chaosblade
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How are we defining "low" here? Because the Prime trilogy is solidly over 5m sales.
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Emily Rogers: (Rumor) Retro Studios NX game isn't Metroid or DKC. Releases 2017.
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How are we defining "low" here? Because the Prime trilogy is solidly over 5m sales.
Jorok Goldblade
Member
She started her leaker career with a pretty lousy record, but for the last five years or so, she's been extremely reliable.
I want to see them do either an RPG or a survival horror game. Oh Lawd... :O
The Metroid fan in me would've loved a Metroid Prime 4(or other iteration of the IP) from Retro, but if they really are developing something new, that makes me crazy excited! Hype!!!
The Metroid fan in me would've loved a Metroid Prime 4(or other iteration of the IP) from Retro, but if they really are developing something new, that makes me crazy excited! Hype!!!
Dark Cloud
Member
Why you are some of you being pessimistic? This is Retro Studios and probably a new IP. They make great games. I just can't see how you can be pessimistic.
They always could develop new IPs and they always got creative.
DecoReturns
Member
If it's not in development now, it's too late for that now.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Yep. And Nintendo only continued to babysit them with Prime 2 and 3, only with Kensuke Tanabe overseeing things instead of Miyamoto. I would say the latter two entries actually did feel too Western, especially Prime 2 with its silly multiplayer mode.
I really hope this is all-new IP that they've developed on their own with minimal direction from Nintendo. Let's see how they fare on their own.
Wrong. There's reason they focus on only one IP at a time: they're really not a huge studio. If they would have the chance to develop new IP in the last 15 years I'm sure they would have, but Nintendo didn't even give them a chance to breathe after Metroid and just shoved DK on them.
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JeremyEtcetera
Unconfirmed Member
It's time.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Wait, why are people assuming a new IP, might have missed something???
Emily Rogers got the impression from the source that it was a new IP that Retro is making.
Prime was technically a spin off.
Pokemaniac
Member
Check the update in the OP.
It's right there in the OP. She says it sounds like a new IP.
It's going to be an action-adventure title with light RPG elements where you play as President Donald J. Trump.
At the beginning of the game, Osama bin Laden (who it turns out was Obama all along — the one killed was a decoy) unleashes an EMP field and disables all of Trump's power-ups. (Trump is a cyborg, literally self-made... well, with $1 million from his dad, but just $1 million.)
However, since he is Trump, he will still win, even if he loses. But first he has to collect all of his power-ups, which will allow him to explore more and more of Osama's skull-shaped fortress on the moon.
Trump will need to track down power-ups such as Sexism, Racism, Islamophobia, Schoolyard Bullying, Ambiguous Campaign Promises, Questionable Grasp of the Issues, and last but not least, THE WALL. It's only when he has THE WALL that he can stop Osama from sending immigrants to steal the jobs that no one else wants to do.
The game is so HUUUUUUUUUGE that you will need 10 NXs to play it, duct-taped together, and the controller is so massive that only Trump could hold it. It will receive 11/10s from every outlet including ones that don't review videogames, and the gaming industry shall cease to function since no one will ever top it.
At the beginning of the game, Osama bin Laden (who it turns out was Obama all along — the one killed was a decoy) unleashes an EMP field and disables all of Trump's power-ups. (Trump is a cyborg, literally self-made... well, with $1 million from his dad, but just $1 million.)
However, since he is Trump, he will still win, even if he loses. But first he has to collect all of his power-ups, which will allow him to explore more and more of Osama's skull-shaped fortress on the moon.
Trump will need to track down power-ups such as Sexism, Racism, Islamophobia, Schoolyard Bullying, Ambiguous Campaign Promises, Questionable Grasp of the Issues, and last but not least, THE WALL. It's only when he has THE WALL that he can stop Osama from sending immigrants to steal the jobs that no one else wants to do.
The game is so HUUUUUUUUUGE that you will need 10 NXs to play it, duct-taped together, and the controller is so massive that only Trump could hold it. It will receive 11/10s from every outlet including ones that don't review videogames, and the gaming industry shall cease to function since no one will ever top it.
Its Retro. Its either Metroid, Donkey Kong or new IP. Thats what the law demands.
Well, the only Retro games I've played are Prime 3 and DKCTF. Didn't like Prime 3 that much. DKCTF is great, but it doesn't change up the formula much, and it's a Rareware formula in the first place. Not to mention a big part of the reason I liked Tropical Freeze so much was David Wise, who isn't a part of Retro.
That said I'm not pessimistic (I know you weren't addressing me in particular). I'm incredibly curious to see what a new IP from Retro would be like. I really have no idea what to expect. Will it be something huge and epic or cute and cuddly, or something completely out of left field?
I think a 3D StarTropics reboot would look gorgeous if it used the same engine(but more enhanced) as Zelda U. I think the artstyle would really work for the game's setting.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Ok, my bad. I heard that before about Retro though. smh Peer Schneider smh
Prevolition
Member
I'm referring specifically to new IP. Of course they've been creative, but now they are working on a new IP which they haven't done yet. I'm not implying they were being forced to do Donkey Kong. I was just frustrated when we got Tropical Freeze.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Thank all the Gods. I'm tired of platformers.
Who said it wouldn't be a new IP platform game?
Check my post again since I just edited like few seconds later because I realized that people are going to take my post very serious.
Let's not be too serious!
I figured it was a joke :b
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
Just to play devil's advocate (I seriously mean that, I LOVE Retro), didn't several people leave after Tropical Freeze? Or am I misremembering?
Stupidest meme of all time. The series sells minimum a million apiece with each entry doing Souls type numbers.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
A new StarTropics would literally sell 13 copies.
Dark Cloud
Member
Me too. We have too many Metroid platforming games
Oh god I'd love another big Nintendo 3D platformer.
Tropical Freeze might be the greatest video game ever made and I'm not joking. Been thinking about making a thread about it.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Haha.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
While I wouldn't quite go that far...I also won't fight you on that lol. That game was amazing
Spinoff made by a 3rd party studio
Almost nobody know that game exist, hence it can be considered new IP
Also, Kid Icarus Uprising did pretty good.
I could see a strong case being made for this.
I'd probably still argue for RE4, but I could certainly appreciate someone loving Tropical Freeze that much.
My thoughts exactly.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
It's on, Playtonic, a new challenger has arrived.
Dark Cloud
Member
DKCTF might be the greatest 2D platformer of all time. It really is amazing.
TreasureHunterG
Banned
Nintendo killed the hype for NX after skipping E3.
I was going to say; remember when Matt was still editor at IGN and he talked of rumors that Retro was developing/toying with the idea of an anti-Zelda like game - instead of playing as Link you play as Ganon?....it was a fresh take on the Zelda/Adventure execution.
Let's say that idea was a go but Miyamoto "turned the table over" on them and said it would be good to make a new IP for it. Or even to use a different IP that hadn't been recently used..
Oh, please..
I want more grand adventure games!!
DecoReturns
Member
The music alone would put it top 5 for me. Even if I think the game itself isn't all that great. (8/10 for me)
But man Music is everything to me
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
Agreed here on all counts
The Last One
Member
But I want a new Metroid Prime made by them =(