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curl-6 on 25 January 2019
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zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:

Back in the 6th gen they had a ton of projects that stalled and got canned; Thunder Rally, Retro Football, Raven Blade, an unnamed action adventure title. They pulled themselves together and did well from Prime 2 to Tropical Freeze, but since then we've seen them yet again fall into many years of not only having nothing to show for themselves but according to rumor also having projects go off the rails Then there was the incident last year where a couple of ex-employees alleged that behind closed doors the studio had become a circus, with poor management preventing anything getting done.

They're just not a studio I have any confidence in.

They were a chaotic new studio in 1998-2000 and that has you worried? First of all, how many people do you think worked for Retro ~20 years ago are still there? Shouldn't the ~15 years of consistent output after that have put you at ease?

Sure, the last few years may have been rough and maybe the studio is a circus now but do you really think that 20 years ago when the studio first opened is at all relevant to their current issues?

It's nothing more than a coincidence.

Well that's the thing, if we're going to say their past struggles aren't relevant any more, I'd equally say that by now their period of success is long gone enough to no longer be relevant. If we focus on the here and now, what we have is a studio that for the past 5 years have shown themselves totally incapable.