tabsina on 04 September 2007
| Dodece said: First of all you have to pay respect to Rare. They rarely get the respect they deserve from Nintendo fans. Without Rare the Nintendo 64 would have died at the very least in the west. Even Nintendo could not fill out the lineup so the load fell right on top of Rare. They were expected to put out high quality games on short time frames. Just look at the volume of games that Rare put out of that console. They put out eleven games for a console that lasted all of six years. Thanks to Nintendo Rare ended up carrying a lot of the library burden on their backs. They had to deliver high quality games in a short time frame. Anyone who owned a 64 knew they had to wait for either Nintendo or Rare to deliver the next good game. There was nobody else. Any Nintendo fan in love with their Wii should at the very least respect what Rare did for Nintendo. Had the N64s legs been any shorter you proabably would not have gotten a GC or a Wii. Nintendo really came close to pulling a Sega. Imagine the N64 without those Rare games. Rare was not just a welcome dedicated developer the console absolutely needed them just to survive. Gripe about delays if you must, but be mindful that the pace probably was not being set by Rare to begin with. Gripe about quality near the end, but realize this was a developer that had to put out two high quality games each year. How many developers could do that even today. Rare did a monumental job, and it is sad to see them get ragged on for it. |
You are absolutely right, however, I agree with one small change, I have respect for the people behind Rare, not the company itself.. and given most (not all, i'll admit) of those people, whose talents I have great respect for, have left, I don't see why Nintendo fans should respect the "Rare" that we know today, rather than the people behind it some ten years ago
