Yes, i hope, with all this hiring Retro Studios has been doing recently, they could be big enought to handle two big games at ounce.
Would be incredibly content with this outcome.
I imagine we'll find out, when MP2&3 are revealed, we may find out they have been working on two smaller games, while working on the big game.
don't go down the "Retro new IP" hole again. this never ends well. those of us who've been here a decade ago will remember. don't do this to yourselves.
these videos (and those people tweeting [excuse me if I retch every time someone posts a tweet from Stealth]) are always just repackaging old info/things they picked up from places such as here or KR anyhow. It always feels kinda silly that their content lands here again.
I am just catching up on this thread but I wonder if them updating Switch Sports with Basketball does speak to them gearing up for a sequel (similar to what we saw with Super Mario Party getting online play for the boards some months before Superstar's reveal and release)?
Time for Tanabe's crew to revive a hidden gem back to life... #Jolyhive
you know Vince Joly left Retro five years ago, tho?
Lol, yes. Being realistic, the chance anything happens with whatever they did with that project is granular, but I've always been really fascinated to see what the product of Retro being freed from NCL's creative constraints (or at least having them be greatly diminished) looks like. If you look into the lore behind the development of those games, there's always a certain level of push and pull and always a desire from Retro to "own" the choices of the end product they create, so I always wanted to see what an unshackled Retro looks like. Remember that without this game, the 11 year gap between Tropical Freeze and Prime 4 doesn't exist.
Since the project never saw the light, the answer is likely "not good".
I mean it was certainly never close to a satisfactory or "holistic" level of quality at any point in its life, but I think Retro had a lot of ambition and gall in them to attempt such a prospect like that and I've always been curious to see the results. Presuming the robot character in Reggie's portrait isn't actually an in-joke and Reggie isn't providing cover for them, they seemed pretty hellbent on making that game part of their legacy and (at some point attempted) getting it out the door, or at least thought of it fondly enough to make it part of a farewell picture.
Nintendo should have replaced Tanabe with Arlo or Reggie or Captain America. Nintendo needs more Western developers.
Indeed, if only NCL had not come to hinder the freedom of the studio, it could have freely closed its doors several decades ago and we would never have had a bad too much Japanese game like Metroid Prime, creatively it would have been great.
I am curious which Nintendo producer replaced Tanabe during that post-Tropical Freeze period of the studio's life. Even if Nintendo gave less oversight at the time, they would've probably still had someone from their side doing more than just production coordination.
Lmfao I love Tanabe. I think it's a massive shame people have come to think so little of him (understandably so in some respect since he did produce a string of highly unpopular titles between 2015-2016 w zip lash, fed force, color splash and sticker star before then, even though I like two of those games a lot and still respect elements of the other two) but he's undoubtedly probably my favorite Nintendo producer, no kidding. I love his games and I love all the Retro titles and think about them often. I also really love what he's done with NLG over the years.
People speculate Yoshio Sakamoto but I don't buy it because it's not really his wheelhouse to make something that isn't within his specific tastes (though I'd kind of love to see him try to work with whatever Retro comes up with.) It was probably one of the lesser known individuals who would just kind of keep the basic Nintendo product ideals in check and not really bring in their own personal ambitions, like Toyokazu Nonaka.
It's unlikely to be Sakamoto, I agree. I think Nintendo may have regrouped its external development groups EXCEPT the projects of Sakamoto, who by virtue of his seniority has a special status at Nintendo. I think Sakamoto will have to prepare the future of Metroid and decide on his successor at the head of the original franchise. I can't imagine a unification of 2D and 3D Metroid.
I couldn't resist making a joke, sorry.
It's definitely got to be Nonoka given that he's taken over all external development at EPD mid-way through the Switch gen.
I think that, really, every Nintendo department can collab externally if they feel they want to and are capable of it. Some of them are better than others, and have more trust and history with certain studios compared to one another, but what constitutes a department is really just its heads and whatever they say their focus for Nintendo comes down to.
Yeah this has kinda dawned on me too. Nonaka is the new 2000's Tanabe where he's one of a group of few people cleaning up the big mess of many partnerships Nintendo sustains. I do really miss Tanabe constantly bringing his energy to all the games he worked on during that era, he got super ambitious with Retro and it made Prime and DKCR unforgettable, dare I say "SOULFUL" games.
OK, looking back at his list I kinda doubt he's taken on that creative mentorship role because he looks like he's moreso someone who maintains relationships with existing successful partners who have their own ways but abide by Nintendo's methodologies in a looser since in the context of a partnership. HAL, NDCube, SEGA, Good-Feel Kirby, Game Freak, Monolith, etc etc. The rare exceptions are DC Superhero Girls and Advance Wars Reboot Camp.
