Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Both Conker’s Bad Fur Day and it’s remake Conker: Live & Reloaded quickly became fan favorites when they released on the Nintendo 64 and Xbox respectively and have had players clamoring for more from the foul mouth squirrel for years though no one has stepped up to the plate to bring Conker back in a meaningful way. So instead of looking forward, we’re looking back to try to determine which of these two is the better title."
From Xbox Wire: "The July Games with Gold lineup is here! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, explore a mysterious, strange world in Planet Alpha, and create your own levels and destroy everyone else’s in Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, play as everyone’s favorite raunchy squirrel in Conker: Live & Reloaded, and relive the golden age of arcade gaming in Midway Arcade Origins."
Confession time... I never played the original Conker on N64 and I did not play the xbox remake. It wasnt until Rare Replay that i played a Conker game. I do enjoy the Midway arcade series though. And that Planet Alpha looks kind of intriguing.
That Rock of Ages is sad, though. But, yeah, the other stuff isn't necessarily bad, just somewhat niche in market reach potential.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "what happens when a remake… just isn’t enough? What happens when a remake… needs a remake. That’s what we are exploring in this week’s Top 10 countdown!"
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Here’s just a few examples of what we think we’ll see during the Xbox presentation at E3 2019."
Will never understand the love that Conker and Banjo Kazooie garners. I had both on N64 back in the day. Both were just inferior versions of Super Mario 64.
I loved that game as much as anyone, but I think Banjo was as good, if not better. It took all that best elements from Mario 64 and expanded on them with more creative and diverse levels. CBF hasn't aged well at all due to its humor and terrible voice acting, but like Banjo, it was pushing the hardware more and had some brilliant gameplay elements to it. Mario 64 aged the best out of the lot because it had a very basic art style and simple, yet brilliant, level design.
That's arguable.
So because Pepperoni/Mushroom pizza is inferior to Anchovie pizza...Pepperoni Mushroom isnt amazing?
Im a fan of Pizza/3D platformers though....
Not true at all, they each had their own unique charm. Not to mention their own twist on things. No need to compare them, they were all really iconic games for different reasons.
Inferior? No way in hell. I will admit they wouldn't exist without Mario 64, but they took what that game did and knocked it up a notch. I would at least say they are all on equal footing.
Make it 4k retro compatible, I have my original game ready to play again.
The first time I played Conker’s Bad Fur was via Live and Reloaded on the OG Xbox. I didn’t play the original Bad Fur Day until I got Rare Replay. I prefer Live and Reloaded because of mechanics. The visuals of both versions of CBF have aged shockingly well. I personally prefer Live and Reloaded, but this maybe due to me playing it first.
Matter of taste really, as both are almost the same, except for the obvious graphics and online.
I personally love the Nintendo 64 cult classic, because, for me, there's no comparison. Not just based on what I played first, but the overall experience and references felt more fresh than the remake.
This was a disappointingly basic article. 65-70% of it is spent setting up the context and history of the Conker project with only a few paragraphs discussing the actual quality of the games. And then the only actual comparison point really made was comparing visuals and multiplayer.
But there is so much more difference than that. I’ve seen YouTubers going all in doing 20+ minutes videos comparing every changed mechanic, comparing dialogue differences, and differences in enemy health and behavior and certain sections of the game which were altered slightly or changed completely...etc...
All this article boiled down to was yeah it has multiplayer you can still play on N64 because it’s offline!!!! And the Xbox version looks better and that’s the best version because it looks better and improves upon the original in every respect even though I don’t elaborate on how it improves upon the original in every respect!
The comparisons between the games were so skin deep.