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ScientificNinja
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bitwise said:
Who gives a crap what they're doing on Xbox 2? A developer is only as good as the games it can get out the door. It's been just under three whole years since Microsoft closed the deal on Rare, and to this day they've barely got one game to show for their investment. Sorry, but to me that's a waste of money. Even Oddworld Inhabitants has already released a second game on Xbox.
And who can tell what will happen with Perfect Dark Zero? EA single-handedly destroyed its propects for any mainstreamers who still loosely associate their N64 GoldenEye experiences with Perfect Dark!
bitwise said:
Never played it, couldn't be arsed. I try to avoid playing games starring anthropomorphic animal avatars where I can.
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
Fitz Mahtush :lol :lol :lol
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Don't you guys get tired of the Rare games taking ages to come out jokes? No? Well, could you try to be a bit more inventive, or should we start adding "Can't wait to play it in 2009!" and "Going to be an awesome Xbox 3 launch title" to the end of each Rare game topic first post to save time?
Mike Works
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Jokes? Hasn't a(n enhanced) N64 port already been delayed twice now after nearly two years of development?
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Jokes. Sure, Rare deserves it, but the same things every thread is tiresome.
Red Dolphin
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I can't believe the amount of ppl that have yet to play this game before (N64 version). Unbelievable! It was such a perfect game to finish off the N64 era with. The ending is just a great homage to a certain game..
It was really refreshing playing this game after all of Rare's collect-a-thon platformers. It' just pure action and platforming with great variety of scenarios and movie spoofs.
It was really refreshing playing this game after all of Rare's collect-a-thon platformers. It' just pure action and platforming with great variety of scenarios and movie spoofs.
Soulbrighter
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I want Great Mighty poo pics!
I just wished Rare would have made something from scratch that really pushed the Xbox. I'm still not convinced that even Bungie has squeezed out everything out of the Xbox.
Even though I can understand why a lot of people are saying purchasing Rare was a waste of money, I don't agree. They're really the only exclusive developer MS has that has the talent to push the technical capabilities of a system AND that fuzzy, colorfull, unique makes-you-all-warm-inside art style topped off with great gameplay.
Even though I can understand why a lot of people are saying purchasing Rare was a waste of money, I don't agree. They're really the only exclusive developer MS has that has the talent to push the technical capabilities of a system AND that fuzzy, colorfull, unique makes-you-all-warm-inside art style topped off with great gameplay.
Well that might be true, but I can still see a lot of things in there tha remind of the 64's graphics. You know how nowadays, characters are first created out of millions of polygons and then scaled down and textured for the in-game version? Well this game is kind of like the opposite of that. It's still based on the graphics that were created due to the limitations of the N64.
Zelda-Bitch
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This game looks hot. Damn you Xboxers! =_)
Guns N' Poops
Banned
Looks amazing.
BatiGOOOOOOL
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Ha! The memories. I wonder how Jugga looks now. ;-)
My sister loved the N64 game... I did not.
I really hope they do more than update the graphics in the single player. The N64 game did a little of everything, but nothing really well... but it had its moments The gameplay is a bit akward, especially jumping, there was a slight delay between when you pressed button and Conker's actual responded.
The humor is very crude. If you don't love that kind of stuff, it'll get tiresome quickly. Hopefully they update their parodies, too. They were dated in the first game; 4 years later won't help.
I really hope they do more than update the graphics in the single player. The N64 game did a little of everything, but nothing really well... but it had its moments The gameplay is a bit akward, especially jumping, there was a slight delay between when you pressed button and Conker's actual responded.
The humor is very crude. If you don't love that kind of stuff, it'll get tiresome quickly. Hopefully they update their parodies, too. They were dated in the first game; 4 years later won't help.
Uncle Dukey
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I thought the N64 game was pretty fun, but I'm not sure how it will hold up to a second playthrough. I'll probably just rent this unless the multiplayer is highly improved (I didn't like the multiplayer in the original.. but maybe larger player counts would help).
ScientificNinja
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bitwise said:that one poster was ("who cares about xbox2 development?" :lol), almost all of the comments in here have been positive
Dude, you're pretty naive if you can't appreciate that Rare's value and credibility as a developer goes down when it can't put quality games out. This is one of the reasons Microsoft was so quick (and quiet) in washing its hands of Oddworld Inhabitants.
Of course I care about what's being developed for Xbox 2, but right now I think that's the least of Rare's problems. Their immediate problem right now is convincing MGS that they will draw a sufficient return on investment because, as of this moment, as far as MGS is concerned, Rare's scorecard currently reads:
"1 title, bombed".
My problem with Rare is that they're arrogant to the extreme, holding themselves up as precious prisses like Valve and iD. I can appreciate those two companies behaving like that - they've got quality product to show for it. And Rare? They've got Grabbed By The Ghoulies, a game that failed miserably for all intents and purposes on both an academic and commercial level.
Now, with Conker, you've played the demo and some of us have played alpha and beta builds of the game already; and I don't disagree that it plays very, very well even as it is in supposedly incomplete form. They should release it NOW. They should've released it last year. Let's get one very simple thing in perspective here - they're not exactly releasing a system seller, so there's a point where the months of delays for tweakages won't make much of a difference to their bottom line. The sooner they push it out the door the better.
Mac the KNife
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Conker was an excellent game that was under appreciated on the N64. I would buy an Xbox just for this game. As for Rare getting quality titles out fast, well, they were never really that quick to pump out titles in the first place (Perfect Dark took forever to be released). Microsoft knew this when they bought them and who knows? Perfect Dark Zero could be an Xbox 2 launch title (since a new Halo is unlikely).
ScientificNinja
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Redbeard said:
Well, if I were in Microsoft's position, I wouldn't be wanting to delay the release of Conker at all. There are some people who give a wide berth to the sanctity of quality game development and just as many people who are keeping score of how much they've spent on a developer that's spent the better part of three years producing a single turd. If I had to hazard a guess, any suggestions of delaying the release have been instigated by Rare.
I mean, Microsoft basically never had a post-Halo 2 plan. If you've worked with them, you'd know. Their PR and marketing literally didn't contemplate life after Halo 2. And now that it's over and everyone's a bit "meh" about the ending, they're busily scrambling to identify their next must-have. Forza? Please - the last thing I need right now is another 30fps racer...
I popped in the old demo disc and tried it out again and I still wasn't impressed. Yeah the graphics are nice and I like Conker's lines during the gameplay but jumping over the lasers was a total pain in the ass and running around and shooting wasn't as fun as it should be. I'll rent it for the live gameplay.