CaliggyJack: James Bond Ranked

CaliggyJack 05.26.26	FIRST LIGHT COMES OUT IN 2 DAYS AAAAAHHHHHHDIFJJFJFIJFJFJUGJGJHKBBCJJHJGJXJJHU
BAT 05.26.26	i'd probably bump some of the roger moore stuff up, it's silly as hell but they're fun. die another day is probably my least favorite, but yeah diamonds are forever is a slog to get through. and reminds me i need to actually play thru hitman3, played the fuck out of 1 and 2 annnd just never got around to 3
Insurrection 05.26.26	casino royale goldfinger skyfall OHMSS goldeneye spy licence from russia TND octopussy NTtD living daylights YOLT TWINE FYEO dr no spectre thunderball quantum moonraker DAD AVtaK TMwtGG DAF NSNA casino spoof was gonna say at least we have the same bottom before i saw the non-eon in there. NSNA upsets me for wasting max von sydow as blofeld so badly
CaliggyJack 05.26.26	IDK man the story and pacing of NSNA felt miles above Thunderball personally.
zakalwe 05.26.26	Roger Moore best bond Octopussy is classic
Gyromania 05.26.26	First light in 6 and a half hours! Can’t wait! Casino Royale Goldeneye Secret Service From Russia Goldfinger Can’t be bothered to rank the rest rn + need to rewatch some of them, but that’s probably my top 5 or close enough to it. Skyfall, TND, No Time to Die, and Dr. No are up there too.
CaliggyJack 05.26.26	I encourage you to watch the masterpiece that is Licence to Kil Gyro. It's so good
DoofDoof 05.26.26	‘ Roger Moore best bond Octopussy is classic’ [2] Probably my 2nd most watched Bond movie. Think ‘Living Daylights’ is my most watched. Third most watched surely the comedy classic that is ‘Moonraker’. Only problem with Moore is he got too damned old…but hardly his fault. Also gets bonus points for playing himself in the Cannonball Run films.
Insurrection 05.26.26	octopussy is indeed awesome cant wait to play first light after work, been waiting for new bond content for sooo long
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	Really solid top 5 even if i vehemently disagree :P Respect for putting License to Kill and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service that high, easily the two most underrated imo 1. Casino Royale 2. Skyfall 3. From Russia With Love 4. Goldeneye 5. No Time to Die Guess which Bond is my favorite lol
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	License to Kill and OHMSS would probably be 6 and 7 but im certainly gonna binge them all before Bond 26 playing the First Light game this morning before work… honestly I cried a little. I’m a massive Bond fan and the presentation has been top notch so far. Gameplay’s good and so far I really love everyone, new M is great, Moneypenny and Q have been on point too. Q got a really funny moment the second you meet him that immediately made me love him. Patrick Gibson was a great pick for a Bond origin story. Can’t wait to get off tonight and blast through it with my day off tomorrow. Hope to have my first run finished by Thursday, but I have no idea how long this game is. I literally just finished the tutorials and intro after an hour and half, I feel like the game’s gonna be long.
zakalwe 05.26.26	I have an NVIDIA download code thing for it. Of a mind to play it or give it away on here. 50/50
JWT155 05.26.26	No Time to Die was terrible
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	Nope, good guess tho.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	I’ve found that people who hated No Time to Die hate it for literally the most retarded reasons ever, the villain was weak and had a kinda nonsense plot but that goes for literally half of the franchise. Movie is phenomenal aside from that and a damn near flawless send off for Daniel Craig. 10/10 would cry in the theater again
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	And give it a shot Zak! So far feels about half Hitman half Uncharted. As far as the vibe goes, feels like if Brosnan had an origin style movie set in 2026. Lots of good humor already and Bond has had some pretty witty cracks. I’m literally only about an hour and a half in tho, the introduction + tutorial + story setup has been fun but pretty lengthy… hopefully it can be skipped a little on subsequent runs.
zakalwe 05.26.26	Bond/Uncharted will do for me. I’ll give it a go mate.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	OH and the Lana theme is incredible. Literally feels like it was ripped out of a film. makes me wanna check out more of her music.
Insurrection 05.26.26	NTTD has a sloppy third act and weak villain but the first half is peak bond imo and yea i heard the first light theme when it came out and it’s damn good to have David Arnold back
WretchedCacophony 05.26.26	I thought the movie was called Goldmember
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	Yeah but black woman 007, check mate woketard
anarchistfish 05.26.26	On Her Majesty's Secret Service is lit
anarchistfish 05.26.26	Decent ranking overall
CaliggyJack 05.26.26	NTTD is a weird one for me. On one hand, Fukunaga directed it like it was an extended episode of True Detective and I loved that. Craig also gave a stellar final performance as Bond. On the other hand, I was not bought in on Rami Malek as the villain, I just couldn't feel it. But my most disliked aspect was Bond dying. I agree with Anthony Horowitz on the issue. Bond should never die, ever. It just does not fit at all and really hurts the film for me.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	I think if it were anybody other than Craig it would’ve went over like a lead balloon, but I gotta say I knew he was dead the second he said “we have all the time in the world” like 20 mins in. And it still made me sob like a bitch
zakalwe 05.26.26	007 First Light is absolutely amazing! Christ.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.26.26	UGH I CANT GET HOME QUICK ENOUGH
Insurrection 05.27.26	so um this game is fucking awesome
CaliggyJack 05.27.26	Metacritic Scores are damn good. Looks like IO Interactive got another hit on them boys
Gyromania 05.27.26	Game is incredible so far. ioi are masters.
BAT 05.27.26	i do have a spare 70 bux buuuut i still havent finished pragmata annd i aam still sitting on hitman3, :/
Gyromania 05.27.26	hitman WoA is an all time great video game. Anyone new to ioi who's digging this bond game: defintiely seek out the hitman trilogy. the third is my least favourite of the 3 but it's still a masterpiece.
BAT 05.27.26	i have the first two on xbox and steam, picked up h3 on disc so technically have everything but kept waiting on steam to lower the WoA bundle below 30 bux cause they wont let me buy juuust the h3 missions on their own. buuut yeeah probably just gonna play it on xbone lol don't have a series whatever. but yeah the prior two games are amazing/really easy to get cracked out on
KevinKC 05.27.26	No time to die doesn't deserve to be called a movie.
ShadowRemains 05.27.26	tomorrow never dies is underrated for just how prophetic it has become regarding media moguls becoming ultimate villains quantum of solace probably will be in time as well (already is with all of the data center bullshit), although greene was a shitty villain especially after le chiffre
CaliggyJack 05.27.26	People got so mad about how violent Quantum of Solace was and IDK I thought it was refreshing to see psycho killer Bond lmao
Gyromania 05.28.26	Is it violent? I just kind of thought the antagonist was super whatever and the set pieces and theatricality didn’t match up to how pitch perfect Casino was. That said, I love the opening segments, shaky cam aside. Just got myself a Crave subscription so I could rewatch some of these + I haven’t seen some movies like License to Kill and Moonraker
zakalwe 05.28.26	First Light is one of the best gaming experiences of my lifetime. It is bloody unbelievable.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.28.26	I’m at mission 7 and felt like it was coming to a close pretty soon, saving the rest for tomorrow but as of right now… fucking hands down the best Bond game ever. I know people have nostalgia for Goldeneye… but cmon, let’s be honest here. Just hasn’t aged well. This is the game I’ve been dreaming of.
Faraudo 05.28.26	First Light is phenomenal, easily the best in the franchise. I wasn't expecting it to be THIS fucking good
zakalwe 05.28.26	It has everything. A proper game.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.28.26	Kinda disappointed I couldn’t order a martini at the Gala mission, in preparation for finishing it tonight I took a martini glass from work and bought martini shit to make tonight gonna get drunk off the vesper recipe from casino royale and finish this bitch You finish it zak? I want a rough idea of how much I got left but really don’t wanna look it up bc of spoilers, it really felt like it was starting to wrap up… and I played for about 12 hours
zakalwe 05.28.26	You’re ahead of me mate. I’m upto dropping Greenway off at the boozer after being told by M that the 009 thing is case closed.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.28.26	Oh shit man mb, not a big spoiler I guess. The “actual villain” reveal is great and there’s an amazing boss fight that I WILL NOT spoil
Gyromania 05.29.26	i just found 009's briefcase on that ship. how far in am i? according to the wiki there are 18 chapters and this is number 10... it doesn't feel like i've been playing for a super long time tho. this feels like the proper second field mission in the game, the first being the chess tournament (not counting the club because it's such a short thing). absolutely love this so far, but hoping the remaining missions are long.
ShadowRemains 05.29.26	only complaint about first light is there isn't more of theresa
Wildcardbitchesss 05.29.26	You still have plenty gyro.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.29.26	I get the feeling that the sequel will not take them long at all, I mean think about how quickly they churned out the WOA Hitman trilogy. Hoping the roadmap for the Bond era is similar. Gotta say tho, hopefully we get some kind of multiplayer mode in the future. A Splinter Cell style co op campaign would be very welcome!!
Gyromania 05.29.26	Man, remember Splinter Cell Chaos Theory coop? With unique maps. That shit was amazing. Glad to hear I still have plenty left. I kind of hope more gets added to the tacsim. I only saw two missions in there. Also idk if they’ll rush to make a sequel. They’re likely going to add a decent bit of content to this game.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.29.26	Not sure if I like it more than RE9. Def gonna take an another playthrough before I say anything but I’m goddamn in love. It’s even better than I’d hoped, and the story is rock fucking solid. Literally better written than at least half of the films. And Making their own Bond was a huge risk. It would’ve been much easier to just use Craig or something but I’m so glad they did. Patrick Gibson definitely feels like he’s taking a lot of cues from Pierce Brosnan but he’s just different enough to leave his own mark. Making him so young and doing a proper origin story was definitely the right move. Supporting cast is phenomenal too, really loved the other agents training in the 00 program, Lennie James is great as Greenway, love the new M, Q, and Moneypenny’s as well. Having this series running alongside whatever Amazon and Denis Villenueve are cooking up… god Bond fans are about to be FEASTING
Wildcardbitchesss 05.29.26	Tbh man I’m down for whatever they wanna do. Some story DLC would definitely be welcome… that said I haven’t even opened Tacsim yet so I have that to blow through as well. And yesssss dude exactly what I’m thinking regarding Chaos Theory but hot take: I think Conviction had the best co op campaign. The story is fucking great and it ties into the solo campaign flawlessly. That would be ideal but I don’t think they’ll do multiplayer, they never have before aside from leaderboards if I remember right.
Gyromania 05.29.26	I feel like in the Craig era, every other film is great. Casino is peak, Quantum is slightly mid, Skyfall is amazing, Spectre is borderline shite, and NTTD is great albeit the weakest of the 3 best
Gyromania 05.29.26	Oh get on that tacsim! I started that back after I finished the nightclub. Some great challenges in there, but I was concerned becuse it only had 2 scenarios to play out and they were greyed out with a "complete the main game" message. I really hope it's not just those two, because I could see replaying some of these scenarios in different ways. As for Conviction - I never played that one coop, sadly, but I loved the campaign and will die on the hill that it's an excellent SC game. I just remember the missions (especially the mansion one) in the Chaos Theory coop being some of the best stealth based gaming ever. The fact that you and your friend could infiltrate from totally different points and go through the huge estate in a different order taking out guys. So good. Fuck... we really need a new SC game
Wildcardbitchesss 05.29.26	“ I feel like in the Craig era, every other film is great. Casino is peak, Quantum is slightly mid, Skyfall is amazing, Spectre is borderline shite, and NTTD is great albeit the weakest of the 3 best” I feel similarly, but not quite as extreme I guess. I think Casino Royale, Skyfall, and NTTD are 5/5, with the first two being pretty much flawless, literally the only thing I dislike about NTTD is how horrifically they wasted Rami Malek. Not the worst villain in the series, just unbelievably bland. I like Quantum, it’s absolutely a step down from those three but I think it works very well when watched back to back with Casino Royale… Spectre is fine. I actually think the first 2/3 is pretty damn good, aside from that boring ass car chase. The movie fucking falls apart the second Bond and Madeline step off the train. 3/5 maybe.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.29.26	And dude you should really try to find someone to play Conviction with co op! I totally would but I sold my PC unfortunately. I would argue the co op campaign is better than the single player one. And I agree with Conviction on the whole. I think it’s pretty much perfect for where Sam is in his life. The more action oriented gameplay works well for how ruthless he is in that game. And supposedly they’re remaking the original but I’m not holding my breath. It’ll be a nice surprise if it actually ever sees the light of day.
CaliggyJack 05.29.26	"I feel like in the Craig era, every other film is great. Casino is peak, Quantum is slightly mid, Skyfall is amazing, Spectre is borderline shite, and NTTD is great albeit the weakest of the 3 best" I mean, Rotten Tomatoes agrees with you. Casino Royale - 94% Quantum of Solace - 63% Skyfall - 92% Spectre - 63% No Time to Die - 83%
Gyromania 05.29.26	"literally the only thing I dislike about NTTD is how horrifically they wasted Rami Malek." Same here. I really do love that movie but that villain was not fleshed out enough. Getting Rami Malek was huge. It's kind of wild they didn't do more with him. After seeing Quantum again just the other night, I can confidently say it has some stellar scenes in it, but the villain is absolutely awful and the pacing and decision making are questionable. Also that movie has some of the craziest set pieces and chase sequences ruined by some of the worst camerawork I've ever seen.
Gyromania 05.29.26	Re: Splinter Cell - I would even settle for ports of the old games on modern hardware. Unfortunately I only have a PS5 atm. I would love if they ported over those old SC games. I'm sure 1 and 2 feel pretty dated by now, but i'd love to replay Chaos Theory and Conviction.
CaliggyJack 05.29.26	Strawberry Field's death followed by M asking Bond "How many more will you drag into this shit?" Absolutely hit me.
Insurrection 05.31.26	just finished the game. best bond game without a doubt, hell one of the best games I’ve played in a long time. needless to say ima be playing the shit out of this all summer there should be a 007 first light full spoilers thread at some point cause dam there’s a lot of callbacks and ya that plot cannot be discussed without heavy spoils
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	I’m on the very last mission… wanna wait another couple of days and either you or me make it? Because yes I very much agree that it is without a doubt the best bond game. Hell, it’s better than most of the fucking movies
Insurrection 05.31.26	you can go ahead whenever you finish. i remember thinking the game was almost over a solid 4-5 times and then there was an entire other plot unfolding and not spoiling anything but i loved having a proper Bond villain mask after that cocktease in no time to die. though to be fair that opening scene in nttd was about as close as we’ll get to a bond horror movie
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	LOCATION SPOILERS FOR FIRST LIGHT BELOW I just finished Antarctica before I had to go to work this evening, I’m almost positive I only have one mission left… gotta say the only thing I’m kinda disappointed in is the villains… they weren’t even really weak I just wish there was more of them. But I also have no idea wtf is going on. I watched the cutscene after Antarctica and thought it was wrapping up and yep it threw me into another gameplay segment lol Really curious to see how it wraps up considering I really thought it was already ending haha
twlight 05.31.26	Didn’t read the comments by ima have to buy this game. How long is it tho? I’m hoping for a good 20hr game
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	NO SPOILERS Honestly longer than you’d probably think. Very rough guess but lemme game it out real quick, I played about an hour and a half Tuesday morning, and another 8-9 hours that night and well into Wednesday morning. Didn’t play at all Wednesday because I felt like shit. Played maybe 3-4 hours Thursday, and another 3-4 Friday. Probably played about 2 yesterday… and I still have a little ways to go. So my run is bare minimum 15, probably closer to 17-18, but I also restart a lot when I get detected. Which I won’t be doing in the future because half the excitement is getting spotted and then beating the piss out of enemies. I’m also playing on normal. There’s three difficulties, and typically I’d play on hard but you really should just go with normal. I’ve died more than a few times just getting a hang of the mechanics, but once you get a feel for the game and find yourself in a rhythm you’ll be chucking guns at enemies, inside of a smokescreen, while lasering another enemy to give yourself space to do a melee takedown on stunned enemies. The gameplay is fucking masterful man. I really wanted Naughty Dog to have the opportunity to do Bond, but man they actually might’ve done a better job than the guys and gals at ND would’ve done. It’s truly an incredible game that gives you so many options in how you want to tackle every encounter and every mission as a whole. It’s so goddamned good man, and that’s without even mentioning the story. If this were ranked alongside the films just by its cutscenes, acting, dialogue and all that, I’d absolutely throw it in the top 10, and Patrick Gibson is great Bond. I’ve said it before but he feels closest to a 20 something Pierce Brosnan placed in 2026… which is just brilliant. We got dark and brooding with Craig (which I love, don’t get me wrong), so I’m glad to have the charming but deadly Bond we all know. Don’t wanna say much about the story because it really is great man. TLDR: yes 20 hours is actually about right depending on your playstyle
keaton_86 05.31.26	I still don't know why people liked Skyfall. It was fucking stupid. Also no time to die was terrible too lol.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	insane take but go off king
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	Finished First Light… I need a sequel right fucking now. Hopefully IOI can pump them out as quick as they could Hitman WOA. Goddamn I loved that so much. As perfect as a 007 origin story could be. The final cutscene has me misty eyed. I love almost everything about it… I could nitpick a few things here and there but overall it was absolutely worth that long ass wait and already one of my favorite games ever. Excited to tackle the tacsim tomorrow. I might just restart the campaign tho tbh
zakalwe 05.31.26	I still have a way to go to completing it but First Light is one of the greatest of all time. How they’ve managed to create a new version of Bond that incorporates the source material, make it feel like you actually are Bond and wrapped amazing stealth, fighting and gunplay round a quality story while delivering a finished product is deserving of the highest praise going. People complaining that it’s not long enough, or saying that it’s effectively a walking sim clearly haven’t played it.
rockandmetaljunkie 05.31.26	7 is 1, enough said
CaliggyJack 05.31.26	Kinda disappointed in the main villain tbh. His son was much more interesting.
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	Yeah the villains are the only thing I don’t think are all that great, the Bond girl is kinda underwhelming too.
Storm In A Teacup 05.31.26	Xbox everything or nothing >>> all else
Storm In A Teacup 05.31.26	It’s a sequel to Die Another Day and is only a video game and the cast in the game is Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Mya, Heidi Klum, Alex Fernandez, Shannon Elizabeth, and the main villain, Willem Dafoe. Pierce Brosnans last and best performance as Bond and it wasn’t even a movie. The game had so many different levels and kinds of fights and different ways to play and introduced more gadgets than a bond game ever had and they were fun. Fighting a tank the first mission. A motorcycle mission that was epic. All sorts of epic stealth missions.
Storm In A Teacup 05.31.26	Oh and they gave you thermal vision and max payne bullet time too lmao
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	Everything or Nothing is HANDILY the best Bond game… after First Light. I adored that game growing up and it pisses me off that publishers didn’t treat the IP with the respect that it deserves considering there’s literally no way to play ANY Bond game unless you have a physical copy (with a console that’s 2 or 3 generations old at this point!) or you’re pirating it. I would love to roll a joint and play that in 4K on my PS5. I think calling it his best performance as Bond is slightly hyperbolic tho… he’s fucking phenomenal in Goldeneye man, helps that it’s just one of the best action movies ever made. I’m going off on kind of a tangent here but Martin Campbell does not get the respect he deserves. He pulled this franchise out of the doldrums not once, but TWICE with Goldeneye and Casino Royale. I don’t even think it’s a matter of debate to say that he literally saved it with Casino Royale after how disastrous Die Another Day was. Back to the games, I’d say First Light is my favorite, with Everything or Nothing and From Russia With Love following. Maybe I’ll do a ranking of the games here soon. I don’t have the means to play any of them right now, but the memory of them is seared into my brain. I played the fuck out of all of them growing up and managed to play a few of them on PC as an adult so it wouldnt be purely nostalgia talking. Also, I think if Nightfire had actually starred Pierce Brosnan, and not the cheapest imitation they could find, I would probably like it more… but I also just don’t enjoy first person games as much as third person ones, even as a kid I always preferred third person. It’s fucking James Bond, you paid however much for the IP, let me see that beautiful man’s face.
anarchistfish 05.31.26	I always tell people who've never seen a Bond movie: watch Goldeneye first. If you don't dig it, watch Casino Royale
Wildcardbitchesss 05.31.26	Solid advice. Goldeneye is the perfect blend of old and new, Casino Royale is that brooding type of film that was all the rage in the mid 2000’s. Both are among the best Bond films ever. Casino Royale will (probably) always be my favorite but Goldeneye is incredible too. And ftr when I say Martin Campbell “saved” Bond… that’s not a slight against License to Kill, that movie was actually way ahead of its time in many ways. It was meant as a slight against Die Another Day. Tbh I do like that movie, but the quote that always gets passed around is how Austin Powers was such a good spoof of Bond that Die Another Day went and was just goofy as those movie, so much so that it nearly killed the franchise. Again, I think it’s a whole lot of fun but god that movie is fucking stupid. The Korean general cradling his pasty ass white son is one of the melt unintentionally funny things I’ve ever seen
CaliggyJack 05.31.26	Everything or Nothing is the 5th Pierce Brosnan Bond Fipm and nothing anybody can say will change my mind. Just like Blood Stone is the 3rd Daniel Craig Bond film.
Wildcardbitchesss 06.01.26	Blood Stone actually really works because the ending could be interpreted a couple to different ways. My theory is that the Joss Stone character was some kind of Spectre pawn but she could’ve been taking orders from Javier Bardem’s character too. In reality I’m sure it was just setup for a sequel they never got to make. It’s just nice to think of Blood Stone as canon because we never got a Daniel Craig Bond movie where he’s in his prime. We got fresh faced baby Craig in Cainso Royale and Quantum then BAM it’s Skyfall and he’s old… it really felt like there should be a film between his first two and Skyfall.
naughtcturnal 06.01.26	love to see Never Say Never Again acknowledged in a Bond list
mandan 06.01.26	Need to refresh Bond, haven't seen the last one. And the new one arrives soon. From what I remember, The Living Daylights was my fave.
Wildcardbitchesss 06.01.26	Ehhh arrives soon is a bit of a stretch. They have a writer / director locked in, they haven’t even picked the new Bond yet. If IOI releases Bond games at the same clip as they did Hitman… it’s very possible we’ll get the First Light sequel before Bond 26.