What should Retro do after DCKR?

[Clowns8me]

Well, if they ever did have any multiplayer design, then I do hope they use it in their next game; whatever that may be.

[Yoshii]

Did you guys hear the news? This looks like the beginning of the end of Retro Studios.

I kinda wanna cry.

[John]

Yeah, I am guessing they are closing because they make "Hardcore" games.

[thresholdXCI]

Woah, you guys really think this could be the end for Retro? Hope not. Personally I don't think its as bad as some people are making out. Sure it is pretty terrible, but at the end of the day there is enough talent in and around Nintendo to replace those lost. If Nintendo wanted to close Retro then they would do so - and quickly - dispersing the workers around into other Nintendo studios (thus retaining as much talent as possible). Not that I see any reason Nintendo have to want to close Retro; Metroid Prime 3 was a major seller on Wii (certainly over a million worldwide) and Nintendo will obviously value that.

Apparently whatever project Retro were working on before hand is still going ahead, so no worries there. I think Retro will be fine. Really.

[cave]

this is not the end for retro...that has been confirmed.

[coffeewithchess]

this is not the end for retro...that has been confirmed.

Was it "officially" confirmed? The only response I've seen was the very vague answer Nintendo gave. "We still continue to work alongside the team at Retro and no official announcements as to its status have been made," offered Nintendo in response.

[TYFIGHTER]

this is not the end for retro...that has been confirmed.

Was it "officially" confirmed? The only response I've seen was the very vague answer Nintendo gave. "We still continue to work alongside the team at Retro and no official announcements as to its status have been made," offered Nintendo in response.

IGN talked to Retro. They said theyre not being closed. No need to worry.
Oh, and either on IGN or in one Nintendo response it was leaked that they are currently working on a new project by one of the responses.

Woah, you guys really think this could be the end for Retro? Hope not. Personally I don't think its as bad as some people are making out. Sure it is pretty terrible, but at the end of the day there is enough talent in and around Nintendo to replace those lost. If Nintendo wanted to close Retro then they would do so - and quickly - dispersing the workers around into other Nintendo studios (thus retaining as much talent as possible). Not that I see any reason Nintendo have to want to close Retro; Metroid Prime 3 was a major seller on Wii (certainly over a million worldwide) and Nintendo will obviously value that.

Apparently whatever project Retro were working on before hand is still going ahead, so no worries there. I think Retro will be fine. Really.

... over 2.5 million worldwide. It was also one of the fastest selling "hardcore" games in Japan. Which is surprising considering Zelda didnt sell as well as hoped there, and Metroid sold amazing.

[Yoshii]

I personally don't think we'll be seeing the same kind of quality coming from Retro with this loss on their hands. Nintendo seems to be shoving them down further into the pile and limiting their ideas. I don't know. I definitely hope that won't be the case, but I don't expect anything great from them any longer.

[TYFIGHTER]

I personally don't think we'll be seeing the same kind of quality coming from Retro with this loss on their hands. Nintendo seems to be shoving them down further into the pile and limiting their ideas. I don't know. I definitely hope that won't be the case, but I don't expect anything great from them any longer.

Just because 3 people leave does not mean the quality in the games is going down... Those 3 can easily be replaced and there are many more people working at Retro that have tons of talent that goes into their games. I think youre overreacting a bit.

[msa]

i'm positive that retro will stay with nintendo and deliver high quality-games.
maybe they'll become nintendos second rare... until microsoft buys them, lol ^^

[thresholdXCI]

i'm positive that retro will stay with nintendo and deliver high quality-games.
maybe they'll become nintendos second rare... until microsoft buys them, lol ^^

So am I. Hey you never know, maybe those who left will form their own new dev studio - become first/ second party for Nintendo and then we'll get double awesomeness!

Really, I'm sure, Retro will be fine. In a way - bear in mind I don't know the exact ins and outs of it all - but its probably better that those who were not happy with what they were doing, have left to follow their own paths. With their, already proven, talent I'm sure they will find work with another studio soon (lets hope). At the end of the day, especially with directors and such, it can't be good for a game (of whatever nature) if the team behind its development aren't totally gelling.

And as msa said, if Retro start to suck Nintendo'll just sell 'em to microsoft and let the Xbox owners suffer a bit!

[Yoshii]

I personally don't think we'll be seeing the same kind of quality coming from Retro with this loss on their hands. Nintendo seems to be shoving them down further into the pile and limiting their ideas. I don't know. I definitely hope that won't be the case, but I don't expect anything great from them any longer.

Just because 3 people leave does not mean the quality in the games is going down... Those 3 can easily be replaced and there are many more people working at Retro that have tons of talent that goes into their games. I think youre overreacting a bit.

Yeah I think you are right. I just love this devloper so much. I hate to see anything happen to them and assume the worst when anything does happen.

However, if this latest rumor is true (MP 1 and 2 on Wii) I will love Retro even more.

[coffeewithchess]

I personally don't think we'll be seeing the same kind of quality coming from Retro with this loss on their hands. Nintendo seems to be shoving them down further into the pile and limiting their ideas. I don't know. I definitely hope that won't be the case, but I don't expect anything great from them any longer.

Just because 3 people leave does not mean the quality in the games is going down... Those 3 can easily be replaced and there are many more people working at Retro that have tons of talent that goes into their games. I think youre overreacting a bit.

Yea, but it would seem that those three people, to us on the outside, were doing a good job. If they weren't, I would think they wouldn't have lasted through three Metroid games. It could be that the rumor of a Metroid Trilogy pack may actually shed some light on the situation. IF the rumor is true, it could very well be the three that were escorted off the property were causing a mutiny at the company because they were mad they were going to have to redo controls on games they had already helped develop and instead wanted to spend time on new games(again, all speculation on my part). But to say that three people can simply be replaced, doesn't mean the new people will do the jobs as good or even the same way as before. If you had asked most Republican conservatives in the 90s if there was ever a President worse than Bill Clinton, most would have probably said no and he needed to be replaced...well, President Clinton left office and President Bush was elected. I know based on my families opinion, President Bush is on par with President Clinton, if not more so, for being one of the worst Presidents of all time(and my family is entirely Republican).

[KingBroly]

What should they do?

[MAGNUS-8M]

I don't really want them to revive another IP, but I think it'd be good if they did another established Nintendo IP, preferably something that maybe hasn't been 'dead' for too long, but something that's solid enough that they couldn't tear it up too much if it didn't work out after all.

I could understand getting them to do an original IP....but really I didn't like the one people commonly know they were going to make. It was just a bit too cliche in being edgey and dark and all that teen-emo angst. Maybe that would appeal to the market a little bit, but definately not what I'm looking for out of them. Really, I'd hate for them to be shoehorned as the retro-game-reviver(as if they weren't already, and as if their name didn't already point to that), but they've seemed to do a pretty good job with that so far, so why not? Nintendo has a lot of characters and franchises, but they tend to overlap one another easily, so I'm sure there are some that could be revived or reordered. Original IPs, on the otherhand, have the possibility of going the way of Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct, Jet Force Gemini and any other manner of Rare-Ware original IP I may be forgetting.

[Ezekiel Rage]

i want them to make anoriginal IP.
RETRO are awesome, the new RARE and frankly, im dying to see what they could do if not restrained by an already established franchise...

[AndyTheZombie]

Make a sequel to Metroid Other M!!

[Ngamer01]

There's already a sequel to Other M: Metroid Fusion for GBA. Though if that's a joke, I'm sorry for ruining it.

Anyways I wouldn't mind if Retro went and tackled Star Fox next. They can show us how Star Fox should be done.

[Zidane]

I wonder what a new IP would be like?

[Golbez]

Anyone got any interest in the cancelled Project Hammer or whatever it was called?

[TYFIGHTER]

Maybe they could make Raven Blade again. It was one of their many cancelled Gamecube projects. I bet they could make an awesome third person action game to rival God of War and other major games in the genre.

But I just want to see a new IP, or Starfox!!!

[mariomaniac45213]

I want them to work on a new IP. While DKCR looks fun/best DKC, I don't want them to move on to another Nintendo franchise removing characters and replacing enemies. Next thing we know Starfox will be down to only Fox, Falco, and Peppy.

I say make a new IP so that way they can make their own characters and a gameplay genre Nintendo refuses to touch. Like an MMORPG, FPS, or Sandbox like game. How cool would it be if the character they created was playable in the next SSB.

[TYFIGHTER]

Next thing we know Starfox will be down to only Fox, Falco, and Peppy.

You act like that would be a bad thing!

[mariomaniac45213]

Next thing we know Starfox will be down to only Fox, Falco, and Peppy.

You act like that would be a bad thing!

WHAT! Wolf and Krystal are badasses. Panther is a cool character and we have barely seen any of him. Leon is cool, and Andrew is practically Andross's replacement. I could care less about Slippy and ROB64.

What's with people and disliking characters? That's like having a Star Wars movie with only Yoda and "people saying the rest of the characters sucked they didn't need to come back anyway" or a Back to the Future with just Marty no Doc or a Toy Story with just Woody no Buzz, hamm, or Mr. Potato Head.

Everybody liked the DKC characters (original only) then when Retro decides to remove them all of a sudden they suck or aren't worth putting in? Wow, people really do worship Retro.

[Ezekiel Rage]

i had a dream last night.
it was E3 2011 and retro unveiled METROID ORIGINS as their next game for wii. its basically the original metroid in 3D (like prime) with new story things to establish a new continuity with the prime games (aside from the old metroid games)...
and after that they pulled out a trailer to jet force gemini 2 , which they bought from rare and will be released as launch title for wii successort.
thats not even the most unrealistic part of my dream. that honor would go to miyamoto sleeping and reggie stealing a dvd with a new zelda trailer on it from beneath his pillow...