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Smart move. It's like how valve bought out all the talent from Looking Glass and other studios that went under. Only to then focus on their fucking hat monopoly

I'm not convinced monolith is anything but a waste of money.

That would explain the massive dip in quality this past decade or so.

>>13944764

Sonic Unleashed was shit though

>>13945947

if they aren't making good games they aren't very important.

>>13945993

It was one of those games where obviously well over half of the team didn't care and some of them were actively sabotaging the few that did.

>>13945993

Only in your opinion, faggot.

>>13946038

>>13945993

Most of the staff that worked on Unleashed in OP's pic were artists who were then tasked with making more art for Nintendo games such as BOTW. Non surreal dreamlike direction aside, the graphics were among the least shittiest things about Unleashed.

>>13946848

I'd land my Apollo on that princess's moon if you know what I mean.

>>13946968

Sonic CD was terrible though.

>>13947002

And, NES Remix wasn't the game of the century. Your point?

>>13945201

> fucking hat monopoly

And now they're into leeching the publisher's fee.

>>13948575

Sonic Unleashed artists Nintendrone, Aonuma definitely did jack shit.

>>13944764

>Stealing

The term you're looking for is "Recruiting". It's what you do when you want to fill jobs in an industry where you need people who bring something to the table. The employers are (for whatever reason) unsatisfied with their current employer, work environment, project(s), or pay/benefits and someone offers them a better deal (because they need their talents), so they take it. It's standard in pretty much any industry, especially one in which massive lay-offs tend to happen between projects, such as in gaming. There is absolutely nothing (apparently) wrong with what Nintendo is doing and if Sega is losing key talent, they should probably work towards remedying whatever problem is making them leave in the first place.

The picture in the post is retarded drivel. Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario Odyssey were made by their respective teams. You are not praising Sonic Team even if you praise a team former Sonic Team members are on. The only way you could come to that reasoning is if you think Sonic Team is the fucking center of the industry. Furthermore his examples only specify one former part of Sonic team as having worked on Galaxy 2 and 0 of working on Odyssey. That's not to say they didn't, I have no idea either way, but it doesn't prove his thesis at all.

>>13948693

>The employees are*

>>13944764

>Nintendo recruits a few artists away from Sega

>If you praise these Nintendo games you're really praising Sega

God what a retard

>>13946968

>Naoto Ohshima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey!_Pikmin

Nope, Nintendo stole him too

>they managed to hire the sellouts and leftovers from Sega

top wew

>>13946848

Nintendo can never have denuvo in their games because they'll never leave their systems

>>13950555

You miss all the mobileshit they're doing lately?

>>13950777

You got me there.

I don't know how I could've forgotten that cancer, maybe I just repressed it.

I remember I used to love jewtendo as a kid.

Goddamn

>>13945962

You'll notice none of those people were directors or gameplay designers.

>>13945947

What is the project?

>>13945277

Monolith has helped Nintendo on both Splatoon AND BoTW. Regardless of any opinion on either of those games, you cannot deny they have made Nintendo a decent amount of money and goodwill in the process.

Also to note. Monolith is not losing money as they reported a substantial increase in profits in a recent fiscal year.

Furthermore, I am not so convinced XCX was a "HUGE FLOP" like most people claimed it to be out of spite for the shithouse translation. Their help on BoTW alone is enough for Nintendo to want to keep them anyway.

>>13946021 This is a rather subjective statement, as in my opinion XC1 and XCX (Emulate it, don't buy.) are good games. I haven't bought a switch and don't plan to for sometime but people are enjoying XC2, however like those other titles, it has flaws. Something niche JRPGs are prone to having.

>>13953274

Little is known on this project as of current.

The two pieces of art as far as I know are all that have been released. The Japanese page for the game apparently states it to be an Action RPG and this obviously means its not the common type of game from Monolith.

So it's literally nothing until we see something more.

>>13957961

>2 pipes 1 plumber

>>13957961

please no

>stealing

>>13946078

Splatoon 3.

>>13949517

thats more apt then you think considering pirates recruited from captured ships, luring them into a pirates life with tons of gold and treasure