Banjo-Kazooie Spiritual Successor

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So it was just announce that a group called Playtonic Games will be creating a new, spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie franchise. If you don't know what Banjo-Kazooie is, you're missing out. It was a series of 3d platformer games like Mario and Donkey Kong 64. It was created by Rare during their Golden Age of gaming where they released hit after hit with games like Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, and Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Rare was bought out by Microsoft in the early 2000s and they took the rights of Banjo and Conker with them. Thankfully Nintendo got Donkey Kong and Star Fox before it happen. Now unfortunately Rare is not the same company nor is it done by the same people as before. Now they're reduced to making Kinect Sports.

This is where Playtonic comes in. They're a new indie company composed of many veterans that worked on the DKC and Banjo-Kazooie franchises. I'm personally excited for this because these are easily the only people that know the charm of that the early Rare games had that many have wanted to capture. You can just read the descriptions on the website itself to get an idea of their sense of humor and man I'm so pumped to see this game released.

There's really no other place to put this but they mentioned they could easily transfer this one the Wii U if they get a chance to work with Nintendo.
 
You forgot to mention Diddy Kong Racing! Still remains one of my most favorite N64 games to date. I love how the entire game was set up.

Anyway, this makes me really excited! I've always wanted another Banjo-Kazooie game, and I had always wondered what happened to Rare, but I suppose I just never looked it up. This is really awesome news.
 
http://www.playtonicgames.com/index.html


Rare was bought out by Microsoft in the early 2000s and they took the rights of Banjo and Conker with them. Thankfully Nintendo got Donkey Kong and Star Fox before it happen. Now unfortunately Rare is not the same company nor is it done by the same people as before. Now they're reduced to making Kinect Sports.
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Nintendo already own the rights to Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong was made by Mr. Miyamoto himself back in the early 1980's. RARE had nothing to do with Donkey Kong. Nintendo has let RARE make Donkey Kong games for them. Microsoft couldn't take DK if they wanted to, without having to go to court, after Nintendo sued them for copyright infringement, and taking over 680 Billion dollars from Microsoft, if that happened. look at the Playstation name. When Nintendo & Sony were going to design a CD add on for the SNES, Nintendo licensed the name Play Station with a space. Nintendo has left Sony to try to make a CD add on with Philps, Philps had a console called the CD-i. Nintendo has licensed 3 Zelda games a 2 Mario games. The 1 Mario game, AKA Hotel Mario was a puzzle game. the 2 Mario game was never released. But you can get your hands on the prototype. Nintendo didn't partner with Philps either. They knew that CD technology wasn't quite there yet. anyways Sony went and made their own console. Called the Playstation. Nintendo sued Sony and won for over 600 Billion dollars for the copyrighted name. Nintendo had let Sony pay it off in installments. But if Sony had to pay off all at ounce. the Sony Company would have been bankrupt. And there wouldn't be a playstation console today. Which would of mean that Sega wouldn't went 3rd Party. You would of never See Mario & Sonic in one game or Sonic on a Nintendo console.
 
Donkey Kong and Star fox are two franchises Nintendo actually owned. Rare developed the DKC games, Star Fox Adventures, and DK64, before the horrid buyout by Microsoft. Blows that we are still never going to see Conker or any of the Rare franchises become resurrected, but Banjo-Kazooie's new child will be just what Mighty No.9 is to Mega Man: A new prodigy that will carry on it's parent's legacy in a new shell.

Personally, I think Rare should have never bought out Rare, or Rare should have sold their IPs to Nintendo behind Microsoft's back, since they are only limited to developing on the life-sucking vampire that is called the Kinect, or as I call it: the Microsoft Diskinect.
 
Donkey Kong and Star fox are two franchises Nintendo actually owned. Rare developed the DKC games, Star Fox Adventures, and DK64, before the horrid buyout by Microsoft. Blows that we are still never going to see Conker or any of the Rare franchises become resurrected, but Banjo-Kazooie's new child will be just what Mighty No.9 is to Mega Man: A new prodigy that will carry on it's parent's legacy in a new shell.

Personally, I think Rare should have never bought out Rare, or Rare should have sold their IPs to Nintendo behind Microsoft's back, since they are only limited to developing on the life-sucking vampire that is called the Kinect, or as I call it: the Microsoft Diskinect.
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1.) All of Rare's talent left before the acquisition, so it's not Microsoft's fault that Rare games suck, it's the fact that all the devs who made them happen left and were replaced.
2.) Microsoft doesn't really control the devs too much, unless they start under performing and making games no one likes (nuts and bolts), in which case they make them make games that no one else wants to make, in this case Kinect games
 
Yep, my bad. I meant to say Rare worked on their games(which they did in the Super Nintendo/N64 era). But despite all of that, we got a freaking Banjo Kazooie successor! I'm honestly surprise there's not much uproar here but maybe that's because the peak of Rareware was so long ago.
 
Although BK was never my favorite out of the 3D platformers , I'm looking forward to this new game. I'm dying to know what the main characters look like and the wait is killing me. The team so far seems soild and I have complete faith in them.
 
I miss Conker on Nintendo, his game was pretty LOL! I want to see something new about him.
 
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