The Great Bond Geoguesser Game

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• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  January 8 Posts: 14,883

  zebrafish wrote: »

  Inside a 1990s videogame?

  You're on the right track.
  
  What is this place? What is the history behind it?
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 1 Posts: 14,139

  I'm not a gamer and so don't have a decent guess.
  
  I am at a Bond locale I want to offer up when the opportunity comes available.
  
  
  
• mtm United Kingdom

  March 1 Posts: 17,259

  Funnily enough I think Q Branch just explained it in another thread: it's some hidden level in GoldenEye 64 isn't it? Citadel?
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  March 1 Posts: 14,883

  @mtm That's right - was wondering if someone would take notice so we can advance with this round. Comment parroted from that other thread:
  

  QBranch wrote: »

  They definitely have to use the Citadel complex one day. That being the GoldenEye 64 level which didn't make it into the final game. All those years playing this game with friends, and all along Citadel was hidden away on the cartridge behind coding. A place shrouded in mystery, rumoured by some to be real and thought by others to be just an urban legend for years until it was discovered by hackers. "We didn't think it actually existed."
  

  The location should be made as a set for one of the films, complete with pyramidal spires reaching up into the heavens. The film version should feel as mysterious as the game level, with Bond being summoned there by the villain. He explores the labyrinthian architecture with caution. The place is devoid of all life - the only sound being the wind sweeping through the halls. Suddenly, Bond is restrained. In one quadrant, the villain stands atop a floating platform and delivers his speech. Bond is left to die there out in the middle of nowhere, inevitably escaping of course (and narrowly avoiding the motion-detecting drone gun defences that drop from the ceiling), but never really finding out what the place was actually used for. Is it indeed a fortress, and all that remains of an advanced city which sunk into the surrounding salt lake that stretches for miles in the desert? Is it a temple dedicated to the gods, whose worshippers are now long gone? The lingering mystery and bizarreness are things I love to see in these films.
  
  
  

  
  
  @mtm over to you mate.
• mtm United Kingdom

  March 1 Posts: 17,259

  Thank you, very interesting! But I want to hand it to Richard as I'm interested to find out where he is!
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 1 Posts: 14,139

  Talk about timing, here's what i got.
  
  My usual cryptic, obscure opening image. If that's not enough clues can follow.
  
  Photo taken this morning, the rocky foreground and far left and right of the image are not directly associated with Bond. In the distance, well, that is.
  
  
  
  
  
• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  March 1 Posts: 8,591

  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  Talk about timing, here's what i got.
  
  My usual cryptic, obscure opening image. If that's not enough clues can follow.
  
  Photo taken this morning, the rocky foreground and far left and right of the image are not directly associated with Bond. In the distance, well, that is.
  
  
  
  

  
  I'd guess Silva's Island
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 1 Posts: 14,139

  Good to key in on the water and the color. But not the Pacific.
  
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  March 2 Posts: 14,883

  Jamaica.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2 edited March 2 Posts: 14,139

  Mmm. Closer and heading in right direction but not Jamaica.
  
  Update: a wider view, not a real clue visually other than dig deeper I guess.