Gigglepoo said:
After Ghoulies, Kameo, It's Mr. Pants and Viva Piñata, I have full faith in Rare. At the very worst, their games are fun, and that's enough for me to get ridiculously excited.
...What? Ghoulies was pretty meh, and It's Mr. Pants was a puzzle game with little to no replay value. Kameo was okay, but considering the development time it had, it should have been a spectacle. It spanned over three generations, after all.
Viva Piñata is proof that Rare still has a spark, but they're still incomparable to who they once were. Excellent release after excellent release; do you remember B-K, Blast Corps, JFJ, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, etc? And that's just to mention a single platform.
Rare went from one of, if not the best in the industry, to a developer that spurts out the occasional good game, with a bunch of junk in between the distant releases.
Don't get me wrong; I still have a lot of love for the folks up North of my home. But for those thinking Rare has almost redeemed themselves as the developers they were a decade ago: you couldn't be any more wrong.
Here's hoping B-K3 is a treat.