Comment on Trying and failing to like Conkers Bad Fur Day
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 9 months agoA lot of early 3D console games - whether platformers or FPS games, have aged pretty poorly. Go try to play GoldenEye again and see how it feels compared to modern shooters. Really Super Mario 64 is kind of the outlier.
Conker and Banjo Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 are all cut from the same cloth at mid-90s Rare. The Xbox release version fixed a few things with Conker but broke others. Honestly Conker was the first “parody” type game and it only works well if you have the nostalgia goggles to appreciate it as it existed in an era where if you wanted to play 3D platformers, you were mostly limited to baby games like Croc, Spyro, or the other Rare platformers.
Davel23@kbin.social 9 months ago
Parodius was released in 1988, and I wouldn't even definitively say it was the first.
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Hell, Leisure Suit Larry came out in ‘87.
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Leisure suit Larry is not really a parody like Conker was though, was it? I thought it was just a point and click adventure game with dirty jokes.
Forgive me, if I’m wrong on that. I actually have not really played the leisure suit Larry games. 
I think, Conker not only makes fun of platformer games and game mechanics in general, but directly references movies like Saving Private Ryan, the Alien franchise, and the Matrix. 
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I think it had a mix of dirty jokes and parodies. It’s been ages since I’ve played it.
Hopefully someone who remembers it better can chime in, otherwise I guess I know what my weekend downtime plans are.
DarthBueller@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Parodius to me isn’t a parody, but maybe I’m missing the references. It’s a shmup with funny sprites, innit? How does funny sprites equal a parody? (And for fucks sake, don’t downvote me—I’m actually asking to be convinced that it’s a parody. I’ve had enough negativity for a year on here from a mentally ill person that equates discourse with nazism.)
Davel23@kbin.social 9 months ago
Parodius is a parody of Gradius (hence the name).
DarthBueller@lemmy.world 9 months ago
is it just wordplay or is it a straight up parody?
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I guess it should have qualified it as a “major console release.”