Dr_Peace said:
They released 11 games on the N64 all of which were great if not incredible, far more than the output of any other studio even Nintendo's internal development teams.
EAD developed Super Mario 64, Wave Race 64, Mario Kart 64, Yoshi's Story, Star Fox 64, 1080 Snowboarding, F-Zero X, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Pokemon Stadium 1, Pokemon Stadium 2, Pokemon Stadium 3, and Animal Forest. They also co-developed Pilotwings 64. Which gives them about
13-14 games on the N64. Then EAD also developed 4 games for the 64DD.
They made some of the best looking games on the N64.
On screen-shots sure. But they started sacrificing frame-rate without abandon.
There will NEVER be another developer like Rare, not ever. As much as I love Retro Studios they will never match what Rare were capable of.
I love Perfect Dark. But we saw what RARE was capable of with Grabbed By The Ghoulies, Perfect Dark Zero, and Kameo. They were ok games but clearly the creative direction of the company was changing far before the Kinect virus.