Digital Foundry Retro: Metroid Prime

[Nuvendil]

curl-6 said:

Nuvendil said:

Well no, but they do still  have some great technical skills.  Tropical Freeze is no a technical show piece due to genre, but it's still very gorgeous.  It will be interesting to see what they are working on.

I didn't say they're not technically skilled, just that they haven't really stretched those muscles since Prime 3. DKCR and Tropical Freeze may have been smooth and colourful, but they weren't pushing any demanding effects or anything. 

True.  When it comes to pushing boundries, it seems Monolith Soft and the Zelda team are the two big ones at Nintendo (though the Mario Kart 8 team isn't sitting on its hands and the Mario team still has some muscle).  I do hope Retro's new project is something ambitious.  I would love a new Metroid Prime trilogy, one that takes an appropriate story telling approach with regards to Samus.  There's a ton of story potential post Fusion and I would love to see that explored.  A good story follow up to Fusion (which I quite liked for its narrative) and with good exploration and atmosphere like the Prime games (especially Prime 1) would be my ideal console Metroid game. 

And if not that, a new IP would be very good.