Retro Studios or Monolith Soft?

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Veknoid_Outcast on 25 August 2014

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Retro by default simply because I've never played Xenoblade.

I'm not paying $90 for any Wii game, f**k NOA for giving it such a limited release. Will check out Xenoblade X on Wii U.

You might be able to find a used copy for $50 at GameStop.

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Clyde32 on 25 August 2014

Why must you make me choose? They both made two of my favorite games of all time. But Retro made my second favorite.

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Clyde32 on 25 August 2014

The_Sony_Girl1 said:
Monolith Soft, because of Xenogears.

Well...I guess the team did..

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Anfebious on 25 August 2014

I choose Retro on this one. But that's because I have yet to play Xenoblade Chronicles X. If that game is as good as it looks then I will forgive Monolith for creating Xenosaga. (Gosh those games sucked balls)

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MoHasanie on 25 August 2014

Retro is better.

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freebs2 on 25 August 2014

Retro, Monolith is not even close, while Xenoblade is really good they are only capable to make 1 kind of game and they release one once every 5 years. Retro is superior both tecnically, artistically and from a game design prespective. Metorid Prime was stellar and also unique, DKCR and TF are the best platform series since the Snes and Mega Drive era.

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cusman on 25 August 2014

Let's see their next games first before making any rash decisions.

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Ryudo on 25 August 2014

MTZehvor said:

Ryudo said:

Monolith talent developed Chrono Trigger,Chrono Cross,Xenogears,XenoSaga,NamcoXCapcom,Soma bringer,Xenoblade,Disaster Day of Crisis,Project X Zone and more.

Retro is great but their roots go back to Turok on N64 then Prime series and DK.

Monolith has far more experience and has made some of the greatest games ever made.

I really don't feel like that's a fair comparison at all. You can't chalk up games to a present studio simply because current members of that studio were involved in making said game in the past. That's like saying that the Cleveland Cavaliers have two NBA championships because Mike Miller and LeBron James play for them now.

The last part you said is gibberish to me. Not seen basketball since Micheal Jordan still played for the bulls. No the talent matters. Retro's roots go back to Turok on Nintendo 64 which was good. Metroid was good. DK is Good but Monolith still has a lot of talent that made CT and those others. Retro has few of those people left from the Igunana days or Metroid Prime days. Most have split. More recenrly a good chunk work at 343. So Retro's only real game to truly compare is DK and DKTF. Monolith can still be compared to past works as many of them still there.

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MTZehvor on 25 August 2014

Ryudo said:

MTZehvor said:

Ryudo said:

Monolith talent developed Chrono Trigger,Chrono Cross,Xenogears,XenoSaga,NamcoXCapcom,Soma bringer,Xenoblade,Disaster Day of Crisis,Project X Zone and more.

Retro is great but their roots go back to Turok on N64 then Prime series and DK.

Monolith has far more experience and has made some of the greatest games ever made.

I really don't feel like that's a fair comparison at all. You can't chalk up games to a present studio simply because current members of that studio were involved in making said game in the past. That's like saying that the Cleveland Cavaliers have two NBA championships because Mike Miller and LeBron James play for them now.

The last part you said is gibberish to me. Not seen basketball since Micheal Jordan still played for the bulls. No the talent matters. Retro's roots go back to Turok on Nintendo 64 which was good. Metroid was good. DK is Good but Monolith still has a lot of talent that made CT and those others. Retro has few of those people left from the Igunana days or Metroid Prime days. Most have split. More recenrly a good chunk work at 343. So Retro's only real game to truly compare is DK and DKTF. Monolith can still be compared to past works as many of them still there.

Let me put it another way then. Imagine that someone is trying to compare whether Apple or Windows is a better company. Now assume that Apple recently hired a chunk of the staff from some smaller tech firm that produced something innovative. It would be incorrect to attribute that innovation to Apple, as not only is it an entirely different company, but the full staff isn't the same.

What we're comparing in this thread isn't what the current staff working at each studio has been involved in producing; it's what each studio, regardless of what members comprised those studios, has done in the past.