It's now been 4 years since Tropical Freeze, do we expect Retro Studios at e3?
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Retro supposedly finished Tropical Freeze in like ~September 2013, but the game was delayed so that it didn't go out too close to Super Mario 3D World.
Which would push the gap to four and a half years. Probably five by the time whatever they're making actually releases.
If they aren't at E3, something is very wrong.
Which would push the gap to four and a half years. Probably five by the time whatever they're making actually releases.
If they aren't at E3, something is very wrong.
Don't tease me when 99.9% chance you are just joking :P
If only you were a Retro insider. Even our regular insiders don't know anything :(
I'd be happy with an RPG
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There are a few artists, a few engineers, and a few animators who have been there since MP1. No designers though. And I believe there is only one designer left from MP2. There's a crap ton of people from MP3 onward though.
Keep in mind though, MP1 and 2 were made by about 40 people.
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Right, I was just going into more specifics :p
Anyhoo... I'll be crushed if they don't show up yet again :(
Honestly if they don't show up at E3 I have to believe they are working on something far more ambitious than a 2D platformer. A part of me wants that.
Even then I don't see why they wouldn't show up at E3. It's time.
Even then I don't see why they wouldn't show up at E3. It's time.
At this point you should be expecting more than a 2D platformer. Its over 4 years.
I'm more worried something went wrong with what they were initially working on. I mean Tanabe had to cease working with them for some reason, right? That was in March 2016 when we heard the rumors that they were no longer on good terms. I believe that there was sufficient evidence of that being false, but it's curious why he would just up and leave to work on other projects.
I would make my standard STARTROPICS joke, but realistically, if they're not at E3, I wouldn't be surprised if Retro was absorbed by other Nintendo studios and Nintendo has been keeping their name and legacy alive for the press.
You wouldn't be surprised? What you described is more than alittle absurd. Especially because it's impossible to keep something like that a secret. We are talking about over a hundred jobs. Also, there are no other real first party studios in NA with NST on support/Wii ware status the last decade for them to have been absorbed.
People need to accept that retro is like any internal nintendo team. They arent creatively independent, they are at the whim of what Nintendo producers decide. Nintendo has a very loose definition of team outside of the top creative leads.
You wouldn't be surprised if Retro was absorbed? God it's so hard to read posts on here sometimes.
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None of their employees have worked on any Nintendo games announced or released after Tropical Freeze according to their resumes.
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Retro probably would never get shut down, but if they can't get their game out before 2021, I would expect them to be gutted to like 15 or so employees.
While I am probably indulging in a little bit of exaggeration by saying they will be shut down, is it so hard to imagine that this is a real possibility?
I mean, if they don't have something new ready to release this year, then Nintendo really has to be thinking about whether it is worth maintaining the costs of a foreign studio for such minimal output.
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5 years is still somewhat normal for a AAA developer.
7 years is not as of now so if they need 7+ years, then they could have their staff count massively reduced, sure.
They don't have to release this year. They ported TF. Their game can be ready for next year. And it could be done for all we know and saved for next year.
It is for me.
Who knows what they are working on or when it was done or if it is done???
Nintendo of Japan has control of when they reveal their project.
Or that's my guess.
Are they allowed to talk on social media or does Nintendo not allow them? What about NST?
StarTropics is one of those western games like Punch Out that will one day get a sequel then stay dormant for another 8-10 years.
Japan had no clue who little mac was and it would be even worse for StarTropics since they never came out there.
Japan had no clue who little mac was and it would be even worse for StarTropics since they never came out there.
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I don't know if they're allowed to talk on social media. NST barely exists anymore, but Next Level Games as another example has almost no social media presence.
Sounds like it comes from Nintendo or NoA then. NLG works on Nintendo games too. Every single company that works on Nintendo games is quiet in America.
When has Nintendo ever closed down their studios. Even NST which would be closed by any other studio after Hammer still has the lights on.
at least if smash can be announced and come out this year, I could see them announcing a game and it being 2018 or 2019.
then they'd be in the credits for some in the multitude of games released since.
then they'd be in the credits for some in the multitude of games released since.
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None of their employees have worked on any announced or released games made by other studios since Mario Kart 7.
MK7 was the only game that they have worked on a side project.
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So they've been assisting on games from 2014 onward but none of these games have been released or shown?
I have no idea when. It could have been 4 years ago, or this year. Not sure.
What am I sure about is that it's been 4 years and they haven't announced an original game.
they've been porting FF7R to Switch simultaneously the whole time but square's taking forever >_>
Raven Blade looked incredibly generic - whatever they're working on I certainly hope it's more inspired than that.
Well the last we saw it was 2001...I would certainly hope 17+ years later it'd look much better.
So they just started assisting games this year? What have they been doing for the past 4 years? Sitting around and collecting a paycheck?
That was mostly people just memeing. And I guess that weird random twitter "leak" that maybe started the meme.
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