I can't agree with anything the topic creator posted. The only thing I'm not sure f is Kameo because I haven't played it. All those games were great, including Killer Instinct (ULTIMATE F*****g COMBOOOOO!!). Rare wasn't overrated in the 90s and like 95% of the games they put up were arguably classic. Don't tarnish their formerly good name.

Appalling blurry graphic.s....pfft......

Like I said, lost the source but those games were on more than 1 list of over rated games from different sites etc...

I haven't played all of them, but I'm inclined to agree with the Donkey Kong Country assertion in hindsight...back then it WAS great, but now it just seems stale. Again this could be an age thing though, the idea of "collecting lives" doesn't really seem as interesting to me as it once did :)

rare is not overrated.

I think you went wrong: Rare's games were good...never awesome..but good

now...problem is..Rare after that went bad: Star Fox Adventures, (the gameplay didn't fit a Fox Title) Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo...

I think that rare will bomb badly..really badly with banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts...
the ONLY good recent game from them was...:Cnker on xbox....wich was basically a remake..so no..uber fail now

Actually, the team that did the original Banjo is doing the new one.  They stated this in an interview.

a big problem with that list is all those games were the best out for the time, them people jst being haters thats ll

Donkey Kong Country (especially DKC2) were great games. Some of the most fun I had on the SNES. I still go back and play them sometimes, and I enjoy them thoroughly. The soundtrack to DKC2 is easily one of the top 5 on the SNES.

Banjo Kazooie was also great, and it was not a clone of Mario 64. It very much had it's own personality and humor, and the levels were just as much fun, if not more fun than those in Mario 64. Of course, it borrowed elements from SM64, but many games did, as SM64 defined 3D platforming. But it goes well beyond "clone" status.

Diddy Kong Racing is still my favorite racing game ever. Yes, I like it more than any Mario Kart. (though I really like MK too)

Whether or not a developer is overrated is purely opinion. I don't know anything about Rare's newer games, but back in the days of the SNES and N64, they were one of the best developers out there. In my opinion, of course.

this is a big troll.

they were one of the top developers back in the 5th gen... but now... yeah

Rare was awesome even before they were bought by Nintendo. Battletoads was an incredible game.