Rare: 'Don't judge Banjo-Threeie on screenshots alone'

Wasn't this game initially announced to be a 360/PC title? The PC could use more cart racers. ;)

Also God fucking damn, D-toid's even uglier and stupider looking today than it was yesterday.

I think it will be a video game of some kind.

Calm down Jetset, the dtoid design is a work in progress :D

As for Banjo, looks really really nice, I'm thinking it's going to be something of an open world game, with parts blocked off until you can build the certain vehicles. As long as the platforming/collecting elements are still there, I'll buy it.

I must be one of the only ones who don't like the new art style.
This is coming from someone who loved the hell outta the first two games.
Don't like the vehicle aspect either.
Not going to dismiss it totally yet, but still doesn't scream "awesome Banjo revival" like I had hoped.

I've never played a Banjo-Kazooie game, but the look of these screenshots interests me to say the least. I'm gonna keep my eyes open for this one.

I honestly can't see why people would think this was rubbish:

a)It's freakin' Banjo
b)Just look! AWESOME!

How about I judge the game on past series performance and recent Rare quality and denounce it as crap based on that?

I didn't like the previous titles in the series. They were collect-a-thons with annoyingly stupid presentation and humour. I like British comedy, but Rare, and Banjo, just aren't that funny. Or fun.

I think the really crazy thing about these screenshots is that they have me interested in platformers that don't have the word "Mario" in the title.
Seriously, all the great platformers of yesteryear have either ceased to be or changed the core focus of the franchise so greatly that it would be unrecognizable as a game in the genre: Rachet is effectivly a 3rd person shooter with jumping(albeit a fun game!), Jak went for guns and shooting before being scrapped by Naughty Dog, Rayman has abandoned his awesome platformer roots for minigame tomfoolery(despite where Michel Ancel wants to take the franchise) and Sonic is BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA( I almost called the modern Sonic games platformers. That's pretty funny).
Back in the days of the N64, Rare was easily one of the best developers on the console(second only to Nintendo's first party efforts). They took the whole "collection-fest" design of platforming as far as it could go, and then(realizing that collection heavy gameplay put people off) removed all of it in the Context Sensitive Conker:Bad Fur Day.
There is no other studio I'm more excited to see return to their platform roots than Rare, and I'm anxious to see where this goes! I love the company's dedication to vibrant colors on a console full of war torn FPS's!

It doesn't look NEARLY as good as Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction. That's too bad.

looks like they're stuck in some kind of bio-dome...

iiiiinteresting...

Oh I will judge it. AND I JUDGE IT JAWESOME

I demand pictures of the helpless Jinjos.

As someone who loved Banjo as a child, I probably won't care if it's complete shit. I'll be that werid nerd that camps over night when there's no line.

@ Droll

It's interesting you'd say all that, given that based on what we can see, this looks like a rather huge departure from the series' roots.

You must be looking at different screenshots than I am. That, or you never played the N64 games. @_@

Are you suggesting that we are supposed to play a game to judge it? I thought that Dtoid reviewed games by just looking at screenshots. Wow, I guess I was completely wrong.

Holy crap, it's so bright and colourful!

I just hope RARE doesn't get rid of the beloved Jinjos or the cool transformations.

I still think they look fantastic, if slightly too vehicle heavy. A little too much open space, but that might be the intention of that level.