| firebush03 said: Also to answer OP: I struggle to see how one could even compare the studio behind MP Trilogy and DKCReturns with DKCountry Trilogy, Banjo Kazooie/Twoie, Goldeneye/PD, Conker, SFAdventures, Diddy Kong Racing, etc. There were more highs, and the highs were significantly higher: DKCReturns built upon the foundations laid out in Rare’s DKC Trilogy, MP built upon the foundations laid out in Rare’s GE007 and Perfect Dark. Rare pushed the industry so much further forward than Retro could even dream— Silicon Graphics, how to make a first-person shooter, perfecting the collect-a-thon genre, even mastered the Zelda formula in SFAdventures IMO. |
I actually think their peaks are fairly comparable; for my money, Metroid Prime 1 is one of the finest video games ever crafted and can stand toe to toe with the absolute best Rare ever made, and Prime 2 + 3/Tropical Freeze are as great as most of Rare's classics.
Rare were more prolific and broke more ground, but that's not really a fair comparison as it was far easier to do that in the 90s than it was from the 2000s onwards when there was less ground left to break and games took longer to make.
