RARE Games on XB2

not spong again. :rolleyes: spong is just regurgitating the rumors we already know about. it was speculated that this was the case for month and months and months before spong reported on it.
 
Sorry, Rare will just delay the titles until the inevitable point when they have to retool the titles for next-nextbox and add another mega-delay... :LOL:

That company is a total joke and deserves no respect anymore. They at least used to have way over a hundred people working there and they've managed to complete a whopping TWO titles during this entire generation... Well, unless Conker, PDZ and Kameo make sneaky last-minute launches between now and nextbox premiere of course, but I think the odds at the betting companies are better for Britney Spears to name her baby after a popular breakfast cereal than of that happening...
 
-NakedZ- said:
Is it just me, or I no longer expecting a lot from Rare?

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LOL Not just you...many of us. Like others have mentioned, it's not the same Rare as it used to in the 'ol days. :LOL:
 
That company is a total joke and deserves no respect anymore. They at least used to have way over a hundred people working there and they've managed to complete a whopping TWO titles during this entire generation... Well, unless Conker, PDZ and Kameo make sneaky last-minute launches between now and nextbox premiere of course, but I think the odds at the betting companies are better for Britney Spears to name her baby after a popular breakfast cereal than of that happening...
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Conkers and PD0 weren't started until MS purchased them. Conkers was in certification a few weeks ago as stateed by rare. We all know (even though it wasn't confirmed) that kameo was moved to xbox 2 launch.

They had over 250 - 300 people at one point I beleive.
 
strat_ax said:
-NakedZ- said:
Is it just me, or I no longer expecting a lot from Rare?

- Z
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LOL Not just you...many of us. Like others have mentioned, it's not the same Rare as it used to in the 'ol days. :LOL:
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Well, Grabbed by Ghoulies isn't up to thier normal quality, so in that sense, they are a different Rare. Thier software output seems the same though. :p
 
True. grabbed by the ghoulies was the wrong game for the xbox platform. Games of that style (pure arcade) hardly sell on xbox, but if it was released on Gamecube I bet it would have found a bigger following (not unlike many of the early sonic games released).

Anyway when conkers is out (which I think will be next month) that will make 3 titles this gen they released.

1. Conkers
2. Grabbed by the ghoulies
3. Starfox adventures

Is releasing 3 titles in 4 years really that bad? i'm excluding any GBA stuff they were doing
 
well if it's true kameo is going to be released this year as an Xbox 2 game, that would be 4 games in 5 years.

Anyway teams at companies like Rare can be huge. like 60 or 70 people (or even 100 like EA), so who knows how many people are working on these games.
 
Conker is not in certification yet. I know a guy testing it. Wednesday is the earliest date for it to be sent to Xbox certification.
 
Qroach said:
Conkers and PD0 weren't started until MS purchased them. Conkers was in certification a few weeks ago as stateed by rare. We all know (even though it wasn't confirmed) that kameo was moved to xbox 2 launch.
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Rubbish. PD0 was in development for Gamecube before Microsoft made for Rare. Ignoreing Qroach for a minute, here's a spong news story on it from mid 2002, at least month before MS swooped. Kameos been in development for at least as long.

Who cares for Conkers now that he's lost his balls? I guess he was "grabbed by the goolies" haha
 
Well, GBG was really the only original game they've developed this gen. Conker and SFA are both ports from last gen (conker on N64, and a finished dinosaur planet for N64).

Either way, I want to play PD0 already heh.
 
I'm looking forward to Perfect Dark Zero, while the Halo 2.5 possiblility doesn't excite me. A new experience is what I want. The day Microsoft releases screenshots of PDZ will be a very good day.

Kameo being a launch game I'm highly doubtfull of.
 
squegel said:
Qroach said:
Conkers and PD0 weren't started until MS purchased them. Conkers was in certification a few weeks ago as stateed by rare. We all know (even though it wasn't confirmed) that kameo was moved to xbox 2 launch.
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Rubbish. PD0 was in development for Gamecube before Microsoft made for Rare. Ignoreing Qroach for a minute, here's a spong news story on it from mid 2002, at least month before MS swooped. Kameos been in development for at least as long.

Who cares for Conkers now that he's lost his balls? I guess he was "grabbed by the goolies" haha
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When Nintendo showed footage for the Gamecube at spaceworld, the trailer at the end had perfect dark if I remember correctly. That was back in 2000.
 
I'll give rare the benefit of the doubt. They're slow to begin with so being bought out and switching platforms probably wasn't easy. I think MS bought them mainly for Xenon development. GBTG was a rush job. Conker looks real good.

I think PD0 is a make or break game for them. If it delivers something extrordinary Rare will regain lots of respect. If not they're gonna take a drumming. I could care less about kameo. I think PD0 will be great. I don't think MS is stupid enough to have their flagship launch game suck.
 
Pozer said:
I'll give rare the benefit of the doubt. They're slow to begin with so being bought out and switching platforms probably wasn't easy. I think MS bought them mainly for Xenon development. GBTG was a rush job. Conker looks real good.

I think PD0 is a make or break game for them. If it delivers something extrordinary Rare will regain lots of respect. If not they're gonna take a drumming. I could care less about kameo. I think PD0 will be great. I don't think MS is stupid enough to have their flagship launch game suck.
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I remember seeing an MS exec speak of Conker's Live element as being bigger than Halo 2's, as if they wanted to promote the game as much as they did Halo 2. But the game is less than 2 months away (June 12th, I believe is the date I heard), and I've yet to see any ads for it. There was a feature about "Where is Conker" on the latest OXM disc, but the people that subscribe to OXM aren't the ones they need to be telling about Conker. I wouldn't be surprised if MS took an aXe to Rare if their upcoming products don't deliver in a big way. MS has learned a lot from Nintendo, but when they were so eager to hand over Rare, MS should have reconsidered.
 
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