Topic: Yooka-Laylee

Seems like this will only appeal to past Banjo fans. I can see why newer gamers just don't get the appeal but this is still high on my list.

I am not sure that is accurate. I do not see anywhere that it says any other developer worked on the games other than Playtonic.

Ok I found that Team 17 (publisher) is helping to port the game over to the PS4 and XB1. So it seems both teams are working on it.

I just wanna play it because I never experienced the Banjo games. lol
But yeah, camera may be my main problem here...I hate it when the camera betrays you. Happens to me way too much in Monster Hunter. lol

@Tsurii I mean, there's still a difference between Mario 64 and DK64... From what I've read so far, the combat isn't great. Controls and physics aren't great either, and the camera also seems to be from a 90's game, in the bad way. All in all, seems to be kinda average to decent. Not the improvement on the genre people hoped the game to be. That's fair though, you'd think that the developers would release some of the issues with the 90s 3D platformers and fix them. Turns out, that didn't happen.

@Joeynator3000 Well, the game's only ported by a third party. That shouldn't affect the game though.

This is actually a great review. You guys should listen all the way to the end.

Yeah I listened, it's also where I asked about the other versions and got a reply about a 3rd party porting some of the versions.

@Tsurii They did say they were working on the Wii U version but literally have said nothing about who's working on the Switch version.

This maybe a blessing in disguise and give the Switch version the time it needs to be the most polished version.

@Joeynator3000 I think they're team 17 that did the ports but the problem is the pc version is also getting bad ratings as well if not worse so far.

I think PC games will have issues regardless, depends on the PC. Hopefully the Switch version will be ok.

@Tsurii Fair enough. Though when I play anything on the N64, it's always with rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. Most of the games haven't aged particularly well. Therefore, I can completely understand why a game that is exactly like those 90s collecthatons would be kinda disappointing today. If Banjo-Kazooie release today (with updated visuals), I doubt it would get high reviews either. I still think that Playtonic shouldn't have ignored the past 20 years of gaming, they could've learned from more recent games and improved on the genre rather than making something that is an exact copy of a 90s platformer. Look at other retro-inspired indie games today. Yes, they're inspired by NES, SNES and N64 games, but they're often also improvements over a lot of those games. Were they released back then, they would be the best games available at the time. Though, I agree with on the folks pretending that everything below an 80 isn't worth paying attention to. That's definitely not true. However, with all the highly rated games released so far this year, I can also understand why people would skip this game in favour of something else.

@Joeynator3000 @DarthNocturnal Please. The reviewers playing this on PC aren't playing this on an outdated PC from 2005. You can bet that the PC-focused sites have at least above average gaming rigs, if not a pretty expensive set-up. I don't think the performance issues on the PC version can be attributed to outdated PC specs.

I didn't say anything like that, just saying the games on PC will have issues regardless. I have a gaming PC and some of the games I have tend to lag sometimes.

@Joeynator3000 And porting/optimization issues don't deserve to be called out?

I'm still intrigued for the Switch version, so I'll reserve judgement for now. The criticisms don't worry me too much (it's faithful). But disappointed if it doesn't seem to have that special spark of magic either.

Games are built on a PC first then ported to the console. You would think the PC versions of games would always be the best. But that never tends to happen.

The game sounds and feels just like a Banjo Kazooie game. The music is so spot on!

It's a shame the game has been getting mixed scores. There is no excusing the technical issues, but some complaints I see are strange considering the game is really meant to be an emulation of mascot platformers from the 90's. It sometimes seemed like some reviewers were upset that it did exactly what it was supposed to do, be a platformer that feels like it would fit in back then. But oh well. I'm more bummed about the music apparently not being as catchy as the past games.

@Operative2-0 I don't know. I love a 3D platformer any day, but I've always said that I wasn't feeling Yooka-Laylee. It looked empty in the trailers and a bit boring, and it's missing that thing the other N64 platformer did have, whatever that was. If you add the poor performance, the bad camera and just some bad game design choices overall, I can understand why people didn't like this game as much.

It currently sits at around 70 on Metacritic. That's still acceptable, right? Why are people pretending the reviews are the biggest insult to the gaming community since the release of Superman 64?

@Octane don't look at me. I don't know why people put so much importance on reviews. Especially for a kickstarter game.

@Operative2-0 That second part wasn't a direct reply to you, more a general comment to the reactions I've seen in the comment section on the front page.

I'm just going with GameXplain's review, the game really is just Banjo and Kazooie, just...without Banjo or Kazooie. Which is all I want since I never truly experienced those games back then. As for framerate and camera controls, really depends on how bad it is....if it's like Breath of the Wild with framerate, then it won't bother me much. But according to the video, unless it was the video itself, it seemed like the game froze completely for a few. And that was XBoxOne.

@Tsurii It's more the reactions I see. Remember when someone gave BOTW a 7/10 and people reacted as if they committed a horrible crime instead? I don't understand the defensive behaviour. Is it because people looked forward to this game? Is it because this is going to be an inevitable Switch game, and we're not allowed to criticise Switch games? I don't understand it. I've read the reviews, and I've seen the issues in gameplay videos, so the reviews are perfectly acceptable (still a little high if you ask me)!

I think the sales are a different issue altogether. Bayonetta never got the marketing it needed, and I think that it's going to be a tough sell regardless. The tone of the game is something you either like or you don't. Not sure if Mass Effect got a huge marketing push, though I've also heard that it the early sales were less compared to the previous entries. From what I've seen and heard, it's definitely one big unpolished mess, so I have no idea why it still retained the top position in the UK charts during its second week...