Retro Studios hasn’t released a new game since 2014. We think we know why!
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- In early 2019 Nintendo shocked the world when they announced that were scrapping Metroid Prime 4 and starting over from scratch. Sweetening the blow to Metroid fans, however, was the surprise news that the game would now be developed by Retro Studios in Austin, Texas….the same legendary Nintendo subsidiary that created the original Metroid Prime series in the first place.
However, Retro Studios isn’t the same place it was in 2002. The devs who created Metroid Prime are all long gone from the studio. Many aren’t even working in the videogame industry any more, its been so long. Yet, Retro is determined. They have moved to a bigger office space and they are on a hiring blitz, sucking up top industry talent everywhere they can. But some of us are still concerned.
Most concerning is the fact that Retro Studios hasn’t put put a genuinely brand new game since 2014’s Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze…..its been almost 7 years! What has the studio been up to in the meantime? Where are the games that should have come out of this lost time period? What happened? And will this have any bearing upon the prospects for Metroid Prime 4’s success?
In this video we explore the news and rumors surrounding Retro Studios’s mysterious recent past, and we develop a hypothesis of our own. Perhaps Retro Studios’s greatest strength is their unique and tight knit relationship with Nintendo of Japan and the Japanese management of the company….but is it possible that such a situation is also Retro’s greatest weakness? We think that it is. Good leadership and rational guidelines are essential for the productivity of any company, but this might be a case of “too much of a good thing”.
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Here are some sources that informed our video:
"Retro dissects DKC Returns" by Guy Crocker @GameSpot (March 7, 2011)
"Metroid Prime director on making the game, Nintendo's influence, leaving Retro" by Brian @Nintendo Everything (September 9, 2016)
"Former employee reviews signal bad news for Retro Studios" by Aric Sweeney @Nintendo Enthusiast (2018)
"WTH is going on with Metroid Prime 4?" by Game Explain @TH-cam (January 25, 2019)
"Who is making MP4 at Retro" by Jordan Sirani @IGN (January 26, 2019)
"No, Retro Studios isn't buying a new HQ....so let's explore the new tale" by Game Explain @TH-cam (October 30, 2020) - เกม
This is such a strange documentary. It’s well researched and well edited, but feels like the whole thing was made while high on marijuana.
Thank you very much for watching dude! To be sure, no marijuana was involved in the creation of this video….but I did have to wake up at 3am across a series of sleepless nights in order to make it. It’s essentially a fever dream.
I’m glad someone noticed! 😆
@@creativecatproductions oh okay that makes sense. You should be proud of this work.
@@CharlesFerraro thanks dude! 😎
Some great insights and hypothesis here, thanks for the coverage. I do have to give you a bit of flak regarding the bug eyes bit, since it didn't include the full explanation. Mike Wikan did say that after much thinking they came around to Miyamoto's idea of changing Samus' perspective of how she sees the world, rather than literally changing her head. It's minor but pretty emblematic of the cultural differences Retro had to navigate. Walker seems to really have been a key ingredient in what made the studio so industrious. Can't wait to see how MP4 turns out.
Thank you very much for watching dude! 😎
Brian Walker has that sharp, hard working focus that I think creatives need. I’ve seen it happen in animation studios as well. Creatives are, obviously, very good at creating but they lack in terms of self-organization, motivation, and consistency. A good manager like Brian Walker can help build the bridge between the guys who make art and the guys driven to produce a completed project. I think he was vital.
At the same time, it seems like Retro’s turned the corner. I think MP4 is probably going to be yet another masterpiece!
just discovered you, and this great video!
im sure this won't be noticed, since so much time has passed, I'd like to add a thought if I may:
All your poking fun at the toys in the offices goes against what John Cleese says, that any true creativity must involve play. You must be at ease, and in a playful state of mind to create something that is also fun.
great video!
I see how how that work philosophy seems to make sense….about a playful state of mind producing something fun or innovative, and I find it to be fascinatingly pervasive across the American tech industry….which is admittedly innovative overall. I don’t know where this attitude started but it seems to me that Atari in the late 70s and early 80s was a prime example if not the origin point. At Atari personal work expectations were curbed, people did drugs, wore their hair all crazy, walked around barefoot, pursued their own interests or way of doing things….it was basically a hippy boomer reaction to the stiff white shirt and tie work experience of the military-industrial generation that preceded them. I remember all the dot-com start ups in the late 90s and how their offices were rife Nerf gun battles, bean bag chairs, arcade cabinets, and ice cream buffets and stuff like that. I think it was a continuation of that anti-work, pro-playfulness spirit that had become so pervasive in Silicon Valley. From what I gather Retro Studios was participating in that same legacy, at least through the development of Metroid Prime Trilogy. It kind of looks awesome, and I can see how it makes work seem less oppressive, but I also think all that personal expression and free play have to be a major distraction, and I wonder if this American approach to game development is the reason our developers also complain so much about “crunch”? When a big project has a strict deadline, and yet the office is a big playroom, it seems like there are going to be consequences……CRUNCH. Every second spent playing with Nerf guns, or making mint juleps, need to be made up eventually…..and it seems like they wind up doing it all in a few weeks or a couple of horrible months. This is how a lot of people do college: party, party, and then suddenly cram and endlessly study for a week of hell. I get the mentality, and it definitely seems fun, but maybe not when your making something that absolutely HAS to be done by a certain date. At least, at that point, fun time needs to be carefully scheduled.
The other extreme is Japan. Watching documentaries about Nintendo in Japan from the 90s look to me like nothing is fun about their very sterile and rigid workplace. Other than the games themselves, which are meticulously and painstakingly made by scowling nerds.…not fun, but at the same time, incredibly well made and in a timely fashion. I’m not sure that extreme is desirable either, and I get the feeling that “crunch” is just how Japanese office workers operate most of the time, even without the fun work environments. But I think that’s changed a lot in recent years.
Whatever the case may be it seems that for a time Retro found a compromise and made it work. They successfully balanced a fun work environment with productivity, and that’s quite an achievement. I think its very hard to do, but with the right kind of people, and the right kind of clear boundaries put in place, I think it can really work…..except that GI Joe aircraft carrier! That thing is just too big to be anywhere. It took up a whole conference room!
Thank you very much for watching dude! 😎
@@creativecatproductions You're welcome, and good point about the differences between Nintendo's culture vs the relaxed.
Completely agree with, "the fun needs to be scheduled."
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I'm surprised this video didn't mention the photo of an obscured character in Retro's thank you card to Reggie. From what we can tell it was a small robot and may have been related to the mystery game
I considered the photo but the video was getting super long and it was kind of a red herring during my research. Recently Reggies has claimed the photo pertains to a specific individual that worked at retro and that it was covered for the sake of privacy….I suspect it is a cartoon caricature of Bryan Walker, as a robot. Part insult, part compliment. Bryan Walker is a buff dude, he’s a rigid ex-military type….and he apparently left on bad terms. But I can’t prove anything and Reggie could be fibbing.
To me it kind of looks like the Cave Story robot a bit. Maybe it was a robotic diddy Kong? 😂
Too many possibilities
Thanks for watching!
@@creativecatproductions Ah I see. I I hadn't heard Reggie's follow-up regarding it before. Another thing I remember was an ex-Retro employee saying that unless the game they were working on was cancelled then they were making two games (after it was announced retro would take over Prime 4) So there was definitely something in the works.
Anyways, the video was interesting! Definitelty shed some light on the situation and the bit about Samus and the bug head was a laugh
Thank you very much for watching dude! 😎
I really hope we get a blown 3D donkey Kong platformer….I sort of think that’s happening too
@@creativecatproductions I would love that. The DKC games are great but there's like 5 of them, and I think 3D deserves another go despite the infamy of DK64
WEIRD COMPLIMENT TIME: I really like the way you record your face, where the audio doesn’t quite match your mouth and you make weird movements. Don’t know if it’s on purpose but it’s really cool to watch lmao. Subbed 👍
😂 thank you very much! Yes, I don’t record with a lav or boom mic so I essentially lip sink over the prerecorded audio. Sometimes I make fun of the fact I’m doing that by drinking a cup of coffee. Like I’m a ventriloquist.
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Never considered what it would be like to be an American company who answers to Japanese bosses. Great video! I laughed out loud several times.
It reminded me of the movie Gung Ho with Michael Keaton 😂
Thank you very much for watching dude!
Not sure how much of this is well researched and accurate, but at least it sounds plausible .. Nice work of original and informed speculation; and interestingly presented/cut! Enjoyed watching it!
I did hear from Bryan Walker a few days after this went up and he actually seemed to enjoy this video so, at the very least, it’s not way off base!
He is really cool and he recently did a great interview with KiwiTalkz. I highly recommend that channel and both the Bryan Walker and the Mike Wikan interviews. They’re among the best Windows into retro studios on the internet and they’re basically brand new.
Thank you very much for watching!
I love that King of the Hill episode. I just watched it this week in fact. 🤠
Excellent job. This one really got me thinking about a topic I’ve never considered.
I read that Glassdoor review and remembered hank hill….and my dad….who deeply mistrusted people with a limp handshake.
Thank you very much for watching and, once again, thank you very much for including us in your video about small retro gaming channels. It really made our day. 😎
Funny thing about the culture clashing in both Sega & Nintendo being very similar, is that Sony had the polar opposite effect, where the Western gaming culture won over the Japanese one when it comes to PlayStation
You should definitely make a video about that, it’s really juicy subject 👍
It’s definitely worth looking into, thanks for watching dude! 😎
When you say that you mean that playstation became basically a Western style company right
Great content, a big long, but great. Subbed.
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Retro, or Nintendo if needed, absolutely NEED to say something about this. If they're barely halfway through development, I, and a lot of other people, would be confused (and a little angry).
It’s hard to say how far along development is at this point. Retro is a great company with a great track record but they are working with a completely new development team. It’s going to take a lot of extra resources to pick up the pieces and move forward. Im fairly certain this meant starting over with a new game engine. Im also fairly certain that they’re working on multiple games. I’m betting that they put out a 3D Donkey Kong platformer in the future, given the talent they’ve acquired in recent months.
I don’t feel angry toward them in any way because of their difficult situation. I think they’re going to produce something for sure, and I think it’ll probably be good. But if its not, or if these games don’t do well, then Im not sure Retro has much of a future. At the same time, this is a company that seems to thrive on pulling off miracles in spite of bad press.
Thanks for watching dude! 😎
I've seen a different spin on the changing samus heads he was referring to changing the visors which was obviously implemented into the game the promblem was translation
Thats a great explanation! Thanks for watching dude 😎
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I never got much around Retro's history, this video was eye-opening to me.
Although the games they released were really good, Retro don't seem to be the best company to work at.
I wonder why they couldn't put themselves together to make a better workplace.
Whatever, awesome video. Thanks for that, dude
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@@creativecatproductions Metroid Prime is back.
@@orangeslash1667 and it is great! We’ve been living it
Wow! That was very informative. I’m glad I stumbled upon this while looking for videos talking about Metroid Prime’s cut content, and why we’ve had radio silence. That is very interesting. Hopefully this video catches on.
I played Recore and it wasn’t very good. Uninstalled the not very long into it. Thankfully O didn’t buy it because it was included with Gamepass.
It would be great if a lot of the original people behind Metroid Prime were to get together and make their own IP that’s basically Metroid Prime with the serial numbers filed off. Too bad there’s also not any clones of the game (at least not that I’m aware of).
I vaguely remember the rumors for Star Fox Grand Prix. It’s really funny how people were getting hyped up for a game that most likely didn’t even exist. The only hope for that existing would be if UndyingNephalim were to create it as part of his Star Fox game Star Fox Event Horizon. It’s a reimagining of the 64 continuity that uses characters and elements from all three timelines/reboots. It’s a mod for Freespace Open, which is an open source space combat game so it’s 100% free. It’s very impressive what he’s done. What’s just as impressive is the man got in contact with the lady who played Krystal and she’s going to do voice work for his mod. He also made this Zelda rts mod for 0ad called Hyrule Conquest. Originally it was a mod for Medieval 2 called Hyrule Total War, but he switched engines because the new one allowed for a lot of stuff that was previously impossible, and it’s also open source so different people can help with the base game’s code. You should really check him out. It’s super impressive what he’s made.
There’s also this Adventures remake by Esphirian. So far there’s three trailers for it. I’ve talked with him in the comments and he has some interesting ideas for the story. It looks amazing!
I personally wouldn’t put much credence to what Tyler McVicker says. The reason is because most of the time he’ll take small details and make wild speculations about them to hype up his audience. He got Alyx right because he had insider information, but has been wrong numerous times. Plus, there was that interview with the lead devs if Fallout Frontier. It’s so funny just how incompetent he was in that interview. He read every question, and I mean EVERY question. Even ones that were very obviously bait then would pause as if he was expecting the guy to give a serious answer. It’s so funny!
The way the devs were completely screwed over by incompetent management can be said for so many other studios. The people in charge of 343 are running Halo into the ground, and have been since 4 (I liked 4 because of the great story, but the gameplay took the worst aspects of Reach and combined them with CoD elements that work great in CoD, but not in Halo. They also rushed it for the 360 when originally it was supposed to come out on the Xbox One which caused a lot of issues. It was only downhill since then). Studios under EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and numerous others experience something similar. Sega completely ruined any chances Sonic Boom had of being a good game because they kept making all kinds of nonsensical demands to BigRedButton.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the singing game was actually real because Miyamoto has had some absolutely atrocious ideas in the past. He’s had plenty of good innovative ideas, but numerous other atrocious ones. He’s the reason Dinosaur Planet became Star Fox Adventures (I really liked Adventures, but we really should have gotten Dinosaur Planet. Luckily I’m early 2021 the 64 build was leaked and the community has done a lot to fix it), he wanted the storybook in Mario Galaxy to be removed because he thought it was “needless story” which luckily didn’t happen, we would have gotten Twilight Princess 2 but got Link’s Crossbow Training, he wanted the Wii to be played with this bizarre circular controller that nobody developing the Wii liked, he and others are the reason Star Fox Zero has such horrible controls, and plenty of other things like that.
Excellent video! I really enjoyed it.
Thank you very much for the thoughtful comment and for watching our video! 😎
I definitely enjoyed watching it.
I rhink they did Prime Remastered, but I think Prime 4 and maybe a 3d Donkey Kong is what they've been working on. I think its mostly prime 4 though. But also Nintendo didn't even choose Retro to work on Prime 4 at first, which is weird. I guess this is why
At this point Im guessing they want Metroid prime 4 as a launch game for the new “successor to the switch” console they’ve been working on.
Thanks for watching dude! 😎
This sounds a lot better dad! Great job
Thanks dudes! Thanks for catching the problem
Very insightful video, so much to absorb, It is unfortunate that things have gone down the way they have. Regardless, Prime 4 has taken too long and it had better be 100% solid and if it's anything less then that Nintendo have a lot to answer for, the gits.
Prime 4 has been too long in coming! I suspect they’ll drop more than one game by 2023….hopefully on a switch and not some new thing they want me to buy.
Thank you very much for watching!
@@creativecatproductions Haha no thank you! I like your vids, very thorough and fun, you keep it light so I don't get bored. In regards to prime 4 I do think it should be out by 2022. I think Dread is here just to keep the fans happy and to make some money for them as a 2D Metroid style game is easier to make.
I’m really glad you like our format! I think 2022 makes a lot of sense and I think you’re right, dread was sort of resurrected to hold people off due to the delay. Retro is going at this guns blazing. No matter what happens the outcome should be interesting.
Thank you again for your kind words of support
I agree.. If we don't see a gameplay video or trailer this year you know this game isn't going anywhere. And if that is the case... Just give it to Mercury Steam. They are more than capable of developing it.
Indeed!
I remember reading Console Wars and realizing there was this big culture clash going on at SEGA. I felt like everyone assumed it was a Sega problem and Nintendo was immune to this. Well looks like Nintendo is not a magical group of people that make games magically appear, but instead it’s a corporation expanding multiple countries mixing multiple cultures hoping they’ll all just listen to the seniors over at Nintendo of Japan.
Great work, once again!
Thank you very much for watching dude!
Recently Nintendo has gotten a lot of positive press because they’re rated as a good company to work for that doesn’t encourage “crunch” and stuff like that, and my hats off to them for that….but I think despite their positive attributes, and talented designers, they may be unintentionally bringing hell upon the American development team at retro just by virtue of constantly imposing themselves.
Its like they think it’s 1989 and that the only people in the world who know how to make a competent videogame are Japanese! I think guidelines and expectations are one thing, but they appear to provide almost daily input and constant redirection and that’s really hard to work under. I suspect they know as much and may have changed this practice for Metroid prime 4? I’m hoping that 7 years and no game was a sufficient sign that something was wrong.
@@creativecatproductions, well, to be fair, although there are other cultures that does games well or somewhat well, the Japanese still dominate in this area, and by far. Heck, the other cultures are actually taking notes and ideas from the Japanese, at least in regards to gaming.
Indeed, the Japanese have an attitude about games that really sets them apart….still, after so many years. I think the western style always overemphasized graphical develop but without enough insight into what it is that’s supposed to hold a game together. The Japanese keep design and mechanics simple, perfect the concept first, and then build something on top of that. They also seem to have a very strict work ethic that I think demands flaws be corrected at all times. If you have this attitude, especially from the beginning of a project, I think the final result will almost always be at least acceptable.
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Been thinking about this week for weeks now nailed it
It really is a strange mystery!
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@@creativecatproductions you do good work as well! shouted u out if u don't mind!
That’s really great! We really appreciate that 😎
🎉 great work on the video keep it up
Thanks for watching dude! 😎
I wonder if working at Nintendo of America is alright?
I think it’s probably fine! But I also don’t think Nintendo of America is involved in creative game development the way Retro is. My understanding of Nintendo of America is that they are more or less a distributor and marketing firm….translating what Nintendo of Japan makes and selling the end result to our peculiar American big box store industry. Retro on the other hand is working directly with and under the supervision of Nintendo developers in Japan and it’s got to be a stifling situation for creators who are trying to make a game that not only works, and makes sense, but pleases all these competing interests at the same time. That would suck so bad. And this reality is born out in retros abysmally negative company reviews on glass door.
I think Michael klebaugh is a really interesting guy….completely self made, hard working, and loyal to Nintendo to the end. But I think its also possible that his commitment to Nintendo may come at the expense of his team in Austin.
Anyway, thanks for watching dude!
I’m still making a blaster master video btw! I’ll probably put it out in October or November
Was Nintendo actually expecting Turok 3? Alkaline still has the IP so that would have been impossible!
I don’t think they were literally expecting Turok 3 exactly but yet another American oriented FPS to bolster GameCube sales.
This is one of the best videos I've seen!
Thank you very much for watching dude!
12:10 well, a fine pulp at least
Indeed! I wish the place lasted long enough for me to visit and review it but it closed during the pandemic.
Gracias por los subtitulos
¡por supuesto! pero no fui yo quien lo hizo. ¡Creo que TH-cam lo hizo! Gracias por mirar dude. 😎
"Samus and a bug head".. Oh my that guy was kissing major butt with that statement. lol
It was an odd anecdote for sure! Thanks for watching dude 😎
@@creativecatproductions Hey np! I always thought things were going bad when Nintendo gave Namco Metroid Prime 4 to develop originally. Big red flag right there! That was a very interesting video and you put in some serious work. You don't see that to much anymore. Respect!
Thank you very much! Indeed it was a huge red flag. Hopefully things are back on track
Well, based on the ending of Metroid Dread, it seems this "bug" idea was implemented.
@@stripedrajang3571 Sure did. 19 years later... Under 2 totally different development companies and a project Miyamoto had nothing to do with this time. Coincidence no doubt.
They are working on 3 games. Prime 4, Prime Trilogy and a new IP.
I hope we get a prime trilogy, though Mike Wikan says that’s not likely. I think they have a 3D donkey Kong going on too!
Thanks for watching
I think you’re on to something my friend.
Let’s hope it’s not 4 more years before we see a Metroid Prime 4!
Yeah, every failure when it comes to games is consistently and reliably a breakdown of communication. This video is a bit old, but Nintendo should relocate Retro Studios (if they haven’t already). City matters when it comes to what you want to do in the States. I don’t know about anywhere else, but over here, if you want to work in fashion and the arts you go to New York, for film and tech it’s California and so on. I’m looking forward to Metroid Prime 4, and I’m double dipping on Metroid Prime Remastered and I hope everyone at Nintendo is happy and healthy. The Switch is weird, but I keep falling in love with it, over and over. There’s something to be said about that!
Great Stuff as always!
Thank you very much dude! 😎
If you look at tech outside of gaming you‘ll see a big shift of working remotely. So I don‘t see a need of relocation. Just a need of better management. But it seems like the remaster was done for 2 years now. So maybe retro+nintendo have a few other things hidden from public. Who knows
Nothing worse than a limp handshake
Well maybe Miyamoto personally ruining the dark twilight princess sequel Nintendo staff wanted to make by making those same devs turn it into links crossbow training because Miyamoto wanted to sell the wii zapper thing, alot of Nintendo staff were pissed off they couldn't make a spiritual successor to majors mask let alone make a game they actually wanted to make
Miyamotos missed opportunity! Thanks for watching dude! 😎
Didn’t Jeff get fired for hosting soft-core on company servers and go on to make the Guy Game?
I believe that’s right. What a transition!
There's something strangely nostalgic about your aesthetics.
Thank you very much for watching dude! 😎
We are happy to hear this because we actually strive to give our videos a kind of nostalgic vibe. This comment means a lot to us!
Could’ve got to the point quicker
Indeed, this one was long. It took us a long time to get to the point with this one because its a fairly complex story to unfold. We had to cover Retro’s unique history as a subsidiary of Nintendo, but we also had show the nature of the problem, which is hard to do without basically talking about every game the company has ever produced on a time line. Then we’re left to ponder why such a gap in production could have occurred? A large portion of our audience, which is mainly retro SEGA fans, probably didn’t even know that such a problem at Retro even existed! So we felt compelled to elaborate. Video length is tricky, our most successful videos tend to be long, and I personally prefer long form content, but some people prefer videos to be less than 10 minutes. Perhaps what we ought to do is create a cliff notes version alongside the full length version? But then we’d split our potential audience on a give topic, hurting the videos chance for success on TH-cam. It’s a tricky thing, but thanks for watching!
Oh boy… yeah.. working with Nintendo is very different. Even by Japanese standard.
I’m always really struck by how quiet and serious Nintendo of Japan in Kyoto seems. I’d guess that the makers of all those wacky, colorful games would be equally colorful and wacky but no! Nintendo of Japan looks like a contemporary art museum, is sterile, and even has rooms with formal tatami mats for things like tea ceremony. What a place! They make great products, so they must be doing it right, but it’s not what I’d expect.
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@@creativecatproductions One day, I will get to share my story as well. :)
@@torokun wow! You worked for Retro Studios and or Nintendo? I’d love to hear your story. It’s become like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory to me….all spooky and mysterious
working with Nintendo as a 3rd party. It’s not some wild story or anything like that. But definitely learning how different of a culture they have.
@@torokun that’s still awesome! Did you ever get to visit their Japanese headquarters in Kyoto?
Michael Kelbaugh gives me weird vibes
He comes off as really intense in those old interview clips, but I think the Metroid prime vibe they tried to give the footage sort of unintentionally made him look like a character in a horror movie. I’ve only ever heard good things about the man. There’s a story circulated by original Metroid Prime staff about how, after the original iteration of Retro imploded in the early 2000s, Kelbaugh was brought in by Nintendo during a time in which everyone was ready to quit. Kelbaugh asked for two weeks to make changes to encourage people to stay, and whatever he did, it worked. Mike Wikan tells a version of the story (though others have told it) in an interview he did with Kiwi Talkz. No one ever specifies EXACTLY what he did though…..which is both fascinating and a little disconcerting. 😆
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New office, no more toys 😢
Maybe they got to keep a few 😂
Great, I guess we'll never get Metroid Prime 4 now. Still love Texas though.
I really hope we get it soon. I kind of think we’re going to get two games out of them soon enough. I’d bet $5 that they drop both a Donkey Kong 3D world and Metroid Prime 4 around the same time!
I hope
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DK 64 music?
Indeed it is 😆
It fit the 3D DK theme I was trying to convey
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Nintendo liked the football game
I think we can all get behind some football! I was never much of a football fan until NFL2K came out on the Dreamcast. I really liked that game. I wonder why they dropped the football game? Anyway, thanks for watching dude! 😎
as painful as it was to watch you poorly lipsync to yourself, thanks for putting this together
Believe me, it was just as painful to make! 😂
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40:20 TH-cam can unsubscribe people?
Sadly, yes. They seem to have believed that the sudden rush of subscriptions was in some way illicit and so they simply undid every sub we received within an inordinately narrow window of time. It’s how they combat bots and such. Unfortunately, those were real subs.
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Besides having too many bosses, I think the next two biggest issues at Retro in the early 2000's was very poor translation and that these Texan's look like man-childs, no wonder they don't get work done. Pretty sad to see this as I really loved Prime 1, but not so much the others. Oh well. Life goes on. Thanks for the really good history video! Liked it a lot, good humor.
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You are too much negatif ^^
Perhaps we were a bit negative, but there is also a happy side buried under our rugged exterior.
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I found something interesting that there's a small group of people who are hyping up prime 4 Tend to have a dislike of monolith soft, a game studio that nintendo bought years ago who makes the xenoblade games but also works on games like splatoon, Animal crossing, and Zelda. You see they though that they retro wouldbe in MS place instead(they also made fun of nintendo for buying monolith soft back in the day). They are also part of the same group of people who want nintendo to go in the direction of playstation and move their game development primarily to the west so that nintendo would make games that look like God of War or horizon, and other games like that on a console as powerful as a playstation 5 or series x
I don’t know much about Monolith Software, but I must admit that the critically acclaimed and universally loved Xenoblade series is not my cup of tea….it’s not even my scone with butter.
I really hope Nintendo never goes the direction of Sony or Microsoft. We already have Sony and Nintendo, but Nintendo needs to be Nintendo. A big mystery I’m wrestling with lately is “what’s going to happen to Sega? Is Sega gets divested from Sammy?”
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Basically what Rare would have became if they were bought by Nintendo.
Quite possibly!
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yeah, but microsoft wasnt any better.
This is also probably true
Retro's take on Donkey Kong proves that Shigeru Miyamoto dosen't always know what is best for his creations.
Sometimes I think you can take two great artists, force them together, and derive something worse than what they would or could produce on their own terms. I still like donkey Kong by retro though!
Thanks for watching dude! 😎
@@creativecatproductions What happened to my comments?
@@AustinMSmall currently there’s an issue with TH-cam arbitrarily and randomly deleting comments. A lot of people are mad at TH-cam because it looks like creators are deleting comments when we are not. I apologize that your comments were deleted. Please know that we never delete any comments unless it’s a bot posting a malicious link.
TH-cam is aware of the problem but we still have no word on when a fix will be implemented, or even an explanation as to why it’s happening.
Sorry about that dude!
Yeah, I see where you had written two comments each about super Mario Galaxy (probably a re-post by the looks of it) about 2 hours before this comment. It looks like TH-cam deleted them.
Unfortunately from my end all I can see is the first few words, as a kind of preview on creator studio, but when I click on it to see your comments in full I’m simply told that the comments have been removed. From my end it looks like people are deleting their comments….but I realized there is a problem when somewhere between 25% and 33% of all comments were being deleted by “users”. I don’t know if this is manual or if it’s done automatically but do you happen to know if you used any triggering language in your comment?
Sorry again!
this video is a bigger disaster than Retro Studios management.
It really is 😂
Thanks for watching dude! 😎
Sadly this is one of our very best videos. If you want to see a real train wreck you should see all the rest!
@@creativecatproductions honestly the whole "Nintendo is not american enough" (or too much japanese if you want) seems just based on nothing. Every former Retro member that talked about it said how lucky they were to work with Nintendo.
@@creativecatproductions thanks for not taking this badly.
How else can we get any better? Thank you
Can almost guarantee they had something cancelled for Wii-U and whatever they were working on before accepting Prime 4 definitely got cancelled too. The studio was dying before they got Prime 4 so hopefully in the end it's what saves the studio
Indeed! I think this Metroid Prime remaster will also help a lot. Thanks for watching dude! 😎