Latest Obsessions - Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Armed with my new love of Viva Pinata (thanks to the DS version of the game I reviewed earlier) we went out Friday and picked up Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise for the Xbox 360. It’s got awsome tv show tie ins fantastic new pinatas and 2 new areas of pinata island to discover and trap rare and more pinatas than ever before! How did I like it? How did it stack up compared to the new DS game? Find out after the jump!
Filed under Games | Comment (0)Banjo Kazooie Guerilla Marketing!
Everyone must know of my Banjo-Kazooie love by now so I decided to share it with as many people as possible using guerilla marketing for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for the Xbox 360. Sure Microsoft and Rare have a huge marketing budget but much like Viva Pinata I don’t think this game is going to get any attention at all. Which sucks for all of us that are going to buy it since I want to trade blueprints and compete with more people!
Give Eyes To Everything!
“What’s Guerilla Marketing?” you ask, here’s wikipedia to the rescue!
“Guerrilla Marketing, is an unconventional system of promotions on a very low budget, by relying on time, energy and imagination instead of big marketing budgets.”
Now I know this isn’t exactly over the top fantastic and hey someone can probably do better but I want to raise awarness for my favorite game series AND make my world a little more magical.
When I first made the set of eyes the idea was just to put them around the house on varying inanimate objects but then I thought “Hey, why not put these around town!” then it was “No one’s going to get the joke so might aswell advertise Banjo-Kazooie N&B while I’m at it!”
Anyway without further ado Click Here to download Rare googly eyes!
See more stuff with eyes after the jump!
Filed under Papercraft | Comment (0)Papercraft: Conker’s Chainsaw!
Saw this one around the net today and once again you know how much I love Papercraft AND Rare! So here’s the chainsaw Conker uses in Bad Fur Day!
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts - My Positive Perspective
Seeing as how my last post was so negative when it comes to the newest installment of BK I wanted to post the aspects of the game I AM looking forward to. Poeple seem to have gotten the wrong idea about my feelings towards the game. I’m still excited and I still love Rare the whole vehicle thing is not where I would have gone with Banjo.
I will still buy the game launch day and probably have a blast with it.
So without further addo here are the things I’m still looking forward to in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts!
Filed under Games | Comments (3)Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts - My Perspective
Everyone has pretty much got now that I’m a HUGE Banjo-Kazooie fan. I like to think of myself as being pretty well informed when it comes to the goings on with what is without a doubt my all time favorite franchise.
As I’ve just stated I consider Banjo-Kazooie is my all time favorite game series so imagine my shock and happiness when BK3 for the Xbox 360 was announced. This announcement pretty much sold me to the Xbox making me go out the day after the trailer was released and buy one in anticipation. That was 2 years ago.
Filed under Games | Comments (22)Rumoursaurus - Why You Should/n’t buy Viva Pinata 2
Tags: Conspiracy Theory, Forboding, Microsoft, Rare, Troublesome, Viva Pinata, Xbox
Apparently the new Game Informer lists some of the following features about Viva Pinata 2 - Trouble In Paradise. I bought and loved the first one but here are a few reasons for and against buying it.
Why you should get it:
- Improved interactivity between the pinata’s and the environments.
- Pinata’s will mimic each others action and follow the leader around the garden.
- They’ll be adding toys for the pinatas to play with like musical instruments, spaced themed toys, and trains that the pinata’s will ride around the garden.
- 2 new sub areas called Pinarctic and Dessert that’ll allow you to travel to new locations and lay traps for the pinatas.
- A drop in and drop out co op mode.
- Improved UI.
Why you shouldn’t get it:
- 30 new pinatas. There was about 50 pinatas in the first one. Does this mean that this game will only have 30 pinatas or will it include the old pinatas? Does that mean we bought the first for nothing?
- A photo mode will allow you to upload pictures to the website. So lame.
- You will pay $50 for this game on launch and within a month it will be down to $20, like the first.
- If this is not an expansion pack, then you will be starting new gardens.
- Make a stand to Rareware about Banjo Kazooie 3’s suckyness.
- Viva Pinata feels like it should be on the PC. The PC version of the first one came out a year after it’s initial release. If this does the same wait for the PC verion, it’ll control much better.
I personally am not going to get this game. I haven’t seen all of the pinatas in the first game yet and don’t want to pay for half a new game. I think it’s bullshit that #2 will likely get you everything from #1 after I already paid $60. I want entirely new pinatas in my new game.
Filed under General | Comment (1)Banjo-Threeie Racing?
Tags: Banjo-Kazooie, Conspiracy Theory, Forboding, Microsoft, Rare, Troublesome, Xbox
If Banjo Kazooie 3 isn’t a racing game then it’s the most vehicle heavy platformer we’ve ever seen!
For anyone who’s not in the know screenshots of the eegrly anticipated Banjo-Kazooie 3 were just released. Now I’m as excited as anybody for these new screens but I’m feeling very worried.
Rare has been quoted as saying
Banjo-Kazooie 3 won’t be your average platformer!
and
The old worlds will return but not how you might think.
What if both of these quotes are to say that while Banjo-Kazooie 3 will have platforming it will focus heavily on racing around the different worlds or vehicle use. With the second quote it’s more likely that the older levels wil return as unlockable race tracks.
View our screenshots with commentary after the break!
Filed under Games | Comments (3)Great Mighty Poo Papercraft!
I found this a while ago online but noticed it while I was doing some spring cleaning on my computer. For the uninitiated this is a papercraft model of the Great Mighty Poo from Conker’s Bad Fur Day for the N64 & Xbox. Download the files, print it out get yourself some scissors and glue and build your own!
Download the paper craft here: Great Mighty Poo Paper Craft
Those of you who are still unsure of who the heck he is check out the video after the jump!
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