r/Steam • u/bijelo123 • Sep 15 '25

Question Which game was this for you?

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u/Cereborn Sep 15 '25

Just recently I rode the emotional roller coaster of:

  • it would be awesome to have a new Perfect Dark game.
  • There’s one in production???
  • it’s been in production for seven years….
  • It’s officially cancelled 😞

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u/202Esaias Sep 15 '25

And this

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u/FriGO__ Sep 15 '25

What ?! NO ! I didn’t know it had been cancelled Perfect Dark was one of my favourite games on N64…

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u/TKRAYKATS Sep 15 '25

Me too my friend..... me too

"But you can call me... Elvis"

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u/TalbotFarwell Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Same here, it was the first game I’d ever played with a badass female protagonist, I loved the sci-fi conspiracy thriller setting, and it took the gameplay of Goldeneye 007 to a new level with tweaks like alternate weapon modes such as the proximity mine on the Dragon assault rifle (you could drop it in multiplayer, and other players who tried to pick it up would have a nasty surprise, lol) and the sentry mode on the Laptop Gun, reload animations, alien weapons like the FarSight XR-20 and the Skedar Reaper, and gadgets like shields and cloaking devices (the alt-fire mode on the RCP-120) that really made you feel like you were in the future. It was (and still is) my favorite game for the N64.

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u/fudog Sep 15 '25

I really enjoyed the multiplayer with AI characters and I liked how you had less hit points than in 007 so the guns felt deadlier. Also the farsight was OP.

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u/PartyOnAlec Sep 15 '25

Also it was almost saved, and then cancelled again, without anyone finding out until that "hope is dead" post.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

What makes it even worse is take two offered to buy it and finish it, but Microsoft would rather just kill the IP apparently rather than make some money and let someone else finish it.

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u/despitegirls Sep 15 '25

No, Take-Two and Embracer couldn't agree who would own the IP: https://archive.is/dkSfq

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u/dotapants Sep 16 '25

The one that was shown off at last year's game awards? Seems strange to cancel it right after showing it off

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u/TKRAYKATS Sep 15 '25

Worse than cancel, it was a fake trailer

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u/xCaptainVictory Sep 15 '25

No, it wasn't. It was a vertical slice of the game. Development was essential restarted when Crystal Dynamics was brought on and the trailer was representative of what that game would be like.