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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Human Snorenado on January 13, 2015, 11:58:15 PM

Title: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 13, 2015, 11:58:15 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/12/7532341/microsoft-says-there-are-plans-for-rare-classics-like-banjo-kazooie

Rare = :paul
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 14, 2015, 12:03:29 AM
 :zzz
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Positive Touch on January 14, 2015, 12:07:12 AM
JUST DIE ALREADY
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 14, 2015, 01:52:32 AM
But all the furries are playing their cell phones now.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: bork on January 14, 2015, 09:08:48 AM
Quote from: Death Ghidorah on January 14, 2015, 12:55:33 AM
Can't wait till people shit on the new games while not realizing the old games sucked about as much, again.

Rare made some great games in the 8-bit days.  They went to shit after Nintendo took over.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on January 14, 2015, 10:02:11 AM
RC Pro Am, oh yeah.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Positive Touch on January 14, 2015, 10:15:31 AM
looking forward to the skyrim-knockoff wizards and warriors revival
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 14, 2015, 10:40:21 AM
Quote from: Big Jumbo on January 14, 2015, 10:15:31 AM
looking forward to the skyrim-knockoff wizards and warriors revival

Kinect exclusive, of course.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: cool breeze on January 14, 2015, 10:52:14 AM
zero chance for a nuts and bolts 2, right? so many people whined about that game and it didn't sell or review particularly well.  but it's probably the best xbox 360 game and can really benefit from better hardware. 
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 14, 2015, 11:17:43 AM
nuts and bolts was shockingly underrated
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 15, 2015, 06:24:59 PM
GIVE ME ANOTHER NUTS AND BOLTS GODDAMIT

DO IT

PLEASE
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 15, 2015, 06:27:44 PM
Perfect Dark Zero was so bad I gag internally every time Rare is mentioned. 
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: a slime appears on January 15, 2015, 09:07:02 PM
Quote from: BrandNew on January 14, 2015, 11:17:43 AM
nuts and bolts was shockingly underrated

If it wasn't a Banjo game it would have been celebrated as unique and a return to form for Rare. It was genuinely a cool idea and a middling execution that was torpedoed by it's adherence to the brand.

Unfortunately Publishers, especially those with poor management, do idiot math and just point to using a known IP to embolden any unique game idea because they are risk averse. I know it was Rare's game direction from the start but someone, somewhere should have had the common sense to break it out into it's own thing. A lot of new IP from established studios happen because they were tinkering with an idea that was just a little too out there for the brand but showed a lot of promise. And more often than not those turn into their own franchises.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: Steve Youngblood on January 15, 2015, 09:35:03 PM
Make a new Blast Corps game that doesn't suck and I promise I'll buy an Xbox One.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: MCD on January 15, 2015, 10:19:28 PM
it's pretty much banjo 3. battletoads is semi-confirmed as well.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: chronovore on January 16, 2015, 09:11:41 AM
Nuts and Bolts should have been a death dealing embarrassment to travellers tales' Lego games.

I also loved Viva Piņata, but don't care about anything else in their oeuvre.
Title: Re: News: Rare to revive Banjo, other franchises (other news: Rare is still a thing)
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 16, 2015, 01:15:30 PM
The bright side of there being 0 chance of a Nuts & Bolts sequel is that I won't have to rethink not going with XBONE