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[Jumpman23]

the hell is retro working on?

Eternal Darkness?

Spoiler

Yeah right

 

[LotusHD]

I'm fine with this.

 

[MarkusRJR]

1. Prime 4 announced
2. Gamers worried it'll suck

What else is new?

To be fair it's not being done by Retro and no footage was shown.

 

[Guevara]

Please drop whatever continuity around the federation and Sylux. No one cares.

The only story Metroid requires is a distress beam from an alien planet.

 

[balohna]

Curious who the developer is. Mostly so I can apply.

 

[Plinko]

the hell is retro working on?

The end to the greatest platforming trilogy of all time.

 

[ced]

the hell is retro working on?

Fucking donkey kong

 

[EulaCapra]

Does this mean there's a newly formed Western Nintendo super duper team? Oh my.

 

[SalvaPot]

Sounds to me like Retro is just tired of working on Metroid. I need my third DK game.

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

I hope this turns out okay. This could be cool if it gives Retro the opportunity to work on something like their own new IP.

 

[fahr]

THANK GOD

Retro needs to work on something that isn't Metroid for a change.

You mean... Like Donkey Kong?

 

[The perfect Dark]

So Retro could be working on a new Eternal Darkness, right? right?????

 

[Heroman]

Like

Spoiler

fucking

donkey Kong?

Fuck yeah.

 

[Vital Tundra]

I wanted Retro, but as long as Tanabe is there I am happy.

 

[MrSaturn99]

So...Tanabe redeemed?

 

[Galactic Specter]

Makes sense, kind of reminds me of when 343 took over Halo from Bungie.

Both of them started with the 4th game.

 

[bachikarn]

Oh.

That's disappointing.

The current Retro tram is not the same team that made Metroid Prime. I'm not sure if this team will be better but them not being the current day Retro is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Justin Bailey]

Why won't they tell us who it is? I am starting to think this is so early in development that the team isn't even fully assembled yet.

 

[Iksenpets]

I kind of figured when all they had was title art. If it was a Retro joint they'd be far enough along to show something.

Of course, they should be far enough along to show something on whatever mystery thing they're doing now, so who knows.

 

[Majukun]

wonder how they will fair with what's basically a new genre for nintendo (proper)

 

[capylikesgames]

Yeah, they had a falling out, no? Kind of hoping they'd give it to Next Level, but with "new team" I'm not so sure.

 

[McMoneyman]

I'm a bit concerned now. Hopefully they can deliver.

 

[ciD_Vain]

Not disappointed. Hopefully this will bring a lot of fresh ideas to the series.

 

[chrisPjelly]

Are we even still expecting Prime 4 to be in first person? If it's built in house at EAD, then I feel like they would struggle developing an fps considering they have NO history at all with that genre whatsoever. A 3rd person game seems more feasible considering there work on Splatoon idk

 

[thsantos]

Retro has two teams, isn't it? One of them is possibly working on DK (something I want very much), but what about the other one?

 

[Lunar15]

Huh.

I expect a pretty different art style, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

But man, what the fuck is retro working on?

 

[Waddle Dee]

Hope for 3D Donkey Kong!

 

[titiklabingapat]

It's important to remember that, while Retro is still extremely talented, most of the people responsible for the Prime trilogy are no longer there.

Yeah this.

 

[Ithil]

Retro hard at work on...something

 

[Doc Holliday]

Wrong Thread lol

 

[AcademicSaucer]

The fuck is REtro doing then?

 

[HvySky]

Metroid Prime is my favorite game of all time and I'm excited that Retro is being allowed to move on from Metroid and (hopefully) Donkey Kong in order to work on their own new project. An internal development team at Nintendo headed by Tanabe sounds perfect and I have the utmost confidence in them.

 

[NintendosBooger]

Awful news.

Retro Studios practically carried Tanabe w/ 2 critically-acclaimed franchises. His resume outside of Retro is mediocre.

 

[Pinky]

Fucking donkey kong

Complete the trilogy. I'd be okay with this.

Awful news.

Retro Studios practically carried Tanabe w/ 2 critically-acclaimed franchises. His resume outside of Retro is mediocre.

But most of the Retro staff that worked on the Prime games are no longer there, so...

 

[?oe?oe]

New American dev team?

 

[VDenter]

the hell is retro working on?

F Zero.

Spoiler

I hope

 

[Shizza]

Edit: The thread got merged?

Pretty excited for Metroid Prime 4!

And with creating the new studio for MP4, I wonder if this means Retro is working on a new DKC? Tropical Freeze was amazing!

 

[Geno Breaker]

Weren't Tanabe's last three projects horrible? Chibi Robo, Federation Force, and Color Splash didn't set the world on fire at all lol

 

[Im_So_Pringles]

I'm pumped, but I would be lying if I said that there wasn't at least a little bit of apprehension in my system about this without Retro at the helm. AND because Tanabe was the producer on Federation Force....

 

[DeuceGamer]

Is it a new Studio funded and owned my Nintendo, or just a partner?

What is retro working on?

So many questions.

 

[Serenitynow]

FPS confirmed, as of there was any doubt.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Awful news.

Retro Studios practically carried Tanabe w/ 2 critically-acclaimed franchises. His resume outside of Retro is mediocre.

Well, their resume outside of Nintendo was also pretty mediocre...let's just agree it was a joint effort

 

[Screamapillar]

Well of course it isn't Retro making it, this game is "now in development". Retro has been in production on something since Summer 2014. Whatever they are working on, clearly something Nintendo isn't ready to talk about yet, it is late in development or just waiting to be announced.

 

[Fat Goron]

Tanabe creating a new team for this game sounds like "I want to have complete control in order to tell my masterpiece story about Samus & Sylux"

Hope I'm wrong. I honestly wouldn't even want the Federation to appear in this game.

 

[Parham]

Guess I need to post this again since there are some people who seem to have already forgotten after 2 page. Wow, how the mind slips!

"Allegedly"

Opening admitting to sexually assaulting someone(then banning anyone who called him out for it)

Posting revenge porn with their real full names then another admin(a now jailed pedophile) printed the photos and jacked off over them and sent it to the boyfriend.

You're right, how can we even know if he's guilty or not? HMMMM

Also:

 

[Zukkoyaki]

I feel like Retro must be working on a new IP. It's been over three years since we've heard from them. If it were a "just" a sequel, where you can re-use assets and animations and such, to Donkey Kong I have to imagine it would have been announced by now.

 

[RikuDawn]

Give me that 3D Donkey Kong, baby.

 

[platina]

THANK GOD

Retro needs to work on something that isn't Metroid for a change.

enough with the fucking gorilla games for fucks sake!

 

[NintendosBooger]

Complete the trilogy. I'd be okay with this.



But most of the Retro staff that worked on the Prime games are no longer there, so...

Doesn't matter? They haven't made one bad game since MP, so talent is there regardless.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Again, most of the people at Retro that worked on the MP games are no longer at Retro.