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"With so many remakes and remasters flooding the market, Rare Replay offers a refreshingly respectful and bountiful timeline of one of gaming's most talented developers. Rare Replay should be the standard by which we judge the treatment of gaming's past."
As an Xbox website, it would be remiss to say that the Xbox One has had its’ detractors this generation. After stumbling about with their Xbox One reveal a few years before, Microsoft and their gaming brand were in a period of transition. But Rare Replay had another trick up its sleeve to appeal to a core Xbox audience. Their announcement promised 30 games priced at £20, with 10000 Gamerscore. It was an achievement hunters wet dream.
Everyone knows Halo, Gears of War, and Forza. But which other exclusives on Xbox One that you should absolutely be playing?
None of those games are "Xbox One Exclusives".
What if I wrote an article about these same game and said they were "PC exclusive"? lol...Xbox fans would erupt.
I personally only bought the Xbox one when i did because I had to have Titanfall. That game is so underrated in how it revolutionized the movement in the genre.
None of those games is exclusive to Xbox One. Rare Replay is a collection of Nintendo games and the rest are available on Steam.
While Banjo-Kazooie will arrive soon in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, players should check out other great games by Rare!
No blast corps?!, get out! As for sea of theives why does it say Rare Replay:Sea of thieves that wasn’t part of it when I played have they patched it in? Can’t see it myself haha
I would be far more receptive to paying for games I already purchased years ago if more of them adopted this approach. Not necessarily the incredible value of getting so many games, but just the respect shown by Rare in building those Snapshot challenges and Milestone incentives, and putting together the documentary footage. I really hope other developers take note and start to follow suit.
One thing I can never respect is selling remasters at full price like its a brand new game.
In my previous rant I failed to mention I bought this and have had fun playing it. It's an amazing value pure and simple. Credit where credit is due, good job MS and keep it up.
Wait a minute. So, the author says...
"Rare made the wise decision to give existing fans fresh incentives to revisit the treasures of their youth, as well as attract newcomers with a penchant for collection and completion. The milestone system threaded throughout the entire package not only adds a sense of accomplishment to even the most punishing of the included games, but more importantly it hooks into what is, for me, the greatest part of the entire collection: the unlockable videos."
And then attacks Final Fantasy VII remake? That doesn't make much sense, considering Square mentioned they will change the battle system. It will offer a fresh perspective to anyone who has ever played it. As for a penchant for completion and milestones, it'll have trophy support. I don't really understand the point they're trying to make here.
MS is setting the bar of how remaster of this gen should be done and also how BC should also be done as well with allowing cross platform play, carry over DLCs, and using the XB1 features for X360 games. Kudos for MS for making these things a reality.