No, but he could probably do more serious fantasy or sci-fi since most writers have range.
Retro Studios writer/cinematic designer leaving after 2 years
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No, but he could probably do more serious fantasy or sci-fi since most writers have range.
Nah, they had job openings pretty recently. They're fine. There's usually a 3 year gap between their projects, there could be a lot of different reasons for the next game to be taking longer:
- Nintendo's restructuring after Iwata's death may have impacted them somehow
- The current project started as a WiiU game and got changed to the Switch in the middle of development
- They spent time working on a project that got canceled and had to restart from scratch
- They're just doing something really big
Ohhhhh shittt
It's crazy how tight liped Retro is. It's like the bomb in the head comic
you have a funny way of writing wario #gearsofwario believe
Donkey Kongo: Barrel of Darkness will win every game of the year award.
edit: oh god gears of wario yes please lol
It's ridiculous how airtight Retro studios is. I can't believe we know absolutely nothing about what is happening over there.
Hopefully it's not a Valve type situation where the writers are leaving because progress has ground to a halt and they don't have much to work on...
They were creating a brand new massive open world sci-fi IP but Nintendo cancel it in order to assign them to work on the port of DKC: Tropical Freeze featuring Funky Kong from the Donkey Kong™ series.
This is really nothing, while people prefer to move on after they finish one project they sometimes leave for many reasons without finishing. Besides his job could be done and the game is still a ways off, shrug.
Either way we should be seeing it this E3, which is what's most important.
Way too much speculatings based on a tweet in my opinion.
The only thing we know for a fact is that they haven't released or talked about any project in 4 years, and I'm more inclined to think at that point that they're having huge problems. I'm really hoping we'll see something soon.
The only thing we know for a fact is that they haven't released or talked about any project in 4 years, and I'm more inclined to think at that point that they're having huge problems. I'm really hoping we'll see something soon.
I mean, that could have happened!
But hopefully not and hopefully it's at e3 :(
If Retro doesn't appear this E3 at all, then we can safely assume something wrong must be going at Retro. It's been too damn long almost reaching the same time it took Sony Santa Monica to make the new God of War!. Hoping for some good news of them soon.
If 90's era Rare was still around, they would probably make something like this. That idea sounds great.
I'm assuming something's wrong since last year. It's a shame because it's probably one of the top five most talented studio in the 2004-2014 decade.
Let's stay optimistic, at least till E3 to see if they appear. It's kinda annoying how secretive they can get tbh.
It would suck for me because I only play on Nintendo platforms, but at the same time I'd be laughing my ass off at the reactions.
Jon Verrall is leaving Retro Studios after 2 years. This suggests that the project is at the tail-end of development.
It's happening, folks!
Well he didn't say why he left, it could've gone into development hell, whatever they're doing.