They paid 250 million dollars for THIS?!

[A Black Falcon]

Sabre Wulf was good, and probably Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge too, on the GBA... not sure about Banjo Pilot, haven't played it. Some people seem to have liked Viva Pinata... they just published Perfect Dark for XBLA... Kameo doesn't look like it was THAT bad from what I've seen of it (no worse than Grabbed by the Ghoulies anyway, and maybe better)... not sure about Banjo-Kazooie: Nute &* Bolts either, I know it's not a platformer at all which is kind of stupid.

Anyway, sure, Rare hasn'[t been the same as it was in the SNES and N64, not even remotely close, but at least this generation they're better than they were last gen, when literally all they published were a handful of GBA games, one very disappointing Gamecube game, one disappointing Xbox game, and one Xbox N64 remake. At least this gen they have published more games. Of course their quality, polish, etc. all aren't anywhere near where they used to be, and Microsoft still hasn't gotten their money's worth, I think most everyone would agree, but I wouldn't say that they're utterly awful. Just not the unbelievable developer that they used to be.


Oh, I got GbtG a few weeks ago. Seems okay, if all you want is a very simple beat 'em up. If you want anything more than that... well, you're playing the wrong game. You can't even jump! What the heck? That is so stupid... evidently originally it was going to be a 3d platformer, but it ended up cut back. It's too bad that happened, as a platformer it might actually have had a chance to be a great game, instead of just a decent but disappointing mindless timewaster.