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Conker: Live and Reloaded (BC) |OT| Fur-k Bullshot Simulator
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Live and Reloaded still looks so good. What I would have given to have a Banjo remake with these visuals.
The camera's as bad as ever, and it's still one of the most mechanically sloppy platformers ever released by a top-tier studio, but Conker is still bursting with variety and looks shockingly good for a game of its vintage. I don't know if I've ever liked the game, per se, even back in 2001, but the X1X boost is motivating me to play through it again all the same.
Sad thing is, this almost sorta happened. AFAIK it would have used similar character designs to Nuts and Bolts, but orginally, we were to get "Banjo X". It was a remake with a twist: slowly but surely, the characters would realize that they were in a remake, and would start changing stuff up. Some of it was small stuff like Banjo Tooie moves, but it sounded like the game kept going further and further until it was basically a different game by the end!
I like Nuts and Bolts, but I would have far preferred Banjo X in the end. Shame that got canceled!
I played two hours tonight and I'm blown away by how it looks and performs. MS are crushing it with BC.
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The effect worked in standard definition on old TVs, but yeah it doesn't hold up well on modern TVs. It looked weird on the OG Xbox blown up on a modern TV, it looks even moreso now that the game is in such a high resolution.
So I just put about an hour into it on my one x .Some parts look great and some things look weird. I've noticed Some ghosting or something weird in a couple spots. The fur alsolooks weird on my 65" 4K. It certainly feels more playable than the 64 version here in 2018. I forgot how bad the camera could be in this game and there feels like there is some noticeable delay in button presses. The game is still great though and I'll play all the way through it. I think it is amazing what Microsoft is doing with putting these older games up on BC. I have purchased a lot of them and will continue to do so if only to support the practice. Panzer Dragoon Orta will be up next for me!
I feel like I remember a lot of those complaints being present when it first came out. Ghosting is something I remember. Game looked nice, but was clearly held back by the hardware in some spots. I also seem to recall delayed button presses for it as well. Think it's just a fault of the game itself.
Why won't MS use this damn IP like they should? What a waste. I'm playing this right now and would like be to see a modern Conker.
I'm curious to see the rest of the game :)
So much potential. I'm still wondering why there is no Rare kart racing game...
Let Playground make one...
Boy, does this game still look good on Xbox One X! It's just a shame that the platforming is rather bad and glitchy at times, which is pretty damning for a platformer. I've also encountered a few bugs, like a conversation that failed to trigger, which got me stuck for good 30 minutes (I'm playing Conker for the first time). The humour is also not really my thing, but it manages to get a chuckle out of me here and there. It's a great update, but I'm not too impressed with the game so far, although it's still engaging enough to keep me going.
Something about the OT screenshots is confusing me since I saw them, the game looks fantastic, but somehow the OT screenshots are looking like they are manually oversharpened and edited. It does not look this sharp.
This or my PAL copy looks worse cause there is so much blur.
This is from the OT:
This is from me:
This is from the OT:
This is from me:
Or is it just me? I have the feeling the screens from my copy are looking a little bit different, specially the first comparison looks heavenly edited.
This or my PAL copy looks worse cause there is so much blur.
This is from the OT:
This is from me:
This is from the OT:
This is from me:
Or is it just me? I have the feeling the screens from my copy are looking a little bit different, specially the first comparison looks heavenly edited.
It's actually the same trick in both Starfox Adventures and Conker they're using for fur
The ghosting was their way of doing motion blur, they even had that in the N64 version.
This is from the OT:
This is from me:
Or is it just me? I have the feeling the screens from my copy are looking a little bit different, specially the first comparison looks heavenly edited.
It's not just you, it looks pretty much like your screens here:
Yes, the OT shots are edited, this is what it looks like when I use the photoshop sharpening filter twice.
Quite like the OT shots.
But still edited and therefore "bullshots" or "fake".
Quite like the OT shots.
But still edited and therefore "bullshots" or "fake".
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Didn't realize the user edited the screens aside from cropping them. I'll swap them out when I'm back at my desktop.
I guess it's just nostalgia then. I remember the fur in SFA being really nice, and seeing individual strands of fur. The fur here is some weird blurry mess to me
This game always makes me ask what happened to fur shading? I mean I know it's not perfect, but every modern version of simulated fur seems to be some kind of nvidia only super complicated thing.
is a mix of both, here is a screen of StarFox from the Dolphin emulator, is the same effect but in Conker, the rat uses individual strends, see the second screen from Conker as an example
another thing that I remember is that StarFox Adventures uses the effect for the grass, but I remember the emulator didn't loaded properly
My guess on how heavy is the effect is that they define the fur as a material and it can have different properties so it renders different strength of fur over the model, the tail from conker has the effect more heavily than the tail from Fox, creating a blurrier fur than Fox's. But for a Squirrel the effect looks convincing enough
Im trying to buy this from both the UK store and also off my XBOX ONE S but it wont let me. keeps saying sorry purchase cannot be completed. Can you not just buy it and download to XBOX ONE? The store page says download to 360. whats up with that?
Per the digital foundry videos about X1X emulation they do not make changes to the core game. So no.
Coming to Games with Gold
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Coming to Games with Gold:
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New Games with Gold for July 2021 - 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...
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Super happy to try this out!
I was a huge fan of Conker back in the N64 days. Never had an OG Xbox but always wanted to play this.
I was a huge fan of Conker back in the N64 days. Never had an OG Xbox but always wanted to play this.
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It's wild how well the game cleans up, easily one of the best looking games of its generation.
I maybe boot it up again soon and do some fresh 4K PNG screenshots, my old ones are quite outdated. 😬