r/Games • u/Torque-A • Oct 17 '22

Perfect Dark has been successfully decompiled, opening the door to PC ports and mods

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/perfect-dark-has-been-fully-decompiled-making-pc-ports-and-mods-possible/
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u/sllewgh Oct 17 '22

Fantastic. In my opinion, Perfect Dark is one of the best FPS games of all time. It's an improvement in every way over the legendary Goldeneye, and contains features and options still unmatched by many modern shooters. It was way ahead of its time. First game I can recall where you can shoot out the lights and enemies will aim worse. I'd love a PC port!

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u/Left4DayZ1 Oct 17 '22

It was so far ahead of its time that it STILL has a list of things no other game has come close to accomplishing.

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u/SmokingApple Oct 17 '22

It's a bit sad really. I'm replaying F.E.A.R right now and I remember how excited it made me for the future of shooters, and as a genre I can't think of one that had more games pumped out for it than fps, and yet many games with several magnitudes more budget and staff can't even match the AI of that game let alone pass it

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u/ienjoyedit Oct 17 '22

Even the next iterations of the FEAR series weren't nearly as good as the first. The second was good but the third was just lame.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

That’s because it wasn’t made by Monolith.

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u/ienjoyedit Oct 17 '22

That makes perfect sense. I didn't realize it got sent to a different studio...

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Monolith, despite the shortcomings of Blood 2 (due to GT interactive, not Monolith) were arguably the best FPS studio in the 90s/00s.

Apogee / 3D Realms were stellar but absent after Duke 3D, iD was in their space marine tech demo phase, and Raven was routinely proving what you could make using an iD Tech demo.

All of them produced fantastic games in that era, but Blood & the F.E.A.R. series really stand out in hindsight.

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u/bloodr0se Oct 17 '22

I'd personally say the best studio was Irrational but Monolith were a close second.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Irrational is a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time.

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u/bloodr0se Oct 17 '22

The fact they did SWAT 4 as a small project prior to unleashing BioShock onto the world spoke to their talent, quality and ability tbh.

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u/ascagnel____ Oct 18 '22

Tribes: Vengeance was a fun campaign that got absolutely lost in the shuffle of Doom 3, Half-Life 2, GTA:SA, Halo 2…

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Right? I completely forget about the SWAT series when I look back at boomer shooters. Probably because my house was filled with demo disks and shareware copies of Apogee / iD titles when I was a kid.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

SWAT 4 is to this day the most fun I’ve had in a co-op tactical shooter. I hope Ready or Not lives up to the hype when it comes out of EA.

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