Earlier this month, modder Krollywood remade and released all the maps from GoldenEye 64 in Far Cry 5 Arcade. Krollywood only used assets from Far Cry 5 in order to remake these maps so, theoretically, he did not violate any rules for modding Far Cry 5. However, Ubisoft and MGM have decided to take down these maps.
Ubisoft and MGM did not clarify the reasons why these maps were taken down. If I’d have to guess, I’d say that MGM tries to protect its James Bond IP as there is currently a new James Bond game under development.
Now while you can’t play it, there is at least a video montage on YouTube you can watch. As you can see, these maps were fully playable and are almost identical to the original ones. The maps also came with proper gameplay and combat mechanics, and had enemies to fight.
It’s a real shame that these maps are no longer available. So yeah, best of luck to all other Goldeneye 64 fan projects that are currently in development!
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Remember, the only way to punish companies is not giving them your money anymore. In this case MGM.
I think amazon bought them. So… amazon
mgm was going bankrupt a while ago. They destroyed bond so dont give em money.
Amazon is gonna buy MGM. Not giving money is fine, but doesn’t do much to destroy them.
No fun allowed.
Wrong sax of the bond to fit todays political narrative
All that time and effort put into making them…
What’s the point in having a map editor when you can’t make what you want with it…
Ah yes, journos yet again ruin it for everyone else.
Not really the fault of journos in this one, unless the intent was to warn MGM of potential IP violations. Johnny boy is at fault too for making posts about these kind of fan projects…
Unless I want to play online or actually care to support a dev I just pirate everything. Who cares.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2e432c05cc781d12dfda04bd36c3fafcc2a7a2524557cfc11369b96a68a4776b.gif
In the case of the bioshock 2 cover where after you see the bomberman face and can’t unsee it. This one doesn’t really affect me.
Let me help you unsee it. That’s not a face on the left, it’s James Bond’s index finger over the trigger.
https://i.imgur.com/J41CWVN.jpeg
I always saw it this way as a kid!! haha. Eventually I realized what it was, but for the longest time I wondered why Brosnan’s face looked distorted on that cover
just upload the maps anonymously… they were already out in the open so what are they gonna do. Plus it’s sad aF they even sued… artists can release covers of songs no problem. It’s basically a video game cover and it’s not even being sold.
If the person wasn’t selling it. I don’t see how they can do this.
It’s amazing how foreign the concept of opsec is nowadays.
Fan made stuff that will increase sells of product.
Product maker and associates shuts down fan’s project.
Product goes back to be forgotten unless some sale pop or is given away for free.
All this so they can still reeee about their boogeyman piracy.
well its a good thing that there isnt a finished x360 remake of goldeneye that you can play with x360 emulator out there.
Anyway just yesterday i was gonna point out someone made resident evil remake and re survivor remake on fc5.
How the hell do you copyright a level that wasn’t made with any resources or content from the original game? Just slap a different name on it and call it BlackEye 789 or something….
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/goldeneye-64-remake-maps-in-far-cry-5-are-available-again-with-a-different-name/