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[Black Republican]

New screen?

reminds me of the n64 yellow buttons, heh

 

[Mango The Magician]

I'm guessing for that person, £5000 is the equivalent of me backing for £15. Pocket change.

I can't even imagine money like that being pocket change. <

 

[Regulus Tera]

Speedrunners will be so mad

AGDQ2017 confirmed for best AGDQ evar.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

So you're telling me that if I pay $535 for the 64 bit version, I don't get a physical soundtrack or T-shirt? :\
Edit: It says it includes CD soundtrack, nevermind.

 

[Alienous]

Stretch goals are kind of poor, barely expands the game.

It's almost like their initial goal was enough to make 90% of the game they wanted.

What a novel concept.

 

[Obliterator]

I'm guessing for that person, £5000 is the equivalent of me backing for £15. Pocket change.

Yeah, for whoever that was I'm sure it was a big money person who is just excited as hell that a genre they love is returning. Its most likely Notch or someone like that.

 

[hydruxo]

Just imagine if any further stretch goals included Amiibo's.

Well...

http://www.playtonicgames.com/were-live-n-kickstarting/

The game is being created by a roster of core Banjo-Kazooie team members including Chris ‘ULTRA COMBO’ Sutherland, Steve ‘I made Banjo’ Mayles and Steven ‘hide a penis in my level’ Hurst. What’s more, we’ve got legendary composers David Wise (DKC), Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and Steve Burke (Kameo) providing the tunes! What more could you possibly want, bar an amiibo? (Oops, did we say that out loud…)

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

So... who else is going to vote Yooka & Laylee for the Smash Ballot?

https://cp.nintendo.co.jp/us

Waste of a vote. Game isn't even out yet and the characters weren't revealed until yesterday.

 

[Fudgepuppy]

Backed 10£, was grinning throughout the entire video.

But are they legally allowed to sell the N64 cartridges?

 

[Apathy]

Hahaha I love this

Lol oh man, just the slight jab

 

[Storm Kyleis]

Waste of a vote. Game isn't even out yet and the characters weren't revealed until yesterday.

You can vote as much as you want and there's time until October.

 

[The Real Abed]

My bad. I thought that was a stretch goal.

Day one console release is a stretch goal. Otherwise the consoles will get it later with PC/Mac/Linux first.

 

[Shiggy]

500K (or whatever this ends at) is a pittance compared to the scale they're used to working at. It'd be like asking why Warner Bros doesn't take note of indie films.

Wasn't the original Crash Bandicoot on a $2 mio budget? With better technology nowadays, I guess they could achieve something like that at a lower budget (then again, this does not consider inflation).

 

[mrlion]

Don't worry, it'll be released closer to October 2017

I would believe it...if there's something that they'll keep from Rare and transition it to this new company...its the ridiculous amount of delays.

 

[VinFTW]

Just imagine if any further stretch goals included Amiibo's.

Please edit this post so they don't get any ideas.

PLEASEEEE

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

number of backers is OVER 9000!!!

 

[CrisKre]

Well...

http://www.playtonicgames.com/were-live-n-kickstarting/

Fuuuuuuuu... is that even a possibility? That would be AMAZING. our even to have some donkey kong amiibo compatibility on the wii u version... dk playable? *cries*shiiiiiiiiiiit!

 

[Mr_L]

The AAA industry is clueless. They want to play it safe and keep doing the same type of games.

It's all driven by a misguided desire to make all of the money instead of some of the money by targeting specific markets. Not everyone is going to be the smash hit that breaks records, but every AAA publisher wants to think their homogenized experiences will be. Every. Time.

 

[Rich!]

Yeah, for whoever that was I'm sure it was a big money person who is just excited as hell that a genre they love is returning. Its most likely Notch or someone like that.

Let's say if it was a £5 mil lottery winner, that's easily covered by the interest gained within a week.

 

[Obliterator]

Well...

http://www.playtonicgames.com/were-live-n-kickstarting/

Yooka-Laylee Amiibo possibly!

 

[Eusis]

Hahaha I love this

The weird thing is looking at the characters I'd think the likes of Dreamworks would want to make a movie out of this sort of thing, or at least someone makes a CGI cartoon show. Granted I guess that's part of why this can be called generic, but I do imagine with the right kind of marketing this is the sort of thing that could actually blow up with kids and sell pretty well.

EDIT: And man, I imagine the stretch goals should be dumped in favor of just raw finetuning.

Spoiler

Well, I'd like to have a seamless world as a stretch goal, akin to stuff like Metroid, Dark Souls, Jak & Daxter, whichever game series you want to point out.

 

[Eila]

Coolio. Somebody tweet them to make a 64-bit graphics stretch goal.

 

[IOnEI Falcon]

So you're telling me that if I pay $535 for the 64 bit version, I don't get a physical soundtrack or T-shirt? :
Edit: It says it includes CD soundtrack, nevermind.

You can add money to your order for the shirt and physical soundtrack.

 

[VanWinkle]

This is getting me hyped!

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Ohhhhhh, Microsoft got TOLD!

Amazing. Also is this a reference to Microsoft?

Hmmm, possibly but doubt it.

 

[ShogunDarius]

how about making an exclusive backer Amiibo?

 

[Zalman]

Fuuuuuuuu... is that even a possibility? That would be AMAZING. our even to have some donkey kong amiibo compatibility on the wii u version... dk playable? *cries*shiiiiiiiiiiit!

This would blow my mind.

 

[Rich!]

Coolio. Somebody tweet them to make a 64-bit graphics stretch goal.

That's already a confirmed option for all versions

 

[TheSlySoul]

Seeing the budget breakdown is pretty interesting to see how it breaks down.
20% of all money has to be put in taxes man...

 

[NotLiquid]

The game is being created by a roster of core Banjo-Kazooie team members including Chris ‘ULTRA COMBO’ Sutherland, Steve ‘I made Banjo’ Mayles and Steven ‘hide a penis in my level’ Hurst. What’s more, we’ve got legendary composers David Wise (DKC), Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and Steve Burke (Kameo) providing the tunes! What more could you possibly want, bar an amiibo? (Oops, did we say that out loud…)

Is this a full admission for-the-record that those Banjo-Kazooie, uh, "level formations" were fully intentional

 

[Sparrowhawk]

You can add money to your order for the shirt and physical soundtrack.

Ah, I see. Still sucks you have to pay extra. I guess it costs more to make physical stuff than I thought.

 

[TM94]

Don't imagine this will have gone unnoticed at MS, might get a tease of the new Banjo before E3.

 

[Chris Ticehurst]

Doesnt Star Citizen stand high at like almost 80 million?

You are correct and that's unbelievable amount of money. Yooka-Leelay will have a massive amount too.

HOWEVER - only 6.3 million of that was raised on Kickstarter and the money rolled in after the crowdfunder ended on the site.

 

[Revven]

HOLY SHIT DAVID WISE'S SONG IS AMAZING. SO GOOD.

(Yes I'm late, probably)

 

[Alienous]

The weird thing is looking at the characters I'd think the likes of Dreamworks would want to make a movie out of this sort of thing, or at least someone makes a CGI cartoon show. Granted I guess that's part of why this can be called generic, but I do imagine with the right kind of marketing this is the sort of thing that could actually blow up with kids and sell pretty well.

 

[Sectorseven]

Backed 10£, was grinning throughout the entire video.

But are they legally allowed to sell the N64 cartridges?

It sounds like it's based on tech similar to the Everdrive, which I think uses hardware that doesn't infringe on Nintendo's patents. No one has really "cracked" N64 carts to my knowledge anyway.

Wasn't the original Crash Bandicoot on a $2 mio budget? With better technology nowadays, I guess they could achieve something like that at a lower budget (then again, this does not consider inflation).

It could have been. That was also like 20 years ago. They'd probably spend that tenfold on marketing alone. There's a totally different mentally on cost at that level. If something is cheaper they''ll wonder what's wrong with it.

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

Wow I can't believe that much has funded already.

 

[rjc571]

$108 minimum for a boxed edition? Seriously?

The David Wise track is basically a remix of Wing Ding from DKC Tropical Freeze

 

[Eila]

That's already a confirmed option for all versions

Well that's all I could want from this game. Just spend the stretch goals to make it the biggest collectathlon ever, I guess.

 

[Star Falcon]

What a time to be alive

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

New screen?

Nah, it's all here: http://www.playtonicgames.com/games/yooka-laylee/

 

[OricWindstar]

I assume this David Wise sample was already posted? Assuming this is real, cause it sure does sound like his stuff.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

$108 minimum for a boxed edition? Seriously?

That's how I feel about the N64 version. I was thinking maybe $250 USD tops. :\

 

[Ryan95]

It is a perfect Vita wallpaper
I don't know if Vita could have handled it techinical-wise, but it's a shame it won't go portable (many Kickstarter projects do support handhelds, and this game would have had a great poential on a handheld console)

 

[hydruxo]

Nah, it's all here: http://www.playtonicgames.com/games/yooka-laylee/

Yeah I know but that particular screen wasn't up before until this afternoon I don't believe

 

[Regulus Tera]

Wasn't the original Crash Bandicoot on a $2 mio budget? With better technology nowadays, I guess they could achieve something like that at a lower budget (then again, this does not consider inflation).

Video games got more expensive as technology improved, not cheaper.

 

[-MD-]

I assume this David Wise sample was already posted? Assuming this is real, cause it sure does sound like his stuff.

It's real, Wise and Kirkhope both have full songs on the Kickstarter page.

 

[lt519]

"The game is being created by a roster of core Banjo-Kazooie team members including Chris ‘ULTRA COMBO’ Sutherland, Steve ‘I made Banjo’ Mayles and Steven ‘hide a penis in my level’ Hurst."

lmao

 

[BIGWORM]

That's a simple, yet awesome, play on words for the titular characters.

 

[OricWindstar]

It's real, Wise and Kirkhope both have full songs on the Kickstarter page.

Awesome! Honestly, even if the game is somehow terrible, the music will be worth the pledge for me.