Official Thread Sea of Thieves - Private Game Session's Coming

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They've been waiting for the right push for over a decade. They no longer have the magic they once had.

Most studios (and companies) have turnover. Everyone loses top talent. It's about the infrastructure and leadership to keep replacing top talent with more great talent. Rare slipped because MS was managing all of their studios and gaming division terribly for a time. I never purchased Viva Pinata or Kameo but they were well received. Rare lacked direction when MS did. Their talent that left indicated as much.

If MS wanted a studio capable of developing a AAA platformer, they have the resources to hire them. They put together 343, Turn 10, and Coalition together from scratch. Unfortunately they didn't have a focus or identity for Rare other than the Kinect studio. That chapter is over.

Now that MS has lost their obsession with Kinect, I fully expect to see a Rare comeback. The guy in charge of this next IP was a designer with some of Rare's best games. I see no reason why MS would go cheap in putting together the rest of his team. Spencer seems to understand the potential upside and value in a Rare comeback.
 
The argument i always see in Rare threads is "lol Rare iz ded" because a lot of talent has supposedly left. Funny thing is that can be said about any developer around for more than a decade. Hell Ratro lost most of it's top talent to devs like ID and 343I , yet nobody declares them to be dead. Another thing is , do people really think the talent that left was the ONLY talent in all of Europe? Funny thing is Rare haven't even made any truly bad games other than maybe PDZ and Grabbed by the Goulies since being aquired. I find most of the people who s*** on Kinect Sports haven't actually played it themselves and just s*** on it because "lolz Kinect" ( funny thing is many devs from that very Kinect team is working on the new Playtonic game that people feel the need to hype in Rare threads. Hopefully it delivers because if it doesn't...)
 
I am gonna be honest...if that means games like Banjo and Conker for example...with redone graphics, that be amazing. But if it's just made into 1080p and that's it....damn. :( . I mean we had Banjo Tooie HD already on 360. Sounds like the truly new game is a long ways off...very very early. Sounds like to me we won't even see gameplay of that. Ah well...let's wait and see and from now on i am staying away from the internet. No more spoilers for me.

Sure hope not that this is the Holy s*** moment Nelson spoke of.
 
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The argument i always see in Rare threads is "lol Rare iz ded" because a lot of talent has supposedly left. Funny thing is that can be said about any developer around for more than a decade.

Except for, you know, the good developers?

Valve, Blizzard, Nintendo, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Rockstar etc...

Most game studios that are great, have been around for some time. Rare was arguably the pinnacle of development studio's at their peak (in 2000 IMO). Even at that time, they had a long history of being a talented studio.

Rare's loss of talent wasn't natural. It was mismanagement.

Here's to hoping they've been managed well for the past couple of years. Sea of Thieves looks like it could be special.
 
Except for, you know, the good developers?

Valve, Blizzard, Nintendo, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Rockstar etc...

Most game studios that are great, have been around for some time. Rare was arguably the pinnacle of development studio's at their peak (in 2000 IMO). Even at that time, they had a long history of being a talented studio.

Rare's loss of talent wasn't natural. It was mismanagement.

Here's to hoping they've been managed well for the past couple of years. Sea of Thieves looks like it could be special.


Again, no matter how it was they lost the talent that they did , the fact remains that it wasn't the only talent around. People act like Rare is staffed with Interns these days. Agreed though about Sea of Thieves. The ship to ship battles looked great.
 
Never been a fan of Rare games--well, except Donkey Kong--but I am interested in this one
 
Looking forward to it. Enjoyed almost all of their games on the 360, except for Perfect Dark Zero. Even thought they did a really good job with Kinect Sports personally.
 
So is this a mini-MMO? In the video there are times when several player characters, assuming those are the ones with names over their head, are on screen at once and it would see like they are not always working together. Like four people pushing one other guy off the plank and one boat with players on it watching another boat with players on it go past.
 
So is this a mini-MMO? In the video there are times when several player characters, assuming those are the ones with names over their head, are on screen at once and it would see like they are not always working together. Like four people pushing one other guy off the plank and one boat with players on it watching another boat with players on it go past.
It looks like a open world survival game with a pirate theme.
 
Is it bad that I thought the game following Sea of Thieves was a new Kameo?

LOL. My mouth and eyes were wide with excitement until I realized it was Fable Legends :(

I'll have to see more of SoT as they didn't seem to reveal a whole lot. I hope it works for single player....
 
Glad to see Rare is relevant again. Its like suddenly we woke up to the old Rare on XB1.
 
I can't express how f'n excited I am for this game. Its like Rare snuck into my dreams and made the game I've been longing for. Count me 200% in!
 
A multiplayer co-op game where you go about treasure hunting, but also looting other treasure hunters and s*** would be pretty damn interesting. Contract with west indian company or other companies to destroy competing ships lol. Very intriguing imo if that's what they are going for.

Def some potential depending on their vision for the game which we don't fully know yet haha.

If it's kind of like elite dangerous or eve online and stuff, that would be interesting.
 
I was so disappointed. I don't know what I expected though. I guess PDZ or Jet Force Gemni was hoping for too much. Blah, rare is so dead to me lol.
 
Yeah this is creeping up to my #1 game quickly and for us not to have a fvcking clue about it 24 hours ago we get to play it fairly soon.
 
Nice to see Rare doing a new IP. With Rare Replay coming they don't need to go back to one of their old titles just yet.
 
Wow, I missed this previously and the trailer makes me want to see more. This may be my game of E3. This looks like Rare's triumphant return!