It's a terrible comparison really.  The difference between gaming in the mid 80s to the mid 90s is absolutely massive.  Most games in the mid 80s you just did the same thing over and over and all the screens usually looked the same.  The difference between donkey kong and DKC is absolutey massive in 10 years time.  

Things are different these days, games aren't necessarily getting more complex, and people don't feel that all games need to become more complex.  The perfect examples is Mario 64 and Mario Galaxy, both were met with excellent reviews and both considered some of the best games of our time.  The complexity difference on these 2 games is quite minimal.  By complexity i'm talking about gameplay, Nintendo is still able to use the same formula from 11 years ago and its still fresh.  If you released a DK game in the vein of the original in 1995 and just added some new graphics, and levels it would have been seen as too simple for the time.

 You can continue to nitpick every last detail of it if you'd like because I'm sure there are even more differences between the two, like how one instance is in the 80s and 90s while the other is in the 90s and 00s. Look, my comparison fails again. In fact there's only 10 letters in Donkey Kong and 12 in Banjo Kazooie, and here my comparison fails again. I guess I couldn't create the wow-inducing mirror image side by side comparison all naysayers were hoping for to bring them back to the fold. Sorry about that.

You're all acting like this game is not within it's original genre. It's still a platformer and should be able to head into a new direction if that's where the developers' passion is taking it. I really hope every dissappointed person here is still dissappointed and not getting this come November, because i'd really hate to hear the whining over multiplayer too.

Here's my Miyamoto quote again for those that missed it the first time:

“We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.”

I swear that man has a quote for everything. 

 You mean like?

I'm fairly certain Nintendo has never suggested any of these were meant to be continuations of the Rare made Donkey Kong Platformers, probably why none of them have the word "Country" in the title which was used originally to different them from Rare's creation from the orginal Donkey Kong, which was really already continued in the form of the Mario Bros series. Yet I've seen people express disappointment with Nintendo for not attempting to continue their legacy and upset they simply reuse the same characters in different projects.

I think it's funny some people want act a lot of other people are disappointed by this because of some sort of console fanboy agenda. It it really hard to imagine that fans of a certain game after being strung along for such a long period of time about the series possible revival find the end product may be fundamentally different than series they originally fell in love with to be upsetting?

Sure a lot of them may be overreacting and not seeing the potential in this new title. But they didn't know it was going to be a new title, they thought it was going to be the next step in the same series. I can't help think this wouldn't have happened if Rare and just said the title a good while back. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts lets you know it's something different.

mario fans have their revenge, over the exploding mario in BK

The point was it had been 10 years since a classic Banjo platformer... and rare led people to believe they were going to have another banjo platformer just like the others with a few tweaks... for like over a year now it seems.

Now they reveal a traielr that's 98% vehciles, and people find it amazing that people who liked the old games who haven't played a Banjo Platformer in years are upset.

I'd be upset too if I didn't think the first to Banjo games sucked.

I think the defenders are missing the point. It's not that this is going to be a bad game, it's not that a twisted metal/GTA/mariokart game is a bad idea or a bad thing. It's that after anticipating a new Banjo-Kazooie game for so long, after looking back and remember why it was a great franchise to begin with, they did this. You could take Banjo out of this and lose nothing, it's not a Banjo-kazooie game.

That is the key line here. This is not a Banjo-Kazooie game. This is a completely different game that they just happen to slap Banjo's face on because they had him somewhere in the stock room in the basement and needed a character to put on their new kart combat game. People wanted a new Banjo-kazooie game, instead they got a new game that has banjo-kazooie in it.

lol, if this was on the wii, they would stop their bitching.

I could care less what it's on, I was going to get it regardless. Some things aren't political, they're just bad.

That's an odd assumption ... Someone doesn't remember the reaction The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker received when it was first announced.

If you've got something worthwhile to add, please do.

But re-read the thread. How many complaints were about it being on 360 and not on PS3 or Wii? We're complaining about the game, not what system it's on. If you can't handle that, you need to sit in the corner.