daTRUballin
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It seems like whenever people think or talk about Rare, they're usually known to be a developer that specializes in all-ages titles that feature cartoony and colorful visuals and characters. There's always this odd stigma attached to them that they're a company that primarily makes (or at least used to make) Nintendo-esque platformers, and there's a very loud group of people that only seem to want them to make platformers, but they used to dabble in genres and styles of games that were more geared towards older players as well. Stuff like GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and Killer Instinct were huge back in the day and helped attract a different type of audience to Nintendo consoles. Even something like Conker's Bad Fur Day, despite having a cartoony visual style, was M-rated and geared towards an older audience with its raunchy humor and graphic violence.
It's a little weird that ever since being picked up by Microsoft and being exclusive to a platform that, up until recent years, has mostly attracted an older market, Rare has mostly stuck to family-friendly fare. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all, but the last time Rare released games geared towards an older crowd was way back in 2005. That year, they had Conker: Live & Reloaded for the OG Xbox and Perfect Dark Zero as a launch title for the Xbox 360. Since then, we've seen only family-friendly stuff from them. Viva Piñata games, Nuts & Bolts, Kinect Sports games, Sea of Thieves, and now we have Everwild coming up which looks like it's probably going to continue in that sort of vein.
Now, I know that some of you might say that the market is already crowded with those sorts of games and that we don't need more of them, and that's a fine opinion to have! I just think it would be really interesting to see some games from Rare more in the style or mood of Perfect Dark or Conker as we haven't seen anything like that from them for 20 years now. I'm not even necessarily talking about something that's super gritty, grey and brown, and full of movie-like cutscenes. Even something like Conker with colorful visuals but with darker themes or humor would be interesting to see. Doesn't even have to be Conker. Could be a new IP as well. Even something like Jet Force Gemini kind of fell into that vein too?
I know they've had some cancelled projects in the past that were more along the lines of what I'm talking about. I remember a game called Sundown that they were working on which was supposedly going to be set in a very dark and apocalyptic world similar to TLoU. There was also stuff that Conker director Chris Seavor was working on like Urchin and Ordinary Joe that were in that sort of mold, but none of these ideas ever came to pass.
I was just curious to see if there's any fellow Rare fans out there that would like to see something a bit different from Rare than their usual fare? Or are you just happy to see them release ANY games at all, whatever direction they pick, just because them releasing a game is such a.......ahem......rare event these days? Or would you prefer them to just keep making whimsical and colorful games that can be enjoyed by anybody and leave the "darker" and more serious stuff to other devs?
It's a little weird that ever since being picked up by Microsoft and being exclusive to a platform that, up until recent years, has mostly attracted an older market, Rare has mostly stuck to family-friendly fare. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all, but the last time Rare released games geared towards an older crowd was way back in 2005. That year, they had Conker: Live & Reloaded for the OG Xbox and Perfect Dark Zero as a launch title for the Xbox 360. Since then, we've seen only family-friendly stuff from them. Viva Piñata games, Nuts & Bolts, Kinect Sports games, Sea of Thieves, and now we have Everwild coming up which looks like it's probably going to continue in that sort of vein.
Now, I know that some of you might say that the market is already crowded with those sorts of games and that we don't need more of them, and that's a fine opinion to have! I just think it would be really interesting to see some games from Rare more in the style or mood of Perfect Dark or Conker as we haven't seen anything like that from them for 20 years now. I'm not even necessarily talking about something that's super gritty, grey and brown, and full of movie-like cutscenes. Even something like Conker with colorful visuals but with darker themes or humor would be interesting to see. Doesn't even have to be Conker. Could be a new IP as well. Even something like Jet Force Gemini kind of fell into that vein too?
I know they've had some cancelled projects in the past that were more along the lines of what I'm talking about. I remember a game called Sundown that they were working on which was supposedly going to be set in a very dark and apocalyptic world similar to TLoU. There was also stuff that Conker director Chris Seavor was working on like Urchin and Ordinary Joe that were in that sort of mold, but none of these ideas ever came to pass.
I was just curious to see if there's any fellow Rare fans out there that would like to see something a bit different from Rare than their usual fare? Or are you just happy to see them release ANY games at all, whatever direction they pick, just because them releasing a game is such a.......ahem......rare event these days? Or would you prefer them to just keep making whimsical and colorful games that can be enjoyed by anybody and leave the "darker" and more serious stuff to other devs?
