The Spaniards won, Retro is a shell of its former self.
>>727729309LOCAL CHOZO BIRD CAN'T STOP WINNING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_XnbTayTH4
I don't think anyone took the Retro name seriously long prior to this. 11 years is a long fucking time to go dark.
Isn't Mercury Steam imploding right now?
>>727729819Yeah, I think their newest game flopped. They can't do jackshit without Nintendo.
>>727729939>>727729819https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MercurySteam
>>727730175>In July 2025, Digital Bros (the parent company of 505 Games) said that Blades of Fire had failed to meet their sales expectations, because of "an oversupply of new releases and increasingly selective consumers".That's what I said >>727729939
>>727729309They are already nuking negative user reviews LMFAO
>>727729309The old guard at Retro has long left by the way.
Its pretty much impossible to fuck up 2D metroidIm not defending prime 4, metroid should just stay 2D
I saw this coming a mile awayPrime 3 was already garbage, why would 4 be good? Specially in current year the year of the yellow paint in games and others extreme hand holding measuresPrime 1 and 2 are masterpieces though, kinda mad 4 will stain their legacy
>>727730540>Game hyped and promoted as the ____ killer (in this case, Dark Souls killer) is a commercial failureImagine my shock.
>>727731112Even Prime 3 is leagues better than Prime 4.
>>7277293092D has always been better than 3D. It just too Prime 4 for people to realize the Prime games weren't ever really that good save for the first one. But if we're really going to be level about it, the people who worked on the original trilogy are long gone. This "Retro Studios" is not the same Retro Studios of the early 2000s. It's like claiming the Disney that gave us The Sword and the Stone, The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and others is the same Disney of today. It's absurd. Apply that same general idea with early 2000s Retro Studios to today. It may not be as drastic of a drop off, but the idea that this isn't the same studio you remember is still accurate.
>>727731275Remove the desert and the marines and 4 would be pretty good, better than 3.
>>727731275>It just too Prime 4 for people to realize the Prime games weren't ever really that good save for the first one*took, not "too". Sorry
>>727731202LOL no
>the autists think anything less than nine is bad>the autists have forgotten Prime Remaster did well
>>727730972RetroStudios first exodus was after Prime 3 released. Then in by Donkey Kong Returns announcement they had a second wave of veteran employees leave. We don't know how many 343 Microsoft devs are working at RetroStudios right now.
>>727730886>remove obvious low-effort 0 spam from new accountsWtF MAH FREE SPEECH
>>727729309They all suck including mercury slop. Neither understand Metroid. It needs to be first party again
>>727731869Metroid Other M was essentially first party, the slave studio that did it executed all of Sakamoto's ideas. It was a bad game, but it was his vision perceived.
>>727731560LOL yes. Like, do we need to continue? I'll keep going if you want.
>>727729309Metroid 6 soon
metroid is like sonic. great og games and tons of potential, but they have absolute retards in charge of the games ruining everything.
Metroid 6 should be Zero Suit Samus horror game and build more power over time.
Will Tanabe finally be fired this time? Holy shit this man is a cancer to everything he touches.
>>727732770Quick run down on Sakamoto vs Tanabe.
>>727731983The only bad idea in other M is the controls
>>727731275I love Metroidvanias, but literally the only Metroid games that I could ever get into are the Prime games. I've tried. I'm not bad at the games. I just don't like the gimmicks and I prefer melee combat for this genre.
>>727729939>>727730540I looked at some gameplay and it honestly looks the kind of game that you would have rented in 2003, beaten over a weekend, and then forgot about.
>>727732853Sakamoto is in charge of 2D Metroid. He tried his hand at a 3D game with Team Ninja which resulted in the disaster known as Other M. Seems to have learned from his mistakes and is sticking strictly to 2D games now. Tanabe oversees the Prime games and is obsessed with turning Metroid into Halo for some stupid reason. Federation Force is his brainchild. Hopefully Prime 4 is the last time he's put in charge of anything.
>>727733651the Federation force guy is still in charge? well that explains everything pretty much
>>727734141biological dna bird father of samus btw
