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The Yooka-Laylee Rap is finally here.
- Thread starter Kinsei
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Sioul
Member
grim-tales
Member
The first one was already self aware and cheesy imo, so bad it was great. This was 1999 not 1989 or similar.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I'm a little disappointed it's so close to the DK Rap but I'm glad they did this!
Alter_Fridge
Member
2 minutes too long
evilromero
Member
I think that kind of sums of the game's biggest issue. It was celebrated on the premise of bringing back late 90s 3D platformers but seems to stick too closely to the BK and DK64 design, to a fault.
phantasmic_glaive
Member
My thoughts exactly, lol. Really neat, but they should have kept up with the times and did a play on auto-tune or something like that.
fuzzylogic
Member
Milly Osworth
Member
This rap is the game in a nutshell really. Going for nostalgia without seeming to add anything new or a particularly good game. It's like telling a joke you already told before.
for real
lvl99 Pixel
Member
I used to be embarrassed to listen to the DK rap
I was 12
funny enough, my friend decided to start up the DK rap here to support our friend
and nothing will ever top that
I was 12
funny enough, my friend decided to start up the DK rap here to support our friend
and nothing will ever top that
KojiKnight
Member
It's a homage to the thing they made previously. It's no more "making fun" of than their original did.
That's amazing lol.
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
I'm really glad this exists but I simultaneously wish I could forget it
BassForever
Member
Lol this thread has been the best part of april fools day
Doctor_Thomas
Member
I enjoyed this is a very "knowing" way. It's a good thing it's just a joke and was intentionally being self-referential, as it mentions i like the first two lines.
pixelation
Member
I'll tell you this... it's catchy as fuck i only saw the video once and my head has it on constant repeat... Yoo-ka... Yooka Laaaaayleeeeeee!!!
That's been ringing in my head too lol.
This video is the best. I keep watching it for some quick nostalgia and giggles.
100%
Conor_Fool
Banned
Hahahahahaha oh my god, that was fantastic. Can't wait to finally play this!
PeakPointMatrix
Member
daTRUballin
Member
I feel sorry for developers sometimes. Gamers are a really hard group of people to deal with. People have asked for a new game in the same style as Banjo Kazooie for so many years. And when they finally do get it, what do we hear from them? Nothing but negativity every step of the way. If some people have this kind of reaction to something as minor as the rap song, you can sure as hell bet that they're going to be picky about the main game and act like it doesn't meet their "expectations".
I'm kind of astounded by the negativity this game has been receiving by the gaming community. Either people didn't actually want a new collactathon in the style of the Banjo games without realizing it, or maybe it's simply because Yooka Laylee isn't literally Banjo Kazooie. I don't know. Gamers are hard to figure out.
I'm kind of astounded by the negativity this game has been receiving by the gaming community. Either people didn't actually want a new collactathon in the style of the Banjo games without realizing it, or maybe it's simply because Yooka Laylee isn't literally Banjo Kazooie. I don't know. Gamers are hard to figure out.
Omega Kirby
Member
Yup
BassForever
Member
I mean one could argue that the reason the 3d collectathon died is going to be reminded for everyone by the time they're done playing yooka laylee. And the performance issues on xb1 and ps4 based upon what we've seen/heard are pretty inexcusable.
It's a vocal minority. Once the game actually comes out there will be tons of positive discussion in the OT. One week, amigo! One week until the collectathon lovers are vindicated!
Couldn't have said it better myself. Looking forward to it!
Lynd7
Member
Agree, feels people are being overly harsh on this game for some reason. No ones even really played the full game yet.
Impressions from GameXplain seemed fairly positive overall and makes it seem like it'll be at least a good game and not some dumpster fire like MN9.
Is it the age range? Guys that weren't kids back in the B-K era dissing the style of game because they still see it as outdated?
After tons and tons of 8bit styled games I'm glad we are seeing revivals of late 90s 3D games.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I thought it was cheesy but cheesy fun. Same as the DK rap so this is a okay in my book.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
I personally thought this one was a lot worse. I liked the DK rap despite its cheesiness. I think it's just the delivery of the lines in this one and the lyrics just not flowing much at all =(. I'm still excited for the game, since this was just a random stretch goal.
daTRUballin
Member
Yeah, as another poster above you said, maybe it's just a vocal minority hating on this game, and maybe I was just making assumptions. But it's just really weird how everybody asked for this game when it was announced, and now just before release, it's suddenly "outdated" and "terrible" and whatever else.
I tend to criticize Rare for not returning to any of their past franchises, but now I'm starting to think they probably did the right thing by making Sea of Thieves instead of Banjo Threeie.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Instead of thinking that people's opinions have suddenly switched, isn't it more likely that it's two different group of folk? There's more eyes on the game now that it's nearing release and we're getting more press and impressions on it.
That was terrible. I still find the DK rap enjoyable, but I never want to see the YL version ever again. I get that they intentionally made a bad rap, but they missed the point of why people enjoyed the original DK rap. It feels like they didn't know what to do with a cheesy rap song in 2017 so they just copied the beats of the DK rap almost exactly. If you watch the DK rap you can see it's flowing with personality and charm with its cast and skits between the character introductions. This Yooka Laylee version just rips the original song and has the characters all just standing there with idle animations.
TheDinoman
Member
People have always been saying shit like that, man.
You Pay This Much
Member
April 11th....
daTRUballin
Member
It is possible that it's just two different groups of people. I'm sure there are people who just aren't fans of collectathons in general (this will probably be the case with some reviewers I'm sure), but I could swear this game is also getting hate even from people who were looking forward to this game originally. Am I wrong in thinking this?
TheDinoman
Member
I mean, you're not entirely wrong there.
I think it was definitely the Capital Cashino footage that kinda disillusioned a lot of folk. From what I noticed, there was a lot of hype and optimistism beforehand, but once footage of that world got out, things kinda, uh, turned sour.