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I love how Conker's Bad Fur Day managed to retain the cartoony, cute art style and feel of a typical Nintendo/Rare game while bringing silly mature content to the table. The original, personality-less Conker game certainly isn't missed.
I watched this earlier today, and I swear, I almost fell asleep watching it a few times. Rare made the right decision.
I have still never played Conker, but I distinctly remember roaming the N64 aisle of Blockbuster and seeing the big intimidating ESRB warning on the Conker box about all of the mature content in it and thinking to myself, "is this really a thing?"
the name "Conker's bad fur day" always made it sound like a sequel to me. It made it seem like we should already know who Conker is and then we see how everything turned to hell for him. SO i almost wish they came out with a standard conker game first THEN flipped it around with bad fur day. Either way I'd have played it as a kid.
Rare did the right thing by changing Conker into the what he is today. Conker just took everything cute about a platformer and shit all over it with the whacky characters and story. This isn't a bad thing at all too, it really broadened the whole platforming idea. They took something that could only seem to be "kid friendly" and made it enjoyable for older people. I know I had one hell of a blast playing Conkers Bad Fur Day as a kid because I thought everything about it was funny. Still love the game today, only wish Rare would give him a chance but as it seems platforming and Rare don't hang anymore. So, give me Live & Reloaded on XBL Arcade and you can have my respect and money back, Rare.
Watching this made me go watch the boss battle for "The Great Mighty Poo." Man I wish I had this game on N64. I played a bit of the Xbox version but I'm OFFENDED that they bleep the swearing in that version. ON THE XBOX.
UGH... first a full hour of awesome Dinosaur Planet footage and now this. Rareware was such a beast on the N64... :(
I played Conker's Bad Fur Day at ten years old when the original came out and instantly loved it. Back then I was a platform superfan and a Rareware devotee. The game blew me away. Fantastic memories, it's really the pinnacle of its genre in my opinion.
@teriyakiCHICKEN
Oh please. Super Mario 64 looks leagues better than this.
@GrimmTrixX
They did. For Game Boy Color.
Oh please. Super Mario 64 looks leagues better than this.
@GrimmTrixX
They did. For Game Boy Color.
Long ago, I owned Conker's Pocket Tales. I remember playing it quite a bit. I mostly recall: giant monochromatic acorns, a slingshot probably, and sucking at the game really hard because I was like 6.
I would've loved the heck out of this version of the game. It's too bad they had to scrap most of that work, although apparently at least some of it went into the superior final release.
I've only played like an hour of the Xbox version of Conker. I really need to play the original Bad Fur Day.
I would've loved the heck out of this version of the game. It's too bad they had to scrap most of that work, although apparently at least some of it went into the superior final release.
I've only played like an hour of the Xbox version of Conker. I really need to play the original Bad Fur Day.
I do wish Rare would have done some more foul mouthed conker. Tho with them in microsoft's pocket we will never see any of the best rare... now they should change their name to "Common".
The music is nice, if anything.
Though I would like to give this benefit of the doubt considering it's Rare in the 64 days, you can see they have most of the bones there but the game is clearly not complete, of course it looks empty and souless.
I believe if this was completely finished and released it would have been awesome.
Though I would like to give this benefit of the doubt considering it's Rare in the 64 days, you can see they have most of the bones there but the game is clearly not complete, of course it looks empty and souless.
I believe if this was completely finished and released it would have been awesome.
This is a great little look in to Rare's development process for the game. Very happy they reimagined Conker in to the lovable pervert we know today.
David Wise's music was in full effect, at least.
But holy... this game looked incredibly gay. Not in the often-used derogatory way, but in the "this is incredibly sugary sweet and joyful" kind of way. I really want to strangle Conker.
Sad thing is, it probably would have sold in a similar fashion to Banjo in that everyone recognized it as "that one character from Diddy Kong Racing!" or would have bombed for being a cookie cutter colletathon platformer with nothing new to the table.
But holy... this game looked incredibly gay. Not in the often-used derogatory way, but in the "this is incredibly sugary sweet and joyful" kind of way. I really want to strangle Conker.
Sad thing is, it probably would have sold in a similar fashion to Banjo in that everyone recognized it as "that one character from Diddy Kong Racing!" or would have bombed for being a cookie cutter colletathon platformer with nothing new to the table.
It is really crazy to see how much of this game seems totally playable and how much work got already done with the environments and characters. I think its always sad when something doesen't make it in one form or another to the player.
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