aim always pointed your gun. So much dorm rage over that back in uni.

[@Kolbatsu]

God, I need a "Play it Loud" poster.

[@Tocat-l4r]

I'm trying to imagine how this game would have turned out on the SNES and It's breaking my brain.

[@James-gj8rn]

This just in: The GoldenEye Remaster has been announced by Rare on Twitter, though there's no release date yet, so i'm back :)

[@Vergilzelkin]

Ohhhh I loved it when my friends picked Odd Job, because he had a major weakness. If you run up close to the character the game's auto aim mechanic always tilted downwards which always puts your bullets into his head. Easy kills to the extent my friends stopped picking the character against me as they realized that the cheap Odd Job gimmick didn't work against me lol

[@X2011racer]

The Oddjob issue only applies when Auto Aim is turn off. Most players prefer to play without Auto Aim for competitive reasons. Sadly, Unequal Character Heights is considered Competition Standard as it cannot be turned off in the original version, only on XBLA.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

That game came out when I was 8 and it still bums me out that we never got to play as the other bonds in multiplayer

[@Gonzotwotimes]

I was praying for the use of Woolie's "Shut the fuck up" gif when he mentioned the cease and desist.

[@beepster991]

It's not a "high-tech Rolex", it's an high-tech Omega ...

[@terrencelevy56]

The past couple of episodes have had Digimon world 4 music in it. I just wanted to say thank you for remembering that game, Matt!

[@Reds-Retros]

Who else is here rewatching this because of the long awaited Xbox and Switch announcement?

[@songohan3321]

Odd job brings back memories. So much cursing, broken controllers, and actual fist fights.

[@Sonichero151]

Odd job stands as the quickest and easiest way to start a fight.

[@Igarappappa]

You mean Slap Fights?

[@VelvetTeacake]

Ah I love this game. I used to rent it from the video store whenever I could.

[@Sunneyhardr]

Perfect Dark definitely needs to be next or soon.

[@a2lan123]

Even Iwata didn't trust Activision...

[@billygilmusic5072]

I can't understand how can a company own a product whose fans are dying to pour huge ammounts of money to play and not release it to the public. isn't a company's sole goal to make money?

[@Xaynier]

Well done Matt. Keep pumping these out please.

[@RedWizard0]

Update, 2023. Goldeneye 007 (the OG N64 version) has officially been re-released on the Xbox 1, Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

Golden eye was a true, turning point for movie to video game adaptations.

[@KyleAndersonComedy]

1:53 That's Josh Wolf

[@natedogg1088]

OK! You win my like just off the fact you used Swanky Kong's theme. I never thought I'd hear it again XD

[@bobafett4265]

I think if there's anyway that a Goldeneye Remake could happen, I think the idea of expanding on the cut idea of having all the past James Bond's together and making this hypothetical remake a celebration of the 007 license and bringing multiple 007 films being adapted for Campaigns for the British Super Spy, so the idea of making a Goldeneye remake as a base/hub for a butt load of content updates both for Single Player and Multiplayer, basically like how Halo Master Chief collection is a hub for all that content, so the idea of having a 007 Film for each Bond to be adapted into a campaign, so the idea of having Goldfinger as one of them, just so they can include Sean Connery Bond as an example, also a reason to throw in baddies from that film like OddJob and Goldfinger for multiplayer.

[@BigBoy-bx1dw]

This is hands down the best video series on youtube!

[@geokasshu4533]

Don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but you can still play Goldeneye Source if you have any source engine game on steam. It's 99.9% exactly the same gameplay wise but includes all bonds and additional weapon balance changes

[@AdriftForWeeks]

"Then we thought wouldn't it be cool to play a game like doom but with actual 3d graphics?" Quake: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@MattMcMuscles]

To be fair, when probably decided on that, Quake wasn't out.

[@Quurze]

@@MattMcMuscles Also to be fair, at the time of the movie's release (1995) that is correct. Quake released in 1996, which means that the developers were in active development of the game and most likely didn't get a chance to play Quake upon its initial release all the way up to the release of GoldenEye N64 in 1997. But that is speculation on my part as I have no way of confirming if that is true or not.

[@AdriftForWeeks]

@@MattMcMuscles of course, that's true! I just thought it funny because 1996 and 3D shooter immediately make Quake spring to my mind.

[@panelsandbars]

Eon is a word, not an acronym. It’s pronounced “E-on”.

[@MattMcMuscles]

My headcanon says it stands for Everything or Nothing

[@panelsandbars]

@@MattMcMuscles 😄 I love that

[@HeartburnMan]

Backseat KZbinrs xD

[@BaronOfZLand]

@@MattMcMuscles your headcanon is correct. Broccoli and Saltzman (the original owner of the bond movie rights) told people close to them that Everything or Nothing was the meaning. They even named a EON produced documentary after it.

[@MattStevens1352]

@@MattMcMuscles I was wondering if that was like a running gag or something, now I know why you did that

[@alexduran333]

Both the film and game are seminal works, each one complimenting the other.

[@DanielHernandez-di6cy]

Dude, I don't get how you're under 1M subscribers, AMAZING CONTENT

[@dechangeman]

I love this video series.

[@rubz1390]

Playing as the various Bond's over the years is an awesome concept, EON are so short sighted. Could have been rolling in dough.

[@ebcm95____]

Give this man more subs. One of the good ones.

[@ZelosXT]

Another game I want to see on "Wha happend?" that's also in licensing hell is "No One Lives Forever"

[@MarvelMan4]

I was just thinking that FF15 would make a good episode of What Happened. It was certainly a game that, for a while, was stuck in development hell.

[@Kill_Binho]

And lost expansion support all of the sudden

[@imjust_a]

The final product was actually only really in development for 2~3 years. When Tabata stepped in as director and Nomura stepped down to work on KH3 (and eventually the FF7 Remake), Tabata deemed all the work prior as unusable and made a decision to scrap everything and restart. That's why the characters and story only somewhat resemble the original concepts. They tried to loosely abide by pre-existing promotional material to appease the fans who had been following since Versus-13, but decided on bending it all to fit their new, original story. That's the FFXV we ended up getting. As for sources, there's various interviews with all sorts of people who worked on it, but another telling thing is how little leftover content there was from the original development period. Of all the different iterations of character designs we saw, the only two surviving assets from the Nomura-era of development were a model of Noctis' original outfit design, and his dad's original outfit design. For those who might not know, games that go through extended periods of development will usually have a plethora of leftover assets from bygone eras of development.

[@DracoBreach]

Hearing stories like this with the question, "How was this still a success with everything seemingly going against it?" just makes me want to hear more about the _Metroid_ _Prime_ (NGC) troubled development history. EDIT: Referring to the N64 Goldeneye, specifically.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Brosnan said he’d love to play a Bond villain and I’d love to see it

[@penismightier9278]

Dnob Semaj. Double agent.

[@sambinox8725]

This game definitely makes my top 5 GOAT video games list. This was mind blowing in the mid 90s. I remember me and cousins playing this all night...like seriously we would take a bathroom break and realize its dawn. Good ole days

[@legendaryfella3236]

The current bond only rule is dumb, as a bond fan it feels incredibly weird to play through moonraker as Craig and face off against Hugo Lonsdale as Drax. Roger Moore was the only actor that could make the ridiculous, over the top movie of moonraker work. Craig as bond usually feels out of place. Multiplayer in that game was really good though, too bad no one ever plays it though.

[@ratchetxtreme6591]

Two wha happuns about Good games in a row , now that's a record.

[@YouNameItGaming]

As someone who spent much of my adolescence playing GE64, I'd love to see EON do the right thing and just let it happen. Yes, I have played the remake myself and I love the way the framerate is nice and consistent for it on the pc (if i could get enough xbox 360 wireless controllers together I'd actually mod an xbox 360 console just for it) but having said that, i hate the idea of having to jump through all these hoops just to play the masterpiece with questionable legality. If say EON said "ok, sure, but we want to make a ton of money off it so $60" I'd be fine with that, and I'd pre-order it quicker than you could say "$60 for a 13 year old remaster of a 25 year old game?" I agree entirely regarding the protect Natalya missions though, I actually put down the controller on the remaster out of frustration the other day after I pushed my way to the end of jungle (I was shooting the guys that run out from the tunnel at the end) as Natalya thought it would be fun to commit suicide by putting her head infront of my AR33 whilst I was shooting at about half a dozen Janus grunts... and to think I used to play jungle on the N64 for fun, FUN! was i insane?

[@Caarajack]

It’s just sad that companies such as EON Productions treat their franchises like they can only exist with current attachments, even that James Bond has such a legacy that it’s almost criminal to keep re-releasing all the movies every time when a new film gets released but won’t let even a single remastered game entry to come out.

[@entertainmentwizard2703]

Great video!

[@GamingMyWholeLife]

Another great video and always learning !

[@Potaogirl-qm3ys]

Watching after the Nintendo Direct which announced GE64 for NSO. We’re lucky that it was even released on that service... or the Xbox One now.

[@NickAaron1994]

DOA Dead or Alive movie

[@crossbones116]

The thumbnail makes Bond look like Angela Anaconda.

[@herrikudo]

Wow.... theres a show i havent heard about in a long time.... throwbacks

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

@@herrikudo Remember when they had a short of her series baked into the run time of the dubbed Digimon movie? That was...insane to put it mildly.

[@kingbradley8058]

@@zeroattentiongaming820 i always though that was i fever dream I had

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

@@kingbradley8058 It was certainly someone's fever dream

[@TieDyeShyGuy]

If Goldeneye would have had that remove rumble pak to reload feature, we'd have a ton of used N64 controllers with that little clasp ripped off, for quick reloads in Goldeneye.It's good Nintendo nixed that idea.

[@BRIANOCONNOR2003]

Would have been a cool idea

[@AlongCameJosh]

Brilliant vid

[@NonpositiveTM]

"And the Play it Loud poster I'm sure some of you had on your wall." Yes.

[@Kxngarthxr28]

Syphon Filter and Tenchu would be dope to see next

[@JL050]

Man that Play It Loud poster brought back some MEMORIES

[@Tekirai]

The fact that someone knows the James Bond Jr show shows culture 🤣🤣

[@oneofmanyalexs]

the fact that were getting both the original n64 version on switch and the HD Remaster on Xbox is incredible

[@jpeg2503]

Absolutely legendaty thumbnail joke

[@claytonrios1]

Another game that should have failed spectacularly yet ended up becoming one of the best N64 games of all time!

[@Mad-Ike]

1 year later we can all finally rejoice that the GOAT had returned.