Oh wait a minute, you mean Grabbed by the Ghoulies is released?

GameKinG · 12-08-2003, 07:16 PM

Well, they have lost a good size of their GE/PD teams. Though that shouldnt hurt them too much. But yeah, BT was just plain dissapointing. BK was much better.

BigJustinW · 12-08-2003, 09:20 PM

I heard they lost almost the whole team who worked on GE before PD was even released... and imo PD still ended up much better than goldeneye. (except for the story, which had no movie to borrow from

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I'm sure if the few guys who worked on GE could pull off somthing as good as timesplitters, the reamains of the PD team could pull off somthing just as good. The difference is they could rob much more from PD without it being called a rip-off, and this game is exclusive, so they will get more out of the Xbox hardware than TS could ever... but we'll see.

If this game sucks then Nintendo was smart, but if it's good Microsoft is smart.... all that other crap they are coming out with won't be my judge.

GameKinG · 12-09-2003, 12:20 AM

Well, after GE some of the guys went to Free Radical, and after PD, some more guys left to different companies, as well as the project leader for both GE and PD (Martin Hollis) who went to form a company of his own called Zoonami. Zoonami is currently making a game called "Game zero" with Nintendo (or at least only for Nintendo), though it is not a shooter.

Either way, the remains of the team have taken PD in an interesting direction, from what we have seen (just a render of JD), so Im interested.

Dyne · 12-09-2003, 01:21 AM

Banjo-Tooie was a good game.

The only disappointing aspect was the importance of the Ice Key. Damnit, what a way to follow up. =\ I thought it would be something big.. ah well. And old gameplay? If I recall correctly too, you could change into animals again.. and they were better, too. The T-rex was fun to stomp around in.

The Germanator · 12-09-2003, 01:50 AM

I liked Banjo-Tooie a lot, it was a quality sequel. I agree with Dyne though, the supposed connection between the two games was hyped up so much, and for it to turn out so lame...that's a HUGE letdown. Even so, it was a nice platformer.

DK64 was a good game, but not great by any means...It was long and tedious. You don't want that feeling, of "jesus, I have to do this?" while playing a game, and I felt that way much too much during DK64. How can a game start off with something as genius as the DK rap and go so wrong?

Dyne · 12-09-2003, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by The Germanator

DK64 was a good game, but not great by any means...It was long and tedious. You don't want that feeling, of "jesus, I have to do this?" while playing a game, and I felt that way much too much during DK64. How can a game start off with something as genius as the DK rap and go so wrong?

Exactly.. that's the reason I'm proud to say I never finished DK64. There were some fun moments, too... Diddy's rocket barrels.. that minekart game, somewhat.. but it was lame compared to the DKC series. WAY too much collecting.. and the game took too damn long to finish. I must have played for months on and off. I think I would just pop it in sometimes to play the old Donkey Kong minigame, which by the way, took about 10 minutes to get to. =\ Lame. It was kind of a steal, too, because it included the expansion pack.... you thought it was a deal getting a sweet add-on and a great game, but nope.. you were suckered into buying DK64 too. =o

But yeah, it was good. I still make impersonations of Lanky Kong's "How... hup!" sound. =P

GameKinG · 12-09-2003, 08:20 PM

You can always count on Rare for huge collectathons. Their worse being SFA.