Everwild Cancelled
- Thread starter Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Buggy Loop
Gold Member
Yup.
Sony AND Microsoft have been fucking blind for some hard decisions. Closing the Concord studio was surprisingly quick after the fact but to even let it become what it was all those years is still a fuckup.
Everwild seemed aimless and without a vertical slice of what its supposed to be. Should have been axed within the first 2 years if even that.
Seems like there's a ton of aimless devs with bad directors after massive talent leaves a studio, the remaining crew just leeching and living off a publisher's softness. Studios have been closed down with far less lenience. If Rare still exists after all this and only a project was cancelled they can consider themselves lucky.
Laura Fryer is right, it seems most devs at Microsoft have forgotten what it means to DELIVER. That's the entire purpose of a fucking studio! Rare was already a sinking ship at Nintendo even more so when the talent left. Obsidian is pretty much the only one delivering so far, massive success? Maybe not but they get to the finish line.
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SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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I heard they clapped Bonnie Ross kneepcaps, and force her to tell that she is leaving for family reasons. DO THE SAME TO PHIL. It's time.
Then hire Jim Ryan to handle the Xbox division.
Then hire Jim Ryan to handle the Xbox division.
Rare was an experiment that failed.
Kacho
Member
Phil Harrison would be even betterThen hire Jim Ryan to handle the Xbox division.
Burger King
Member
But it would have been a tiring "career moment" for Phil...don't be selfish!
Little Mac
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T4keD0wN
Member
Theyll probably stop working on making games and stick to maintaining SoT operations while only working on few more of these:
Artistic
Member
Kind of have to let this sentiment go.
KenaiPhoenix
Member
I didnt even remember it existed, and reading it been over a decade in development... not surprised at all. I doesnt look good either, it is only "It is made by Rare! Remember Rare?", but they havent been the same since the adquisiton. I would say their last gem was Live & Reloaded.
SolarFry
Member
He's "investigating" guys. Sitting at your pc googling is now "investigating".
Wolzard
Member
My concept for the game would be something similar to Okami, where you would have a world destroyed by pollution and you would act to clean up the planet. Certain regions would have some kind of spirit that would be the guardian of that environment.
It would be kind of an action RPG and the monsters would be animals possessed by the spirit of pollution.
Nydius
Member
I often wonder what Rare could have accomplished if they hadn't been shoved into the role of Kinect Support Studio for years by Microsoft.
Say what you want about the game, I maintain Kameo could have turned into a quality family friendly fantasy game franchise for Xbox if they had let it. And Viva Piñata was well on its way to being a staple IP.
Then Microsoft was like "sike! Now you get to make Kinect Sports games and shitty new avatar UI updates!"
Say what you want about the game, I maintain Kameo could have turned into a quality family friendly fantasy game franchise for Xbox if they had let it. And Viva Piñata was well on its way to being a staple IP.
Then Microsoft was like "sike! Now you get to make Kinect Sports games and shitty new avatar UI updates!"
phant0m
Member
Rare.... L?
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
Sleepwalker
Member
Rare shouldve just made a new Banjo
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
I bet 95% of those who made Banjo, PD and Conker aren't even with Rare anymore.
neocycle
Member
It's Microsofts fault. They didn't keep the talent there in the beginning, which they could have, with money.
JerryinSoCal
Member
Yeah they said that like 2 years after the reveal I think, how do you not know what kind of game you are making from the start?
Jesb
Member
You can blame it on them but at the end of the day they were paying people with nothing to show for it.
hououinkyouma00
Member
People still talk about Rare like they are some great studio but not as much as before. Rare has always sucked to me.
Yes I think Goldeneye was garbage. Fitting really being on a garbage console that has like 3 good games.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
My partner knows someone who worked on this game for 5 years.
The game had no combat - or at least that was one of the hooks in a previous build.
I don't know if the individual in question has been laid off.
Anyway, what a monumental waste of time and money. The game has been in dev for 5+ years and must have been in a near finished state.
They must have known it was going to flop and so it was probably cheaper to just cancel it.
The game had no combat - or at least that was one of the hooks in a previous build.
I don't know if the individual in question has been laid off.
Anyway, what a monumental waste of time and money. The game has been in dev for 5+ years and must have been in a near finished state.
They must have known it was going to flop and so it was probably cheaper to just cancel it.
SEGAvangelist
Member
I really liked Sea of Thieves. Better than all the trash besides DKC and RC Pro-am. Conker was pretty based too.
HJuggernaut
Member
This makes me sad, I was looking forward to playing a politically correct vegan prancing around a forest saving animals and shit.
//DEVIL//
Member
Your opinion. But I think Donkey Kong games on SNES, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark N64, Conker's Bad Fur Day were all amazing games. Even Kameo on Xbox 360 was a good game.
the deeper MS got into rare ( after Kameo, the shitter the studio has become ). I wonder why... oh yeah. It's MS.
neocycle
Member
They left shortly after MS bought Rare.
MayauMiao
Member
I think Rare never had the talent and probably Nintendo was the actual designer of the game.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Nostalgia makes people blind for the passing of time..... It's been 23 years since Rare was acquired by Microsoft. Almost no one who worked on those Nintendo games will still work there. It's a completely different company with a completely different work force.
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dorkimoe
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I don't care about the people at all. Nintendos direction isn't make micro transaction games as services, they would give us single player games. Viva piñata on switch? Yes please
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Nydius
Member
Yeah, I'm sure the company that's locked content and cosmetics behind plastic toys with artificial scarcity would never do anything shady like microtransactions!
Fbh
Member
I mean yeah they still got paid, so it could obviously be way worse.
I just think if you are working in a creative field like this it must suck looking back at the last 8-10 years of your career and not be able to point to a single finished game you have worked on.
Kacho
Member
The company culture is rotten to the core
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Rare goofed when they sold to MS.
mayham2199
Member
Amy Hood.
Fess
Member
I don't even know who that is. Some demonic woman living in the dark towers of Microsoft headquarters?
"It has been [a while]. And we've been able to give those teams time in what they're doing which is good and still have a portfolio like we have. It's like a dream that Matt (Booty) and I have had for a long time, so it's finally good to be there. We can give those teams time"
Phil Spencer provides rare update on missing-in-action Xbox exclusive Everwild | VGC
Microsoft’s gaming boss says Rare is making progress, 3 years after its last reveal…www.videogameschronicle.com
Didn't see that one coming, for real, thought it had some special artstyle that could set it apart and be pushed forward as an standout, kind of like Ori in a way, but nope...