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"CBFD: Too big a gamble??"

According to reports, Conkers BFD is not selling at all well in America - Do you think it was perhaps too big a gamble marketing a game purely for adults?? Maybe it would have been best targeting a title all ages, therefore cutting back on all the obsenities - It wouldnt be as good but it would allow a bigger audience and increase sales!!
Or is this really the end of the N64 so no one really gives a damn about it??

From what I've played so far, I need this game for myself.

It seems that there's a fair amount you can do, and the order in which you do it, is pretty much up to you.

Unless so far my aimless wanderings have taken me to where I'm actually supposed to go....

Damn, I want my own copy of this game :-(

This has to say in AMerica the most N64 gamers are children under 15 but still that doesn't mean the UK has to be like that.

I think RARE deserve a round of appaulse for keeping by Nintendo!

I salute them!

It's brilliant though, it was a gamble because Nintendo rarely get's these kind of games but it's been done well by RARE as always.

It is a game worth buying an N64 to play it on... It's a big shame it's so expensive.

All I can say really, is just play it. The movie related bits are, astounding, and it's great fun watching it being acted out.

My favourite movie moments so far:

The very start bit, Clockwork Orange.
The beach, Saving Private Ryan.
The bank - The Matrix.

...There is one or two things that are bugging me though.

Both on the war level. The point where Conker get's his machine guns, and goes inside the building for the first time, there is a short cut scene, with Conker looking at bears, and then them disapearing... I can't remember what film it's from... and then the running into the lift...

Then, the bit with the little girl... that HAS to be a film, but I can't think what...

I agree with the fact that Conker does not look, in all ways, like an adult game. Maybe if the 'cartoon' like graphics were made more realistic then maybe it would appeal to the older gamers more. But the thing is, what is the most realistic game you have seen thrughout the history of the N64?

For me this question is very hard to anwser, as most of the Nintendo 64's classics are in the 'kiddie' like style, although the game does not intend to taget the audience of children.

From the shots I have seen of the Gamecube, I can honestly say i really want one. However, the only reason which is holding me back is the fact that most of the screenshots still look more 'childish' then realistic. This could be a major set back for Nintendo.

But is the Gamecube chip capable of displaying a more realistic display? Are the first Gamecube screenshots just looking for the younger audience because Nintendo have desgined them? As Nintendo do seem to go more for that style.

I think it was too big a gamble.
The N64 has always been guided more toward kids. Of course there are games that really aren't for kids on the system. Turok, PD etc. But those games looked like they were for the older gamer.
Conker looks like it is a kids game but really isn't suitable for kids. Initially I disregarded CBFD as a kids game until I looked more into it and heard more about it on here (now I'm dismissing it 'cause of the price). I imagine other people may have done the same, so it isn't getting much of the adult audience and can't get much of the child audience because of the content. Bad choice by Nintendo, but still it sounds like a good game, so don't let the fact that its not selling well stop you from purchasing it.

According to reports, Conkers BFD is not selling at all well in America - Do you think it was perhaps too big a gamble marketing a game purely for adults?? Maybe it would have been best targeting a title all ages, therefore cutting back on all the obsenities - It wouldnt be as good but it would allow a bigger audience and increase sales!!
Or is this really the end of the N64 so no one really gives a damn about it??