RARE without Nintendo is not what it was to be....

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Viper1 said:

KylieDog said:
Even towards the end of the N64 life Rare started to lose it greatness. The pace that they released games drastically slowed down and some later titles weren't that great.

Drastically slowed down?   Titles weren't that great?

1996:
Killer Instinct

1997:
Blast Corps
Goldeneye
Diddy Kong Racing

1998:
Banjo-Kazooie

1999:
Jet Force Gemini
Donkey Kong 64

2000:
Perfect Dark
Mickey's Speedway USA (easily their worst effort)
Banjo-Tooie

2001:
Conker's Bad Fur Day

 

Whether those are "AAA" depends on the eyes that see.

Also, I have a developer that matches that.

Intelligent Systems.

They have ~ half of the employees of Rare.

 

2001:

Mario Kart Super Circuit

Advance Wars (1)

Paper Mario

 

2002:

Fire Emblem Fuuin no surugi (6)

 

2003:

Fire Emblem (7)

Advace Wars: Black hole rising (2)

 

2004:

Fire Emblem: The sacred stones (8)

Paper Mario 2

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (9)

 

There's a few I didn't list, but that matches Rare (not even considering they have half the employees).