Ex-Rare Devs getting together.

CDeniz

Full article here:
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/09/27/ex-rare-devs-planning-banjo-tooie-spiritual-successor

These are the guys who made goldeneye, perfect dark, banjo kazooie/tooie, donkey kong country. Their twitter account says they plan to make a game similar to Banjo Kazooie,, and they plan to use the Unity engine.

Its still way too early to speculate anything will come out of this,, but I am definitely pumped.

https://twitter.com/MingyJongo

ErichWK

!!! Nice! They even got Grant Kirkhope composing. He is probably one of my favorite Composers and I will totally donate just to get him to write bad ass music.

slipsius

If they can capture the essence of banjo kazooie, they will capture my heart

glottis8

I miss the first Banjo Kazooie... i played that game a lot. I do miss Rare. I still play every other time DK2 Diddy Kongs Quest. Such a great game.

jmt

Hopefully they can make some awesome stuff. I was a big N64 fan as a kid.

The games from that era do not often hold up compared to the standards of current games, but then again, if they were able to push the medium and create good games using such limiting tech, I wonder what they'll be able to do with the current dev options.

Noors

Mumbo Jumbo heard my prayer !

CDeniz

ErichWK wrote: »

!!! Nice! They even got Grant Kirkhope composing. He is probably one of my favorite Composers and I will totally donate just to get him to write bad ass music.

Definitely, there was times when I would replay certain levels just to listen to the music. Some of his stuff:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQM3dnTf7mc"]Donkey Kong 64 Music - Crystal Caves - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhqDljWBgqc"]Perfect Dark Credits Theme - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQ8iDsyMG4"]Perfect Dark [Music] - Datadyne Central (Extraction) - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKK3CZPKac"]Banjo-Kazooie Music: The Final Battle - YouTube[/ame]

Edit: Didnt a bunch of the rare guys leave during the development of PD,,, and they created free radical (the timespitters guys). And now they are part of Crytek if I am not mistaken.

Shadownami92

Whether the game ends up being good or not. I know I'm definitely getting the soundtrack!

I loved all of Rare's games. Though Banjo-Kazooie and Jet Force Gemini definitely had to be my favorites. After this if they did a game like Jet Force Gemini that would be amazing. Though I guess for that music I don't know if they could get Robin Beanland.

daphz

oh man, this makes me extremely happy! (and nervous) fingers crossed.

Andreas

Fuckin' ay!

Will it be Kinect compatible?

(Sorry, that was a very sick joke. Shame on me.)

Kraftwerk

Soooo if they consider Unity and Kickstarter maybe finally a multiplatform title from them ? PC Windows or even better Linux well that would be an instant seller for me at least, loved there games but they always picked the wrong platform for me lol.