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Aha Conker the worlds most famous ginger swearing rat. It had to happen in nearly every post I write I can somehow stick this drunkard Squirrel in some where so I thought to myself why not write a post about this anything but innocent platform star. I could write all about Bad Fur Day but that is what Reviews are for, oh no I am going to write about why Conker is the future of the Platform genre.
If your looking for a bit of background on the character you'd have to look to where Banjo first appeared Diddy Kong Racing. Conker was a much more innocent squirrel back then something which he kept in Rare's very first Gameboy Colour title and Conker's very first outing. The destined game Twelve Tales Conker 64 disappeared in that time Conker had got drunk, got involved with the wrong croud and out pops Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Now I'm a platform fan it started on the SNES With Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. The N64's 3D platformers were just as good Mario 64 was out of this world and Banjo was absolutely brilliant. But after the initial excitement the platform genre got stale. Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo Tooie are theoretically better than Mario and Donkey Kong but they were boring, to start with they were both ok but I quickly got fed up. A jab of excitement needed injecting into the Platform genre that injection came from Conker.
In brief the adult content, the various gameplay modes, the excellent multiplayer and the compelling storyline made Conker extra special. One moment you would trying to escape gun fire whilst running up a beach, another you would be throwing toilet rolls into a giant singing pile of erm poo. Every level was different, one level you had a shotgun blowing Zombies heads off, another you were in the Army armed with twin Uzi's, in one level you took the role of Neo from the Matrix and in one section you would find yourself whizzing through a dinosaur themed land on a jet board trying to knock cave men off of their jet boards.
I won't go any further if you want more information go and look at the various reviews in SR's database but I think you get the picture this game is different. Different is what the Platform genre needs and that is what Conker offers it. Mario is all well and good, Tomb raider is also an excellent example of a platform game meanwhile Conker has given the entire genre a fresh spring clean.
This is why there needs to be a sequel. After being left speechless by Conker's ending many gamers including myself crave a sequel as much as people do Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. Many clues have lead us to believe Rare are currently beavering away (or squirreling away... sorry) on a sequel.
The game ended in a similar way to how the game started this time with Conker wondering in the other direction giving us the impression that the adventure isn't quite over. Rare have purchased two web domains, Conker's Other Bad Day and Grabbed by the goolies, another big clue. Also after the shock ending of Conker's Bad Day a magazine interviewed a RARE developer he said "originally we were going to have Conker walk in to the bar and pull a gun to his head but this doesn't leave much scope for a sequel" HINT HINT...
NGC Magazine asked Rare for more information on their BIG NAME titles. NGC magazine asked them if any of the following were to appear on the Gamecube:
Banjo 3, Conker 2, Perfect Dark 0, Killer Instinct 4 and Gran Turismo style driving game.
Rare replied with only 2 are in development for Gamecube and Perfect Dark 0 is one of them. So is Conker still likely? Well Killer Instinct is rumored to appear on the GBA and Banjo Kazooie: Gruntilda's Revenge is also in development for the GBA so these 2 titles may not be on Gamecube yet. So is Conker still likely, I damn well hope so for Platforming sake as well as mine.
Here's to swearing Squirrels with helicoptary tales.
Dringo.
If your looking for a bit of background on the character you'd have to look to where Banjo first appeared Diddy Kong Racing. Conker was a much more innocent squirrel back then something which he kept in Rare's very first Gameboy Colour title and Conker's very first outing. The destined game Twelve Tales Conker 64 disappeared in that time Conker had got drunk, got involved with the wrong croud and out pops Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Now I'm a platform fan it started on the SNES With Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. The N64's 3D platformers were just as good Mario 64 was out of this world and Banjo was absolutely brilliant. But after the initial excitement the platform genre got stale. Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo Tooie are theoretically better than Mario and Donkey Kong but they were boring, to start with they were both ok but I quickly got fed up. A jab of excitement needed injecting into the Platform genre that injection came from Conker.
In brief the adult content, the various gameplay modes, the excellent multiplayer and the compelling storyline made Conker extra special. One moment you would trying to escape gun fire whilst running up a beach, another you would be throwing toilet rolls into a giant singing pile of erm poo. Every level was different, one level you had a shotgun blowing Zombies heads off, another you were in the Army armed with twin Uzi's, in one level you took the role of Neo from the Matrix and in one section you would find yourself whizzing through a dinosaur themed land on a jet board trying to knock cave men off of their jet boards.
I won't go any further if you want more information go and look at the various reviews in SR's database but I think you get the picture this game is different. Different is what the Platform genre needs and that is what Conker offers it. Mario is all well and good, Tomb raider is also an excellent example of a platform game meanwhile Conker has given the entire genre a fresh spring clean.
This is why there needs to be a sequel. After being left speechless by Conker's ending many gamers including myself crave a sequel as much as people do Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. Many clues have lead us to believe Rare are currently beavering away (or squirreling away... sorry) on a sequel.
The game ended in a similar way to how the game started this time with Conker wondering in the other direction giving us the impression that the adventure isn't quite over. Rare have purchased two web domains, Conker's Other Bad Day and Grabbed by the goolies, another big clue. Also after the shock ending of Conker's Bad Day a magazine interviewed a RARE developer he said "originally we were going to have Conker walk in to the bar and pull a gun to his head but this doesn't leave much scope for a sequel" HINT HINT...
NGC Magazine asked Rare for more information on their BIG NAME titles. NGC magazine asked them if any of the following were to appear on the Gamecube:
Banjo 3, Conker 2, Perfect Dark 0, Killer Instinct 4 and Gran Turismo style driving game.
Rare replied with only 2 are in development for Gamecube and Perfect Dark 0 is one of them. So is Conker still likely? Well Killer Instinct is rumored to appear on the GBA and Banjo Kazooie: Gruntilda's Revenge is also in development for the GBA so these 2 titles may not be on Gamecube yet. So is Conker still likely, I damn well hope so for Platforming sake as well as mine.
Here's to swearing Squirrels with helicoptary tales.
Dringo.
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Ortega wrote:
Just one thing...We always think of Conker as a foul mouthed
> squirrel. Does the guy actually swear? You will probably know more about this
> than me, but isnt the characters surrounding conker that use all the bad
> language? Conker is actually quite polite!
Admittedly his language is not as bad as lets say carl and quentin the cogs but he is nothing but polite such as calling Rodent an idiot at the end of the its war chapter. and at the end claiming he didn't want to know any of the characters he met in the game at the end of the its war chapter. His swearing consists of words such as Butt, Bollocked and breasts (if you call the latter a swear word). Conker is exremley violent and vulgar meanwhile!
Just one thing...We always think of Conker as a foul mouthed
> squirrel. Does the guy actually swear? You will probably know more about this
> than me, but isnt the characters surrounding conker that use all the bad
> language? Conker is actually quite polite!
Admittedly his language is not as bad as lets say carl and quentin the cogs but he is nothing but polite such as calling Rodent an idiot at the end of the its war chapter. and at the end claiming he didn't want to know any of the characters he met in the game at the end of the its war chapter. His swearing consists of words such as Butt, Bollocked and breasts (if you call the latter a swear word). Conker is exremley violent and vulgar meanwhile!
Or†ega wrote:
Just one thing...We always think of Conker as a foul mouthed
> squirrel. Does the guy actually swear? You will probably know more about this
> than me, but isnt the characters surrounding conker that use all the bad
> language? Conker is actually quite polite!
That's one thing I noticed, I don't think Conker actually swears once in the whole game.
Just one thing...We always think of Conker as a foul mouthed
> squirrel. Does the guy actually swear? You will probably know more about this
> than me, but isnt the characters surrounding conker that use all the bad
> language? Conker is actually quite polite!
That's one thing I noticed, I don't think Conker actually swears once in the whole game.
ADH wrote:
> Conker's BFD was my favourite N64 game, and I played a fair few.
It was
> hysterical, great fun, great to play, a superb game all-round.
It is mine to if you are such a big fan then maybe you should visit www.conkula.com my website not only does it cater for the new conker fan but i have interviewd many Conker characters such as Gregg the interviews are very funny and the CWF (coker wrestling federation) is hugly popular and i have just added a huge load of characters to the Choose a character list so you can join if you like...
Its well worth a visit anyway.
As for future conker appearences he is apparently going to appear in kiddie form in the GBA title Diddy Kong Pilot.
> Conker's BFD was my favourite N64 game, and I played a fair few.
It was
> hysterical, great fun, great to play, a superb game all-round.
It is mine to if you are such a big fan then maybe you should visit www.conkula.com my website not only does it cater for the new conker fan but i have interviewd many Conker characters such as Gregg the interviews are very funny and the CWF (coker wrestling federation) is hugly popular and i have just added a huge load of characters to the Choose a character list so you can join if you like...
Its well worth a visit anyway.
As for future conker appearences he is apparently going to appear in kiddie form in the GBA title Diddy Kong Pilot.
Yeh Man, Conker is definitly the way forward for Platform games.
The story line nice and smooth along with the gameplay. Cut-scenes all in the right place and the right place. I never really found a boring aspect to this game. The speech was also a big jump from Banjo/DK64 and made us that oh so bit closer to lovin that squirrel. No stupid pointless jiggies/bananas to collect, just a bit of cash here and there.
Anyway, Rare would be stupid not to release a sequel to the game. Only thing is, the game caused a bit of cotraversy, especially as it came out on a Nintendo console. In the end we only got it after THQ published it, at the stupid £60 price.
Hopefully the more 'adult' themed Gamecube will let games like Conker slip easier on to its platform.
Just one thing...We always think of Conker as a foul mouthed squirrel. Does the guy actually swear? You will probably know more about this than me, but isnt the characters surrounding conker that use all the bad language? Conker is actually quite polite!
The story line nice and smooth along with the gameplay. Cut-scenes all in the right place and the right place. I never really found a boring aspect to this game. The speech was also a big jump from Banjo/DK64 and made us that oh so bit closer to lovin that squirrel. No stupid pointless jiggies/bananas to collect, just a bit of cash here and there.
Anyway, Rare would be stupid not to release a sequel to the game. Only thing is, the game caused a bit of cotraversy, especially as it came out on a Nintendo console. In the end we only got it after THQ published it, at the stupid £60 price.
Hopefully the more 'adult' themed Gamecube will let games like Conker slip easier on to its platform.
Just one thing...We always think of Conker as a foul mouthed squirrel. Does the guy actually swear? You will probably know more about this than me, but isnt the characters surrounding conker that use all the bad language? Conker is actually quite polite!
Conker's BFD was my favourite N64 game, and I played a fair few.
It was hysterical, great fun, great to play, a superb game all-round.
It was hysterical, great fun, great to play, a superb game all-round.
Aha Conker the worlds most famous ginger swearing rat. It had to happen in nearly every post I write I can somehow stick this drunkard Squirrel in some where so I thought to myself why not write a post about this anything but innocent platform star. I could write all about Bad Fur Day but that is what Reviews are for, oh no I am going to write about why Conker is the future of the Platform genre.
If your looking for a bit of background on the character you'd have to look to where Banjo first appeared Diddy Kong Racing. Conker was a much more innocent squirrel back then something which he kept in Rare's very first Gameboy Colour title and Conker's very first outing. The destined game Twelve Tales Conker 64 disappeared in that time Conker had got drunk, got involved with the wrong croud and out pops Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Now I'm a platform fan it started on the SNES With Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. The N64's 3D platformers were just as good Mario 64 was out of this world and Banjo was absolutely brilliant. But after the initial excitement the platform genre got stale. Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo Tooie are theoretically better than Mario and Donkey Kong but they were boring, to start with they were both ok but I quickly got fed up. A jab of excitement needed injecting into the Platform genre that injection came from Conker.
In brief the adult content, the various gameplay modes, the excellent multiplayer and the compelling storyline made Conker extra special. One moment you would trying to escape gun fire whilst running up a beach, another you would be throwing toilet rolls into a giant singing pile of erm poo. Every level was different, one level you had a shotgun blowing Zombies heads off, another you were in the Army armed with twin Uzi's, in one level you took the role of Neo from the Matrix and in one section you would find yourself whizzing through a dinosaur themed land on a jet board trying to knock cave men off of their jet boards.
I won't go any further if you want more information go and look at the various reviews in SR's database but I think you get the picture this game is different. Different is what the Platform genre needs and that is what Conker offers it. Mario is all well and good, Tomb raider is also an excellent example of a platform game meanwhile Conker has given the entire genre a fresh spring clean.
This is why there needs to be a sequel. After being left speechless by Conker's ending many gamers including myself crave a sequel as much as people do Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. Many clues have lead us to believe Rare are currently beavering away (or squirreling away... sorry) on a sequel.
The game ended in a similar way to how the game started this time with Conker wondering in the other direction giving us the impression that the adventure isn't quite over. Rare have purchased two web domains, Conker's Other Bad Day and Grabbed by the goolies, another big clue. Also after the shock ending of Conker's Bad Day a magazine interviewed a RARE developer he said "originally we were going to have Conker walk in to the bar and pull a gun to his head but this doesn't leave much scope for a sequel" HINT HINT...
NGC Magazine asked Rare for more information on their BIG NAME titles. NGC magazine asked them if any of the following were to appear on the Gamecube:
Banjo 3, Conker 2, Perfect Dark 0, Killer Instinct 4 and Gran Turismo style driving game.
Rare replied with only 2 are in development for Gamecube and Perfect Dark 0 is one of them. So is Conker still likely? Well Killer Instinct is rumored to appear on the GBA and Banjo Kazooie: Gruntilda's Revenge is also in development for the GBA so these 2 titles may not be on Gamecube yet. So is Conker still likely, I damn well hope so for Platforming sake as well as mine.
Here's to swearing Squirrels with helicoptary tales.
Dringo.
If your looking for a bit of background on the character you'd have to look to where Banjo first appeared Diddy Kong Racing. Conker was a much more innocent squirrel back then something which he kept in Rare's very first Gameboy Colour title and Conker's very first outing. The destined game Twelve Tales Conker 64 disappeared in that time Conker had got drunk, got involved with the wrong croud and out pops Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Now I'm a platform fan it started on the SNES With Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. The N64's 3D platformers were just as good Mario 64 was out of this world and Banjo was absolutely brilliant. But after the initial excitement the platform genre got stale. Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo Tooie are theoretically better than Mario and Donkey Kong but they were boring, to start with they were both ok but I quickly got fed up. A jab of excitement needed injecting into the Platform genre that injection came from Conker.
In brief the adult content, the various gameplay modes, the excellent multiplayer and the compelling storyline made Conker extra special. One moment you would trying to escape gun fire whilst running up a beach, another you would be throwing toilet rolls into a giant singing pile of erm poo. Every level was different, one level you had a shotgun blowing Zombies heads off, another you were in the Army armed with twin Uzi's, in one level you took the role of Neo from the Matrix and in one section you would find yourself whizzing through a dinosaur themed land on a jet board trying to knock cave men off of their jet boards.
I won't go any further if you want more information go and look at the various reviews in SR's database but I think you get the picture this game is different. Different is what the Platform genre needs and that is what Conker offers it. Mario is all well and good, Tomb raider is also an excellent example of a platform game meanwhile Conker has given the entire genre a fresh spring clean.
This is why there needs to be a sequel. After being left speechless by Conker's ending many gamers including myself crave a sequel as much as people do Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. Many clues have lead us to believe Rare are currently beavering away (or squirreling away... sorry) on a sequel.
The game ended in a similar way to how the game started this time with Conker wondering in the other direction giving us the impression that the adventure isn't quite over. Rare have purchased two web domains, Conker's Other Bad Day and Grabbed by the goolies, another big clue. Also after the shock ending of Conker's Bad Day a magazine interviewed a RARE developer he said "originally we were going to have Conker walk in to the bar and pull a gun to his head but this doesn't leave much scope for a sequel" HINT HINT...
NGC Magazine asked Rare for more information on their BIG NAME titles. NGC magazine asked them if any of the following were to appear on the Gamecube:
Banjo 3, Conker 2, Perfect Dark 0, Killer Instinct 4 and Gran Turismo style driving game.
Rare replied with only 2 are in development for Gamecube and Perfect Dark 0 is one of them. So is Conker still likely? Well Killer Instinct is rumored to appear on the GBA and Banjo Kazooie: Gruntilda's Revenge is also in development for the GBA so these 2 titles may not be on Gamecube yet. So is Conker still likely, I damn well hope so for Platforming sake as well as mine.
Here's to swearing Squirrels with helicoptary tales.
Dringo.
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