Why We Haven't Seen Banjo Kazooie Comeback...

Banjo-Kazooie coming back with a new game or as a remake seems to be something that seems obvious to everyone, and yet we still haven't seen a comeback yet. In today's video, I'm going to explain and explore the reasoning behind this, and the small glimmer of hope that might still be alive for some kind of a new banjo kazooie game.
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[@Gruntilda-Winkybunion]

I think of Banjo-Kazooie every day😢

[@eeveefennecfox]

same :'( and I get sad everytime I think about it

[@SimeJoja]

Same for Crash and spyro

[@davidthecommenter]

think kindly of that bear? you must be running low on air! what's with the change of pace, did he whack you too many times in the face?

[@themonado5030]

​@@davidthecommenterthat's just sad

[@frikyouall]

It was a phenomenon of a bunch of good talents and ideas coming together that will never happen again in this franchise. The once-great team can't even make the magic happen again today. Just be happy that it's here still, and hope they never decide to string up its corpse.

[@Magnum__Dong]

I can't believe that Yooka Laylee is getting a remaster before Banjo Kazooie.

[@dee_dee4640]

Unpopular opinion: I feel like Yooka Laylee can hold Banjo's mantle as a successor and hold on their legacy because with how shitty Microsoft has been doing recently, I don't trust Microsoft with a Banjo Kazzoie revival.

[@daniel_organero_perez5330]

@@dee_dee4640 if yooka laylee becomes a more successful series with the remake then perhaps playtonic manages to get a good reputation meaning they could in theory collab with rare and take on a new banjo game (steve mayles and gregg mayles are related so there is a chance for this collab).

[@Cebion91]

my problem with yooka was i didnt like the character design like at all. Also i think they suffer from worlds were too big for their own good. Maybe thats on me. I like to play each world and want to collect everything before moving on and by then i expanded the whole world and got overwhelmed..... im a fan of "alot but smal worlds"

[@hamstersandwich9917]

@@Cebion91 i actually really liked the character design of YL, it had the same charm as old rareware titles like DKC and Banjo. I do agree however that the world design was very much too big for its britches, even back in their hayday, rare had a tendency to go too much with their collectables and scope

[@chompythebeast]

I hope the remaster gives some incentive or otherwise forces players to experience the worlds in their non-leveled-up states. As it is, with the later worlds, you're basically incentivized to not even play the levels until they're fully upgraded

[@LightGuy142]

Craig's use of the phrase 'Kinda successful' puts insult to the whole ordeal for the bear and bird as well as the pinatas.

[@X2011racer]

Well, let's be real: None of the individual Banjo-Kazooie games have ever outsold Goldeneye, which was Rare's most successful game until Sea of Thieves.

[@Videogamenerd30]

Cant deny banjo kazooie is a very beloved franchise at the least with banjo being included in smash bros of all things. The series is a great testament to 3D platformers but rn they are only about whats profitable and that is live service sea of thieves. Buisness will be buisness

[@RaineyDaysStudio]

I didn’t read it like that tbh. I read the “kind of” as a verbal tick, not as him downplaying anything

[@dustybees6308]

Love all Three of the Viva Piñata garden sims. Yes even pocket paradise holds up. Would love to see even the first one ported to switch or an all new one but that’s just nostalgia talking.

[@96miffy]

@@X2011racer Banjo was top 10 selling N64 games .

[@jacealbine]

Rare is just a name now. Everyone that made rareware good is long gone. The new rare doesn't care what their old fans want.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

The old rare has moved on to become indie publishers, while working alongside several titles from other companies. They made two Yooka-Laylee games under the Playtonic brand and that was it.

[@TheDoomBlueShell]

Rare rarely made many games of the same franchise, like most that got sequels only got one, so any fans wishing they change their tune aren't really long-time fans in the first place..

[@obitosenju3768]

​@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 they also are making yooka sequel and remake

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

@@obitosenju3768 Where did you hear about this?

[@Metalizationer]

You literally don't know anything about the studio then, lol. Why are u talking?

[@Laughy-Flaaffy]

Banjo Kazooie was my favorite video game in my childhood. The fact I’m 30 years old now and we still haven’t gotten Banjo Threeie is baffling to me

[@xenodweeb6425]

I genuinely don't get why Rare's CEO wants us to believe they care about stagnancy when for years they've done nothing but make microtransaction fodder cosmetics for Sea of Thieves. If they made an actual game in between the content milling, that would be one thing, but apparently overpriced ship cosmetics in a game you have to pay upfront for allows you to be successful enough that you don't need to bother, so who cares if it creates a hole in the logic of Rare's excuses?

[@NitwitsWorld]

They are creating a game that took them three years to make, no joke. You can look it up on Google. 😂

[@NitwitsWorld]

Rare is developing a new game outside of Sea of Thieves. However, the game is taking three years to make due to its large scope, causing delays.

[@VigilanteLulu]

Man, the crew of Smiling Friends were really onto something with the Gwimbly episode and making fun with out-of-touch CEOs who say it's THEIR property to do nothing with.

[@gabydelagarza9418]

I wouldn't say they were "onto something", because its not exactly a new idea, or even a new phenomena. Hundreds of once relevant mascots have been shelved in the past decades, without hope to be bought or used before they hit public domain.

[@supermakermatic2111]

British person here, a lot of the supposed "Banjo-bashing" humor you're pointing to is just self-deprecating British humor. "Laughing at" is percieved in the UK to be the same as "laughing with", a similar situation would be The Beano and The Dandy, two children's comics by the same company where a running gag in both was characters being tormented or punished by reading or going to the world of the other comic (at least before the Dandy was discontinued and had its most popular strips folded into the Beano), but it obviously doesn't translate well overseas - the N64, and consequentally Banjo, aren't very popular over here so it's practically inevitable that these cultural clashes would happen, somewhat resembles Sonic's lack of popularity in Japan

[@rockowlgamer631]

The last Banjo Kazooie game was Nutz and Boltz which came out in 2008, "right group and right opportunity to make one". That right time sure is taking over 16 years.

[@X2011racer]

By now, Banjo must be 44 years old, assuming he was 18 in Kazooie, 20 in Tooie, and 28 in Nuts & Bolts. Should there be a Banjo-Kazooie 4 set after Nuts & Bolts, he would be too old and out of shape for another adventure, meaning that a new hero will have to take his place while Banjo sits out in the sidelines.

[@Blubeans513]

I bought a whole Xbox One back in 2019 just to play those games, and we are still waiting for threeie we're dying here 😔🙏

[@scarrantsandreviews]

The conventional wisdom around 2010-2016, when a lot of us were hoping to see Crash and Spyro return, was that these games were "relics of the past that no one wants in current year." They would sell poorly supposedly. And then the Crash remakes sold something like 15 million copies and Spyro sold like 10 million. I think both numbers are several times higher than those franchises peak from back in the day.

[@Kevin-lv8wv]

A Banjo Trilogy with Kazooie, Grunty’s Revenge and Tooie all remade would go so hard

[@blakelandry9313]

It would it sucks that they really don’t wanna remake banjo Kazooie but they wanna remake other games their thought process really doesn’t make sense

[@TheCartoonGamer8000]

Gotta say, I do agree with Craig Duncan there - there's no malice towards Banjo in his wording. I've mentioned it before, but that's exactly what happened with the first Yooka-Laylee. I liked it just fine, but the general reception was pretty mixed, despite it doing a lot of what fans had wanted (barring any technical issues, etc). If there were to be a new Banjo, I really want it to do something new to justify its existence - no remaster of a game that's more than playable now. Something familiar, akin to the original game + Tooie, but something different. I'll also repeat it here, but Rare has never stuck to one franchise for very long. Historically, they usually make one game, maybe a sequel, then move onto something else. If you want to hear Duncan in a more positive context, I urge you to listen to his interview with DK Vine from a few years back. You'll also hear that his favourite DK game is Donkey Konga, so y'know.... everyone's a little weird.

[@WantaFig]

I played 4 hours of Yooka Laylee really wanting tovlike it but the truth is although Yooka and Laylee controlled really well it felt like it was made by somwone who only understood banjo from the outside. The charm in the dialoague wasnt there, npcs placement felt random and unimpactful, the abilities outside or roll were not fun or interesting. The game lacked a soul. Coolest thing it did was have the world expand when you gained new pages. It was an 8 out of 10 when banjo is a 10.

[@Shamanized]

Yeah this is missing a few things, one is YL didn't deliver on a product as high quality as BK/BT. If it was released in 2000, it would have been an alright game but easily forgotten. So it hasn't really been proven that people don't want a solid open-world 3d platformer like BK was, because we haven't really gotten a solid one except for maybe Hat in Time, but that has its own issues and despite those issues has enjoyed quite a lot of success. I do agree that I'd love to see a proper BK platformer return and have evolved to some degree. I wouldn't want it to evolve as much as Breath of the Wild for Zelda because that's a totally different game, but I would like a BK game to come back and nail what used to do while expanding on it with modern gameplay stuff that we love. Some people think BK reached the peak of 3D platformers but this is a lack of imagination, it was only scratching the surface of what an adventure platformer can really be.

[@scizorzzz]

Nintendo just needs to buy Rare's IPs.....

[@teamsonicchannel4400]

Banjo jas a loyal fambase as seen by his reveal in smash

[@jarerarebear1765]

I don't know if the fanbase is that loyal. Most B-K fans never went beyond the N64 duology, and they certainly didn't accept Nuts & Bolts.

[@arthuralexander1449]

​​@@jarerarebear1765 well the original duology is what actually made Banjo popular and liked in the first place meanwhile Nuts and bolts gameplay not only has nothing to do with the original games, but it also straight up makes fun of the orginal gameplay saying its outdated and no one wants that, so of course the fans weren't happy with that, its the same thing that hapened with Devil May cry, they changed Dante when nobody asked for and on top of that tried mocking the fans for wanting og Dante back, luckly later on they learned from their mistake and put og Dante back with a good game and suddenly Devil May Cry was popular again, its almost like giving the fans what they want is a way better idea than mocking them yet still expect them to buy your products anyway

[@projectdreamstudio]

Bring back Banjo!! 😢

[@Oscar-Guzman]

And hire you to help with the game while at it.

[@herrmajestat]

It’s alright Craig. Many of us struggled with the engine room at Rusty Bucket Bay or continuously fell down from the tree at Click Clock Wood!

[@chompythebeast]

The comment about people _thinking_ they might want it but not _actually_ wanting it has nothing to do with you or me or anyone watching this vid: He's talking solely about how he thinks it would do on the market. He's just saying he doesn't think it would sell well. Here's the problem: Even updated and bundled together, are Kazooie and Tooie worth a full $60 price point? I'd buy it, but would it sell well? How would people react to, say, $40? Remember they'd have to compete with Switch N64 and Rare Replay, after all. I feel like the kids would scoff at even $40 for two "old" games that they can get elsewhere for much cheaper. So this has everything to do with the market. Which I find a little vexxing - is Sea of Thieves _really_ raking in that much dough? It was Day 1 on GamePass. How many copies did it actually sell? Was it really significantly more than Banjo Remasters would? I hate the "free market" for a thousand good reasons (🚩), but maybe one of the more personal reasons is because it stifles art and shunts creativity primarily into pipelines dictated by profit. Minority opinions like the very vocal Banjo fandom's are usually not catered to by studios of a certain size. Alas

[@Hanshotchewie]

It would be really amazing if they could release both games in a truly interconected way. Being able to go to both ilse o hags and gruntildas lair with all movesets. Call it kazooiee-tooie.

[@Datenshi-Beats]

That sounds very good actually

[@nicegoatdoctor8224]

I like the idea of the name “Banjo-Redooie”

[@BigAlvideos101]

Why Banjo-Tooie hasn't been released for Nintendo Switch Online yet is baffling to me. WHAT'S THE HOLD UP?

[@chompythebeast]

If it comes to Switch Online, what incentive will there ever be to remaster them?

[@BigAlvideos101]

@@chompythebeast They already got remastered on Xbox 360/One with the XBLA ports! Xbox One also got them via Rare Replay in 2015!

[@deatheater810]

if rare doesn't like banjo then why don't they sell banjo to someone that will make it

[@LuccaA21]

They don't do that.

[@deatheater810]

@@LuccaA21 why not?

[@LuccaA21]

@@deatheater810 Because they have the right Developer for a new Banjo and they don't want to bring it back.

[@deatheater810]

@@LuccaA21 did most of the people that made banjo go to Playtonic Games? It's not the same rare we knew and love

[@The_OG_Twilight_Princess]

I agree with your opinion that Craig Duncan doesn't care for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise. I see his comments as they are. I wish they would make a sequel.

[@teamsonicchannel4400]

I hope toys for bob can bring it back

[@jaketaller8567]

That I would like to see.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

They did a great job with the Spyro remasters and Crash 4. Even Skylanders had its fans. So they've proven to be quite capable of doing so.

[@DrakeFeatherwing]

I'd rather see Playtonic do it as a lot of their staff are former Rare employees.

[@jaketaller8567]

@@DrakeFeatherwing Good point.

[@TheDoomBlueShell]

@@DrakeFeatherwing Don't trust much the guys that made Yooka Laylee... never seen worlds feel so dead and without charm in my life

[@jacksonpercy8044]

I reckon Rare Replay should be released on steam. That would make a lot of fans of not only Banjo but many other Rare IPs very happy.

[@googamp32]

Microsoft. THAT'S why.

[@sammalone7881]

CGE just explained how it isn't all Microsoft's fault.

[@metalslayer777]

​@@sammalone7881 Tom Araya: Everyoooooooone's fault.

[@user-gl8xw1wm6d]

​@@sammalone7881except it is

[@jarerarebear1765]

Rare just doesn't want to do it. They want to make new games based on new ideas. And Microsoft respects that decision.

[@Scrubber89]

Absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft.

[@stevenstocker9873]

I wish Microsoft would find a balance between their hands off and overbearing, what the point of having ownership of these studios and franchise if you're not got put them to use, or atleast sell them on.

[@oo--7714]

Bro sea of thieves is maging a lot of money

[@Laughy-Flaaffy]

@@oo--7714bro who tf cares. Rare’s most iconic character is Banjo. The fact they haven’t done anything with the character is unacceptable.

[@That-Guppy]

​@@Laughy-Flaaffy It's ridiculous honestly, not even a polished re-release

[@princeofalltoasters8813]

I genuinely think this boils down to two factors: 1. The only people who want Banjo-Kazooie to come back are Nintendo fans, and they are not the kind of people who will go out and buy an Xbox JUST for Banjo, they'd want it to be a multiplatform title on the Switch. It's like going to Burger King and asking for a Whopper, but demanding they deliver it to you while you wait at McDonalds. 2. Banjo is honestly more valuable to Rare dead than alive, they won't give us a new game but they sell MOUNTAINS of nostalgia-bait merch through Fangamer and First4Figures. It always feels like Banjo is always JUST about to be forgotten for good, and that just MAYBE if you vote with your wallet and buy enough merch, Rare will finally give them a new game! Disney has mastered this way of leveraging merch sales through artificial scarcity through the characters of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Figment. If Banjo is relevant, then there's no nostalgia to sell his merch, he's just another current franchise.

[@FishtYaz]

I think it's like no one wants to because it would be way too much preassure, it's like indie developr studio making GTA VI or new Rayman, it's just huge risk

[@jord1215]

Toys for bob are probably the only team good enough to take the risk they’ve just announced they’ve got a game coming for Xbox so who knows.

[@Oscar-Guzman]

A Remake of the game that’s Faithful to the original game and modern graphics is the safest way to test the waters again for the duo I think.

[@draco0rex]

you know, that little theory of yours makes a lot of sense and explains a lot. I also have a theory that sea of thieves is what he wanted to make from day one, that the studio did. Remember, project dream was originally about pirates. that game evolved when it went from super nintendo to n64 to being about a bear, which evolved into being about a bear skater, which evolved into being about a bear and bird, which then became our beloved banjo kazooie. the truth is, sea of thieves was ALWAYS the goal of project dream. They just got off track with banjo kazooie. Now, they're all in on their original plan.

[@awkwardverse]

I just want Banjo 1 & 2 on Steam. That's all

[@Snaaake_Beater]

1:48 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Instead they update the same game over and over and over again every year really unique😂😂😂😂

[@JaidynReiman]

"Everybody keeps talking about it, but nothing ever seems to happen" Seriously? Nintendo literally announced they're going to reveal the system this fiscal year last month. It can't get any more official than that. Rare doesn't care about Banjo anymore. MS will probably put someone else on it if it does happen. They brought back Killer Instinct and are bringing back Perfect Dark with other devs. Banjo can be brought back using other devs without Rare being involved.

[@hjohnson966]

I'd be so down for a Crash/Spyro/Banjo cross-over title

[@username_redacted_1987]

Dude, regarding the merch. Theres been a fuckton of Banjo-Kazooie merch that's been coming out since 2018. The First4Figures statues being some of it (the Banjo-Kazooie in a flying pose, Grunty, Mumbo, The 5 jinjo colors from the first game, crocodile Banjo, Walrus Banjo, Bee Banjo, Termite Banjo, Pumpkin Banjo and a statue of Banjo and Kazooie playing a banjo with Bottles), not to mention all the merch that has been sold on Fangamer over the last several years including hoodies, shirts, record sets, pins, stuffed animals, puzzles, keychains, hats etc. AND the several figures that have released by different comanies including the Amiibo from Nintendo, as well as the figures by Premium DNA Toys, YouTooz, Totaku and the two Pop figures that were recently released as well. The huge flow of Banjo-Kazooie merch started in 2018 when the flying pose Banjo-Kazooie statue from First4Figures was announced (I know this becase I preordered it in July that year). I knew then, that something was happening as there has been NOTHING merchandise-wise that has been released for Banjo-Kazooie since its original game came out. I was right......Banjo was annouced for smash the following year. What I'm saying is, all this merch is nothing new. They've been milking the franchise merch-wise for the last 6 years, with no actual game in sight.

[@llamajuice]

I made Spiral Mountain in Forge mode for Halo, so ya know, we got that going.

[@LordAlmira]

Why do a remakes when you can do a brand new game with these characters

[@eeveefennecfox]

alot of people want remakes for banjo-kazooie,to maybe hope it'll get enough attention for new games in the future for old and new players to get excited about

[@BarrilBuzz]

@@eeveefennecfox That's a very dumb opinion from the Banjo fandom if you ask me.

[@chompythebeast]

To test market viability. Crash never would have gotten 4 without the remakes

[@SamWickens]

Honestly, as much as I'd love a new true BK game, I get why Rare and Microsoft would be reluctant to make one. With the general consensus in the industry that big collectathon 3D platformers are an unprofitable relic (Mario Odyssey being a major exception), the fact that many of the key devs from the original games left the company decades ago, and when those devs themselves tried to do what was essentially a new BK game it underperformed critically, commercially and with fans, and the seemingly massive disagreements within the fan base about whether Tooie was an improvement or a bloated mess meaning that there's no consensus of what fans even want a new BK game to be like... And then you factor in that even critical darlings won't save your studio if they aren't obscenely profitable if you work for Xbox, who would take the risk? The guys who spent the past 15 years churning out Wii Sports clones to get in on the motion control fad and then settling on a "live service" game that's giving them consistent returns? I'd love another BK game, but I don't see it coming from Rare, and if it comes from Xbox I don't see it being what anyone wants.

[@X2011racer]

You could say Platformers in general because even Crash 4 underperformed than expected by Activision executives and Spyro Reignited Trilogy didn't sell enough fast enough to convince Activision that Spyro is financially viable. Crash Team Rumble was an uncertainty due to lack of data, but Microsoft decided to shut down post launch development by laying off Toys for Bob staff anyway.

[@ItZAkarii]

Well if we count nuts & bolts as a BK game I can understand why they don't want to create another BK game cuz that one was a huge mistake...

[@uasyapupkin2162]

We haven't seen Gwimbli come back eather. Modern gaming industry is all about money and it's sad.

[@DannysDome]

It's madness, whoever make it would make a FORTUNE!

[@lewis1423]

i 100% agree that people dont want to see rare make a rerelease of an older game. even if they did a banger job and knocked it out of the park, people would be super mad that that time and effort was not use to make a new game or ip. but i do wonder why they would not make a new game, but i cant blame them if its not something they want to do then it wont be the greatest product.

[@Virtue_Signaling_Land_Whale]

This is so stupid of RARE. Look at how popular and successful 3D mario titles are, and Banjo is super popular with millennials cuz everyone is nostalgic as hell with this IP. This is easy money printing IF they do a proper sequel, not some nuts and bolts bs we got.

[@mature111ster]

The brainstorming is to think of how to modernize Banjo. If I had to guess based on Microsoft's new policies, Humba Wumba and Mumbo, Tooty being a damsel in distress, and the humour would need to be changed before making it to market. Internally the devs know this may alienate fans and impact total sales, so they're being very cautious at trying to find the right balance.

[@bascecyliavermond7008]

I would love for it to come back

[@Alolan.Vulpix.Getting.Railed]

nu-rare doesnt deserve to be called rare, they are a corporate dev team now, the OG devs who made rare special are gone, and so is the magic that rare once held.

[@Sunbreaker7]

RARE has faded into obscurity. This studio is a distant shadow of its former glory, with Sea of Thieves marking the end of an era.

[@Taydar]

Maybe he's just mad that everyone prefers the stuff made by the original founders of Rare instead of the new crap he is making.

[@X2011racer]

I don't think Banjo can make a comeback on Xbox, as games like Super Lucky's Tale failed to sell on the system. Plus, after seeing what happened to Toys for Bob and Tango Gameworks, it's clear that Microsoft doesn't really care about 3D Adventure games in general due to the audience considered niche by Big Name Companies that aren't Nintendo. TFB is out of their minds teaming up with the company that reduced their employee numbers by an insane percentage. Stockholm Syndrome much?

[@jacobnegrete6263]

Not really when there is money to be made. What are they gonna do? Take a risk on their own brand new IP?

[@X2011racer]

@@jacobnegrete6263 Toys for Bob could have chosen a better publisher to work with, like Playtonic Friends or Tate Multimedia.

[@Teh69thSpartan]

This guy gets it.

[@general-thehero182]

Nothing can defeat the way the world was interconnected and missions and eastern eggs and secrets that the game banjo tooie had.

[@sepheroithisgod]

This is just an example of bad management from Microsoft. It's one thing to give devs the creative freedom on what project they want to work on, which I support, but that doesn't mean they need to ignore the demand for a game. If one studio isn't interested, find another. Microsoft owns the IP, not the Rare head that hates it.

[@sean-keykong5090]

How about SuperZambezi with Banjo Kazooie Returns and Project Dream, with Banjo-Threeie?

[@robynwolph3836]

Last time Banjo-Kazooie merchandise got released was when Banjo-Kazooie was announced for Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The Banjo-Kazooie Funko Pops? I think something may be stirring again

[@pugman9672]

I saw a banjo Kazooie plush at Best Buy last week

[@MegacoreTeamJake]

Just sell Banjo to Playtonic. We seriously live in the worst timeline.

[@Oscar-Guzman]

I agree. Now imagine a timeline where Playtonic doesn’t want Banjo Kazooie anymore because they have Yooka-Laylee now.

[@mature111ster]

It's ultimately Microsoft's decision to sell IP of their game studios, and they have been farming IP over the course of the last few years, so it's unlikely to happen since the IP can be marketed at a later time strategically. All of Rare's efforts are going into maintaining Sea of Thieves and Everwild. Things may change if Everwild sees a release, though even then the team at Rare isn't the same as the 90's, so there's a chance it will be Banjo in name alone, leading to disappointment if there's no passion. Honestly you're better off supporting modders like Kurko Mods for continued Banio adventures. A lot of his mods are very impressive and feel like DLC.

[@Ryan-Petre]

Tired of people blaming Microsoft for Rare. People conveniently forget that Star Fox Adventures was Rare and Grabbed by the Ghoulies was originally a Gamecube game. Rare has no one to blame for their decline in quality other than themselves.

[@X2011racer]

Star Fox Adventures was a result of executive meddling from Nintendo. Microsoft can't be blamed for that one, as such a move would ensure that Dinosaur Planet would never get moved to Xbox and potentially outsell The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

[@TisboreArt]

KZbin recommended your video, so I watched it. I think Banjo Kazooie is one of my favorite N64 games. I think a remake would be pretty fun.

[@Umbrella2]

I’d love a new one but the people who make it have to be ALL IN and have to love and care about what they were doing, Banjo-Kazooie deserves that!

[@whisperingmoon8840]

I’ve heard Rare literally doesn’t want to right now

[@mikesmith-renorocket]

I’d like to see a Banjo and Diddy Kong Racing remaster

[@DrewStalgic]

See, I never knew about how Phil said he never teases just to tease. Thanks for pointing that out and excellent video overall 👍

[@e1iteyoshi998]

Idk to be honest like many others here in the comments i find Rare's reasoning for not wanting to do another Banjo Kazooie game to be kinda hypocritical when consider A: they seem to be okay with pouring tons of microtransactions in Sea of Thieves and B: heavily referencing Banjo and Kazooie in their past products plus also the merchandise that keeps coming out they approved. You'd think that after Banjo's return to Smash Ultimate was met with universal praise that they would've tried to start developing a new game but after the sour taste that Nuts and Bolts left in my mouth i honestly think that they're just ashamed of this franchise.

[@abyssal-labs]

Rare are to concerned milking players of money on sea of thevies

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

You may not believe me when I say this, but I promise you that Banjo Kazooie getting a remaster/remake has never entered my darkest fantasies once ever in my LIFE. That thought has never existed in my head and the sentiment has only infiltrated my brain just now when you mentioned it in current year. Why? I guess I've just always thought a sequel was the natural next step, or if we can't have that, at least some very dedicated group of fans might finally make a rom hack that genuinely meets the original in quality. A remake would do nothing to enhance my immersion in a game that I already know like the crustyness of my toenails.

[@Dani-ix5bu]

I’d like to see a game called Banjo-Tootie, where you get to play as Tootie for at least half the game

[@TBoneTony]

1. Microsoft owns RARE since 2002. 2. Microsoft doesn't understand Platform Games, they were the ones that forced a Car Simulator game to become a Banjo Kazooie game thus Nuts and Bolts became what it was in 2009. 3. Those who were originally part of the Developer back in 1998 have moved on.

[@LuccaA21]

Microsoft is fucked up.

[@3dplatformerstar216]

Have u seen the new 3d platformer Bolt Bot Screwy Viruses? It looks a bit like a N64 platformer.

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

I know of a team that really love to make for all ages platformers, telling this channel in an interview that they (the bear and bird) deserve another game.

[@krystelbeaulieu-thibault3621]

I honestly think they don't want to please fans.

[@eeveefennecfox]

yeah...they already proved that when they gave us fucking nuts and bolts,that was a huge insult to fans

[@MR.__G]

I would love a mixture of both games. Things I want from kazooie is the charm and the ability to fully complete levels without extensive backtracking through levels. Things I want from Tooie is the bigger levels and quest to obtain jiggies. Best of both worlds for me

[@MrJamess1982]

Microsoft is really unorganized. We’ve seen it with many of their current games that are just not the hit, or what players want. I’m not sure Banjo is the system seller but I’d love a new one.

[@foxeye245]

Rare holding onto a grudge over Nuts & Bolts. They’re still upset that people didn’t want it.

[@gridalien]

Even if Banjo Threeie ever comes around, I doubt it'll make me feel like the first two games did; not because of how it'll end up, whether good or bad...I just don't think video games make me feel the way they used to anymore. The iron's long gone cold.

[@LuccaA21]

Banjo-Threeie will never happen.

[@eeveefennecfox]

my hope for a new game is size of a dot at this point,I've been getting my hopes up for years for a new game,soon my dot will just not exist anymore,I've been lied to too many times,the only way to belive this is happening at this point is a game announcement

[@WiggaMachiavelli]

>I think they might think they do, but I don't think they would. Where have we heard this before and how did that turn out?

[@forrestannis909]

What about Conker?

[@eeveefennecfox]

banjo*

[@FTChomp9980]

Do to the Politically Correct Society Conker won't survive from people who get offended over comedy.

[@Motwera]

Hmmm, has anyone paid attention to the recent Playtonic announcement of Yooka Laylee's remaster from earlier today? might be relevant to this video

[@genesisknight9948]

I just found out that we have the first Banjo Kazooie game, I guess I know what I'm gonna try playing for the first time now.

[@danieldishon688]

At this rate we will be lucky if Spyro 4 even comes out on the PS6 by people who actually are motivatedto make that happen. Much less get our hopes up for Microsoft to give us a Banjo reboot that's clearly a very low priority idea to them.

[@moonkingdomify]

So... what he says about people thinking they want it but not really wanting it, that makes sense. Just take a look at Star Wars fans. They got a Boba Fett series and hated it. A series based around the moral complexities between Sith and Jedi ideologies? Hated it. Whatever game we had in our head isn't going to be the same as what we get. Plus... I doubt classic Mumbo or Humba would fly today.

[@barataro1748]

Let Toys for Bob do a remake of BK and BT like Spyro and thats it. perfection

[@taylornelson8458]

I like the take of "they might think they want it, but i know they actually don't"

[@PaulM68322]

Phil said they wont force them to make what they want, but he also said a lot of things that weren't true

[@Datenshi-Beats]

Of course he doesn't like Banjo and Kazooie, he wasn't even in the original making of it, like fuck that guy and his pirate games with stupid taunts. Yes, that 3rd party needed to make another game is only and will only be the ones in the original Rare team. Otherwise I really can't trust it in the hands of other, but the fans of Banjo at least.

[@AntoKyuuketsuki]

Nuts and Bolts (2008), plus Rare Replay (2015)... Banjo Kazooie has been on both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, which being said, they weren't exactly popular titles for the Xbox crowd. But if it was for the Nintendo crowd, the story would be completely different and they'd be more than a reference or an included with a compilation, 16 years after the one and only Banjo Kazooie game on Xbox. Nintendo would be milking it, we would have seen Diddy Kong Racing merge with Mario Kart and have Banjo as an unlockable where Kazooie is a counteractive weapon that pecks the other drivers and Banjo wouldn't need a glider because of Kazooie... But that will never happen, so it will always remain a fan logical fiction.

[@gaothhermesk1289]

This remainds me a lot like whats going on between Naughty Dog and Jak and Daxter, my favorite franchise of them, where they allways seem to not have interest to come back at least for nostalgia sake due they feel "that advanced/evolved" enough to go back to old achivements wich wouldnt be achivements nowdays anymore

[@X2011racer]

Plus, they don't know how Jak & Daxter could have deep storytelling unless they repeat The Last of Us Part 2's plot for the sake of drama.

[@ZerotheeHero]

Id also say the negative response Nuts and Bolts got, which was probably Microsoft making Rare put the duo in a game the company was making without them, as well as the meh reception of Yooka Laylee which did have og developers make it a more risky gamble for Mircosoft to risk millions of dollars making to a third party company. Plus they tried it with Conker and didnt go well either

[@Twillek1019_]

Everybody expects a remaster of BK to be called “Re-Jiggied” but that doesn’t really work as a title because Re-Jiggied isn’t a word, personally I’d say it would be called something Banjo Kazooie The Retuned Duology (cuz of how musical it is) or Re-Stringed (cuz Banjo)

[@JanvanEs]

I need it back soooooooooooooo bad, no remaster, don’t even do (and I still haven’t played it up to this day) Nuts n Bolts as a remaster. Still can’t get that video of banjo threeie out of my head that was there years ago

[@joshuasebsebe1047]

I want a new Mario animated series made by Wildbrain Studios the same studio that made Sonic Prime

[@NitwitsWorld]

No 😂

[@joshuasebsebe1047]

@@NitwitsWorld what do you mean no?

[@NitwitsWorld]

@joshuasebsebe1047 Nintendo that’s why

[@joshuasebsebe1047]

@NitwitsWorld I don't know what you're talking about. I just contacted Nintendo support to make a new mario animated series made by Wildbrain

[@NitwitsWorld]

@joshuasebsebe1047 😬

[@noxtinker2936]

I just want ctr2 and I never want the sea of theves people to make a banjo game knowing them they would make it crap on purpose and say this is what you guys wanted why don't you like it oh it's because I was right

[@thevillipeople]

What are you TALKING about

[@Geeler]

​@@thevillipeoplethey're making a point about companies deliberately trying to "kill" off a franchise by either making a remake/remaster/reboot bad or unmarketed. But I don't know why they'd claim Rare would do this, they've never been a studio to do that. Unless of course Microsoft decides to screw them over

[@noxtinker2936]

@@thevillipeople look at what they did to conker and tell me I’m wrong

[@MrNocturnalEmission]

Praying for Toys For Bob to pull through for Banjo. Current Rare is just another micro transaction machine for Microsoft.

[@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge]

I actually agree with Duncan : Banjo-Threeie should only be made if it can be as good as Kazooie and Tooie (Yooka-Laylee was made by old Rare employees and was quite disappointing); and remastering those 2 classics is unnecessary, the originals are still perfect, just emulate them or play them on Rare Replay

[@assman7218]

As much as I love the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, I honestly prefer that there isn't a new game. The people behind BK success are gone and remembering the games for what they were and the fun it bring to us, is much better than get just getting disappointments from the new games like with Bioware.

[@CartoonEric]

Not after Nuts 'n Bolts.

[@eeveefennecfox]

yeah that game killed the franchise >:(

[@travisreberto1295]

Well it is a great game but I don’t think it’s “fill the void for 16 years” great. Glad to hear you like it that much more though.

[@TBoneTony]

Playtonic Games should be the ones who make Banjo Kazooie 3. They were the ones who made the original 2 because Playtonic Games WAS the developer RARE back in the 1990s. Technically RAREWARE was 4 to 5 different RARE teams developing separate games back in the day. Thus is the reason why Banjo Team and Conker Team had that rivalry, while Handheld team did their thing. One special RAREWARE team was Team DKR who then made Jet Force Gemini, Dinosaur Planet, Kameo with a mixture of team members moving around to help out other RARE teams on other games. Team Goldeneye started making Perfect Dark but left when the game was half finished, ended up being completed by Team Killer Instinct who were already in the process of KI3 before having to cancel that project to save Perfect Dark.

[@Metalizationer]

2-3 teams actaully and there are still many at Rare and many not at Playtonic. Most of Playtonic is new hires.

[@eeveefennecfox]

@ShockwaveFPSStudios that makes me sad,I had hopes when smash bros gave us banjo-kazooie,I really was hoping this would help give us a new game in the future,sadly it didn't turn out that way :'( I don't blame smash bros for this though,it just didn't work as we expected it to :'( youtube,I'm really not in the mood for your stupid errors tonight

[@Poyostar]

Yeah, I doubt we'll end up getting a new Banjo-Kazooie game any time soon, especially not one from Rare themselves. It's a real shame too, since the series is one that's rife with charm, but alas it doesn't seem like a new game is meant to be, though I'd love to be proven wrong. Great video!

[@amygeer2217]

I feel at this point, Rare is just making excuses, If they don’t want to make a new Banjo, fine, but they should allow other developers to work on the IP. In all honesty, ignoring old video game franchises has always been a pet peeve of mine. Trust me, as a Rayman fan I know.

[@Mather199]

gosh i'd do ANYTHING to play a remaster of banjo kazooie

[@LuccaA21]

@@Mather199 A Remake would be better in my opinion.

[@nanoblivion]

What I believe they should do is do a trilogy game with banjo kazooie, the og 2 remastered and a 3rd new game (I refuse to believe nuts and bolts is canon), it would be easier to implement an actual stop and swop as well.

[@blakelandry9313]

Also, they say they don’t do remakes but they’re making a remake I don’t understand their thought process

[@kingofpassionplusyt]

There to focus about the new test drive U racing game.