So, we received Banjo Kazooie, the classic platformer/adventure game from the N64 era, on XBL a little while ago.
I was very very pleased with my purchase, and although I might have the ROM and N64 game sitting around here somewhere I was all abuzz to learn that Banjo Tooie is being released on April 29.
It will be improved with-
-Stop 'n Swap functionality
-Enhanced frame rate
-No reference to Nintendo whatsoever (maybe not an enhancement :()
Anyway, who is looking forward to the release of this great game?
Quote from: Sinbad on April 23, 2009, 04:26:16 PM
-No reference to Nintendo whatsoever (maybe not an enhancement :()
Though they have to do it, or Nintendo may sue. Banjo Kazooie was one of the only games where it was owned by Nintendo,
probably planed to stay with Nintendo forever (originally), and moved to a new system with no hope for any return. I actually doubt Banjo Kazooie and Tooie will be available for download on the Wii (or has it already? I wouldn't know).
Quote from: JrDude ♪ on April 23, 2009, 04:50:42 PM
Quote from: Sinbad on April 23, 2009, 04:26:16 PM
-No reference to Nintendo whatsoever (maybe not an enhancement :()
Though they have to do it, or Nintendo may sue. Banjo Kazooie was one of the only games where it was owned by Nintendo, probably planed to stay with Nintendo forever (originally), and moved to a new system with no hope for any return. I actually doubt Banjo Kazooie and Tooie will be available for download on the Wii (or has it already? I wouldn't know).
I believe that Rare had more stake in it than Nintendo (if not all of the ownership) and once Rare was taken by Microsoft Rare let them do what they wanted with Banjo and pals.
Or Nintendo sold the rights to Microsoft, knowing that Rare would probably not allow them to port it to the VC (if they even wanted to).
Goldeneye I believe is still owned partially by Nintendo, or we would have seen it quite a while ago.
Nintendo maintained a good share of Rare, but not all of it. It was Second Party. Which meant all of their brands were their own, with the exception of characters made for Nintendo brands. ie. Diddy, Tricky, etc
It's a shame that they are taking out Nintendo references, and changing it up. It really is a part of Nintendo history...it needs to stay D:
Quote from: Macbeth on April 23, 2009, 04:58:38 PM
Nintendo maintained a good share of Rare, but not all of it. It was Second Party. Which meant all of their brands were their own, with the exception of characters made for Nintendo brands. ie. Diddy, Tricky, etc
It's a shame that they are taking out Nintendo references, and changing it up. It really is a part of Nintendo history...it needs to stay D:
All I could see changed in the first was that the opening featured a Microsoft logo...
But as long as I can play it... I'm willing to look the other way.
I know they didn't own all of it. I wasn't thinking much in that post.
Anyway, I think Banjo Kazooie should have stayed with Nintendo, but that's just me, I mean, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts could have easily been new characters and not Banjo and buds.
Quote from: JrDude ♪ on April 23, 2009, 05:06:16 PM
I know they didn't own all of it. I wasn't thinking much in that post.
Anyway, I think Banjo Kazooie should have stayed with Nintendo, but that's just me, I mean, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts could have easily been new characters and not Banjo and buds.
I want a Banjo 4, that goes back to the way it was before. :(
Quote from: Sinbad on April 23, 2009, 05:07:09 PM
Quote from: JrDude ♪ on April 23, 2009, 05:06:16 PM
I know they didn't own all of it. I wasn't thinking much in that post.
Anyway, I think Banjo Kazooie should have stayed with Nintendo, but that's just me, I mean, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts could have easily been new characters and not Banjo and buds.
I want a Banjo 4, that goes back to the way it was before. :(
Write a letter to Rare and they'll throw it away for you. It will likely never happen.
Red rings of death.
Fucking fantastic
Quote from: Sinbad on April 27, 2009, 04:49:57 PM
Red rings of death.
Fucking fantastic
ooooh that sucks. :(
I still need to buy kazooie.
*goes to buy 28000 points card*
Someone intercourse ing kill me.
I just downloaded it. I'm so glad they improved the frame rate. I always thought my copy of the game was broken when I first played it.
The Donkey Kong doll is still in it.
Quote from: Cornwad on April 29, 2009, 06:50:25 PM
I just downloaded it. I'm so glad they improved the frame rate. I always thought my copy of the game was broken when I first played it.
The Donkey Kong doll is still in it.
Back then, DK was still Rare, Nintendo can't change the past, so neither did Rare apparently.
Also, RRoD is the reason XBox 360 sucks.
On the file select screen, the thing you click for minigames is obviously a Nintendo64, is it not?
Quote from: JrDude ♪ on April 29, 2009, 11:10:41 PM
Back then, DK was still Rare, Nintendo can't change the past, so neither did Rare apparently.
Also, RRoD is the reason XBox 360 sucks.
RRoD is covered for 3 years. I'm more worried about it eating discs.
Quote from: PsychoYoshi on May 04, 2009, 10:46:00 AM
RRoD is covered for 3 years. I'm more worried about it eating discs.
Even now, Recently made 360's have like a 80-90% chance of not getting the RroD.
What're you talking about? Xbox 360 has a 100% fail rate.
That's why it's covered for so long.
Quote from: Riddler_Rob on May 09, 2009, 10:30:44 AM
What're you talking about? Xbox 360 has a 100% fail rate.
That's why it's covered for so long.
lol I still have mine from launch. Hasn't failed once. The only problem I have with it is that new games have a hard time getting read, it takes a while.
Also, the RROD thing isn't covered for long. A friend of mine got the RROD about a month or so ago and they wouldn't repair it for free. Warranty wasn't respected. He ended up just getting a new one, and apparently it loads games faster and is far more quiet.