Has Conker's Bad Fur Day Aged Well? - RETRO REVIEW (20th Anniv.)
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Conker's Bad Fur Day has turned 20 this year, so we decided to take a trip down memory lane to see if this game about the offensive red squirrel still holds up today. Is it great, mighty, or poo?
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The jokes he was offended by were the best ones.
They only sold me on the game more. If they are willing to go that fat, I want to see all of the jokes.
The Giant Poop was funny
Me after fighting it: ._.
People talking about me: You smell of poopoo peepee
As a Brit in a world dominated by American and Japanese games. I loved that they stuck with a range of British accents across the game.
Well they are British so .....
@@sandman8993 you’d be surprised how often the decision is made to go with American voice acting to ensure it doesn’t alienate the American market. ‘Thunderbirds’ and pretty much all the GTA games are examples of this.
Birdie the yorkshire farmer is among my favourite characters in the game just because of his accent it's hilarious
@@Nahtan123 got any mepsipax? 😂
@@86Rikki 🤣🤣
i think you missed the point, those uncomfortable jokes were uncomfortable back then, its what made them funny just like watching mell brooks, have you seen blazing saddles? one of my favorite comedies of all time
Preach to the Choir brother!
Soy boys like him will NEVER get it!
There is no point to miss. This game has a very limited audience. Both the game part and the story is awful. Of course, all that is an opinion. But this is not going to leave cult status
This game's audience consists 100% of people over 40 that rage over anyone that criticizes their bad games
@Super Mario Fan well GameXplain is woke. People are right to say that. But the actual audience for this is limited nonetheless. If you can complain about Family Guy being less funny than before, this game should be subject to similar criticism.
I loved sitting around with all my buddies playing multiplayer. This game is awesome
I used to sit and watch my kid play it for hours. Fighting my gag reflex the whole time, but I just loved watching that game.
The multiplayer was the best part of this game
If you think that game is dark you should see some of the cut scenes that didn’t make it in the final release that one torture scene was horrifying
The original ending was darker and depressing before it was completely taken out
Or were they beat pikachu with a bat
Where can I see the unreleased cutscenes
@@sillywabbit898 you can check on CZcams but be warned they are creepy as hell
I don't care what anybody thinks I think it was a masterpiece in my eyes it was too good, and having it when it came out when I was ten. looking back now yeah it was that good of a game. Too good that's why I believe it was a masterpiece.
It's a pitty that the remake is not included in rare replay. I know a lot of people don't enjoy the graphic style or the mild censorship of curse words. But it fixed a lot of the gameplay issues so a modern audience would likely prefer it, like giving it proper aiming with two analog sticks. I'm not saying that it should replace of the original, I'm saying that we should have both.
But I guess I cannot be really mad about it, since it is available to purchase from the store, I just want conker to have more exposure overall.
The jokes didn't fly back then either. I remember people doing an absolute shitstorm over the game. Parents wanted to take the game off the shelves.
The suicide and sex stuff was off the charts in the past and honestly I'd love to see such an offensive game now. I have no idea why people draw the line somewhere after the killing. Murders, war, school shottings etc. but somehow every movie has guns and headshots.
It's just that everyone tries to fake a facade of being a morally right person that is always opposed to the "wrong" stuff. I bet that 90% of the audience would laugh at the offensive jokes if they were sure no one's watching them.
finding certain jokes to be bad doesn't make you a moral crusader
@@DuranmanX True, but a joke being very dark doesn't make it evil or anything. It's easy to get angry at a joke and act like you saved a life. I was a volunteer in a hospice for years and we used to joke about everything but it had nothing to do with real life. You'd think there were tons of people to help those in need, but nope, they're on the internet arguing but I've never seen a single young person actually be there to make a change.
Couldn't have said it better.
@@DuranmanX telling other people that they can't like certain jokes does.
A joke is a joke. The dark comedy in this game is just that. Dark comedy, really wish people would stop getting up in arms about it.
Murder is ok but not sex jokes guys
Soy boy/Snowflake rules. ;)
abusive sex jokes.
Really hate that people have become so sensitive nowadays that they can't take a joke anymore.
@@retrojohnny1899 it was always controversial
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew
I'd say that murdering someone is peak abuse
"There's always something about cute cartoon animals getting viciously slaughtered that I find amusing."
Happy Tree Friends says hello
You took the words right out of my mouth along with my teeth, tongue, and larynx.
I loved HTF in high school
HTF is legit too much for me. That stuff always made me wince and gag back in the day.
This and banjo are what started my interest into rare as a kid. Still waiting for that switch port that will never come haha...
Man I wish
I bought an Xbox one purely for rare replay
wait you played conker as a kid lol
@@xKubomi a lot of kid played hehehe
@@xKubomi if you didn’t you didn’t have a childhood
the things you complained about gameplay wise is literally what they fixed in live and reloaded
But they messed up the local multiplayer.
@@senorsnipey1595 most people buy conker for single player or multiplayer?
That's so strange that the rare replay version doesn't just lift the controls from Live & Reloaded. Like I get that it's just an up-res port of the OG game, but why on earth did they make the right stick move and the left stick aim?
@@chuckbatmangaming or put live and reloaded instead (with an option to disable censorship or to match the n64 version, i dont think it would be that hard)
@@Saturn185 oh most people I know bought it like most buy CoD. Beat the campaign and then abuse the multiplayer. CBFD had some of the best multiplayer that generation
The sad thing is we never got a proper sequel
Wasn't there 2 sequels?
@@supersaiyanbro Conker Live and Reloaded single player is a remake of the 2001 game Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64. Rare was never the same after acquired by MS
@@RKO1988 Dude, if the original devs behind the original game said themselves that something like that will never ever happen again then nobody can make a proper sequel without it feeling forced. Why can't we appreciate what we got and jst get over it? Fans do make things worse.
Playing this video game shaped my entire childhood.... Now I'm an alcoholic.
Thanks Conker!
The gun controls were alot like other Rare games, aiming with the stick and moving with the c-buttons.
Very Jet Force Gemini-ish, for sure
They were great on the N64. I used to play the multiplayer all the time.
@@Mbwunion yep we had tournaments with like 30 people, with smash bros too. Too bad live & reloaded killed the multiplayer that BFD had
"Offensive". Come on.
Snowflake for sure haha
I know right it's not freaking offensive ffs. Blacks weren't the only one hung like Jesus Christ thousands and thousands of people around the world were hung. I'm so sick of the first thing people think about seeing a nuse is stupid black people ffs wow grow up.
Humor and sensitivity will always be subjective of course and often, paradoxical. I, too, cringed a lot at the joke with the male and female cogs, but then I think the moment you brutally murder a newborn baby that mistakes you for its parent is much, much worse but doesn't seem to have offended you. Also, I think it's important to bear in mind that the entire game depicts Conker as a horrible psychopath, not someone the player should identify with.
So he's saying the violence is okay but the sexual jokes are not. Selective discrimination. But the game still kicks ass.
I've never played this but from what he said, they sounded more like rape jokes than just sex jokes.
@@mattwolf7698 hes spreading misinformation as calling it "rape" is a huge stretch
Conker Live and Reloaded is such an underappreciated remake. The improvements to the controls, graphics, and some of the missions are more than worth the extra swear words being censored
I absolutely agree
I heard if u beat the game, then on ur second play through u unlock uncensored mode.
@@segamistretro8562 false
Yeah but they butchered the fantastic multiplayer of the original
Yes it holds up. I love live and reloaded graphics too.
Funny then is just as funny now. People have just lost their balls.
True mate
I dunno. if that was the way it works then memes would never die. The logic doesn't add up.
Sometimes, it's not the destination, it's the journey.
A Series of Increasingly Bizarre Obstacles is my favorite book series.
yes we cant joke about anything anymore bc someone will get offended.
You can make edgy jokes. It’s just not such a great idea to make edgy jokes that could hurt people who have gone through emotional trauma, with stuff like sexual assault.
That's not true in the least. People like you are always dying to be victims.
@@Mr.Nyongo yep, people who have gone through sexual assault are totally just whining about these jokes because they love being victims. Shut up
9:00 - "Personally, I don't enjoy the offensive parts of the game as much as I do the absurdly violent ones."
Uh, that's actually a very alarming thing to say.
I agree with him and it’s not really alarming, but honestly I like both, I’m just more of a fan of violence and less of poop jokes
I remember playing this when I was 5 years old. One day I was playing and my parents found out there was breasts on the sunflower and they took the game away from me (they were unaware it was a mature game) 😂
This is the game that taught mothers what the letter “M” on a game cartridge meant 😅
I once sang the Great Mighty Poo song in front of my class.
I REGRET NOTHING.
There are no jokes that should be off limits. You try to censor one thing, and then everything starts being censored
It's either all OK, or none of it's OK.
Woah there. The dude never said we wanted anything censored, just that he didn't like certain jokes
What a great game for it's time I remember playing it when I was 10 or 11 at a friend's house it was the first game I bought complete on ebay when I got a job after finishing high School still own it and I played it recently too :)
I can’t see how anyone could be offended by any jokes in this. They’re all too good. Hell, I knew people who ended up committed suicide over the years & that joke still doesn’t bother me in Conker 🤷🏻♂️
The jokes are not offensive. But they are terrible. You cant force people to like comedy. I dont like Family Guy and this is worse than Family Guy
He should not of complained about being offended. But GameXplain are Anita Sarkeesian supporters. My initial point remains that this game is unfunny regardless
It's different for everyone. I'd say it's immature, although the game itself is well made.
@@Alicia_Tomoko_5x it unfunny because it made one joke that you did not like ok
How delicate "nowadays is offensive". Come on! Just enjoy it
Good review.
Although I've got to say, you playing a sort of pseudo moral compass for whats funny in 2021 etc. Wears thin. Who are you to tell anyone what is and isn't ok to laugh at in a video game regardless of age and context?
Personally, I don't love every joke in the game. But I know that someone, somewhere else does.
I thought the pitchfork trying to hang himself was funny.
Because its impossible for him to do it, that's the whole joke!
There's nothing deeper going on to be especially offended by. Taste in humour doesn't count.
People like him try to force their values on others and it's really starting to get old.
Amen, definitely the worst part of this review. Dark humour is, and always will be. dark humour
Funnily enough - I used to agree with people like this reviewer a good few years back until I started to (mostly) avoid politics for a lot of valid reasons. Anyways, back then I ended up just seeing leftist-slanted articles/videos on my social media feeds without any counter views to help balance it out.
I then saw absolute gutter 'journalists' who were now deciding to label our favourite media such as films/video games & even books that were published more than 10/15 years ago being branded as 'racist', 'sexist' & whatever flavour of the month was on their agenda menu lol.
But...seriously, I am actually sick of them getting massive amounts of attention and then them feeding the masses over 'views' being shouted by a very small, vocal minority.
Hopefully the pendulum shifts back towards the centre in the future like it was before the 2010's!
@@ArtfulMaverick I sure hope so but I fear it's going to get worse.
I enjoy the offensive parts the most
According to the VA of Conker, he lost his interest in the character and he's now more interested in other things. He also said that he don't think making a sequel will end well nowadays. That's why the franchise died.
Well i understand him after leaving Conker in the fridge for 2 decades i would also lost interest
If something was funny in 2001 i see no reason as to why it shouldn’t be funny now. People gotta fucking relax with being offended by everything
Nothing wrong with any of the humour, all the jokes and characters were amazing :D
The multiplayer was one of the best on the system and was played by only like 70 people . Needs alot more attention really.
Conker is now old enough to drink.
To be fair
I don’t remember this game back then
I did end up buying it a few years ago at a pawn shop for only $10
For me its one of my favourite N64, Rareware and overall games of all time.
Wish the sequal never got cancelled but at least Live and Reloaded was good.
This game is what we call a "certified hood classic".
Conker really needs to make a comeback tbh. Really wouldn't mind it, especially since Banjo-Kazooie made a comeback almost 2 years ago. It'd be dope.
They didn't make a comeback, they just got in Smash lol.
@@Stratilex Hey, still a comeback, no less.
@@l00per80 They need a true sequel like Banjo Threeoie that is actually a platformer
King of game
I thought this was a trailer for a switch remake lol
It would be cool if they released it in a collection alongside with Banjo Kazooie and Tooie just like Nintendo did with 3D All-Stars
Difficulty spikes galore! The swimming part with slicing blades, the bazooka hell that was leaving the war level & the final boss. As for the corridor shooting in the war level, I found it easiest to be aiming down sights the entire time.
Not to be that guy, but playing it on original hardware might be interesting to see the rougher, warts & all version of the game.
Yes it has. Saved you 16 minutes.
Only thing that doesn't hold up is the shooting controls. Played it twice in 2019 in rare replay and the Xbox remake. Both fantastic.
Doesn't hold up for me, I tried playing it in Rare Replay, it was rough.
@@TundraBoy69 unless you have nostalgia, the game did not hold up
@@TundraBoy69 the game does not hold up. It Only holds up to those bitter old people that have some emotional attachment when they had an N64
@@moniques6204 its a videogame lol please chill tf out maam
This is seriously one of the best games ever made . Up there with ocarina of time and anything else you want to put . Nintendo needs to put this out on switch online .
"This day and age" sighhhhh
This is one of my favorite games of all time for the shear insanity of it all and it’s such a shame we never got a sequel
It’s in my top faves of Nintendo 64 games. Was amazing to play through at the time of release.
15:36 hahaha...no
I'd like to see more deep dives on classics from back in the day. I never played this but always heard stories about it.
CBFD hold's up in some areas, breaks new ground, and also falls short in others. Playing this on Rare Replay, it looks and sounds great and controls well. However, the voice work can be extremely slow and tedious, plus some sections grind to an anger inducing halt. Objectives can be vague, convoluted, and/or difficult to accomplish. I often had to fight with the game to make things happen. That being said, the game is quite easy, with plenty of health pickups. Game overs can be annoying, but don't force you back very far, making them effectively meaningless. Overall, it's worth a playthrough and I would recommend it. I might even buy Live and Reloaded. 🎮👍
The fact that “some jokes won’t fly today” shows we are failing as a society.
Agree 100%
How did we go from
Banjo-Kazooie
From
Conker?!
Puberty
Thanks for not censoring the dialogue. Appreciate that.
Love this game so much, havent played it since my childhood in the 90s but I still to this day remember every lyric to the Great Mighty Poo fight
When they remastered the game for Xbox, they fixed a lot of the camera issues. I'm talking Conker Live and Reloaded for those of you that only played the classic.
For me it becomes even funnier when it is not allowed or appropiate
did ah...did you guys even research? he had a GBC game before N64 so this is his second game
Man Gamexplain has gone downhill after everyone left
@@retrojohnny1899 not hard to do 30 seconds of research but I suppose it is
A childhood classic. So many good memories playing this game with friends. It needs a remake on the new gen systems.
Sensitive much?
This was such fun to play back as a teen. Plus, farts and that that type of humor is my kryptonite.
I was 7 years old playing this game most fun game I'll never forget it
Rare Replay is the entire reason I got an Xbox One
Of all the N64 games there were few that my childhood friends and I played more than this game’s multiplayer mode.
Idk how well it aged but what I do know is my best friend got me a copy still in the box still in the plastic wrap for my 18th birthday
I played this and L&R back to back last year, and if I had to pick, as much as I loved the original, the remake is my preferred version to play! It definitely plays better, and the Zombies section is so much more fun with twin stick shooter controls.
Conkers Bad Fur Day was and still is a masterpiece for the N64 even over 20 years later. Underrated at its time of release. Still to this day of 2022 highly collectable and sought after by many collectors. No surprise Conker's Bad Fur Day sells for over $125 just for the cartridge to over $300 complete in box.
How did this game not require the expansion pack?!? Incredible!
keep up the great work
the multiplayer was so god damn fun. the remake fucked it up
Ok i love this game so much
still love these cutscenes
Dark humour is, and always will be, dark humour. If you didn't like it then, you'd probably won't like it now. I'd rather you said you didn't find it funny because its what you decided wasn't funny, as opposed to it being 2021. Shit is still funny to me.
Conker bizarre advanture
The plot is indeed golden you got to admit that
The game was exactly what one made by young Brits set loose at the end of the nineties should have been :)
The multiplayer doesn't get enough praise either. Up there with GoldenEye and Super Smash Bros. I think.
Short answer: YES
Long answer: Absolutely
It hasn't and I love the game.
I played through this game once and enjoyed it for what it was. But what REALLY made it fun was the multiplayer. My friends and I could play the Normandy multiplayer map for hours. Not sure how that holds up anymore though.
I agree with everything you said about the controls and camera. I feel like a lot of the challenge of this game came down to that. However, I loved the humor, world design, puzzles, and personality of the game! It definitely doesn’t hold your hand because there were some times I didn’t know what to do, and the solution was something completely random. This game is truly unique and awesome, and I had a blast with it! So many laughs and jaw drops.
"Maybe the fact that he is none of those things, except the squirrel thingy"
He's not even a squirrel tho, he's obviously an elephant.
I played the rare replay version in 2015 I was able to easily adapt to the controls
Forgetting the absolute best part of the game was the multiplayer modes on the N64, I have fond memories of playing it with my friends at their house. Some of the most fun console multiplayer I've ever played, such a huge variety of weapons. Always loved running up on my friends with the chainsaw and slicing them in half one shot or flipping around with the katana like a ninja ready for a decapitation.
I still can’t believe this bloody mature shit fuck of a game was on a Nintendo Console, Rare really did go all out with a Bang on the N64. I really miss when Rare and Nintendo had a relationship. Rare is responsible for giving DK a glowup with the Country series after the Arcade games, and many more things which helped Nintendo with their successes. Dinosaur Planet recently got leaked and if you didn’t know it’s what Starfox Adventures was originally going to be with no Starfox brand on it, it would be Rare’s parting gift with Nintendo before being bought buy Microsoft. Rare support for the GameCube and Wii would’ve been Legendary!
The controls for the shooting were pretty easy on the N64 controllers. So obviously if you're playing on a new gen that hasn't aged well. N64 you just look down the sight and use the C buttons to move without getting out of the "sight" view. Very simple. Just went back and played this on the N64 👌👌
Dark Humor is the best kind of humor if you get offended over everything you can't enjoy life.
Something is telling me a reboot is secretly in the works
What makes you think that?
One thing's for sure, no way will we see anything like The Great Mighty Poo in a game again.
Absolute classic, needs a full proper remake
About the fall damage: can't you completely avert it with the spinning tail move?
I want them to update and port Banjo-Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing to the Switch.
Omg this game fully holds up. The 64 already set itself apart from the competition graphically but this game really felt closer to the dreamcast than the previous gen
Hasn't age well, but the game is fun
@@CatchingZzs I mean playing on Rare Reply is great. On an N64 on the wrong tv ain't so good but I think the visuals hold up especially compared to games from other consoles of the time and most N64 games. Plus the core gameplay and level design is pretty damn good
there's a 7 hour long walk through of this game. I would watch it 3 times in a row before i play the rare replay version again. even when the game made a joke that i found funny, i would never laugh because i was so pissed off about the controls.
Was a huge fan of Rare as a child. But thiswas one game my mom would NOT let me play growing up. Now that I’m almost 30 and can play it on my 360 as an adult, I’m so glad! 😅
My parents would not buy this game for me, so I had to rent it week after week from Blockbuster until the dude finally let me keep it, i was 13 years old. If my parents had found out, we'd both be in big trouble lol
Wait the worker gave you the game for free or did he secretly offer you a price?
Rare might not forget Conker. But they're not going to make another game with them. They wanna look forward with different IPs. Our only luck would be if Rare gave another developer their blessing like with Killer Instinct and Battletoads
It was confusing as a kid not knowing about what the bee and the flower were doing.
Hasn't age very well, but it's a fun game regardless. I have a big ass CBFD poster in my room
If Conker does come back, he absolutely HAS to be even more offensive, specially in today's society where people keep getting offended by the stupidest things
Heck yeah!
I was around 6 or 7 years old when my brother and his friend took this game to our place, but we loved to play the multiplayer party mode. Especially the dinosaur mode where you had to steal eggs from dinosaurs as the cavemen, or kill the cavemen as the dinosaurs... Amazing!
My mom didn't quite enjoy the bloody gory mess her kids were playing ;p