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Harold Cooplowski
Sep 11, 2013
The four best N64 games came from them and they still fell apart. Nobody is immune in this industry.

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DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


Fallen Rib

Harold Cooplowski posted:

The four best N64 games came from them and they still fell apart. Nobody is immune in this industry.

maybe they should have tried making games that weren't this

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

DoubleDonut posted:

maybe they should have tried making games that weren't this


Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Conker's BFD Remake (With all the cusses censored in some kind of bizarre, ironic twist)
Kameo and PD: Zero (Launch titles and franchise non-starters)
Two Viva Pinatas (Solid but utterly obtuse sim games allegedly aimed at children)
Three Kinect Sports titles
A handful of GBA/DS games

I guess MS got their $375 million out of them in the long run, at the cost of driving the brand into the loving ground

qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

JethroMcB posted:

Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Conker's BFD Remake (With all the cusses censored in some kind of bizarre, ironic twist)
Kameo and PD: Zero (Launch titles and franchise non-starters)
Two Viva Pinatas (Solid but utterly obtuse sim games allegedly aimed at children)
Three Kinect Sports titles
A handful of GBA/DS games

I guess MS got their $375 million out of them in the long run, at the cost of driving the brand into the loving ground

Another win for modern capitalism! :patriot:

teen phone cutie
Jun 18, 2012

last year i rewrote something awful from scratch because i hate myself
I tried to beat DKC2 this summer and still can't get through K. Rool's world. :cripes:

Also, mad props to Retro Studios, the new Rareware

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Grump posted:



Also, mad props to Retro Studios, the new Rareware

The amount of games that Retro put out on the Gamecube Wii, and Wii-U would not even total Rare's output on the SNES and n64.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

JethroMcB posted:

Conker's BFD Remake (With all the cusses censored in some kind of bizarre, ironic twist)
wait what

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Y-Hat posted:

wait what

At the tail end of the original XBox's life cycle Rare remade Conker's BFD as Conker: Live and Reloaded. For some reason MS decided that they should bleep ALL the swears, even the ones that were uncensored in the N64 version. It's not in-engine, either, the audio files on the disc are already edited.

Meanwhile if you beat the single player mode you unlock an option for uncensored profanities in multiplayer :psyduck:

qnqnx posted:

Another win for modern capitalism! :patriot:

oh and I forgot that they eventually drove the founders out of the company. just a solid transaction all around.

JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Aug 21, 2014

teen phone cutie
Jun 18, 2012

last year i rewrote something awful from scratch because i hate myself

The Taint Reaper posted:

The amount of games that Retro put out on the Gamecube Wii, and Wii-U would not even total Rare's output on the SNES and n64.

Okay?

Apparently a lot of ex rare employees work there and they're putting out some good games.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Is there anywhere to buy viva pinata on pc for download, that was a legit cool game and I'd like to play it again

bonzibuddy64
Jan 5, 2007

by XyloJW
I liked rare games a lot as a kid and i think they have a cool charm to them but a lot of them really do not hold up at all today. Goldeneye is a huge turd that suffers from massive slowdown and dont get me started on donkey kong 64.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

JethroMcB posted:

At the tail end of the original XBox's life cycle Rare remade Conker's BFD as Conker: Live and Reloaded. For some reason MS decided that they should bleep ALL the swears, even the ones that were uncensored in the N64 version. It's not in-engine, either, the audio files on the disc are already edited.

Meanwhile if you beat the single player mode you unlock an option for uncensored profanities in multiplayer :psyduck:
gg microsoft, no wonder why you're laying off 18000 employees

Concordat
Mar 4, 2007

Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete
Hey guys remember Free Radical?

Great Joe
Aug 13, 2008

No.

TexMexFoodbaby
Sep 6, 2011

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
who wants to talk about a corpse of a great giant?

Judge Ito Boxing
Oct 29, 2011

There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
like just turn the buildings into hordes of zombies and call it "Blast Corpse" then you're appealing to all the idiots who pronounced the original game wrong AND the idiots who got mad at those idiots.

Snackula
Aug 1, 2013

hedgefund wizard

Concordat posted:

Hey guys remember Free Radical?

I remember when they made whole bunch of shooters that weren't as good as Perfect Dark and then a military psychic experiment game that wasn't as good as Psi-Ops before finally doing a sci-fi FPS that wasn't quite Halo.

Timesplitters 2 was fun in multi I guess.

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

hey snacks, where is your av from?

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

LaTex Fetish posted:

hey snacks, where is your avateer from?

Snackula
Aug 1, 2013

hedgefund wizard
One night I got a good buzz on and paid a Spanish teenager on Tumler to draw me Evangelion's Asuka. Kind of scared to drink ever since because I'm pretty sure that means I'm on a slippery slope that ends with me paying hundreds of dollars for a picture of Silver the Hedgehog swallowing princess Elise while a turned-on Tails gives birth to my OC fursona.

Snackula fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Aug 25, 2014

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

asuka is my waifu and i get drunk just to be with her sometimes.

matrix ripoff
Mar 16, 2005

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i only suck dick in self defense
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and at the bookstore
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Ddraig posted:

Is there anywhere to buy viva pinata on pc for download, that was a legit cool game and I'd like to play it again

not since gfwl storefront went down

there's surely thousands of unopened boxed copies you can still get; afaik the gfwl service itself is still alive despite much talk of it being taken down in july, so you can still register the key and play the game

viva pinata looks swell on pc

SeXReX
Jan 9, 2009

I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet


:emptyquote:

DLTN posted:

also anybody who still has fond memories of DK64 hasn't actually booted it up now that they're an adult or their opinion would be v different

False. Not only do I still enjoy playing multiplayer, but now I know how to swim through walls and that makes it even better.

E. A fun little bit of dk64 knowledge. The game has massive frame rate drops when rendering the Orange explosions. You don't notice this however because the more the game lags the faster you move. This culminates in you being able to jump through walls by throwing enough grenades at the right time.


Also B. Locker's collision mesh isn't big enough and you can slap the leading zone behind him with lanky.

Oh yeah and the game only checks for the third and eighth key to trigger the final boss fight.

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Grump posted:

Okay?

Apparently a lot of ex rare employees work there and they're putting out some good games.

I didn't know that, but their game output is still slow as molasses.

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Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

LaTex Fetish posted:

hey snacks, where is your av from?

Some site peddling in child porn from the look of it.

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