Gaming Yooka Laylee Release?

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Tried it on PC at a friend's house. After two hours on it, I lost all urge to continue. There is nothing glaringly wrong with the gameplay, but for some reason it doesn't keep my attention.

For now, I'd say the main downside is the lackluster level design.
 

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If you liked banjo kazooie, you should like this game, Simply put. I've dumped about 25+ hours in. This game has nostalgia written all over it. The fact that it is being ported to practically everything is all the better. It's cheaper than other games of its caliber. With it on switch, the portability is all the better. Not Sure why its getting bashed so much.

Because anyone under 20 seems to consider this style of game an archaic and crappy experience because it doesn't have voice acting and *gasp* too many collectibles in a collectathon.

"Call of Duty has too many guns!" Is basically the kind of stuff they're complaining about. Most people that I've seen complaining have never played or heard of most of the games Yooka Laylee was based off of.
 
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Because anyone under 20 seems to consider this style of game an archaic and crappy experience because it doesn't have voice acting and *gasp* too many collectibles in a collectathon.

"Call of Duty has too many guns!" Is basically the kind of stuff they're complaining about. Most people that I've seen complaining have never played or heard of most of the games Yooka Kaylee was based off of.
YookaLaylee lol
 

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It's better than Mighty No 9.
The shit I just took was better then Mighty No. 9.

Because anyone under 20 seems to consider this style of game an archaic and crappy experience because it doesn't have voice acting and *gasp* too many collectibles in a collectathon.

"Call of Duty has too many guns!" Is basically the kind of stuff they're complaining about. Most people that I've seen complaining have never played or heard of most of the games Yooka Laylee was based off of.
No they're complaining that it's fucking boring.
 
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Pro reviews and user reviews seem to disagree heavily on this one. I'm sure it's not Andromeda broken. You can be tired of the formula, but that doesn't mean everyone is.

Nothing is wrong with ME:Andromeda unless you hated ME:2 and kotor 2. Then the game wasn't intended for you.
 

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Nothing is wrong with ME:Andromeda unless you hated ME:2 and kotor 2. Then the game wasn't intended for you.
I don't know how you can draw that conclusion, ME:2 had solid voice acting and character building despite over-simplifying a lot of the elements from the first game. ME:A has a bunch of nobodies doing the VA, unlikable characters, and terrible writing even by Bioware's standards. ME:A also over-simplified the gameplay (even more than ME:2) for no good reason after they had gotten it mostly right in ME:3.
 
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Essentially it's the nature of reviews. There is a certain amount of objectivity to reviews in the sense of spotting clear flaws, but the degree to which the flaws affect the enjoyment of the game is subjective. For example, I'm loving Mass Effect Andromeda despite the middling reviews because the flaws simply aren't hindering the enjoyment for me.

I'll be getting Yooka-Laylee on the Switch because it seems like the type of game I can enjoy picking up and playing on the go. I can't see myself sitting down in front of the TV for hours to play it.
 

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Wow, triggered snowflakes detected in the thread. I said it's a shitty cash-in on nostalgia and it's a shitty cash-in on nostalgia, big surprise. Game looks like it fell out of a PS2 and the gameplay is tired, the whole formula feels like homework. No amount of patching will fix a game that was a bad idea to begin with.
Umm.... the entire reason I was even excited for this game was because of the nostalgia. Its basically Banjo-Kazooie with a new skin. Exactly what I was hoping for. Anyone who expected it to be anything other than that clearly didn't do their homework. My only complaint is that the camera auto-centers when you move. It can be annoying. They could easily patch that out, though (not that I expect them to).
 
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Nothing is wrong with ME:Andromeda unless you hated ME:2 and kotor 2. Then the game wasn't intended for you.
There's plenty of "wrong" with the game, I lost 40 hours of progress because the game went into a never-ending loading loop and, according to EA, the only way to "fix the issue" was starting over. The game also has problems with texture pop-in, especially on Kadara from what I noticed, and I'm playing on the PS4 Pro, so there's no excuse - the console version is broken. I currently have a quest marker on the Nexus for a quest that hasn't even started yet, pointing to a non-existent NPC, and the only way to get rid of it is to just play the game until the NPC finally spawns in the right moment of the story. The scanner often refuses to scan certain objects despite the fact that they're highlighted, which means that the pin-point picking system is broken. Multiplayer matches are also screwed, as the game is plagued with a random bug that disconnects you and sends you to an error code screen, and to make matters worse, it conveniently happens on Wave 6, right before extraction - in my experience one in four matches sends me back to the PS4 homescreen, making online barely playable. Don't get me wrong, I like the game, but the technical shortcomings go beyond the "faces" which didn't bother me in the first place, they're in basic functionality of the game.
Umm.... the entire reason I was even excited for this game was because of the nostalgia. Its basically Banjo-Kazooie with a new skin. Exactly what I was hoping for. Anyone who expected it to be anything other than that clearly didn't do their homework. My only complaint is that the camera auto-centers when you move. It can be annoying. They could easily patch that out, though (not that I expect them to).
They had a chance to make something new and exciting and they blew it with a reskin. If it wasn't for the packaging, you could confuse the game for a ROM hack, that's not acceptable. Not only that, it's not a very good ROM hack either.
 

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They had a chance to make something new and exciting and they blew it with a reskin. If it wasn't for the packaging, you could confuse the game for a ROM hack, that's not acceptable. Not only that, it's not a very good ROM hack either.
No one said you have to like the game. Myself, on the other hand, I really like the fact that this game is so close to Banjo-Kazooie. I was, in fact, looking forward to it. Sorry to hear you were disappointed.
 
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No one said you have to like the game. Myself, on the other hand, I really like the fact that this game is so close to Banjo-Kazooie. I was, in fact, looking forward to it. Sorry to hear you were disappointed.
It sounds like the majority of the press was disappointed. There's a difference between reviving a defunct gameplay model and making it work again by applying modern mechanics, like inExile is doing, and just applying high voltage to a corpse to create a Frankenstein of an IP. I'm happy that you're enjoying the game, but the consensus is that the title feels dated at best.
 

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It sounds like the majority of the press was disappointed. There's a difference between reviving a defunct gameplay model and making it work again by applying modern mechanics, like inExile is doing, and just applying high voltage to a corpse to create a Frankenstein of an IP. I'm happy that you're enjoying the game, but the consensus is that the title feels dated at best.
It feels dated because 3d platformers were "killed off" around the time everything needed to either be fps or open world to be good. COD is constantly top of the charts, yet every single one of those is a "reskin" as well...
 

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It feels dated because 3d platformers were "killed off" around the time everything needed to either be fps or open world to be good. COD is constantly top of the charts, yet every single one of those is a "reskin" as well...

Except the COD that is the least REskin is the most hated. Infinant Warfar. ;P
 

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It feels dated because 3d platformers were "killed off" around the time everything needed to either be fps or open world to be good. COD is constantly top of the charts, yet every single one of those is a "reskin" as well...
3D platformers have gone through an exodus of sorts in recent years, Yooka-Laylee is hardly the first of its kind, it's just dated.
 

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3D platformers have gone through an exodus of sorts in recent years, Yooka-Laylee is hardly the first of its kind, it's just dated.
Its not supposed to be the first of its kind.... The ENTIRE point of the game from the start was to be a Banjo-Kazooie clone. I don't understand how you could have expected anything else.
 
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