Fire emblem echoes multiplayer3/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s all work that took quality and mindshare away from the single player. There was a ton of effort put forth to make multiplayer happen: we had to actually author third person Samus animations, we had to have support for multiple “players” in a game world, we needed to author all new lower quality effects, add game modes, et cetera et cetera. We were even going to have the ability to play as a Space Pirate and have things like wall grabs and such.Īs we moved back towards a primarily single-player focus, we should have ditched multiplayer altogether. When we started development on Prime 2, multiplayer was actually going to be the focus (I think we internally thought of the project as Metroid Prime 1.5). Metroid Prime Hunters did this really well – it knew it was a multiplayer game and spent all its marbles there. JM: Well, I just feel that the game should have been either one or the other. SS: Why do you think that Echoes’ multiplayer mode should never have happened? It would be interesting to hear what you feel could have been done differently. It was kind of a “fuck the haters” mentality, especially after the E3 redemption. Between that and all the leaks that were being reported at the time, we just tried to put our heads down and show everyone we could make a great game as a team. During the development of the game, Retro got cut in half, then cut in half again. JM: On Prime 1 specifically, Retro was kind of this thing that was exploding all around us. Can you tell us of any significant problems that came up in development, or disagreements within Retro? SS: Developing one of the greatest video games ever made can’t have been a completely smooth ride. A portion of a ShineSparkers interview with Jack Mathews, former Technical Lead Engineer on the first three Metroid Prime games ![]()
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