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Yessir, Goldeneye is influencing developers even today, and big ones no less, like Treyarch. The studio, who is currently working on the next Bond title, Quantum of Solace, says they use it as a measuring stick of sorts. When one if its developers Adam Gascoine (Gascoigne?) was asked if they wish it never existed, this was his response:

"I don't know. I don't know if it would. I think in hindsight some would say yes, I wish it had never existed. Actually it's beneficial to us, to be honest with you, because it's like a motivator. It might turn out bad, you never know right? But it's a motivator. You've always got this 500 pound gorilla in the room. We play it all of the time. We've got it up and running."

But like me, he feels it "might be" time for gamers to "get over" Goldeneye:

"I guess in that respect yeah it probably would be nice to have nothing to compare to. But you could also say the advantage is that people will look at this game and say 'oh my God! They got it! Another GoldenEye!'. And that's just going to be wonderful for us if we get that. But I think the actual content of our game does put it to bed."

A double-edged sword, it seems, Mister Gascoigne (I'm going with that, it makes him sound like he has an evil goatee). Personally (oh, I hear the fanboys stampeding already), I find Goldeneye to be to FPS' as Final Fantasy VII is to RPGs: overrated. Gasp! Sacrilege! Look, Goldeneye is a great and well-made game, it's just I think when the majority of gamers seem to hail it as "the greatest console FPS of all time", I think that's over the top. And also, at least from an objective top-down sort of perspective, I feel Perfect Dark did everything Goldeneye did and better, and gave us more, a lot more (kinda like I think FF VIII did). I'm not going to go off and say it's the greatest console FPS of all time, but it is one of my personal favourites. Other FPS' have different things to offer anyway, so I find it a little strange to hype a game up like that.

So, let's maybe move up and out and hope Quantam of Solace has its own greatness to give. Coming from Treyarch, and judging from the interviews, I doubt we should expect anything less.

(Oh, and despite certain inaccurate reports, it is possible they'll be working on the next Bond game, and they're very keen to do so.)