What direction will Rare take next?

Ever since they brought us Kinect Sports, it's really hard to predict what they'll do next.

I dunno about you, but I'm hoping for the next Banjo Kazooie game that the ending of Nuts & Bolts practically promised, as well as something to do with Stop & Swop II.

Since MS cancelled all their non-casual projects...Kinect Fit.

MS cancelled all their non-casual projects.

Source please. If this is true, then RAGE.

Source please. If this is true, then RAGE.

I second that RAGE.

Totally thirding that RAGE.

My guess is they'll continue downwards.

They'll probably just keep ripping off what's popular instead of having a shred of originality

<.<

...I don't have a very high opinion of Rare >.>

Um, can we please refrain from the bashing, fellas? Please?

Its Rare. So no.

Even with Rare's uneven performance I wouldn't consider that a very good reason.

So the only appropriate response is full on denial and baseless lying?

Except one can complain about something without resorting to bashing it.

Fine. Their output will continue to slope downwards. Happy now?

Um, can we please refrain from the bashing, fellas? Please?

Well, that was an honest opinion of what they'll do, it wasn't just bashing. >.> But still, Rare has always been a "follow the leader company" more or less from the start, from direct influences on their own series from other franchises (Battletoads = Ninja Turtles, Killer Instinct = Mortal Kombat), to doing what was popular at the time (Cutesy 3D collectathons in the N64/PSX era, or their current aim at the casual gaming market via sports minigames and creating XBL Avatars, things that totally aren't Miis). When I say I expect that they'll continue to do whatever's popular, it's simply judging from their past endeavors.

Ever since MS cancelled all of thier non-Kinect games including "Conkers Other Bad Fur Day" which was going to be Uncensord just like the original game. Making crappy Wii [X] rip-offs.

edited 16th Feb '11 12:48:14 AM by PippingFool

Ever since MS cancelled all of thier non-Kinect games

Look, how many times have I made it clear that I've never heard anything like this from any official source? Just because they did something for Kinect doesn't mean they're finished doing non-Kinect games.

Why should we even care? Rare is pretty much dead anyway.◊

edited 15th Feb '11 11:42:16 PM by Cronosonic

I'd rather wait until Kinect Sports 2 is actually out before I start screaming, "Rare is RUINED FOREVER!!!".

Well, it really isn't Rare any more, is it? Ripping off Wii sports is a long way from making gems like Banjo Kazooie or Donkey Kong Country.

I suggest that the members that already left start a new company, and go back to Nintendo. Not everything they did there was gold, but it least they would have some creative freedom. Which is also important.

Would have some creative freedom

Go back to Nintendo

Wut?

No, seriously, what? The only reason Rare got to call the shots back then is cause they didn't answer solely to Nintendo, they had other shareholders. If they "go back to Nintendo", what exactly do you think will change?

And as for splitting off, yeah, if only. If only that had happened. If only that had happened ten years ago. For the remains of Rare to become something Free. And Radical. If only they had Split in Time, and had made a trilogy of great FPS's 10 years ago.

edited 16th Feb '11 2:13:09 AM by IndigoDingo

They definitely made better games when they were back with Nintendo.

I'd love to see them get back to making some Donkey Kong console games. Sure, Nintendo couldn't do a bad job. But it's just not the same not having the original team working on DKC games. A Donkey Kong Country 2 proper remake or Donkey Kong Country 4 would be AMAZING. Though probably much more than Rare can live up to at this point.

Yes, because they had talented people when they were working under Nintendo, people who jumped ship at the idea of being owned 100%. But making the studio independent again won't make the talent magically reappear. Its the load theat broke the camels back - you can't tae the load away and expect the camel to be completely fine.

I think that I mentioned 'The people that left'. but I guess that it would never be the same anyway.

I guess Rare is just dead, and it's animated corps is reduced to making games that no one who ever held a controller before could care about.

Ah, Rare, we hardly knew ye. Hopefully someone will buy the rights to the Banjo Kazooie franchise when the studio closes.

Still, there's at least one fan project that looks promising.

edited 16th Feb '11 4:55:27 AM by GuyInWhite

If the studio dissolves while in Microsofts possession, they retain full rights to all IP's, past and present. T He rights aren't changing hands unless MS feel like giing them away.