"If you are like Bronspn, a child of the 90s who grew up playing primarily Nintendo consoles, chances are to this day you hold an affinity for two companies. The first being Nintendo, yes the proprietor of Mario, Zelda, and company being the obvious first of the two. The second being Rareware. Yes, Rare, the company that brought back Donkey Kong and almost single handedly made the N64 worth owning. Now currently Rare might be the most under-utilized tool Microsoft has forced to make Kinect games, but before we talk about what Microsoft should do with Rareware, lets take a look back at their history then a look at the possible future."
-TheGamerAccess.com
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The fact 5 people agree with you scares the hell out of me.
"Where Was and Where Is Rareware?"
"What was Rareware up too before and where are they now?"
No it's not harsh.
The syntax of that phrase is perfectly fine. There is nothing confusing about it.
The likes of Perfect Dark, Conker, Banjo Kazooie etc are all amazing ip's and have been criminally neglected.
Still, Kinect Sports 1 + 2 are still the best of the Kinect games on the market, although that's not saying much it's at least something.
I prefer Microsoft's handling of Rare over Sony's handling of Zipper.
FASA Studios
Carbonated Games
Ensemble Studios
Ace Studios
With the extreme rapidly declining sales of Forza, Turn 10 might be next.
...yet.
Rare has made some quality games with Microsoft, 6 platinum games since the Xbox 360's launch and people still complain.
Yes they made Kinect Sports, but Microsoft put a huge amount of money into Kinect and needed a quality developer to make software to show it off. Kinect Sports is probably the best game on the Kinect. There is a huge difference between shovelware and a game. Shovelware in my opinion would be Fantastic Pets or Hole In The Wall, Kinect Sports is far from those loads of crap.
Rare is said to be working on two core titles for the Xbox 720. I don't think there is another developer this generation that has come out with more games or matched the quality of games, some of those early Xbox 360 launch titles still hold up incredibly well.
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@Lucca
Rare has put out quite a lot of good games this generation, I don't think another developer has put out 6 or 7 games like they have.
Perfect Dark Zero
Kamero Elements Of Power
Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts
Viva Pinata
Viva Pinata Trouble In Paradise
Kinect Sports
Kinect Sports 2
Perfecr Dark HD on XBLA
Viva Pinata might be one of my top 5 new IP's this generation. So you can try and bash them all you want, but I choose to enjoy the games they have made.
The fact is that Kinect Sports 1 and 2 are fun games and they work. Kinect Sports 1 is at like 5 million units sold, that is fantastic in my opinion.
People like to hate on Kinect and Microsoft in general on this site, but you cant be a hypocrite or disagree just because you don't like something.
It's a good time to reflect on Rare's Xbox 360 output just around now as they're not likely to be releasing anything more for the console.
I think they've done well given their various upheavals - Viva Pinata could be considered one of the best Rare games ever, Kameo and Nuts & Bolts were both very good too.
Kinect Sports cops much hatred because it's Kinect, but the football and athletics were fantastic and it was a generally well made and well rounded product, that has been successful sales-wise too.
Rare's various HD remasters on XBLA were also well received.
As for the future, I'd definitely like to see them bring back VP on Durango with Kinect features. It's a penalty kick, seriously.
I'm sure they could successfully revive Perfect Dark as well.
Seavor IS Conker by the way.
Nintendo should organize a rescue mission.
Kinect Sports is a rock solid title, I don't care what anyone else says about it.
Viva Pinata is golden. Nuff said.
Nothing happened to Rare, I don't understand why gamers stopped supporting them?
It's OK Rareware. I still love you!
I would ask Rare to make 'Rare Adventures' and allow it to be controllable by a normal controller as well. They should have something like the River Rapids level of Kinect Adventures but also other levels that take in their old games like a Grabbed by the ghoulies level.