Labombadog
Member
OMG please let this be true. Eternal Darkness was amazing back in the days.
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Eternal Darkness Fifth Extension - GRANTED 12/20/12
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akidnamededdy
Banned
I dunno, man...Kid Icarus, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion...they seem to be on a little revival kick the last couple years.
EDIT: Oh, Donkey Kong Country Returns too!
spookyfish
Member
Oh please, oh please, oh please ...
DaRabidDuckie
Junior Member
If it turned out to be Retro working on this, I would go bang on their door every day of the week begging them to let me test this. I'd even offer to help write dialogue for free.
Naked Prime
Member
not getting my hopes up...but would be nice if Retro hired a few leads from SK that worked on the original and co-developed it with some resources from the Fatal Frame team.
isn't this the case with almost every new IP published by Nintendo and games like last Story and Wonderful 101 beign recent examples of this?
1) No, you can't make a good WiiU game if you are broke.
2) SK is a shell of it former self, with like 5 employees.
I don't. I want them working on a completely new IP. Although I would like to see a sequel to ED, it was a good game.
Because Eternal Darkness was a game with some gravitas and we all want to believe that Retro's project is something big and exciting.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Retro can't make everything !
And Punch Out Wii.
anotherVegan
Member
Yes, they can. And they can make it amazing.
Also, ED was one of my favorite Cube games. To think that there could be a sequel...
Sure the game could be pretty good if Retro made it, but Eternal Darkness and "big" don't go too well together, the game was far from being a hit. It would be hyped by a few fans from the Gamecube days and that's about it. Unless Nintendo market and hype it right, which i have some serious doubt, especially with how shitty NOA is lately.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
Ture, but this is just a trademark renewal, nothing to be excited for more than 90 seconds... :/
Do you remember the last thing that got revealed via a trademark was?
It was All of the bravest... ALL-OF-THE-DAMN-BRAVEST!
Like Dark Schala likes to say, I'm afraid that this hype train has asbestos... I'm not riding it.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Good. It needs some more survival horror games.
Wiz
Member
Not getting too excited until something is announced.
Spirit Camera was a horror game alright...
Spirit Camera was a horror game alright...
Dyack said otherwise iirc.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Interesting:0
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Yep, Nintendo is going to move Retro away from making critically and financially (4 million + sold) successful games in a popular franchise (Donkey Kong), to working on a sequel to a niche horror game which even GAF barely remembers, that has a selling potential of 500K AT BEST.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
Hot Coldman
Banned
they're not making DKCR2
I'd be 200% content with Retro Studios making a sequel to Eternal Darkness. I absolutely loved the original and played through all three alignments. It captured my imagination for days and nights on end. Silicon Knights is in no state to do it justice today, but I think Retro Studios could pinpoint what made it work and create something as good or greater. They captured the spirit of the Metroid and DKC games, after all.
Imagine the Tome of Eternal Darkness on the WiiU GamePad's touchscreen, drawing spells with your fingertips and turning pages of flesh and blood... Sweet.
Imagine the Tome of Eternal Darkness on the WiiU GamePad's touchscreen, drawing spells with your fingertips and turning pages of flesh and blood... Sweet.
akidnamededdy
Banned
Ahhhh how did I forget that one too? It was great.
Oh definitely.
Still, didn't MamaRobotnik's postmortem on SK show that at least some kind of preliminary work was being done on ED2 before they got obliterated in court?
I don't think it's TOO farfetched, but there's not really anything to go on. Hype Train's always fun to ride though, asbestos be damned!
Smiles and Cries
Member
Nintendo has no ideas about how to hype the core base fans or what the hardcore wants
This should have been given to Retro for a Reboot if it was anyone but nintendo
This should have been given to Retro for a Reboot if it was anyone but nintendo
I just want my Lovecraft en Poe in videogames.
Also
May the rats eat your eyes!
Also
May the rats eat your eyes!
Well us Euro-folk did play some game called Project Zero II
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
If so, they are working on one of the other countless amounts of Nintendo franchises or either creating a new IP. They are not working one of the most obscure and niche franchises that Nintendo owns. If Nintendo is really going to bring back Eternal Darkness, expect someone like N-Space to be working on it.
No he didn't. Nintendo has owned Eternal Darkness forever and he even stated as much when they split with Nintendo and went tits up. There has been a rumour that SK is developing ED2 but who knows if it is true.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
I firmly believe that Eternal Darkness 2 was in development at a time.
There are two big problems for what I see it though.
Basing it on the premise that Silicon Knights is no more and they will not be able to resume working on it:
- was it in development because Silicon Knights really wanted to do it and begged Nintendo for years to let them work on it despite them not being convinced at all as a publisher?
- even if it was a Nintendo idea to let Silicon Knights work on a second Eternal Darkness game, who has the full rights to the game?
The only scenario in which we could see a second game is because Nintendo really wants it AND owns the full rights, both of which seem to me like the two least likely options.
It's not impossible, but still unlikely.
We'll have to wait and see I'm afraid.
Wiz
Member
A huge budget HD Metroid game could be a big success, especially in the West. Give it online multiplayer and you have yourself a good Halo competitor.
But I wouldn't mind the second option of a 2D Metroid on 3DS. Actually I believe both will happen very close to each other.
I loved the first game, I really do want a sequel.. I hope this means something.
check OP with Mama thread link..
check OP with Mama thread link..
abstract alien
Member
Until they toy with everyone by showing a fake Mother Rebirth.
Kotaku said it was true. SK was working on a working prototype and Nintendo was interested, but the prototype was horrible. Nintendo backed away.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Do you seriously foresee some game in the form of Eternal Darkness becoming a huge million-seller on a Nintendo console? Retro working on another franchise like Metroid, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, Legend of Zelda, or even a Mech Rider/Startropics would be much more beneficial to Nintendo then a sequel or reboot of Eternal Darkness.
I say this as a HUGE Eternal Darkness fan. The franchise is just not going to sell a huge amount of copies on the WiiU or move a large amout of Nintendo consoles. If Nintendo really wants a "mature/core" focused game from Retro, let them create their own IP.
I'm not sure how a follow-up to Eternal Darkness could ever be a bigger project than any of the Metroid Prime games. That's just silly.
Eh, Nintendo let Sakurai work on a frickin' Kid Icarus revival some 25 years after it was last relevant to Japan.
And Treasure work on a Sin & Punishment sequel.
And I'm sure there are other examples. Sometimes -- and this could very well be the case -- Nintendo may be motivated more by the promise of novel gameplay ideas (GamePad sanity effects, perhaps?) and a determination to better communicate the appeal of the product the second time around. They might see Eternal Darkness as one of their few truly epic properties (and spanning 2,000 years, it truly is!), and so it could be a Bayonetta-esque bid to appease the core gamer while the masses eat up the usual servings of Mario and company.
Something for everybody!
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Hot Coldman
Banned
Probably not, but come on. They can't be.
I think a Metroid is in works for both systems (who knows, we could see a 2D one for the 3DS this holiday). But I don't think it's MP4, at the very least, and I don't think it's going to be by Retro. I just don't think Metroid has that much selling potential while still keeping it the Metroid we all love.
Mother 4 is obviously in the works by AlphaDream after they get done with M&L 4.