Guess who this is. I used to play Goldeneye until i threw the cart in a lake. First post in a year or so - just to get an opinion about the general difficulty of this game. I'm not turning to PD or anything, but when i DO venture into speed runs (well, a little), the fact of the matter is that i suck completely. I always did, even during my GE career i could not play this game. And comparing the level points breakdown in the two games, it would suggest PD is easier, but i cant see how:
A) I have played Infiltration agent for about 4 hours this week, and despite copying the 1.12 vid i've seen, and apparently strafing beautifully (as well as i did in my GE days), my PR is 1.21. TEN seconds lost. And bizarrely, this time is worth precisely ZERO. I dont expect the WR, but i dont lose any more than 3-4 secs on the whole run. I'm using cruise, and should get at least a 1.16. But no.
I then turn to Goldeneye...to see that 1.07 Caverns A is still worth points. 1.23 Silo A - still worth a point!!!! If i had never seen the PD ranks, then coming from a GE-only background i would expect 1.21 Infiltration agent to be worth at least 40 points. I literally would have to play for a whole day to squeeze below 1.20 even. It sickens me.
B) Copying Karls Chicago PA 28 vid. I completed the Strat for the first time today. 46!!!?!?! If anything i was pleased as it was coming down from 9.50, but i didnt lose any more than 5 seconds [again] and for some reason, i was having real trouble with health. He hardly loses any. If i played with invincible and apparently good strafing, i doubt i could get much better than about a 38-fail.
C) Perfect agent in general. On PD, the health-sapping guards surely make it harder than GE. You can die in 1 second, literally. BUT all the time people have, are really close to to the WR (as in to get any points, you have to be less than 1 minute off). Crash Site PA, say, i watched the 1.53 vid and it is phenomenal. The pointless time is 2.52, less than a minute away, despite what looks like a very difficult level to survive, and a tough strat to complete. I struggle to get any completion at all on these PA levels, the guards are shits.
THEN i turn to Caverns 00A. 5.56
still gets points! Why why why? Thats over 4 minutes off. My time is rubbish, on PD that much effort would be no points, but i have 67(?)
And i still cant beat War PA. Cant even get to the second king!
So, my question is this: Is PD really an easier game than GE to get times on, or is it simply because much more effort has been put in to the game? The apparent effort needed to get GE points seeme to be 100 times less - and looking at the times lists, my pre-elite Goldeneye times would get me a few hundred points, still. On PD, despite watching all the vids, i have precisly 100 points on the whole game. You know where from. Perhaps i'm slightly bitter because when i bought the game, i wanted to waltz in and get 5000 points but it wouldnt materialise.
Another comment about speed....could my cart/expansion pak be the cause? I have 20 Chicago agent, despite many hours play. And in a conversation with Peter Osterland back in 2003, he claimed he could only get 19, and "that was tough for him". Yet he's a strafemaster at GE. Maybe his was broken too, because copying an agent video for speed should be easy for first-person shooter veterans like us. You need 17 just to get any points at all, so that fact that i cant beat 20 is embarrasing. Comparing the two rankings, 16 is shown to be easier than 23 runway. How?
Some thoughts would be interesting............what is the key to PD speed, and why do i have gross speed trouble? As i said, i strafe as well as before. If i could play GE now, i'd be getting 1.04 cavs in minutes. Is it normal to have a difficult transition between the two games? The amount of trouble i have is really sickening, because i would have liked to get just slightly good at this game.
