Banjo-Threeie Tech Demo

[Vipsoccermaster]

Monday, February 28, 2011

GameCube Tech Demo Shows Banjo Threeie in Action

What could have been...

N64 adventures Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo Tooie made plenty of fans back in their 64-bit heyday, but they never appeared on the GameCube. A threequel was planned but never released, but now unreleased game-finders par excellence Unseen 64 have posted a short video of the project.

Shown off at Spaceworld 2000 before the GameCube's release, the video is only a short tech demonstration of what the finished game could have looked like. The cancellation of Banjo and Kazooie's third outing on a Nintendo home console might draw a few tears, but just makes a better case for why Nintendo and Rare should reunite.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-r-ntyQsw[/youtube]

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If the Microsoft buyout didn't happen, I would have loved to see this happen. But it didn't. But Banjo-Threeie on 3DS? I doubt it. Sort of a reason why Rare should go back to Nintendo with these kind of plat-formers, but since Rare sucks now... I'm sure this game would have been a masterpiece.

 

[H-J Kaabii]

IMO, overdoing postquels in any series kills them off. This sounds close to it. And "Threeie"? What a random title. The images show nothing amazing from what I see. (Looks overfilled with... stuff. >>)

Cite the date of article please.

And please, no more Ninty-Rare reunion bs. ><

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Cite, I think. I do remember that SZ talked about this once, but that was probably in 2007/2008.

 

[AegisReflector]

And "Threeie"? What a random title.

The main antagonist, Grunty, said at the end of Banjo-Tooie that she would have her revenge in "Banjo-Threeie", hence the name.

 

[cookieboy17]

And Threeie comes after Tooie theoretically.

 

[Treasure Trawlers]

That article fucked up while linking to the Tooie portion

 

[Troll]

Thanks Microsoft.

 

[Chubbo1793]

Yeah. I was pissed waiting to see when this would come out. It's just sucks it never came into the picture. I would've loved to see them release it.