Microsoft is sitting on a precious Rare that still hasn't been used.

[SanAndreasX]

iceland said:

SanAndreasX said:

iceland said:
All this Rare bashing :P Tbh I understand it but let's not act like they haven't made any quality games since MS bought them. I too lost all hope for Rare in recent years but given Phil's latest info about him telling them to make an "iconic Rare game" I think we need to give them one last shot.

Who's even left at Rare anymore? Almost all of the talent they had when they were with Nintendo left years ago.

To be honest, though, Rare was overhyped even during their "glory days" on the SNES and N64.

Not really sure, I think they're capable of making a great game though. I guess we'll see.

In the loosest sense possible, any studio has the potential to make a great game. In 1998, who'd have thought a dried-up husk of a company like Activision had a fate other than imminent bankruptcy waiting for it?   (Interesting note: Activision actually was bankrupt in 1990 when Bobby Kotick and his partners bought the company).

However, a studio is only as good as the people in it. And while I generally see Rare's "golden age" games as technically astute but otherwise generally weaker clones of the games made by Nintendo of Japan, excepting games like Goldeneye and the original Perfect Dark, they're still leaps and bounds above anything made by Microsoft's Rare. I haven't seen any sign that anybody worth a damn still works for Rare since MS bought them. Even Perfect Dark Zero was pretty weaksauce.