Shacknews: Key staff leave Metroid Prime dev Retro Studios

Just SOP at many companies... especially if you're fired or leaving for another company.

Well there goes my excitement for the day...

*cries*

i worked for a bank services a while back and from the second you handed in your weeks notice you were escorted off site and still paid for the term of your contract a lot of people used this to there advantage when leaving, its for security reasons, cant allow someone to sensitive info when they have no intention of remaining loyal. so theres nothign in this other than there off to pastures new.

lol nice..... but lame at the same time?

still gets a +1 from me

Not Lame.

Scan Visor Reference FTW!

Yea you're right, it was damn funny.

Majora win!

When did you give yourself that MM avatar? I changed mine a few days ago, but it's not working now for some reason...

I tried changing mine a few weeks ago, but it wouldn't work until I used Firefox, so give that a try if you are using IE. Also, I don't know if it matters, but make sure your avatar is the same size (or at least aspect) and file type.

That got caught smoking in the boys room and had to go home for the rest of the day without pay.

Ok Nintendo, this is what you do.

Take the guys over at N-Space, combined them with the remaining staff from Retro and problem solved. No loss in gaming quality.

Say what you will about Geist, that was one hell of a first effort from those start up boys down in Orlando.

First Effort?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Space

More like, last desperate attempt. Still a good game though, especially when you factor in most of their priors.

First effort meaning at a 'real game' that happened to also be a FPS and look good while doing it. The multiplayer was surprisingly fun too.

Oh, alright. I debated whether or not you meant original game or first game period. Heh, went with "first game period."

Totally agree that it was a great first game though / good game. I'm officially interested in their Next original project, whenever they chose to announce it.

Because maybe Nintendo doesn't keep bad devs?

Seriously, though, the requirements to work for them or one of their wholly owned studios are staggering

Maturest Nintendo has ever gotten!
The Commander says Damn!

Jokes aside, It was great...one of the only Nintendo games that can turn into a mature game. They could add realistic blood, sexy Samus, etc.

Wait, you're basing your opinion on a Wii game on the graphics? Really, what were you expecting?

Now, with Metroid, I can't possibly imagine a situation where watching anybody play any of the entries in the series would seem fun. However, give the game a shot, and you'll see that it's the best out of the series. Perhaps not as revolutionary as the first Prime game, but the best in the series, easily.

To be honest, it was basically the same game as the first two. You just moved your wrist more.

Lol, that's a brilliant response actually. Friend in question was my roommate prior to moving away, and the amount of hours he sunk into the last GC iteration (beat it a few times) was just sickening. "Move on" eventually became a house mantra amongst me and the other roomies. Didn't mean any disservice to the game, I think they really did an amazing thing when bringing it to the GC, just not my cup o tea.

Actually the control scheme was pretty good as far as console FPSs go. Many FPS diehards, myself included, swear by a keyboard/mouse combo and hate using a gamepad to play FPSs.

Wii Prime tried to provide a mouse-like control scheme based on the Wii remote. It's actually not that bad. I set it to the highest sensitivity and lowest deadzone (which I am used to doing with mousing in FPSs), because I was hoping that even if it was difficult to keep the camera steady at first, I would get used to it and it would pay off with more precise aiming. I was right. The only problem I've had with that control interface is that if I move the Wiimote too far it loses the IR lights and the camera will continue to drift until the Wiimote reaquires the IR lights which could take up to an annoying half-second. But that's more of a hardware limitation that you can't blame Retro or really Nintendo for.

If you expected next-gen graphics, you obviously don't understand what Nintendo's goals are or what they're trying to do with the Wii. While Sony and Microsoft are focused on safely sticking with what has worked for them in the past, Nintendo is experimenting with new control schemes and gameplay ideas. It's your decision who you want to buy products from, whether it be none, all three, one, or two. I personally love what Nintendo has been doing with the Wii so far. To be fair it's only partly because of the new things... Nintendo continually puts out great first-party titles.

Now of course my opinion is my own, but I think there is enough clear evidence that Nintendo is doing something right since many people STILL have problems finding new Wii consoles almost a year and a half since it was first released.

Same as Guitar Hero III*, it is much more fun when you play it than it is watching someone else.

*I reference this cause I just played it for 1st time 2 days ago and I'm addicted now but before I didn't think I'd want to buy it - now I do.

Retro has a history for this sort of thing, iirc, their first president (or whatever the leader's title is) got in quite a scandal before he was removed from power

Or so the legend goes. The internet seems to be failing to back this up

Now this, is lame.
But still...

Slow loading time reference FTW!

:P

^was supposed to be a reply to ballistic, reply button is jsut not working for me today

Better than Galaxy and Brawl? I dunno... then again, I'm a sucker for absolutely amazing soundtracks, and Galaxy and Brawl have, without a doubt, the best soundtracks in gaming.

Did Rare lose key staffers or join Microsoft? Or both?

Microsoft bought Rare and the people that founded the studio left.

Pretty much. They helped out (but NOT developed) Metroid Prime Hunters on DS, and were working on a trio of named GC projects (A Project Gotham-esque racer, a heavily Western RPG, and an NFL game that worked like All Pro 2k8, using retired NFL players in new combos)

However, all of their unique works in progress were scrapped to make room for Metroid Prime back in 2000