Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Comments by Rob Fahey

I saw the trailer on the Marketplace last night and this game looks fantastic. Visually it's beautiful as expected and along with Viva Pinata and Kameo, is one of the few Xbox 360 games to really go to town on the colour palette. Wow!

Banjo-Kazooie is one of my favourite games of all time so it goes without saying that I'm positively gagging to play this game, more so than any other 360 game bar Fallout 3 and Viva Pinata 2, and the news that the original N64 game is also coming to XBLA is the icing on the cake for me.

We get no Banjo-Kazooie games for years on the Xbox platform then two are due to arrive in the same year! I must be dreaming! LOL

P.S. Will we get a chance to play this E3 demo? Please... PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!

"Rare has unquestionably had a tough time of it since its acquisition by Microsoft - something which the studio addresses in Banjo in a typically self-deprecating British way, with the E3 demo level including a massive dustbin full of copies of Grabbed by the Ghoulies, its Xbox flop. Later in the level, we try to lift the dustbin, but it tips over in mid-air, spilling Xbox game cases all over the floor."

That's brilliant. I love Rare's sense of humour! LOL

Having read the article, the game sounds loads of fun and although I was initially skeptical of the change in direction for this new game, now I think it was a good idea because the gameplay will feel fresher. Also the original game is coming to XBLA (and maybe the sequel, Banjo-Tooie, at a later date?) so I can still experience some conventional platforming too.

Oooooo, can't wait. Did I tell you I was excited about this game? :D

Hmmm, still not sure about the vehicles. I hope a demo comes our way so I can try it out. No doubt at all it's a great looking game graphically though.

Hooray for fun colorful games! Epic you rock, but please take note the brown and grey are not the only colors available!

This and Fable 2 are definitely my highlights of the show. Can't wait for 'em, and for Banjo XBLA too.

This and Viva are currently top of my wanted lists for the 360.

Ok this sounds much better than I was expecting. Might have to get it now.

I love this new direction, and for once a western team is innovating with in the platforming genre.

I've not played any of the original Banjo games, having grown up as a Nintendo-hating SEGA zealot. But Nuts & Bolts is definitely near the top of my wanted games list this year.

This looks excellent. Like others, I was wary of the vehicles, but I've always had faith in Rare (hey, I even bought Ghoulies!).

Might even get the original on XBLA, too!

@Banfoi - Yeah, I'm sure many Xbox 360 owners will be playing LittleBigPlanet!!! It's on a different platform for goodness sakes!!! ;)

this is literally gonna be the nuts (pun intended)

would rather play this than Little Big Planet anyday. My PS3 is gathering dust since i finished MGS4, might have to ebay it before Sony implode

I must admit out of all the Rare game's I've played since my first, Blast Corps, on the N64, Grabbed by the Ghoulies is my least favourite even though I still own a copy. Compared with other Rare games it felt decidely rushed and ever so slight in terms of content. Visually it looked (still looks, in fact) outstanding but I never got on with the right analogue stick controls, they felt more than a bit haphazrd to me such that I never felt comfortable with them. Fortunately Conker Live & Reloaded was a return to form - I loved that game - even though it wasn't well received critically. If I recall EG panned it, something that really surprised me at the time because I thought the single player was really good fun and funny.

Can't wait for this.

I was sceptical at first, but now I'm starting to see how this could be great fun.

Yeeha!

Win. GIMME!

this looks made of pure awesomeness. can't wait!

This, Fable 2 and VP2 are def top of my most wanted, alongside LBP on PS3. At last some colour and fun is returning to the gaming scene.

Not sure about this myself. Some of it sounds wonderfully ambitious and different, but the platforming... ;_;

Banfoi - stop trolling you immature juvenile idiot.

TBH Rare has never been gone. Grabbed by the Ghoulies was, in spirit, a very similar design as a lot of old Spectrum games. I liked the design and the ideas behind it (and the graphics style). Very underrated IMHO.

Looking forward to this... at least they are trying to do stuff differently ;)

Are they banned from buying Ps3s to play LBP, which arguably is the most significant platform game to come out for some time?
As I said 'With any sense".

@banfoi

I'm not around EG as much anymore to know for sure but you sure sound like headbog/swam in disguise :)

@banfoi - After Sony's woeful E3 conference, you could argue that Xbox 360 owners would have NO sense IF they bought a PS3... and I say that as an owner of both consoles. ;)

Can't wait!

I was reading on their dev blog that one employee had made all the Star Wars ships in the vehicle creator, and they also had a screenshot of a pirate ship someone had made.

"any sense" claim in a "banfoi" aka swam/headblog in disguise post (poor one, not your fault though...).
get over it man, what doesn't make sense is your multi alias.
And appart from the fact that I have clearly "nosense", I'm not going to play LBP, because I'm affraid of the "swams" that must crowd PSN community. I have this recurring nightmare where I bought a PS3 and then I'm forced by its community to scream every 5 minutes: "wooot 360 sux"; "Banjo is poor!"; "halol! halol!"


ontopic: saw the video last night, realy good looking.

banfoi is a moron. Deep inside he knows the 360 is the best gaming console but he keeps defending the poor decision he made by purchasing the overhyped PS3. The PS3 is certaintly not a bad console but its not the best and even banfoi/swam/headbog/headgob/headglob or whatever knows that. Who knows maybe he work for Sony. If he does hes marketing skills need some serious work. Even PS3 owners hate this retard by now.

If I can combine this, spore and LBP, it might be possible to play as a penis man flying a penis plane around penis land!

GENIUS

the_dudefather - "If I can combine this, spore and LBP, it might be possible to play as a penis man flying a penis plane around penis land!

GENIUS"

It might be me but doesn't that sound incredibly gay? ;) LOL

@banfoi

Sorry, but I'd rather play a proper platformer, with proper levels and a real story. LBP looks very innovative, but just how easy is it to make anything even half as impressive as they things they keep showing off? And even so, I don't imagine trekking through user made levels is going to hold my attention for all that long.

Even with something like the Spore creature creator, where it's VERY easy to make thousands of different combinations of different monsters, is only amusing for so long. Yes, LBP looks impressive, but in my opinion, it still has a lot to prove.

Banjo on the other hand also just looks like a lot of fun to play, and mess around with. Even if LBP turns out to be the single greatest thing ever released.. I'm still going to be playing Banjo. But if you really want to get into a battle of user made content, then Spore is actually being released around the same time, and seems to be doing it better than either of them, AND has an actual game underneath all the creation aspects.

@banfoi - Sony's conference was woeful because it revealed little that was new or particularly exciting for me. Ditto for Nintendo's conference too which was equally lacklustre. In comparison the Microsoft one at least contained a few genuine surprises: FFXIII for the 360 (who expected that?), optional HDD installs, the lush looking dashboard revamp, Banjo-Kazooie for XBLA, and so on. Maybe those things don't interest you but they do me and that's why Microsoft won E3 in my eyes.

Anyway, if B-K: Nuts & Bolts doesn't interest you and/or you don't own an Xbox 360, why on earth are you posting in here? :?

@banfoi

Thats because in this case the messager is nothing but a troll with moronic, incorrect and pointless messages.

Congratulations banfoy, you tricked them all.

/just hits ignore

@banfoi - Give it a rest will you... I've explained why I wasn't impressed with Sony's conference but I don't expect you to agree with it. ;)

I never said RFOM 2 was boring either... dunno where you summoned that from... I've got the game pre-ordered but, like Gears of War 2 on the 360, I'm not itching to play it since it's just another shooter. I'm sure it'll be good and I'll enjoy it but I doubt it'll be amazing or anything? Ditto for Gears 2 for that matter... :P

P.S. RFOM 2 gameplay was not shown for the first time yesterday at all, I saw a gameplay video of the single player campaign a few weeks ago (possibly on Gamersyde or GameTrailers, I can't remember exactly).

"Only someone dead inside would not be excited about Fat Princes, Ragdoll Ninja, Siren, Ratchet and Clank Future: Bootyhunt. GT5 Prologue TV, Flower, PixelJunk Eden."

Well I must be dead inside then because out of those only Siren and the Ratchet and Clank DLC interest me and according to CVG the latter only offers four hours of gameplay so it's not exactly worth jumping up and down for joy for, is it? LOL

I own all three consoles and in my unbiased opinion as a multiformat gamer the 360 is definitely the best for games IMO. If you don't agree with that then that's your prerogative but I'm not going to change my opinion just because of what you've written. ;)

P.S. You're clearly confused about what a personal opinion is, i.e. all the things I've stated are what *I* think as in "I love the look of the new dashboard", "I'm looking forward to playing Banjo-Kazooie", etc., etc. I obviously cannot speak on behalf of everyone else!!! LOL

P.P.S. Rumours do NOT always turn out to be fact so posting a rumour from two years ago is pretty pointless. FFXII was only *CONFIRMED* as coming to the 360 for the first time at E3. ;)

Edit: grammar

Only someone dead inside would not be excited about Fat Princess, Flower, GT5 TV, another Ratchet and Clank game and Pixel Junk Eden?

Ahahaha! You're a funny fanboy, I'll give you that!

My word, banfoi is making PS3 owners look bad. And I'm apparently a rabid Sony fanboy :)

In my opinion, all 3 press conferences were quite good, although I did think MS's was the weakest.

Installs on 360? Definately NOT pointless if you want to stop the Heathrow Airport noise that happens when you play a disc-based game.

The new interface is nice, but very Windows Media Centre in appearance (in fact, it IS Media Centre) and the avatars seem like a nice, if incredibly pointless, addition.

I wasn't a big fan of Gears, but Gears 2 looks quite good. As long as they sort out the horrendous AI. But RFoM2? No thanks. The first one stood out for me cos it was set in locations I could recognise, as opposed to generic America.

I agree that FFXIII was rumoured long ago, I even remember seeing a video of someone playing it on a 360 pad, can't for the life of me remember where though.

Banjo has seriously gone up in my estimation, so coupled with LBP that's my platforming sorted. And with Animal Crossing, that's my life sorted. There was just far more content I could appreciate in both the Sony and Nintendo conferences, but MS didn't have quite as much for me to look forward to.

Oh, and @miiiguel:
Have you ever considered we all shout Halol, cos they've been sucky since the original?

the fanboi: Only someone dead inside would not be excited about... reel off list of stuff.

or maybe someone with DIFFERENT TASTES TO YOU!!! sick of this sort of bullshit. constant fucking arguing over whether one game's better than another, who's E3 conference was better. it's all down to individual taste!

congrats for derailing yet another comments thread you muppet.

Well I've used the Ignore Poster button for the first time!!! Very useful! LOL

"Ahahaha! You're a funny fanboy, I'll give you that! "

He actually is pretty funny, unintentionally though. Hes just a troll so the best thing is to ignore him though. He soon change his name when everybody has put him on ignore again so it only helps for so long.

Back on track:

One of the things that's doing it for me is the apparently huge scale of everything. I like things like that, and at first I was worried the vehicles were a pointless addition. But if they are integral, and there aren't too many racing bits, then I am definately interested.

I suppose it will be a bit like GTA for me, why bother walking when you can shoot around in a vehicle?

@seasidebaz

"My word, banfoi is making PS3 owners look bad"
True
"cos they've been sucky since the original? "
Your opinion maybe but not many others opinion. Source: salesfigures and reviews.

What did i tell you, the retarded troll has changed his name again.

blig_merk = banfoi

Hes done this many times now. Headbog,headglob, swam, blig-merk, fanboi.

Their all the same moron.

Salesfigures are meaningless.
Popularity does not equal quality.

This is true and the reason the 360 isnt selling more than the Wii. The PS3 is another story though.

"What did i tell you, the retarded troll has changed his name again.

blig_merk = fanboi "

All ignored here... I suggest you do the same. This thread is actually quite good atm.

Just hit ignore when you encounter a "Banfoi"

Seriously life is too short to debate pointless things with idiots.

On subject I really like the look of this and its nice to see something different.

@glaeken

Done!!

"If I can combine this, spore and LBP, it might be possible to play as a penis man flying a penis plane around penis land!"

I'd rather be a penis man flying a penis plane around vagina land.

But that's just me...

@Darren

Ha! I’ve just read your first few posts in this thread and they made me smile. Everyone seems to be so negative at the moment so it’s good to see someone who genuinely loves video games get excited about one.

It makes a pleasant change from all the fanboy, your games browner than my game, console bashing that goes on.

/whispers

Well I am an absolute Banjo-Kazooie "nut" so I couldn't contain my excitement over this game or the fact that the original is coming to XBLA. Just don't tell anyone, OK?