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[Shikamaru Ninja]

Tanabe still heading it should mean its in pretty solid hands.

He produced literally every prime game....co producing the first.

So I think this should ease my worries a bit.

He was the hands on producer though back then. Miyamoto and Miki were figurehead producers. Tanabe was the full time guy.

 

[sir_bumble_bee]

Not trying to be pessimistic, but is Next Level Games capable of delivering a high fidelity game like Prime? I'm not very familiar with their titles.

I think they've earned a crack at it

 

[Clefargle]

It may have been just a way of saying "Not by Retro Studios."

I agree but that also doesn't mean NLG, I mean none of those things are mutually exclusive.

 

[Vital Tundra]

Why are people assuming NLG? "A talented new development team" doesn't sound like, well an old development team. The context of the sentence leans heavily to an actual "new" development studio.

 

[DecoReturns]

NLG huh?

Let see what they got.

I Loved Strikers
and I heard good things about Luigi Mansion and Punch Out!

But this is a completely different project genre wise

 

[big_erk]

Has anyone mentioned this placeholder listing on Amazon?

Metroid Prime 4

 

[Starphoenix]

Tanabe being involved is what gives me hope of this game being as good as the old games, even if he did make some odd choices for Prime 3. If anyone is going to be aware of what the fans are looking for from Metroid, it's probably him.

 

[CharminUltra]

YES, gimme ALL the isolation

 

[xiaxdragon]

He was the hands on producer though back then. Miyamoto and Miki were figurehead producers. Tanabe was the full time guy.

I thought I wrote that correctly lol


saying he was the full time producer for all of it.....while the first one he co-produced.

Did I screw up in my text?

 

[rekameohs]

He was the hands on producer though back then. Miyamoto and Miki were figurehead producers. Tanabe was the full time guy.

Miyamoto was pretty hands-on with Prime 1. He was the one that insisted it be first-person.

 

[Nerrel]

Tanabe being involved is what gives me hope of this game being as good as the old games, even if he did make some odd choices for Prime 3. If anyone is going to be aware of what the fans are looking for from Metroid, it's probably him.

There's no better example of "less aware of the fans are looking for" than

Prime 3 was great. Not perfect, but it was the best of the 3 in at least a few specific ways. I don't think anyone is really that worried by that game. It's chibi team soccer that's causing me concern over whether he really understands what is and isn't Metroid.

Retro really worked hard to understand Metroid before working on Prime 1, apparently spending entire days in conference calls with Nintendo just discussing the series until they knew it inside and out, and I think they and Tanabe worked really well together. But when working with new developers with no direct Metroid experience and no deep base of knowledge like that is a different situation. They really depend on Tanabe to guide them, and FF makes me question his way of thinking about the series, even if it is a spinoff. Hoping with all my might that I get proven wrong.

 

[Starphoenix]

There's no better example of "less aware of the fans are looking for" than

Prime 3 was great. Not perfect, but it was the best of the 3 in at least a few specific ways. I don't think anyone is really that worried by that game. It's chibi team soccer that's causing me concern over whether he really understands what is and isn't Metroid.

Retro really worked hard to understand Metroid before working on Prime 1, apparently spending entire days in conference calls with Nintendo just discussing the series until they knew it inside and out, and I think they and Tanabe worked really well together. But when working with new developers with no direct Metroid experience and no deep base of knowledge like that is a different situation. They really depend on Tanabe to guide them, and FF makes me question his way of thinking about the series, even if it is a spinoff. Hoping with all my might that I get proven wrong.

Eh, Federation Force had the misfortune of bad timing. Tanabe and the developers don't really deserve to have a spin-off define the where they will take Prime 4. Tanabe has gone on-record regarding the direction he'd like Prime 4 to go, and everything sounds solid. The brief summary from the press kit mentions original Prime as the model for how they want to approach this new game. A spin-off that might have been better received had Metroid: Samus Returns come first doesn't really impact my view of Tanabe's competence to ensure a solid entry in the Prime franchise.

 

[MoonFrog]

Hunters, FF and Prime 3 are like the holy trinity of where I want metroid to stay far away from. Well, hope the 2 remake is good.

Spoiler

Other M is worse than all those but not related

On a tonal, story, and NPC line, I agree.

But...Prime 3 is at least as true of a Metroid as Fusion was (on a gameplay, game-flow level), which perhaps isn't true enough for some (and I'd rather it were truer, personally), but I think it would be fine for most fans.

 

[Nostremitus]

I trust Nintendo not to screw this up. Especially building upon the rock-solid Prime formula.

Like the Prime game on 3DS?

 

[Bronetta]

They didn't help with Kart 8 at all lol
You're thinking of MK7, which was way before Tropical Freeze

Oops lol you're right.

 

[jnWake]

Eh, Federation Force had the misfortune of bad timing. Tanabe and the developers don't really deserve to have a spin-off define the where they will take Prime 4. Tanabe has gone on-record regarding the direction he'd like Prime 4 to go, and everything sounds solid. The brief summary from the press kit mentions original Prime as the model for how they want to approach this new game. A spin-off that might have been better received had Metroid: Samus Returns come first doesn't really impact my view of Tanabe's competence to ensure a solid entry in the Prime franchise.

People love to ignore all the successes of a developer and highlight the failures just to complain.

If Next Level is doing this it'll be interesting since it'd be their first HD project and, by far, their largest scope one.

 

[Fantastical]

So we don't see this for a year right?

 

[FTF]

So we don't see this for a year right?

I'm guessing E3 2018 is the reveal.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

I love that "Features" is just the preceding paragraph with bullet points.

Not even one bit of extra info

This is like me trying to do an assignment at the last minute when I can't think of anything good to write

 

[brickarts295]

So we don't see this for a year right?

Most likely, they gotta ride the Zelda and Mario train all the way until the end.

 

[Schopenhauerian]

[Tanabe] was the hands on producer though back then. Miyamoto and Miki were figurehead producers. Tanabe was the full time guy.

Miyamoto was pretty hands-on with Prime 1. He was the one that insisted it be first-person.

Yeah, in 2007 Mark Pacini described some of the interactions with Miyamoto (including Miyamoto's ultimatum about the Morph Ball), but in a 2016 interview with Ben Hanson of Game Informer, Pacini gave credit to Tanabe for shaping the implementation of the Scan Visor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbmxfTZvVCs&t=30m03s
[25:30] ...We had all the best people from all the [other] teams [at Retro that were dissolved and then partly re-integrated into the Metroid Prime team]... all these incredibly senior people... [26:12] And then Nintendo would always come in with these really cool ideas... [30:03] Nintendo's thing [was] 'This is going to be about the Scan Visor, this game is about scanning the environment'... and it was Tanabe-san that basically [said]... he had an [idea], 'what if we did this'... you get information... this how you do the tutorials... and this is how you give the player instruction... and we could do all these things with the Scan Visor...

 

[dampflokfreund]

I don't think it is NLG. I hope they are working on a Luigis Mansion 3 for Switch... LM2 sold very well.

 

[DeuceGamer]

I don't think it is NLG. I hope they are working on a Luigis Mansion 3 for Switch... LM2 sold very well.

I would be fine with NLG on a new Luigi Mansion.

Where did all of the NLG talk start from?

 

[TheMoon]

I would be fine with NLG on a new Luigi Mansion.

Where did all of the NLG talk start from?

Simple logic of them having worked on the most recent Metroid Prime game.

 

[Shiggy]

Simple logic of them having worked on the most recent Metroid Prime game.

Nobody else wants to work with Tanabe anymore

 

[HawthorneKitty]

I feel like there are some people are forcing themselves to be hype about the game after watching some reaction vids. It's definitely pompous of me to say this, but I feel like a Metroid Prime fan would have instantly recognized what it was on the first note of the bgm. I'm not one to think that reaction vids are fake (cept Etika) since who am I to know how you are feeling/express yourself, but it's pretty jarring to be so hyped when you seem so removed. I expressed this elsewhere, but my thinking above leads me into thinking that Prime 4 will sell really well and Prime 5 and 6 will chop off Metroid's legs again like 3.

 

[Hero]

I posted on twitter a few months ago that Tanabe was working with NLG again post Federation Force. This has to be that project.

So was Federation Force just a project that was "sent to die" so that NLG could cut their teeth on doing a FPA game?

 

[Guevara]

I know I'm crazy, but I also think this recently released Metroid shirt from the Nintendo Uniqlo collection spells something out:

I definitely see a T right at the top, R O, a P, an S, possibly an M in the visor

Probably METROID PRIME something.

 

[TheMoon]

I know I'm crazy, but I also think this recently released Metroid shirt from the Nintendo Uniqlo collection spells something out:

I definitely see a T right at the top, R O, a P, an S, possibly an M in the visor

Probably METROID PRIME something.

Stahp.

No.

It's a t-shirt design.