suzzopher wrote:Rex Kramer wrote:Merry Christmous Everyone wrote:Take it with a pinch of salt but the last few days "insiders" on ResetEra (I know, I know) have been hinting at a new Paper Mario and a Metroid 5 for 2020.
Timing would certainly work. Intelligent Systems must have something in the works because they didn't actually contribute that much of their staff to Three Houses so you're looking at a new Wario Ware or Paper Mario game in all likelihood. And they did do a WarioWare game on the 3DS in 2018.
Also, MercurySteam finished up Samus Returns in 2017 so if Nintendo put them onto Metroid 5 after that the development time could fit. The only thing against that is Samus Returns didn't sell that well at (around 500k) so if Nintendo were testing the market with a remake before a true sequel, they might have been put off.
I'd like to get excited by a new Paper Mario game but I wonder if TTYD was catching lightening in a bottle because since that point they've generally gone downhill. I'll probably still buy it though but that says more about my buying habits than any confidence in the final game.
The problem with the Mario RPG series since Super Paper Mario and Bower's Inside Story is that they are no longer allowed to use anyone bar Toads as companion characters or world building characters. With all the games prior they were able to create new and interesting characters, that's not allowed anymore as Miyamoto has forbidden people being creative with the Mario series of characters outside of the core Mario series
The sooner he strawberry floats off the better.
In case anyone was wondering, this was the exact quote from Tanabe:
“Mario is not an IP that I created. From the position of someone borrowing the IP, I think it’s only natural to show respect to the person who created it, and let that feeling of respect guide us. When Miyamoto-san, the father of Mario, asks us, ‘Could you make a game with only characters from the Mario family?’ I think it’s only natural for us to give it our best shot. In other words, we are not currently thinking about returning to old NPCs.
“Incidentally, I do think Color Splash may have proven that we can still make a game entertaining, even if our original characters don’t appear as NPCs. And with that belief, we will keep on continuing to do our best.”
Given Nintendo let Ubisoft put Mario in a game with guns and rabbids to great success, I'm hoping this position has changed.