• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Banjo-Threeie Debut Trailer!

pxleyes said:
Well it isn't a done deal. Developers read this and many other forums and DO take into account the feedback of us, gamers. So no, it isn't a useless effort.
Click to expand...

I agree that in some cases of a game's reveal that might be true, but in this precise case I think it's wrong.

What do we have here :

1) Opinions of shaken up fans (NOT an insult) who are still under the daze of their favorite series taking such a twist, judging only on screens and 2 videos.

2) Opinion of the press who has actually seen more gameplay footage, has had the game explained to them (let's face it, quite a fair share of the haters didn't care to read what the game was exactly about after seeing vehicles in the trailer), and more importantly, played it themselves.


If you're talking about the "Rare don't fuck up with your franchises because as big fans of them we really don't like that", then it's no use, because the Gregg guy called it. He knew there was going to be a harsh reaction.

See here : http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=188055

How do you think the Banjo hardcore will react to the changes?

Mayles: I think the generation of players that have played Banjo before are probably going to be shocked to start with. They're probably going to look at it and say, 'Hang on a sec, this isn't the Banjo I was expecting. What have you done? You've ruined it!'

But then hopefully, in a very short space of time, they'll be able to see what we've done and like it. You're never going to be able to change people's opinions of the old games and how they felt at the time. Obviously you're going to get a certain amount of rose-tinted glasses looking back on the old game being this wonderful masterpiece and nothing was ever wrong with it.
Click to expand...
 
Innotech said:
If anything, Nintendo fans should be honored that Rare thinks highly enough of Mario to consider it the main threat. I dont see Banjo attacking Ratchet anywhere.
Click to expand...
Ratchet looks too good to be rendered by BK3's engine
kidding
.
 
Innotech said:
If you guys really knew Rare like you say you do you would realize that this is exactly the kind of thing they would do. They made a gigantic piece of talking shit in Conkers Bad Fur Day for fucks sake. And a cow with the screaming shits.
Click to expand...

That reminds me. Conker's Bad Fur Day had Conker slaughtering the Nintendo 64 logo with an Chainsaw.

Omg how they dare disrespect the constructor who make their game alive.
 
batbeg said:
Mario has always been featured in anything with custom creation content. He is the most iconic video game character of all time. Look at any game with custom content and you see Mario: Unreal Tournament 3 has a Mario level. Megaman Powered Up has Mario levels. Wrestling games have Mario characters. All this is, is a homage to the greatest video game character of all time.
Click to expand...

Bravo.

Ramenman said:
That reminds me. Conker's Bad Fur Day had Conker slaughtering the Nintendo 64 logo with an Chainsaw.
Click to expand...

This was pretty much one of my other issues with the Mario decapitation, the fact that it felt like they were treading the same ground again. I even remarked on Conker destroying the 'N' and felt the joke had already been done.

But I think I'll go with batbeg's suggestion of it being an homage rather than an attack; it just dovetails more nicely that way.
 
batbeg nailed it.

I must ad, the first "sprite user level" from Boom Blox on the Internet was Mario too.

And guess what, he got asploded by baseballs. Baseballs I tell ya.
 
Galamauth said:
I can't believe this is getting such negative responses, looking like a whole lot of pretty fun to me.
Click to expand...
It's made by RARE and they blew up Mario.

I'm amazed that this game actually looks good and has some brand new gameplay elements that aren't 1998 rehashes. This game is awesome, I can't wait to play it and blow up all the Nintendo characters with my giant Mega Man...

Freedom in a platformer, it's a brilliant concept!
 
Looks interesting, but it also looks like it'll get tedious having to alter your vehicle for different stuff (Droidworks anyone?). To be honest I just wanted another Banjo-Kazooie style platformer :-\
 
Frester said:
Looks interesting, but it also looks like it'll get tedious having to alter your vehicle for different stuff (Droidworks anyone?). To be honest I just wanted another Banjo-Kazooie style platformer :-\
Click to expand...
From what I've seen in the trailers I guess that you can just build a car and as soon as you want to fly you can pick up a jet-engine somewhere in the world. I think that you can customize your vehicles during the game. It would be cool if they add some self-destruct parts and you put in on your vehicle to test it and it blows up.:lol
 
MTV MP Blog said:
He told me that the Mario figure that gets blasted apart in the trailer was actually a custom vehicle created by one of the developers on the game using the Lego-like vehicle-building editor. As he demoed the game he had stressed that the developers had managed to create many Star Wars vehicles as well.
Click to expand...

WHAT


I want pics of an X-Wing in use now.
 
The more video I see and the more previews I read, the more I want this game. I know a few have mentioned Crackdown and if you really think about it, some of the comparisons are apt. When you see those agility orbs and you know you can't reach it now, but if you find enough orbs you will, it drives you. Each orb improves your ability.

Now, imagine spelunking around as Banjo and seeing a part in a spot you know you can't get to at the moment. You now have the ability to plan out how you're going to get that part. You get another part here, and then another there to try and fabricate some sort of way to get the one you're really after. To me, that's much more satisfying than collecting musical notes and stuff like that.

People were going apeshit trying to get all the orbs in Crackdown so they could jump higher and higher. I have a feeling these collectible parts in Banjo are going to have the same type of effect. Plus, they all seem to do something a little different. Curiosity as to what a new part does to my vehicle would be enough to compel me to find more.
 
banjo4dummies.gif


Maybe this will help people understand.
 
Absolutely stunning.

I have to admit that the first time I saw the trailer I was kind of dissapointed, but the more I read about it, the more it started to tickle my creative juices. I'm ready to build some awesome stuff!
 
Only people complaining are the ones that havent played it. The lucky people that have, even the most skeptical are loving this new direction.

Rare have delivered, once you people get used to the idea i know you'll warm to it.
 
I don't understand all the hate in this thread (as well as in other forums). The only thing we can barely judge are the games' visuals and animation (both of which are really good, it has a distinct look to it, although framerate is still all over the place). But gamplay elements haven't been discussed in detail yet, and none of us has tested them. Strange...

Rare have delivered
Click to expand...

Cautious here. If I were you, I'd wait for more hands-on and, most imprtantly, some lenghty previews before declairing RARE's renaissance. Hopefully they'll bring back the old days goodies !
 
[Nintex] said:
It would be cool if they add some self-destruct parts and you put in on your vehicle to test it and it blows up.:lol
Click to expand...

You mean real self-destruction as making your vehicle explode or only drop-off like that :

156wk1t.gif


Because that is one of the most genius thing about this building mechanic. I'm in love.
 
Prine said:
I love the freefall in tha Gif. Its only slight, but it feels so satisfying.
Click to expand...

Yes, it feels only more 'real'. As I already said in this thread, I find it really clever that they kept this vehicle building physics-based.
 
Lathentar said:
Or...
C) Not a IP that people have very specific expectations for
Click to expand...
My expectations for it was to just be good. It looks other people are even more narrow than mine, i.e. rinse amd repeat.
 
Crushed getting banned in this thread is a textbook example of a mod unilaterally using his power to silence someone who disagreed with him. I read the last page of Crushed's post history, and there wasn't a single offensive post in the whole lot.

This kind of thing isn't cool; it's like a landlord evicting someone who makes a complaint, or something like that. Modding should be completely objective.
 
it's far funnier to see you guys speculate (wrongly) about why people were banned, Green Shinobi. But again, if you have issues with the moderation turn your off-topic posts to one of the mods or admins PM.

Last warning about that, since this is like 20 pages after the event.
 
Ramenman said:
You mean real self-destruction as making your vehicle explode or only drop-off like that :

156wk1t.gif


Because that is one of the most genius thing about this building mechanic. I'm in love.
Click to expand...

What you see in that gif is the detacher being activated. Self-destruct will leave you with nothing but seperate pieces :)
 
icecream said:
pinya11.jpg

You even put it in your gif...
Click to expand...
I fail to see your point? Kazooie has always been the offensive and defensive source of the Banjo games. Because now she has a physical weapon to aid her, this changes things... how?
 
Oooh. No, I was being sarcastic. :p

I'm off to work. Maybe I'll spend more than 3 minutes on another GIF that is even more blatant about how the game is played. :lol
 
I can just imagine how cool this will be... Lava level (cos there has to be one right?) create a tank to pass through lava in volcano, get the puzzle peice, then the volcano begins to erupt, quickly create a helicopter to fly to top, eject blades, fall to bottom where your new sled slides down the side of volcano, avoid the physics based boulders... Success.

I can't wait! :D
 
I think this would get lots of love if:

A) it wasn't made by rare
B) was on the PS3
Click to expand...

Turn on victim shield.

Hum, no. I know a lot of 360/RARE fans who' ve been (badly) surprised by the events' turn. Premature judgement, but has nothing to do with the mentality you're suggesting.
 
Prine said:
Only people complaining are the ones that havent played it. The lucky people that have, even the most skeptical are loving this new direction.

Rare have delivered, once you people get used to the idea i know you'll warm to it.
Click to expand...
I hope you people realize that rare hasnt delivered anything until the game gets final judgement in its fall release. Concepts are one thing but execution is another.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Banjo Kazooie Recomp out now
2 3
143
1K
IbizaPocholo replied
Banjo-Kazooie music plays during NFL game
10
282
deriks replied
Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania... released in Dreams (PS4 / PS5)
2 3
101
1K
Physiognomonics replied
Banjo-Kazooie is top-tier, but Banjo-Tooie is a weird one
46
2K
Majukun replied
WARDOGS - Announcement Trailer
Trailer 
1
97
Bry0 replied
Top Bottom