You know, you don't even need the explosive crate. Just toss a Dragon in secondary fire mode at the wall and shoot it.
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Rare Replay |OT| Jetpacks and Googly Eyes, Here We Come
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You know, you don't even need the explosive crate. Just toss a Dragon in secondary fire mode at the wall and shoot it.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Is there no way of returning from a game to the main menu without going back to the dashboard and booting it up again?
ElRenoRaven
Member
Press and hold start to bring up the Rare Replay menu. Once there you can quit to rare replay.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Great, thanks.
Yep, the game is awesome!!!I just grabbed a giant rat by the balls and repeatedly punched him in the dick until he turned into a pile of bones in Battletoads Arcade.
backflip10019
Member
Feel like I'm running into a lot of glitches... Sound not mixed well or failing to register, RC Pro not picking up that I'm holding the accelerate button, etc.
Are games still downloading/installing in the background?
dancrane212
Member
The price I have to pay for good deals...
backflip10019
Member
No, preloaded everything last night.
Zomba13
Member
Fuck me this Snapshot 5 for Saberwulf is impossible. Sometimes there is an invincible enemy in the way that won't move meaning you have to waste a life and I don't even know where the door is. Plus the weird momentum stuff where sometimes you stop when you let off the d-pad and sometimes you stop 5 spaces away.
Battletoads looks ugly as fuck with the default filter. Like, it's so bad, I wonder if it's glitched or something. All the details present in the NES original seem to have decomposed into brown and green pixels. The retro filter brings it closer to how it originally looked, but that filter in general is like a gross exaggeration of how games on a CRT used to look.
That aside, this collection marks the first time I've played Banjo Kazooie, despite owning an N64 back in the day. I feel like a complete tool for having passed it over.
That aside, this collection marks the first time I've played Banjo Kazooie, despite owning an N64 back in the day. I feel like a complete tool for having passed it over.
Hmm. Odd. Someone else had the same problem earlier in the thread. For me those issues went away when my xbox was done downloading stuff. Not just Rare Replay stuff, but other items in my queue as well. It seemed very sensitive to HDD load for some reason.
I'd go through the usual motions of hard rebooting the xbox and firing everything back up, but that didn't seem to help for the other guy. :/
I especially enjoy how they weave a sort of narrative in a compilation like this. You can see their style of games emerging over the course of all of these. A lot of it predates my time playing games, and I kinda checked in around 90, 91 in time for Battletoads and what not, but there's value in giving those earlier ones a whirl anyway precisely because they create context.
backflip10019
Member
Man, it really felt great to go back and play through some 8 and 16 bit games that I was too young to play as a kid. Really took me back. Biggest difference between now and then is that most of the early Rare games just can't hold my attention for long (Sabrewulfe, Gunstringer, etc.). Still great fun to try out though.
daTRUballin
Member
I'm surprised at the number of people who have played some of the more well known games for the first time by buying this collection. You would think most gamers (especially on GAF) have played these games at some point. ._.
Not at all.
Nope. I'm very glad I spend $30 on it.
Oof, hope the performance problems get resolved eventually. :/
I'm on the fence on buying an Xbox One for this game. If I spend that much cash on this then I would do so knowing that I have the definitive versions of some of my all-time favorite games in 1 disc. After all, there's not much point going in if I'm just going to go back to play Banjo-Kazooie on my 360 or N64.
I'm on the fence on buying an Xbox One for this game. If I spend that much cash on this then I would do so knowing that I have the definitive versions of some of my all-time favorite games in 1 disc. After all, there's not much point going in if I'm just going to go back to play Banjo-Kazooie on my 360 or N64.
SpiceMelange
Member
They did magic with xbox conker visually. That thing looks like a 360 game.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Really wish there was an infinite continues cheat in Battletoads. I'd like to defeat it at full difficulty, just without being forced to start the whole game over after so many continues. Rewind and infinite lives is just cheap.
It's too bad that the N64 stuff doesn't perform better. It's a little shameful, even. But at the end of the day, as far as I can tell they still perform better overall, and they're just about as playable as they always were. If instead of hopes of getting a spruced up version of something you adjust your expectations to just having access to all of it in a loving package, it's absolutely worth it.
Except for the XBLA versions of the Banjos and Perfect Dark, of course - which are excellent remasters. They're kkkinda what at least Blast Corps deserved. Arguably Jet Force Gemini, also.
So how long do I have to freaking wait before I can play this game?
I put the disc in and it added a ton of games to my queue, and it's taking a VERY long time to install them. I don't want to play any of those games right now. I want to play Blast Corps, damnit.
:|
(note: when I go to Rare Replay on the list in my Queue and hit "resume download", nothing happens and it just stays at "Queued" permanently. This is a complete joke.
I put the disc in and it added a ton of games to my queue, and it's taking a VERY long time to install them. I don't want to play any of those games right now. I want to play Blast Corps, damnit.
:|
(note: when I go to Rare Replay on the list in my Queue and hit "resume download", nothing happens and it just stays at "Queued" permanently. This is a complete joke.
TheSlySoul
Member
Ugh, did anyone at Rare test Battletoads? Clinger Winger is impossible!
Stop the other ones instead. There are a lot of them, granted, but it'll make Rare Replay download.
The XBLA/Xbox 360 bc games you save through each individual game's own interface. There's no save states or anything for those.
esmith08734
Member
Sorry, but how do you save XBOX 360 games? I am playing Banjo Kazooie.
They're literally all set to Queued. None of them are moving. Connected to live and everything.
edit: cancelled the download of every single game on the queued list except rare replay and it worked. What the heck is the disc for if it was that complicated
TheSlySoul
Member
The snapshot was easier than the main game, LMAO!
Now to relax via a good game.
Now to relax via a good game.
Isn't that the point? It feels like snapshots are meant to teach you how to play the game well.
The options menu actually has an infinite lives toggle!
Banjo-Kazooie saves automatically after you go through a door or pick up certain items.
I don't think there is any real need to play the first one over TiP, unless you just want to see any changes.
TiP is like the first game but with an expansion pack/dlc. It's just extra things on top of the first game really.
bucknuticus
Member
First time ever playing grabbed by the ghoulies, just beat chapter 1. Is there a way to go back or to track how many of the rare books you have found?
User 479360
Banned
It really does, doesn't it?
I played it for the first time this morning and couldn't believe how good it looked.
It could be the controller as that stage was designed around the NES dpad.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Anyone play kameo? It's surprisingly gorgeous
TheSlySoul
Member
Think so, they should have made a level skip option when you die 10 times.
Heard the stage is easy on NES.
Revolutionary
Member
Wow, that Perfect Dark menu music. Haven't heard it in like 15 years and it just took me back the moment it started up
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
No, I mean Continues. Like, whenever you run out of lives, and you select continue at the Game Over screen and start at the beginning of the stage. However, after (5 I think?) continues, you get a true Game Over and have to start the whole game over from the start.
I want to still get Game Overs when I run out of lives and have to start the stage over, but never have to start the whole game over again from the start.
With infinite lives, you just forever respawn where you died, and it takes a huge chunk of the challenge away.
Guess we'll have to make our own