Hell yeah they should.

@DirtyP2002

Hardly double standards. If you can find me a single post where anyone complains about David Wise specifically then I will concede defeat. But you won't. Because nobody ever has.

Banjo-Kazooie's soundtrack was fantastic what are you talking about

Oh don't start this.

1. The man is a genius.  Anybody who has ever played DKC 1/2 can attest to that. 
2. Rare have multiple people working on different soundtracks for different games.  Dave didn't do the soundtracks for either of those titles (he has actually never done a soundtrack for a Banjo title), instead working on Diddy Kong Racing DS and Viva Pinata DS over the past couple of years.
3. Stop generalizing.  I'm the person that called him a genius.  Have I ever said anything even remotely close to "Rare is such a bad developer"?

This thread is meant to celebrate the career of a great man, and wish him well wherever he may go.  Don't bring your fanboy drivel in here.

Now, to bring the thread back to a lighter note, here is the excellent remix of Wise's Bramble Blast in SSBB (originally from DKC2):

Here's a higher quality version for download:

http://downloads.zeldapower.com/mp3/ssbb2/Donkey_Kong_Country_-_Bramble_Blast.mp3

It must be this then, because Rare over the last few years have still given ample opportunities for composers to do their thing. I can't imagine that none of Rare's projects ask for a soundtrack though. Looking at his workload over the last few years, I think he's leaving simply because Rare isn't using him much any longer. His last four projects were handheld games, and two of them are just him picking up where he left off in games he already composed the soundtrack for. Not really a big loss for Rare if they weren't using him anyways.

Agreed.

I hope wherever he ends up, his talents are exercised to their full extent.  He was one hell of an ear for music.   I'd love to be in his line of work one day.

He should be able to find a place somewhere else, and in all likelihood, did before he left Rare.

I never cared much for Wise's work, to be absolutely honest. Can't please em all, I guess.

My guess is that he's leaving because he knows Rare isn't going anywhere. At this point, other developers no doubt have better use (and a better paycheck) for a talented composer than Rare does.

Oh, and as mentioned, David Wise did not compose the soundtrack for Banjo Kazooie or Perfect Dark. Grant Kirkhope did. Incidentally, he also left Rare recently.

Yes it was. It was also great in Nuts & Bolts, which was just a blatant reuse of the original soundtrack.

Rare isn't even Rare anymore. Just a logo now. Microsoft screwed them up big time.

1. Rare (Now, as a company, formerly Rare founded by christ and tim stamper, who left before being acquired by MS) is such a bad developer company.

2. This man (david wise, who did most of the soundtracks for Rare in it's glory days when Chris and Tim Stamper still ran the show) is a genius (who stayed on a little bit longer than he should have).

Soundtracks do not make a game. They improve upon them. Just because they had one genius stay on past Rare's expiration date to help accent a game, doesn't mean that Rare is a great developer. .

And what khuutra said x2