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Banjo-Kazooie technically allowed you to switch on the fly as well, since you controlled Kazooie's when you used the Talon trot. It'd be a neat idea to use in this game too.

It would be SO awesome if Playtonic decided to tackle this idea next! Donkey Kong Racing and Sabreman Stampede both looked amazing and had so much potential we never got to see realized. I'm imagining this gigantic racing/adventure game where you go around an expansive hub world catching and mountin...

That sounds like it would be really cool.

I was recently laid off so now I've been spending my days wasting away playing video games. Oy...

I'm really excited about the other indie 3D platformers coming out (particularly Lobodestroyo and A Hat in Time). And I'm also really excited for pretty much everything Nintendo has coming up (well, except Mario Party 10...I feel pretty lukewarm about that one). And also, Arkham Knight looks awesome...

Yeah the fact that it got pinned was definitely a good thing.

I liked how Rare's humor on the N64 escalated to be more dry and more adult-themed as time went on. First you had Diddy Kong Racing, which was purely innocent, childish humor. Then you had Banjo-Kazooie, which added some irony and satire to the mix. Then you had Donkey Kong 64 which added some sexua...

This was a great idea for a thread, Lupo. Makes it really easy to find these topics.

In the same sort of vein as stop n' swap, it would be neat to have some kind of trophy room that spans multiple games, growing bigger and more full of cool things you've done with each game. I think the trophy room should be a physical room that you can directly access in every Playtonic game. Like...

I feel that a chameleon adds much more depth to gameplay than a bear would, but a bird would be very hard to replace. So I'm really hoping on chameleon and bird. Or other animal that can fly. I kind of like the idea of the partner being an insect, since lizards eat insects and it would make for an ...

That's true, flight should definitely be very limited if it's included. I think it makes for some very fun "dicking around", but I guess it does kinda trivialize the platforming segments in any place it's available.

I didn't think his voice in AHIT sounded that bad. At least not in the lines he has here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5LLx3xsZko


Maybe he has other lines in a later part that are worse, but here he just sounds like a typical NPC voice.

One of the coolest parts of Banjo-Kazooie was finding a flight pad and flying around freely (I always loved the controls for flying in Banjo-Kazooie so much more than how it worked in Mario 64, maybe because of the flapping). Do you think that will return in Ukulele? Do you want it do?

I think a Nintendo/Playtonic partnership could be really beneficial down the line. It could give Playtonic access to a bigger budget to make bigger and better games with and it could allow their games to be fully advertised and given a physical retail release. And who wouldn't love a Playtonic helme...

The first rule of Playtonic Club is: You do not talk about Playtonic Club.

Oh alright. I promise not to go around posting any naughty images of my naughty bits.

Wow, that is a very nice picture. Good work!

Yeah the forums are kind of like a secret hidden clubhouse right now.

Well, "Ukulele" would be the logical nickname for the larger member of the duo (presumably the lizard), since it's an obvious parallel to "Banjo". But what should the smaller character be nicknamed? Since ukuleles are Hawaiian, how about we name him/her after a Hawaiian woodwind ...