This is like asking a PC Gamer whether they miss Westwood Studios.

Westwood like Rare started out with a portfolio of innocuous games, hit it big in the 1990s, continued with sequels for the big hits, in between the sequels they released some shoddy titles, their shoddiness crept into their big franchise, and then they faded into irrelevancy with their wikipedia page starting with a "was" in the first sentence.

Well, "was" for Westwood Studios. Rare still has an "is," but I don't know for how long.

I get nostalgic when I have had a couple of singles of Scotch and am thumbing through a cardboard box full of my old PC games, I realize they cannot run on Windows 7 and that is when I finish my 3rd single of Scotch, double-click on Mozilla, click on "YouTube" in my bookmarks tool bar and type in "James Brown."

After a few minutes of "It's Too Funky in Here" by James Brown the nostalgia has gone completely from my mind and I am searching for another video to watch when drunk.

Rare is all nostalga. I loved DKC, Banjo and Perfect Dark, BattleToads ....etc....etc.. But to be honest after seeing the studio's quality go down under Microsoft I don't want them back. Its true they were very good under Nintendo they made several great games and IP's.

But honestly Retro today is a better studio then Rare is today. They proved with DKC:R that they can create other games then Metroid. I look forward to Retro taking Rare's place as Nintendo big western studio!

No not sarcastic..They had to cut a part of the game when they made the jump from GC-Xb-Xbox 360..

I definitely miss Rare in the sense that I miss what Rare were. Having sampled their recent output, I certainly don't miss what they are.

Rare was great in the 90s but, after being sold to Microsoft, it couldn't keep many of its key personnel and it released several below average titles. As such, the Rare I used to like doesn't exists anymore, despite the fact there is a Microsoft's subsidiary using its name and some of the old Rare's talents.

Including its old Lead Designer who is now its CEO.

his name is David Wise, he was the composer of the donkey kong country series soundtrack (except donkey kong country return). I so wish that retro hire him.

I never have really liked rare steaks, so no I don't miss it.

I can change the is to was if you want

I miss the Rare that made DKC, DK64, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and Jet Force Gemini. I was never a big fan of Banjo.

I would never trade them for Retro though, not even if I could get the old Rare back. Retro is just better.