HappySqurriel said:
Although (in defence of the Nintendo fans) on many message boards before the news came out there were tons of postings about whether Rare would return to their previous level of greatness. Banjo Kazooie was generally considered far better than Banjo Twooie and Donkey Kong 64, Jetforce Gemini and Conkers Bad Fur Day were flops, and Perfect Dark was very good but was delayed several times and stuck very close to the Goldeneye formula. People were praising Rare mainly because they thought that a lot of their problems were caused by the loss of key staff members when Zoonami and Free Radical were created. The bashing of Rare afterwords was partially from frustration of losing Rare to Microsoft and partially honest comments; rare was taking forever to release games and when released they were not having the impact of previous Rareware games (see. Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero) |
Personally I feel Rare were always overrated. I thought (and still think) Donkey Kong Country is an average game, as is Perfect Dark, and that Donkey Kong 64 and Conker are poor games. Goldeneye is excellent though, even though I'm not a big FPS fan I enjoyed that one. But my point still stands obviously.
EDIT: I should probably say overrated since the SNES days. They did some great, great classic NES games, like Wizards & Warriors, RC Pro Am and a ton of others that are still a blast to play to this day.
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