Rare turns 30 this year

[supersonic56]

No idea when exactly. But Rare probably isn't going to celebrate it.

[Guitar]

Of course they will! By releasing more limited edition DLC for KS!

[frankieforever]

What's Rare?

[Angry Ancestor]

Originally Posted by frankieforever

What's Rare?

clever

[qwertykins76]

Normally, your birthday is often seen as you just being one year closer to death. Funny that, if you're already "dead," it can be seen as being one year closer to becoming alive again.

[frankieforever]

Originally Posted by Angry Ancestor

clever

I read this in Conker's voice.


"Cleva."

"Woo-hoo, one year older!!!"
...
*goes back to working on Kinect Sports DLC*

[Starblazer]

Remember when they were good ten years ago?



Oh, wait... I meant 15. Remember when they were good 15 years ago? Good times.

[Dr. Worm]

Originally Posted by Galactic Mario

Remember when they were good ten years ago?



Oh, wait... I meant 15. Remember when they were good 15 years ago? Good times.

Now wait a minute, Rare was still great when they made Banjo-Tooie, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Fur Day, and those definitely aren't 15 years old.

[Spudfish93]

Actually, Rare doesn't celebrate it's 30th anniversary because they weren't always Rare.
They were previously Rareware, and Ultimate Play the Game before then.

[frankieforever]

Oh I remember now. Rare is that shitty game company that can't make good games anymore due to selling out.

[Ty-chan]

Yeah, 26 years of the best games evar.

[Starblazer]

Originally Posted by Dr. Worm

Now wait a minute, Rare was still great when they made Banjo-Tooie, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Fur Day, and those definitely aren't 15 years old.

All right. Banjo-Tooie, is like, twelve. And Conker is, like... eleven. You know what I meant.

[Dan]

It's always bothered me that video games aren't treated as an art form the way everything else is. How is this company still 'rare' when none of the employees are still there? Look at other forms of art, like music.

If you take a band, and replace it's bassist, it usually still stays the band, but now replace the drummer, wait a month, replace the guitarist, wait a month, replace the singer.. now it's just a cover band playing the old bands songs and the new ones they write won't be from the same creative genius that started it.. but they'd still have the name of that band, dragging it through the mud and living off of it's coattails to push their shitty new music? No. that's not how that works at all. So why when the stampers, and kirkhope, and noz, and wise, and seavor and basically every single person who worked there in the 90s except probably beanland have left the company, is it still Rare? why do they get to celebrate '30 years' when theyve been there for 8, why do they get to say 'from the creators of banjo kazooie' when they didn't create him, why do they get to even use that IP? It's something that's bothered me for years in every video game company. Megaman, sonic, every single rare IP, it's just atrocious.

[Walecs]

Originally Posted by Dan

It's always bothered me that video games aren't treated as an art form the way everything else is. How is this company still 'rare' when none of the employees are still there? Look at other forms of art, like music.

If you take a band, and replace it's bassist, it usually still stays the band, but now replace the drummer, wait a month, replace the guitarist, wait a month, replace the singer.. now it's just a cover band playing the old bands songs and the new ones they write won't be from the same creative genius that started it.. but they'd still have the name of that band, dragging it through the mud and living off of it's coattails to push their shitty new music? No. that's not how that works at all. So why when the stampers, and kirkhope, and noz, and wise, and seavor and basically every single person who worked there in the 90s except probably beanland have left the company, is it still Rare? why do they get to celebrate '30 years' when theyve been there for 8, why do they get to say 'from the creators of banjo kazooie' when they didn't create him, why do they get to even use that IP? It's something that's bothered me for years in every video game company. Megaman, sonic, every single rare IP, it's just atrocious.

This is... beautiful. And right.