MundoRare

It’s very sad to see the website closing down , I grew up playing rare games and visiting mundorare website to hopefully see the great next banjo game or Conker sequel .., but I fully agree with mundorare, I’ve never seen rare support their fans in any way, it’s too sad that they denied this project to film a documentary on them, I really hope they change their minds in time… Good luck mundorare team, I really appreciate your work over all these years and thanks for everything..
Sincerely,
Roy , a frequent mundorare visitor

;(

Love you guys! Visited your site weekly even when nothing in Rare world was going down! Thanks for being such strong proponents of Goldeneye 007 XBLA as well!

wow, this sucks, this website has felt like home to me for years… but ever since rare’s “changes” i felt their followers would lose hope.. i even posted a comment about this site following such a lame developer once. rare has definitely changed for the worse. it’s a terrible shame. screw you rare and microsoft. but thank YOU mundorare for all of your excellent work throughout the years. i will miss you

p.s. to all the people like hamilton out there, that believes rare is innocent, and it’s all microsoft’s fault… that there’s still hope… rare KILLED mundorare. there truely is no more hope. game over. zero lives.

I never forget when you made a fake article about Conker’s delay and I wrote it as a news article on my own site, then you guys wrote me on my site’s chat it is Spanish fools day joke

It isn’t that funny that Conker was really delayed after that

I gave up Rare fan site years ago. I you guys are awesome how become so big! I liked this site all the time. Thanks for this 9 years!

Looks like I was right all along. My favorite website killed by some fags who want’s to make a wii sports clone game. Hamilton was wrong. Mundorare thanks for the 9 years news you givin me. Your right to, Rare doesn’t pay attention to the fans. So were never gonna get KI3,PD2,CBFD2,Kameo2,JFG2,BC2,BK4. Rare is all into Kinect now such a shame to see my company grew into something else thank you so much mundorare for everything. We all wanted a Killer Instinct 3, A Conker Sequel, A Perfect Dark sequel. But Rare doesn’t wanna go back to the Old IP’s. What a shame

I think Rare is well aware of their fans. However, their fans are not enough to get a selling title. Their games are, indeed, “worse” than in the past. But their old game formulas are not what sell well these days.

You can’t make a profit off of a vocal minority of older fans with nostalgia goggles on too tight. if they made a sequel, it would get trashed as being a rehash, despite being what the fans want. Look at Nintendo! It was always dead last in console wars until it sold to casuals. Why? Because the games they made that the fans grew to love are not what sells anymore.

I loved older Rare games, but it’s over now. The video games we liked aren’t what’s profitable anymore, unless you have cheaper popular products to make up for it.

Sólo quería comentar (en español, por qué no) que este sitio fue y siempre será uno de mis favoritos.

Me parece una vergüenza que habiendo dedicado 10 años a apoyar a Rare, sin cobrarles ni un céntimo, no puedan tener la cortesía de dejar hacer un documental que sólo vendría a darles publicidad gratuita a Rare y sus juegos por venir (hasta donde entiendo).

Hay que destacar el gran esfuerzo que hicieron para seguir con MR activo, a pesar de las casi nulas noticias -y juegos- de Rare durante varios periodos de tiempo. Mis aplausos y admiración para todos los que forman y formaron parte de este proyecto en algún momento.

good ridance. Your rumors debunked countless of times, were shameless.

Mario64 -> Banjo
Mario Kart -> Diddy Kong
Wii Sports -> Kinect Sports

Lear your history, dumbasses… don’t make cheap excuses just because you guys don’t have the balls to keep supporting a fan site.

Thanks for the brilliant work over the years Mundo. Your articles truly got to the heart of what fans wanted.

I don’t blame you for ending it now. Rare has made their new direction very clear and have shown a complete disregard for it’s fans going so far as disabling comments on YouTube videos. You lasted longer than most fans and for that you deserve credit.

Rare/MS are fools for not accepting your docu proposal. I hope they one day regret it.

Thanks for all the years.
I also think you guys made the right decision to end this project. Rare doesn`t deserve a lovely side like mundorare not anymore.

Take care.

Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put in guys! This has been my only stop for Rare info for the last 6 or 7 years. Will miss it.

Rare’s loss is somebody else’s gain – guess you’ll be moving on to bigger and better things now.

It was pretty damn lame of Rare to reject the project that would have only given you the right kind of publicity. Though I wasn’t a regular visitor, I have a lot of respect for MundoRare and everything in your article was absolutely correct.

Rare’s fanbase is fizzling out fast, and they only have themselves to blame.

Thanks for the many years of reporting everything Rare. It’s sad to see a fan site close:(

This is pretty unfortunate. Best of luck with whatever you do in the future, Xmooth

Anon, I think you are right. But I don’t think we kno if those games wouldn’t sell anymore. I mean, rare really hasn’t released any games to test that. I mean they had a good opportunity with a third banjo kazooie, they took a risk. It failed. Super Mario galaxy still sells, a proper banjo kazooie 3 could too.. I think Microsoft gave rare enough chances to make a great game, and each time they couldn’t follow through. Microsoft just made a smart business decision to start using rare as a resource. Mundorare, you seem to imply it was rates idea for kinect sports. I’d say that was the point Microsoft took over

NOOO!!! :’(!!!!!!!

Meh. Rare is still a pretty secretive company. Why would all of you just expect that they would let you come film everything? That’s your own fault. I know they invited Wozza(Rare-extreme.com) to Rare a few times before. And yes, they are working on 1 casual game. Big deal. It’s basically a fun tech demo, and I doubt it’s taking any time or resources away from other projects. Microsoft could have handed it to someone else like Krome, but maybe Rare just wanted to try something different. Guess who developed Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Party and Wii Relax? Nintendo. And it’s not like the entirety of Rare is working on Kinect Sports.

Seriously, way too much whining. You did a great job on the website, yes. But you expected Rare to bend over backwards for you in more ways than one. And now you are jumping ship. lol

It’s sad news, I really liked the site, but the decision to close makes sense: I don’t see many rare-lovers here.

Sad news. Thanks for the time, though. This site was always ace, especially when you consider that secretive as Rare was as a company fans had to deal with a lot of speculation and this site treated these whole rumour affairs in the best way.

But it’s kind of sad that there are bad feelings involved with the cancelled film project.

I never minded that Rare doesn’t communicate with fans, fans want different things and once you start talking to them they expect more and more, they expect to see their influence on future games. Fans don’t trust even top developers to make games their own way anymore.

Unfortunately Rare has taken a nasty direction with the ugly Wii Mii avatars, broken Kinect camera games and characterless new branding. There’s nothing classy about new Rare and I believe Microsoft’s to blame. They’ve torn apart and pushed away so many fine developers (most notably Oddworld Inhabitants) it’s difficult not to jump to the conclusion that they’ve done it again to Rare, trying to make them something they’re not.

I’ll always hope Rare breaks free of their Microsoft shackles to develop for SCEE. I look at Media Molecule and wish Rare was in such a position. But I fear they’ll continue to be dragged through Kinect shovelware hell and that’ll be the last we remember them for.

these guys wanted to end the portal, and it’s their fault really, no need for excuses like the canceled rare doc.

If you guys really did want to use that to add fuel your complaints, at least you should’ve got first confirmation from the suits letting you do the visit, instead of whining about all the lost prep on the project that was denied. It’s theirs company, not yours for making decisions.

Bom falar o que neste momento de muita tristeza sobre o futuro do site, eu não queria que isto acontecesse amo muito MUNDORARE

Mais a verdade que nos fan enxergamos da ex RareWare(com Nintendo),que agora até mundou nome RARE por mais ruim que parceria estava Rare criava grande susseso nem precisa sitalos e desde da compra pela Microsoft não anda a mesma se vão volta um dia a ser o que ja foi modesta parte acho que não muita gente saiu da Rare.
Em 1999 nasce Free Radical Design agora mudada para Crytek UK com apena 40 dos seus 184 ex empregado ,e tambem a Zoonami Ltd nasce em 2000 ambos Ex RareWare funcinario, O que quero diser e que o verdadeiro motivo de tanta mudança nos nunca saberemos ao certo, mais se um dia brilhara denovo dificil maia não impossivel

Parting is such a sweet sorrow. I really am sorry that you blokes feel this way. I do agree Rare has changed for the worse at the present time. All we can do now is wait to see what they have planned after Kinect Sports. Despite constant attacks towards me I really enjoyed my time at Mundorare. More specifically your game reviews. They were always honest and agreeable. They just proved that only true fans can give honest reviews about games from their favorite company. Well, tallyho chums. Goodbye, Billy, Pain, and others. I hope someday you find some enlightenment from our favorite company if they provide it.

It’s too bad you guys have to call it quits. There aren’t many Rare-based fansites out there.

I guess it’s for the best, though. Rare’s no longer that company that was known for their outstanding games that excelled in pretty much every category that defines a game.

Take care of yourselves.

Wow your closing the site just cause Rare didn’t let you film your dockumentary? lol

@Bob Not just because. They started create crappy games, so the site need content not related those games. They wanted to make something big as fans, for fans. But Rare doesn’t care about fans anymore, so fan site doesn’t need to exist for them.

También voy a comentar en español (tengo derecho de comentar en esta pagina)
Yo recuerdo desde hace años que rare era muy conocido y más talentoso lo que yo se que aquellos años trabajaba para nintendo.

Tenia muchos juegos (en mi caso juge algunos) como donkey Kong country , DKC2 Y DKC 3 (aun tengo mi vieja consola de super nintendo y los dos títulos de DKC).
Y otro lo que me gusto mucho era conker bad fur day cuando lo jugué a los 15 años no podía contenerme de la risa, de tantas malas palabras, muerte donde sea y la forma creativa y algo con drama en la ultima escena cuando matan a su novia. Pero ese juego de conker pego fama en México y todos hablaban de el.

Se que es triste que esta compañía cierre y supuesta mente todos echan la culpa a Microsoft la causa de estos juegos que hallan cerrado o por dejado en un beta.
Solamente diré que están pasando una etapa dura o que rare a cambiado lo que esta pasando en estas situaciones que Microsoft no les permita seguir avanzando que solo los esta deteniendo una barra enorme.

En fin solo quería comentar para compartir un poco mi opinión, por que sigo siendo un gran fan de esta página y más al juego de conker.

Saludos.

Its sad to see you leave, I followed your website for more than 5 years (inclusive cuando solo era en espanol). Good luck with your new projects!

It really does feel like the end, not just for mundo but for Rare as well.. If kinect sports and whatever else after it doesnt sell that could be it, look at ensemble. Thank you MundoRare you were truely great I felt at home here and respect your decision to close.

Godspeed to all of you!!!.

Shame for Rare, for me the company is dead and I’ve already lost not only that company but also Akklaim. They literally built my childhood and now I feel like if something from my heart is gone, a puzzle devoured by Microsoft and its f***ing way to show that it is the king of the world. I don’t hate Microsoft for that but I hate the company for how it killed, slaughtered and devoured the soul of Rare.
For those who had left (Kirkhope and the Stamper brothers for example) and probably for more who will left of how things aren’t getting as supposed to be.
Maybe the last hope is watching Rare’s masterpieces in the XBLA but nothing more. Everything else is screwed up, shame on Rare for its lack of inspiration, creativity and awesomness. With their soul devoured and their way to do things shattered for just… compete… for being just a slave.
You’re dead Rare, you’re so f***ing dead!!! *Sheds a tear*

Anyway, I wish you guys from MundoRare any luck for whatever you’ll do in the future. The ancient spirit of Rare will live on after all.

Good riddance

You were kidding your self to think you would be allowed to do a documentary

Your arrogance will always be remembered Alberto

Farewell to u 2 Hamilton it’s such a shame that it had to end like this.

see ya hammy

It’s sad to see you go. I really enjoyed this site and had been a regular visitor for the last few years. I hope whatever you guys move on to will treat you well. Take care and thanks for sticking with it as long as you have.

u u, que mala onda que se cierre una pagina que va directo al grano con los temas de la gra compañoa que “fue?” Rare. Recuerdo cuando los iva siguiendo desde el 2001 Emocionandome al Extremo con cualquier nota de Banjo-Threeie jeje. aparte de conocer la historia de la compañia y seguirla.
Tambie Gracias por Responder nuestras duras en la antigua seccion de Consultas. donde fue que nos empesamos a quejar del Xbox XD.
Yo opino que ustedes devieron ser las personas mas indicadas para participar en esa pelicula de Rare. pero igual, Mendigos Rares XD.
ok Ya fue mucho. Gracias de nuevo y les deseo mucha suerte. Presiento que volveremos a saber de udtedes y no nos queda que Esperar Que Rare Regrese con nintendo. almenos el equipo de Bajo jeje.

PD. No se enojen por poner el mensaje en Español n nU. SE que uno de ustedes le entienden jaja

VIVA BANJO-KAZOOIE!!!!

VIVA RARE FOREVER!!!

Your site was definitely one of the better (if not, best) Rare sites on the web that I frequented (and was more coherent in English than Rare Extreme since the beginning). Your coverage on Sabreman Stampede and other projects that I never thought even existed or could possibly even be covered were always top notch.

I can see where you are going. The Rare we grew up with has changed a lot (so many of the old members/crew have left, to me, once Leigh Loveday leaves the company is literally some kind of zombie that just has the same name). Kinect Sports and the cancellation of so many titles literally seems like the final nail in the coffin. Plus you got other things to do now anyway and the fun of running a Rare news site is definitely done and gone for now.

At least Goldeneye and DKC Returns on the Wii are something to remember the company by in there golden moments.

Leigh Loveday’s been writing for GamesMaster magazine recently – a feature called ‘The Time Machine,’ where he picks a console from the past and details its history and stand-out games.

Makes me wonder if he’s looking to try different things after spending so much time with Rare.

Worst part is, this could have been the thing that made this mundorare team their career. And Rare just took that from them.

I personally am not a member of the site, or ever have been here. But being a long-time rare fan, I can totally see where you’re coming from.

I understand why the good people at rare decided to take their leave, they were tired of the bullshit. Right here, in the comments of this page I denounce Rare as my favorite developer of all time. I don’t believe they’ll ever come back around and give us something even remotely good, they’ve disappointed us 5 too many times.

Good Riddance, Rare.
Long live MundoRare.

To watch a game company that flourished, and were the greatest of their time, under the wing of Nintendo, reduced to bottom-feeding on said companys efforts in the most shameless of ways tears me up inside.

I watched E3 having high hopes for Rare. Expecting to see a new platformer, adventure game or something that would have been predicable and awesome not even ten years ago. What they showed made me wish I had just given up gaming years ago.

I’m disappointed. Sorely. The average idiot isn’t going to give a shit about kinect, and Rare’s product will be ignored not only by the masses, but by their now resentful fans.

Nintendo brought tears to my eyes with a new Donkey Kong country, and the 3ds drove me wild.

Like the above poster, they were my favourite developer for a long time. I loved Kameo and Nuts and Bolts just as much as the SNES and N64 games.

The company is dead. Imagination, talent and whimsy have no place in twycross anymore. They are Microsoft’s Nintendo Ripoff Dept.

Over and out.

I still think you’re being a bit quick to write them off. The only game we’ve seen from this newly ‘restructured’ Rare so far is Kinect Sports. Before that we had Viva Pinata and Nuts and Bolts, what, only 2 years ago?

The situation with MundoRare is a sad one, but I am not going to declare the developer dead because some of the company’s higher-ups have decided not to proceed with the plans to film at their studio.

queria saber o que realmente aconteceu com Goldeneye XBLA para não ter lançado

from: Mexico my favorite web not not close not not

toda una generacion termina con ustedes 10 años de mi vida invertidas en nuestra pasion que fue rare

a whole generation ends with you 10 years of my life invested in our passion that was rare

Adios RARE!

Never visited your site before now (except once, when I think I read a CBFD article) and I feel like I’ve missed a cool party or something, but it’s very sad to see you closing, knowing something this big is dissapearing truly makes it sink in that the old Rare is well and truly dead. To be fair to that new game though, that is what Rare has always done, they take a game that’s 4~ Years old and improve upon it (e.g. Banjo Kazooie = Mario 64 clone but better) so this is nothing new, also they have always shown their fans no respect at all (even in their games, often taunting you and implying that you fail) but right now their standard appears at an all-time low, goodbye Rare and goodbye MondeRare.

High Treason
SEGA RULES!

i loved your site. really helpful and funny, whenever in spanish or in english, it was a great site. You’re totally right, rare was THE 3rd party game company you could love and trust, it was way better than sega (yes, even when they had consoles, they just weren’t that good). Rare was really great back in the good ol’ days with nintendo (90’s) but since microsoft bought it, it…. just suck balls!!! i have wii sports, and i know as a fact that it’ll kick kinect sports’ ass any time!! well, bottom line, farewell mundorare
the grass is always greener!

I got to your website through Screwattack.com

This is the first time I’ve seen this website but I did check out some of your older posts and articles. You seem like a really dedicated fanbase and it’s always nice to see such dedication and admiration for a company that once deserved that.

More than Microsoft and Rare themselves, I feel sorry for you guys for being disappointed at a company that brought us some really great games.

I have nothing against Microsoft but it’s clear that Rare’s fall began soon after Microsoft’s acquisition, a move that really sealed their fate.

While it may seem a little harsh to quit your support for Rare after their refusal to do the documentary I think the evidence speaks for itself, they haven’t been able to produce games that resemble their past in almost 6 years.

How the mighty have fallen.

I was going to write this in english, but who cares!

Simplemente…. GRACIAS

Por traernos la banda sonora de goldeneye…
Por haberme hjecho pasar tan buenos ratos investigando sobre Dinosaur Planet/Starfox Adventures…
Simplemente, por recordarme a esa rare que queria y admiraba… hasta que ha ido fastidiandola cada vez…

Hasta siempre!!!

Just wanna show you my support dudes. It’s hard to believe that a company that owes itself to its followers would close the doors to a project like yours. I guess it just shows how biased are corporations out there, and how bad they reacted to a negative though impartial review from you. Well, in the end all of this is at their loss. Wish you all very succesful careers whatever new path you choose to lead.

Sad story. Thanks for all these years and best wishes for the future.

Hate to say it, but Rare have been assholes ever since they were bought by Microsoft and fired anyone who wasn’t a soul-less prick…

I don’t know why people doesn’t understand what is the problem with the rejection of the documentary. It was mean to be a big step in the site’s life. Articles not enough now days, videos neither. If a website want to improve it needs big content that show everywhere on the web (even on Xbox Live). They wanted to make it not as a fan site, but professionals. It was a big project with professional background. A project that make the whole thing worth.

I knew this years ago. Because I was a website owner, and I saw I go nowhere with it. I didn’t have source for anything, so I killed my website. It was logical step. If I had a chance to break out from my country language to English, then create a documentary about Rare with professional tools and background, and they reject me: I do the same. Nine years is a long time to be a fan of a company that starts to rot in that nine years. Yeah maybe this is the worst part: Rare started to become bad in those years when the internet and fansites become important in a company’s life. Bad luck.

If you remember guys, there was years when Rare started to treat fans! We had two community managers in this time! They gave us insider infos. Even my little shitty Hungarian site get infos from them! Rare started to be cool! Then something happened. They become silent again. Sometimes I still get emails from them, but nothing interesting, just commercial stuff. They don’t even care I am in their email list XD

Wait… you’re upset about Kinect Sports only because it’s not a more substantial game? How about just enjoying it for what it is, without putting unreasonable expectations on Rare’s every move? As an MS development studio, Rare have been at the forefront of Kinect development – surely you can understand that working the kinks out of a brand new peripheral and control system must have taken up a lot of time?

To be honest, I’m not surprised Rare refused your interview plans, after reading that “review” (it’s not even out yet! Way to pre-judge!) filled with poisonous rhetoric about how you’d rather they’d not released anything at all! If I had been working with Rare on Kinect Sports for over a year, I wouldn’t want to be in the same room with you for an interview either.

A sad story. Perhaps Microsoft should rename Rare to something more suitable so we can leave all their marvellous achievements in the past and not have them muddied by crap like Kinect Sports.

That’s too bad guys, you did some really good work with this site and you should be proud of it. I hope it is at least kept online for future readers to remind us of the wonderful history of this company, even if it is no longer updated.

Lei lo que os pasó en Kotaku, y la verdad es que admiro vuestra dedicación a una empresa que para mí murió desde que se terminó la N64. Es una pena que no podais seguir con este sitio que tanto le gustaba a los fans de RARE, pero realmente es lo que esa compañía se ha buscado, el mundo de los juegos casual acabará con más de un sitio como este, y a todos los que llevamos jugando desde niños, nos quitarán las ganas de seguir haciéndolo.

Suerte en aquello que emprendais

Ésta página se ha convertido en referencia para ver las novedades de Rare, es cierto que la compañía ha tomado otro camino, me encantó su último trabajo con Banjo, lástima que no cuajara en el mercado.
Una lástima que dejeis ésta página casi a los 10 años.
Mucha Suerte!!!!

(((

I get the message here, I really do. Believe me, I’m more than disappointed with Rare over the last few years. But come on. Your reasons for shutting down are congruent to a five year old not wanting to clean his room unless his parents promise him dessert.

I will more than absolutely be the first to admit Rare’s lackluster performance. Starfox Adventures was the start – and after that, Nintendo sold Rare to Microsoft, because Nintendo saw what was coming.

But I mean, come on. The way you describe this is, you guys wanted to do some documentary, Rare said no, and then you pretty much Ragequit. Again, Rare hasn’t been doing so hot since the transition, but one game, ONE Wii-sports knock-off and you say “Oh herpa derp, Rare’s becoming a casual game manufacturer now! That’s not what WE want, time to go!”

Honestly, grow up a bit. I’m not outright saying you should bring back the website – after reading this, especially not – but at least don’t go shutting down a website based on some shoddy assumption that a demonstration that just happened to be made by Rare is going to be their entire future catalog.

As a fellow University of Navarra student I am really dissapointed to see this site closing down. But to tell the truth, I am more dissapointed at Rare´s decisions in the past few years. I have given them the benefit of the doubt for some time now, believing that they were just going through a rough time, but their answer to your documentary proposal is embarrasingly ridiculous.

I won´t say to heck with them, since they are still a company that has the experience and know-how to make great games if they ever got back on their feet, but it does get me sad.

Thank you for all these years of Rare news everyone at Mundorare though

Alberto Riol desde la difunta Guarida de Gruntilda te agradecemos todo el esfuerzo que hiciste a este gran sitio
pero todo tiene que llegar asu fin. Y suerte con futuros proyectos

What a bunch of children you are.

You want to make a documentary about a company that has been unsuccessful in making successful products. The company says no, so you say “Oh, we’re closing down the site, sorry!”

The “for the community” dreck is just that: dreck. Admit that your website is focused around a developer that is on its way out, quality-wise, and without this “documentary”, you didn’t have anything to justify continuing the site.

And for some of the commenters: don’t equate the notion of “going corporate” and “making unsuccessful games”. If Microsoft didn’t take Rare, it would have been gone long ago.

Cierra un clásico, un ejemplo de profesionalidad y devoción. Una verdadera pena.

Un cariñoso abrazo, Alberto e Iker.

It’s really a shame that a fansite has a better vision than the studio it supports. I was admin and designer for Rare-elite and helped on a Dutch Rare site but since Banjo N&B I just could not really believe in Rare anymore. To the critics I always used to say..”naaah, just wait until Rare brings back Banjo, then you’ll see the oldskool studio again…”, but it did not happen. With Banjo, Rare spilt it fanbase in two and left an unrepairable gap between the two parties.

A lot of work goes into maintaining an active fansite, especcially when everybody begins to loose the confidence that Rare will shine again. (And Rare is to blame, not Nintendo, not Microsoft…or was it MS saying that Banjo should include vehicles? for example.)

A shame for Mundo, but hats off that you delivered such an excellent site for 9 years. (I can see RWP going the same way)

Xmooth, siento mucho todo lo acontecido y el cierre de la web.
Espero que te vaya muy bien por que te lo mereces, te lo has currado mucho siempre.

De uno de los ex-miembros de N-Retro

I understand Rare not wanting to participate in the film – they’ve always been very secretive, so I agree with that person who said it’s your own fault and that you seem to behave like children because of it.

On the other hand: this is a great website and it’s been around for a long time, and always been pretty professional and very supportive of Rare, so it would also be in their interrest to let you “in”. I mean – if they see a complete script first and know you’re not going to drag them through the soil, then why not? -surely they must have a PR department that can see the benefits of free publicity? Would it really be so bad to support a bunch of people who’s been so supportive of Rare over the years?

…but perhaps they just don’t care…which wouldn’t surprise me. It would be ‘very Rare’ to not care, but I honestly don’t care about them either – not anymore, because although being such a big part of my childhod (as Ultimate) they’re now only a shadow of their former selves.

Goodbye MundoRare. Please keep the website up.
…I’d say goodbye to Rare as well, but I did that years ago.

I heard Mundorare was offered an alternative by Rare and they refused it…. Mundorare’s way or the highway hey??

I think this is a really childish thing to do, why couldn’t you just come up with another way to celebrate 25 years of Rare instead of suiciding? It’s not like all those years of great games count for nothing just because they’re currently mkaing some stuff you personally don’t enjoy.
And the reality is you’re just running a fan site, you shouldn’t expect to be able to get permission to walk into Rare’s studio to film a documentary.
You’re letting users of this site like me down because of your egos.

dude.. that’s exactly it.. it’s a FAN site. and if you no longer like something, would you continue running a site for it? who cares about the reason why. if someone wanted you to run a fan site for martha stewart, you wouldn’t do it. you dont LIKE her. (i assume) i believe liking someone/something is the very most basic requirement to run a fan site. everyone just lay off mundo rare, we’re all pissed at rare for one reason or another. half of us left when banjo got fucked up, the rest have been tapering off day by day ever since because of a number of reasons like kinect, lack of sequels, lackluster performances. so if there’s one thing EVERYONE is in agreement with, is we are all disappointed in rare… so who cares if they don’t dislike them for the same reason as you. or maybe you do still like them, but w/e. you can’t force someone to keep an interest in something. this place has done great for 9 years, i’ve followed since i was 11 years old damn it. thats half my life, i appreciate what these guys have done, but let’s face it, they’re interested in hardcore games, and rare just isnt anymore. rare SAID they only want to focus on kinect for a while… so don’t expect anything normal or hardcore any times soon.

Wait wait wait… let me get this straight. Because you guys could not make a documentary about this game studio, you’re… shutting the whole website down??

I’m sorry but that makes little to no sense to me.

“rare won’t give us special treatment? we’ll just throw our toys out the pram, then!”

Billy, I’m not sold on Kinect Sports either, but that doesn’t mean I’m suddenly not a fan of their other games – and for the record not all of us disliked Nuts & Bolts, I thought it was bloody good fun. Viva Pinata was excellent too.
Even if Rare never ever make a game I like again (which I doubt will be the case), it’s still possible to discuss, enjoy and be a fan of their older stuff.

Is the site going to be removed from the web completely? Because that would be a shame. If so, is there any chance it could be handed over to someone else who is still interested in Rare and could continue the site?

This seems to be a bit melodramatic. Rare won’t help you make a documentary that says that Rare sucks now, and you’re… surprised?

I also don’t see the problem with them doing things for Kinect. It’s not as if that’s all they are doing, nor is it all they have done. Kameo, Viva Pinata, and Nuts and Bolts were all very enjoyable games for anyone willing to give them a chance, and I have no doubt that they will continue to make quality games.

So why doesn’t that, and their history of quality games, give them the benefit of the doubt? You’re really ending an entire website over Kinect and a documentary on the demise of Rare? Come on guys, stop and think for a few minutes.

Ok I give up. People doesn’t even read this article. Congratulations for everyone who doesn’t understand the why they shut down the site…

i agree with lol

I think you should all get PS3’s which will make you generally happier in life.

E duro admitir mais pareçe que RARE não e mais a mesma sem a Big N

Una auténtica lástima que cerréis, aunque la verdad, viendo los últimos juegos, los infinitos retrasos y sobretodo considerando que el alma de Ultimate ahora Rare, los Stamper, ya no están no sé qué se puede esperar…
Por otro lado, creo que ningún momento mejor que éste para seguir adelante con el documental, pero no con la Rare de ahora, sinó intentando reflejar lo que ha sido y fue, primero en los ordenadores de 8 bits como el Spectrum y luego en las diferents máquinas de NINTENDO. Un documental sobre la compañía de videojuegos que fue, y no la que es… a ver si eso si que está “on the message”. De verdad, os animo a que sigáis adelante con el proyecto… ¿habría mejor colofón para el gran trabajo que habéis realizado con la web? ¿Habría mejor homenaje a las genialidades que tanto y tanto nos han hecho disfrutar?
Un saludo de uno que se maravilló hace ya mucho tiempo rociando insectos con teclas de goma en una tv de 14″.

It’s not dreck when the company you pour your passion into rejects you. Rare is alive but alive because they are on the teet of microsoft, NOT because they are a successful company. See Nintendo cut them lose because apparently something internally in the company was happening that was affecting their game development. It’s sad when are a company’s biggest title, in the hearts of many, is nearly 15 years ago. You can’t really be surprised that Rare is going the casual route, if you look at their long list of games they have games like Wheel of Fortune, Seasame Street 1,2,3 and a WWE (WWF At the time) games. Jesus Golden Eye was just put out to capture the movie tie in for pete’s sake; it was almost by accident that the game was good. I remember reviewers being shocked at how good a movie titled game was at the time. People bought perfect dark because it was supposed to somehow recapture the magic GE had, but didn’t.

Rare to me, imo, was a highly over rated company with some really lucky hits.. Battle Toads, Golden Eye, Diddy Kong Racing, DKC maybe, Killer Instinct, Banjo and conker are what they are known for. NOT RC pro-Am, or Wizards and Warriors with Fabio on the cover. These guys have every right to be disillusioned with the company, too bad it took them 10 years to figure that out.. Que sigen comiendo mierda, Rare. Rare is no different now than it was back in the 80s. A company of accidental conveniences..

Pity, time to move on to another company that isn’t Rare.

I almost cry. So much effort for nothing.

You guys deserve the best, Rare doesn’t deserve you.

Love.

While I do agree with some of what you say, you do sound like a petulant lots of kids, closing down a forum that a lot of people enjoy just because Rare don’t want to participate in a documentary made by people who obviously don’t like the games they make.

So are you saying that you wouldn’t be closing down the site if they’d agreed? And what exactly would the doc have consisted of? You blowing smoke up their behinds, or throwing a spotlight on the huge list of failures you believe them to have made? From the sounds of your statement, it doesn’t sound like you have lot of integrity. You’re disappointed in their output for the past 6 years, and yet you wanted to make a documentary about them. Pick a side for crying out loud.

If it’d been my decision, I would have told you where to go as well. I don’t particularly like Rare, but I respect them a whole lot more after this.

It’s incredible Rare are still open, must be running at such a huge loss with nothing to show for it. I’m sure they’ll somehow survive after Sports and are lining up the excuses already. They’re a modern wonder of the world!

rip
long time reader but have never posted
been checking this site forever, sad to see you guys go

bye mundorare

I recently found this site, but I think it’s kind of an example of how most gaming studios are going to end up: less concerned with fans and trying to make good products and more concerned about the bottom line. I grew up playing classics like 007 Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, and it pains me to see that people who stuck with Rare with good memories in tow would get completely shut out.

@A-Joe: Come off your high horse, kid. These are people who enjoyed a companies’ products even through the bullshit. When a company loses its fans, all it has are the faceless masses and dumb casual players, which is all Rare is gearing towards now.

I actually though Kameo was great for a child’s game. There doesn’t need to be some hidden depth or extra unlockables to make a game just so it can suit high review scores. Kameo delivered just like Donkey Kong Country delivered to me when I was a child letting me run wild with different fantastical beasts and trying to solve small puzzles. It may have not been the hardest game but I have a child who thoroughly enjoys it and replays it just like I replayed DKC2 many times in my childhood. Nuts and Bolts felt like a fantastic game and the only reason I feel it got bad reviews was because it had Banjo. If they made a new mascot for that game I’m sure there would have been less nostalgic nuts whining over Banjo being in a different genre. The game let you create vehicles however you wanted and let you solve the challenges in a wide variety of ways only limited by your brain power to create a machine capable of accomplishing the goal. The only missteps I feel they have taken are doing remakes just to get some quick sales and the N64 crowd aboard. It was a stupid mistake to remake Conker because the gameplay doesn’t hold up anymore at all. Perfect Dark Zero was a big mess they created just to meet the launch lineup and for that reason I forgive them for that game because they didn’t have months to do playtesting to see if the game would be fun like other FPS creators do. Everything they have delivered this generation so far is great and yet you decide to quit because of a minor snag with your documentary and because their kinect game looks bad. I still have fate in them even though the bros are gone. It’s really sad you guys don’t anymore

@Astral: Surely this was a forum for fans of Rare’s games though? Seems like it was. Sure, they probably feel disillusioned by the fact that they got told no by Rare, but they respond by throwing their toys out of the pram and closing down the forum altogether. What about all the folks who still like Rare and came here for the community of it all? Isn’t that what a forum is? And then to release that statement “We actually didn’t like the games they’ve been releasing for the past six years anyway, so nehhr”, that’s the kind of thing my eight year old says if I turn off her cartoons.

I review books professionally, and regularly get knocked back for interviews by authors I admire the hell out of and praise on a regular basis. I wouldn’t declare my disgust and withdraw my support altogether though, and I certainly wouldn’t go on to say that “actually, everything they’ve written over the past decade has been terrible”.

Mundorare were, in their own words “a team of filmmaking and journalism graduates” who were obviously trying to monetise this project, and make a name for themselves with the doc. You can’t blame them. They’re not going to get anywhere though, if they stamp their foot every time they get turned down

I was afraid this might happen some day!

I’m amazed how much of the fan-base is still alive, despite the fact that Rare has not released an acceptable title for the past decade and probably won’t deliver one in the foreseeable future.

Thanks a bunch, you guys!

Best to ya!

You can’t just demand access to a company’s time and resources and then throw a hissyfit when they say no. Something like that involves a lot of legal paperwork, ties up company time, could compromise projects, and takes control of public relations out of the hands of the company and into the hands of a bunch of amateurs.

Sounds like a bunch of naive journalism graduates got butt-hurt because they don’t understand how professional game developers operate.

The fact you posted this retaliatory “rare sux0rs now” bullcrap shows that they were right to turn you down. How ridiculously unprofessional.

Say what you want about Rare’s recent offerings, I’ll probably agree- but mudorare are in the wrong here.

Me siento realmente mal por el cierre de esta web, seguia visitandola pese a cambiar al ingles (usaba la traducción chapucera de google) Es una pena que todo haya terminado de esta manera, cuando Microsoft compro a Rare nunca imaginé que la compañia fuera a hundirse.

Son muchos años de decepciones, un Perfect Dark Zero que no estuvo a la altura, un Kameo claramente inacabado, un Banjo vergonzoso que mato definitivamente a Rare y por si aun quedaban dudas ahora hacen Kinect Sport, lo peor que han hecho desde que tengo uso de memoria, hasta el Mickey SpeedWay USA me parece mas apetecible.

Siento que MundoRare desaparezca, han sido muchos años de mi vida siguiendolos diariamente, con ganas de saber si hay noticias frescas de Rare, si han anunciado algun juego. Os echare mucho de menos, espero que os vaya todo bien y veremos que pasa con Rare, este culebron no termina nunca. Aunque sigan decepcionandonos una y otra vez, nosotros seguiremos al pie del cañon, con curiosidad y tal vez un poco de esperanza tal vez, cosas del ser humano.

Hola nunca antes habia escrito pero por varios años leia su pagina, antes creo que habia una version en español. Bueno les encuentro razon, la verdadera gran R murio hace mucho. Una pena que la que consideraba la mayor desarrolladora de videojuegos se haya vuelto la “puta de microsoft” (lamento la expresion pero eso es lo que siento). Bueno ojala les valla bien en sus nuevos proyectos y ojala microsoft quebrará (pero no soy idiota se que eso es practicamente imposible pero siempre podemos soñar).

I can’t believe all the negative reactions towards Mundo.

People who respond with the age old argument “Thats how just how it works. Deal with it.” should shut their mouths. This is no excuse here. ( If ever )

Rare Ltd. should not receive any compassion at this point whatsoever and the choice by the Mundo staff to shutdown a 9 year-old site, that has done nothing but support Rare ltd., is not a choice made over night. As much as will mis this fabulous website, they made the right choice.

Rare has turned their back to all their fans to many times! As Daniel Carrington once said:

“Time to return the favor”

Good riddance. I used to be a fan of the site back when it was in Spanish. But as soon as Rare joined M$, the staff from this site suddenly got into Nintendo-bashin’ mode 24/7. It was a constant whining about how Nintendo didn’t support Rare and how said company ruined Rare’s games. Which is a bunch of baloney considering that Nintendo invested millions and man hours co-producing Rare games (just read the damn credits from most Rareware games of the N64 era). The fact that this site chooses to not only ignore that but also claim that the opposite was true, is the main reason as to why Mundorare became the Fox News of the gaming world. Unfair and unbalanced.

About the documentary: I’m not surprised Rare Ltd. told MundoRare to go screw themselves. Since they probably became aware of how this sites re-writes the history of the company or how they constantly portray Nintendo or MS in a false light.

The fact that you guys think that ONE game (Kinect Sports) is a good enough reason to stop supporting Rare, is pretty laughable. You guys are going away like a bunch of pansies that believe your balls will drop off by covering a Kinect game. I guess it was incredibly macho of you to cover games that featured a bunch of furry animals. But a game about sports? Oh noes. Let’s all quit before they make us join a Gay Pride Parade!

And the fact that you’re going away by blaming others (Rare, Nintendo, MS….. Obama)is pathetic.

Truth is, Rare’s been dead for a long time. This company that exists today is far from being the one we learned to love. I fully support the MundoRare team’s decision.

And they didn’t stop supporting Rare only because they turned down the documentary project. And it wasn’t specifically because of the Kinect game, either. These disappointing events account for the ever-growing list of times Rare has let us down, with one game after the other in the past decade not nearly meeting our expectations. If they decided to stop supporting them, it’s because they probably disliked the newest game just like they had a difficult time swallowing the most recent ones. As most of us did. In such conditions, one wonders why the support should continue. Wouldn’t you? This wasn’t a decision made overnight. It’s something that probably came to their mind ages ago. And with Rare’s continued wrong actions, the idea grew on them until it met reality.
I don’t blame anyone for losing faith in Rare nowadays. It’s the humane thing to do, actually.

Good luck in your future endeavours!

Designs on the future. Haha.

Poor Rare. How the mighty have fallen.

I had no idea this site even existed.

Good luck guys, you will be missed. I wish the site could end on a better note than Kinect Sports.

Dejare un comentario en Español ya que esta pagina empezo en español.
La verdad si se esforsaron vastante en que siga activo ya que nunca tenian novedades ya que casi no hacian juegos este sera el fin de mundorare y el de Rareware tambien? yo si lo creo fue una de mis compañias favoritas

You couldn’t even wait till after Kinect Sports to see what Rare had planned after? Well I’m sorry that’s how you feel, but I think you could have at least waited till after Kinect Sports to see what they were doing next then made a decision.

Makes me sad seeing how rare is faring now =( Though I can’t remember the last time I visited your site regularly I hope you do well mundorare. I will always cherish those memories of the past back when banjo kazooie first came out =).
Best of luck to all of you who posted and cheers to rare
getting out of this slump =)

Realmente no puedo irme sin dejar un mensaje…
Es una pena como todo el trabajo de ustedes se hay ido a la basura, yo eh seguido su página silenciosa y periodicamente desde hace como 7 años ya que soy un gran fan de los juegos de Donkey Kong. Hace tiempo que Rare me habia decepcionado y es una pena como está enfocado como empresa. Muchas gracias por su esfuerzo y todos los aportes que hicieron.

Es interesante ver como poco a poco va despiendose la gente que visitaba esta web, es complicado ver como cierran sin hacer nada, pero poco podemos hacer, nada mas que desearles mucha suerte…

Tambien es interesante ver el canal de rare en youtube, los comentarios de la gente en su grandisima mayoria (yo diria un 90% o mas) son de indignacion y decepcion con la compañia.

I don’t think I’d want these kids making a documentary about me either. Companies tend to prefer a bit of professionalism. But whatever, goodbye fansite I’d never heard of until tonight.

ZombieToast. Read the article. It was professional. Oh and think about it a little: most of Rare fans know this site. Even big news sites wrote about its closure. So you lived in a cave, not they was little site.

This is my last comment for good becuase mundorare is shutting down. R.I.P. Mundorare 2001-2010.

Goodbye Mundorare
Goodbye Hamilton
I’m not saying goodbye to you Pain because I still fucking hate you!!!

GOOD DAY!!!

@Hamilton: P.S. Do you live in the US or the UK?

Llevo años leyendo esta página junto con rarextreme y el dia que Microsoft compró Rare fue uno de los mayores chascos de mi vida. Compré la Gamecube con el star fox y alli acabó todo. Kameo PDZ y d+ fueron retrasados y publicados en Xbox. En fin, Rare ya no es la que era. Además apenas suelta prenda y hacer una página web sobre algo tan secreto tiene muchísimo mérito. Mi mas sincero adios y ánimo porque vosotros si que lo habeis hecho francamente bien…

Pues yo tambien comentare en español.

Mundo Rare era como mi pagina principal de inicio por mucho tiempo, incluso despues de unas cuantas decepciones con Rare, siempre he apreciado el esfuerzo y dedicación que ustedes le han brindado a esta pagina y a sus lectores, los articulos fueron excelentes y la cantidad de informacion de juegos cancelados y cambios durante el desarrollo era igualmente impresionante.

Acerca de Kinect Sports, pues eestoy de acuerdo que es probablemente la mas grande decepcion que Rare ha hecho en los ultimos años. Generalmente los juegos de Rare son reconocidos al momento en que uno los ve, ya sea por una direccion similar en el arte.

Me da tristeza saber que ya todo se acabo, fueron buenos recuerdos mientras duraron, ya sean en ingles o en español, ustedes siempre fueron un ejemplo admirable de grandes fans dedicados a brindar informacion a otros fan. Desde Latino America, jamas los olvidare.

Thanks for the memories guys. I will always have a special place in my heart for MundoRare.

Rare don’t deserve to have fans like us. I wish you the very best.

Adios Amigos.

Bloody Microsoft. I can’t help but think they could have done great things had they managed to pull through with Nintendo.

Es muy triste saber que este sitio cierra. Fue una de mis primeras experiencias en Internet hace ya bastantes años. Fue con la salida de Donkey Kong Country 2 para GBA cuando entre a sus foros e interactue con muchas personas. Aunque deje de visitar el sitio durante mucho tiempo, siempre trate de estar al pendiente de lo que sucedia. Le deseo a Xmooth y a todos en Mundo Rare lo mejor del mundo y que el futuro les traiga siempre cosas mejores. Saludos!!!!

This cannot happen, something needs to be done.
We have let Microsoft rape the charm out of Rare long enough; no more internet petitions or contact emails, we the fans need a strong formation to show that we will not stand for what Microsoft has turned Rare into. To hell with their major corporation as a group we need to show that we know whats right for Rare and obviously we a right with the fact that Microsft is poison to Rare.

It’s very sad to see the website closing down, but its been late… Rare had already closed their quality down a long time… But its sad.

Already commented once, months ago, but damn it, I’m still sad. Play the Rare games on N64 and wonder what the hell happened. Stampers got out when they saw the end of their vision was in sight, so did Mundorare. Damn shame, loved Rare and this site very much. I’ll always treasure Rare’s Snes/N64 days, and try to ignore the Microsoft years. Thanks again for everything, Mundorare, you will be deeply missed.

When will Jet Force Gemini for Nintendo 3DS badly need to play on the Nintendo console will be released 3DS 3DS NINTENDO Game is best for all the public will be successful and better for 3DS NINTENDO. please

in the game MARIO KART 3DS will come out the pesonajes again as Dixie Kong, Tiny Kong, Lanky Kong, CHUNCKY KONG, KIDDY KONG in the running game, this is a good idea is to remember the most exciting games for a long time in all generations.

Merry Christmas to have the best games for the year 2011 as well as in JET FORCE GEMINI NINTENDO 3DS thank you very much hope the surprise of the most advanced games in the future and always remember the games of past years of all generations and always remember to stay tuned.

Well here we are in November finally and it seems Kinect as well as Kinect Sports did very well. Now we’ll get to see where it takes off from here and what other games Rare may be making for Kinect. As harsh as this may sound it is your own fault for closing Mundorare. You should have known about Rare’s media-shy nature in the first place. And you couldn’t wait to see how Kinect Sports and Kinect would fare and so far it appears to be a good start to a new future for Rare themselves whether you choose to accept it or not. So don’t blame Rare for your closing. Blame yourselves. Good day.

what has RARE become…

“Well here we are in November finally and it seems Kinect as well as Kinect Sports did very well. Now we’ll get to see where it takes off from here and what other games Rare may be making for Kinect.”

I do think MundoRare might have been a bit too quick to write off Rare after hearing of their focus on Kinect. Sports isn’t my sort of thing, but I am sure there’ll be something I will be interested in sooner or later. If Rare had announced something for the fans alongside Kinect Sports, perhaps MundoRare would still be going.

I realise it’s a whole collection of things that triggered the closure; probably most disappointing for me was the departure of Wise. The thought that there were no games in development in need of his beautiful, atmospheric compositions – and that I’d never again play a future Rare title with a Wise soundtrack, was a sad one.

@Hamilton: Kinect Sports a good game. A good game that ANY company can create. It does not have anything that we love from rare… not even original characters. Its an empty shell that any developer can build with the free developer tools microsoft gives.

“A good game that any company can create”… funny, I only see that Rare have made such a game. All the “hotshot” developers so far have made squat for Kinect – Just the same boring stuff: Halo 5, Call of Duty 7, Gears of War 3, bla bla bla. Just you wait till Microsoft releases a hybrid controller similar to the Wii, then you’ll crack your pants when you see the next game by Rare.

I could add that Kinect Sports is really fun, transcendent really, and a promising start. But I’ll let all of you get back to your favorite RPGs or whatever it is that you like these days.

I LIKE DORA BACKFLIP ADVENTURE AND JREX’s FRONTFLIP ADVENTURE

Rare posted one of my Scribes letters on their site, so there

@Hamilton: I have a confession: Since July 2010 I stopped liking Conker and Rare and I started to move on and like deviantart.com and my favorite artists on deviantart.com are Maxtaro and Satsumalord.

Alberto Mucha suerte en tus proximos proyectos, esta era el mejor site de RARE , los demas no le llegaban, pero bueno pero a veces hay que cambiar de rumbos, cuando en nuestros caminos nos encontramos con una pared, Suerte y el Kinect apesta la verdad y los juegos de rare de kinect cualquiera los hace, Tengo que decir que Rares es “the M$ BITCH”

No se si alguien seguira visitando la web, pero queria comentar una cosa, visto como ha terminado Rare, no echare en falta una web dedicada a ella, no asi a la gente que habia detras claro, los foros de Mundorare eran muy buenos y me pasaba horas leyendo a la gente, muy majos.

Pero sinceramente, Rare ha muerto y hacer una web de esta compañia que va en decepcion tras decepcion pues no tiene sentido, no somos masocas.

En el scribes de Rare se excusan diciendo que los tiempos han cambiado, que tienen pronosticos y presupuestos que cumplir y tal y que por eso no hacen caso a los fans y siguen a su bola. Pues señores, tampoco es que vendan mucho con su actual politica, y las ventas de Kinect Sports no son a tener en cuenta, pues casi no hay competencia, no hay mas que morralla en Kinect.

Solo siento decepcion y rencor hacia Rare, tantos años esperando para esto…en fin, por mi parte tendre el punto de mira en Kirkhope y Dave Wise con sus nuevos proyectos, que aunque los juegos en los que participen no garantizan la calidad de la antigua Rare, se que la banda sonora sera buenisima y tengo ganas de escuchar mas de estos maestros.

@Cain:
The only thing I moved on from is this pitiful fanbase. I don’t know if I can call anybody here a “fan” anymore. None of you are any better than the Sonic fanbase and God knows how they are. In fact I’d go as far as saying that you all are worst than the Sonic fanbase. I doubt that 40% percent of you have even tried Kinect Sports let alone Kinect itself. I bet if another company made Kinect Sports none of you would complain. But just because Rare made it automatically makes it bad. You people are unbelievable. After YEARS of dedication to this company you suddenly turn your backs on them because they decided to do something different. I could tell the staff members who left Rare the same thing *coughwisecough* None of you deserve to call yourselves fans because all you do complain, insult, and whine to Rare. The comments on their Youtube page are appalling. I’ve seen more positive comments from Sonic fans these days. So it looks like this fanbase has become the new Sonic fanbase. Congratulations. So farewell Mundorare and everyone else. I’ll pray that your hatred towards the company you once loved get’s justified somehow. Me? I’m off to beat the crap out of someone in boxing on Kinect Sports. Good day.

how the fuck is a shit company like Rare with nothing going on for a long time or in the forseeable future going to deny their BIGGEST FANS the right to make a simple doucmentary about their now cluster fucked history?
Fuck you Rare this site deserved better.

@Hamilton

Being a fan means you take a particular liking to a certain group, company, or artists etc. because of what they bring to the table.

YOU however, are what you call a fan-BOY

A person who will blindly follow said group, company or artist etc. and will ALWAYS defend and support them, no matter how much their delivery degrades.

You say people gave up on Rare and aren’t real fans. COME ON! If you’ve even been half awake the past decade, Rare has had a fanbase with the most patience of any developer out there, next to those of 3D Realms. With their lack of good titles the past few years. ( or ANY titles at all, you might say ) it’s amazing to see Rare still has such a (comparatively) big following as it does.

Your criticism towards MundoRare makes no sense. They LOST their interest in Rare because Rare failed to deliver for so long. You can’t expect people to keep supporting you “just because”. For years there was nothing to write about, then as things finally started to pick up again ( it took Rare more then 7 years to kinda get their shit together, mind you ), they presented us Avatars and B-K N&B, the last being a great concept, but executed poorly. The fact that they make Kinect games now is not the problem. The fact they’ve changed is not the problem, but the fact that they have failed to deliver a true AAA title in the past 10 years IS!

Arguing that MundoRare brought this failed documentary project upon themselves is bull too. Even though Rare is known for being media shy, they already entered the spotlight a bit more even before MundoRare started working on their documentary AND today Rare is far from media shy, finally putting their PR to good use. Aside from that, Rare has always been very gracious towards their fan sites. Providing them with exclusive info and content for years, even hinting at future projects on some of the forums. Because of this, there was no reason for MundoRare to expect Rare to turn their backs on them at the very last moment. MundoRare’s decision to close the website is a great example of Rare’s decline. For them, there was little to reason left to support the once great developer.

I don’t consider myself a Rare “fan” any longer. I will always be interest to see what they bring to the table in the future, but Rare has a long way to go if they want to restore their reputation as one of the most respected game studios in the business.

Stop trying to defend a company that has failed to deliver a great product for the past 10 years. Wake up!

@PDZero
I don’t even know why I come back to this place because I know people like you are going to make long text walls as to why I should give up on Rare. I’ll just say this. Rare is a company that has never disappointed me and they still haven’t. Even with this pathetic fanbase that’s been following them for years but now has given up because they can’t find anything good to say about the new games (oh boo hoo!) they’ve still been going strong. Just because I like their new games (even Kinect Sports for that matter) doesn’t make me any less than you. In fact, I reckon I’m the only one with enough spirit to continue to support Rare and all that they do. They’re far from dead. No matter what the hell you nor any other so-called “fan” says. The people that are blind here are the ones who oblivious to the new Rare and over-zealous with the old one. It is Mundorare’s fault for closing. If they can’t support Rare’s new direction then to hell with them. To hell with anyone else for that matter. None of you are going to convince me to stop supporting a company I grew up with just because what they make now “iz not wat we wuntz!” Rare has not failed anything. They’re making more money than ever and will continue to do so. So call me a fanboy and whatever else you divvys use to talk down on a fan of the new Rare a.k.a a true fan. Just know that all of your constant whining and insults towards Rare aren’t helping anything and they’re not going to listen to any of you. Goodbye, good riddance, good day, and to hell with you all.

superior book you include

You guys are sick Half year passed and you still comment here XD

Hamilton: get a life XD

Dont Be a douche somebody

Kinect sports sucks sooooooo bad i use to have some trust in rare but now i couls give to them and now all im left with is good memories with me and rare.
BY BANJO AND KAZOOIE SEE U MAYBE AGAIN IN THE FUTURE

and PDZERO u rock very amazing comment

It’s a shame the last comments left here are arguments.

Guys, guys! We’ve all enjoyed Rare’s games in the past! All for one and one for all! Come on!

@SummerSky There is much to argue when something good stops being good because of money.

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@Hamilton You can’t be like that if people give up on a company. Rare use to be such a good company with amazing games. All thats gone now. Their going to be focused on “Casual Games” I don’t mind Kinect Sports at all, but when Rare talks about going “Casual” and not “Going back to Old IP’s” then I’m sorry, I’m going to give up on them. We all wanted Killer Instinct 3, Perfect Dark 2, Conker 2, Kameo 2, Banjo Kazooie 3 (Not nut’s and bolts/spin-off)Jet Force Gemini 2, and Blast Corps 2. Was that so hard to ask? KI3 has been in demand, for 17 years now. Even if they didn’t want to make a sequel after KI3, was it really hard, after 17 years, to make KI3? Conker 2, I know it was in development, but every-time a game is being made/develop Microsoft is always ruining our chances. They ruined our chances of Perfect Dark 2, Kameo 2, and Conker 2. I hate Microsoft personally, I enjoy their titles. (Gears of War & Halo) But i hate them. I don’t hate them because of Xbox, I just hate the fact they always get in the way of things, and always being SO control of the company i once loved. If Rare wants to tease and laugh and doesn’t go by with what the fans wants, And wants to focus on shitty casual games, Then so fucking be it. I’m done with them. I’m done holding my breaths for long sequels that’s never going to be made.

Chill fut jun ! Have a bowl of special k and get a life while your at it instead of crying about conker the squirrel ! I ammused that theres still people posting on this damn website which has been shut down for a damn near over a damn near fuckin year god damn it !

today i s march 5 2011 and its been ten years since conker has been released on the n64 on march 5 2001.

RARE IS DEAD

I’m very sad the website closes, as much as Rare doesn’t make good games but only shitty Kinect games, but MundoRare couldn’t talk about a failed company.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only who hates Kinect Sports and that wants a new Banjo-Kazooie (platform), a new Conker and a new Perfect Dark (and all the other sequels…).

Guys…today is May 15 and 2011 year.I dunno why i visited this website , just dont know why.And i know that nobody else is here.So i just wanna say thanks Rare and………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….you will hear me in 5 years

i miss this place

why cant i just keep away from this website……………………………..I miss it so much memories memeories

En Español (al fin y al cabo es mi idioma nativo):

Llego tarde y no sabía que Rare había cambiado tanto, pero para mal. Es increíble que luego de diez años donde solamente Viva Piñata y Kameo se salvan de los destrozos que hicieron con Perfect Dark Zero, el aburido Star Fox Adventures o el semi spin-off que no dejó contento a nadie de Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts o el tristísimo Grabbed by the Goobles, Rare falte el respeto a los fans de verdad con esto. De verdad, ni Kameno 2, ni un Killer Instinct 3, ni un Conker 2. Así que, oficialmente están muertos estos tipos, publicidad gratuita para ellos y lo único que hacen es quedar como unos idiotas sobervios.

Gracias MundoRare por seguir apoyando a Rare y mostrarnos gran parte de sus noticias. Gracias por hacernos creer que no todo estaba muerto. Y gracias por decirnos que la actual Rare ya no responde a nada más que al dinero, cosa que de mí jamás volverán a obtener un solo céntimo. Y que cuando se arrastren en el suelo (con la mala dirección que llevan) que se olviden de “buscar” a sus fanáticos, a los cuales les dio un escupitajo y no acercarse más a ellos, luego de mantener su lealtad hasta un límite insospechable (como los constantes retrasos de sus secuelas). Adios MundoRare y hasta nunca Rare, ya que se ve que ahora no les importa la creatividad, sino el dinero.

All i have to say is: Rare is now the M$ BITCH

I quit deviantart and I deactivated my deviantart account.

I fucking hate deviantart and rest in piece mundorare.

1994cain Who the fuck cares about you dA? XD

Rechazo el terrorismo legal de Microsoft para cerrar esta web, no soportan que quede nada de la era RARE-Nintendo, con mucho dolor vi como Microsoft tomo por asalto a RARE al convencer a sus fundadores de una venta perjudicial para sus fans y beneficiosa solo para el bolsillo de Bill Gates. Critico que muchas licencias como Killer Instinct y Battletoads las hayan dejado morir… pero la historia da vueltas, recuerden lo que paso con atari que se burlo de Nintendo… algun día volvera RARE a manos de Nintendo y no pierdo la esperanza. Donkey Kong sin RARE esta muerto, atrás quedo la era dorada de Donkey Kong Country del SNES, ahora lo relanzaron, pero o tiene la misma fuerza e importancia para Nintendo que cuando estaba RARE presente. También es lamentable la ausencia de Banjo Kazooie en la Wii y la nueva imagen ESPANTOSA, HORRIBLE, para niño de 4 años.

De los juegos que RARE lanzo para Xbox, Perferct Dark y Kameo son los que mejor quedaron a mi parecer, muy impresionante. Lástima que no los continuarán

Soy partidario que esta web continue. Aunque detesto a Microsoft a muerte, no puedo decir lo mismo de RARE y sus franquicias .

Viva Piñata es la PEOR MIERDA que RARE ha podido sacar. Agradecería que descontinuen esa franquicia, es un insulto para RARE, un Pokemón versión mexicana.

Killer Instict y Battletoads también me gustaban… gran desperdicio dejar morir estas franquicias de RARE, por ordenes de Bill Gates.

Guys, I just want to say thanks for running Mundorare so professionally. I wish that every game dev. studio had a dedicated fanbase like this.

Fuck. What could anyone do when the true Rare was bought out and the brothers left? Damn Microsoft – and Damn the board of directors at Rare.

Please keep this site up – Let it be online for twenty years. People need to be able to find this site.

Thansk mates.

Y de nuevo la gran novedad de Rare para el E3 ¡¡Kinect Sports 2!! de verdad, cada dia que pasa comprendo mas porque cerró esta web, lo raro es que no lo hubiese echo antes…

No que la hiban a cerrar? Ya casi se cumple el año de que anunciaron el cierre, jajajajaja No te creas tambien extraño mi Guarida de Gruntilda pero no se si es porque ya crecimos y ya no nos llama la atencion o es por que Rare ya no es lo mismo o mezcla de los dos.

Hablare español y ademas recuerdo que esta pagina era también latino.

De hecho es una historia lamentable mente que rare allá perdido su forma creatividad y dejo de pensar con los demás fans. De hecho supe que ya se les había acabado el contrato de esta fecha pero al parecer el loco de microsoft los tiene esclavizados a los de rare solamente les obliga que agan mas juegos de kinect.

Para mi rare esta la posibilidad que muera o que aga una sola cosa…. aun tiene la posibilidad que hablen pero en silencio o espaldas de microsoft que no se den cuenta , que rare hable con nintendo de nueva mente si tienen la oportunidad que vuelvan a trabajarles con ellos ademas podrían aprovechar la esa oportunidad de la nueva consola de la wii U por que como mire la conferencia casi de los juegos regresan como ninja gaider que salio en la consola de nes. Solamente que rare entre en razón y aproveche esta oportunidad **suspirando** dejara pasara esta gran oportunidad.

En cerio yo si odio y estoy pelado con xbox por que mataron al personaje conker que adoraba demasiado.

Bueno es mi punto de opinión y espero que esto les parezca algo positivo solo quiero que rare entre en razón y se de cuenta su error que a cometido por trabajarles con microsoft

Shut the hell up Faceless troll!

I keep coming back half expecting this place to be in the hands of somebody else, with a promised return.

Then again, there’s not much to look forward to. Kinect Sports 2, and that’s it, but even that has Rare fans divided (and I’d guess most probably fall into the camp that aren’t interested).

Perhaps if Rare eventually make people aware of a couple more promising games they have in development, well, things could change?

ha!

I’m pretty sure almost no one visits this old comments page anymore, but does anyone know how to contact the former owner of MundoRare?

Odds are, no one is going to answer my question, but… eh, it was worth a shot.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Obama is also on the professional social networking service LinkedIn, which suggests the president is hedging his bets, in case he’s looking for work after the 2012 election.

RIP Rare.

anybudy hear?

I LOVE RARE & NINTENDO

Rare why would you say such things how there doing great now sorry but you have sold out

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Israel’s government approved the deal early Wednesday following a three-hour debate after both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal announced the agreement in televised comments.

Goodbye MundoRare and thank you guys for everything.

The Rare (or Rareware) I have always known of died a long time ago.
But the memories I have of Rareware and Nintendo will never die and will always be in my heart.

Cheers to the best game-making companies on the planet: Nintendo (still is) and Rare[ware] (once was).

And to the fans: Rareware for life! in our minds and our hearts, together we are one.

<3

Rare’s directors sold out rare, the workforce and its fans.

It was only a matter of time before a site which doesn’t constantly kiss its ass felt the full force of their one sided investment in anyone or anything.

Too bad most of them were still too young and incompetent to make a career anywhere else, instead of hanging around and infecting the company with their own lack of ambition, drive and ability.

18 months ago today kinect sports was announced for the first time.

OK i miss this page
i was waiting for banjo threeie or concker´s new day haha but it will never come out
thanks rare it is hard to say good bye after 1 year

Heh, I see I’m not the only one (besides the vandal) that still visits Rare’s unofficial Tomb Stone… Still hurts the same every time…

Happy new year

I have a big itch on my little big cock

When can we expect Wii Kinect Sports 8 to be released? Oh sorry i made a wii mistake lol

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Sigh… I want a new Banjo or a new Conker game.

SADNESS