Lots of love for smash and never enough love for golden eye

Great pick, Lyn! One of the classics that holds up very well.

Golden Eye hasn’t aged well and, to me, is incredibly overrated. I bet if most people went back to play a non-emulated version of it, they’d turn it off immediately. Perfect Dark, however, is essentially the better version of GoldenEye with (really tough) bots for multiplayer, a far more interesting alien conspiracy driven cyberpunk setting, and an expanded arsenal including more gadgets than Golden Eye and alt fire options for every single weapon. My friends and I would play against the bots for hours! Yet Perfect Dark is always overshadowed by Golden Eye. My guess is nostalgia makes people less objective but also because Golden Eye is a well liked Bond movie so people remember it more.

Super Smash is great and self contained whereas - despite my love for Perfect Dark - it and Golden Eye were stepping stones toward Halo solidifying console shooters into the mainstream.