It looks like a solid game by reviews, good that banjo made some kind of return.

So why are people so determined to have gaming genres be so strictly defined?

Many games tend to be a little of this and a little of that. If anything, more games are turning into what we could possibly term as HYBRIDS.

And that's what this game is. A platformer hybrid.

Sorry to come in here and try to break up your arguing with a fair compromise ...

LBP is so far from being just a tech demo it's not even funny.  What you get with LBP is a single player game and a community of levels, some of which are so amazing the work involved must have taken forever.  You get access to a never ending supply of new and inventive levels from people who are just making them just for the joy of trying to see what they can do.  Tetris, Gradius, there have been some great games made through this level editor.  I would put the levels on the disc of LBP up against any platformer I have ever played.  And some of the user created stuff comes close to that greatness as well.  

I understand you don't like hearing someone badmouth BK, that's all well and good, but you are dead wrong on the value of LBP.

I was with you up until the bolded part: either you've played very few platformers or your just juicing up your post with added hyperbole to help ram your point home, but I'm going to have to call foul on that comment.

I think the best way to describe LBP is the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (cliched, sure, but also mostly accurate).

I was with you up until the bolded part: either you've played very few platformers or your just juicing up your post with added hyperbole to help ram your point home, but I'm going to have to call foul on that comment.

I think the best way to describe LBP is the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (cliched, sure, but also mostly accurate).

And GTA4 will stay above LBP's metacritic thus ensuring it always will be considered the better game, because there standards by which to judge the value of things and all that.

So what?

Again you are implicitly putting up LBP against B&K when they have no relation whatsoever beyond being games for the general audience.

Either you stablish that LBP and B&K are similar enough projects that comparing them is valid or you are doing apples and oranges just because it fits you and your agenda.

I just think Banjo fans will be disappointed since it isn't the game they know and fell in love with. It's like Jay Z releasing a Opera Album or the late Pavarotti making a hip hop Album. Sure it may be decent, but the fans buy from a certain artist or a certain brand because of what it offers.

From Banjo games, they expect something which is a AAA platformer like Jak and Daxter, Mario and Donkey Kong; they want a sequel because they crave more platforming, not because they want a "build a go kart and drive around" type of platformer.

The game may not be as bad as it is made out to be, just disappointing for not being what everyone wanted it to be and what it is known to be.

Demographics.

Whatever the old platforming banjo's fans there were, they mostly moved onto nintendo because that's where the biggest platformer always releases (ofc, talking about mario).