Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

[Chewblaha]

So I've found myself clawing at my face trying to get some of these trophies in Nuts and Bolts. Most specifically is the trophy where you're put on the egg turret on the flythrough in the Terrarium of Terror. How the fuck does one do this?

 

Also: I think that if any of you others have this game (I think only Ponee does and she hates it D:) that we should all totally work with each other to get the multiplayer achievements. I really, really want to 100% the achievements for this game because I love it so much.

 

So...who's with me?!

[c hoertjes]

Sucks. Nothing like the N64 games.

[RadiantViper]

IIRC you're allowed to skip exactly one trophy and you're still able to get every jiggy, and thus every achievement. I think that's the one I skipped, actually.

 

If I had the game I'd totally help, but I got rid of it ages ago. I got every single achievement 'cept the one you need Banjo-Kazooie XBLA for, and the DLC one for trophies - the DLC missions are a LOT harder IMO. You could always try x360a or TA for boosting though.

 

Also do you have the achievement for "Win 20 Xbox LIVE ranked multiplayer games in any mode"? Because it's bugged and you can do it offline.

Edited December 27, 2010 by RadiantViper

[Chewblaha]

Sucks. Nothing like the N64 games.

 

Trolling, once again.

 

Stop being a hipster and play something new for a change.

[MagicMagicPony]

if c hoes is a hipster, I am king of france

[Chewblaha]

Ponee. Give this game another chance! D:

[Hot Heart]

It may get better on second glance.

[AcidCrownie]

I've.... Never played it.

 

What exactly is the point of the game?

[Chewblaha]

Pretty much this. Banjo and Kazooie are all fat and shit now and are visited by Grunty. Who survived.

 

Again.

 

They are about to Duke it out when LOG, the Lord of Gaming, comes out and tells them how much they suck. After some antics he transports you to Shdowdown Town, where all of the characters from the Banjo series live. The town is your platforming area of the game, trying to get you around and see new heights and explore Banjo nostalgia and lots of secrets. You find Jinjo's and rescue them from being wrongly extradited for being confused as Minjo's.

 

The main focus of the game, however, is the different video game worlds that Showdown town is linked to.

 

You must obtain Jiggies to get into these new video game worlds which star your lovable Banjo characters like Klungo, Mumbo, and Humba with many others. The main points of the missions are to create vehicles and complete the missions, almost like LEGO's. Some are already pre-made for you and some require your imagination.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQGwGGsh3A

 

Some missions are races, some ask you to throw away trash the size of the Himalayan mountains, some ask you to lauch your car as far ass possible, some ask you to beat the shit out of bottles.

 

Fuck Bottles.

 

Earning more Jiggies unlocks more video game areas including the awesome BanjoLand, which takes the worlds of Kazooie and Tooie and makes them into an amusement park where you can go around and read up on the lore of Banjo. Best area in the game, IMO.

 

And if you're just plain bored, leave the designs to your imagination and make something awesome.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM-AwhtAdOk

Edited December 27, 2010 by Chewblaha

[SomTervo]

Hey, I'd be up for some Banjo online.

 

Althouth I'm about 10% into the game and I'm actually using my flatmate's copy. Still, I really really enjoy it..

[MagicMagicPony]

Ponee. Give this game another chance! D:

Oh, I wish I could, broham. You have no idea how happy I would have been to have another banjo game.

[Hot Heart]

Screw you, guys. Broke the rhymes.

[c hoertjes]

Sucks. Nothing like the N64 games.

 

Trolling, once again.

 

Stop being a hipster and play something new for a change.

1. Not trolling. It's my opinion, retard.

 

2. Do you know what "hipster" means? I'm about as far from it as you can get. I hate hipster shit.

 

3. "Play something new for a change." Like this 2 year old game?

[Hot Heart]

I don't think he meant 'new' as in release date.

[Chewblaha]

I'm talking about stop being obsessed with it not being like the N64 platformer. Play something with the franchise that takes a new look at how to play the game.

 

Reading comprehension was taught to me in kindergarten.

[MagicMagicPony]

err yeah but it just recycled the characters and then shit on their heritage

[c hoertjes]

err yeah but it just recycled the characters and then shit on their heritage

+1 mythical reps

[Chewblaha]

err yeah but it just recycled the characters and then shit on their heritage

 

How did it shit on their heritage?

 

There are signs throughout the game explaining stuff about Banjo. Talks about how people suck too much at video games and how making a real platformer would be too hard for them.

[MagicMagicPony]

some asshole with a screenhead shows up and more or less says "duh this is stupid let's GO TO MY CRAZY GAME WORLD"

[SomTervo]

I dunno, there are races and building and junk- but breaking up the gameplay is still some simple Banjo-esque platforming fun.

 

It's like they took the original forumula of the Banjo games, but made that the background and added a whole other game on top of it. I like it, and it still refers back to old Banjo all the time, and is totally true to the characters. Sure, they added a bunch of folk, but the ones from the older games are still there and unique as ever.

[arbitarty]

I dunno, there are races and building and junk- but breaking up the gameplay is still some simple Banjo-esque platforming fun.

 

It's like they took the original forumula of the Banjo games, but made that the background and added a whole other game on top of it. I like it, and it still refers back to old Banjo all the time, and is totally true to the characters. Sure, they added a bunch of folk, but the ones from the older games are still there and unique as ever.

 

I'd completely forgotten about this game till I saw this post.

 

I'm digging it out as soon as I get home. The vehicle building part did it for me, not so much the legacy references.

[Connorrrr]

I'm really not trolling, I hated this game. It was disappointing and not what I expected when I heard another B&K game was coming out... I loved the N64 games, it's just a shame they decided to go with the vehicle thing. My personal opinion. I know some people like it but I just didn't, and I really wanted to

[RockyRan]

Glad to see the incredibly idiotic hate for this game is quite alive and well.

 

It's one of the best games of this generation, people. Get over the fact that it's nothing like the N64 games already. Shit, people didn't bitch this much when Mario Kart came out and it was nothing like Mario. The original Banjo-Kazooie games weren't even all that great. Maybe you guys weren't old enough to remember, but when the original BK came out people whined that it was a "Mario 64 ripoff", then whined that the second "was too big".

 

Long story short, there's a long line of bitching regarding the franchise, first because it was too similar and now because it's too different. Here's the deal: Nuts & Bolts is quite easily the one game that gives the series the closest it has to a unique identity, and it's all the better for it. It's an unconventional game that isn't worried about pandering to the lowest common denominator, and it takes a quirky concept and runs with it. Suffice to say that if the "vehicles handheld like crap", YOU did something wrong with designing it, or if the game was "repititive", YOU failed at experimentation.

 

The game isn't completely flawless, but it's NOT "crap". And the people who call this "crap" just because of the fact that it's not a carbon copy of the N64 games without analyzing or even fucking mentioning the gameplay speaks quite a bit of you all's incredible pettiness. Never before have I seen such hatred for a game that isn't even about the game. You people don't hate the game because of what's in it, you hate it because of what is NOT in it. I can't even begin to explain what's wrong with that kind of thinking.

 

And people wonder why Call of Duty is the best selling franchise of this generation. It's because people HERP and freak the fuck out when a game tries anything different. You RUIN it for the rest of us who want new experiences and who, you know, keep an open mind about things.

Edited February 27, 2011 by RockyRan

[excel_excel]

Glad to see the incredibly idiotic hate for this game is quite alive and well.

 

It's one of the best games of this generation, people. Get over the fact that it's nothing like the N64 games already. Shit, people didn't bitch this much when Mario Kart came out and it was nothing like Mario. The original Banjo-Kazooie games weren't even all that great. Maybe you guys weren't old enough to remember, but when the original BK came out people whined that it was a "Mario 64 ripoff", then whined that the second "was too big".

 

 

Hold on now, the original was widely regarded as the 2nd best platformer for the N64. Banjo-Tooie wasn't criticised for being too big but more for having too many damn useless trinkets to collect, but was still seen as a quality game. They weren't hated on by any stretch back then, and the first is still regarded as a classic today.

 

As for Nuts & Bolts, I applaud Rare for taking the franchise in a new direction. It had too many niggling problems though, like spending so much time making vehicles only for something to fall off, and finding some stuff was incredibly frustrating. I would have rathered a bit more platforming, I just got a bit frustrated with it, but it is a good game OH! And it looked incredible. Tremendous visuals. I can understand why some people didn't like it though. Some people just wanted a better looking, epic BK for the 360.

Thing is though, I had more fun collecting stuff in the hub doing normal platforming, then I did do any of the vehicle stuff.

 

EDIT: Also, even Rare seemed to be perfectly aware when they made the game that the new playstyle would divide people.

 

Hence why in one of the loading screen messages reads, "don't like the new vehicle style gameplay? Buy Banjo Kazooie on xbox live now!" cheeky

Edited February 27, 2011 by excel_excel

[Connorrrr]

Glad to see the incredibly idiotic hate for this game is quite alive and well.

 

It's one of the best games of this generation, people. Get over the fact that it's nothing like the N64 games already. Shit, people didn't bitch this much when Mario Kart came out and it was nothing like Mario. The original Banjo-Kazooie games weren't even all that great. Maybe you guys weren't old enough to remember, but when the original BK came out people whined that it was a "Mario 64 ripoff", then whined that the second "was too big".

 

Long story short, there's a long line of bitching regarding the franchise, first because it was too similar and now because it's too different. Here's the deal: Nuts & Bolts is quite easily the one game that gives the series the closest it has to a unique identity, and it's all the better for it. It's an unconventional game that isn't worried about pandering to the lowest common denominator, and it takes a quirky concept and runs with it. Suffice to say that if the "vehicles handheld like crap", YOU did something wrong with designing it, or if the game was "repititive", YOU failed at experimentation.

 

The game isn't completely flawless, but it's NOT "crap". And the people who call this "crap" just because of the fact that it's not a carbon copy of the N64 games without analyzing or even fucking mentioning the gameplay speaks quite a bit of you all's incredible pettiness. Never before have I seen such hatred for a game that isn't even about the game. You people don't hate the game because of what's in it, you hate it because of what is NOT in it. I can't even begin to explain what's wrong with that kind of thinking.

 

And people wonder why Call of Duty is the best selling franchise of this generation. It's because people HERP and freak the fuck out when a game tries anything different. You RUIN it for the rest of us who want new experiences and who, you know, keep an open mind about things.

 

I think you're defending this game a little bit too much. Some people have differing opinions y'know? I went in with an open mind because I still bought the game, and I did know that it was primarily a vehicle game, having read reviews to that effect. I still didn't like it. I'm all for originality and games trying things different but if I don't like them, I don't like them. It's simple.