Also, by the time Goldeneye came out, even DOOM was playable without tank controls, not to mention that PC FPS had long evolved past that already.

and hey, I’ve never made it more than 10 feet into Goldeneye and now I’m on the third mission on the Xbox so, there’s that.

Unfortunately it’s part of my nature to assume everything will disappoint me.

No amount of “you’re holding the controller wrong, lol” is ever going to change that the N64 controller was just a bad design that never should have seen the light of day.

Even with tank controls DOOM was better than ever having to lay hands on an N64 controller.

This is actually enjoyable on the Xbox, for me.

Yup. The default controls are 100% better.

I tried it on NSO and I couldn’t get the controls to work for me. I’m loading it up on my Xbox now to try it out.

It definitely already looks better.

You said the controls were better on the Xbox Game Pass version?

Sense8
The Owl House
Warrior Nun

(There may be a theme here)

But if I never try anything again that I hated once I never get the opportunity to not hate it.

I wish them a great deal of success. Their plan, as they have laid it out, is far more friendly to the community than just pretending to walk back to OGL 1.0a (and make no mistake, WotC will try again).

I appreciate y’all putting up with me. I know I can come across as really negative and I am grateful to have some idea of what it meant to you beyond the game itself.

I still think GBA and even GBC have held up better than almost anything from that era. They’re just so charming and so many of the games really lean into looking good in pixel art. Heck, Golden Sun is still impressive and it was a 3D-like game on the GBA! It even managed to make the GBA sound good, which is a miracle…

I think a big help to DOOM and it’s family (Wolfenstein 3D before it, DOOM II after it, the games that use the engine like Heretic and Hexen and all the myriad of games beyond them, like Unreal, and even, ugh, Duke Nukem) were helped a lot by also being shareware, having access to netplay VERY early (definitely before…

Well that’s just embarrassing.

Wait until they find out there are people born with both a penis and ovaries. Oh right, they know, they just don’t care cause they’re assholes.

I’m glad you got to enjoy them. I’m actually always a little grumpy that I can’t play N64 games (despite trying really hard the past year or so to experience more of the library).

That makes sense. I started using TCP/IP over the phone when I was pretty young, and I was putting PC’s together by the time I was 4 or 5 (original x86 family that gave the name), so I suppose that’s another bit of cultural impact I just can’t relate to. I’d be dialing a modem to play DOOM multiplayer or over the LAN…

Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were my least favorite when they came out and only ever have been unseated by the DS games and the awful remake of Link’s Awakening on the Switch as my least favorite in the series.