Metroid prime 4 news update#
Metroid prime 4 news series#

The project is now in the hands of Retro Studios, which is basically a new team now since most of the people who worked on the original trilogy do not work at Retro anymore, so we’ll have to see how things will turn out. I can’t be mad at Nintendo for taking such a huge decision and being so transparent and honest with us, but can’t help to be disappointed either for the additional wait. That being said, they’ve succeeded at creating not one, but two fantastic Donkey Kong Country games that live up to the pedigree that Rare left for us, so I reckon the game is in good hands. It’s also worth noting that there are very few, if any, members of the original trilogy team still left at Retro. It’s worth noting that we haven’t necessarily lost anything as a consumer, we’re still going to get Metroid Prime 4 some day.

Resident Evil 2 was once in a similar situation, but restarting from the beginning ended up being the best decision Capcom could’ve made. Restarting the whole game from scratch is no easy decision to make, but it is often for the better. It’s fantastic news that Retro Studios is now overseeing the project, but also disappointing that we’ve already been waiting so long and now have to wait even longer. Game development is a complicated thing, so in all honesty, I can’t be mad. Metroid Prime 4 is on the horizon, and when the day of its release finally dawns, we will be right there with Samus, like old times.

Metroid prime 4 news series#

(perhaps some of them will come back?) In the end, we can only remember Miyamoto’s famous quote: “A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad.” We’ve waited nearly 12 years for the Prime series to continue, and I would hate to see it do so with a mediocre game. I’m even more ecstatic that Retro Studios is working on it once again, although much of the original team is no longer there. Nintendo scrapping and restarting a game, and announcing it in this fashion is unprecedented, and I’m grateful to them for their transparency in this matter. We all remember how the first Prime’s development was not smooth whatsoever. The road to completion in video game development is a bumpy one with numerous complications. However, by the end of the video I understood Nintendo’s reasoning completely in spite of my disappointment. For the first few minutes, Takahashi made it sound like the game had been cancelled, and I was seething with rage.

Metroid prime 4 news update#

I was left with mixed emotions after seeing the update video, which I watched right before going to work for the day. I have high hopes that the project will be in good hands from this point forward. Retro Studios are a fantastic company with a great track record on shipping some wonderful games, including the original three Prime titles and the Metroid Prime Trilogy. While the news about the game restarting development is sad, and it sucks that we are going to be waiting years for the game to be released, I am thankful the project is still a priority for Nintendo. Thankfully, the Retro Studios logo appeared and things were more clear. My first reaction was that they’ve cancelled Metroid Prime 4, and I can’t describe in words how horrible that would have been. I clicked the video, and as the video progressed, I started to feel sick. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that Nintendo had released a video discussing Metroid Prime 4’s development, I genuinely thought the video would contain some small gameplay details and a trailer. We also asked the Metroid fan community to tell us feelings about this shocking news.

As the dust has settled, the team at Shinesparkers took the time to gather our thoughts together and share them. It’s been a few days since the stunning announcement from Nintendo that Metroid Prime 4’s development is being scrapped and restarted, which means it will be delayed.