Replaying DKC 1 & 2 on Wii U. Reading Miiverse posts. Are RARE worshippers the worst people? I was there, man. They got sold back in the day because they were on the decline, and couldn't turn in a project on time to save their lives. Thanks for the memories, but come on.

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RARE was a great luxury to have.  If you've already got money, if you're already successful, they were the sort of high-investment, high-reward developers that took a solid and diverse slate of games and gave it that added oomph to make it legendary.  DKC and Goldeneye were great, in part, because they existed alongside great Mario and Zelda games, rounding out the whole portfolio.  But by the end of the N64 era, The Big N just didn't have enough of a software foundation to support a studio that worked like that.  Yes, Lennon was a genius, but he wouldn't have been able to get to where he did without McCartney's consistent quality.  And honestly, though I love the guy, he kinda fell off a cliff after the breakup, aside from a handful of diamonds.