Does Conker's Bad Fur Day Still Hold Up?

[ThirteeTooBeets]

The N64 version holds up great. The Xbox version on the other hand...does not. It censored a bunch of words like S**t and assh*le, and does not have the local 4 player multiplayer which replaced with Xbox Live with a Halo/COD style War gameplay with no variety.

I agree but personally I find the original N64 to have some of the worst controls for fps games, and since Conker has a couple of segments with those (and in the harder later levels no less) that's a small bonus the XBOX versión has over the original imo

 

[ReeseJammin]

haven't played the game in awhile so as far I'm recollecting, yeah it aged well like in gameplay sense, but I cant say about the story besides its raunchy humor. and also this is the only game I could think of that has an official condom. maybe if the Halo 2 condom is real.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

Absolutely.

 

[fake-kun]

Considering I never see anyone talk about its gameplay, probably not.

 

[Antilocal123]

Considering I never see anyone talk about its gameplay, probably not.

I mean I don't see people talk about Iggy Pop anymore doesn't mean he wasn’t good, the popular parts of a game are usually the ones that always get talked about and that was the crass humor.

 

[fake-kun]

I mean I don't see people talk about Iggy Pop anymore doesn't mean he wasn’t good, the popular parts of a game are usually the ones that always get talked about and that was the crass humor.

The difference is, when people talk about Iggy Pop, they usually talk about his music. The fact that people talk more about the game's sense of humor than its gameplay implies, at least to me, that the gameplay isn't good.

 

[Bomberman]

Absolutely, riveting game. Rare's finest imo.

 

[Ikagura]

Considering I never see anyone talk about its gameplay, probably not.

Not seeing anyone talking about it and quality aren't intrinsically correlated.

That's your personal experience (which doesn't define everyone else's) and popularity doesn't define quality.

The fact that people talk more about the game's sense of humor than its gameplay implies, at least to me, that the gameplay isn't good.

That's an assumption I think. Not talking about something doesn't mean it's necessary bad.


As for myself I dislike raunchy/dirty humour (despite that I find everything watered down to blandness nowadays) but Rareware are good devs that have proven they know how to make quality platformers thanks to DKC and Banjo & Kazooie therefore this game cannot be bad (unless it has the same collectathon syndrome that DK64 had).

 

[Yousef]

From my recent replay of it, hard no. Rare’s lowest point at that period. Almost every other game they made in the 4th to 5th Gen. was leagues above it. Golden eye and banjo are the true rare classics. Conker was just a product of his time.

 

[Ikagura]

Conker was just a product of his time.

Aside from humour what makes it like that?


I'd argue that many things are products of their time.

 

[thanonyx]

This is the only game I put any significant amount of time into on my N64 emulator. It's still funny as hell so yes, it still holds up.