I loved Banjo Tooie and all the time I played DK64. I'm planning to buy another functional N64 with both Banjo's games, DK64, and expansion pack and I'll look for Conker's game to see how good it is. Maybe Diddy Kongs Racing too.

Sooo what games you like OP? so tell me....

Just because you don't like their games does not mean they are overrated. Hate how that term got so widely misused.
I've never played a Rare game besides Goldeneye and I loved it. I have no opinion on Rare.

 
Obiously only tetris, since that's the only game that doesn't require going around Collecting stuff

I have to respectfully disagree.

For roughly eight years, from 1994 to 2001, Rare was arguably the best studio in the world. Not only were Rare's games from that period imaginative, ambitious, and entertaining; they were also cutting edge in terms of technology. It's still a wonder to me that Rare managed to achieve the lighting, animations, particle effects, and obscenely long draw distances in Banjo-Tooie without help from the expansion pack (although the game did suffer from frame-rate drops).

Moreover, Rare managed to score big in several different genres during its golden age. It made some of the best platformers ever made, including the Donkey Kong Country trilogy and Banjo-Kazooie; it made some of the best shooters ever made, including GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, and Jet Force Gemini; and it made a great Racing game in Diddy Kong Racing. Rare also created one of the most unique games of all time in Blast Corps. Even its lesser games, including Mickey's Speedway USA, are technically sound, challenging, and lots of fun.

I never liked their games much, after Battletoads on the N.E.S this is all downhill from there!

I think they got a lot of attention for some titles that were visually pretty neat back in the mid 90s (DKc and Killer Instinct) then they pushed the N64 hardware to its limits (Battletoads was pretty impressive for a NES game back in the days too)...

But back to the game, the way Donkey Kong Country played and the ennemies almost ignored you never appealed to me, the physics of it seemed like the game was overly "simple", maybe this was me being used to gameplay focussed Sega Genesis games back in the days...

Anyway, people are very enthusiastic and look at the logo with a lot of foundness for their older titles, MS seems to want to capitalize on their purchase for the first time, so hopefully this works out well for them...

Rare of the 1990's in no way overrated, if you ask me...

You're obviously more than a little insane mate lol

They weren't the best developers on the planet at the time but they weren't that far off.

I'd say now that Retro and EAD are the best developers on the planet at the moment and all 3 are amoungst the best developers that have ever existed, along with Factor 5 and id.

AGREE!!!!!....only game rare made that i liked was Diddy Kong Racing...i still stand by my statement that dkc trilogy sucks, as does their entire n64 library except for diddy kong racing...  edit: only thing u said is u never tried diddy kong racing you should it is much better than mk64(game sucks)

I am really not a fan of the world overrated. I do not think the N64 would have sold as much as it did if it wan''t for Rare. Games like Goldeneye and Banjo made quite an impact on the N64 and industry (especially Goldeneye). The amount of games they made and the quality I think matched or even outpaced Nintendo EAD at the time.

So in short, no.