Rare is dead to me at this point. Microsoft ruined what made them special and their IPs are a shadow of their former selves. Looking at the Killer Instinct game turning a free-to-play route was one of the things that infuriated me the most about Microsoft's E3 '13. I prefer to forget what happened to Rare in the past eleven years.
Yeah, people like to blame Rare and Nintendo a lot... and it was all three that caused the situation, but Microsoft purposely bought Rare at least in part to mess with Nintendo (considering they also tried to snatch Sega up for that reason), and they stomped on the projects Rare actually wanted to make until most of the important staff left and they were reduced to Avatars and giving their IPs to other, much less experienced devs. It sounds melodramatic, but as far as gaming goes, it is one of the great tragedies.
I wish Nintendo even had some interest in regaining those IPs, if they were so inclined I honestly wouldn't put it past them to be able to snatch a few from M$ (given M$ seems to care **** all about most of them - giving them one mediocre to terrible game at most), and we could finally see Banjo in Smash (and others too given some time to regrow their series), but as Nintendo seems content to just sit on profitable IPs they actually own and do nothing with them, them actually caring about getting those IPs back is pretty much just a pipe dream.
Sad.
Especially since IPs like Perfect Dark and Killer Instinct really could've helped capture demographics Nintendo barely seems to trifle with.
Happy 500 pages everyone! To celebrate, say which unconfirmed character you are hoping will be in Smash the most! Mine is Issac from Golden Sun, since Megaman is in
and Saki got AT'd
You could at least spell your most wanted character correctly.
