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more about #retrostudios GunFlame: Great read. Pacini is actually one of the few developers who has points I actually find interesting and valid. I don't know about the whole 2011 thi... more » Shenta: O and I didn't like the newest Zelda.. I mean it was good.. But the since of atmosphere was lost.. It just felt like a game I go through a shit load o... more » Showmeyomoves!: more » 2NinjasTapedTogether: Eight years of one's life in just a DVD case is pretty depressing yes... but think about people who spend their entire lives doing nothing but comment... more » local711: I think what he means by "the Citizen Kane of video games" is that Metroid Prime uses the unique elements of its medium (video games) to produce an em... more » Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate™: Metroid Prime isn't even good, how can it be the "Citizen Kane of games"? more » brainboy77: I'm the only dude in the world who will say this, but Metroid Prime 3 was a better game than Bioshock. more » tiekmir: Like most things made by Nintendo, Metroid Prime is vastly over rated. It was a good game, it just was not the best game I ever played. People need ... more » GriefTroll Bangai-O: If it turns out to be true that nothing of interest comes out in 2011, I'll finally have time to play through some of the great games I had to pass up... more » AlucardsQuest: Well it is a box, but to Nintendo's credit they made it a tin box instead of just a chunk of plastic. And the games speak for themselves. Much as pepl... more » KaemonKei: "But it was also almost sad looking at this one box. This is eight years of my life in one box." That comment struck me as very interesting. I mean, ... more » Chesu: I happen to love Blank of Blank 7... more » Fernando Jorge: Please, people, please, let us leave Citizen Kane alone. Let us stop referencing to it. Most importantly, let us stop talking about it as if it was TH... more » naikou: I'm tired of this "Citizen Kane of games" talk. Is there a "Super Mario Bros of movies"? Is there a "Hamlet of comic books"? A "Huckleberry Finn of sc... more » The-Dayman: To the person who made that picture: Awesome job! more » Eckleberg: Whenever I think of Metroid Prime, I wonder why it hasn't had the effect it should have. I mean everything in Metroid Prime was based on the idea of b... more » heretrix: The saddest thing about this article is the defeatist attitude this guy seems to have. If this is his mindset going into the future as an industry "in... more » iacofano: Critics were indifferent to Citizen Kane when it was released and it was somewhat of a commercial failure. It wasn't until 15-20 years later that it ... more » Jonny_eh: He's complaining about sequels, yet his three games to date are all sequels :-/ more » kidko: Working on the business side of things, he explained, exposed him to the state of the industry in '09. ... Armature does have a future, Pacini happi... more » -
#metroidprime
The Man Who Never Wanted To Make 'The Citizen Kane of Games'
Three unusual things happened to former Metroid Prime designer Mark Pacini in 2009: He received high praise he didn't seek, saw a somewhat depressing game box and figured out that gaming in 2011 "is going to kind of suck." More » -
#nintendo
Is Metroid Prime The Citizen Kane Of Video Games?
If Orson Welles' groundbreaking, multiple award winning film Citizen Kane has an analogous counterpart in the video game space, one ABC News report argues that it's Nintendo's Metroid Prime Trilogy. More » -
#retrostudios
A Development Studio That Doesn't Put Out Many Games Might Be Busy
Do you ever wonder why some of gaming's top development studios put out so few games? I know, I know. Making games is hard. But here's what happens when you ask the Metroid Prime developers that question.
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#nintendo
Metroid Prime Team Discusses Their Decade Of Samus, Ponders Series' Future
Following the recent release of Metroid Prime Trilogy, members of Nintendo's development teams in Texas and Japan answered Kotaku's questions about what the Metroid Prime series got right, what it missed and more. They even hinted at Prime's future. More » -
