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My Dreams May Indeed Be Coming True! (PD on XBLA)
B-Radicate | 10:11 PM on 04.08.2009 12 comments


IGN is reporting on a Rare blog post that includes a tiny thumbnail on a user's 360 blade that shows a blurry photo of Joanna Dark before she became a punk ass teenager. Does this mean that Rare's long-awaited HD conversion of the N64 classic is on its way? Have Microsoft and Rare been fucking with us? Have they settled their rights issues with Nintendo?


I remember begging my parents to buy me this as an early birthday present when it released and then my copy was a blank cartridge and it sat around in my collection for 2 years before I ever picked it up and sent it back to Nintendo to replace it, but let me tell you, when it came back... shit. The rest is my gaming history!

Sweet merciful Jesus I hope so! Perfect Dark on the N64 is still my all-time favorite multiplayer game. I played 120 hours of it one summer years after release by myself against bots just 'cause I fucking could.


The proverbial money shot.

Give me the same game, HD graphics, and online multiplayer (with bots) and Rare, you can go ahead and charge me a full $60 worth of Microsoft's magic money. I don't care. MAKE IT HAPPEN.

PS - As anyone who knows me realizes, this would complete my "repurchase trifecta" of Rez, MvC2 (assuming Capcom's hints and rumors aren't smoke and mirrors), and PD, of the only past generation games I'm willing to shell more money out for (since I still own all my original copies and systems. I'm really excited. You should be, too!



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ZombiePlatypus's Destructoid Blog
If it's got online multiplayer I'm there. This is another N64 game I missed out on, what with not having a job at the time and all...
ChronosWing's Destructoid Blog
I bought PD awhile back, its crazy cheap on EBay you can buy brand new shrink wrapped copies for $2 and shipping.
falinter's Destructoid Blog
Better that Golden Eye.

If there was a line to wait in for the midnight release of this on xbla I would be there.
DarkTravesty's Destructoid Blog
that game was fun as hell. i remember taking it over to a friends house in high school using my rom pack to play 4 player split screen vs with bots. sure it was a laggy mess but when it was playable we played the game till we cried of laughter.
Usedtabe's Destructoid Blog
I'm right there with you. I still boot up this game and go crazy with some bots.
Endstiem's Destructoid Blog
Amazing game. Planting Laptop Guns around the lower car park levels, grabbing a Super Dragon and 2 mates.... and fighting off horders of Dark Bots.

Fucking awesome.
ArrestedDeveloper's Destructoid Blog
I'd love some HD counter-operative play.
Justice's Destructoid Blog
This would be awesome, suitcase/laptop gun turrets FTW!
Necros's Destructoid Blog
What rights issues? When Rare split from Nintendo, they got to keep any IP that they had created, while Nintendo kept the rights of any Nintendo IPs that Rare had worked on (Donkey Kong, Star Fox, Diddy Kong Racing). Rare has always had the rights to Perfect Dark, which is why they were able to make Perfect Dark Zero for 360. The same goes for Banjo-Kazooie. They have full rights to expand those two series, as well as stuff like Jet Force Gemini.

The only Rare IP which has legal issues surrounding it is Goldeneye, and that's because it's a licensed game, in which the Bond license, the publishing license, and the game code license belong to Activision, Nintendo, and Rare (Microsoft) respectively.
B-Radicate's Destructoid Blog
@Necros: Well, shit. I stand corrected. I thought there were rights issues holding this back just like there were with Goldeneye.

That raises an important question then, WHY THE FUCK HASN'T THIS COME OUT YET!? Shit.
ArrestedDeveloper's Destructoid Blog
@B-radicate

I think Microsoft and Nintendo were squabbling over percentages and then someone decided to go home and take their ball with them.
B-Radicate's Destructoid Blog
@Arrested Developer: You're so wise...


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