get in modern shooters its long been accepted that goldeneye was effectively made obsolete by halo but that ignores the way 007 was built around its nowdated control scheme its paced slowly so that you can carefully line up your shots based on the exaggerated enemy animationsthe boomer shooter uh boom has ensured that weve gotten plenty of modern throwbacks to classic fps games from smaller developers but those are all hyperfocused on lightningfast action and twitch reflexes goldeneye levels are endurance challenges checkpointfree affairs where youve got to manage your resources against a small pool of predictable enemiesgoldeneyes nearly survival horroresque emphasis on resource management was certainly born in response to the limitations of an n64 controller but that slowerpaced action means it still maintains its own flavor even today indie games like neon white have proven theres life in shooters outside the posthalo mold and goldeneye itself is being mined in games like agent 64 spies never die and even screencheat what if we could these more varied types of action games out of the aaa scene tooimage credit capcomwhat i want are games that feel out of step with the current trends every now and thendont get me wrong i absolutely do not want halo or call of duty to give up the precision of their dualanalog controls but would it be such a bad thing if we got more shooters that were built in a different mold either way goldeneye is still here to offer a type of experience i just cant get out of current games ultimately of course i dont really want more remakes what i want are games that feel out of step with the current trends every now and then and hey weve had an excellent example of that this week with hifi rush a bold creative action game that feels like a throwback to a more experimental era of development coming from tango but how often is a major publisher going to fund a smallscale experiment from top talent its certainly going to be a lot less likely from a company thats not banking on a service like game passfor now the remake and remaster trend is largely satisfying my need for robust games that stop short of massive openworlds and endless content and im most looking forward to remakes of games that i never got to enjoy in the first place well and the resident evil 4 remake thats probably gonna be a banger tootheres a chunk of familiar titles among the new games for 2023 but that doesnt have to be a bad thing