| Mr Puggsly said: Banjo Kazooie N&B and Killer Instinct are probably my favorite games to come out of Rare and its IPs. In general, not just of the MS era. I'm simply not a big fan of their older stuff or feel its over rated. People keep talking about how Rare changed or was ruined by MS. The reality is they had hits and made some solid games Nintendo fans would have enjoyed. |
I absolutely adored Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo... Tropical Freeze on WiiU/Switch doesn't give me the same excitement, maybe it's because I have gotten older and my individualistic tastes in games have thus shifted, I have allot less enthusiasm to platformers than I once did. (Although Ori had amazing art and sound design, can't applaud it highly enough.)
Killer Instinct I loved on the Super Nintendo and the Xbox One version probably plays closer homage to that than Killer Instinct Gold on the Nintendo 64, that's not an easy feat in my opinion considering the fundamental technology shifts and development teams.
Perfect Dark and Goldeneye defined an entire gaming console cycle, they were *the* reasons to buy a Nintendo 64 at the time. (Other than Ocarina of Time and Mario 64.)
In my opinion, RARE still hits it out of the park more often than not, it's just we have allot more competition in the gaming space where being "good" is often not enough anymore, our expectations just keep getting higher.
So in my opinion... Other than the Kinect shovelware, RARE's games never stopped being good, we just have more options in the market these days, that's definitely not a bad thing.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
