Well, Tecmo left a bitter taste in everyone's mouth with Other M. Ubisoft didn't have the luxury of a Mario game bombing using someone else's characters. Bamco isn't Tecmo, but still that cloud lingering.
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Rumor: Metroid Prime 4 developed with Bandai Namco Singapore & Ridge Racer 8 exclusive to Switch
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Well, Tecmo left a bitter taste in everyone's mouth with Other M. Ubisoft didn't have the luxury of a Mario game bombing using someone else's characters. Bamco isn't Tecmo, but still that cloud lingering.
I guess Ridge Racer being exclusive makes sense. Even though it's more of an arcade racer, Switch doesn't have any other racers to compete with it, like Project Cars, Forza, or GT.
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Even with Mario+Rabbids and Samus Returns though, those teams had made strategy games and Metroidvanias before (admittedly, the later team is blamed for killing Castlevania but uhhhhhh, well they had worked on Castlevania).
Namco has not done a AAA shooter or action adventure game like ever. We'll see how it looks pretty soon I would guess though.
In today's sim heavy world, a arcade focused switch RR is right my alley. I've really missed portable RR since the PSP launch.
As for MP4...who knows.
But BAMCO bring both of these is great news, if true. Great third party support.
As for MP4...who knows.
But BAMCO bring both of these is great news, if true. Great third party support.
That's pretty interesting and surprising. I guess that Bandai Namco Studios is doing the brute work with Tanabe as the leader of the project just like other projects made by them.
Retro were made of ex acclaim members who worked on the kurok games, their studio was new but the people working there were not
I mean, giving a massive genre defining project and series to a failing studio often doesn't work out!
It did, but I don't think this is too common...
And Bamco has no experience with these games at all.
But we'll see...
My concerns here is that Prime 1 - 3 really weren't games that NCL handled everything themselves and had Retro do the grunt work for--they were very much Retro Studios games being overseen by Nintendo. It's possible everything ends up okay but this is just a really bizarre choice.
Considering Tanabe's producer work as of late that's maybe not a good thing.
Prime 4 is a first person game. It's one of the few things they've actually confirmed
That, and Nintendo does have a history already with the series, as they had NST develop the N64 game (as well as the port to the DS), as well as getting Namco to make an installment for the 3DS launch. Nothing too crazy as far as they're concerned, though I think that there's a fair few people out there that would be relieved to get a more traditional Ridge Racer after such a long absence for the series.
I guess I kind of assumed we'd only get Prime again with a bizarre choice tbh.
Well, the dev whose LinkedIn page this is from apparently has their share of experience:
As of late? The one game? Which isnt some horrible trainwreck of a game anyway? You guys need some perspective
Honestly even if Ridge Racer isn't on my platform of choice, I'd still like them to release one with an iconic Ridge Racer soundtrack so I can jam out to it.
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The thing I'm confused on is why he would label an actual unannounced game with its name (Ridge Racer 8), but not the first person action adventure title which is technically announced?
I understand that no real details in terms of development and developers have been announced so they could be keeping a tight lip on that, but then why would you also then go announce a completely unannounced, unhinted title, full name and all?
I understand that no real details in terms of development and developers have been announced so they could be keeping a tight lip on that, but then why would you also then go announce a completely unannounced, unhinted title, full name and all?
I know, what I mean is that I think safe to assume he is going to be a very hands on producer like he was on the other Prime games, to at least keep the new game in line with previous ones.
It's gonna be hilarious when Kaz appears on the next Nintendo Direct to reveal the new Ridge Racer
I mean, Bandai Namco Singapore could just be an support studio for the game and not the main one.
Oh and they did, a lot in fact. Sadly I was there to witness the outbursts on Metroid fansites and the like.
"• Concept Design – Created many design concepts in order to meet Nintendo's exacting requirements. "
Holy shit, they're actually making it and not just a support studio.
This is going to be the first AAA game ever made in Singapore, goddamn.
Holy shit, they're actually making it and not just a support studio.
This is going to be the first AAA game ever made in Singapore, goddamn.
Other than Federation Force, what has Tanabe helmed as producer in recent memory that went poorly?
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Is there a actual link to the profile or something? Can't find it anywhere. Also that guy will be wondering why so many random people outside the industry are viewing his profile.
I think people are trying to avoid outright posting it so the guy doesn't get in trouble.
Can anyone else name a time a sequel went from a western dev to Eastern Asia? Can only think of examples going the other way. Interested in seeing the results.
Ridge Racer? Switch is single handedly trying to revive gaming of a bygone era. And its doing a god damn job.
I mean...he's gona get in trouble either way. Pretty easy to find who it is just by going to linkedin
but ya, don't link it.