About rare, the funny part in those thread is that I'd be willing to bet half of the peeps talking about old rare vs have absolutely no clue of what they are talking about.... They were still learning how to read if not how to talk back then.... To be frank beside the house of ghoul's thing (I believe that's them) I really liked all they did especially Kameo...
to be frank as much as I am a big fan of their old stuff I also believe nostalgia is almost impossible to satisfy... So I don't expect or event want as much a reboot than I want them to be creative... If that works with an old IP great, but trying to revive the essence and feel of an old IP with the only aim to quench a thirst for nostalgia in gamers is almost guaranteed to fail... Or at least not succeed as much as an original work would have...
but yeah people talking about old rare are like people saying MS is evil half of them have no clue of what they are talking about and were toddlers in the 90's when shit was going down for both those subjects... Today's MS is the virgin Mary in comparison to back then and even in comparison to todays competition.... New rare might not be the same as old rare bit nowhere close as bad as people make it out to be... And certainly not because of MS or at least not any more for a long long while.... I think by now anybody truly following MS XBox division knows that they give a relatively large freedom of choice and creativity to their 3rd party studios... If you rare sucks today... It is mostly rare's fault not MS, if anything MS is guilty of green lighting their projects...
anyway yeah mostly talk out of their rear end IMO in those old rare vs new rare posts