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Rare drop a massive bombshell hidden in Banjo Kazooie!

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CrankyGamersUK writes: Been playing through Banjo Kazooie on 360 and have found a nice secret that i'm sure lots of you are going to go crazy for!

2009 just got a whole lot sweeter!
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callahan09 - 400 days 21 hours ago
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Sounds like a rumor to me, why is this under news?

Remember in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, where they talked about Metroid Dread being near completion? Yeah, they were just playing around, sort of an inside joke, the game isn't actually coming.

I have a feeling this is similar. Why the hell would they be working on sequels to all of those games simultaneously (especially Grabbed by the Ghoulies, which I'm relatively certain nobody cared about then and nobody cares about now).
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1.1 Socom | 400 days 20 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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CEO OF N4G - 400 days 20 hours ago
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I hope this is a hint that killer instint is coming out.K.I Gold was my fav beat em up game.
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StephanieBBB - 400 days 20 hours ago
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1.3 - I don' think it's rumors but alot of those prodjects could be canned and stuck in the pipeline.
Jet Force Gemini would be sweet if the gameplay was like phantasy star online but with HD graphics. But the rest is kinda meh imo.
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psnDevistator356 - 400 days 20 hours ago
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1.4 - JUST IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They're all going to be based on vehicle creation!!!
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1.5 Bladestar | 400 days 20 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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JsonHenry - 400 days 19 hours ago
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I want BattleToads! Not KI!
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mohib-uddin7986532 - 400 days 19 hours ago
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rare remings me of Square-Enix

A comapny that used to be amazing once and made nothing but amazing games

Then lost it all. but still teases us to make us feel they still got it in them !
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Mozilla89 - 400 days 18 hours ago
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1.10 - I don't know if its fake or not
but a new Jet Force Gemini would be sweet! I loved the last one def one of the best gaming experiences for me.
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Bodhi - 400 days 17 hours ago
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Sadly guys, this most likely is another Rare joke. Kotaku and Maxconsole are really gullible for believing the LOG in Banjo. After playing Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, you can obviously not take the LOG seriously.
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Rick Astley - 400 days 16 hours ago
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Killer Instinct = One of the least played fighting game franchises of all time, and for good reason.. it sucks.
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silvacrest - 400 days 12 hours ago
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1.13 - @Rick
That comment was filled with fail

do you even have any proof of your BS claims? and if so please state them.

why dont you attack the recent mortal combat games (the classics are excellent) they actually deserve it
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mikeslemonade - 400 days 10 hours ago
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No, Rict is right no one ever talked about Killer Instinct until it was a exclusive right for rare and is a 1st party for Microsoft. The games won't push hardware because it's a fighting game. Only Virtua Fighter is the only game that had the potential to push japan sales but that didn't happen.

None of the other games will push hardware. Rare is the only 1st party developer that Microsoft has, so of course they be making games. And how on earth will they be able to make like 5 games including viva piniata. If they bring all those games in 2009 the games will all probably suck, but if they want those games to be good then not all the games will come out on the 360 because the 720 is coming out. Nothing special here next article!
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ind1 - 400 days 8 hours ago
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@1.14

If you mean no one talks about Killer Instincts now, thats fair enough - its an old game which was released on the Super Nintendo.

But, back in those days the game was amazing. Comparing Killer Instinct to games even like Mortal Combat in these recent years, Killer Instinct still wins hands down.

Either you have bad taste as Rick Astley and/or you're just a pathetic fanboy.
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power of Green - 400 days 4 hours ago
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This is a hint, why do we get all the hate and spam in here?
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likedamaster - 395 days 15 hours ago
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Well, anyone that knows RARE knows they have a track record of making a lot of games at the same time. I'm psyched about this... PS3 fanboys, troll away.
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PirateThom - 400 days 21 hours ago
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Oh no... what will I do when I call Gamestop now?! :(
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Timesplitter14 - 400 days 20 hours ago
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That'll be so F***** funny lol!

(for those who don't know, a certain website called 4chan once started calling Gamestop all day and asking if they had Battletoads, and the people there got pretty angry. Every now and then, they do it again. Here's a video : http://www.youtube.com/watc... just wait until he mentions Battletoads )
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Bob Dole - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Makes Bob Dole wanna call and ask about battletoads. Lol, man that guy was pissed.
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CAPT IRISH - 400 days 19 hours ago
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that was funny as hell
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No Way - 400 days 17 hours ago
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2.4 - @Timesplitter14
Dude, if I was the Gamestop employee I woulda been laughing my ass off. Mainly because the prank caller sounds like a little boy..
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Smacktard - 400 days 21 hours ago
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Yeah, I'm sure this is definitely true %D hurf durf
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green - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Pls pls ple let it be true that a new Jet Force Gemini game is in the works.I played it for a short while on the N64 and it was brilliant.As for Killer Instinct 3, there have been too many clues already, so i am around 70% convinced that we will see it next year.
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The realness - 400 days 20 hours ago
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ive wanted a jet force gemini sequel for a long time....would love to see th original pop up on live!
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mepsipax - 400 days 20 hours ago
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4.2 - agreed man
wow jet force gemini was epically challenging, it was flippin huge! first of all, you had the standard each character has their own level, then after the palace you had each character can go to any level they want, thus opening the door to more secrets (and in jet force a secret isn't just a room with a bunch of items in it) and then after you thought you won they drop the giant bombshell on you that you have to rescue every single tribal. god damn that was hard, seriously one of the most underated and best games I have ever played, mixing up platforming with a 3rd person shooter. ReRelease on XBLA or Virtual Console please, please, please.
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squallsan - 400 days 20 hours ago
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hell is my new Perfect Dark?
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voodoo341 - 400 days 20 hours ago
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agreed...
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Elven6 - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Rumored in development numerous times, lets hope they use a better graphics engine this time. The PDZ engine was good when it came to environments, but the characters looked horrible!
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mepsipax - 400 days 20 hours ago
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6.3 - it was made by free radical years ago
don't count on rare making a good shooter again, everyone important that worked on goldeneye/pd is working at free radical now, but I mean timesplitters is still great, it feels and plays like goldeneye and pd and free radical actually know how to make a game 60fps unlike rare, seriously which rare game has not had framerate problems since the n64, it's great they push a console to it's limits but it loses something when the framerate constantly dips. Damn you microsoft, why didn't you make a console with a more powerful processor and more RAM than focus on the graphics processor, a bad move in retrospect.
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socomnick - 400 days 16 hours ago
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yea im sure free radical made it, just look at their AAA game haze lol.
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Bodhi - 400 days 13 hours ago
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Perfect Dark Zero was a great game, technically, the lighting is still very good. Some textures are still very good.

The only flaws I saw with Perfect Dark Zero was that everyone moved too slowly, the cover system was near pointless because your upper body was still vulnerable and it was so damned hard to use, the roll feature was stupid and that's what everyone does now, it's like super slow Gears of War with ray guns.

That aside, Perfect Dark Zero was a very enjoyable game, played it to death before Gears of War came out.

If they fixed Perfect Dark Zero flaws, used Banjo's graphics engine, it could very well be one of the best FPSes ever.

I think if they're going to keep the cover system and the roll feature, they should put it in first person to make it less useful.
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TheSadTruth - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Rare is not a good developer anymore, I will not be looking forward to their new killer instinct
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polow got sol - 400 days 20 hours ago
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This is why MS first party titles >>>> Sonys first party titles. Bring on the new killer instinct and battle toads baby.
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DJ - 400 days 20 hours ago
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8.1 - That didn't make much sense.
Sony reinvents older IPs all the time.
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MvmntInGrn - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Well I completely disagree, sony first party moves games forward. MS just throws out the same formula.
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PirateThom - 400 days 20 hours ago
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It doesn't make much sense, since Rare have yet to produce a good game on a Microsoft console.
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Bodhi - 400 days 13 hours ago
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It's sad that reviewers didn't like Banjo, it has to be the most underrated game this generation. The graphics are sweet, the vehicle customization is insane, the game itself is long as hell, it has lots of charm and humor to it.

I don't see what the flaws were, it seems half the reviewers didn't like the fact that Banjo wasn't a platformer. If you play the game to the end, you would know that there are platforming elements, as you get all your moves back from the old games.

Personally I'd give it a 9.1, the difficulty of some challenges and some FPS dips are problems, but not big enough for me not to love this game.
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Rhoic - 400 days 9 hours ago
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8.6 - Also.. Metacritic made a massive mistake as well..
Electronic Gaming Monthly (SAME THING AS 1UP) - 69/100

"This is a game people should be playing years after it comes out, online and off."

Not ONE review from EGM gave B-K: Nuts and Bolts a D+..

You had:

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i_like_ff7 - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Battle toads? Sh*t....time to get my a** handed down to me again....
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MvmntInGrn - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Well RARE has been a bit off this gen, lets watch Jet Force Gemini become an RPG...

Lets just say I'm no longer excited for RARE games...
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Michael Jackson - 400 days 20 hours ago
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12 - ugh
Banjo itself is the biggest bomb that Rare dropped. And it bombed BAD.
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Bob Dole - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Have some bubbles Micheal. You creepy motha-phukka!
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Massive bombshell = more series' to ruin.

This new Rare team has destroyed what Doak and the previous Rare had worked years to achieve.
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Omega4 - 400 days 20 hours ago
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Well this is likely true, since Rare have released at least two games every year so far so two of those game will defiantly be coming in 2009

Looks like 09 will be another great year for the 360
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