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[it-seemo]

Fight and Flight

edit: holy shit this is still blowing up????? glad you all really like this one so much!

[chriskotiesen]

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

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Hall on the potential story for the pitched Retro Studios Sheik game, 2021.

Source: Unseen64

https://www.notion.so/27841fe961fd80438493d15551588f5a

PEOPLE:

Sammy Hall. Concept Artist at Retro Studios.

QUOTE: Hall: Stuff from a long lost cancelled Zelda action/jrpg that never went beyond pre-production [at Retro Studios]. Really want to return to these some day to finish a few. Zelda games have wacky weird stuff, and this game was setting out to be ten times weirder.

Fun pre-pre-pre-production origin story of the Master Sword. Within the bad ending of Ocarina of Time exploring the last male Sheik’s (after a genocidal ethnic-cleansing) journey transforming into the Master Sword. All while the Dark Gerudo are giving their 100 year birth to Ganon.

[blazehedgehog]

"343 Industries ruined Prime 4" is the Reddit preported myth that Metroid Prime 4 sucked because employees from 343 Industries were hired to work on the game, causing it to have bad story/gunplay/exploration/whatever. Too bad the only people from 343 who worked Prime 4 were art designers. Not a single member of the programming or design teams on Prime 4 had worked at 343. Gotta love how modern game discourse is based around blaming devs for all of your personal problems.

It's the same old story. People who don't know how games are made make weird assumptions based on information that doesn't matter.

If there's one area where media literacy is at its worst, its how few people actually understand how games are made, how ideas are implemented, how things are tested, how bugs are dealt with, etc.

I know a growing sect of people who cringe every time somebody goes on a Games Done Quick stream and says something like "the devs were too lazy" or "I guess they decided to make this part bad on purpose" or whatever. It is like a caveman not understanding how fire is made.

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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo GameCube, Holiday 2004 EGM advert)

[theblindarcher]

Something sinister lurks in the depths of planet Tallon IV. Half-body of Samus Aran as seen in Metroid Prime. Commissioned by perlerpy on Instagram

[athetos]

Metroid Prime 4 Devs Got Stuck With An Open World Hub

Despite realizing that fans were souring on open-world design, Retro was apparently unable to reset again

TDLR: when they started development and BOTW was still new-ish and exciting, they believed there was a fan demand for an open-world Metroid and decided to add the hub. However, as years went by and opinions changed, they realized fans had soured on the concept, but were unable to scrap it because it was far too late in its already troubled development to restart.

So it appears it wasn’t executive meddling via Nintendo, but instead Retro chasing the open world trend themselves and getting stuck with it.

[100-yardstare]

Metroid Prime Remastered (2023) dev. Retro Studios