Any excited for this? I know after the podcast we did on the bear and bird duo, there was a lot of love for the first game, mostly.
Playtonic is a group of ex-Rare employee's who have retained that spirit from the golden era of Rare. I'm excited for it, naturally, but i'm also concerned that they're leaning to heavily into their past work and has the potential to bog PU down.
I was a hardcore Rare fan back in the day and really miss this kind of game. The likes of Ratchet & Clank never seemed appealing for whatever reason, and I find all the more recent Mario platformers a little asinine, lacking in that aspect of challenge and exploration - really immersing yourself in that other world that something like BK offered. The closest modern equivalent I suppose would be the Lego games, but again I find them bland and tedious in the extreme. I always liked those kind of hubworld-based 'collectathons', and was saddened by all the backlash against them that all but killed the genre. Collecting stuff is fun - it's only when it's taken too far (DK64/Banjo Tooie) that it becomes tedious. The original BK got the balance just right imo.
So long as it's coming to a platform I own I'll be throwing money at the Kickstarter.
I never managed to get into the BK games, I tried but they never appealed - I guess there were other titles coming out at the time of the original two that just appealed to me more as who I was at that point in time. Naturally, my reaction to this announcement is pretty much "meh" but given the lack of solid 3D platformers nowadays I wonder if Project Ukulele stands more of a chance of hooking me?
I've been playing through Banjo Kazooie again lately and enjoying it a ridiculous amount. I've never backed a game on kickstarter but I'll definitely be jumping on this one
It's a good job it's hit fully funded immediately and headed for stretch goals, £175,000 is nowhere near what you'd need to actually make a game like this...
For that money you'd get maybe 3 people at my experience level for a year. And they'd have to work at home
