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Retro Studios tweets job listing for an Art Director for Metroid Prime 4
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I honestly they fee that they do. Just because they are now hiring an art director doesn't mean they dont already have a word laid out and gameplay implemented.
The job date on the website shows November 12th, 2018. Still the same job/application.
Nah they had to have been working on things.
Most likely everything they've been working on has been cancelled/delayed/ready but hasn't been announced or something.
Watch them announce SFGP in the next direct with release this winter...please...
Retro does have a reputation of taking an infuriatingly long time with their games. Them skipping a whole generation would be pretty wild, but I don't think Nintendo wants to make all the Metroid fans mad again. lol
Here's hoping it's a 2022 title and not later.
Here's hoping it's a 2022 title and not later.
Sad but expected. As long as the final product is worth it, I'm completely fine with this. But please Nintendo, give us some form of Metroid on Switch to tide us over till then...
And if you don't want to have delays, you just hire more people to fill in the numbered areas faster. Duh.
I hope Nintendo throws everything Metroid at the Nintendo Switch until this game comes out. More than 2 years after launch and all there is on the Switch is the NES original.
Oh yeah I read that too. Idk what Nintendo was thinking with that one but it's hard to put the blame on BN for that clusterfuck.
We honestly have no idea what wasn't up to snuff in the previous developers' work, so for all we know, the art could be done. Or at least a direction has been established and this director role is just there to crack the whip and be the go-between for the artists and the software engineers or higher-ups.
At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Can we at address the real elephant in the room, being where the fuck was Prime Trilogy at E3? Haven't rumors all but confirmed it is done and just being held for a rainy day (or a gap in game releases)?
At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Can we at address the real elephant in the room, being where the fuck was Prime Trilogy at E3? Haven't rumors all but confirmed it is done and just being held for a rainy day (or a gap in game releases)?
sounds like a plan! I will let my contacts within Retro know
*read: I don't have contacts within Retro
They're probably holding it for next year because this one is already pretty packed for Switch owners. Hopefully they won't hold it until the marketing cycle for Prime 4 starts :(
It says its for MP4. If anything Nintendo could have decided after contracts were all signed and dotted to announce the delay with Retro. Where Retro was already planning the development ahead of the announcement.
Since this listing was there before Nintendo announced it, we probably could have spotted it ahead of time.
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Take all the infinite time you need Retro I can wait. It is crazy to think we gone have a sequal to botw before we get Metroid bonkers!
We all knew this game was a long ways off the moment Nintendo uploaded a video entirely dedicated to informing the public that it was a long ways off.
As someone who recently was let go from a studio that switched art directors in the middle of a project and struggled to find one in a timely fashion, I can safely say that games are tough to make without art directors firmly embedded in a team. Onboarding a new art director is a really tough task mid-project.
So what are the most likely scenarios here? Noone deemed worthy answered the call?
Either that or they already filled the position but it's still up for some reason.
Nobody deemed worthy enough or the webmaster forgot to take down the listing after it was filled lol
At least we're getting the game, before 2017 any more metroid seemed like a pipe dream
They had it at BN Singapore, a team with several devs from LucasArts that worked on the canned SW 1313 and some other people with similarly Western game dev experience. It made sense when you looked at who worked there. Later we heard something about it being handed to BN Japan's HQ or something.
Just tighten up the graphics on Level 3.
When are we expecting Metroid 5 though (if it's a thing) ? I can wait for Prime 4, I believe in Retro Studios.
The latter seems very unlikely. Why would they tweet about a 6+ month old job listing that got filled?
See above.
This is what happens when the world looks at 2 of the best platform games ever made and says 'meh, i want metroid'
Absolute travesty that they didn't get the success and appreciation they deserve with those dk games, they should have been given the thumbs up immediately from everyone in world to take their time and make a third one at the very least.
:(
On the other hand, last time a Metroid game was in development hell, it turned out to be Metroid Prime.
This spot has been open for months. They still haven't found someone for the role? I would think that prospective art directors would be clamoring for the opportunity to put Retro Studios on their resume.
In general terms, what are reasons to drop a art director during development?
Generally not many, most often its a simple matter of an art director leaving a studio to work somewhere else.
Retro might deliver amazing games, but for professionals its not as attractive place to work as you might think.
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This is disappointing simply because it means we'll have to wait longer for the MP Trilogy remasters :( :( :(