Perfect Dark thread

probably

will see if I can get any significant distance into this without major technical issues or repetitive stress injury or debilitating motion sickness lmao

I love this game a lot but also oof

Did you know that Perfect Dark supports dual-analog control

I am not shitposting

Here is how you play Perfect Dark with normal FPS controls:

this input scheme rules for so many reasons:

- You need two working N64 controllers (unheard of in 2020)

- Arm fatigue due to supporting them with one hand

- Pressing the A or B buttons may cause tendon injury

also my N64 is physically failing and has locked up multiple times while I'm writing tweets so uhhhh dunno how well this is gonna go lol

rip nintend of 64

A cool feature that I totally didn't understand 20 years ago: there's a "high res" option in the menu that makes things noticeably sharper but also drops the whole game to like sub-15 FPS

Interestingly it does this without changing the console's actual output resolution

as far as I can tell it's rendering the game to a texture and then scaling that onto the actual backbuffer. Meaning, dynamic resolution tricks on a *nintendo 64*

The game has other "render to texture" effects that are pretty mindblowing for an N64

the menu background is a blurred version of whatever you happen to be looking at. It grabs the frame, downsamples, maybe actually blurs(?), and then does the weird/rad N64 ""bilinear"" upsample

The whole UI is incredible honestly

It's supposed to be projected into the player's retinas by that little headset thing that pops out

Check out how the text starts to fade out and then gets refreshed by the projector scanning back over it

All of the marketing renders hyped up joanna as like this young hot ultra-sexy assassin chick and then her actual in-game model just looks like the mom from Freaky Friday (2003)

her voice actress also doesn't really attempt to do like a sultry femme fatale affectation either

basically Joanna Dark is a middle-aged british mum who happens to be incredibly good at murdering security guards, and that's honestly cooler than Sexy Assassin anyway