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Retro Studios tweets job listing for an Art Director for Metroid Prime 4
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This actually isn't true. Sakamoto didn't want it to be a 3D game. He wanted it to be like Pandemonium!/Klonoa. You can see elements of these ideas in Other M. Team Ninja put their foot down and insisted it be a fully 3D game.
He was a concept artist, not art director. That was Todd Keller, who works at Armature now.
Art directors are pretty much managers, heck you don't even need to be able to draw to be an art director. You do need to know how to manage art, which is why most art directors come from artistic backgrounds.
Well it would make sense Retro would be involved in some way, maybe in a consulting role, but these are rumors so whatever. When it comes to taking over a project from another team, even when being willing to starting from scratch, the desire is always to see if anything can be salvaged. Most likely there is very little and it all depends on the desire of your publisher to keep the core concept of the game intact or to try something new.
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I've been in such a blackout for this game that I had no idea it was still this early in development.
Nah, I'm more comfortable knowing that they care about the future of the series enough to not only give it another big 3D game, but delay it to ensure it's right.
2017 without Prime 4 announcement would've seen a brief revival with Samus Returns (whole way better than nothing, a remake on an old, dying system) and then.... we're back in the dark.
They probably keep it until they can leverage the awareness the Trilogy will bring to the franchise as a whole. I'd guess they'll bring it 1 year before 4 comes out so people will go "Oh damn I played those".
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Nah, I don't want a world where Samus Returns was the only game announced that E3. The virtrol thrown at Metroid Samus Returns was bad enough thanks to idiots who thought that Nintendo just copied AM2R. I don't need to see how bad it could have gotten.
I can agree with this lol. I'm glad they delayed it. They actually care about the quality of the game. The announcement made sense because of the backlash they would've received. Nintendo already received backlash from Federation Force and they don't want that again.
That's what I want. It would go a long way toward easing the wait...
Come on just release it already!
Most likely at that time in point it made a whole lot of sense. Game development is a very dynamic beast and at any point of the process it could suddenly not work (as in on paper it might be the greatest idea ever, but when actually building it, it could happen that the game is simply not fun and you start missing milestones and your project is in trouble. This is most likely nobodies fault and just how these things go.) Atleast Nintendo gave an update and has been transparent on that they gave it to retro instead (Retro before this, was most likely too busy with other projects that I imagine are now cancelled to make way for MP4)
Things fuck up, projects fail, schedules misalign and strategies can fail. You are giving nintendo far too much shit. This is a business that deals with forever moving targets and finicky audiences that are very sensitive to trends while working with properties that not only are works of art, but the creative process of making a game is equally as unpredictable and dynamic as the industry itself.
That's true. Vince Joly was the Art Director, but he became the Director for Tropical Freeze and Retro never filled his position. After TF he went back to Art Director in the last year.
I'm a little confused why this is a thread?
They've been hiring for this position for the last six months ever since Vince Joly quit.
They've been hiring for this position for the last six months ever since Vince Joly quit.
Should Death Stranding and The Last of Us 2 be PS5 titles? They're launching on PS4 at a later point in its lifecycle than Prime 4 if it launches at the end of 2022.
Prime 4 will launch in 2022 or 2023 and it will be a Switch title.
bUt NiNtEnDo sHoUld'vE sHoWn PrIMe 4 at E3
The game is sooooo obviously early in development that I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see footage until two e3's from now. People have/had too much hopes and expectations for Rare, and I kind of feel bad for them.
The game is sooooo obviously early in development that I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see footage until two e3's from now. People have/had too much hopes and expectations for Rare, and I kind of feel bad for them.
Ive learned to trust you on these things, so why do you say that?
The good news is that I'll have plenty of time to play it when it comes out in 2045 because I'll be retired.
It started from scratch. It was probably in pre production. Story, puzzles, prototyping, weapons, etc that they wanted to try out.
Art directors come in a bit later. Look at some Naughty Dog job postings.
Art directors come in a bit later. Look at some Naughty Dog job postings.
I imagine you can get pretty far just prototyping gameplay concepts and levels without necessarily needing an art director.
It seems like so many people are uninformed of what's been going on and they just jump to negativity. It's like ugh weren't we expecting this until like 2022 anyways?? Nothing has changed
Why do people keep saying the trilogy wasn't announced for Switch? It was announced 6 months ago at TGA per the Nintendo insiders.
With the backwards compatibility involved, I'm sure there will at least be boosted graphics for those games on PS5. If not for the backwards compatibility, you could take it to the bank that at least TLoU would have a PS5 remastered edition just like the first one got on PS4.
I expect similar from Metroid, I think it will be playable on Switch and Switch 2, but looking a lot better on Switch 2.
Right? Nintendo were pretty transparent about this, which was interesting because they are rarely so blatant about these type of development issues.
This isn't just a "ways off". This sounds like MP4 hasn't even started full production yet.
Wouldn't surprise me. As I said a bit ago, Tropical Freeze didn't have an art director either.
Nothing big, but Tanabe commented on Metroid Prime 4.
Them hiring an art director doesn't necessarily mean they didn't have one before. It's possible they are just replacing the previous art director, and the extent to which anyone should be concerned would rely on knowing why the replacement was needed.
