Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - On Indefinite Hiatus

@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.

@Yousef- Usually when I finish a game, I like to immediately let people on here know my thoughts on it, and also cuz I love writing long paragraph essays lol. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it hopefully by the end of the month! Too bad everyone else here is busy right now.

@Banjo- Sorry for replying two days late! Yeah, I do think that you understand the violent material and raunchy nature of the game more if you see it as a sort of parody and subversion of platformer games, plus it’s supposed to be ridiculous and making fun of tropes common in video games as well. I love the writing so much, and I would absolutely love a modern entry that makes fun of modern video game tropes and cliches and practices like micro transactions. The fact that no one has made a game like that yet disappoints me.

That’s how I usually go on about it too, but I thought I’d try to be more fair towards the game since it’s a game club game by waiting a bit to see what stands out in hindsight and oddly enough, very little changed in regards to my thoughts at the beginning of the month compared to now. I actually did try to sit down and write down my thoughts but I’d typically be either really tired from work or have my attention all fixated on the push square game club since I’m running that too and keeping track of all votes. I’m sure I’ll still make time to write down my thoughts, just need to find the right way to phrase and convey my feelings.

Hey everyone, I held off my thoughts but now it’s time to post them. Sorry guys, I didn’t really like this one. It’s one of Rare’s weaker platformers in my opinion. The context sensitivity system wasn’t really my thing and the crassy humor lost its novelty after a while.

For extra authenticity, I played the Xbox remake using the Duke. Although one major gripe I have is that I couldn’t make the camera inverted like on N64, which is my preference, even in some modern games.

@Yousef- fair enough. Games are not to everyone tastes (and maybe that is the beauty of it hehe)

Hello everyone!

I would say is about time to get the votes in for next month. At the moment we have single votes on Gears of War 2 and Mafia definitive edition.

You will find suggested list of votes in the link in my bio.

Cheers.

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@Balta666 I’ll probably just vote for Halo 2, if I do get Game Pass Ultimate again. I don’t really have any games I want to play after Conker, so I’ll just stick to a shooter game. And a question, is that game apart of the Master Chief Collection?

Also, I might have a game recommendation for that list, but I need to know what games were on the list prior so I know I’m not recommending a game everyone has played already.

@Pastellioli yes, halo 2 is on there. Feel free to add any game you like (list of past played games are in the first post).

@Balta666 That was a very helpful list! I might request Perfect Dark Zero and Banjo-Tooie for the list. Thank you for the vote by the way!

Mafia for me!

@Pastellioli banjo tooie would be awesome to play. Love that game.

@Yousef- It’s a bit hard, but I loved it a ton Would not mind having an excuse to play it again, cuz I haven’t touched a Banjo game in a few months, and I saw that the club had played the first game but haven’t yet played Tooie.

I think Perfect Dark Zero would be super fun, also because it can be played online and the online servers are apparently still up and running, at least from some text I saw for a clip I came across a few weeks ago. I played the multiplayer offline and it was so fun! That game was so cheesy but I liked it.

@Yousef- should I consider it a vote for Tooie?

@Pastellioli I’m in a similar boat. Recently played kazooie, but it’s been ages since I touched tooie. It’s a fun game. I didn’t find it difficult, but I loved its sense of scale since that’s something I really liked about the first one! They’re fun games. Especially the Xbox versions (although I wish you could change the cameras and make them inverted like on N64).

@Balta666 whoops, I posted my message before seeing yours. Yeah it’s a vote. ^_^

@Yousef- I have played both the N64 and Xbox versions of Kazooie, though the N64 version was on NSO. I never played the N64 version of Tooie, since it isn’t on NSO but I did hear it was inferior technically and performance-wise.

@Yousef- no worries. Vote added!

@Balta666 While it's still on Game Pass, I will be a sadist and vote for Lords of the Fallen

@GamingFan4Lyf Done 👍

Still thinking about what to vote on. Almost at the point of dropping out of GP. If not for my kids playing on it, I would've already done it.