7.9 is what most games get nowadays. Only greatly masterpieces avergae 85+ and Banjo is damn close to that.

Or Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy.

I prefer to play the N64 Banjo so much better imo.

Well I own it and have played it plenty.  It has a lot of issues.  Starting out the game has extremely loose and furstrating controls.  It's not particularly fun until you've unlocked a lot of the late-game vehicle parts.  It's also incredibly repetitive, and has no platforming whatsoever outside of the limited exploration in showdown town.  The physics are glitchy, and you can get vehicles stuck on damn near anything in the world, including the enemies.

Banjo is not a great game.  It's a reasonably good, but very flawed, game.  79 is about right.

PS: This game was not hyped but it sure as hell cost Microsoft a lot of money.  It's been in development more than 3 years, and because of their new policies on "casual" game pricing it had to launch at $40, which means it will probably never even remotely see a return on the financial investment.  Then again, these days Microsoft is so uncaring on how they blow their cash and how little effect it has on their console sales that this is just a drop of loss in a very large pond.

Microsoft payed a lot of money for a game's development yet they didn't even hype it?  Way to go, Microsoft, for spending money like you are rich people.

yea more like 29.99 though..im sticking with wii for platformers right now

First and foremost, notice I only "attacked" people who haven't played it yet critisized it like everyone is doing. The other people I critisized had a PSN in their sig with no 360 games owned, and are fooling themselves if they think the game was hyped. The only intelligent response to me came from Nazna, which I will respond to in a bit.

Did you ever read the reviews? The majority of negativity come from the fact that Rare uses vehicles. Most review sites have a strong bias, and it CLEARLY shows. It goes to show that, if there were no traditional-platform bias, this game would be rated around 85-90 pretty easily on Metacritic. If it had been Banjo-Threeie, you can bet your asses multiple 9.5's would've been thrown out. But enough of that.

You don't realize there's a big difference between you and everyone else bashing sales. Everyone else mentioned "hype," while you're comparing it to previous installments. That just goes to show that you're really not seeing why people are bashing those mentioning the word "hype." Your argument is very credible, theirs isn't. The OP DID say a very absurd thing. This game was the OPPOSITE of hyped; people were running away from it before it even launched because of the mention of vehicles. All you saw was massive negativity, so much so that Rare had to address it with conferences and statements to try and secure it's previous fans. Judging from the way you constantly mention "previous installments" (even in other topics), I'm guessing you're one of those upset traditional fans.

You talk about "great legs or whatever" as if it's nothing. Look at Viva Pinata, the legs is what carried it to 1.70m so far. Did you SEE those first month sales? And that's counting Japan! They were HORRIBLE for one of the most underrated games of this gen. But, as you can see, legs can make you travel a long way. Hence the term "legs." Now look at Banjo's sales, without even counting Japan. This game releases in Japan on the 11th, so counting that and the rest of the holiday, this will be an easy 400-500k seller by the end of December. And being that it is Banjo, just imagine the legs. EASY million seller. What will you say then? You're right, sure it doesn't compare to the sales of the original in '98, but for other people to mention the word "hyped," it's a pretty sad thing.