Guess We'll Have to Use Holo-Lens: Microsoft Announces New Conker Game
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[QUOTE=Zenreon117;49839552]Game looks fun[/QUOTE]
Yeah, having the same lasting appeal as Face Raiders or the AR Games would sure be swell.
Doesn't look like it has any depth beyond the "layout changes depending on the environment" gimmick.
[editline]February 29th, 2016[/editline]
Like GoDong said above it's good as a tech demo but nothing more.
how can they keep not learning from this same mistake? look at that dislike bar? how could they keep doing this?
[QUOTE=Rusty100;49840701]how can they keep not learning from this same mistake? look at that dislike bar? how could they keep doing this?[/QUOTE]
Project managers that have no experience with video games and/or are [i]terrible[/i] at their job
I feel like the people who are working on this have never seen the source material. Like, they were probably shown pictures of the characters, concept art and than they just did their own thing.
Because there is no way they could go this far off base if they had actually played the game.
They probably saw pictures of Conker and the the enemy designs and stuff and said "Ah, it's a cute squirrel with a bit of an attitude, we'll just design a platformer around him. The kids will eat it up."
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;49840774]I feel like the people who are working on this have never seen the source material. Like, they were probably shown pictures of the characters, concept art and than they just did their own thing.
Because there is no way they could go this far off base if they had actually played the game.
They probably saw pictures of Conker and the the enemy designs and stuff and said "Ah, it's a cute squirrel with a bit of an attitude, we'll just design a platformer around him. The kids will eat it up."[/QUOTE]
Still doesn't excuse whatever they did to the character.
Geez, why do they had to change Conker's chubbiness and whimsical look to... whatever anorexia ridden filth that rat creature is.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;49837018][img]http://i.imgur.com/kMqqsG5.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
It looks like an aborted fetus.
I'm not even trying to be "Lol edgy XD" that's actually what I thought it looked like at first.
[QUOTE=Doritos-pope;49837284]The game is being made by Asobo studios, who [URL="http://www.asobostudio.com/games-list.html"]seem to have no experience in anything that isn't either disney shovelware or porting over the crew to xbox 360[/URL].
Oh dear.
edit: apparently the port for the crew is really bad, with stuttering and crashing
case in point: [vido]https://youtu.be/wiPwpI9cbV4?t=34[/video][/QUOTE]
Don't get me wrong, this looks horrible, they should have never made this Conker "game"
But, just because they did ports doesn't mean they can't make a good game.
Look at Until Dawn, the company only did Littlebigplanet costumes and some ports, but the next thing they did was create one of the best looking, best written horror games of the last 6 years.
This is just awful. Do they even know who the character originally was at this point?
They must really want to ride that nostalgia into the ground, but they can't even do that right. Unless they're trying to appeal to kids, but I don't think too many kids will have a Hololens.
They will do anything with Conker....but make a good game with him again.
[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;49841299]They will do anything with Conker....but make a brand new original game starring him.[/QUOTE]
Considering this video, that's probably for the best.
To be fair as to why they can't simply make a new one, Conker only came to be because Rare and other companies were making too many "kiddy games" at the time, so they had the take a full 180 in direction of what the game was originally meant to be just to make it stand out. Unless they were to reach out to competent writers with a similar style and, for lack of better word, "edge" like Bad Fur Day had back in the day, the Conker game Rare of today could make would likely be the garbage in this tech demo.
I doubt there's any writers/designers at Rare who are daring enough to try to make a game that could live up to the fame of the first game. Because, getting it wrong by making it too childish would taint their reputation as developers even further. Or trying and failing at making a game just as dark and humorous as the original would have result in it blending in with other games that are trying too hard to be edgy/controversial, like Hatred, Ride to Hell, and the such.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;49840774]I feel like the people who are working on this have never seen the source material. Like, they were probably shown pictures of the characters, concept art and than they just did their own thing.
Because there is no way they could go this far off base if they had actually played the game.
They probably saw pictures of Conker and the the enemy designs and stuff and said "Ah, it's a cute squirrel with a bit of an attitude, we'll just design a platformer around him. The kids will eat it up."[/QUOTE]
Maybe they played the gameboy game?
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This looks like a pretty cool game but why use conker? They have taken a character that is loved for the dark humor and personality and put him in a game that looks like a platformer devoid of personality. I mean how hard is it to design a new character? They could even have made a squirrel of their own and just changed the name.
If we look on the hololens channel we see this as the banner
[t]http://i.imgur.com/eK3Y7vg.png[/t]
But change only a few little things and we get this
[t]http://i.imgur.com/U6C3QwF.png[/t]
Best attempt to sabotage Microsoft yet
What the hell even?
"What the fuck is a Conker?"
[QUOTE=Glitchman;49837018][img]http://i.imgur.com/kMqqsG5.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
now it just needs a tiny penis like how that one CRAZY FROG character music video thing had
[QUOTE=Levithan;49847825]now it just needs a tiny penis like how that one CRAZY FROG character music video thing had[/QUOTE]
this is young conker, not hung conker
[QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;49847848]this is young conker, not hung conker[/QUOTE]
i dont want young conker or hung conker, i want hungover conker
He's had some bad design choices since Bad Fur Day that's for sure.
Conker's Bad Fur Day
[t]http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/conker/images/6/61/Conker_Artwork_2_-_Conker's_Bad_Fur_Day.png/revision/latest?cb=20120316230020[/t]
Conker Live and Reloaded
[t]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/conker/images/7/7f/ConkerLiveReloadedArtwork.png/revision/latest?cb=20150426010630[/t]
Project Spark
[t]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/conker/images/1/17/Conker_project.png/revision/latest?cb=20150426010613[/t]
Aborted Fetus - The Squirrel
[t]http://i.imgur.com/kMqqsG5.jpg[/t]
Project Spark's would have been great if his eyes were of a lighter color and pupils a tad smaller. Cause he looks freaky, almost alien like.
I just didn't like the style of Project Spark to begin with, so I'm a little biased on that one.
I went through most of this video assuming that the team were just given character sheets without any explanation on why people liked the series, thus going "Cute cartoony kid's platformer? Gotcha!"
Then [url=https://youtu.be/uQeOYi3Be5Y?t=105]Conker snapped the neck of an enemy, and got a cheeky bonus called "Chiropractor!"[/url]
These guys actually know what Conker is.
And still they made this.
What the [i]fuck[/i].
