Metroid Prime 4 studio Retro has hired a Call of Duty: Black Ops veteran | VGC
Lead programmer is the Nintendo-owned studio’s latest major recruit…
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Retro Studios hires CoD: Black Ops 4 vet as lead programmer for Metroid Prime 4
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What could this mean?
That they are making a big game and needed a talented engineer to help out.Metroid Prime 4 studio Retro has hired a Call of Duty: Black Ops veteran | VGC
Lead programmer is the Nintendo-owned studio’s latest major recruit…
What could this mean?
It means they hired an experienced hand on a game in development. Anything else is pure fanboy speculation.
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I was thinking about this, but something caught my eye in the article:
I hope that means there will be weird time-traveling gimmicks like in Titanfall 2.
Y'all love to jump to conclusions. Devs can make more than one kind of game.
This could be (and probably is) completely irrelevant to any development issues the game is having.
This could be (and probably is) completely irrelevant to any development issues the game is having.
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People are so thirsty for Retro news with 5-6 years of silence that normal industry job changes and hirings are making headlines. Are any other companies being monitored like Retro is these days? For instance, who knows how many hirings SSM or ND have made in the last 6-12 months, but I'm sure among them has been quite a bit of talent.
People keep making these threads because they keep seeing them.
It's the David jaffe cycle. Let's not, huh?
It's the David jaffe cycle. Let's not, huh?
Surely no one would jump to crazy...
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Retro has always hired talent from all over the industry. It means nothing. One of the senior programmers on the first Metroid Prime had made Capture the Flag modes in the Quake series, others worked on sports games, another from Lucas, and so on. None of that stuff was in Prime.
I guess the question is, what does hiring someone as a "lead" a year+ into a game's development mean in the context of a game's development? I don't know if this means development is going smoothly or if this is one of those things you'd think they'd have from the start.
As I understand things right now, let's just say it means this:
As I understand things right now, let's just say it means this:
Outside of Dupree, none of Retro's hirings over the last 18 months have really been thread worthy but they're hiring fairly well it seems.
It means people are going to jump to wrong conclusions about the game, its development, and Retro Studios itself, as is always the case with any employee that any studio hires.
Vince Joly didn't even get a thread when he left Retro despite being the Creative Director of TF, and with Retro for 15 years. But threads galore for pretty much every hire they make.
