>>714609508
Thread should have ended right here. Banjo skipped a whole console generation and when they finally brought him back, it was something completely different from what they showed initially. I remember the 2008 trailer where they showed off a vehicle shooting down a Mario structure made of blocks and I thought to myself, "They're going that far, huh?" Not because it was an attack on Nintendo, but because Mario himself represents the platformer genre and that was Rare pretty much saying fuck making a platformer, this is what Banjo is now.
All the depreciation and meta shit cost them severely, but we didn't know how severe it would be. That 2010/2011 dump of all their past stuff was the initial sign, Rare Replay was a hard confirmation they were finished as a company. All because Gregg was a bitch who didn't want to make a simple platformer that would have kept Rare safe from restructuring and liquidation.
tl;dr it was fucking bad if you played the first two games during their respective releases, on the same console no less.
