And if the thought of messing with a single jagged polygon of the 1997 game seems outrageous, you could always try out OpenJKDF2, an open-source reimplementation of the original game's engine that should let you play it on modern systems without much anguish.
User Klobrille on the ResetEra forums noticed a curious change related to Dark And Darker Gold the development of the Perfect Dark reboot announced back in 2020: the game's director, Dan Neuburger, seems to have left the project. You can download Ruppertle's remake for free over on their Patreon page.
Neuburger's LinkedIn shows him as having departed Perfect Dark's developer, The Initiative, last month. Neuburger seems to have been at the studio since its founding or close to it, going off his LinkedIn. Halo Infinite has largely been a success despite what looks to have been a highly chaotic development cycle.
The Perfect Dark reboot is being co-developed by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Marvel's Avengers and the Tomb Raider reboot. The Initiative was formed by Microsoft in 2018 as a first-party development house, and Perfect Dark will be their first released game.
This departure could mean any number of things for the upcoming Perfect Dark. Senior staff departures in the middle of development are almost never good news for a game's quality or timely release, but some games manage to pull through despite this.
Klobrille on ResetEra postulates that this could be less disastrous than it seems given the relationship between The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics. The Initiative is a much smaller studio, the theory goes, and was possibly always intended as an incubator for the early stages of the project, later passing the baton to buy Dark And Darker Gold Crystal Dynamics and its superior resources to bring Perfect Dark home.
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