They’re remaking Yooka Laylee, and dare I say it looks good.
I wanted to like this more than I did; I backed the kickstarter. Maybe I’ll check this out when it comes out
Yooka-Replaylee! | Reveal Trailer
Submitted 5 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXXbkP5HAc
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 5 months ago
Sadly, I don’t think ray tracing is going to fix how boring this game is. I also backed the kickstarter because I’m a huge Banjo Kazooie fan. I started this game 3 separate times and could never will myself to get more than halfway. Not only is the gameplay uninteresting, the writing just doesn’t have the same charm as the BK games
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Agreed. I wanted to like it, I really did. But it just wasn’t fun.
QubaXR@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It always looked good, just played poorly.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So they aren’t updating the original? Just releasing a new version??
I kinda feel like they’re trying to make me buy the game again.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The original was a great game despite being a little buggy, so taking the opportunity to fix a few of them sounds great!
Drummyralf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Weird. As a die-hard collectathon lover I thought the game was “ok”. I played it after all the patches amd stuff. Some challenges were ridiculous and unfun, worlds felt empty at times.
From the steampage:
MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER – With an art and animations overhaul and enhanced performance and resolution, the favourite buddy duo has never looked or moved better. NEW AND IMPROVED CHALLENGES – Improvements to existing in-game challenges and many entirely new challenges to discover and undertake! NEW COLLECTIBLE CURRENCY – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their hard-earned coins all over the place. Collect the official currency of the Hivory Towers to spend on video games’ most beloved sentient vending machine. NAVIGATING THE WORLD – Now you can get lost in the game, not in the world! A brand-new world map and challenges tracker helps you know where you are and what needs to be done. Hooray! VENDI HAS PLENTY TO OFFER – Tonics are back with all new flavours! With the option to equip multiple game-changing enhancements, you can truly customise your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t enough, Vendi has new lines of merchandise for the modern fashionable adventurer. REVISED CONTROLS & CAMERA – A new tweaked move set allows you to combine moves more fluidly while the new camera controls makes framing the action a breeze. A DREAMY ORCHESTRAL SOUNDTRACK – The original score from famed video game composers Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and David Wise (Donkey Kong Country) returns but as a beautifully arranged orchestral score. Now seriously, clean out those ears
Especially like the addition of the map and the new collectable. We’ll see if the updated challenges get rid of/fix the terrible ones.
simple@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m optimistic, Yooka Laylee and the impossible lair was a very nice platformer so I would hope with more experience and budget they can make the original game much better. Still weird that they’re opting for a remake and not a sequel though.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Why does this game need a remake? It came out pretty recently. They could probably just release a graphics and content patch for the base game. Or a sequel. Why rerelease a game like this?
eutsgueden@lemm.ee 5 months ago
To me it’s kinda the perfect game to remake (hopefully it IS remade and not just rereleased) because it had a lot of potential that it just did not live up to. A graphics and content pack would not improve the game much at all, because the let down was the gameplay and mechanics. If they can re-tool that, they may have a solid game here.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Shouldn’t they just make a sequel in that case?
Drummyralf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just speculation on my part, but perhaps they are using a different engine. The original was made in Unity, this one looks like it was made in Unreal.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wonder how many tools Unreal has written to convert assets over from Unity setups…
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Ah, probably another Slay The Spire 2 type situation then. Unity really screwed the pooch on that one.