The next week-and-a-half should be good for video game enthusiasts. E3 2016 starts on June 14th, although EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sony, and AMD (with PCGamer) have press conferences throughout the 12th and the 13th. Of course, not to get lost in the traffic, many entities are releasing their announcements prior to those conferences. For instance, Watch Dogs 2 will have a reveal on this Wednesday, June 8th, five days prior to Ubisoft's press conference.
This post is about a Kickstarter project called Yooka-Laylee, though. This title is being created by Playtonic Games, which contains several past employees of Rare, apparently to create a proper Banjo-Kazooie-style platform title. It raised over two million British Pounds (~3 million USD) and targeted an October 2016 release date. That has since slipped to Q1 2017, but that should be expected for a crowdfunding project, especially when the stretch goals start piling up. It is scheduled to be released on Windows, Mac, and Linux… and a few other boxes.
Of course, they couldn't resist making a Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts joke at the end…
… I chuckled.
Honestly looks wonderful,
Honestly looks wonderful, like a re-imagined Spyro the dragon.
“It raised over two million
“It raised over two million British Pounds (~3 million USD) and targeted an October 2016 release date. That has since slipped to Q1 2017”
Yeah, every scamstarter ever.
I’ll never understand how people can willingly throw money at something they might never see a return on, it is mind boggling to me.
Especially with ex-Rare
Especially with ex-Rare employees!
However, there was an awful lot of extremely varied gameplay in that video, so they must be very close to completion. However, it’s always the 80/20 rule when it comes to Rare – the last 20% of the game will take 80% of the time to complete.
Remember that this is the developer that took almost 6 years across two publishers and four consoles to release a sequel… then released a terrible prequel instead.
Looking at this video posted
Looking at this video posted at Guru3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNter0oEYxc
about Ubisoft trailers and the final games being much less impressive than the E3 demos, it would have been a good idea to do an article where you will warn people not to get too much excited about what they will see and compare the demos they will see this month at E3 with the final games that will come latter, before ordering those games.
This video is really shocking. It’s like buying a GTX 960 in a box that says GTX 1080.