Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Totally shitty for them not finishing a game in under two years from scratch. How dare they.
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Metroid Prime 4 News : Retro Studios Hiring Storyboard Artist to Craft "Cinematic" and "Emotional" scenes
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Totally shitty for them not finishing a game in under two years from scratch. How dare they.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
What the hell has Retro been doing all this time?
RaptorGTA
Member
Loved Other M but this is all I hear when thinking of the game
Astral Dog
Member
When this comes out it will the greatest thing ever or a big joke no in between
Cutty Flam
Banned
Reallink
Member
Why does Nintendo continue to fund this studio? They have over 200 employees who in the last decade have only produced a couple 2.5D platformers which you could mistake as expansion packs of each other. Which weren't even that great IMO, plenty of indie platformers have competed or surpassed them on quality, for example I personally enjoyed Impossible Lair more than either DKC. Coincidentally, that was made by probably 20-30 people who in less than 5 years shipped both a 3D and 2.5 platformer off a fucking Kickstarter. Meanwhile Retro has produced nothing internally in over 6 years and has likely racked up a nearly 200 million dollar deficit for their failed internal projects that never even made it to announce phase.
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Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I think there have been problems behind the scenes. This project seems to be moving at a snail's pace.
I was hoping that perhaps Retro could use some of the assets from the previous team's work. Or maybe not even assets, just something they've learned during development that could help Retro build this game more quickly.
But something very odd is going on. Not only that we've been waiting for MP4 years, but also that Retro's output has been questionable. Their last full game was finished seven years ago. SEVEN YEARS.
Something's wrong..
I was hoping that perhaps Retro could use some of the assets from the previous team's work. Or maybe not even assets, just something they've learned during development that could help Retro build this game more quickly.
But something very odd is going on. Not only that we've been waiting for MP4 years, but also that Retro's output has been questionable. Their last full game was finished seven years ago. SEVEN YEARS.
Something's wrong..
Ryu Kaiba
Member
They are a shell of their former selves. It's pretty clear at this point they lost all their talent and management wasn't fit to do their jobs and now they are trying to restructure the company.
Ryu Kaiba
Member
More like Switch 3
Ryu Kaiba
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
I wish she were taller.
Cutty Flam
Banned
Same here. I love Samus Aran
borborygmus
Member
Her anime redesign doesn't look very tall. Those proportions don't work for 6'3 200lbs.
She has massive high heels in SSB:
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SLoWMoTIoN
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carlosrox
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The most fucking annoying "meme" in gaming
The most fucking annoying "meme" in gaming
The most fucking annoying "meme" in gaming
Elysion
Banned
I can't even begin to imagine how eye-melting Avatar 2 is going to look. When I watched the first one on Blu-Ray on my new 1080p TV back then, it was the only time where I was genuinely blown away by the visuals of a movie. It was the Crysis of movies basically, lol.
As for MP 4, does Retro even still have the know-how for games on this scale? What have they done other than Donkey Kong? Some assistance for Mario Kart, I believe?
A new Metroid Prime, with state-of-the-art graphics and production values (and cinematic storytelling, according to those job postings) might well be one of the biggest and most ambitious projects Nintendo has ever done. Considering how long the development cycles for other AAA projects are these days, I fear MP4 is still years away. I could see it being a Switch 2 launch title in 2023 or something.
Faithless83
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Are people still on this? They sourced the development. I think the problem was a lot more focused on the crappy story, weird as fuck pacing and limitations. Team ninja provided the engine as far as I know and it works decent enough.Nintendo fucked themselves and their fans with their stupid idea in sourcing this out to Bandai.
Nintendo CAN do wrong and they did. No blaming Team ninja on this one.
NiiloPielinen
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Her measurements were also in the Metroid 2 manual as 190cm and 90kg.
From https://metroid.retropixel.net/games/metroid2/manual/
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
I have a weakness for tall women
Moses85
Member
I am not talking about Other M! I talk about MP4 which was in Development at Bandai...
LarknThe4th
Member
"Prime like" ya mean, cause that's where From lifted a lot of the text description style of storytelling from
Sakamoto ruined his own franchise when he started focusing on story. Started with Fusion and Zero Mission and came to a head with Other M.
Hate to use the term, but Metroid should be "Souls like", with a minimum of exposition and explanation. Mechanics and secrets should be discovered by the player.
As for this, if they keep it at Zero Mission/Prime levels then it will be fine
Fuz
Banned
You don't say.
BlitzLord2369
Member
I actually want Samus to talk in MP4. Like as much as Other M. Just with way better writing and a different voice actor.
EverythingsOverrated
Member
I wouldn't mind this as long as we're not talking about having it be a cut scene heavy game. I would prefer the Bioshock/half life style where the story exposition happens while still playing.
I think even MP3 had too many cut scenes, it just doesn't gel with the metroid prime style imo
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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Insider info: Everything is in place. Production will begin on this title very soon indeed.
Well, "very soon" if you think about it in the big picture sense of human history.
Well, "very soon" if you think about it in the big picture sense of human history.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Can't wait!
Please have Super Switch enhancements.
Please have Super Switch enhancements.
Victor Omega
Member
I can't even place this title for a release at this point:
Its nowhere a cross ....cycle release between switch and switch 2. It's neither a cross gen title between switch 2 and....Nintendo's 10th generation console.... Jesus
prediction: I'm giving this game until 2030 for a....trailer and gameplay
Its nowhere a cross ....cycle release between switch and switch 2. It's neither a cross gen title between switch 2 and....Nintendo's 10th generation console.... Jesus
prediction: I'm giving this game until 2030 for a....trailer and gameplay
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Alter_Fridge
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Kuranghi
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Here's my unnecessary bump:
I really liked the optional satellite launching to find the last few upgrades in MP3, one of the best things about it. Even when I looked up the ones I had missed in Zero Mission, before going to the end, I still couldn't get a few of them due to not being able to shinespark that many times in a row or in one case even understand what it wanted me to do. I should've gone back after beating AM2R and SM but I'll do it next time I run them through.
I really liked the optional satellite launching to find the last few upgrades in MP3, one of the best things about it. Even when I looked up the ones I had missed in Zero Mission, before going to the end, I still couldn't get a few of them due to not being able to shinespark that many times in a row or in one case even understand what it wanted me to do. I should've gone back after beating AM2R and SM but I'll do it next time I run them through.
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Jeeves
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Yeah I liked that too, probably the only reason I bothered to go for 100% in that game, and...I had a good time doing it!
Oh, MP4? I predict a 2023 release at the rate it sounds like they're going. I'm fine with that, just make it good, please.
Kuranghi
Member
It'll be good I'm sure, I just hope it can give me the same feelings as Prime 1 and 2 did back when I played them, which was a few years after release when I got a GC.
Fuck that Spiderball boss though lol. I'm fine with the difficulty of it, but the route you take to it meant you naturally hadn't saved in ages, that was the real kicker.
I think general consensus is that 1 is the best I just loved the power journey in 2, the first time I went to Dark Aether and stepped outside the forcefield and started losing health I ran back to it and wondered what to do, then I realised you have to take damage to move on. Taking less damage from the air and letting you explore more, then making it so you could make the forcefields hurt enemies and finally being immune and making the forcefields attractive to enemies was so freaking cool.
Fuck that Spiderball boss though lol. I'm fine with the difficulty of it, but the route you take to it meant you naturally hadn't saved in ages, that was the real kicker.
I think general consensus is that 1 is the best I just loved the power journey in 2, the first time I went to Dark Aether and stepped outside the forcefield and started losing health I ran back to it and wondered what to do, then I realised you have to take damage to move on. Taking less damage from the air and letting you explore more, then making it so you could make the forcefields hurt enemies and finally being immune and making the forcefields attractive to enemies was so freaking cool.
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BlitzLord2369
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I wonder how good the game will look graphics wise. Imagine Metroid environments in 4k
Dwight Schrute
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the baby
Jeeves
Member
I'm with you, Echoes is the best in the series by a good margin. People complained about Dark Aether but it added a great tension and a feeling of the world literally being against you until you persevere and eventually overcome. And the game had the best environments, too. Loved Torvis Bog and Sanctuary Fortress. And Quadraxis might be the coolest boss fight I've seen in any game.