Rare turns 30 this year

[Harryjames6978]

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.

well in all fairness the creator of Banjo Kazooie is still there and probably some of the programmers too. Though I doubt rare are thinking of putting "from the creators of Banjo Kazooie and Goldeneye" on any of their Kinect products..That would indeed be ridiculous

[Ty-chan]

Originally Posted by Harryjames6978

Though I doubt rare are thinking of putting "from the creators of Banjo Kazooie and Goldeneye" on any of their Kinect products.

Actually, isn't there a trailer saying that?

[Walecs]

Originally Posted by GoldenJiggies

Actually, isn't there a trailer saying that?

Yeah, indeed, I remember something like that.

[Dan]

Yes banjo's designer is still there; but it takes more than one person to make a game.

[Ty-chan]

Originally Posted by Dan

Yes banjo's designer is still there; but it takes more than one person to make a game.

Not always.

EDIT: But, yeah, for a BK game, there'd better be more than one person.

[Walecs]

How can a single person make a videogame? Yeah, most of Conker's Bad Fur Day was made by Chris Seavor, but not all.

[mccartney-tm]

Originally Posted by Walecs

How can a single person make a videogame? Yeah, most of Conker's Bad Fur Day was made by Chris Seavor, but not all.

Daisuke Amaya that's who!!!

[Dan]

Gregg Mayles may have designed banjo kazooie, but it took 4 other guys to program it, and 2 other guys to design all the artwork and characters. Kirkhope did the music (though everyone knows this).

[Starblazer]

Originally Posted by Walecs

How can a single person make a videogame? Yeah, most of Conker's Bad Fur Day was made by Chris Seavor, but not all.

Ever play Cave Story?

Made by one guy.

And I make games by myself all the time...

[Ty-chan]

Originally Posted by Walecs

How can a single person make a videogame? Yeah, most of Conker's Bad Fur Day was made by Chris Seavor, but not all.

Originally Posted by Galactic Mario

And I make games by myself all the time...

This was my point I was hinting at, Walecs.

[Walecs]

Wow, excuse me then, people

[GameMasterGuy]

Originally Posted by Dan

Yes banjo's designer is still there; but it takes more than one person to make a game.

Sonic X-Treme. It takes so long publishers can it, but it's still possible.