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Posted December 13, 2016
Fun right off the bat!



UPDATE: The Linux version for the Toybox is now also available.

<span class="bold">Yooka-Laylee</span>, the delightful action/platformer starring a chatty bat and a cute chameleon, is now available for pre-order, DRM-free on GOG.com. Get it now to receive the neat Toybox as a free pre-order bonus, available immediately.

The world's literature is in need of some good old-fashioned saving and there are only two creatures that can pull this off: Yooka (the loveable lizard thing) and Laylee (the talkative bat)! In their grand adventure, the duo will cross paths with a cast of oddball characters, including an evil-looking duck, an entrepreneurial snake in trousers, and a certain Knight that everybody digs.

Designed as a spiritual successor to beloved platformers of yore like the Donkey Kong Country games and Banjo-Kazooie, and developed by a team consisting of several alumni of these classics, Yooka-Laylee carries many of their signature sensibilities and offbeat humor. You will explore vast and beautiful worlds, combine the duo's unique powers, and overcome imaginative puzzles and platforming challenges, trying to stop Capital B's malevolent plans. Scooping up the crazy collectibles scattered all over the place might be a good start in that direction.



Pre-order <span class="bold">Yooka-Laylee</span> and prepare to spread colorful mischief across more than five worlds full of platforming goodness, DRM-free on GOG.com. Or crank the cuteness factor up to eleven with the <span class="bold">Deluxe Edition upgrade</span>, which includes the soundtrack and a wonderful artbook.
Get the game now to receive the Toybox as a free pre-order bonus, available to play immediately.



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Post edited December 19, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted December 14, 2016
Anyone know more details about the co-op mode? A quick search only revealed some quite old infos about it being local only. Is that still true?
Posted December 14, 2016
So, if I have the right informations, will the finished game come out in July 2017?
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flashpulse: Those system requirements look ridiculous. Tone it down and target a bigger audience. I personally don't need my games looking like the next Pixar animation. Or even life like depending on the style of the game.
The intel inegrated HD530 (Skylake) not to speak of the Iris (Pro) graphics or never will play this game without problems.
And than there you have the AMD APUs.
Post edited December 14, 2016 by OPstrator
Posted December 14, 2016
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opticq: [...]

1. In this day and age for a brand new game is a manual really needed? That too for a simple platformer that will most likely have in game prompts and dialogs? [...]
Perhaps not, but:
Also, you would think a developer would only create a manual if they believed it would be helpful to customers that are trying to lean how to play the game. So, the manual should be included in all versions of the game.
So, since (if) they've made a digital manual, it should not be locked in a deluxe upgrade.

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opticq: [...]

2. The description does say manual and art book; maybe they're one and the same? If so that's poorly worded and should have been just called an art book [...]
If any sort of instructions on how to play the game are included in what otherwise counts as an art book, then it's not simply a matter of poorly worded.

JMO, of course, but it doesn't exactly leave a good taste in my mouth.
Posted December 14, 2016
maybe nice, but definitely not my style.
thanks
Posted December 14, 2016
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flashpulse: Those system requirements look ridiculous. Tone it down and target a bigger audience. I personally don't need my games looking like the next Pixar animation. Or even life like depending on the style of the game.
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tammerwhisk: Ridiculous how? The hardware mentioned in the minimums has been out of production for years now. A modern i3 and a cheap GPU from the last few years is better than what's listed. And 8GB is pretty necessary just for Windows + apps anymore. I'm sitting on my desktop with Steam, Galaxy, and chrome open and 5GB of RAM is in-use.
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Clearsong: WiiU version is canceled. It'll be coming to the Nintendo Switch instead.

Not really surprising - the WiiU is pretty much dead by this point. Which is a shame, I like the controller screen when it's well used.
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tammerwhisk: Pretty much? Try completely. Nintendo has done jack with it over the last year and they ended production. The teased the "NX" couple years back and just left the U to rot.
As a software developer I'm quite aware that most people have 2GB of ram and not the latest graphics card. If you did a poll. You'll find not many have 4GB of ram, let alone 8GB. Many are still on XP too. Not everyone has money to upgrade or just prefer the OS and PC hardware they are currently using.
Posted December 14, 2016
GOG price: 339 kr
Steam price: 299 kr

GOG plz :(
Posted December 14, 2016
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flashpulse: As a software developer I'm quite aware that most people have 2GB of ram and not the latest graphics card. If you did a poll. You'll find not many have 4GB of ram, let alone 8GB. Many are still on XP too. Not everyone has money to upgrade or just prefer the OS and PC hardware they are currently using.
I think you need to look up the definition of most. Unless you are primarily catering to the middle of siberia.

And not to come off as a total prick, but people that can't even maintain hardware from the last 5 years probably should be you know putting some of the money they spend on new games towards an upgrade or a console.

Edit: Since GOG doesn't maintain hardware polls... this should suffice: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Post edited December 14, 2016 by tammerwhisk
Posted December 15, 2016
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flashpulse: As a software developer I'm quite aware that most people have 2GB of ram and not the latest graphics card. If you did a poll. You'll find not many have 4GB of ram, let alone 8GB. Many are still on XP too. Not everyone has money to upgrade or just prefer the OS and PC hardware they are currently using.
Those "most people" don't use their PCs to play the latest video games, though. And even if they are into video games, they certainly don't look like this game.

I was one of those people who stuck with Win XP for a long time, and only switched a few years ago, but even on my old Win XP machine I had 4GB of RAM.

GOG already offers hundreds of games for people with old, low-spec computer setups. What's the harm, if they also offer some games for people with more recent hardware? And I'm saying that as someone with a fairly average mid-range system.
Posted December 15, 2016
So for people complaining about the specs for this game I have a computer I built maybe three years ago now (it's hard to keep track of time for me lately) mostly to play Skyrim. It can run Skyrim just fine at 720p and struggles a bit at 1080p since I went for a more budgeted system and didn't put a whole lot of money in to getting the latest hardware at the time. As I said in my last post here I pre ordered Yooka-Lalee already and have access to the Toybox which as anyone that has been following this game knows was given out to Kickstarter backers to allow them to have fun with the mechanics of the game in an open, sandbox environment. That Toybox runs perfectly on my computer and since it doesn't have any resolution options it's running at my desktop resolution of 1080p. Yes I have 16GB of ram in my desktop due to a recent upgrade I gave it (mostly for modded Minecraft as it was eating up way too much ram trying to run a server and a client on the same computer) but I have no doubt that if your computer can run something like Skyrim which is about 5 years old now as my desktop can then I'm sure you will have no problem running Yooka-Laylee regardless of what the specs say. Also I just decided to see the ram usage of the Toybox before posting and it only used less then 1GB of my ram while I was playing it. The Toybox is mostly textureless geometry with only 1 NPC place in a few spots and one area with a few monsters but I can't see the final game needing all that much more then maybe 4GB of ram or so and also those are recommended specs which are often a bit higher then what is actually required to run the game so people with weaker systems shouldn't have any real issue once the game comes out.
Posted December 15, 2016
Since the kickstarter was announced I have my hype on the clouds for this one. Well, Banjo Kazooie was one of my favourites titles for the N64 after all.
Posted December 15, 2016
The game looks nice and evocative of gaming days past and, manual thing aside, I'm interested in picking it up when it comes out, but it's really getting aggravating to find that the game has a Linux version elsewhere but not here. This is the third game I've noticed with that in a few days. What's the deal, GOG? Are you insisting that you want to kick the devs in the teeth if they want a Linux version of their game here, or do many devs not want a DRM-free Linux version for some reason, or what? I can't imagine it'd be a big drain on support or anything... just seems like needlessly lost money to me. Perhaps you don't think testing costs would be recouped? I'd honestly rather get a non-GOG-QA'd version with a disclaimer than have no option to purchase it at all.

I know I won't get a response since I've seen a bunch of others say the same thing, so I'm just venting.
Post edited December 15, 2016 by pbnjoe
Posted December 15, 2016
£10 on kickstarter + dlc that's free to backers

£35 on gog minus dlc that's free to backers. not even mentioning potential future DLC. not interested. everytime i feel sad due to these reasons, i'll just boot up my copy of banjo kazooie and tooie and realise, i'm not missing anything!
Posted December 15, 2016
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flashpulse: As a software developer I'm quite aware that most people have 2GB of ram and not the latest graphics card. If you did a poll. You'll find not many have 4GB of ram, let alone 8GB. Many are still on XP too. Not everyone has money to upgrade or just prefer the OS and PC hardware they are currently using.
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tammerwhisk: I think you need to look up the definition of most. Unless you are primarily catering to the middle of siberia.

And not to come off as a total prick, but people that can't even maintain hardware from the last 5 years probably should be you know putting some of the money they spend on new games towards an upgrade or a console.

Edit: Since GOG doesn't maintain hardware polls... this should suffice: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Those Steam surveys don't mean much to me. I've been a gamer since the early 80's and I don't use Steam. DRM free only plus steam does nothing but suck your resources too. Why would anyone want software like that running in the background while playing a game. Plus, only 33% of Steam users have 8GB of ram according to that survey. That's not including everyone else who doesn't use Steam. So yes. Most people don't have 8GB of memory.
Posted December 15, 2016
Looks really pretty and it does bring back that feel of games long gone, wishlisted
Posted December 15, 2016
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tammerwhisk: I think you need to look up the definition of most. Unless you are primarily catering to the middle of siberia.

And not to come off as a total prick, but people that can't even maintain hardware from the last 5 years probably should be you know putting some of the money they spend on new games towards an upgrade or a console.

Edit: Since GOG doesn't maintain hardware polls... this should suffice: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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flashpulse: Those Steam surveys don't mean much to me. I've been a gamer since the early 80's and I don't use Steam. DRM free only plus steam does nothing but suck your resources too. Why would anyone want software like that running in the background while playing a game. Plus, only 33% of Steam users have 8GB of ram according to that survey. That's not including everyone else who doesn't use Steam. So yes. Most people don't have 8GB of memory.
How about coughing up a source huh? Cause I hate to break it to you DRM-free doesn't matter to a lot of people (the bulk of gamers unfortunately). Steam has over 125 million active users (according to various news articles). The survery on said service for said users has 55% with 8GB of RAM or more. Hell 92~% of Steam users have more than the "2GB" that was your initial claim. As for your other claim only 1.25% of Steam is on XP.

So judging by the (sadly) dominant platform I ask where the hell are you getting your numbers and why do you think they are relevant? The minimum requirements on this are very very low end for you know gaming. It doesn't matter that some business somewhere has a bunch of junk workstations or whatever since those people aren't likely to drop 30+ on videogames.
Post edited December 15, 2016 by tammerwhisk
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