A Twitter account by one of Retro Studios recently hired artists, who worked on Uncharted 3 at Naughty Dog, used wording that some used to imply Retro will be finishing a new game this year. When the Tweet reached the press and public, Nintendo immediately pulled down the account from Twitter.
Leaked gameplay footage from Nintendo and Retro Studios' canceled project titled 'Harmony' has found its way online.
Currently, the original developers are credited via a generic slate.
It's safe to say that it's the original developers who conceptualised and built these games in such a way that they're worthy of a remaster or remake today. Even if they had nothing to do with the new iteration, the dev team behind a remaster would be nowhere without the original vision – and so, the original dev team deserves a place in the credits of a remaster. That's exactly how former Retro studios engineer Zoid Kirsch feels.
Depending on how long the credits are for the current team, I can see why it would be decided not to essentially double that.
How long or short credits are is irrelevant. Every man or woman who put their time into the creation of anything (tv, movies, animation etc too) should have their names stamped on it, no excuses.
Noone realistically sits and reads every name and actually thanks them, but it's important to the people involved to have it there for what small validation or thanks it brings them. A little thing they can show their friends and family for years to come and feel proud to have contributed to. Kind of like seeing your face for 1 frame in the crowd on TV at a football match and having your own little stamp to show you were there.
Without those original devs, there is no beloved game to remaster and put new names on. Disappointing Nintendo, do the right thing and patch it in.
The developer of Metroid Prime 4 has added some talent from Sony Santa Monica who spent over seven years with the company.
E3 will be more exciting, it seems.
Probably DKCR 2. But I would like to see a new Metroid :)
I love how the articles tries to make it seem like Nintendo would outsource programming for one of their games, a snowballs chance in hell they would ever do that. Although a WiiU game, maybe, although it seems like a lot of garbage is being pulled out of thin air here.
I'm almost 100% sure its eternal darkness 2!
I don't see what's so bad about that tweet, a developer making a game!? No Way!? seriously, he didn't even say anything related to the game to give it away