I really enjoy these What Happun videos on good games with bad developments.

I'm just picturing Bond and Natalya going around in a jungle, throwing barrels and jumping on Kremlings. We were that close.

Its amazing Goldeneye was released years after the movie came out instead of being rushed to cash in on the movie or just plain cancelled outright.

The fact that it used to be an on-rails shooter explains so much of the enemy behavior.

This game was REALLY lucky it came out as it did, because holy hell, you can't make a movie tie-in at that level, and that late today, and for awhile, a James Bond game. No wonder MGM went into dire straits, if they treat their flagship franchise like this, it explains RoboCop and other franchises they own.

It’s hard to think that one of the most influential fps shooters almost never existed due to behind the scenes problems.

So, as usual, big corporations not understanding their fanbase makes everything worse for their fans.

Spiderman Turn off the Dark would be the perfect non gaming topic for Matt

Remember that small period of the 90's where everybody made a teenage or kid version of our favourite heroes? No? Great!

The EA and Activision introduction was perfect 😂

Sony was also the distributor for the James Bond films from 2006 to 2015; crucial dates for the 360 remake and its inclusion in Rare Replay. Rumors stated Microsoft also had to negotiate with Sony. Allegedly all parties at the table were asking for a cut of the sales with Nintendo and Sony asking for the remake to release on their consoles. Rumors circulated at one point stating Microsoft had agreed to pay a fee to EON, MGM, and Sony with the remake only releasing on the 360 and Nintendo selling the N64 version on the Virtual Console. One party backed out and it looks like it was EON. Since then, Phil Spencer has said every time they consider releasing the remake they either can't obtain all the necessary licenses, or they can't reach a financial agreement with the involved parties. Maybe they can pull a "Too Human" and reach an agreement to release it for free.

With how many cheats there were in the game, im surprised they didnt develop the rumble reload mechanic anyways and include it as a cheat, i can see it being called "professional reloads" or some such nonsense

Another good one. Mad that EON are so overprotective. Also, would really like to see a The Predator 2018 Wha Happun

“They left us alone and we made a great game.” That pretty much sums up the gaming industry. Those greedy, profit driven managers and C-level execs only think about the short term. “Just rush it! We’ll fix the bugs later. It will sell just fine.” *game bombs* “Whu happun?! Clearly it was those bloody pirates! Definitely NOT our heavily monetized and unfinished game!” I’m convinced MBA instruction of the past 30 years just pulls a bait and switch on the last day of class. “So, let’s sum up. Steady growth, invest in your company, listen to your underlings.... HA! Gotcha! All that matters is that sweet, short term profit.”

Kids will never understand the excitement and fun

Man, I'm so tired of people who lack vision being the ones to own everything.

Blocking the Goldeneye remaster from release has to be the denial to the easiest money EON has ever made in their life. The return on investments on this project could be huge, especially if they release it on Switch too. But it sounds like EON just doesn't give a shit and videogames are disposable toys to be made money on quickly and then forget about them.

Bond should have been in Melee, Imagine him just shooting Mario in the face.

The Goldeneye team must've had to become 007 experts while developing the game

I just find amazing how the development of Goldeneye ACTUALLY ended up with a good game, following the unusual development: new staff working in new hardware, development the game environments first then building the gameplay on top of it, movie tie-in game, movie tie-in game a year after the original film, late developed multiplayer mode, new-ish motion capture technology done with really short cables (I believe they were just a couple of feet away from the computer), among many things.

Goldeneye was truly lightning in a bottle. Everything ultimately just kind of came together in the perfect time and place, don't think we'll ever see that happen again with a licensed game.

"No Oddjob" was a HARD rule when I was a kid

thanks for reminding me of the immense disappointment i had when i rented rogue agent, i literally swore of 007 entirely, including movies and books (only read from russia before this but still). im an adult now and realize that it was crazy, but as a kid you just kinda think "everything 007 is made by the same people"

Great video! Really enjoyed watching it all through. Very well explained.

"Wha Happen is one of my favorite shows on KZfaq." -Commander Shepard.

You know you're 92 videos into the What Happened playlist when Matt brings up two reoccurring publishes and you can immediately guess who they are.

(At EON Offices...) Boris Grishenko: Better luck...next time....SLUG-HEADS! (hits "Enter") BAM! DONE! _I AM INVINCIBLE!_

Great episode. It's so weird that Eon is so stingy. That remake is a license (to kill) to print money! Maybe we'll get some news to celebrate sixty years of Bond next year.

Fun fact: Because of the (at the time) realistic depiction of being shot, this game was banned in Germany

Should have had the Eon logo on the "Let's get him fellas" guy at the end.

So crazy going back and remembering all the music and even the dialogue in the boxes.

So without Virtua Cop, we wouldn't have GoldenEye at all. That's what i love about lost obscure games, you never know what inspired the big game hits of today.

My favourite FPS of all time. So many hours sunk into multiplayer...

This just in: The GoldenEye Remaster has been announced by Rare on Twitter, though there's no release date yet, so i'm back :)

Blast Corps being more popular than a Goldeneye game... man, I kinda want to see that.

It's not a "high-tech Rolex", it's an high-tech Omega ...

Sad to think the only thing standing between us and a proper Goldeneye remaster is what I'm going to stereotypically assume to be a bunch of out-of-touch old british men over at EON.

Oh gosh, I have so many memories of this game. I don't think I really made much progress on the main campaign that was in game, but my siblings and I spent HOURS playing the multiplayer. Capture the flag and paintball were what we played together the most. It was a great game.

I wonder why Rare seemed so obsessed with risking damaging N64’s, with this game they tried to make you wear out the Rumble Pack slot by having you remove it constantly but also they had the whole stop-N-swap thing that would’ve shorted out cartridge memory and probably deleted a bunch of save files.

Thank you for using that face as the thumbnail. I always make references to that online and no one understands.

Waited the whole video for an Odd Job comment. Was not disappointed.

Ahh. The memories. I remember one of the funniest times I had with friends, was doing Proximity mine matches. Constantly hearing that famous Bond jingle everytime someone died every few or so seconds. Usually with a stream of cascading explosions rocking the N64 hardware, and everybody laughing when it happened. Everybody learned, first hand, the theory of volumetric explosions (especially around and in vents) and the domino effect of one mine explosion setting off other mines. (Or even nastier, stair bombs. Because they were hardest to detect, and they certainly won’t help you jump higher like in Quake.) It was like a First Person “Spy Vs. Spy” comic experience.

Hot damn...what a story. Anyone else remember "Agent Under Fire"? Played that on the OG XBox and feel like that was a solid EA Bond title.

Even Iwata didn't trust Activision...

I'm trying to imagine how this game would have turned out on the SNES and It's breaking my brain.

God, I need a "Play it Loud" poster.

Update, 2023. Goldeneye 007 (the OG N64 version) has officially been re-released on the Xbox 1, Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

I know I've suggested a few things in the past, but I have another idea for a future Wha Happun: Yo-kai Watch A series that was set to be the next Pokemon killer but barely got off the ground in the West and slowly died in its home country.

Never expected an episode on this legendary gem

Odd job brings back memories. So much cursing, broken controllers, and actual fist fights.

I always loved it when people played Oddjob: slower movement speed, more head real estate, and his head is right were everyone else's chest was, which was coincidentally where auto aim always pointed your gun. So much dorm rage over that back in uni.

Your videos are consistently entertaining, funny and informative. Just want to say you’re doing a great job.

I was praying for the use of Woolie's "Shut the fuck up" gif when he mentioned the cease and desist.

Ohhhh I loved it when my friends picked Odd Job, because he had a major weakness. If you run up close to the character the game's auto aim mechanic always tilted downwards which always puts your bullets into his head. Easy kills to the extent my friends stopped picking the character against me as they realized that the cheap Odd Job gimmick didn't work against me lol

What is so good about goldeneye 007 is the music, the fun silly sound effects in it and the people reacting at getting shot. So memorable, you dont see this anymore, it really made the game fun.

Eon is a word, not an acronym. It’s pronounced “E-on”.

Well done Matt. Keep pumping these out please.

Fun fact: multiplayer mode was originally denied by the lead in development. The developers went against it and added the mode to the game anyways as it was the final touches before the games official release. For the Nintendo 64 version to be more specific

I love this video series.

I can't understand how can a company own a product whose fans are dying to pour huge ammounts of money to play and not release it to the public. isn't a company's sole goal to make money?

I think if there's anyway that a Goldeneye Remake could happen, I think the idea of expanding on the cut idea of having all the past James Bond's together and making this hypothetical remake a celebration of the 007 license and bringing multiple 007 films being adapted for Campaigns for the British Super Spy, so the idea of making a Goldeneye remake as a base/hub for a butt load of content updates both for Single Player and Multiplayer, basically like how Halo Master Chief collection is a hub for all that content, so the idea of having a 007 Film for each Bond to be adapted into a campaign, so the idea of having Goldfinger as one of them, just so they can include Sean Connery Bond as an example, also a reason to throw in baddies from that film like OddJob and Goldfinger for multiplayer.

Hearing stories like this with the question, "How was this still a success with everything seemingly going against it?" just makes me want to hear more about the _Metroid_ _Prime_ (NGC) troubled development history. EDIT: Referring to the N64 Goldeneye, specifically.

Both the film and game are seminal works, each one complimenting the other.

Perfect Dark definitely needs to be next or soon.

Brosnan said he’d love to play a Bond villain and I’d love to see it

DOA Dead or Alive movie

That game came out when I was 8 and it still bums me out that we never got to play as the other bonds in multiplayer

I was just thinking that FF15 would make a good episode of What Happened. It was certainly a game that, for a while, was stuck in development hell.

Being the massive James Bond fan that I am, I absolutely LOVED this Wha Happun? I think that this is the greatest Wha Happun you have ever done Matt. The massive amounts of research, attention to detail and game footage, the analysis of the old Bond games from EA and Activision, the fantastic Rare soundtracks and seeing the GoldenEye Remake in action is the embodiment of perfection and nostalgia. Very highly looking forward to seeing the Wha Happun on GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

Ah I love this game. I used to rent it from the video store whenever I could.

Great video!

"Then we thought wouldn't it be cool to play a game like doom but with actual 3d graphics?" Quake: "Am I a joke to you?"

Two wha happuns about Good games in a row , now that's a record.

Another game I want to see on "Wha happend?" that's also in licensing hell is "No One Lives Forever"

Another great video and always learning !

The past couple of episodes have had Digimon world 4 music in it. I just wanted to say thank you for remembering that game, Matt!

Brilliant vid

OK! You win my like just off the fact you used Swanky Kong's theme. I never thought I'd hear it again XD

This is hands down the best video series on youtube!

Playing as the various Bond's over the years is an awesome concept, EON are so short sighted. Could have been rolling in dough.

Absolutely legendaty thumbnail joke

Great work Sir thank you

That pause menu music. so good

"squirted onto a cartridge" got damn

It’s just sad that companies such as EON Productions treat their franchises like they can only exist with current attachments, even that James Bond has such a legacy that it’s almost criminal to keep re-releasing all the movies every time when a new film gets released but won’t let even a single remastered game entry to come out.

The thumbnail makes Bond look like Angela Anaconda.

Give this man more subs. One of the good ones.

Looking forward to this!

As someone who spent much of my adolescence playing GE64, I'd love to see EON do the right thing and just let it happen. Yes, I have played the remake myself and I love the way the framerate is nice and consistent for it on the pc (if i could get enough xbox 360 wireless controllers together I'd actually mod an xbox 360 console just for it) but having said that, i hate the idea of having to jump through all these hoops just to play the masterpiece with questionable legality. If say EON said "ok, sure, but we want to make a ton of money off it so $60" I'd be fine with that, and I'd pre-order it quicker than you could say "$60 for a 13 year old remaster of a 25 year old game?" I agree entirely regarding the protect Natalya missions though, I actually put down the controller on the remaster out of frustration the other day after I pushed my way to the end of jungle (I was shooting the guys that run out from the tunnel at the end) as Natalya thought it would be fun to commit suicide by putting her head infront of my AR33 whilst I was shooting at about half a dozen Janus grunts... and to think I used to play jungle on the N64 for fun, FUN! was i insane?

Great vid! I played a ton of the Wii version when it came out. Just a heads up that version had online too!

Who else is here rewatching this because of the long awaited Xbox and Switch announcement?

Rogue Agent was one of the first PS2 games I had. I was a dumb kid who didn’t care about James Bond and loved it

"And the Play it Loud poster I'm sure some of you had on your wall." Yes.

Love the content! But please consider doing Bionic Commando 😭 you’ve mentioned it on so many other vids

Man that Play It Loud poster brought back some MEMORIES

Goldeneye will forever be remembered for the "Geddan!" meme.

Another game that should have failed spectacularly yet ended up becoming one of the best N64 games of all time!

Being able to have a bunch of different Bonds all face off would have been cool

This game definitely makes my top 5 GOAT video games list. This was mind blowing in the mid 90s. I remember me and cousins playing this all night...like seriously we would take a bathroom break and realize its dawn. Good ole days

I read that EON was behind both "No"s to the remaster because of one simple fact: You could shoot civilians in Goldeneye (Obviously that means instant fail) and they...didn't like that. At all.