Would you want to see something "darker" and more adult-oriented from Rare? We haven't seen such games from them in that style since 2005.

Would you want to see a more adult-oriented game from Rare again?

  • Yes, I'd like to see something in that style again

    Votes: 27 50.9%
  • No, I'd prefer they continue making games in the same vein they've been making

    Votes: 6 11.3%
  • I don't really care which. As long as I see games from Rare PERIOD

    Votes: 12 22.6%
  • Banjo Threeie or bust

    Votes: 8 15.1%

  • Total voters
    53
I'd like to see some games first, what are they even doing besides menial upgrades to sea of thieves?
 
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?
I don't care about modern soy boy rare. If they wanna make colorful soy boy purple hair games like Everwild then they can make them all they want but at least make them good.
 
I don't care about modern soy boy rare. If they wanna make colorful soy boy purple hair games like Everwild then they can make them all they want but at least make them good.
Considering we know next to nothing about Everwild at this moment in time, calling it a "purple hair soy boy" game seems a little premature to me.
 
I can't believe how much MS let's this clown studio get away with.... other than Sea of Thieves and some shitty kinect rubbish what was their last major release? Was it Viva Piñata? That was 20 years ago lol.
 
whatever the studio is today, it's not the one that made all those games, so it doesn't really matter.
1000% this - and Rare is not the only one.

Many 'studios' we formerly loved have few if any of the people that were there in the heyday: Blizzard, BioWare, BGS, hell even Valve.

But all is not lost - we've gotten some fantastic studios since like Larian, Hazelight, FROM (yes been around a long time but have had a meteoric rise since 2010ish). Others like iD and Capcom have had a modern renaissance in the last 10 years after falling into relative mediocrity in the late 00's / early 10's
 
Title: "Would you want to see something…"

Me: Yes!

How good is Sea of Thieves? I haven't look into it because it seems like GaaS garbage from a distance. Is it really GaaS? I don't mind GaaS but I hate FOMO with a passion. How bad is the FOMO?
 
I am just because it might yield some good inspiration for something new.

Rare used to be premier developer, but given how so many of the original people are gone doubt it will achieve that again.
 
I'm glad for not being headhunted by asking Nintendo to buyback Rare's old IPs from SNES/N64 days, lol.

It won't be a bad idea, though, it could fill a gap for a more western-style tastes which is lacking in the current Nintendo ecosystem and they never managed to fully tap the hole after the Rare's departure.
 
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1000% this - and Rare is not the only one.

Many 'studios' we formerly loved have few if any of the people that were there in the heyday: Blizzard, BioWare, BGS, hell even Valve.

But all is not lost - we've gotten some fantastic studios since like Larian, Hazelight, FROM (yes been around a long time but have had a meteoric rise since 2010ish). Others like iD and Capcom have had a modern renaissance in the last 10 years after falling into relative mediocrity in the late 00's / early 10's
It could be argued that Rare has also risen a bit with Sea of Thieves. I mean, come on. Compare to where they were in the early 10s and where they are now. It's just that their output is so damn slow. That's the only issue. That's why it looks like they haven't done much in recent years if you look at their output from a distance. But in reality, SoT has been a HUGE success for them and is probably the biggest thing keeping them afloat. The way some people talk about Rare on this forum (and in this very thread even) you'd think Rare was the shittiest developer on Earth or something.
 
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