Hopefully when and if Dixie shows up, they give her the kneepads back. The Rare pin is unfortunately not going to happen, but at least she can get the other part of her classic design back, like how K. Rool's golden belly returned.
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Dunno if it's been mentioned, but some of the amiibo re prints are best buy exclusive. I pre ordered gannondorf
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&st=AMIIBO
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I'm really curious what the roster would have been like with Rare still with Nintendo. Presumably Banjo would have been in Brawl, and maybe Joanna Dark in For. I wonder who they would have replaced?
I do sorta feel like if Nintendo reached out to Microsoft and said "hey, we wanna give you money for that character you're not using for our game" that Microsoft would say "sure" and work out a deal, but it's possible to Sakurai that Banjo isn't a big enough deal to reach out for.
I do sorta feel like if Nintendo reached out to Microsoft and said "hey, we wanna give you money for that character you're not using for our game" that Microsoft would say "sure" and work out a deal, but it's possible to Sakurai that Banjo isn't a big enough deal to reach out for.
I mean I never looked at my Ganondorf figure like that, but maybe I will change my mind
General popularity amongst Nintendo and Smash fans. Ryu and Street Fighter are bigger deals overall than Megaman, but we got the Blue Bomber first because he was a bigger deal to Nintendo and their fans.
Banjo is a Nintendo character whether Microsoft likes it or not.
Were all the Halo games hints for Banjo in Smash?
You know its a bit funny to think that Banjo's big ass nose fits under the helmet.
Banjo-Kazooie is the dream that will never happen. If it does, I will change my avatar to something beautiful and magnificent.
If Rare was still with Nintendo I feel like BK and Joanna Dark would definitely be in, Conker, some kind of Viva Pinata character, and Grunty would be maybes.
Also since presumably the Rare characters would have continued to appear in DK games K Rool probably would have gotten in sooner and Dixie would already be in.
Joanna Dark playable! Laptop gun is one of her specials. Viva Pinata assist trophy. Beat the pinata to get food.
You say that, but they didn't get in Melee.
Granted the roster was more limited but still. Best they got was the PD proximity mine.
Joanna definitely would have made the roster considering her series had items in Melee. Banjo would have likely been in and maybe even had a second character, like Mumbo or Grunty.
Conker would never be in though. It's one thing to have M rated characters like Snake and Bayonetta alongside huge IPs like Pokemon. It's another to have an M rated character that pisses on his enemies. I'd imagine The Pokemon Company would throw a fit having Pikachu alongside Conker. It wouldn't fly.
Maybe a Killer Instinct character? Jago or Fulgore would have been cool.
That would easily become one of the most hype direct moments ever. Even if it was just somehow Banjo being on N64 classic or virtual console
The best part would be Vinny Vinesauce's reaction to it since he's been using Banjo's theme to troll on his stream
Sakurai tried getting Banjo into Melee but ran into some Microsoft/licensing problems.
Wasn't the Rare buyout stuff already happening while Melee was in development? So there was no chance of anything Rare getting in to begin with.
Melee was also missing Diddy and Wario and we only barely got Ganondorf. I don't imagine we ever would have gotten Banjo in it.
Didn't they try for James Bond, though?
For Melee? The Rare buy-out was definitely in that timeframe.
Having items in the game sadly doesn't mean much....
You bring up a good point. I'm only speaking of a hypothetical world where Nintendo bought Rare and had full ownership of their IP. I'd imagine if that had happened, then Perfect Dark and Banjo wouldn't be dead franchises.
Prima Guides are up for pre-order for Ultimate
Collector's Edition
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Collector's Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/074401904...91d9de3425f1e910d6c5d952e33b01&language=en_US
Regular
https://www.amazon.com/dp/074401903...a1a3baf102d71c680081b4c4a5ac36&language=en_US
Indeed it was. Leigh Loveday had mentioned in Scribes that Rare made a ton of trophies for Melee that were cut due to the buyout.
I still stand by that this is why Diddy has no trophy in Melee. My theory is that it was based on Diddy Kong Racing.
This doesnt' read like he tried to get Banjo into smash. He leads with Rare and uses Banjo as one example, probably since it's one requested in reader responses
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He probably did not actually try to get James Bond into smash.
If anything could outdo the reaction to Ridley and Isabelle, it'd be this.
It's worth noting, with Perfect Dark, that with Snake joining, the whole thing about Sakurai being apprehensive about PD stuff at all in Smash due to being M-rated would vanish. To think in an alternative universe we'd have Banjo AND Joanna in Smash. Just. Yes. Yes. YES.
I didn't realize it was happening that early. I figured it only started later because they were still able to get out Star Fox Adventures.
But I guess I thought SFA came out later than it actually did.
He uses Banjo because Banjo is first in line, I don't think he was spitballing.
Imagine if banjo had gotten into a smash game somehow before the buyout, and then being the 1st major cut the next game
I know it's been commented on earlier, but I hope this has a lot of cool itnerviews & concept art with Sakurai in the collector's edition. The real pull of guidebooks at this point are all the extraneous stuff
If Nintendo thought that Banjo was important enough to be in Melee, it's possible that they could of tried to retain the IP from Microsoft during the buyout.
I also imagine he still had to negotiate for the Proximity Mine, Cloaking Device and/or the Motion Sensor Bomb alongside Rare trophies, so I imagine this type of thing came up often in Melee's development even outside character selection.
I kind of wonder if Diddy's rights at the time were considered up in the air. For the Smash 64 "what if there was a smash 2" reader polls he put Diddy in the Rare category.
I wonder if Nintendo just didn't have any interest in securing Banjo or just felt they wouldn't have done anything with it. Rare was the house that built Banjo, maybe they felt they had the best vision for him. It's not like Nintendo did a whole lot with Donkey Kong Country after Rare was bought.
Please no. Dixie's kneepads are just dated and tacked on, and fulfill no purpose whatsoever, unlike K. Rool's belly.
I still think it was crazy that Nintendo just let Microsoft have Banjo and Perfect Dark and all that jazz.
I agree, the kneepads are tacky and kind of lame. Rool's belly is iconic and awesome.
They may not have seen Banjo as necessary because they already had Mario to fill the 3D platformer role for their systems.
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