Are there any fans of Rare on here?
Knowing that there are fans of every{but mostly a few} Lucasarts adventure games on here, I figured I would bring up a company that was once with Nintendo but sadly enough is in need of a serious rescue that company is Rare ltd{known in the past in the generation of the SNES and n64 games as Rareware}. This company has been known for bringing back Donkey Kong...But also giving us a bear and a bird, a james bond FPS that has been wildly considered as the best FPS, and a drunken squirrel who clearly is a complete badass.
So are there even any fans of Rareware on here? My favorite games are DKC and Bad fur day...Alot of people say Rare was better off with Nintendo, I'm one of them.
So are there even any fans of Rareware on here? My favorite games are DKC and Bad fur day...Alot of people say Rare was better off with Nintendo, I'm one of them.
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But yeah after the N64 they did kinda go downhill rather quickly. The one piece of irony that always makes me smile is that the Remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day ended up getting toned down compared to the original, which pretty much flew in the face of the whole "Nintendo is kiddie" thing.
DKC is awesone
Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts isn't even a Banjo Kazooie game, it just has the character tacked on to make it familiar.
And if I'm being honest, the American Soap Opera style of introducing the characters at the start of a new level makes me cringe.
I was pretty upset when Microsoft bought them. But at the same time, they haven't made anything good for the Xbox (except Perfect Dark for XBL). I also stand by the fact that the multi-played for the original Perfect Dark was better than GoldenEye.
People need to realise that Rareware of old and Rare of today are not the same company. They have struggled to find a new identity, which Molyneux tried to address. The staff changed a lot during the last generation of consoles, which of course affected the calibre of games they made at the time, though now they now have a fantastic pool of talent.
I love all but gruntys revenge.
I never understood why people hated nuts n bolts.
All of kazooies moves were technically in the game as vehicle parts
Grenade eggs, eggs, fire eggs, talon trot(as the vehicles alone) flying, high jump. If you just think about it, all of those are in the game as vehicle parts.
Plus I heard they were planning to do the vehicles on nintendo as an idea for threeie anyway.
And I love Viva Pinata. So easy to waste a whole day playing!
Rare is awesome, they can pull stuff off. they can pull off an actual Banjo-Threeie
I know and am still waiting for an actual threeie(but believe me from what I heard there were worse ideas for nuts n bolts like it just being a remake of kazooie with a few changes) which I heard they did start on(and if so stop n swop II)
I beat that one, and you didn't miss much with Star Fox Adventures. It became apparent to be quite early on that this game was targeted toward young children. Suffice it to say I was disappointed.
WOW, well done. Rare didn't make Party Animals, Krome Studios did, who happen to be from the other side of the world.
They had some imagination in the level design though, i thought.
Given that it was my first starfox game (well, starwing(the original SNES game) was, but i didn't realise that at the time)), i wasn't comparing it to the other games, and saw it as it was.
My favourite memory of that Banjo-Kazooie forum, which isn't hard because I think it was full of people who weren't particularly tolerant of eleven-year-olds with no social skills, was when a regular whose topics never had anything to do with their titles posted one with the subject "Rare developing for XBOX?" I don't remember the exact words of the responses, but they were along the lines of "I practically had a heart attack until I saw who it was." and "Don't scare me like that!".
Hilarious.
Banjo-Kazooie! Still!