Topic: Grant Kirkhope (RareWARE!) talks Nintendo, N64 stories, Banjo Threeie and Wii U

The game grumps invited Grant Kirkhope to come to their show!
Who is he? An old member of Rareware. He composed and did a lot of sounds for the N64 games including Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie and Goldeneye.
Enjoy! You will learn a few things from watching this video (like what? Well, Conker was in development way before Banjo-Kazooie. And that's not the whole story, just watch).

LOVED that episode of Guest Grumps!

I'd love for a bunch of ex-rare employees to get together and make a new studio. Hopefully some of them catch wind of this and they contact each other.

Kirkhopefully.

Eh. Ehh. Sorry.

They've done it before Free Radical, the group behind the TimeSplitters series and a game called Second Sight (and maybe other games I don't know about) was comprised of a lot of guys that left Rareware when it went to Microsoft. Of course Free Radical is no more

There's also a couple other smaller studios made up of old Rare employees.

oh man banjo makes me sad

Free Radical still exists just as a branch of Crytech.

"I keep wishing that all th ex Rare staff that's lost and about now would just get together and form a company and go with Nintendo and say give us the money, we're making Banjo 3 for the Wii U"

You and I both, Grant.

I couldn't understand half of the things Grant was saying :B
But I want him and other Rareware ex-employees to go to Nintendo and be like
"Dude. We can make Banjo-Threeie for you"
"You know we're not the owners of the Banjo-Kazooie IP, right?"
"...Let's call it Ukelele-Ocarina"