So with Xbox already winning 2015, lets add more options to the buffet!!!

[courtdog]

As most of you know, RARE is slated to release a new game this year.
Lets get a little insight to what has been brewing... When asked what was good with the game...

"This is more fun than anything we've ever done.'"

Now it would be odd for a developer to say such a thing and there be no truth to it. So feel free to hate.
Here's the article...

http://www.windowscentral.com/next-xbox-one-game-rare-could-be-revealed-microsoft-e3-2015

Rare's Creative Director Simon Woodroffe hinted strongly this weekend that the next Xbox One game from the Microsoft-owned UK developer could be revealed at E3 2015 in June.

Woodroffe used his Twitter account to answer fan questions, but apparently he revealed more than he should as his feed has since been locked out for everyone except his confirmed followers. Before that happened, IGN posted up his messages to fans. One of them stated, "E3 will tell the world what Gregg Mayles new project is about." Mayles is a designer at Rare who has worked on games like the Donkey Kong Country series, Banjo-Tooie, and Viva Pinata.

Another person then asked if the game is original or based on an existing IP. Woodroffe responded with, "All I can give here is a quote from the man himself, 'This is more fun than anything we've ever done.'"

Rare has been working on Kinect-exclusive games for the past few years, including Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports: Season Two for the Xbox 360 and Kinect Sports Rivals for the Xbox One. There are rumors that Microsoft is planning a revival of one of Rare's older game franchises, Battletoads.

E3 2015 will be held in Los Angeles from June 16-18, but Microsoft has plans to hold its E3 press conference in LA on June 15. Windows Central will be there to get first hands reports on all of Microsoft's announcements.

I guess you can say we just added another shrimp on the barbie

 

[#StarkSet]

Kinect games?

 

[HarlemRiverDrive]

Kinect games?

They confirmed that they were not making Kinect games. And they don't have Hololens development kits yet.

Apparently Playtonic knows what Rare is doing and they're really excited for it too.

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So we're either getting:

A new IP from Rare with Gregg Mayles as the lead designer/director.
Battletoads developed by Rare/or an independent developer with Rare overseeing the project.
Banjo developed by Rare.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

They confirmed that they were not making Kinect games. And they don't have Hololens development kits yet.

Apparently Playtonic knows what Rare is doing and they're really excited for it too.

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So we're either getting:

A new IP from Rare with Gregg Mayles as the lead designer/director.
Battletoads developed by Rare/or an independent developer with Rare overseeing the project.
Banjo developed by Rare.

Rare is just a name. All the (original) talent is gone.

Its cool microsoft is looking to revive ips and finally admitting kinect is a failure By allowing rare to do non kinect games.


But theres no reason to be optimistic about whatever game theyre making.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Also @ microsft winning 2015. Its 5 months in and theyve yet to release a noteworthy game.

 

[HarlemRiverDrive]

Rare is just a name. All the (original) talent is gone.

Its cool microsoft is looking to revive ips and finally admitting kinect is a failure By allowing rare to do non kinect games.


But theres no reason to be optimistic about whatever game theyre making.

This is a lie.

Chris Marlow is still there (joined in 1996)

Here is a list of the other people I found on Linkedin that are still at Rare in various roles that joined either 2001 or before. There are a couple of others from the mid-90s I'm pretty sure are still there, but not 100%. They list leaving school in mid-90s and Rare are their only employer mentioned but as I said, not 100% certain.

Robin Beanland – Head of Music – 1994 onwards
Gregg Mayles – Designer – 1989 onwards
Nick Burton – New Technology Development Lead – 1998 onwards
Louise Ridgeway – Art Director – 1999 onwards
Andy Wilson – Producer – 2000 onwards
Steve Mayles – Principal Artist – 1992 onwards
Peter Hentze – Lead Concept Artist – 2000 onwards
Ryan Stevenson – Senior Concept Artist – 2001 onwards
Dave Rose – Principal Environment Artist – 1997 onwards
Paul Cunningham – Assistant Art Director – 1995 onwards
Brent Poynton – Producer – 2001 onwards
James Thomas – Gameplay Engineer Supervisor – 2002 onwards
Gary Talbot – Animator – 2000 onwards
Huw Ward – Test Principal – 1983 onwards
David Wong – Senior Test Lead – 1997 onwards
Paul Machacek – Test Manager – 1988 onwards
Mark Wilson - Infrastructure Engineer - 1989 onwards
Andrew Betts - Principal Artist - 1996 onwards
Rich Cousins - Live Operations Manager - 2000 onwards
Justin Cook - Principle Designer - Joined in 1999, left in 2009 to BigBig then SEGA and came back in 2012

There's a lot of Rare Alumni in it. Including the creator of Banjo, composer of Killer Instinct/Conker/Viva Pinata, the artists of Banjo/Conker/JFG/Perfect Dark and and a lot of core designers for Rare. Yes, people left but not as much as some say. Even ex-Rare people still do stuff for Rare projects because they're cool with Rare/MS. The lead artist for KI came back to help with KI Season 2 for example.

And enough with the 'no noteworthy' game bullshyt. At least try to be transparent /objective about a company's thought process.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

This is a lie.



There's a lot of Rare Alumni in it. Including the creator of Banjo, composer of Killer Instinct/Conker/Viva Pinata, the artists of Banjo/Conker/JFG/Perfect Dark and and a lot of core designers for Rare. Yes, people left but not as much as some say. Even ex-Rare people still do stuff for Rare projects because they're cool with Rare/MS. The lead artist for KI came back to help with KI Season 2 for example.

And enough with the 'no noteworthy' game bullshyt. At least try to be transparent /objective about a company's thought process.

a small handfull of employees. And? Thats less than 20 people. Thats like saying apple is still the same company without steve jobs because a guy that works in the mail room is still there.

And what do you need to be objective about? You think its acceptable that microsoft has decided 10/12 months in a year dont matter? And instead throw out games like fh2 and sunset overdrive to die because they release them at the same time as all the big 3rd party games?

Its a retarded "thought process" and deserves to be ridiculed. And its one of the many reasons theyre getting there ass handed to them this gen.

 

[HarlemRiverDrive]

a small handfull of employees. And? Thats less than 20 people. Thats like saying apple is still the same company without steve jobs because a guy that works in the mail room is still there.

And what do you need to be objective about? You think its acceptable that microsoft has decided 10/12 months in a year dont matter? And instead throw out games like fh2 and sunset overdrive to die because they release them at the same time as all the big 3rd party games?

Its a retarded "thought process" and deserves to be ridiculed. And its one of the many reasons theyre getting there ass handed to them this gen.

You said all of the original talent is gone. That isn't true if a good chunk of the original talent is still there and works actively on a game.

What does a game's release schedule have to do with a game being noteworthy

I thought noteworthy games are decided on it's quality, not how it's marketed/released.

 

[PS5 Pro]

a small handfull of employees. And? Thats less than 20 people. Thats like saying apple is still the same company without steve jobs because a guy that works in the mail room is still there.

And what do you need to be objective about? You think its acceptable that microsoft has decided 10/12 months in a year dont matter? And instead throw out games like fh2 and sunset overdrive to die because they release them at the same time as all the big 3rd party games?

Its a retarded "thought process" and deserves to be ridiculed. And its one of the many reasons theyre getting there ass handed to them this gen.

Shut up and go play The Order

Spoiler

Or Killzone

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Or Knack

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Or DriveClub

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Have you seen Resogun?

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

You said all of the original talent is gone. That isn't true if a good chunk of the original talent is still there and works actively on a game.

What does a game's release schedule have to do with a game being noteworthy

I thought noteworthy games are decided on it's quality, not how it's marketed/released.

The founders of rare are long gone. They were rare. Once they left rare was gone in everything but name. Im sure konami will pump out mgs games without kojima. And im sure they might scrape together a couple animators that worked on mgs under kojima. Does that mean the talent that made mgs, mgs is still there?

what games has microsoft released in 2015, period. What games do they have scheduled for the next 5 months? Stop playing dumb.

What, ori and the blind forest? An indie game that can be found on pc?

xbox is seeing an n64 like drought for games. So, please, lay out an objective rebuttal for the horrible year microsoft is having.

 

[Fatboi1]

The founders of rare are long gone. They were rare. Once they left rare was gone in everything but name. Im sure konami will pump out mgs games without kojima. And im sure they might scrape together a couple animators that worked on mgs under kojima. Does that mean the talent that made mgs, mgs is still there?

what games has microsoft released in 2015, period. What games do they have scheduled for the next 5 months? Stop playing dumb.

What, ori and the blind forest? An indie game that can be found on pc?

xbox is seeing an n64 like drought for games. So, please, lay out an objective rebuttal for the horrible year microsoft is having.

What horrible year?? Once Halo 5 drops, Jan-OCT doesn't count. /Wheregoalpostis
/Xbotlogic

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

What horrible year?? Once Halo 5 drops, Jan-OCT doesn't count. /Wheregoalpostis
/Xbotlogic

You know things are going bad when you have to wait 5 for the next big exclusive, and that exclusive is made by 343

 

[chemicalsword]

do you flip a coin when deciding which screen name to post under?

 

[Cladyclad]

U are on whole other level of crazy breh

I gotta finally give up on whether u are trollin or u r just this fuked up. Either way u are a little off

 

[Costanza]

honestly these xbox are winnning... ps4 is winning threads are so dum as fk...

heres the reality... right now the only exclusive game that was actually great was bloodborne.... so its 1-0 ps4

halo 5 comes out in october... that has the chance to be great... and also has the replayability factor that bloodborne doesnt... so basically the battle rides on halo 5's success