Okay since Retro is represented by the Taco, what food represents your company?
Retro Studio Sending out some weird tweets...
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Okay since Retro is represented by the Taco, what food represents your company?
LOL, fine I'll give you one, your company can be represented by the burrito!
Well, they really are the new rare, at least in rare's n64 era.
Amazing first person shooters
Donkey kong
Spinoff of Star Fox
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The end
The fuck is wrong with you people? Fuck Retro because they're taking their time and trying to make something good? Grow up.
Also Taco Tuesday is very much a thing here in Austin, TX (meaning companies will often get taco catering or have food trucks). I think their response can be interpreted as "it's just another day in the office for us."
People really just meant how often we'd see projects from them.
They're going to announce something very soon.
The Taco TUESDAY tweet indicates that it's today.
The second tweet shows a face on a hand. Face and hand are things you find on a clock. The thumb points directly up and the feet point directly down indicating that an announcement should come at 6pm.
Given that Retro is based in Texas, 6pm is in just over an hour from now.
This is gonna be huge.
The Taco TUESDAY tweet indicates that it's today.
The second tweet shows a face on a hand. Face and hand are things you find on a clock. The thumb points directly up and the feet point directly down indicating that an announcement should come at 6pm.
Given that Retro is based in Texas, 6pm is in just over an hour from now.
This is gonna be huge.
Why would they not show their game at E3 direct though if that is the case?
They do make similar types of games to the ones Rare used to make and the quality of their games may be up to par with Rare's (or maybe even better depending on who you ask), but they're not comparable to Rare in terms of productivity at all.
People used to joke around about Rare taking forever to make games, but you know what's funny? Rare managed to release 11 games during the N64 generation alone. Retro has only released 5 games since 2002.
Even today's Rare makes games faster than Retro lol.
Rare, in it's hayday, had multiple teams and hundreds of employees. After their original four games that were all cancelled for Metroid Prime, Retro has always been a one team studio. You can't really compare them in that way.
Was that just a lucky guess, or do you know someone at Retro? Or maybe you just read Glassdoor, because that's what former employees are saying, actually.
As I've said before retro is a least likely Nintendo developer I want to see something from. Like DKTF was a good game but they have to show more to impress me. I have no anticipation for whatever their next project is. They have to make me a fan and believer.
I legitimately don't understand people's interest and attachment to this studio. I get that in the Gamecube era they were Nintendo's "mature" AAA western savior delivering fanboys from Celda, but that shit was 15+ years ago. None of those people have worked there for more than a decade. Their output since the Prime series (11 YEARS AGO BTW, since the last real entry) has been a couple 2D platformers, which while enjoyable, were ultimately quasi-remasters aping (pun intended) Rare's prior work, and should not have taken a major studio with significant first party investment 3+ years (each) to produce. Realistically, what do people expect from this studio at this point and why?
Well, those quasi-remsters were infinitely better games than Rare's original work so even if you want to downplay them with that you can deny the the constant high quality products they've put out throughout the years.
The fact people didn't like them working on or being "stuck" on "fucking Donkey Kong" does not make the game quality turn to shit by default.
Don't get me wrong, their DKC's are strong (though I personally preferred Shovel Knight and Ori in terms of modern platformers), but I don't think most people have been making threads like this for the PAST FIVE E3's hoping they'll unveil DKC3 or some similar 2D take on Kirby, Yoshi, or whatever. What I was getting at is they have no modern track record, demonstrable talent, or perhaps even desire to make a contemporary 3D shooter, action/adv, action RPG, multiplayer RPG, 3D platformer, or whatever it is people expect out them. I am supposing few to none of the Prime teams still work there at this point, and a talent for making DKC's doesn't necessarily translate into producing AAA 3D games people are expecting by today's standards.
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According to the latest post on Glassdoor, some employees are expecting Nintendo to shut the studio down. Obviously that's just one ex-employee's thoughts, but with the rumours of Nintendo being frustrated with Retro's progress on their 'other' game, it does make me wonder how things are over there.
Well of course not, what I'm saying is that people are excited about hearing more from them because of the guaranteed high quality they bring to the table with every release. And yes, Donkey Kong Country games count among those releases.
And about the "5 year in a row!" thing, well, game development takes time. The fact Nintendo secrecy is involved doesn't mean these guys and girls have been sitting on their hands all this time.
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More like an educated guess. We have seen this before. EA gave Amy Henning four years before shutting down her studio.
Hopefully this doesn't happen. It would be the most tragically bizarre thing that's ever happened in this industry.
Besides, Nintendo doesn't just outright shut their studios down, do they?
Of course they could. Any company would eventually shut down a subsiduary that does not perform
Nintendo recently tweeted about job openings at Retro a few weeks ago. They aint shutting them down anytime soon.
We need someone to interview with them so they can ask what's been going on for the last six years.
Who's it gonna be, era?
Thats what I've been saying for the past three E3's now. Why has no one in the games media asked them about Retro?
We know they aren't going to announce what they're working on. It doesn't mean the games media should not be asking.
I know, but it just doesn't seem like a very "Nintendo-esque" thing to do, I guess. :p
I mean, how many studios have they even shut down? Usually they just let them go. It's not like they're comparable to EA or Microsoft or something.
Was never going to happen unless Nintendo actually invested in expanding the studio, which they haven't done for any of their western operations since Iwata took over. Rare was a signficnatly larger studio than Retro has ever been.
At least 10 minutes of the 25 minutes of Smash stuff?
Why did we need glorified patch notes o.O?
They may be the closest thing Nintendo has to a new Rare in terms of quality and style of games, but quantity wise? Hell to the no.
Completely agree with you.
The number of people not understanding the sarcasm of that post...
I've seen it non-ironically elsewhere. An /s definitely would have helped.