Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - On Indefinite Hiatus

@Ricky-Spanish voted added!

Ill go Conker's bad fur day as well as never actually finished it and already done a few playthroughs of The Quarry, good game though.

@Angelus74 done. Thanks!

Might not place a vote this month. Looks like conker has it locked in. I did however finish still wakes the deep. It was good enough. Glad I didn't buy it though. Some terrifying moments for sure, but part of the problem is not being able to see everything going on. It doesn't make it scary, just frustrating. The big thing it had going for it was feeling like a sequel to The Thing.

I finished Still Wakes the Deep again. Like @NintendoByNature I am glad I played it, there was just enough I enjoyed, but also glad I didn't pay for it. I'm not sure I have a whole lot to say to write one of my longer reviews that I haven't already said in comments above.

My rating: 6.5/10

@Balta666 I also won't vote this month as I'm on holiday and won't have time to play anything.

@Pastellioli yes, I will send an update shortly.

Oh dear, I have committed the most cardinal of sins and not played the game that I voted for 😱. I have broken my own rules but I have had way too much on this month. I still plan to play it though.

Anyway, I will make myself useful and change the thread title!

@Yousef- consider it done! Thanks

@AgentCooper thanks for the words! Vote added.

De nada 😉

Well Conker is a game I have finished once back in the N64 days, I remember both enjoyed it for its humour and design but also being fairly often lost and frustrated with the platforming/combat.

I own live and reloaded from games with gold so I have started that the other day to see the differences and oh boy how good this game looks!

First impact is the quality of the voice acting and a reminder of how much I don't like the Mumbo Jumbo of banjo's games, secondly is the inventiveness of its scenarios specially to the end.

I found the platforming way less of a trouble than I remember (maybe from better camera than the original) apart from the fact, quite often the jump input would not trigger and I would fall to my doom and surprisingly I never got lost. The only parts I needed a hand was in understanding how to beat the bosses as they can be quite cryptic (and still dying a lot to execute but it is also great that you can skip cutscenes after the second time forward).

I ended up finishing the game in two sittings and falling in love with it for a second time. It is my second favourite Rare game after Perfect Dark!

@Pastellioli I forgot to mention it here but yeah the voice acting is something way above the average quality of its time and indeed the war chapter specially has some parts that are...

I played Live & Reloaded a while back and couldn't really see what all the fuss was about. I thought it was fairly mediocre to be honest and didn't even finish it. The the novelty of the crude humour got boring pretty quickly for me and it was all just a bit 'meh'.

@dmcc0 @Pastellioli the humour is not to everyone taste but I do enjoy the 4th wall breaking quite a lot (I see a lot of Conker's in Deadpool adaptation nowadays).
Gameplay wise of the OG it is a bit of its time while wanting to do a lot. I particularly like that more than levels you have an over world divided by load screens and it is difficult to play 15min without seeing a new and creative idea (on top of homages to pop culture of the time)

@Pastellioli It's a pleasure reading your deep reflection and your take on Conker's Bad Fur Day and the Xbox remake so well explained. 😊

@Pastellioli the race thing took me quite a few tries on the remake! Mostly from hitting was though as I found that jumping cleared the hitbox on the dino's legs.
The bomb part must have been changed in it though as it was by far one of the easiest things in the game

@Pastellioli well-done mate and thanks for the deep insight!

@Pastellioli ahh summer is always quiet on this thread. Too much Vitamin D from the sun to be absorbed! Don't be too disheartened!

I actually really want to play Conker (original and remake!) but I am just completely snowed under with work because I'm retraining in a new field and starting my own business 😬. But it has been a hell of a lot of fun!

@Pastellioli I agree with all your points, as discussed on the other thread. I find the Xbox remake slightly disappointing in terms of performance, compared to the Rare Replay version, but the graphics and sound are massively improved. The gameplay is also better, except some annoying sections that are the same. I'd still recommend others to play the Xbox remake. It's a game that every gamer should play at least once. I'm not fan of gore, but this time I perceived it as ridiculous and another part of the joke, so it really didn't bother me. It's fascinating how different Rare's N64 platformers are: Banjo, Donkey Kong and Conker.

@Pastellioli The original game is the most advanced Nintendo 64 game, with realistic shadows and bigger landscapes than any other. The Xbox remake is the the best-looking Xbox game, too. The violence is part of the joke, the adult and subversive game that looks like a kiddie platformer, from the beginning with the mouse that loves cheese so much until the end when Berri's death is a full-blown parody of the cinematic deaths that somehow the characters are able to endure and survive for minutes. The writing of the game is so smart and something I've only seen in other Rare's games like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country.