Michael Bluth
04-05-2003, 02:08 PM
I feel this one is most important to Nintendo fans, so I shall put it on top:
Dear Scribes,
I just brought the new GamesMaster magazine and in it there was a small section that stated you had decided to stop developing games for the Game Boy Advance. Please tell me this isn't true because I think that the Banjo-Kazooie games on the N64 were excellent and I was really looking forward to playing Grunty's Revenge, but if this news is true this obviously won't be happening. Though the article did say that you were now developing Sabre Wulf for the Xbox, if so, are you also going to make a Banjo-Kazooie game on the Xbox too as this would be excellent (because Banjo-Tooie has to be in my top 3 games of all time!). In other words I would definitely like to see a Banjo-Kazooie game on the Xbox.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Cross
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif We have various Game Boy Advance titles both completed and in progress. Grunty's Revenge and others are still on course for release, though we don't have any dates for you as yet. There - that should clear things up and give print mags another eighth of a page of HARD NEWS.
Dear Scribes,
PLEASE!!! Be careful what you say in Scribes. You said in your latest update, in reference to what titles Rare was working on, that your guess was as good as mine. Well, the response to that was a certain site posted that because you said that, that Rare was ONLY working on Kameo. Well, being a forumer, I was immediately beset by idiots and PS2 and GC fanboys saying that Rare was a terrible developer because they can only do one game at a time. Please, do not give me a week of hell again.
Thanks,
Remy
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif Ah yes, that superb and reliable site that only ever prints concrete, proven information. I know the one. Honestly, if anyone believes that a developer the size of Rare would only be working on one game at a time, well... having lost all faith in humanity long ago, I suppose I wouldn't be surprised.
I still don't know the finer details of the company's future plans, but I do know that unless something goes violently, pig-stickingly wrong between now and E3, we'll certainly have more than just Kameo on show.
Dear Scribes,
As a loyal Nintendo/Rare user I think you should let me in a little info. I'm not writing to whine about your divorce to Nintendo, although the promise of a Perfect Dark sequel was one of the reasons I bought the GameCube over Xbox. The question I have is whether or not the Perfect Dark sequel will still be out for GameCube (I wasn't sure what company retained the rights to that particular francise). I am hoping to see the title for my console soon, as you pushed it back to the impossibly far-away year of 2004 and I think all the GameCube users waiting in vain deserve an answer so we can cash-in our consoles for an Xbox. So let me know so I can get on with my life, a life devoid of Joanna Dark.
The Smallville Hero
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif Come on, it's not as if we've left anyone hanging with regards to the series' future platform. We never made any promises about a sequel to PD during our brief span of GameCube development, and while we do retain the rights to the franchise, the fact that we're now a fully-fledged part of Microsoft Game Studios pretty much rules out the possibility of us bringing any titles to non-Xbox systems (bar GBA). Yes, I can see where you're coming from, but Rare didn't change systems just to spite you personally, you know.
Dear Scribes,
The last time I wrote to Rare, the reponse of my letter was posted in several gaming publications, both online and in print. However, I didn't get any recognition. Oh well, at least most people received a solid answer to the question (which concerned another KI). So let's see if I can get the same results here.
I know Rare receives a plethora of questions about Killer Instinct and Battletoads, so I'm going to try to keep this simple and unique. Basically, I know another KI will eventually release for the Xbox or the successor to the Xbox. I know Rare has a ton of ideas for the next KI and I'm not here to tell you who should and shouldn't be in the game, or if it should be 2D or 3D. All I ask is that the game feature online play whenever it happens to release. If Capcom can do it with Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO, I am confident that you guys can pull it off as well.
As for Battletoads, I was really just wondering if you retained the license or ever actually had the license. I know you've been asked this before, but nothing specific was ever said about it. Tradewest originally had the license and to my knowledge they no longer exist. So do you have the Battletoads license and is it possible we'll see it used sometime down the road?
Thank you for your time.
Bryan Dawson
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif As far as I know Rare is free to make Battletoads games, but that's by no means the final word. It's always been a bit of a hazy one. And while we can't say there's anything currently in progress, the Killer Instinct/Battletoads double whammy on the most recent Pantsboard hasn't gone entirely unnoticed, and the constant stream of requests for new games does occasionally get looked at (i.e. by someone other than me).
Well, that was a bit noncommittal all round - I daresay there'll be no recognition for you this time either, big boy.
Scribes,
I have noticed several things in Rare games. Things, I'm sure, you wish not to be noticed. However, they're there, hidden. Rare's move to Xbox is a conspiracy. Perfect Dark was a big revealer. On the jet bike's dashboard there are many green lines coming together to form a green X! Plus, in the second Area 51 level, the place which Agent Jonathan has marked to destroy with the hover crate is none other than... an X! Mysteriously, these are both found in the first and second Area 51 levels... What connections does Microsoft have with Area 51?...
Star Fox Adventures. First jet bike race. End of the course. Two collapsed trees come together in the shape of a X! Plus General Scales, at the beginning of the game, says to Krystal "I wanna get me an Xbox!" True, it isn't sub-titled that way, but who knows what he's saying under all that Dino Talk garble?
That's all I can think of now, but I know there is more out there... hiding... waiting. Who knows how long it will be before different clues start re-appearing? Be careful Rare; I'm on to you...
Scavenger
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif Yes, obviously we have reason to be scared, because we don't think anyone's noticed the fact that we've already become part of Microsoft and started developing for the Xbox. Lordy! Rumbled, etc. Oh, and "under all that Dino Talk garble" General Scales is actually doing his best Tommy Cooper impression.
Dear Scribes,
Look, I've gone crazy. I need to see something, ANYTHING, related to Perfect Dark Zero. And I'm not talking about the quick renders that were thrown together 2 years ago, I'm looking for screen shots, a box art, specs, anything! I've gone crazy, I really have. It's been almost 3 years since Perfect Dark came out. I've ripped apart the game 100%. I've seen everything - like the little ? on the grate, the inaccessible areas in multiplayer levels - and I really want to see the PD plot continue, soon pleaassee. Think of it this way - Halo (even though you did not create the game) came out in November of 2001 and we will see a sequel for it by Christmas. Perfect Dark came out in May of 2000, and we have no clue when we will see it. Please quench our curious minds and tell us something!
Joe
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif It's still coming. It wasn't started immediately after the completion of PD, so it hasn't actually been in the works for three years (you're a bit off concerning the Halo sequel too), but it is still coming. That's all we can say. Nothing that's happened to the company in recent times has changed the fact that we're still Rare, and we still work in the same occasionally infuriating ways. You know that all the mystery will just make you enjoy the game more when it does come out. Yes it will. Stop complaining.
All that and more, http://www.rareware.com/scribes/index.html
Dear Scribes,
I just brought the new GamesMaster magazine and in it there was a small section that stated you had decided to stop developing games for the Game Boy Advance. Please tell me this isn't true because I think that the Banjo-Kazooie games on the N64 were excellent and I was really looking forward to playing Grunty's Revenge, but if this news is true this obviously won't be happening. Though the article did say that you were now developing Sabre Wulf for the Xbox, if so, are you also going to make a Banjo-Kazooie game on the Xbox too as this would be excellent (because Banjo-Tooie has to be in my top 3 games of all time!). In other words I would definitely like to see a Banjo-Kazooie game on the Xbox.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Cross
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif We have various Game Boy Advance titles both completed and in progress. Grunty's Revenge and others are still on course for release, though we don't have any dates for you as yet. There - that should clear things up and give print mags another eighth of a page of HARD NEWS.
Dear Scribes,
PLEASE!!! Be careful what you say in Scribes. You said in your latest update, in reference to what titles Rare was working on, that your guess was as good as mine. Well, the response to that was a certain site posted that because you said that, that Rare was ONLY working on Kameo. Well, being a forumer, I was immediately beset by idiots and PS2 and GC fanboys saying that Rare was a terrible developer because they can only do one game at a time. Please, do not give me a week of hell again.
Thanks,
Remy
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif Ah yes, that superb and reliable site that only ever prints concrete, proven information. I know the one. Honestly, if anyone believes that a developer the size of Rare would only be working on one game at a time, well... having lost all faith in humanity long ago, I suppose I wouldn't be surprised.
I still don't know the finer details of the company's future plans, but I do know that unless something goes violently, pig-stickingly wrong between now and E3, we'll certainly have more than just Kameo on show.
Dear Scribes,
As a loyal Nintendo/Rare user I think you should let me in a little info. I'm not writing to whine about your divorce to Nintendo, although the promise of a Perfect Dark sequel was one of the reasons I bought the GameCube over Xbox. The question I have is whether or not the Perfect Dark sequel will still be out for GameCube (I wasn't sure what company retained the rights to that particular francise). I am hoping to see the title for my console soon, as you pushed it back to the impossibly far-away year of 2004 and I think all the GameCube users waiting in vain deserve an answer so we can cash-in our consoles for an Xbox. So let me know so I can get on with my life, a life devoid of Joanna Dark.
The Smallville Hero
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif Come on, it's not as if we've left anyone hanging with regards to the series' future platform. We never made any promises about a sequel to PD during our brief span of GameCube development, and while we do retain the rights to the franchise, the fact that we're now a fully-fledged part of Microsoft Game Studios pretty much rules out the possibility of us bringing any titles to non-Xbox systems (bar GBA). Yes, I can see where you're coming from, but Rare didn't change systems just to spite you personally, you know.
Dear Scribes,
The last time I wrote to Rare, the reponse of my letter was posted in several gaming publications, both online and in print. However, I didn't get any recognition. Oh well, at least most people received a solid answer to the question (which concerned another KI). So let's see if I can get the same results here.
I know Rare receives a plethora of questions about Killer Instinct and Battletoads, so I'm going to try to keep this simple and unique. Basically, I know another KI will eventually release for the Xbox or the successor to the Xbox. I know Rare has a ton of ideas for the next KI and I'm not here to tell you who should and shouldn't be in the game, or if it should be 2D or 3D. All I ask is that the game feature online play whenever it happens to release. If Capcom can do it with Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO, I am confident that you guys can pull it off as well.
As for Battletoads, I was really just wondering if you retained the license or ever actually had the license. I know you've been asked this before, but nothing specific was ever said about it. Tradewest originally had the license and to my knowledge they no longer exist. So do you have the Battletoads license and is it possible we'll see it used sometime down the road?
Thank you for your time.
Bryan Dawson
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif As far as I know Rare is free to make Battletoads games, but that's by no means the final word. It's always been a bit of a hazy one. And while we can't say there's anything currently in progress, the Killer Instinct/Battletoads double whammy on the most recent Pantsboard hasn't gone entirely unnoticed, and the constant stream of requests for new games does occasionally get looked at (i.e. by someone other than me).
Well, that was a bit noncommittal all round - I daresay there'll be no recognition for you this time either, big boy.
Scribes,
I have noticed several things in Rare games. Things, I'm sure, you wish not to be noticed. However, they're there, hidden. Rare's move to Xbox is a conspiracy. Perfect Dark was a big revealer. On the jet bike's dashboard there are many green lines coming together to form a green X! Plus, in the second Area 51 level, the place which Agent Jonathan has marked to destroy with the hover crate is none other than... an X! Mysteriously, these are both found in the first and second Area 51 levels... What connections does Microsoft have with Area 51?...
Star Fox Adventures. First jet bike race. End of the course. Two collapsed trees come together in the shape of a X! Plus General Scales, at the beginning of the game, says to Krystal "I wanna get me an Xbox!" True, it isn't sub-titled that way, but who knows what he's saying under all that Dino Talk garble?
That's all I can think of now, but I know there is more out there... hiding... waiting. Who knows how long it will be before different clues start re-appearing? Be careful Rare; I'm on to you...
Scavenger
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif Yes, obviously we have reason to be scared, because we don't think anyone's noticed the fact that we've already become part of Microsoft and started developing for the Xbox. Lordy! Rumbled, etc. Oh, and "under all that Dino Talk garble" General Scales is actually doing his best Tommy Cooper impression.
Dear Scribes,
Look, I've gone crazy. I need to see something, ANYTHING, related to Perfect Dark Zero. And I'm not talking about the quick renders that were thrown together 2 years ago, I'm looking for screen shots, a box art, specs, anything! I've gone crazy, I really have. It's been almost 3 years since Perfect Dark came out. I've ripped apart the game 100%. I've seen everything - like the little ? on the grate, the inaccessible areas in multiplayer levels - and I really want to see the PD plot continue, soon pleaassee. Think of it this way - Halo (even though you did not create the game) came out in November of 2001 and we will see a sequel for it by Christmas. Perfect Dark came out in May of 2000, and we have no clue when we will see it. Please quench our curious minds and tell us something!
Joe
http://www.rareware.com/scribes/rare_reply.gif It's still coming. It wasn't started immediately after the completion of PD, so it hasn't actually been in the works for three years (you're a bit off concerning the Halo sequel too), but it is still coming. That's all we can say. Nothing that's happened to the company in recent times has changed the fact that we're still Rare, and we still work in the same occasionally infuriating ways. You know that all the mystery will just make you enjoy the game more when it does come out. Yes it will. Stop complaining.
All that and more, http://www.rareware.com/scribes/index.html