*Rare VS Retro*

[Veder Juda]

milkyjoe said:

AussieGecko said:

milkyjoe said:

The thing is, Rare being reduced to creating avatars and firmware (and yes, I use reduced with all the negative connotation it implies) is one of the saddest things I've ever witnessed in gaming, and I'm sure I'm not alone there.

Here you have the company responsible for some of the great games of the 90s (albeit minus a few key staff members), having a lot of their effort focused on something other than creating games. I want to see them put out games as good as they used to (and if they did, I'd buy a 360 in an instant), because some random firmware means nothing to me.

It's like Nintendo someday telling Miyamoto that he can only create the user interface for the next console and have no other involvement in anything beyond that. It'd be disgraceful.

Yes, Rare in their heyday were possibly better than Retro are now. But the deterioration of Rare since then is unarguable... Meanwhile, Retro have a bright future. I can't say the same for Rare, but the worst thing is I don't foresee that changing.

See I am done with this thread, can moderators please do something about these continuous threads. Look at that bold, just pathetic effort at trolling. The previous threads have covered these nice and truly. 

How is that trolling? I am honestly saddened by the direction that Rare have taken. Not everyone is going to like what they're doing these days. Hell, are you aware of MundoRare? A Rare fansite... They shutdown last year because they couldn't support the direction that Rare were going in any longer.

People clearly aren't happy with Rare's current direction. That's just the way it is.

I agree with you.

It looks like Microsoft only wanted Rare because they saw Rare as some kind of Nintendo Jr., so when Nintendo expanded their focus with the DS and Wii, Microsoft told Rare to "do that".  I always felt that Rare was more like a Hardcore Nintendo, that they complemented Nintendo with the hardcore games that Nintendo themselves didn't make.  Having them separate meant Rare lost the connection with Nintendo that made it special, and they became just another hardcore company; worse, they are now a hardcore company being told to make "casual" games, which leads to the same cheap crap that all the other casual games made by hardcore developers end up being, instead of the "expanded audience" games Nintendo talked about.