daTRUballin
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According to a gaffer from the previous page who was at the panel, there weren't really any important questions. They were usually funny ones, but there wasn't anything too serious.
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Rare Replay officially announced - $30 and available August 4, 2015
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According to a gaffer from the previous page who was at the panel, there weren't really any important questions. They were usually funny ones, but there wasn't anything too serious.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
So I just realized something. The 360 games in Rare Replay are emulated and are confirmed to be tied to their original 360 achievement lists rather than getting Xbox One achievements. So, what does that mean for the one achievement in Trouble in Paradise that requires an Xbox Vision camera? MS said that USB peripherals won't be supported in 360 emulation and even on the 360 itself the original Kinect isn't useable for the achievement. So are they going to just auto-unlock it with an update or what? It would be a bit odd if you could only earn 9,990 of the 10,000 GS on an Xbox One.
So I just realized something. The 360 games in Rare Replay are emulated and are confirmed to be tied to their original 360 achievement lists rather than getting Xbox One achievements. So, what does that mean for the one achievement in Trouble in Paradise that requires an Xbox Vision camera? MS said that USB peripherals won't be supported in 360 emulation and even on the 360 itself the original Kinect isn't useable for the achievement. So are they going to just auto-unlock it with an update or what? It would be a bit odd if you could only earn 9,990 of the 10,000 GS on an Xbox One.
I believe they aren't counting it in the 10000
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I meant people within Rare. If the Xbox boss went there and said "hey, I love your game series X and I'd like to assemble a small team to make a new game in the series" I'm sure some people would want to work on that.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
That specific achievement or 360 achievements period? Because if you mean the latter, they definitely are, they announced it. If you mean the prior that would definitely be... interesting hahah. I mean, even if it's not counted in the 10,000 it'll still be there, so technically it would be 10,010, with 10 exclusive to players with 360's and 360 copies of TiP.
Edit: Just realized there are two achievements apparently. Oops. And I just did some Googling and I guess they may be tweaking the game/achievements? Hmm.
Does this also mean that all of the achievements we have for the 360 games in the package (I have all of them for BK XBLA, for example) will already be unlocked on Rare Replay?
daTRUballin
Member
I guess you're right, but what if nobody at Rare wants to work on it at the moment? You wouldn't just force them to work on it. It'd be better to wait until the right time and for them to finish all the other stuff they're working on, and then see if they're up for it or not. It's better when a dev is passionate about what they're working on. The final product usually turns out better.
Cthulhu_Steev
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The Sarcastic Dude
Banned
I wish they used to Xbox version of Conker but with all the extra censorship removed. Much better graphics and I believe new worlds in the Campaign.
Yes! So based on that, you'll already have unlocked content in Rare Replay because some of the unlock able content is tied to achievements.
That freaking sucks. I've got all achievements for all three Banjo games, I was really hyped to get them all again :/
Sleight of Jam
Banned
What a weird way of doing things. Quite a let down tbh.
daTRUballin
Member
As far as I know, there weren't any new worlds in the Xbox remake. The multiplayer was completely new though, and they also removed some segments from the campaign.
akachan ningen
Member
Isn't battle toads on snes a rare game?
To find out in the wild? Yes. The only Battletoads games I've seen in the wild are Battletoads & Double Dragon and a Genesis copy of the first game.
But of course there's always eBay.
May not be convenient, but alternatively you could always start a new profile.
Forerunner
Member
Mainly getting this for Viva Piñata, but the other 28 games are nice too.
Miles Quaritch
Member
You'll play Bast Corps and Jet Force Gemini first and damn well like it.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I wouldn't say it's "weird". I mean, it's a $30 package and MS just got 360 emulation working, so it makes sense they'd just throw in the 360 copies, emulate them, and call it a day as far as those games are concerned. Native ports of the 360 games would add a good bit more to the development costs.
Honestly, 360 emulation is probably a big reason why Rare Replay is even a thing to begin with.
I'm playing blast corp first then Alien8. Never played JFG though, looking forward to it.
I've played most of the 360 games in this collection on Xbone through the preview program and I didn't really notice any difference in performance, aside from some ocassional slowdown/stuttering in PDZ.
Does those games include party toys that mates? Because that's my jam.
Square2015
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In these discussions on RARE I'm reminded of this graph. It puts things in perspective of how far they fell when they abandoned Nintendo...
In these discussions on RARE I'm reminded of this graph. It puts things in perspective of how far they fell when they abandoned Nintendo...
Where is Kinect Sports?
Only goes to 2006. KS must have been a few million, so the whole graph is skewed towards the salty end of the spectrum.
This whole collection feels so wrong on a MS machine...we should be able to play goldeneye and other games like jet force with ir wiimote....In these discussions on RARE I'm reminded of this graph. It puts things in perspective of how far they fell when they abandoned Nintendo...
Nintendo should have bought Rare, but that's in the past and they didn't want to.
Actually is feels so right. Many years of awesome games all in one collection. Really great to see a collection that spreads decades of gaming goodness.
Square2015
Member
It would on WiiU, I expect underwhelming sales on Xbone.
At least it exists. Does anyone honestly think this collection would exist if people like Mattrick were still in charge?
Nintendo would probably drag it out via poor VC emulation for $5 a pop over the next few years instead of a collection.
People have to suck it up. MS own RARE. Nothing is going to change and the price-point of the collection means it should shift good numbers.
fantastic game. probably THE reason i'm interested in this collection.
Seriously now? At 30 dollars?
This game was one of the most preordered after E3. I think your expectations are a tad off.
Not to mention more than half the games in the collection were never on a Nintendo platform to begin with.
Oh man. The nostalgia! I fondly remember getting together with 3 buddies and duking it out with our wiimotes in Goldeneye on N64.
neogaffer1
Banned
In these discussions on RARE I'm reminded of this graph. It puts things in perspective of how far they fell when they abandoned Nintendo...
Whoever made that must be insanely salty--this is even before they can blame MS for the Kinect games. At that point the only problems Rare had were that the Stamper Bros and other talent left, which isn't really MS's fault.
Not sure where you got this chart/data but it doesn't appear to be accurate. The press release from Microsoft when they purchased Rare says the following (in 2006):In these discussions on RARE I'm reminded of this graph. It puts things in perspective of how far they fell when they abandoned Nintendo...
http://web.archive.org/web/20061029065255/http://www.rareware.com/company/press-microsoft2.html
Johnny Ryall
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I'm honestly tempted to buy and Xbox just for this and the halo collection. If only I wasn't buying a stupid house next month.
TheUnsunghero26
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Square2015
Member
The data is USA only (ie. NPD) not WW.
Worldwide their games likely averaged 1.4m.
OrbitalBeard
Member
lol it has a much better chance of selling well on XB1 than it ever would on Wii U. For starters, Nintendo would never, ever, ever, EVER release a compilation like this and if they actually did, it wouldn't be $30.
Majmun
Member
yeah, even more pre-orders than Gears 4...
But we know which game will sell most.
That list was bullshit anyway. It was the most Amazon UK pre-orders during E3
Yeah, I think I'm perfectly ok with playing classic Rare games on an Xbox One now.
Square2015
Member
Wasn't Kinect bundled with the console?
SEGAvangelist
Member
Kinect Adventures was. Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports 2 sold a shit ton all on their own.
In these discussions on RARE I'm reminded of this graph. It puts things in perspective of how far they fell when they abandoned Nintendo...
Yeah, it's damn depressing.
Also, having a hard time understanding how each DKC sequel dropped 50% in sales?? :/