"Solid games"? The first two games are the best 3D adventure/platform games ever made. The third one is a clunky, repetitive vehicle-building mini-game festival with no platforming to speak of and only pays lip service to the first games; rumour has to that Rare was forced into bringing the franchise back from the dead because Microsoft wanted guaranteed sales, and that the idea was originally going to be given to a new IP.RhinoTuna said:
Whelp, it's big business. Microsoft is annoyed that they spent so much money on Rare only for most of the developers to leave, and for the remaining and new ones to produce good but hardly triple-A games. Rare were one of the biggest reasons Nintendo did well during the Nintendo 64 era (arguably, they kept them alive), and Microsoft was betting on Rare bringing over all the Nintendo fans to their side. By and large, it didn't, and now they're stuck with a good developer they paid way too much for making big-budget games that don't sell particularly well. That's why they've got Rare working on stuff like the Avatar system for the "New Xbox Exerpience", as well as bringing back old franchises in hopes of cashing in on branding alone, now.Fiskmasen said:
It's really the other way round. Most of the old Rare had already left by the time Microsoft was even bidding for the company (forming companies like Free Radical). During the Gamecube era, they really had produced nothing of worth; the only game they actually got to release on it was the horrendous Star Fox Adventures.searanox said:
Are you insane? Have you played them? The art direction, controls, level design etc. are all genius. The second game is a bit more original than the first, and has some absolutely massive levels that all connect to each other as well as the overworld. The first time I had to go between worlds to solve puzzles, it blew my mind, and still stands as something that has yet to be incorporated into other games. Even if the series is essentially founded on tropes, it does a damn good job of using them, inverting them and subverting them.Woe Is You said:
Fair enough, but there were still some of the original guys left around back in the GameCube era. Star Fox Adventures is a pretty good game, too, but would have been much better as an original IP and suffered a lot from Nintendo forcing the name on them.Woe Is You said:
Hey, Psychonauts managed to be awesome on PC, even though it's a Platformer, and has PC controls.Richard Groovy Pants said:
