As you might have heard, Rare sprung something of a massive leak yesterday with regards to Banjo-Threeie. At first it was a trickle, with two screenshots dribbling out onto the Internet, but now a veritable torrent of bear-themed imagery has threatened to drown us all. Now, with screenshots invariably come judgment, and gamers have been quick to draw their own conclusions as to what Banjo-Threeie will be about. According to Rare, however, the armchair analysts are dead wrong.
Rare's George Kelion has told Destructoid that the rampant speculation concerning Banjo barely comes close to what the game is actually about. "We'd rather people not jump to conclusions," states Kelion. "Wait until tomorrow because you've not seen the half of it, and we have much more to tell you than what you've seen."
Thus far, people have assumed that Rare's bright and colorful platformer will be a Kart-style racing affair or a waggle-based Wii game rip-off. A few bitter and twisted souls have gone as far as to denounce the game as rubbish already, based only on screens. These people are more or less retarded.
Nevertheless, what is seen cannot be unseen, so here is the overflowing bucket of Banjo-Threeie screenshots for your disgusting viewing delight. Enjoy, they have more than three colors in them!
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6:12 AM on 05.12.2008
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I'm a tad worried about this. On the one hand it looks beautiful, and has such a legacy behind it that it is going to probably be very good fun. On the other hand, there're only two screenshots that make the game look like a platformer... I was hoping to dismiss the vehicles as extras on top of the core gameplay, but that Grunty thing just raises more questions.
The thing is, it doesn't look like the levels are designed for racing, baybe fighting, but not racing. At the same time they look a teeny bit sparse for a platformer...
Fingers crossed on this one is all I can say.
Also God fucking damn, D-toid's even uglier and stupider looking today than it was yesterday.
No?
Oh well...
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.
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.
a)It's freakin' Banjo
b)Just look! AWESOME!
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.
Oh good lord, is that going to be the game's name? :S
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's at least more sensible than the Sony Defense Force morons posting pictures of Uncharted and saying "lol dis sux ratchet n clank r bettar."
iiiiinteresting...
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. @_@