Kinect Topic
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ASL is amazing. I'm using two different version of sign languages (depending on whom I'm speaking with): ASL and PSE. Technically-speaking, I'm using three languages every day! English is the third one.
ASL is amazing. I'm using two different version of sign languages (depending on whom I'm speaking with): ASL and PSE. Technically-speaking, I'm using three languages every day! English is the third one. 
I'm going to say Scott Henson, they guy running Rare right now..who also worked on Kinect prior to his position at Rare.
Frankly, I'm glad this great glistening white elephant Microsoft purchased for a ridiculous sum ten years or so ago, finally has something productive and lucrative to occupy their the time with. Their output when left to their own devices for several years was quite underwhelming. Any other studio but RARE, with their abysmal track record, would have been chopped, long ago.
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Yeah. People don't realize that for most of the time until Henson took over, RARE was still making games for Nintendo Handhelds, so Kinect can hardly be considered a step down for them. The people at RARE are an eccentric and eclectic bunch. Radagast the Brown would hardly stand out, in that crowd.
Rare is a great studio so with the improvements we will hopefully be seeing with Kinect 2.0 and the fact that every X1 owner will have a Kinect, I don't mind having a talented studio like Rare looking in the direction of the Kinect. If anyone is going to make great games for it, it might as well be them.
I find it hilariously ironic that Kinect Sports is their most successful series since being bought out by MS. At the end of the day, money talks and bulls*** walks.
Good MP game. Kameo was really good too. If nothing else Rare has nostalgic value and Microsoft doesn't even use them for that.
Cough most of that game was made for the GC...you know when they were 49% owned by Nintendo.
Is that a sourced fact?
They released it five years later and IMO it was awful, certainly didn't live up to the first or golden eye. We have no way of knowing what Nintendo put into it, but we know what Rare released and that is a game that might have literally killed off a series all together.
They released it five years later and IMO it was awful, certainly didn't live up to the first or golden eye. We have no way of knowing what Nintendo put into it, but we know what Rare released and that is a game that might have literally killed off a series all together.
Yep, the game is being overseen by Ken Lob of MS. He is actually one of the original designers of that franchise.
I bought every Rare game on Xbox platforms until they started making the Kinect stuff. I thought Grabbed by the Ghoulies and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts were their best Xbox efforts. Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo had their moments, but as a whole I don't desire to revisit those titles. And I'm usually one to replay a game's campaign at least twice.
Footage was released of it on the GC and original XBox. Same with Kameo and Banjo was also in the works.
Nuts and Bolts is still one of the best looking games of the generation. And Viva Pinata was a pretty solid title too.