Rare

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All the talent at Rare left, at this point whether Rare or another developer works on an IP from Rare doesn't matter, it'll still be a completely new team with next to 0 ties to what made Rare Rare.

Most of their franchises are just not relevant anymore, which is also why they haven't done much with them. Anything before their N64 days was already dated by the time the N64 launched. There's a reason we didn't see Battletoads 64 or Sabrewulf 64. Their n64 franchises is more of the same thing, great for the time but not so much after that.

Fighting games were dead, and when they did make a comeback in the 2010s, Killer Instinct was revived with a good budget, but it showed how much KI relied on 90s and style which no longer worked in a different era.

People say they want Banjo Threeie but did they want to? Cute mascot platformers clearly died barely making it through the PS2 era, Jak&Daxter had to evolve and even then died. Ratchet and clank tried to hold for a long time but couldn't. Mario is basically the only one that was able to survive, the exception to the rule. I don't see a world where Banjo could have done it.

I mean what else did they really have? Conker? They tried remaking Bad Fur Day twice I think and both times it bombed. Perfect Dark had tons of potential but after PD Zero failed they didn't care to have it compete in a very competitive and evolving genre. Hell the latest PD reboot looked awful so it was cancelled and it was likely for good. PD is really the only franchise I can see they could make big again but it'd need to be done well, it'd be very difficult.

Rare might've been one of the best developers in the 90s but their time has passed, it's nearly 3 decades since they were last relevant.