Your Top 50 Games: 2011 Discussion Thread

[milkyjoe]

RolStoppable said:

milkyjoe said:

23. Banjo-Kazooie (N64)

Some crazy types out there considered this to be the best 3D platform game of its time, ahead of Mario 64. I disagree, but that doesn't mean it's not a fantastic game. The game sees Banjo set out with Kazooie to try and save his sister Tooty from the witch Gruntilda, and they have help from Bottles and Mumbo Jumbo along the way. It made Banjo a star, as previously he'd just been a random character seemingly created only for Diddy Kong Racing, but he came in to his own with the help of Kazooie. It's yet another Rare game in my list, and there are still a couple more of them to come...

That's wrong.

Banjo-Kazooie was first demonstrated at E3 1997 and Diddy Kong Racing wasn't revealed until September or October of the same year. The same holds true for the then called Conker's Quest, so three of the ten characters big roster of DKR (Diddy, Banjo, Conker) had already or were poised to have their own games before DKR was a known project to the public.

Is that so? My apologies. I did not have the internet back then, nor did I really know what E3 was and all the information I had came from occasional magazine purchases. To my young clueless self, that's how things appeared chronologically, and as I'm writing all of these summaries based on memories, I've never seen anything to correct that assumption.