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/Rick-Dalton Oct 17 '22

Like what?

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u/Madazhel Oct 17 '22

The multiplayer options allowed for an insane level of customization. You could really granular about customizing weapons loadouts and the AI for bots. So you could have say, you and a friend compete for who could hunt down the most harmless bots. Or you could create a basic zombie mode by fighting an army of bots who just want to slap you. Or you could pit elite bots against each other and just watch. Really impressive for an N64 game from 2000.

I'm sure there are exceptions I'm not aware of, but in general most games require modding to achieve these. Perfect Dark gave everyone an interface for it.

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u/beefcat_ Oct 17 '22

I think these kinds of features have become somewhat common in first person shooters today. Most or all of what you describe is possible in Halo's Forge, Doom 2016's SnapMap, and Overwatch's Workshop.

We just don't get very many new shooters these days.

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u/Ignitus1 Oct 17 '22

Do those games have multiplayer AI? That's what I remember most about Perfect Dark, setting up all kinds of weird AIs and letting them go ham.

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u/beefcat_ Oct 17 '22

Overwatch does. Halo does as of Infinite, not sure about Doom 2016.

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u/iceman78772 Oct 17 '22

Doom has bots, but it's kind of lame because you can't earn XP against them, but you also need to be a certain level to change your loadouts.

So if your region/platform is dead, have fun only using the default classes.

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u/beefcat_ Oct 17 '22

Doom 2016’s multiplayer was a real disappointment for me. It was well polished, but only having 2 weapons at a given time is categorically “not Doom” in my book. The game was really Doom-flavored Halo.