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Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts is a good game
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A more powerful Xbox will do the job. It should run better on the X. I haven't gotten around to try it out yet. Might do that tonight.
When I saw that this was a touchmykatamiri thread and saw that the title wasn't in all caps, I thought he/she lost their touch. But when I read the OP, the thread was quickly redeemed. ;)
It was a great game, people didn't give it a fair chance because it was not a proper BK game but a spin-off.
Enjoyed it a lot.
MS or Rare raised some expectations with that initial reveal. Peeps thought they were getting BK3. That probably hurt the title
A reminder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWLdO9GLWM
MS or Rare raised some expectations with that initial reveal. Peeps thought they were getting BK3. That probably hurt the title
A reminder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWLdO9GLWM
YOU DON'T NEED TO YELL BUT I AGREE THE GAME IS AWESOME AND IF IT DIDN'T HAVE THE BANJO KAZOOIE NAME I'M SURE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PRETTY HIGHLY REGARDED
nuts and bolts 2 when
nuts and bolts 2 when
It is not what fans of the franchise were expecting though. No one asked for a banjo game that forced you to drive a cart everywhere. I am not sure why Rare thought the fans wanted that.
It is like creating a sequel to an FPS game only to get an adventure game instead. There is a reason why the game didn't do well.
For me as a fan, it is the only banjo game that I never completed, and never will.
The levels were also pretty darn empty right? How can anyone find enjoyment from that?
It is like creating a sequel to an FPS game only to get an adventure game instead. There is a reason why the game didn't do well.
For me as a fan, it is the only banjo game that I never completed, and never will.
The levels were also pretty darn empty right? How can anyone find enjoyment from that?
Hey OP, would you mind terribly if you turned the yelling down? It can be a bit loud and disconcerting.
Seriously though, cut the caps out.
It might be the best banjo game.
There, I said it.
I really love that game, I wish more people saw past the fact that we got it instead of banjo threeie and would just look at it as its own thing. It's such a cool game. It really forces you to be creative and presents so many ways to complete your objectives. Building crazy vehicles and playing with physics...
I wish it ran better on the Xbox One, because I'd totally replay it in Rare Replay.
There, I said it.
I really love that game, I wish more people saw past the fact that we got it instead of banjo threeie and would just look at it as its own thing. It's such a cool game. It really forces you to be creative and presents so many ways to complete your objectives. Building crazy vehicles and playing with physics...
I wish it ran better on the Xbox One, because I'd totally replay it in Rare Replay.
OP, here's a lower-case version of the original text so you don't have to re-type it:
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Thank you, I appreciate this.
Although I'm considering going full throttle with the caps until I get banned
The graphics were great, the music was astonishing.
Everything else was weak. I kept trying to get out of vehicle and explore the world, quickly to find it wasn't designed for on foot exploration and grudgingly forced to return to my driver's seat. The gameplay wasn't fun. I got lost so often. It wasn't always clear if you were going into a level with the correctly designed vehicle and having to exit just to change a few parts and hoping it was right was not fun.
Everyone I knew gave up on it after a few levels because it was dull.
Even if you like the game, it should not have used the Banjo & Kazooie license, or at least it shouldn't have been the litmus test to judge how interested people were in the series since it effectively put Banjo and friends on ice.
Everything else was weak. I kept trying to get out of vehicle and explore the world, quickly to find it wasn't designed for on foot exploration and grudgingly forced to return to my driver's seat. The gameplay wasn't fun. I got lost so often. It wasn't always clear if you were going into a level with the correctly designed vehicle and having to exit just to change a few parts and hoping it was right was not fun.
Everyone I knew gave up on it after a few levels because it was dull.
Even if you like the game, it should not have used the Banjo & Kazooie license, or at least it shouldn't have been the litmus test to judge how interested people were in the series since it effectively put Banjo and friends on ice.
It was way better than I thought, ignored it for a few years after release because of the outrage and then my brother bought a copy. I actually had a lot of fun designing vehicles to take on the different objectives, made me feel smarter than I probably am lol
The world that was designed like a bubbly plant was confusing and amazing at the same time.
The world that was designed like a bubbly plant was confusing and amazing at the same time.
It's essentially Rare's version Mario Artist: Polygon Studio, which was an open world game where you built crazy vehicles. For some baffling reason, people were suprised that the company that turned Conker's 12 Tales into Conker's Bad Fur Day would reveal a game and then scrap it entirely before turning it into the complete opposite of what they'd revealed. I've said this before, but I think a lot of Rare "fans" genuinely didn't understand Rare as a company, nor Rare's games.
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Please let me know how it goes! Oddly enough, it might be a system seller for me.
I tried it for a few minutes. It's definitely smoother in the plaza on the X. Seems to be a solid 30 fps. But there is some weird shadow being cast everywhere. Looks glitched.
It might have been a good game, but I'll always hate it for what it wasn't.
Except that it isn't a BK game. It's a lego vehicle creator featuring Banjo and Kazooie. Imagine if it turns out that TLOU 2 is a hybrid kart racer/RTS. N&B would still be more offensive to me.
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Its actually very fun. Its just not the Banjo game people wanted or expected. Now that Im not a dumb teenagers Im not mad about it and can see what it does well.
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I liked it, went in knowing exactly what it was & I wasn't too disappointed that it wasn't a proper Banjo sequel as I thoroughly enjoyed building vehicles. Your not wrong OP but the public have already decided that everything post-buyout will forever be trash
Put me on team Nuts & Bolts. Banjo-Kazooie is one of my favourite series of all time but this game is just so unique and polished in most aspects, it made my 360 purchase have no regrets. Just feels so shallow to hate the game for not being another thing.
If anyone's interested in playing it multiplayer, PM me, I'm always looking to try to host it!
If anyone's interested in playing it multiplayer, PM me, I'm always looking to try to host it!
I personally think that Rare was underrated during the 360 era. Kameo, Banjo and Viva Pinata were all good and fun games. Banjo just suffered from being different than what the market expected it to be, ie Banjo Threeie.
Nuts & Bolts is a good game but not a great one. The editor was far more complex than the challenges, so it wasn't really rewarding to create all kinds of wacky contraptions when a basic plane with wheels and grenade eggs is enough to get you through a good chunk of the game. There's also not much to do in the big empty worlds (though flying through Banjoland was a truly epic experience the first time around). It's the kind of game I could easily see being amazing if they could refine the ideas in a sequel, but the problem is that nobody wants Nuts & Bolts 2 in lieu of a traditional Banjo game.
On a side note, on the Banjo-Kazooie disc in Logbox 720 it says "Will anyone remember Nuts and Bolts in a decade? Come back in 2018 and find out". I guess we did.
Not even similar situations. Conker was barely a series at that point and it's not like there was any shortage of that type of game at the time, so it wasn't nearly as much of a shock as when they turned Banjo-Threeie into Banjo-In-Name-Only. Conker's change was also due to actual criticism of the game being too cutesy and similar to Banjo, whereas N&B was made because they (wrongly) assumed that people didn't want another traditional 3D platformer.
On a side note, on the Banjo-Kazooie disc in Logbox 720 it says "Will anyone remember Nuts and Bolts in a decade? Come back in 2018 and find out". I guess we did.
Not even similar situations. Conker was barely a series at that point and it's not like there was any shortage of that type of game at the time, so it wasn't nearly as much of a shock as when they turned Banjo-Threeie into Banjo-In-Name-Only. Conker's change was also due to actual criticism of the game being too cutesy and similar to Banjo, whereas N&B was made because they (wrongly) assumed that people didn't want another traditional 3D platformer.