isn't it 5:30 at night where you live.....if Australian is 12 hours ahead or behind
so its too late to sleep anyway
| DMeisterJ said: Banjo Kazooie is as much as a platformer as Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a realistic racer. |
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Australia has three timezones. Im on the East coast and its 2.30 am. The West coast its 12.30am.
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| JaggedSac said: I don't see how this is even a topic considering the videos that are out have not a single race in them. I guess Mario64 was racer and not a platformer since you had those races against the penguin. |
People saw a race in a preview, then a Rare rep said that 80% of the game would involve vehicles.
People put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5, saying that 80% of the game is racing.
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| starcraft said: Hey guys. I've decided to make a series of threads under the umbrella "before bedtime" to leave you Americans with something to think about before we Australian's go to sleep. Today its an excerpt from an interview with Kudo Tsunoda, General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios, from two days ago: "If you've got any hands-on time with Banjo, it's a really awesome product. " Again, Banjo's a great example. The platforming genre has been stale for a long time, and now someone's doing something really cool and creative with it." http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18907
Starcraft's thoughts: Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts will not be a traditional platformer I'm sure. As a Banjo fan myself from the N64 days, I can understand the frustration of a lot of people that wanted just a straight Banjo 1/2 repeat in high-definition. But all we know so far is that this title is being made by the same team that made the originals, and Microsoft clearly has confidence in it, or they wouldn't be hyping it. The gaming press thats played previews generally liked it. At the end of the day, the game is a platformer, but its making an effort to innovate. This innovation is risky, and it won't necessarily result in a good game. But trying to evolve the genre and allowing Banjo and Kazooie to collect parts to make vehicles which need to be customized to perform certain tasks has all the hallmarks of platforming. Will it be what platform-players are used to? Probably not. Is that a good thing? We'll see. Certainly its not automatically a bad thing. Lets not close our minds off to the possibility that Rare, especially this old-school Rare team, can do something truly incredible. We Banjo fans wont get what we wanted, but we may get something better. Goodnight from Australia. |
clearly SMG and R&C don't consider "next gen platformer"???
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| DMeisterJ said: Banjo Kazooie is as much as a platformer as MGS has in common with reality/believeable realism. |
Fixed.
Tease.
Why does everyone think this is a racing game? I've watched the trailers and I don't see any racing going on. What I do see is a pure platform game where much of the platforming involves gathering items and using those items to build cool vehicles. The vehicles themselves are part of the platforming action. If a "hero" in a platformer uses another mode of transportation in addition to his feet, does that make the game not a platformer? I see vehicles being used to navigate the world -- jump, drive, fly, but I still see pure platformer...
If there is some sort of trailer out there that shows the game to be a racing game, please post a link because I've obviously not been looking at the same ones.
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starcraft you should hype Starcraft II much more than Banjo 3 as people rarely change their opinion once made.
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| kn said: Why does everyone think this is a racing game? I've watched the trailers and I don't see any racing going on. What I do see is a pure platform game where much of the platforming involves gathering items and using those items to build cool vehicles. The vehicles themselves are part of the platforming action. If a "hero" in a platformer uses another mode of transportation in addition to his feet, does that make the game not a platformer? I see vehicles being used to navigate the world -- jump, drive, fly, but I still see pure platformer... If there is some sort of trailer out there that shows the game to be a racing game, please post a link because I've obviously not been looking at the same ones. |
Good points. Platformer does not mean, the main character gets to the various platforms that need to be gotten to in order to progress by means of his feet. Platformer is clearly defined in its title.
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