How?
What non-Nintendo titles? They haven't made a game that wasn't published by Nintendo, using one of Nintendo's IPs, in about a decade.
And Kiddy Kong as a returning playable character. Most underrated DKC character.
Smash didn't use unreal because its was an updated smash 4 engine. Namco's version of Prime was absolutely using unreal engine 4.
Do you have any idea what was going wrong with the project? And tying into this, whether Retro Studios and Tanabe would want to keep the assets and code that was produced and use at least the former?
Man I hope this is the project they just finished. I'd like it a lot more than a Star Fox racing game.
I believe that was just misplaced speculation from a user on assemblergames:
I doubt any of those games issues were linked to the engine's choice.
my point is, by not licensing the engine themselves, they could leave themselves open to not having resources to make anything in the future, relying on someone willing to pay for an engine (that the funder might not even use) on top of the development for the game
nintendo isn't making Yoshi. and Nintendo didn't pay Epic to make UE4 compatible. Epic did it of their own volition because it's easy money for them
Nintendo maybe would have asked them first then if they wanted to, and maybe ask if they could make a test demo.
I see. I mean, in a way I would have guessed that, being done in this ad-hoc development scheme, the game's design would be generally uninspired in some way, perhaps the flow of the game or the mechanics not fitting together. I find it hard to believe that it would be something technical or anything like that, or anything related to art/visuals. Which is why I wonder the extent to which Retro could keep existing material.
Namco's Ace Combat 7 is running on UE4. And is sub 60 FPS and sub HD resolution on base consoles. In fact many UE4 games are running at like 720p on Xbox One S. The best performing games this generation are all using in house engines. Games like Doom, Uncharted, GOW, Horizon, Battlefield and RE7.
I don't know if they had issues but Yoshi looks amazing and runs at 60fps so they're doing way better than HAL and Kirby at least.
As far as I know on Switch it's only FighterZ and Yoshi.
I don't think that Good-Feel has any intentions of leaving Nintendo anytime soon, given that they started working together because the founder of the company asked Nintendo if they could work together on a game together, and since then, they've been happily working with Nintendo's IPs along with assisting some other developers on other projects. Along with Grezzo, they're very much a close-knit studio along the lines of HAL or IntSys.
Prime 4 wasn't being developed in house by Nintendo, rumor says it was Bandai Nampo Singapore and then it was handed over to Bandai Namco Japan, so this isn't a case of Nintendo struggling with UE4.
Yeah and technically Yoshi wasn't in house either. They don't own Good Feel, right?
I thought the rumor said there was a part of it in house.
It's like people think their new game would use the same tech and look the same as DKCTF.
"Retro is making fucking 2D Metroid"
I like how that sounds.
Bandai Namco Singapore was heavily recruiting people with Unreal4 experience around the time Metroid Prime 4 started development.
There were rumours about the engine of Metroid Prime being based on U2, but they weren't true according people who might know it back in the old place. The confusion came from Metroid Prime using a similar data structure.
Reset the clock.
Well we don't know exactly how things went down this time. Retro's game could be done and they wanted to do Metroid Prime 4 now.
Thank you. The Tropical Freeze engine can handle all sorts of materials and lighting, and there are lots of examples of these techniques at play in the game (Like beautifully shaded water in some levels, caves with excellent lighting and ambient occlusion, more open levels with some cool shading and material work, etc. but as you say, many of the materials in the game lack specularity to make them more readable, and the lighting is often flat for the same reason.
