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I don't think i've ever heard of someone being nostalgic over Grabbed by the Ghoulies... any fans out there?
Lmao I'm not even editing thatLol. Artistic merit of tits
I don't think you could qualify rare as compatibly fast. It's one of the reasons nintendos do let them go. They were always behind schedule and over budget.
Maybe at the time Rare seemed slow, but in retrospect, they released a game (and sometimes even two games) like every 6 months! There's no way in hell you can seriously tell me that's slow in this day and age. Over the 5 year lifespan of the N64, they released 11 games. And now compare that to their post-buyout output. They only managed to release 11 games over the span of 15 years.
11 games over 5 years compared to 11 games over 15 years. Insane.
That's more about how big and complex games have become, not about Rare's output speed.
The fact that they didn't make Killer Instinct should tell you all you need to know about the current state of the studio.
Rare is a shell of it's former self.
That's adorable how you really REALLY wanted to be the one who made the thread so you admittedly put it up one day early.
I thought Perfect Dark Zero was fine for a launch title.
It's interesting that while EA is widely criticized for buying studios and shutting them down, what MS does is often ignored even though what they do is not much different.
Yooka-Laylee - A 3D Platformer Rare-vival!
They shutdown Rare?
I agree PD Zero was solid. The Kinect stuff never appealed to me. SoT is lovely and a nice return to form.
Did we ever get to know the real reason why Nintendo didn't want to buy them?
IIRC, it was originally the Stamper Brothers who just wanted to sell their 51% share in the company and they naturally offered it to Nintendo first, but Nintendo wasn't interested. So they went shopping around (afaik, Activision was a potential buyer for a time), eventually ended up with Microsoft and Nintendo basically went "Alright, fine, *shrug*" and sold its 49% share to Microsoft.
It just seems odd how Nintendo just seemed to lose interest in its partnership with Rare overnight. Yes, Starfox Adventures had a problematic development cycle and turned out to be a major disappointment and Rare's other Gamecube projects appeared to be stuck in some kind of development hell as well, but that can't have been a sufficient reason.
My nephew talks about Viva Piñata like mofos on GAF talk about The Witcher 3, so I'm forever grateful for that game's existence.
Disastrous output IMO. Could have and should have been so much better.
Conker's the only one I enjoyed at all from that list (on Rare Replay).
Oh, nevermind. It was the Nintendo Conker that I played on Rare Replay.
I also don't like the direction they're going with Sea of Thieves at all.
Did we ever get to know the real reason why Nintendo didn't want to buy them?
IIRC, it was originally the Stamper Brothers who just wanted to sell their 51% share in the company and they naturally offered it to Nintendo first, but Nintendo wasn't interested. So they went shopping around (afaik, Activision was a potential buyer for a time), eventually ended up with Microsoft and Nintendo basically went "Alright, fine, *shrug*" and sold its 49% share to Microsoft.
It just seems odd how Nintendo just seemed to lose interest in its partnership with Rare overnight. Yes, Starfox Adventures had a problematic development cycle and turned out to be a major disappointment and Rare's other Gamecube projects appeared to be stuck in some kind of development hell as well, but that can't have been a sufficient reason.
I don't like the direction they're going with Sea of Thieves either, but atleast people are really taking to it and it has potential for people who are into those kinds of games. But yes, overall a pretty disastrous output.
Sea of thieves looks dull and they have been working on it for like 10 years now? Noone cares sorry!
I still think that Kameo is one of the most underrated games ever, too bad we didn't get a sequel.
I don't think i've ever heard of someone being nostalgic over Grabbed by the Ghoulies... any fans out there?
Disastrous output IMO. Could have and should have been so much better.
Conker's the only one I enjoyed at all from that list (on Rare Replay).
Oh, nevermind. It was the Nintendo Conker that I played on Rare Replay.
I also don't like the direction they're going with Sea of Thieves at all.
At least Rare Replay was great.That's a lot of mediocrity.
Viva Pinata 1/2 and Nuts and Bolts are all better than anything they put out for Nintendo systems. Yes better than DKC.
Nintendo laughing they sold them a shell
I never understood these comments. Most of the key people behind a lot of Rare's old games, such as Chris Sutherland, Gregg Mayles, Steve Mayles, David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, the Stamper Bros., Chris Seavor, etc were all still there when Rare got bought out.
The only "major" loss at Rare at that point was the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark team. But most of the teams that worked on their other series like Banjo and such were still there.