I dunno people here are thinking he's referring to N&B. Perhaps they aren't aware the Banjo N64 games are on XBLA.

Did you guys even play N&B? Its a genuinely good game that was released at a budget price. You guys seem to be under the illusion the franchise was raped with bad games.

To put it simply, nostalgia. The 360 version feels modernized and it just doesn't feel right to me. It's the same thing with Goldeneye 64 vs Goldeneye reloaded. The new version might be technically better, but they made it feel like any other modern shooter. The new versions failed to captivate any sort of fond memories of playing the older versions.

I also hate what they did with the Conker's bad fur day remake. They butchered it with all the censoring. I mean, they removed the great mighty poo song! What the hell!

Yeah, I can see where you are coming from in regards to Conker. They even completely messed up his and every other character's (particularly the squirrels') appearances.

Not to mention the removal of the original's awesome multiplayer options...

They removed the multiplayer too? I didn't even bother touching the game after hearing about the censoring...

I don't know what the hell he is talking about because i had Conker live & reloaded on Xbox and i played multiplayer

i didn't know that they censored a bunch of stuff compared to the n64 version..

the game still looked good though

and that is why i think the Masterminds at Rare left

Nintendo didn't do the greatest when Rare was with them on N64 and Gamecube. They probably thought that Ninty was going under at that point and felt like MS was the better company to go with at the time. Could you imagine how everybody at Rare must have felt when they seen how the Wii exploded after they left Nintendo for MS?

they jumped off a sinking ship a couple seconds before it turned into an airship and flew passed the other ships that were still in the water

that's life

Nintendo owned 49% of the company.  The Stamper brothers wanted to sell the remaining stake to Nintendo, but Ninendo did not want it.  So they looked for another buyer, and Microsoft ended up taking it.