Rumor: Retro Studio's Wii2 Project is......

[EnigmaXtreme]

So, by word of mouth, we have been told Retro Studios next big title for Project Café is, in fact, Eternal Darkness 2. For those unaware, Eternal Darkness was one of the single best games ever created in the GameCube era, a survival horror game that always warranted a sequel... but never got one. To get this out of the way, our source (who shall remain unnamed) works for a very large gaming studio and happens to have a friend or two working for Nintendo in Retro Studios. Oftentimes friends from different studios will share small tidbits of information about upcoming titles, and even go as far as to get each other into beta testing for games. However, we don't have to just rely on this source to really provide weight behind this (I stress, this is a rumor, and not a fact). How is this even possible? What about Silicon Knights?

Our friends over at Kotaku confirmed last year that Nintendo had renewed the Eternal Darkness trademark, which of course sparked curiosity into whether or not we would see a second game. This is important to note, because since Nintendo owns the trademark it is likely that Silicon Knights (who at the time of creating the game was a second party developer for Nintendo, under contract and licensed by them to create Eternal Darkness) would not have to be the people to create the second game. It would also be a clear explanation for why a sequel was never made, especially after Silicon Knights flopped hard on the Xbox with Too Human. By the way, history lesson: Silicon Knights broke off their contract with Nintendo to create one with Microsoft, and naturally Nintendo wasn't going to allow a franchise tag they own to go over to the competition. This, naturally, would explain why a sequel never happened.

In addition, Nintendo has never been one to really dive into the survival horror series themselves, let alone in the style of Eternal Darkness. So naturally, they wouldn't have had a studio they thought they could trust to bring the name back. That is, of course, until their very own Retro Studios began to prove itself. The Metroid Prime Trilogy is arguably the best the Metroid series has to offer. Its atmosphere is the sort of thing that would convert well into a new Eternal Darkness. So not only does it logically make sense for Nintendo to turn to Retro to create the game, Nintendo themselves decided to renew the name just last year, ironically around the time that it is likely Donkey Kong Country Returns was just wrapping up its final development stages.

While this will remain a rumor until we get some official confirmation from Nintendo, wouldn't it be just glorious to have Retro Studios behind this title? They certainly won't turn back to Silicon Knights after they broke off the contract with Nintendo back in the mid 2000s after just two games, which likely created a bit of tension between the two parties. In addition, Silicon Knights' latest game offerings have been less than stellar, and they recently laid off a stunning 26 developers. In the end, it would appear Nintendo may not think Silicon Knights (of which Nintendo does still own some stock) is fit to do a sequel. But Retro? That's a whole 'nother can of worms.

http://www.zeldainformer.com/2011/04/rumor...ess-2.html#more

 

[Annieone23]

fakin awesome. I will be so emotionally wrecked if this turns out to be nothing but rumor.

Eternal Darkness is one of my favorite games, and Retro Studios is one of my favorite studios. Match made in... non-euclidean hell

 

[Schlupi]

RETRO STUDIOS SUCKS WTFLOLBBQ DONKEY KONG COUNTRY RETURNS WAS TEH SOXXORZ


But no really, this is awesome. They do a great job I am looking forward to this one.

 

[DSGamer64]

Interesting, should be good if it's true.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

If they implement the Vitality Sensor, and make the game like 10 times more scary I will be happy

 

[lostdwarf]

Eternal Darkness was horrible to control at the best of times, dont get me wrong, I loved it, but even walking became a problem sometimes, nevermind attacking people.

I hope the rumer is true but if it is, I hope they fix A LOT as brilliant as the game was, it could have been so much better.

still remember playing this and my gamecube blue screen of death'd! I went mental, threw my controller, was about to slam the power button on the GC when all of a sudden the screen flips back to the game, laughing at me. Genius.

 

[Annieone23]

idk. i found the camera angles to be mildly annoying only at the worst of times. i usually loathe fixed camera angles, and such at older resident evil titles because of them. yet for ED i had no problem adapting and adjusting. fixed cameras are still not my cup of tea but for an ED sequel, I can lived with em and will probably not even care.

on the other hand, this kinda seems like a non-issue. fixed camera angles are so old school now and i really can not imagine a AAA title being developed by a popular and successful developer for the new generation of next-gen consoles with fixed cameras. to me that is as if retro decided to make ED2 in SD resolution, despite even most current gen games supporting HD (although obviously not on the current wii).

 

[Juanmatron]

It is not newsworthy that Retro, a studio owned by Nintendo, would be the first to get a development kit. (It WOULD be newsworthy if Retro was one of the LAST to get a development kit.)

The console will be finished in the beginning of 2012 with luck = No E3 demos, consoles and blablabla.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

It is not newsworthy that Retro, a studio owned by Nintendo, would be the first to get a development kit. (It WOULD be newsworthy if Retro was one of the LAST to get a development kit.)

I think the news is the game they'd be making, not that they got a dev kit.

 

[Windaga]

In tandem with Silicon Knights? Or just Retro?

Either way, I'd love to see this. I loved Eternal Darkness - it's one of the few horror titles that I actually like. If this is true, I hope they keep a lot of the style, and just improve movement, sound, visuals, etc. I The poor controls need to be fixed, but I really dig the camera and direction of the game.

 

[jerome27]

The first game was great but I think it sold like 8 copies.

 

[Bladexdsl]

bah i was hoping for a REAL new metroid unlike the last piece of crap

 

[Warrior522]

bah i was hoping for a REAL new metroid unlike the last piece of crap

^this.