Topic: Banjo-Kazooie is back & now on XBox 360

[Aussie]

Looks like Banjo-Kazooie is back & it maybe a launch title for Xbox360

Microsoft recently registered a new website www.banjothreeie.com

For me i hope it's a launch title for Xbox360 becuase it's been over 4 years since the last Banjo-Kazooie console game that was Banjo-Tooie on N64

Banjo-Kazooie & Banjo-Tooie were very good Platformer games so i'm hopeing that this new version on XBox360 lives up to the Banjo-Kazooie name

[Bill Aurion]

A launch title?  The likelihood of that happening is...umm...ZERO...Rare still has to get Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo out first, both have which have been pushed back to the 360...

The chance of this game living up to the franchise?  *looks over at Grabbed by the Ghoulies*  .........*sigh* ;_;  

[kirby_killer_dedede]

How creative is Banjo Three-ie?  Tooie rhymed with Kazooie, I got that, but...

Anyway, seeing how Rare's been doing lately...Xbox 360 owners shouldn't be too excited, nor should any of us feel as though we're missing out.  

[Infernal Monkey]

Banjo KazooThree is a better name.
Can't wait to play this when it's finished in about five years time!

[kirby_killer_dedede]

I quite like that name actually.

If they turn my Banjo into some sort of fur-texture crazy mongoose I'm going to punch someone at Rare for not deliberately going bankrupt the second they got bought by MS.

[Ian Sane]

I think Banjo-Kazooie worked well as a companion to Super Mario 64 but as a direct competitor to Mario it won't hold up as well.  With the N64 games it was "I liked Super Mario 64, let's buy this Banjo game as well" but now it will be "I can buy a Revolution for Mario or an Xbox 360 for Banjo."  As an "either or" Banjo isn't going to stand out as well.

Still it would be a smart move by MS to have Banjo Threeie be a launch title.  Mario very likely will be a Cube launch title and with Banjo MS is "cancelling exclusives".  Now obviously Mario has a lot more selling power and serious platformer fans would pick Mario first but it would a good way to keep the casuals on the Xbox 360.  If you own a 360 and Mario catches your eye Banjo might be good enough to keep you from buying a Revolution.  Sure Mario would be better but Banjo could sufficient enough to satisfy your platformer needs and keep you from buying another console.  By providing an alternative MS can keep a few platformer fans from jumping ship (similar to what Crash Bandicoot did on the Playstation).

[KDR_11k]

In other news, Rare decide to change their name to "Common Sequel Machine".

[Savior]

Killer Instinct 3? That was promised as well

[Bill Aurion]

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In other news, Rare decide to change their name to "Common Sequel Machine".

What's sad is that Rare is still just working on games that were already "announced" for the Gamecube...

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Since when was Kameo moved to the Xbox 360?

[kennyb27]

Please, Rare, don't ruin one of my favorite adventure/platformers on the 64.  I loved those games, I even loved Banjo on the GBA (despite some flaws).

[Bill Aurion]

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Originally posted by: TheYoungerPlumber
Since when was Kameo moved to the Xbox 360?

I was just basing off assumptions, sorry...Not only have there rumours of it being pushed back, but there really isn't any timeframe for Rare to release it on the XBox with Conker coming out in June...

[nitsu niflheim]

Myself, I don't care.  I never finished the first Banjo game (did get all but 1 jiggy piece), didn't bother with the second Banjo game, and don't care about this new mythical Banjo game.  And Kameo is in development hell, just like FFXII is over at Square-Enix.  

[KDR_11k]

Perhaps they'll just cancel Kameo to concentrate more on sequels?

[nitsu niflheim]

yes, seeing how grabbed by the ghoulies was a game of the year contender, it is in desperate need of rehashing/recylcing.

I think Rare is getting back at Microsoft for their comments on them putting out 5 games a year.  Just when a game is getting close, the decide to work on it some more, and more means when Hell freezes over for the most part.

[Don'tHate742]

OH MY GOD........Saviour...Did you say they promised Killer Instinct 3?

I'd buy that in a second regardless of shoddy reviews. I played the first killer instinct on an SNES emulator day in and day out for 3 weeks......this was at school of course.

Killer Instinct Gold for 64 hit the spot...now this....I need this game.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

KI3 was probably "promised" with more than a dash of sarcasm on Scribes or something.  I really don't think Kameo will change platforms AGAIN (GC->Xbox already).  Honestly, it could be released near/after the Xbox 360 launch--MS claims it will support Xbox until 2007 (lol yeah right) but saving Kameo would be one way to back up that hollow claim.

[Galford]

What about Perfect Dark Zero???
PD was one of three reasons I bought a N64.

[Bill Aurion]

It's already been pushed back to the 360, supposedly as a launch title...

[kirby_killer_dedede]

At this point I don't give a sh!t what Rare's doing.

[KDR_11k]

I wonder if MS will buy 3DRealms.

[RABicle]

The Banjo franchise went off the rails with Tooie. Tooie was less platforming, more bullshit walking around completing mundane task. Anyway Threeie will probably never be released, hopefully.

And there have been rumours that Rare have had prototype 3D Killer Instinct games as far back as 1999. Like Banjo 3, it'll never happen. Rare are a myth.

[King of Twitch]

"We're delaying it for 360.... No not the system, we mean 360 years"


RIP Rare

[KDR_11k]

Hey, perhaps they'll give Banjo a gun and make the game darker like Jak 2 or Ratchet 4.

[vudu]

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Hey, perhaps they'll give Banjo a gun and make the game darker like Jak 2 or Ratchet 4.

You forgot to mention Shadow The Hedgehog.