Conker: Live and Uncut... a mix of good and bad?

[BEBOPlover]

It boggles the mind when people copmplain about an imperfect camera in 3-D games, as if there has been an overwhelming number of 3-D platform games with flawless cameras.

More then the sum of it's parts. That's how I'd settle on Conker for the N64. I enjoyed it thoroughly. The graphics and sound were absolutely astounding at the time. It was like playing a cartoon.

The only reason I refuse to get too hyped up about it is Rare's delay, delay, delay policy.

[MechDeus]

It boggles the mind when people copmplain about an imperfect camera in 3-D games, as if there has been an overwhelming number of 3-D platform games with flawless cameras.

We're nearing the 10-year mark of console 3D games (I say console because they're generally the ones that need better cameras since most PC games have the camera mapped to the mouse or it's already locked in first-person/directly overhead) and the fact that you can say that shows that for all the pretty graphical additions we've made since then one of the most basic design functions is still being largely ignored for improvement. We need someone to do to cameras what Havok has done for physics.

[Tain]

We need someone to do to cameras what Havok has done for physics.

Truer words never spoken.

[BEBOPlover]

We're nearing the 10-year mark of console 3D games (I say console because they're generally the ones that need better cameras since most PC games have the camera mapped to the mouse or it's already locked in first-person/directly overhead) and the fact that you can say that shows that for all the pretty graphical additions we've made since then one of the most basic design functions is still being largely ignored for improvement. We need someone to do to cameras what Havok has done for physics.

I agree completely. I just don't think that Conker's camera was faulty enough to warrant complaining.

Majority of gamers want a pretty game over a functional camera.

[MechDeus]

I honestly don't remember if the camer in Conker's was good or not, all I really remember was most of the game being hysterical and the gameplay being a long line of annoying crap that sucked. With any luck they're tweaking the gameplay as well as improving the graphics so when I play it I won't just keep wishing for it to have been a movie instead.

[Kbu Chan]

The camera was awful. I played a few levels the other day and it's just so irritating, the camera nevers stays where you put it. The camera system in this game got hardly any attention from the developers and it shows.

I have no clue what the hell you are talking about. You must be on crack. All the trailers I have seen of this has smoothe as a baby bottoms fps. I have not seen any sliver of slowdowm and where you got that beats me.

They play vids of it on G4, theres a vid of it at your local game store, there's videos online....the framerate is very very bad.....very bad. If you're seeing something as smooth as a baby's bottom, you must be looking at something else, maybe pre-rendered footage, but I assure you, this game has a bad framerate. They could still improve it before it's done but, come on, this is Rare and a CISC Celeron...I wouldn't expect it to get much better.

[DarkCrow676]

The camera was awful. I played a few levels the other day and it's just so irritating, the camera nevers stays where you put it. The camera system in this game got hardly any attention from the developers and it shows.



They play vids of it on G4, theres a vid of it at your local game store, there's videos online....the framerate is very very bad.....very bad. If you're seeing something as smooth as a baby's bottom, you must be looking at something else, maybe pre-rendered footage, but I assure you, this game has a bad framerate. They could still improve it before it's done but, come on, this is Rare and a CISC Celeron...I wouldn't expect it to get much better.

Again, I've seen plenty of trailers and footage of the game and have yet to see any slowdown. And even if there is the occasional slowdown, this game is still going to be amazing.

[Mzo]

I don't remember having any complaints with Conker, except that it was over too quick.

[ChaoofNee]

I just played a demo of it.
Jumping zebras on Clarinex, this game has some of the best graphics I've ever seen! The demo was of the war scene up until the eltrocution of one of the squirrels. The game was basically the same up until then, though. Few exceptions, those being an extra set of Tediz to kill before going in, Conker's pair of Uzis being replaced by one automatic rifle, and a couple of references that couldn't have been made in the original (because of the time it was made and the system it was on). I can't wait for this to come out. I'm sure we'll see it by the turn of the decade.

[JefmcC]

Awesome. I almost forgot about this one. How was the frame rate in the demo?